Lecture series: The prehistoric Silk Roads: New materials, technologies and ideas in the move

Date of event:   22/10/2021 − 03/12/2021

Series duration: 22 October to 3 December 2021
Format: held via Tencent
Organized by: “Belt and Road” Cultural Heritage Global Alliance and Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, Shaanxi, China

 

The first Eurasian Archaeology from East-West exchange perspective lecture series

The first Eurasian Archaeology from East-West exchange perspective lecture series will be held via Tencent from October 22nd to December 3rd 2021. This year theme “The prehistoric Silk Roads: new materials, technologies and ideas in the move” will focus on cultural encounters between early China and its neighbors, to examine how material culture was shaped by cultural acceptance/resistance in a given society, and how knowledge communication and technology transfer occurred in many ways (trading, warfare, marriage, diplomacy, migration, etc.). We have some great speakers lined up for this year, and will be kicking off with a presentation from Katheryn M. LINDUFF on this Saturday October 23, at 8.30 PM Beijing time, on the Eurasia as a significant player in the field of Asian studies. Materials under discussion include, but not limited to exotic artifacts from pre-imperial Qin territory, new excavations in southern Siberia, early Chinese bronze metallurgy in the Eurasian context, Chinese mirrors from Tillya Tepe, and gold artefacts in the Mediterranean world.

PROGRAMME

 

23 October 2021; Saturday, 8.30-9.30 PM
Changing the Relationship with Eurasia in the study of Ancient East Asia (in English)
Katheryn M. LINDUFF (University of Pittsburgh)

 

29 October 2021; Friday, 8.30-9.30 PM
The Art and Craft of Ancient Greek Gold (in English)
Jack OGDEN (Birmingham City University)

 

6 November 2021; Saturday, 9.30-10.30 AM
Eurasian Pastoralists at China’s northwest Frontiers in the first millennium BCE: Evidence from Materials, technologies, and Types (in English)
Jenny F. SO (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

19 November 2021; Friday, 8.30-9.30 PM
Funeral and memorial complexes of the era of early nomads in the Tuvinian “Valley of the Kings” (in Russian)
Konstantin V. CHUGUNOV (State Hermitage Museum)

 

26 November 2021; Friday, 8.30-9.30 PM
Transfers and Transformations Beyond the Edge of the Silk Roads: Tillya Tepe in the mid-1st century CE (in English)
Karen S. RUBINSON (New York University)

 

3 December 2021; Friday, 8.30-9.30 PM
The origin of Chinese metallurgy and connections with the Eurasian steppes (in Chinese)
Jianjun MEI (Cambridge University)

 

The lecture series is a part of “Belt and Road” Cultural Heritage Global Alliance international education and research program. It is aimed at helping postgraduate students better understand the formation and dynamics of the interacting networks in ancient Eurasia before the beginning of the commercial Silk Roads, also open to the general public. 60 mins for each lecture (including 15 mins Q&A), lectures in Russian will be provided with Chinese translation.

Programme in PDF