Take a look at the exciting CCES-related spring courses, listed here!

For more information, visit empireshadow.uchicago.edu

Jeffrey Winters 

Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Director of Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS), Northwestern University

Curriculum Vitae: http://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/expertAddInfo.asp?u_id=2615

Faculty page: http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/jeffrey-winters.html

EDGS site: http://www.edgs.northwestern.edu

NOTE: Dr. Anatoly Khazanov’s talk has been rescheduled for Autumn Quarter 2016. Check back for further details!

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.

NEW LOCATION: ROSENWALD 015

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.