The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Columbia University's Tang Center for Early China present
Chinese Frontiers and Central Eurasia: Art, Archaeology, and History at the Turn of the Common Era
Conference organized by Fanghan Wang (ISAW) and Shujing Wang (NYU Shanghai & ISAW Alumna)
Friday, December 4, 2020
Via Zoom
212.992.7800
9:00am: Welcome
Lillian Tseng (ISAW)
SESSION I
9:10am: Frontier Encounters in Excavated Materials from the Han Northwest
Charles Sanft (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
9:25am: Economic Integration and Political Expansion along Western Han Frontiers: A Numismatic Survey
Chris Kim (Columbia University)
9:40am: Guarding the Granary: Art, Agriculture and Frontier Politics between the Han Empire and Xiongnu
Fanghan Wang (ISAW)
9:55am: Discussion
SESSION II
10:25am: The Great Game on the Silk Road: Contested Nodes and Competing Networks in the Western Regions during the Xiongnu-Han Era
Bryan Miller (University of Michigan)
10:40am: Burials at the Frontier: Jiaohe Tombs Revisited
Shujing Wang (NYU Shanghai)
10:55am: Discussion
SESSION III
11:25am: Talk Title, TBD
Ursula Brosseder (Bonn University)
11:40am: Research on the Xiongnu Aristocratic Tombs
Yeruul-Erdene Chimiddorj (Cultural Resource Analysts Inc.)
11:55am: Animal-Style Tropes and the Making of Visual Language Across Central Eurasia
Petya Andreeva (The New School)
12:10pm: Discussion
12:25pm: Final Discussion
This conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinese-frontiers-and-central-eurasia-at-the-turn-of-the-common-era-registration-128655466965
This event will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided via a confirmation email from Eventbrite to registered participants.
Please check isaw.nyu.edu for event updates.