Valerie Hansen

Professor of History, Yale University. Author of The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began (published April 14, 2020).

[Helen Wang @HelenWangLondon]

Just heard that we won the Lhotka Prize!
- “awarded to the author of the book or article in English considered most helpful to the elementary student of numismatics and published in the previous two calendar years” - thank you @RoyalNumSoc !
https://t.co/iq8oVeioFL #numismatics

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

As a lifelong fan of The Historian's Craft, I learned much from Sam's blog post about Marc Bloch. Thank you!

[Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @sottewillsoulsb]

‘I am dying, as I lived, an honourable Frenchman.’

Today on the blog, we mark the 80th anniversary of the killing of Marc Bloch. #history

https://t.co/WNkhx1vPrK

[Xin Wen @xwen0113]

My book is on sale with 50% off! Also, a paperback version will come out this December!
https://t.co/xkISgjeLFc

[International Dunhuang Programme @idp_uk]

Happy Birthday Diamond Sutra! The world's earliest printed book turned 1156 years old on May 11 this year! 🎂 Find out more about this incredible print and its significance here ➡️ https://t.co/Rcl9q2oIKK

[Global Studies Forum @GlobalStudiesGS]

Welcome to an extraordinary event- "Top Historians Roundtable," featuring Profs. Timothy Brook, Prasenjit Duara, Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000 Kenneth Pomeranz, Hilde De Weerdt @hild_de, organized by Profs. Xin Zhang @DrZhang37922645 & @ZhangTaisu & Dandan Chen @DandanChenNYC

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

Follow up about the 10,000 wooden slips from Dutou (Chenzhou), Hunan. See: Chenzhou Xi-Jin jiandu xuancui 郴州西晉簡牘選粹 ISBN 978-7-5326-5955-5/K·122 (2022). Zhang Xiaodong 張嘯東 in Dongfang yishu 東方藝術 2009.20: 108-15. Thanks to Robin Yates and Victor Mair (again).

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

From Pavel Lurje, the online public lectures held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Prof. Vladimir A. LIVSHITS (1923 – 2017) are now available for watching in Russian and English at the following link. https://t.co/sl1Z692s6Y

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

New find of Number# wooden slips from the Han dynasty in Dutou, Hunan. Thanks to Victor Mair for this information. For English, see: Miami Herald
https://t.co/hjvxtblZ6c. For Chinese, see https://t.co/MeAkPxCVS8

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

New book in Silk Road Studies. Edited by Michelle Wang and Ryan Overbey: Beyond the Silk and Book Roads Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture. TOC at https://t.co/hdWXlyMMjm

[Michelle C. Wang 王慧兰 @asianartlibrary]

British or Hungarian citizens, apply by January 10, 2024!

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

The book certainly deserved the award.

[Dilnoza Duturaeva @duturaeva]

Heading to Korea to receive the Silk Road Academic Award 2023 at Keimyung University. Many thanks to the award committee members Henri-Paul Francfort, Morris Rossabi and Dorothy C. Wong for selecting my work. I am truly honoured! https://t.co/AtEjHsUjM5

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

@npwitkowski @UCLA @StephBalkwill @Yale I checked with the organizers, Steph Balkwill and Diego Loukota, who said that they will not be recording the conference as this is "a local event for the UCLA and Southern California community."

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

The great historical linguist at Cornell who studied Jìndài Hànyǔ 近代汉语 (Modern Chinese), Tsu-Lin Mei (1933-2023) died on October 14, 2023. See Victor Mair's moving—and informative—tribute at:
https://t.co/F9otu6DL8z

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

Honored to give the keynote on cave 17 at Dunhuang, I'm really looking forward to this conference with its fresh angle on the co-existence of multiple languages along the Silk Road.

[Nicholas Witkowski @npwitkowski]

Dec 8-9 @UCLA, @StephBalkwill & Diego Loukota hosting Conference: Reed, Brush, Chisel: Script, Literacy, and Writing Across Central and East Asia (400–1800), w/ Keynote by @VHansenYear1000 @Yale

Register here: https://t.co/7Bsl17Y7mm

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

An important new book by a top scholar working on Turfan in the 9th through 14th centuries. More information at: https://t.co/F6Pkkq7n08

[Dai MATSUI @dmatsui1217]

Finally my author copy arrived! Thanks for the cooperation of @Brepols !

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

I certainly enjoyed reading this learned and entertaining piece about medieval and modern leaders and their dogs.

[Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @sottewillsoulsb]

This may be one of the things I most enjoyed writing.

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

Final lecture in the Sogdian series honoring Vladimir Livshits: Pavel LURJE, State Hermitage Museum,“New data on Turko-Sogdian monumental inscriptions from Kyrgyzstan.” October 6th, 10 AM Greenwich, 11 AM CET.
https://t.co/XduDB1HHCI...

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

Coming January 9, 2024, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's new book, Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire, from Princeton University Press. https://t.co/oV0lYw5KPF

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

A report in Science Advances (Apr 14, 2023) on Xiongnu tombs, showing more diversity among the subject population than the ruling elite. Abstract attached. Thanks to Victor Mair for this lead. https://t.co/8lPdJEDUAl

[Valerie Hansen @VHansenYear1000]

An exciting discovery in Zambia of the world's oldest dated wooden structure from ca. 500,000 BP, before homo sapiens. This prompts a re-evaluation of the capabilities of early hominids—and shows how much dating techniques have improved in the past decade.
https://t.co/YIpkWZdiz5