The Book and the Silk Roads: Corralling Data in the Digital Workspace

Digital Scholarship Conversations
December 4, 2020

Speakers:
Suzanne Akbari, Professor of Medieval Studies, IAS
Rachel Di Cresce, Project Librarian, The Book and the Silk Roads
Jessica Lockhart, Director of Research, The Book and the Silk Roads
J. D. Sargan, Leverhulme Research Fellow, Old Books, New Science Lab 

“The Book and the Silk Roads” project seeks to build and support a growing international network of scholars, curators, conservators, and scientists exploring significant developments in writing technologies within a range of contexts, focusing particularly on examples of convergent evolution and interchange across the pre-modern world, from East Asia to Mesoamerica.