On October 18th Dr. Sally Church gave a guest lecture at the Department of History, Nanjing University, together with Prof. Qiu Jiangning of Zhejiang Normal University. The topic was: “Impressions of Early 13th century Central Asia as seen in the poetry of Yelü Chucai”. Prof. Qiu Jiangning was a visiting scholar at the University of… Read More »
On the 8th and 9th of December Dr. Sally Church will be an invited speaker at the international conference ”Silk Roads Again II: Eurasian Studies in the Digital Age”, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea. She is there at an invitation of the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Hanyang University. The conference is the second in… Read More »
In November, Dr. Sally Church, currently a visiting lecturer at the Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Research Center (Huanghe wenming kechixu fazhan yanjiu zhongxin 黄河文明与可持续发展研究中心 ), Henan University, Kaifeng, delivers four lectures on the following topics: Herodotus(c.484–c.425BCE), Thucydides(c. 460–c. 400BCE) and the Beginnings of Western History Augustine of Hippo (354-430CE) and Directional History Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)and the Enlightenment… Read More »
“Impressions of Early 13th century Central Asia as seen in the poetry of Yelü Chucai”, a lecture by Dr Sally K Church, University of Cambridge researcher, and Prof. Qiu Jiangning, Zhejiang Normal University. Sally Church is currently a researcher at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (England), and also at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge.… Read More »