MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD : The Silk Road: Border Crossing

The Silk Road: Border Crossing duo-lectures / in English and French

The Silk Road: Border Crossing is and initiative and experiment of the Belgian Institute for Advanced Chinese Studies in Brussels (BIHCS/IBHEC), in co-organisation with the Educational and Cultural Department of the Royal Museums of Art and History (KMKG/ MRAH), the KU Leuven, the International Dunhuang Project (IDP), and is supported by Asian Art in Brussels (AAB).
In this series of duo-lectures the audience is invited to step out of their comfort zone and participate in âA ̆Ÿborder crossingâA ̆Z ́, not only along the better-known ’silk roads’ but also by confronting them with other areas that are traditionally not connected with what is now China, and that have known similar developments. Each session includes a 2x1 hour lecture by two specialists on different areas but similar topics.
This unique lecture format is designed by the president of the BIHCS/ IBHEC, sinologist and archaeologist, Ilse Timperman, who will moderate the different sessions.

duo-lectures in English and French

Sun 05-10-2014 - Sun 25-01-2015

In this series of duo-lectures the audience is invited to step out of their comfort zone (especially China) and participate in ‘border crossing’, not only along the better-known 'silk roads' but also by confronting them with other areas that are not traditionally connected with what is now China, and that have known similar developments. Each session includes a 2x1 hour lecture by two specialists on different areas but similar topics. This unique lecture format is designed by the president of the BIHCS/ IBHEC, sinologist and archaeologist, Ilse Timperman, who will moderate the different sessions.

Program

Sunday 5.10.2014 I 10:30 I French I More
Les Scythes nomades et les empires agraires en Asie centrale: recherches récentes
dr. Henri-Paul Francfort (CNRS)
Nouvelles recherches sur les Scythes et leurs contemporains en Asie centrale orientale (Xinjiang, China)
dr. Corinne Debaine-Francfort (CNRS)

Sunday 14.12.2014 I 10:30 I English I More
Early Monasticism and Anchoretic life in Egypt
dr. Karel Innemée (Leiden University)
Early Monasticism on the Eastern Silk Road (Tarim Basin)
dr. Susan Whitfield (International Dunhuang Project, British Library)

Sunday 25.01.2015 I 10:30 I English I More
The Hellenistic East
Prof. Judith Barringer (University of Edingburgh)
Sculpture and the question of contacts between China and the Hellenistic East
dr. Lukas Nickel (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Price (for each session)
€ 8 / € 6 / free for members BIHCS, VED, DC en Per Musea