I am pleased to notify you of a special seminar entitled “LANGAU: A multidisciplinary approach to copper-based metallurgy in Angkor and the Khmer kingdom (11th-13the century), by Brice Vincent, of EFEO Siem Reap in Cambodia, on 10 October 2017. Please join us.<\/p>\n
Special Seminar Speaker<\/strong>: Brice Vincent, EFEO Siem Reap Recent archaeological excavation at the World Heritage Site of Angkor, Cambodia, has discovered the location of a royal bronze foundry without equivalent in Southeast Asia. Active from at least the mid-11th to the early 12th century, the bronze workshop was in close association with the nearby Royal Palace of Angkor Thom, crafting for the King and his entourage both images of the gods and ritual paraphernalia. <\/i> \u201cThe sources of Angkorian copper: Mining survey in the Vat Phu region<\/strong>\u201d (Laos) The research program LANGAU, inspired by the Old Khmer word la\u1e45gau meaning \u201ccopper\u201d, has seized the opportunity afforded by this formidable discovery to develop over the period 2016\u20132020 a multidisciplinary approach of copper-based metallurgy in Angkorian Cambodia, with a specific focus on the critical period between the 11th and 13th centuries.<\/p>\n Brice Vincent is a Lecturer at the \u00c9cole fran\u00e7aise d\u2019Extr\u00eame-Orient (EFEO). He was educated at the Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (Doctorat de Langues, civilisations et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s orientales, 2012). He was an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, in 2012 and 2013, and Post Doctoral Fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, in 2014. He co-leads the research project LANGAU – Fondre pour le roi : \u00e9tude arch\u00e9om\u00e9tallurgique de l’atelier de bronziers du palais royal d’Angkor Thom (National Authority APSARA \/ EFEO, 2016-2019), conducting field investigations at the Royal Palace bronze foundry of Angkor Thom.<\/p>\n Contact: Nathan Badenoch badenoch[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am pleased to notify you of a special seminar entitled “LANGAU: A multidisciplinary approach to copper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8zpss-20171010","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLANGAU: A multidisciplinary approach to copper-based metallurgy in Angkor and the Khmer kingdom (11th\u201313th century)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDate<\/strong>: October 10, 2017
\nTime<\/strong>: 3:30-5:00
\nVenue<\/strong>: Tonantei, Inamori Center (2F), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University<\/p>\n
\nThis talk will outline the findings of a new research program involving local and international archaeology and conservation specialists from pre-eminent research institutions (\u00c9cole Fran\u00e7aise d\u2019Extr\u00eame-Orient, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Mus\u00e9es de France, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution), by explaining first its theoretical and methodological framework, and then presenting some of the preliminary results obtained by its four complementary components:<\/p>\n
\n<\/i> \u201cCasting for the King: Archaeometallurgical study of the Royal Palace bronze foundry at Angkor Thom<\/strong>\u201d (Cambodia)
\n<\/i> \u201cFrom wax to sa\u1e43rit: Technical investigations into a corpus of Angkorian bronzes<\/strong>\u201d (Cambodia and neighboring countries)
\n<\/i> \u201cMemory of bronze casters: Ethno-archaeological survey of contemporary Khmer foundries<\/strong>\u201d (Cambodia).<\/p>\n