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China Night Seminar Series
14/11/2024 Dr Junjie Su (Yunnan University) New Ways of Making Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China
31/05/2024 Dr Xinyi Liu (Washington University in St Louis) Understanding Ancient China
20/05/2024 Prof Feng Li (Peking University) Northern Dispersal of Early Modern Humans into East Asia: progress and prospect
20/03/2024 Prof Harriet Evans (University of Westminster) & Prof Michael Rowlands (UCL) Grassroots Values - Localising Cultural Heritage in China
29/02/2024 Dr Siran Liu (USTB) The Exploration of Hypogene Copper Ore and the Rise of Shang Bronze Industry
08/02/2024 Dr Marvin Demicoli (Museum of London Archaeology) The Ecological Impact of Longshan Urbanisation: Perspectives from Anthracology
17/01/2024 [Public Lecture] Professor MEI Jianjun (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge & McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge) Sanxingdui Bronzes and Metallurgical Network in the Shang Dynasty
14/12/2023 Dr David Francis (University of Leicester) and Bamo Anyu (University of Bristol) Documenting the making of the last Nuosu yellow oil-cloth umbrellas in Liangshan, Southwest China
23/11/2023 Dr Stefan Altekamp (Humboldt-Univesität zu Berlin, Germany) Roma and Chang'an: World Capitals
26/10/2023 [Public Lecture] Prof Dame Jessica Rawson (University of Oxford) China's Great Tombs: a New Route to the Past and to Recognising China Today
05/10/2023 Prof Changping Zhang (Wuhan University & University of Cambridge) How do the objects from the Sanxingdui Site reveal a sacrificial scene?
21/08/2023 Conference "Cross-regional and Cross-cultural Comparision on Water, Power and Historicity"
07/06/2023 Dr Jacopo Scarin (University of Venice) The Longmen Lineages and the Construction of Meaning in Local Society in Late Imperial China
23/03/2023 Dr Qian Ma (University of Oxford) The Origin of Chinese Glasses and the Glass Trade Along the Silk Road from the Warring States to the Han Dynasty
08/12/2022 Dr Ruiliang Liu (British Museum) Squeeze Mind Out of Metal: A chemical and isotopic perspective towards the social organisation of Chinese Bronze Shang Dynasty
10/11/2022 Dr Rita Dal Martello (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany) Secondary Crop Domestication and Use: A case study from Haimenkou, Yunnan, China
27/10/2022 Dr Qin Cao (Durham University) "Auspicious Gold" and "Precious Stones": Rethinking weapons in late Shang China (c.1250-1050BCE)
12/05/2022 Dr Yucheng Wang (University of Copenhagen & University of Cambridge) Ancient Environmental Genomics: Retrieving the Whole Past from Paleosoil
23/02/2022 Dr Yaxiong Liu (Henan University, China) Archaeology of Iron Production in Early China: Progress and Challenges
28/01/2022 Dr Xiujia Huan (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) From the Modern to the Archaeological: Phytolith and Rice Agriculture Origin Study in China
15/12/2021 Prof Dorian Fuller (UCL Institute of Archaeology) A Neolithic domus in Northern China: Domestication of millets, pigs and farming dogs
27/10/2021 Prof Zhang Dongju (Lanzhou University) Xiahe Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau
Silk Roads Seminar Series at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
A joint series organised by the International Centre for Silk Roads Archaeology & Heritage, the Central Asian Archaeological Landscape project (CAAL), and the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA), UCL Institute of Archaeology. The series will explore three inter-related themes: archaeology in Central Asia (broadly related to the Silk Roads), the Maritime Silk Routes, and the geopolitics of the Silk Roads today.
11/01/2021 Prof Tim Winter (University of Western Australia, Perth) Geocultural Power: The Revival of the Silk Roads in the 21st Century
18/01/2021 Dr Dmitry Voyakin (Director of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies, Samarkand) Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Kazakhstan, including an investigation of Aral Sea Region
25/01/2021 Prof Simon Kaner (Executive Director, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, and Director, Centre for Japanese Studies and University of East Anglia) Nara to Norwich: Art and Belief at the Ends of the Silk Roads
01/02/2021 Dr Helen Persson Swain (freelance) Curating the V&A Stein Collection
08/02/2021 Dr Marco Nebbia (UCL), with Dr Gai Jorayev (UCL) The Central Asian Archaeological Landscape Project: Remote Sensing and Landscape Change
22/02/2021 Dr Veronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Helsinki) Ports and Harbours of Southeast Asia: Human-environment Entanglements in Early Modern Maritime Trade Networks
26/02/2021 Prof Himanshu Prabha Ray (Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University & Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies) Maritime Networks in the Indian Ocean
01/03/2021 Dr Bérénice Bellina-Pryce (Maison Archéologie Ethnologie, CNRS & University of Paris-Nanterre) Recent Work on Riverine Ports in Myanmar
08/03/2021 Dr Robert Spengler (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Seed-Dispersal Mechanisms in Plant Domestication
15/03/2021 Dr June Wang (Associate Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong) The Silk Roads and Geopolitics in Heritage
22/03/2021 Dr Anke Hein (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford) Human Response to High Altitude Environmental Change on the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau
05/03/2021 Prof Sarah Ward (Visiting Professor of Maritime Archaeology at Dalian Maritime University's Centre for Maritime History and Culture Research) Asian Underwater Cultural Heritage
12/03/2021 Prof MA Jian (Northwest University China) Archaeology in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains
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