Διεθνές Συνέδριο
για την... Ελληνιστική
Κεντρική Ασία,
στο… Φράιμπουργκ
της Γερμανίας
«Τα τελευταία χρόνια
παρατηρείται μια ένταση επιστημονικού ενδιαφέροντος για την Ελληνιστική
Κεντρική Ασία», λένε οι διοργανωτές – αλήθεια αυτό το έχετε δει πουθενά στην
Ελλάδα, την μητέρα της Ελληνιστικής Κεντρικής Ασία;
Αυτό οφείλεται στην εμφάνιση
νέων στοιχείων αποδεικτικών στοιχείων, αλλά είναι επίσης προϊόν των πρόσφατων
τάσεων των υποτροφιών προς την πολιτισμική αλληλεπίδραση, την παγκόσμια ιστορία
και την διεπιστημονικότητα.
Γι’ αυτούς τους λόγους, το HCARN διοργανώνει
συνέδριο, το 2020.
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ για την ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ
Λεπτομέρειες παρακάτω…
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 15th November 2019
Recent years have seen a surge of scholarly interest in Hellenistic
Central Asia. This is due to the emergence of new bodies of evidence, but is
also a product of recent trends in scholarship towards cultural interaction,
global history, and interdisciplinarity. Indeed, Hellenistic Central Asia is
the locus of ancient cultural exchange par excellence: positioned at the nexus
of the Eurasian steppe, and Iranian, Indic, and Chinese cultural worlds, and
transected by expanding foreign powers, including the Achaemenid, Hellenistic,
and Kushan empires. The sources we analyse in this field are accordingly varied
– including archaeological, numismatic, and epigraphic data, as well as
literary sources in Greek, Latin, Chinese, and Indic languages – and shed light
only on certain aspects of the past.
In a related way, knowledge production in this field does not occur in a
vacuum. Instead, the study of Hellenistic Central Asia exists within a matrix
of unusually diverse and complex geopolitical contexts of the last centuries,
and intertwined with their respective concerns and historiographical
traditions. These encompass Russian Turkestan, the British Raj, Soviet Central
Asia, the independence and partition of India and Pakistan, post-Soviet Central
Asia, Silk Road-inspired policy-making, and modern Afghanistan, eighteen years
into the present war.
In light of the above, it is crucial for research on Hellenistic Central
Asia to factor in the complexities of both past and present. Accordingly,
incorporating critical historiography into source analysis is a valuable
enterprise. Concerns of the present profoundly shape human understandings of
the past. And, inversely, our understandings of the past have implications for
the present. This is true for pasts and presents across time: people in
antiquity (a ‘historical present’) also engaged with and imagined their past in
different ways, using social memory for different purposes. Many kinds of such
temporal interactions can be explored. As humans have diverse experiences of their
world, ideas about the past are likewise not monolithic across society. It is
therefore appropriate to speak of multiple pasts and presents.
The aim of HCARN 4 is thus to highlight and critically examine the
entanglements between pasts and presents in research on Hellenistic Central
Asia. By investigating a range of temporal interactions, as well as their
impact on knowledge production, we also aim to attain a clearer perspective on
the shared objectives of this field, and its future development. Speakers have
two options.
Papers may present current research in light of the theme of entangled
pasts and presents. Topics of interest may include:
How did people in antiquity construct and interact with memories of
Achaemenid, Macedonian, or Hellenistic imperial pasts?
How intentional and meaningful were post-Hellenistic engagements with
Hellenistic visual and material culture in Central Asia and northwest India?
How much do coinages reflect numismatic, monetary, and political
traditions, rather than politics of the time?
OR speakers may focus on far-reaching, relevant methodological issues,
such as:
How have past collecting or archaeological practices informed present
numismatic and archaeological research? How can future work balance the lacunae
of the past?
How do contemporary cultural and political issues impact research
design, methodology, and interpretation in this field?
Current ethical issues in the field and their impact on scholarship: for
example, how should scholars engage with significant relevant sources published
from the antiquities market?
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers from both established scholars
and early career researchers. Abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with
the author’s name, title and institutional affiliation, should be submitted to
Milinda Hoo and Lauren Morris HERE by no later than 15 November 2019. We
anticipate being able to offer some travel funding to participants, on a case
by case basis.
Milinda Hoo and Lauren Morris (University of Freiburg), with Rachel
Mairs (University of Reading), Gunvor Lindström (Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut), and Ladislav Stančo (Charles University)
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ ΕΔΩ.
ΛΕΞΕΙΣ: Διεθνες Συνεδριο, Ελληνιστικη Κεντρικη Ασια, Φραιμπουργκ, Γερμανια, Ελληνιστικα χρονια, Μακεδονια, Μακεδονες
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