Dear friends,
There will be couple of Central Asian talks and one Sogdian paper at a conference which is going to be held at Hofstra University. Please have a look at the program:
Eurasian Steppes as Contact Zone
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Saturday, January 23, 2010
108 C. V. Starr Hall
Sponsors: Middle Easter and Central Asian Studies Program,
Asian Studies Program
Conference Program
Session I: China and Nomads
Moderator: Dr. Karen S. Rubinson, Barnard College, New York
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Dr. Katheryn Linduff, University of Pittsburgh
Between Eurasia and China: Saddles Excavated in Xinjiang
Dr. Sergei Miniaev, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
and Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg
A Hsiung-nu Royal complex in South Siberia
Coffee Break, 11:15 am - 11:30 am
Session II: Eastern Nomads in Central
Asia
Moderator: Dr. Katheryn Linduff, University of Pittsburg
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Dr. Karen S. Rubinson, Barnard College, New York
Chinese and Other Eastern Objects at Tillya-tepe, Afghanistan
Dr. Oleksandr Symonenko, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York,
and Institute of Archaeology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev
Dr. Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University
Horsemen of Orlat: Eastern Nomads in Soghd?
Lunch Break, 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Session III: Early Cultures of the North Pontic Steppe
Moderator : Dr. Joseph Masheck, Hofstra University
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Dr. Elena Izbitser, Independent Scholar, New York
Anthropomorphic Figurines in the North Caucasus, III millennium B.C.E.
Dr. Alexander Leskov, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
News from Old Excavations: Tauric Antiquities in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Coffee Break, 2:15 pm -
2:30 pm
Session IV: Scythians and Greeks
Moderator: Dr. Claire Lindgren, Hofstra University
2:30 am - 4:00 pm
Dr. Maya Muratov, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York
From the Steppes and into the City:
A Graeco-Scythian Cult on the Acropolis of Pantikapaion
Dr. Elena Stolyarik, American Numismatic Society, New York
Late Scythian Coins from Greek Mints of Dobrudja
Dr. Oleksandr Symonenko, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York,
and Institute of Archaeology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev
From Achardeus to Tiras:
Beads as Warrior Amulets in the Burials of the III - II Centuries B.C.
Coffee Break, 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Session V: Nomads of Ancient Eurasia in Cultural Perspective
Moderator: Dr. Daniel Varisco, Hofstra University
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Dr. Anna M. Feuerbach, Hofstra University
Swords and the Steppe
Dr. Aleksandr Naymark,
Hofstra University
From Scythians to Sufis: Giant Cauldron as Symbol of Community
Dr. Joseph Masheck, Hofstra University
Non-Mimetic 'Imitations' : The Modernist Topos of Barbarian Numismatic Copies
7:00 Dinner in Oceanfront (former Timurlan) Restaurant
1047 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11224
telephone (347) 702 6919
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