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Yerkebulat TOKMAGAMBETOV
Mavlyuda YUSUPOVA
Sergey ZAKHAROV
Chynarbek ZHOLDOSHOV
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Silk Roads seminar series
UCL institute of archaeology Silk Roads centre is hosting a lecture series on Mondays and select Fridays The Silk Roads Seminar Series is a joint series organised by the International Centre for Silk Roads Archaeology & Heritage, the Central Asian Archaeological Landscape project (CAAL), and the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA), at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. The series will explore three inter-related themes: archaeology in Central Asia (broadly related to the Silk Roads), the Maritime Silk Routes, and the geopolitics of the Silk Roads today. Leading scholars in… Read More
Looking forward to 2021, but first… С нетерпением жду 2021 года, но сначала…
December musings on 2020 and January 2021 event dates … a shout out to Victoria Sluka for her ambitious quilting during the pandemic. As her fieldwork has been postponed, she has found alternative ways of engaging with her textile research by challenging herself: ‘I wanted to make a quilt with blocks more complicated than squares, triangles, and right angles. Since I find the math behind Islamic geometric patterns very interesting and love the blues used in traditional tilework, this seemed like a perfect and bold design to try. This design uses 62… Read More
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