Author Archives: Claire Roosien
Lecture – Constructing Descent: Legal Strategies of Succession and Inheritance in Sasanian Iran
CCES at Middle East History and Theory 2016 Conference
CCES Courses: Spring 2016
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CONFERENCE – In Empire’s Long Shadow: Modern Constructions of Central Eurasia
Richard Payne, “The Making of Turan”
CCES Lecture Series: Jeffrey Winters
Jeffrey WintersProfessor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityDirector of Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS), Northwestern UniversityCurriculum Vitae: http://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/ expertAddInfo.asp?u_id=2615 EDGS site: http://www.edgs.northwestern.edu
CCES 2015-16 Lecture Series
Brown Bag Talk: Joshua Wright, “Community and Authority in Bronze Age Mongolia”
Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Brown bag talk: “Community and Authority in Bronze Age Mongolia”
16 November, 12:20-1:20 pm, Wieboldt 408
jointly sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
LOCATION CHANGED – Lecture: Michael Frachetti, “Silk Routes Rewoven: Inner Asia at 4000 and 1000 Years Ago”
Silk Routes Rewoven: Inner Asia at 4000 and 1000 years ago
Michael Frachetti
Washington University in St Louis
Tuesday November 3, 2015
6-7:30 pm
NEW LOCATION: ROSENWALD 015
This lecture presents two parallel snapshots of “Silk Road” interaction. The first snapshot comes from Bronze Age archaeological investigations in Southeastern Kazakhstan (ca. 2500 cal BCE), which reveal the earliest known evidence for interaction networks between East Asia and SW Asia. Such networks are attested in the form of early domesticated grains, which trace the introduction of wheat and barley to China as well as millet into Central and SW Asia. The second snapshot explores the Silk Routes during the height of their use in the Medieval era and examines the formation of complex political and economic landscapes in Southeastern Uzbekistan. As both cases are drawn from “nomadic” contexts, they require us to reevaluate the models for social complexity and institutional organization that shape both common and academic ideas about the world’s most extensive ancient overland trade network.