Dans le cadre de son cycle de conférences « GRITH Fall 2025 Online Lecture Series, Season 3 – Tibet in Canada/Canada on Tibet », le Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur le Tibet et l’Himalaya (GRITH), basé à l’Université Laval, au Québec, annonce la conférence suivante :
Making Sense of a Tibetan Art Collection: The Tibetan Art at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto
par Sarah Aoife Richardson (University of Toronto Mississauga)
le vendredi 31 octobre à 18h30 (heure de Paris) en ligne à l’adresse suivante : https://ulaval.zoom.us/j/8892424519?pwd=TFBKS3ZmRFppZmVNWUZJaXBpR1djQT09
Résumé de la conférence :
One of the ways I came into the study of Tibetan art (and history and religion) was as a young volunteer intern working on the Tibetan Thangka collection at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. In this talk I will introduce this little known collection, and provide some history on how these Tibetan objects came to be in Toronto. The collection now includes sculptures, ritual objects, dance masks, manuscript covers, and paintings. Many of the Thangka paintings came to be in this public Canadian collection in the early twentieth century, and it has grown through private donations since. I will discuss some of the material and historical challenges of displaying and researching these artifacts, and articulate some hopes for its future.