Ancient Afro Eurasia in Context(s): theory, method, perspectives
Goals of the Lecture Series: drawing on the recent publication of three major volumes (Hodos, T. (Ed.), 2017. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization, von Reden, S. (Ed.), 2019. Handbook of Ancient AfroEurasian Economies, Mairs, R. (Ed.), 2020. The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World), this online lecture series aims, among other things, at removing ancient Central Asia from an inveterate stereotype that has long relegated it to the rank of exotic periphery of one or more empires (in the West, the Seleukid and then Roman empires, in the East, the Chinese imperial polities), adopting a multidisciplinary perspective capable of offering fruitful insights both for specialists already acquainted with this world(s) and for scholars active in other fields of research. At the same time the lecture series will offer to a wider audience an updated and exhaustive critical overview on the role of this area of the Eurasian continent in a long-term perspective. As it appears, this may be useful in the light of the most recent developments in international geopolitics, in which context, for example, the evocative power of a construct such as the Silk Road has been abundantly mobilized.
First appointment
12 April, at 15.00 - 17.00 h.
- Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
Embedding global diversity. The cohabitation of forms in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Participation is free - Please register on Zoom platform
Programme
12 April, at 15.00 - 17.00 h.
- Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
Embedding global diversity. The cohabitation of forms in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Participation is free - Please register on Zoom platform
13 April, at 15.00 - 17.00 h.
- Rachel R. Mairs (University of Reading)
Teaching Ancient Central Asia
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16 April, at 15.00 - 17.00 h.
- Henry P. Colburn (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)
Globalization and Archaeology: Lessons from the Achaemenid Empire
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7 May
The event will be rescheduled - Information coming soon
- Sitta von Reden (University of Freiburg), Lauren Morris, Lara Fabian, Kathrin Leese-Messing, Eli J. S. Weaverdyck, Mamta Dwivedi, Milinda Hoo (University of Freiburg)
Political Ecologies in Ancient Afro-Eurasia: Landscapes, Actors, Tools
Scientific committee:
- Prof. Maurizio Giangiulio
- Dott. Marco Ferrario
