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The Sogdians – Influencers on the Silk Roads – NYU – April 4 2:30-6

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    • March 12, 2019 at 5:49 pm #3650
      Kimon Keramidas
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      XE: NYU’s Program in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, the NYU’s Program in Museum Studies, and Digital Scholarship Services at NYU’s Bobst Library would like to invite you to the event:

      The Sogdians – Influencers on the Silk Roads; Imagining and Enacting Digital Cultural Heritage

      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.

      This event celebrates the going “live” of the first exhibition, digital or otherwise, devoted to the Sogdians. 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.

      Join the Sogdian team in discussing the methodological and technical approaches taken in developing the project and get a chance to look at the newly available site.

      April 4th 2:30-6pm
      Bobst Library, Room 743
      70 Washington Square South

      Please register for this event at the following link: https://nyu.libcal.com/event/5215686

      Co-sponsored by: XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, the Program in Museum Studies, and Digital Scholarship Services

      Any questions can be addressed to kimon.keramidas@nyu.edu

      Cheers,
      Kimon Keramidas

      Co-curator, The Sogdians – Influencers on the Silk Roads
      Clinical Associate Professor, XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement

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