King’s Silk Roads - Persian Literary Culture and Book Exchange between Central Asia and Mughal India

King’s Silk Roads Michaelmas 2022

The King's Silk Roads Programme is a multi-disciplinary research programme, researching the history and culture of the countries of the Silk Roads from Western China to the Mediterranean. We hold a weekly seminar on Friday afternoons at 2pm, with a mixture of hybrid in-person events and online only seminars. Everyone is warmly invited to attend, the in-person events are followed by refreshments and further discussion.

It is not necessary to register for the events at King’s, just come to the entrance on King’s Parade and tell the porters/custodians that you are attending to the Silk Roads lecture. The Audit Room is located in the ‘Old Lodge’ which is on the left side of the back lawn at King’s, as you walk towards the river. Zoom registration links are provided for each talk below.

If you would like to join our mailing list for weekly talk updates, please sign up here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhmTQoEUthgD-8rbutzW2dB_IgsmnIjfgka_2-XQKirbQVsQ/viewform

Full details of the talks and further information can be found here

https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/silk-roads-programme/silk-roads-programme-events

You can also synch the talks to your calendar via the www.talks.cam.ac.uk ‘King’s Silk Roads’ list

Friday 14th October 2pm
Persian Literary Culture and Book Exchange between Central Asia and Mughal India
Najaf Haider (JNU, New Delhi)
Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvde-rqz0vE9TLnosnBmy3QYT-gI54_RzW

Friday 21st October 2pm
The Politics of Animal Images in Iron-Age Nomadic Alliances: Case Studies from China to Crimea
Petya Andreeva (The New School, New York)
Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpfu-tqTMrGNBp8ydSKAVv4kBIbBkck4qT?_x_zm_rtaid=K9rHubujSjeUgOhg04cguw.1664891466454.719691224247087b72a602fd0e8a18a3&_x_zm_rhtaid=706

Friday 28th October 2pm
Late Antique Georgia & the Black Sea Region
Ian Colvin (Cambridge)
Audit Room, King’s College & Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdumgrDkvGdw3VUEt_u3HQAgVLX266uZU?_x_zm_rtaid=K9rHubujSjeUgOhg04cguw.1664891466454.719691224247087b72a602fd0e8a18a3&_x_zm_rhtaid=706

Friday 4th November 2pm
Sasanian Coins Connecting Central Asia to India and China
Joe Cribb (British Museum)
Audit Room, King’s College & Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvf-mhrjItGtEkTuMz81txu7NK_MhbQV9i?_x_zm_rtaid=2Z74dSnXSWybwZE81vwUGA.1664898883789.9b58d7be253ece9211d1569009dbd60d&_x_zm_rhtaid=178

Friday 11th November 2pm
Pakistan in '75
Ayesha Jalal (Tufts University)
Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYofuyhrz4uHdWTdEC0FBpr0B4BfnzJJxDb

Friday 18th November 2pm
Consolidation of an Empire: The Mongol Khans as City-builders
Susanne Reichert (University of Michigan) and Jan Bemmann (University of Bonn)
Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtc-2orDstHt1MrnqGGIn7l8AncnZs7WB7

Friday 25th November 2pm
Inadvertent Empire: China’s Strategies in Central Asia
Rafaello Pantucci (RUSI)
Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-CpqjwsHd0VbpueTfaSMFU_IoEoJVR1?_x_zm_rtaid=2Z74dSnXSWybwZE81vwUGA.1664898883789.9b58d7be253ece9211d1569009dbd60d&_x_zm_rhtaid=178

Friday 2nd December
The Rise of Baghdad as the First World Trade Centre
Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
Audit Room, King's College & Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-yqrzgvHdTRfMm-JHJLUjOocx9t8hvr