CULTURAL EXCHANGES ALONG THE SILK ROAD

Convegno internazionale  dal 16 novembre 2016 al 17 novembre 2016 
Aula: C012 - NI010-011 -  Ore: 15.00 - 9.30
Via Carducci, 28/30, Milano
 

Programma

16th November, h. 15:00
Room C.012
Via Carducci, 30 - Milano

Welcome

Pier Sandro COCCONCELLI, Rector’s Delegate for Internationalisation, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
GUAN Haibo, Consul for Science and Technology, General Consulate of the People Republic of China, Milan
Giovanni GOBBER, Dean of the Faculty of Language sciences and foreign literature, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Angelo BIANCHI, Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Giuseppe ZECCHINI, Director of the Department of History, Archeology and History of Art, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Elisa GIUNIPERO, Director of the Confucius Institute at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Panel 1 - Cultural exchanges along the Silk Road

Chair

Giovanni GOBBER, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Speakers

Agostino GIOVAGNOLI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
The Silk Road and World History

ZHUO Xinping, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, PRC
The Silk Road and the Catholic mission in China

Bruno GENITO, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Italy
Iran, Central Asia and China: archaeological perspectives along the so-called Silk Roads

Paolo DE TROIA, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Italy and China: history from multiple perspectives

Giorgio DEL ZANNA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Aleppo, the Ottoman Empire’s caravan city
 

17th November, h. 9:30
Room NI.010-011
Via Nirone, 15 - Milano

Panel 2 - Religious exchanges along the Silk Road

Chair
Gian Luca POTESTÀ, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Speakers
 

LIU Xinru, The College of New Jersey, USA
Kumarajiva (344 or 350-413), Buddhist monk and translator of Buddhist texts

Matteo NICOLINI-ZANI, Sinologist, Italy
Christian monks on the Silk Road

Riccardo REDAELLI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
At a crossroads: the Silk Road and Persia

LI Tiangang, Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC
Religious harmony in Maritime Silk Road. Naming the Catholic God and the Trinity in Chinese

Pia BRANCACCIO, Drexel University, USA
The Silk Road and the ‘Cotton Road’: Buddhist art and practice between Central Asia and the Western Deccan

Paola ROSSI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
The spread of the Buddhist Jataka narrative
 

17th November, h. 15:00

Panel 3 - The rediscovery of the Silk Road in the 20th and 21st centuries
 

Chair
Alessandra LAVAGNINO, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 

Speakers

Morris ROSSABI, Columbia University, USA
The role of Swedish explorers in the discovery of ancient Silk Roads

Elisa GIUNIPERO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Discovering Dunhuang’s ancient treasures

LIU Zhiqin, Renmin University, Beijing, PRC
“Serve the people”, the core principle of the One Belt One Road Initiative

Simone DOSSI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
The One Belt One Road Initiative and the scholarly debate on land power vs. sea power
 

Presentations and discussions will take place in English, Italian and Chinese. Simultaneous translation of Chinese to and from Italian will be is provided.

Referente Informazioni:

 Istituto Confucio

Sponsorizzato da:

 Istituto Confucio