UW Simpson Center: Silk Road 2005-2006

Silk Road 2005-2006

This project continues the initiative begun in 2002 with “Silk Road Seattle,” whose reach to a local, national, and international audience continues with its acclaimed website. The lecture series brings to campus specialists at the cutting edge of the study of Eurasian cultural history. Each will offer a public lecture and a seminar presentation.

Organized by Cynthea Bogel (Art History), Kyoko Tokuno (Jackson School of International Studies), Joel Walker (History), and Daniel Waugh (History)

News from Ancient Afghanistan
	Nicholas Sims-Williams Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East University of London November 10, 2005, 7:00 pm, Kane 110
In Search of the Words of the Buddha
	Richard Salomon Asian Languages & Literature Solomon Katz Lecturer in the Humanities University of Washington January 26, 2006, 7:00 pm, Kane 110
How Much Should We Believe the Chinese Pilgrims Who Traveled to South Asia?
	Joanna Williams Art History University of California, Berkeley March 2, 2006, 7:00 pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum
Thinking Outside the Nesting Boxes: Buddhist Reliquaries from a Ninth-Century Chinese Monastic Crypt
	Eugene Wang History of Art and Architecture Harvard University April 13, 2006, 7:00 pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum

	The lectures are made possible with funding from the Silkroad Foundation and the following University of Washington sponsors: the Simpson Center for the Humanities; the Mary and Cheney Cowles Fellowship of Chinese Art; the Division of Art History, School of Art; the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies; the Comparative Religion Program, Jackson School of International Studies; and the Department of Asian Languages & Literature. For more information, visit the project website.

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