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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Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Critical Silk Road Studies
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