[KS] new research center at U.California Berkeley campus - Silk Road

[Witteveen GP]

Cross-posting from the East Asia Anthropology e-list, EASIANTH.Here is an announcement for a new research center in northern California.Please tell others you know. -- Guven Witteveen

Guven Peter Witteveen, anthroview at gmail.com; skype address: gpwitteveen
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Date:    Mon, 22 May 2017 09:46
From:    Tang silk road center Departmental <tangsilkroadcenter at BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: New Center for Silk Road Studies at UC Berkeley
We are very pleased the announce the establishment of the P.Y. and Kinmay
W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, under the auspices of the Institute
of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Supported
by a generous gift by the Tang family, the TCSRS is the first center for
Silk Road studies in North America.

By institutionalizing *Silk Road* studies, the TCSRS aims to transcend
longstanding boundaries that have challenged and constricted area studies.
To date, few academics have utilized the notion of the Silk Road within the
discourse of their research, considering it something of a modern construct
rather than an area on which to focus. But it is precisely the
constructed nature of the Silk Road that makes it such a fertile organizing
concept for scholarship: by (constructed) definition, it both permits and
encourages trans-national, trans-regional, cross-cultural and
cross-disciplinary approaches to research and understanding.

The TCSRS focuses on the visual and material culture of sites scattered
throughout China and Central Asia, as well as on manuscripts and objects
found in archives and repositories in the United States, Europe and Asia,
to foster study of and teaching on the trading networks that, in
multifaceted ways, formed a bridge between the cultural and commercial
centers of Eurasia.

In geographical terms, the TCSRS concentrates its efforts primarily on the
core of the overland Eurasian trading network in Central Asia, here defined
as including western China, the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, as well as
Afghanistan. At the same time, it acknowledges the important role that
maritime routes played in connecting China to other parts of Asia and
beyond.

The TCSRS aims to advance individual, collaborative and interdisciplinary
scholarship through seminars, workshops, conferences, fellowships, and K-12
programming. It plans to develop academic partnerships not only with other
UC Berkeley departments and research units but also with national and
international educational and cultural institutions to develop initiatives
for advancing research and outreach in Silk Road studies.

To add your name to our mailing list for event announcements please contact us.Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us to discuss possibilities of future collaboration and joint research programs.

Best regards,

Sanjyot Mehendale  |  Chair
Franck Bill  |  Program Director
Karen Leong Clancy  |  Development and Outreach Director

http://ieas.berkeley.edu/tcsrs email tangsilkroadcenter@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-0333
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P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
University of California, Berkeley
1995 University Avenue, Suite 510D
Berkeley, CA 94704-2318
Tel: (510) 642-0333 Fax: (510) 642-5035
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