Keynote Speaker: Dr Alexander Morrison (University of Liverpool)
This gathering of postgraduates and early career academics is intended to combine historical depth with contemporary focus of anthropological and political approaches. It will consider the development and impact of political and religious ideology, patterns of exchange, travel and trade across the numerous polities, from the Türk to the Qing to the USSR, that have shaped the region over the centuries. Areas of discussion might include:
* Silk routes, caravans, and passes: travel and landscape
* Sedentary/nomadic contacts: trade, peace, war, and conflict resolution
* Linguistic diversity and homogeneity
* Performance and communication: music, film, new media
* Material culture, art, manuscript and textual traditions
* Religious orthodoxy, syncretism and spread
* Centralization, control and resistance
* Construction and transmission of images of gender and sexuality
Abstracts (of up to 300 words) should be submitted electronically to Geoff Humble g.f.humble@leeds. ac.uk by Monday the 18th of January 2010.
Geoffrey Humble
University of Leeds
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