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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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