Eurasian Connections: The Late Antique World Reconsidered

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Five College Seminar in Late Antiquity

Organizer Name

Jason Moralee

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst/Institute for Advanced Study

Presider Name

Jason Moralee

Paper Title 1

They Come From the Land of the Ice and Snow: Huns, Türks, and the Northern Peoples in Caucasian Imagination and Reality

Presenter 1 Name

Scott McDonough

Presenter 1 Affiliation

William Paterson Univ.

Paper Title 2

From Seres to Taugast: Perceiving the Distant Other through Mediated Networks in Late Antique Eurasia

Presenter 2 Name

Richard Lim

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Smith College

Paper Title 3

Zawulistan, Kawulistan and the Land Bosi 波斯: On the Question of a Sasanian Court-in-Exile in the Southern Hindukush

Presenter 3 Name

Sören Stark

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York Univ.

Paper Title 4

The Dragon and the Pearl: Exploring a Eurasian Motif of Late Antiquity

Presenter 4 Name

Joel Walker

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Washington-Seattle

Start Date

15-5-2016 8:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1280