Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/02/2017
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall
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Source: college.wfu.edu
Join us for a lecture by the Silk Roads Winston-Salem International Visiting Scholar for the Fall 2017 semester on Thursday, 11/2, 2017:
5:00-6:30 pm – Lecture by Dr. Chen Ming
“The Transmission of Medical Knowledge along the Silk Road”
DeTamble Auditorium
Chen Ming is the chair of the Department of South Asian Studies at Peking University, China, and a leading scholar on the Silk Roads exchange between China and South/Central/West Asia during medieval times. His research draws on medical manuscripts discovered from Dunhuang and the Western Region. Silk Roads Winston-Salem will host Dr. Chen from October 21 through November 5, 2017, to engage with scholars and students at Wake Forest University.
Co-sponsored by the Provost’s Fund for International Scholars, the History Department, the Humanities Institute, and the Department for the Study of Religions.
