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The Tang Center for Silk Road Studies focuses on the material and visual culture of sites scattered throughout China and Central Asia.

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Beyond the Silk Road, Across the Seas: Circulations of Textiles, Ideas, and Techniques Pre-1900s
Oct 9-10, 2025 (330 Sutardja Dai Hall) &
Oct 11, 2025 (Berkeley Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Ave)

https://t.co/RBCXlRyYdb

#textile #текстиль #SilkRoad #نسيج #طريق_الحرير

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Conceptualising the Silk Roads: Some Suggestions

Peter Frankopan talks about the past, present and future of the Silk Roads, and dscusses the benefits and challenges of focusing on geographies, cultures, disciplines and periods.
https://t.co/z6hoTkkpbP

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Conceptualizing the Silk Roads: Some Suggestions

2024 ANNUAL TANG LECTURE
by Professor Peter Frankopan

Thursday April 18, 2024, 5pm (PST)
Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley 94704

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Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves

https://t.co/wUVtHshKM4

Professor Wu Hung 巫鸿 (University of Chicago) retells the story of Dunhuang art through the perspective of space.

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"Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes"
A new book by Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge
https://t.co/aUULIiFcn0

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"Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves" A lecture by Professor Wu Hung, University of Chicago

April 5, 2024, 4pm (PST) 370 Dwinelle Hall, South Dr, UC Berkeley campus

@CCSBerkeley #WuHung #巫鸿 #莫高窟 #mogao #丝绸之路
#موقاو #طريق_الحرير

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@b0g1j2v The talk will be recorded and posted on our channel afterwards

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"Ghosts in the Machine: Technology and Imperialism in Maritime Asia" — a talk by Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell)

Friday March 1, 4pm (Pacific)
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus

[TCSRS @TCSRS_Berkeley]

The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road

A talk by Xin Wen, Princeton, recently given at UC Berkeley

https://t.co/MXlRNCrcyq

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Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange 1501-1630s
A recent lecture by Sinem Arcak Casale, University of Minnesota
is now online
https://t.co/vNGuT3mhjP

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"The Tocharian Buddha and the Local Demons"
A lecture by Professor Monika Zin, University of Leipzig

https://t.co/bftQVMdEQQ

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Traveling the Silk Road: Archaeological Investigations into the Dispersal of Plants and Animals Through Ancient Central Asia

A lecture by Robert Spengler

December 7, 12pm (Pacific)

https://t.co/swiFRipqs4

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Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange 1501-1630s

A lecture by Sinem Arcak Casale, University of Minnesota

Nov 9, 2023 | 5 pm
340 Stephens Hall, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

[TCSRS @TCSRS_Berkeley]

The King’s Road
A talk by Prof Xin Wen, Princeton

October 27, 5pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley campus

#外交 #diplomacy #SilkRoad #丝绸之路 #Шелковый_путь #дипломатия #دبلوماسية #طريق_الحرير

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"Conjuring the Buddha: The Rise of Poetic Language in Buddhist Ritual Manuals"
A lecture by Jacob Dalton

10/5/2023 @ 5:30pm
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus

https://t.co/AWRUtcAN2L
#buddhism #البوذية #буддизм

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The recent lecture by Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), entitled

"Images and Knowledge of the Stars Along the Silk Road Between the 5th and the 15th Centuries"

is now available online:
https://t.co/Cek62TG3qV

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The Book and the Silk Roads
by Amanda Goodman, University of Toronto

Keynote lecture to our Annual Conference
“Nexus of Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Technology on the Silk Roads”
April 27-29, 2023

is available online
https://t.co/dKMtRwaCxG

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The Elite Cultures of Bactria, Sogdiana and Gandhara Under A Quick Succession of Masters
A lecture by Frantz Grenet, Collège de France
April 20, 2023
https://t.co/EcckTe3AKV

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Unscrambling the Political Situation in Central Asia between the Hunnish Invasions and the Muslim Conquest
A lecture by Frantz Grenet, Collège de France
April 19, 2023
https://t.co/83AvgzMv3p

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"Secrets in Numbers"—a lecture by Zack Beer, UC Berkeley is now online:

https://t.co/sZ5DH057rt