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05 Dec 2024 09:30

Transregional Exchanges on Marco Polo’s Routes: Networks, Mobilities, and Cultural [...]

Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin

Transregional Exchanges on Marco Polo’s Routes: Networks, Mobilities, and Cultural Transfers
December 4-6, 2024
Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin

December 5
9.30-12.30 PANEL 1
Travelogues, Narratives, and Ethnographic Accounts
Discussant: Emiliano Fiori (Ca’ Foscari)
Shao-yun Yang (Denison Un.), Daoist Master Changchun’s Journey to the West
Pier Giorgio Borbone (UniPi), The Eastern Christians encountered by Marco Polo
James Frankel (CUHK), Even unto China...and Back: Chinese Muslim Journeys to the West

11.00-11.15 Coffee break
Hyunhee Park (CUNY), The Khataynameh and Marco Polo: Navigating Divergent Narratives of the Silk Road’s Final Era
Stefano Pellò (Ca’ Foscari), Salvatica Gente: Mughal and Colonial Ethnographies on Marco Polo’s Bolor in a Transregional Perspective

12.45-14.30 Lunch

14.30-18.00 PANEL 2
(Religious) Mobility and Exchange Discussant: Joseph Sanzo (Ca’ Foscari)
Li Tang (Un. Salzburg), A Confluence of East and West on the Silk Road: The Emergence of a Unique Christian Epigraphical Tradition in Central Asia and China from the 8th to the 14th century
Raissa De Gruttola (Ca’ Foscari), Beyond Marco Polo: Impressions and Activities of Franciscan Missionaries in China
Francesca Tarocco (Ca’ Foscari), “They Eat no Flesh”: Buddhist Lives in Medieval Europe

16.00-16.15 Coffee break

Tim Williams (UCL), Caravanserais and Communication Routes of the Silk Road, with a Focus on the Merv Site in Turkmenistan
Dilnoza Duturaeva (Un. York), From the Qarakhans to the Moghul Khans: Caravan Routes during Crisis (ONLINE)

The full programme is attached.

Organizing committee: Maddalena Barenghi, Eugenio De Angelis, Emiliano Fiori, Jacopo Scarin

Organized by

Department of Asian and North African Studies (Maddalena Barenghi, Eugenio De Angelis, Emiliano Fiori, Jacopo Scarin); Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections - MaP

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