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The Central Asian Fur Roads: roots, connectivities and globalizations in the ancient world

6 Sept. 4:00-5:30. Fiona Kidd (NYUAD). “The Central Asian Fur Roads: roots, connectivities and globalizations in the ancient world”

Fiona Kidd is Assistant Professor of History and Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi. She teaches in the history, art and art history, and ancient world programs, with a special focus on Central Asia. She has been involved in archaeological, museum-based, and archival research in Central Asia for almost 20 years. After gaining her PhD in 2005 at the University of Sydney, she concentrated on fieldwork in the historical region of Khorezm in north western Uzbekistan, and in particular on a first century CE corpus of mural paintings. Following shorter projects in Afghanistan (2007) and Kazakhstan (2010), and as an Assistant Curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012-2014), in 2015 she began a new collaborative field project in the Bukhara oasis of Sogdiana (Uzbekistan),Borderlands and rural landscapes in Central Asian antiquity, which she co-directs with colleagues from the United States and Uzbekistan. Under the umbrellas of archaeology and art history, agro-pastoral relations, identity, and craft production have been consistent themes across these interdisciplinary projects.

5:30-6:45. Open discussion about Global Asia in the next two years.

 September 6, 2019 

Time: 4:00-5:30

Presenter: Fiona Kidd (NYUAD)

Global Asia Program