International Conference Music, Art and Spirituality in Central Asia

The Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has organised an important international conference in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI), CNRS/CETOBAC, Paris, the Department of Philosophy and the Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. For thousands of years the Central Asian area was a crossroads for peoples and cultures characterised by two linguistic groups, Indo-European and Turkic, often associated with two different lifestyles: nomadic and sedentary. Although the Central Asian area now tends to be reduced in geopolitical terms to the ve republics of the former Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan), it must be stressed that from the cultural point of view the area also embraces the autonomous region of Xinjiang in China, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran and Azerbaijan. In this extended cultural area the relations between the arts, music and spirituality were a recurrent feature which the conference organisers believe can be usefully explored.

On Saturday 31 October at 6 pm there will be a concert by the Ensemble Badakhshan, from Pamir region, Tagjikistan.

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