Rethinking Global Histories for the Present - The Overland and Maritime Silk Roads in Central Eurasia and the Indian Ocean
The international conference on "Rethinking Global Histories for the Present" has been held from the 28th to the 30th of May, 2017.
Here are some photos from the event.
Please see the program below.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Rethinking Global Histories for the Present:
The Overland and Maritime Silk Roads in Central Eurasia and the Indian Ocean
Nafi Baba Building, Boğaziçi University
28–30 April, 2017
Asian Studies Center, Boğaziçi University & Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
in collaboration with
Department of History, Boğaziçi University
The program is also supported by the Japanese Studies Association – Japonya Araştırmaları Derneği
Conveners:
Selçuk Esenbel & Birgit Schlyter
FRIDAY, 28 April
18:00-18:15
Opening speech by Rector Mehmed Özkan
18:15-19:15
Keynote speech: “The Silk Road and Global History”
İsenbike Togan and Selçuk Esenbel
19:30-21:00
Reception
Kennedy Lodge
SATURDAY, 29 April
Chair: Birgit Schlyter
9:30-10:15
Susan Whitfield
Special Lecture: Is the Silk Road Global?: UNESCO, OBOR and Modern Scholarship
Q&A 10:15-10:30
Coffee break 10.30-10.45
Chair: Oğuz Baykara
10:45-11:15
Håkan Wahlquist
The “Silk Road” – Invented and Reinvented: On the Growth of the Concept and on a Missing Link in this Development
11:15-11:45
Patrick Hällzon
Imagining Kashgar: Missionary Material from the Silk Road in Swedish Archives and Museums
Q&A 11:45-12:00
Chair: Selçuk Esenbel
12:00-12:30
Mehmet Ölmez
What does the Old Uighur Xuanzang Biography Teach about Turks?
12:30-13:00
İsenbike Togan
Tomb Culture as a Connecting Link Along the Silk Road
Q&A 13:00 – 13:15
Lunch 13:15-14:30
Chair: İsenbike Togan
14:30-15:00
Selçuk Esenbel
Shoes and Modern Civilization: The 1880 Yoshida Mission to Qajar Iran
15:00-15:30
Kiraz Perinçek Karavit
White Horse Sacrifice through Central Asian and Chinese Traditions as Shown by Mehmed Siyah Kalem Paintings
15:30-16.00
Kazım Abdullaev
The Great Silk Road as Indicator of Cultural Interaction in Antiquity
Q&A / Coffee break 16:00-16:15
Chair: Miriya Malik
16:15-16:45
Oğuz Baykara
Translation practices on the Silk Road: Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s “Toshishun”
16:45-17:15
Zaur Gasimov
Ayrılıq. An Entangled History of a Song across the Middle East
Q&A 17:15-17:30
SATURDAY EVENING
Visit to the Swedish Research Institute
19:30
Therese Hydén, Åke Peterson, Birgit Schlyter
Book Launch: Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring (Brill 2017)
20:00-21.30
Reception
SUNDAY, 30 April
Chair: Giray Sadık
10:00-10.30
Chen Hao
Comparative Research on Old Turkic Inscriptions and Chinese Sources: A Case Study on the Beş Balık Battle in 713/714 AD
10:30-11:00
Edgar Melgar
Positivism under Empire: Reading Auguste Comte in Indochina, Algeria, and India
Q&A: 11:00-11:15
Coffee break: 11:15-11:30
Chair: Åke Peterson
11:30-12:00
Umut Uzer
Nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire: Neo-Ottomanist approaches to Turkish politics
12:00-12:30
Kıvanç Ulusoy
The Cyprus Conflict and Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics
Q&A 12:30:12:45
Lunch 12:45-13:45
Chair: Susan Whitfield
13:45-14:15
Dipak Malik
Journeys over Land and Sea in the 21st Century: Asian Trade, Power and Ideology
14:15-14:45
Giray Fidan
China’s first Ambassador to the USA Shi Zhaoji’s journey to Republican Turkey in 1925
Q&A 14:45-15:00
Chair: Asım Karaömerlioğlu
15:00-15:30
Joakim Enwall
The Use of History to Legitimise the Present-Day Territory of the People’s Republic of China
15:30-16:00
Giray Sadık
NATO and SCO in Eurasia: Imperial Rivalry or Competing Spheres of Influence?
Q&A 16:00-16:15
16:15-17:15
Concluding Remarks
