Events

Teng Li present at UNNC
Professor Teng LI presenting a paper for the Institute at the UNNC Library.


The Global Institute for Silk Roads Studies organises a series of interdisciplinary seminars, workshops and conferences.

  • Interaction on the Eurasian Silk Road. Julian Henderson (University of Nottingham) – 14 April 2025
  • Christian Missionaries and China's International Trade, 1580-1936. Chicheng MA (University of Hong Kong) – 20 March 2025
  • Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions across Eurasia. Book launch with Julian Henderson, Matteo Salonia, James Fujitani, and Tengwen Long – 17 December 2024
  • Science and the Silk Roads. Workshop organised by Prof. Julian Henderson - 16-17 December 2024
  • The Jesuits in China: Encounter, Friendship, Inculturation. Conference organised by Dr Matteo Salonia and Dr James Fujitani – 10-11 November 2023
  • Global Interaction and Complexity across the Eurasian Silk roads - patterns and individuals. Julian Henderson (University of Nottingham) – 26 April 2023
  • Second Silk Roads Network Online Workshop (June 2022)
  • The Great Unity Ideal: The Key to China's Imperial Longevity? Yuri Pines (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – 30 March 2022
  • Dzhankent (Kazakhstan) - an early medieval trading node on the Northern Silk Road. Irina Arzhantseva (Russian Academy of Sciences and Higher School of Economics University), Heinrich Haerke (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), and Azilkhan Tahekeev (Kyzylorda State University) – 10 November 2021
  • First Silk Roads Network Online Workshop - The workshop brought together scholars from the three campuses at Nottingham UK, Malaysia and China in a multidisciplinary workshop that would trigger key areas of collaborative research in Silk Roads and BRI areas - 11 June 2021
  • The Global Middle Ages: Origins and Limits of a Historiographical Fashion. Teng Li (Shanghai Normal University) – 16 April 2021
  • Sino-Indian Competition in the Indian Ocean. Pradeep Taneja (University of Melbourne) - 28 November 2019
  • Whither China-US "Decoupling"? Zhang Zhexin (Shanghai Institute for International Studies) - 28 October 2019
  • Diplomacy on the Silk Roads? - The workshop brought together Benjamin Barton (UN Malaysia), Young Chul Cho (Chonbuk National university, Korea), Michiel Foulon (Centre for Security Studies, Switzerland), Jonathon Fulton (Zayed University, UAE), Andrea Ghiselli (Fudan University, PRC), Xue Gong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Tony Tai-Ting Liu (National Chung Hsing University), Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania, US), Xieji Su (City University of Hong Kong), Tung-chieh Tsai (National Chung Hsing University), Xiwen Wang (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Ren Xiao (Fudan University, PRC) - 17 - 18 October 2019
  • India's Maritime Imperatives in the Indo-Pacific. Pradeep Chauhan (National Maritime Foundation) - 15 October 2019
  • “The Belt and Road Initiative” University Think Tank Forum. - The Institute co-hosted a forum as part of the official program of the Sixth China (Ningbo) - CEEC Education Cooperation Conference and Belt and Road Countries Education Cooperation Forum - 9-12 October 2019
  • The Transition of International Order. Trine Flockhart (University of Southern Denmark) - 29 April 2019
  • How to Study Rising Powers on the Silk Roads? - The workshop brought together Amitav Acharya (American University, US), Steve Chan (University of Colorado, US), Nora Fisher Onar (Coastal Carolina University, US), Mohammadbagher Forough (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Jiajie He (Fudan University, PRC), Andrei Korobkov (Middle Tennessee State University, US), Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, UK), Giorgio Shani (International Christian University, Japan), Xin Zhang (East China Normal University, PRC) - 19-20 April 2019
  • The Emerging Competition in AI between China and the USA. Dingding Chen (Jinan University) - 8 April 2019
  • The Belt and Road Initiative versus the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Initiative: How will they coexist? David Arase (Hopkins Nanjing Center) - 15 March 2019