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The International
Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) is pleased to announce that the
online public lectures held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Prof.
Vladimir A. LIVSHITS (1923 – 2017) are now available for watching in Russian
and English at the following link.
[Link]
The lectures brought
together world-renowned experts in the field of Sogdian culture and documentary
heritage and aimed at spotlighting the progress in reading and understanding of
Sogdian epigraphic and secular texts across Central Asia and beyond.
Lecture 1 (September
15th): Nicholas SIMS-WILLIAMS, Fellow of the British Academy “The Discovery of
Sogdian”
https://youtu.be/BNQaWZEmP00 (in English)
https://youtu.be/_EdPGayZytk (in Russian)
Lecture 2 (September
22nd): Frantz GRENET, Membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
“Dewashtich’s postal system”
https://youtu.be/be0iC76p6s8 (in English)
https://youtu.be/ULj8W4FaKrA (in Russian)
Lecture 3 (September
29th): Yutaka YOSHIDA, Kyōto University, Professor Emeritus “Three Sogdian
Inscriptions from Mongolia”
https://youtu.be/FaKxALg3IxU (in English)
https://youtu.be/276xPjNUl8Q (in Russian)
Lecture 4 (October
6th): Pavel LURJE, Head of the section for Central Asia and Caucasus, State
Hermitage Museum “New data on Turko-Sogdian monumental inscriptions from
Kyrgyzstan”
https://youtu.be/JBwQgrqe1ZQ (in English)
https://youtu.be/TETmjuR4v6k (in Russian)
The lecture series was
arranged in the framework of the Silk Road Memory of the World (MoW) joint
research project through the generous support of the International Center for
Documentary Heritage (ICDH) under the auspices of UNESCO.
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