Cambridge Central Asia Forum in collaboration with the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge invites you to a talk by
Dilnoza Duturaeva, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the National Center of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
On
‘Qarakhanid Roads to China: A History of Sino-Turkic Relations’
Date: 13 May
Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: Room S2 (Alison Richard Building)
Online: Zoom Registration https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtce6sqzopG9xqTCDqCgdTdPz9n...
Abstract: This talk explores the revival of long-distance trade and interactions along the Silk Roads during the Qarakhanids covered in Dilnoza Duturaeva's recently published monograph, which reconsiders the diplomacy, trade, and geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the concept of “the Silk Road crisis” in the period between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols.
Biography: Dilnoza Duturaeva is a historian of Central Asia and China at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the National Center of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. She graduated from Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies in 2004, earned her MA from the same institution in 2006, and obtained a PhD in History from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in 2011. In the same year, she joined the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan as a Senior Research Fellow. She also pursued doctoral research at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (2008-2009) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010) and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Nanjing (2012-2013) and the University of Bonn (2015-2018). Since 2020 she has been working in Paris on a research project funded by the German Research Foundation.
The book is available in open access here: https://brill.com/view/title/61452
Everyone is welcome.
For more information please go to https://centralasia.group.cam.ac.uk/