The Center for East Asian Studies is co-sponsoring a conference with the Middle East Center at University of Pennsylvania on the theme: Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East: The Silk Roads and Beyond
The aim of the conference is to foster a creative dialogue between scholars of modern and contemporary China/Middle East relations and those working on earlier periods, with the goal of questioning and complicating the conventional narratives frequently heard around these issues.
Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East The Silk Roads and Beyond University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
April 8th-10th, 2021
Keynote Address: Peter Frankopan
Program Committee: William Figueroa, Mohammadbagher Forough, John Garver, John Ghazvinian, Dru Gladney, Renata Holod, Tugrul Keskin, Victor Mair, Dorraj Manochehr, Eleanor Sims, Jinping Wang, Bingbing Wu
TÜMATA The Traditional Turkish Music Research and Promotion Society, Dr Rahmi Oruç Güvenç