* * * * * Friday April 28 * * * * *
9am Welcome Address
Sanjyot Mehendale, Chair of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
9:30 – 11:30 Astronomy
Chair: Brian Baumann (UC Berkeley)
Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University)
Converting a Science into Another: Mongols’ Imperial Attitude toward Sciences
Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College)
Merchants of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean
Bill M. Mak (Chinese Research Center, ISF Academy, Hong Kong)
From Zero to Infinity — China’s Encounter with Indian Mathematics
*** Lunch break ***
1:30 – 3:30 Geography and Cartography
Chair: Franck Billé (UC Berkeley)
Hyunhee Park (CUNY)
Mapping India in Medieval Eurasia via the Silk Roads
Kaveh Hemmat (Benedictine University)
Theories of Technology in Islamicate Depictions of East Asia and the Development of Ethnographic Genres
Kenzheakhmet Nurlan (Harvard University)
European-Chinese Imperial Maps Related to Kazakh Khanate in the 16-19 Centuries
3:45 – 5: 45 Cultivation and Textiles
Chair: Sanjyot Mehendale (UC Berkeley)
Chiara Gasparini (University of Oregon)
Chinese baohua Weavings in the Making of 8th Century Buddhist and Islamic Societies
Carol Bier (Graduate Theological Union)
Pattern-Making and Textile Technologies across Asia
Angela Sheng (McMaster)
Some Memory Devices of Early Chinese Textile Technologies and Their Diffusion (or Not)
Robert Spengler (Max Planck)
The Cotton Road: Tracing the Ancient Spread of a Commodity through Inner Asia
* * * * * Saturday April 29 * * * * *
9:30 – 11:30 Pharmacopeia and Materia Medica
Chair: Stacey van Vleet (UC Berkeley)
Yan Liu (SUNY)
Scented Protection: A Transcultural History of Aromatic Medicines in Medieval China
Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)
Milk in Chinese Medicine: A Silk Road Innovation?
Sean Bradley (University of Washington)
Traveling Formulas: Foreign Drugs in Chinese Medicine
*** Lunch break ***
1:30 – 3:30 Medicine and Epidemiology
Chair: Dominic Steavu (UC Santa Barbara)
Christos Lynteris (St. Andrews University, Scotland)
Plague and Human-Animal Relations on the Silk Roads (1871-1911)
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London)
What Moves and What Does Not Move
Stacey van Vleet (UC Berkeley)
Potency and Purity: Debating Buddhism, Medicine and Governance in Qing Inner Asia
3:45 – 5: 45 Manuscriptology and Codicology
Chair: Amanda Goodman (University of Toronto)
Brandon Dotson (Georgetown University)
Adaptation, Networks, and Dice Divination from India to Central Asia to Africa
Shih-shan Susan Huang (Rice University)
Buddhist Book Roads: From Turfan to Beijing to Hangzhou in the 13th and 14th Centuries
