Dr. Sally Church is an invited speaker at the conference “Silk Roads Again II: Eurasian Studies in the Digital Age”

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. READ MORE

 

 

 

Dr. Sally Church delivers a series of lectures at Henan University, Kaifeng

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 View of History
• Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) and History as an Independent Discipline

More details about the lectures can be found here:

http://www.hhwm.org/info/1059/3049.htm

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Impressions of Early 13th century Central Asia as seen in the poetry of Yelü Chucai

“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 will be held on 18 October at 4 pm in Room 209, Department of History, Nanjing University. READ MORE

 

 

 

 

 

The Silk Road and Sino-Foreign Agricultural Exchange

The third annual conference of the Purdue University-Nanjing Joint Centre for China Research, held at Nanjing Agricultural University on 21-22 October 2017, has attracted great academic interest both in China and abroad. The two universities agreed to set up this Joint Centre in 2014 in order to promote Sino-American academic exchange and discipline development. Since then, interest in this academic collaboration has been growing dramatically. READ MORE