British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

9.00

Coffee and registration

9.45

Welcome and Introduction
Georgina Herrmann

Session 1: Introduction: Steppe and City

10.00

Central Asia: West and East
John Boardman, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [ABSTRACT]

10.45

Nomads and the Shaping of Central Asia
Claude Rapin, Université de Lausanne [ABSTRACT]

11.30

Coffee

12.00

Money as a Marker of Cultural Continuity and Change in Central Asia
Joe Cribb, The British Museum [ABSTRACT]

12.45

Discussion

13.00

Lunch

Session 2: Money and Exchange

14.00

Some Questions Regarding the Numismatics of Pre-Islam Merv
Natasha Smirnova, Pushkin Museum, Moscow [ABSTRACT]

14.45

Ardashir's Eastern Campaign in the Light of the Numismatic Evidence
Michael Alram, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna [ABSTRACT]

15.30

Discussion

16.00

Tea

16.30

Monetary Circulation in Ancient Tokharistan
Edvard Rtveladze, Institute of Art History, Tashkent [ABSTRACT]

17.15

Money in Eastern Central Asia before AD800
Helen Wang, The British Museum [ABSTRACT]

18.00

Discussion

18.30

Reception at the British Museum in the Department of Coins and Medals

Session 3: Invasion and Defence

9.00

The Fortifications of Parthian and Sasanian Gobekli
G Koshelenko, Academy of Sciences, Moscow [ABSTRACT]

9.30

Fortifications at Merv (Gyaur-Kala) after Alexander
Vladimir Zavyalov, Institute for History of Material Culture, St Petersburg [ABSTRACT]

10.00

Franz Grenet, Francois Ory, and Jonathan Lee

10.30

Discussion

10.45

Coffee

11.15

Gorgân and Dehistan: the North-East Frontier of the Iranian Empires
Oliver Lecomte, CNRS, Paris [ABSTRACT]

11.45

Nomad Migration in Central Asia
Kasim Abdullaev, Institute of Archaeology, Samarkand [ABSTRACT]

12.15

Nomad Arms and Armour
Osmund Bopearachchi, CNRS, Paris [ABSTRACT]

12.45

Discussion

13.00

Lunch

Session 4: Urban Development and Life

14.00

The Digital Reconstruction of Ai-Khanum
Guy Lecuyot, CNRS, Paris [ABSTRACT]

14.30

The Culture of Nisa between Steppe and Empire
Antonio Invernizzi, Department of Archaeology, University of Turin [ABSTRACT]

15.00

The Planning of the Sogdian Cities
G. Semyenov, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg [ABSTRACT]

15.30

Termez on the Oxus
Pierre Leriche, CNRS, Paris [ABSTRACT]

16.00

Discussion

16.15

Tea

16.45

What the Surkhan Darya oblast tells us about Bactria
Sebastian Stride, University of Barcelona [ABSTRACT]

17.15

The Bullae of Gobekli
Vasily Gaibov, Institute of Archaeology, Moscow [ABSTRACT]

17.45

The Archaeological Map of Middle Zeravshan Valley
Maurizio Tosi, Barbara Cerasetti, Simone Mantellini and Bernardo Rondelli [ABSTRACT]

18.15

Discussion

18.30

Reception at the British Academy

Session 5: The Movement of Ideas

9.00

Religious Symbols and Coins
Vesta Curtis, The British Museum [ABSTRACT]

9.30

The Fire Temple at Tash-k’irman-tepe, Chorasmia
Alison Betts, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney [ABSTRACT]

10.00

Discussion

10.15

Coffee

10.45

The Discovery of a Tower of Silence of the Sasanian period at Bandiyan
Mehdi Rahbar, 'Iran-Bastan' Museum, Tehran [ABSTRACT]

11.15

Buddhism and Buddhist Art of Bactria-Tokharistan: Excavation at Kara-tepe
Tigran Mkrtychev, Oriental Art Museum, Moscow [ABSTRACT]

11.45

Discussion

12.00

Concluding Remarks
Frantz Grenet, CNRS, Paris

12.30

Lunch

14.00

Conference ends