25 October 2021
The Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series: Following the Silk Roads to North America
In July and August 2021, the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) and Georgetown University hosted the ‘Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series: Following the Silk Roads to North America’. This virtual lecture series was generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and focused on the journey of Silk Road artefacts that are now in North American collections.
Xuanzang returned from India. Dunhuang mural, Cave 103. High Tang period (712-765). Public domain
The Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series was organised to celebrate the upcoming completion of the Georgetown-IDP project, which has worked to incorporate images of Silk Road items in North American collections into the IDP’s public database and to expand the IDP's partnership with North American institutions. Generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Dunhuang Foundation, the project began in 2016 and will virtually bring together manuscripts and various types of objects dispersed widely in North America through over 1000 images. Learn more about the project here: The Georgetown-IDP Project.
The lectures are now available to view on the International Dunhuang Project’s YouTube channel. We have also embedded them below for your convenience.
- July 28: Dr Miki Morita and Dr Michelle Wang
‘The Georgetown-IDP Project: Prospects for Collaboration and Research’
- August 4: Dr Amanda Goodman
‘The Many Lives of a Buddhist Devotional Print: A Dated Dunhuang Document in the Royal Ontario Museum Collection’
- August 11: Dr Xin Wen
‘A Traveler’s History of the Silk Road: Revelations from Dunhuang Materials’
- August 18: Dr Foong Ping
‘Dunhuang in Seattle’
- August 25: Dr Fan Jeremy Zhang
‘Exploring Eastern Silk Roads: A Journey Through the Collection at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco’
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