This is a reminder to register for the event The Sogdians: Influencers of the Silk Roads; Imagining and Enacting Digital Cultural Heritage taking place this Thursday from 2:30-6:00 at NYU’s Bobst Library. Join the Sogdian team for two panels discussing the methodological and technical approaches taken in developing the project and get a chance to look at the newly available site.
The Sogdians were the middlemen of the transcontinental trade known as the Silk Roads, amassing great wealth, which financed a flowering of civilization in their homeland–the area around Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan. But they were also purveyors of culture to their imperial neighbors, transporting craftsmen, artists, Buddhist monks and others across Central Asia. The Sogdians introduced new artistic and religious ideas and contributed to military and diplomatic affairs as far west as Europe and as far east as Japan during the 5th to 8th centuries CE. Despite their remarkable influence, the Sogdians remain an understudied and underrepresented culture in the history of Eurasian studies. The product of more than seven years of work organized by the Freer|Sackler Asian Art Galleries of the Smithsonian Institue, the exhibition combines the latest academic research with a variety of digital media– from interactive maps to 3D photogrammetry, drone footage of archaeological sites to video interviews with leading scholars. It is a case study of how experimental pedagogy, global history and the digital humanities can bring scholarship on the ancient world to new audiences.
Details are as follows:
April 4th, 2:30-6pm
Bobst Library Room 743
Please register for this event at the following link: https://nyu.libcal.com/event/5215686
Full information about the event can be found on the XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement website: http://as.nyu.edu/xe/events/2018-2019/the-sogdians–influencers-on-the-silk-roads.html
Co-sponsored by: XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, the Program in Museum Studies, Digital Scholarship Services, and Bard Graduate Center
