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SAM Saturday University: Goods, Ships, and Cultural Diversity
October 26, 2019 @ 3:00 am - 4:30 am PDT
$11
Seattle Art Museum – DOWNTOWN SEATTLE
The Maritime Silk Road: Goods, Ships and Cultural Diversity
Derek Heng, Northern Arizona University
The Maritime Silk Road connected Maritime Asia through to the East Coast of Africa. The Indian Ocean and South China Sea witnessed intense and vibrant interactions for at least two thousand years. Natural products and manufactured items flowed from one end to the other, facilitated by far-flung shipping networks and technologies. In the process, various religions, languages, political systems, art forms and more, were disseminated and absorbed. This talk will provide an overview of exchanges that occurred from around the late-first to mid-second millennium AD. A diversity of new textual and archaeological materials are now available to aid understanding of this important global system of exchange.
About the Presenter Derek Heng is professor of history at Northern Arizona University. His research focuses on the diplomatic and economic relations across the East Indian Ocean and the South China Sea in the pre-modern era. He earned an MA in Art & Archaeology from University of London, and a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies (History) from University of Hull.
South Hall doors open at 9:30 am.
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