Orients Occidents Nexus

The specific objectives of this chair are as follows:

• Promote studies of periods, places, when and where East and West met, and enrich each other through arts and knowledge; their mutual perceptions, with a focus on the East's perception of those periods and places of encounter;

• Promotion of studies of forms and elements of the arts that have moved from the East to the Occident and from the Occident to the East;

• Conducting studies highlighting the transfer of knowledge between East and West;

• Promotion and conduct of technical research on the subject of the Chair;

• To help make cultural exchange between East and West more visible.