Highly Esteemed Colleagues,
We take great pleasure in inviting you to The 3rd International Symposium of Silk Road Academic Studies which will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, May 3-5, 2019, at The University of Belgrade.
Belgrade is situated on one of the historical routes of the Silk Road. The Symposium will be held in association with Kobe University (Japan), Belgrade University, Faculty of Philology (Serbia), Moscow State University “Lomonosov” (Russia), International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, and International Committee on Slavonic Studies, The Commission for Slavonic World and The Silk Road Cultures.
The 1st and The 2nd International Symposium of Silk Road Academic Studies were held in September 21-23, 2017 and September 20-22, 2018 in Nevsehir with the participation of 300 academicians from 28 different countries and 98 different universities. This Symposium has great importance in terms of being one of the largest Silk Road Studies Forums in the world, addressing a multidisciplinary and diachronic realm of fundamental research and bringing academicians from different parts of the world together.
The Silk Road was a world famous trade route that connected China and Europe, passing through most of the known world, including Anatolia and the Mediterranean. The Silk Road was not merely a trade route but also a scientific and art-world life-line introducing Eastern philosophy, culture, techniques and wisdom to Europe, and vice versa, to the Easternmost terminus in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan. The spices coming from the East played an important role in daily life of the wealthy in the West. Carrying the silk and spices of Eastern world to the West by caravans, gave birth to trade routes from China to Europe.
The 3rd International Symposium on The Silk Road Academic Studies that will be held in Belgrade, is aimed at examining the Silk Road and destinations on the Silk Road in terms of history, culture, economy, politics, society, arts and literature.
For more information please visit the webpage www.issas.net
Photos from the previous symposium can be seen here.
Conference E-mail: putsvile@fil.bg.ac.rs