At the ESCAS/CESS joint conference in Lisbon, with Dr Giulia Sciorati, I co-convened the panel “Crossroads of influence: transnationality and contestation in Silk Road histories” a multidisciplinary panel with amazing historians of China-Central Asia relations Dr Dilnoza Duturaeva, University of York, and Dr Yipeng Zhou, University of Michigan. Below the title of the four presentations:
Trade routes from Anatolia to China: new perspectives on mysterious envoys at the Song Court – Dilnoza Duturaeva, Lecturer in Medieval History, University of York (UK)
Crafting “attractive” Silk Road histories: (visual) narrative contestation along the Silk Road – Giulia Sciorati, postdoctoral fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
Colonial echoes, Uzbekistan’s voice: historical narratives as spaces for agency in relations with China and Russia – Frank Maracchione, Research Associate, University of Kent (UK)
Research on frontiers: Sino-Soviet knowledge campaigns on the Central Asian “borderlands” – Yipeng Zhou, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan (USA)
Frank Maracchione 