An Afternoon at The Digital Museum: SILK ROAD talks
Channel: 5 DAYS
Date: 11/05/2020

An Afternoon at The Digital Museum: SILK ROAD talks

Silk Road talks and conversations with Professor Iftikhar Malik (Bath Spa University) and Associate Professor Tim Williams (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) at 2pm on Thursday, 30 April. Host and moderator was Jibunnessa Abdullah. 

ftikhar Malik teaches courses on Contemporary Muslim World, Muslim Diaspora, Modern Asia, US history, the British Empire, historiography, and South Asian history and politics. His recent publications include Pashtun Identity and Geo-Politics in Southwest Asia, and his new book, The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian.

Tim Williams has a background and research interest in urban archaeology, especially Roman, Islamic and Central Asian complex societies along the Silk Roads; management of archaeological sites, cultural routes and landscapes; Recording and analysis of complex stratigraphy, integration of complex data sets. He has undertaking a long running research project in Merv (Turkmenistan) since 2001 and also the Maritime Silk Routes project, as well as establishing the Silk Roads Research Centre at the University of Xi’an in 2018.