About Critical Silk Road Studies
General Information Participation in the seminars of Critical Silk Road Studies is free and restricted to current faculty, academic staff, and graduate and undergraduate students. The is located on Georgetown’s main campus. Further information is available The format of each seminar consists of moderated discussion of the presenters’ pre-circulated papers. For this reason, pre-registration for individual seminars is required, as papers will be circulated only to registered participants of the seminar. and location of each seminar. A Demise Greatly Exaggerated: the Silk Road in the Early Modern Era January 8, 2015 Presenters: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa “The Eurasian Drug Trade: Commodities and Medical Knowledge between East and West” Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University “Networks of Trade in Early Modern Central Asia” Discussant: Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University Science on the Silk Road January 29, 2015 Presenters: Canada Research Chair of Early Modern Studies and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia “Paper Dolls: An Architectonics of Translation in Early Modern Eurasia” Assistant Professor, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University-Abington "Are Buddhist Scriptures the 'Missing Link' in the Global History of Medicine?" Discussant: Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University Islamic Encounters with Sinic and Buddhistic Realms February 19, 2015 Presenters: Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University “‘Ala’ ad-dawla as-Simnani and the Buddhists of Iran, 1258-1328” Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University “Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash and His Visit to Beijing, 1419-22” Discussant: Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, George Washington University Performance and Performativity March 19, 2015 Presenters: Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, Department of Music, Dartmouth College “The Silk Road as Jam Session, Then and Now” Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Lafayette College “Strumming Strings along the Ancient Silk Road: Archaeological Evidence for Lutes and their Performance in the First Centuries CE” Discussant: Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of Maryland School of Music Institutional Settings April 9, 2015 Presenters: Programme Specialist, Asia and Pacific Unit, UNESCO “Heritage Conservation, International Cooperation, and Capacity Development: UNESCO’s Recent Projects for the Silk Roads Serial and Transnational World Heritage Nomination in Central Asia” Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library “Defining a Cultural Silk Road for Today: IDP and Negotiating the Landscape of International Collaboration” Discussant: Curator of Ancient Chinese Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution On-Site Session at the Freer Gallery of Art April 24, 2015 (2:30-4:30pm) Presenter: Associate Curator for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution "Two Dunhuang Paintings in the Freer Gallery of Art: History, Content, and Materials" Discussant: Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art and Art History, Georgetown University Silk Road Politics and Policies: Security, Energy and Eurasian Land Bridges April 30, 2015 Presenters: Research Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University “Envisioning a Region: China's Silk Road and Russia's Eurasia” Associate Professor and Assistant Director of the Institute of International Relations, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences “Building an Interest Community: New Development of the Energy Club in the Silk Road Economic Belt” Discussant: Professor of Practice of International Affairs, Elliott School, George Washington University |
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Critical Silk Road Studies
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