Silk Road Futures Updates

 

Journals and Other Publications

Call for Papers

Speaking Events

  • Invited Speaker. ‘Silk Road Internationalism and World Ordering’, Commoning, Appropriation and Dispossession: Heritage as Claim Making, University of Bergen, April 24-25, 2022.

  • Forthcoming Invited Speaker. ‘Silk Road World Heritage and the Politics of Transnational Spaces’, Politics of World Heritage, Lund University, November 18-19, 2021.

  • Forthcoming Public Lecture. ‘Heritage Futures: Oceans of Connectivity’, International Workshop on Heritage Futures, NYU Abu Dhabi, November 3, 2021.

  • Forthcoming Invited Speaker. ‘Hindutva as Banal Internationalism’, Diplomacy and Development in India's 'Civilisational State', University of Cambridge, October 28-29, 2021.

  • Forthcoming Keynote Speaker. ‘Geocultural Politics’, The Great Power of Culture Annual Symposium, US Air Force Culture and Language Center, Air University, Montgomery, October 13-15, 2021.

  • Forthcoming Invited Speaker. ‘Connected Pasts and the Creative Economy’, Bridging Differences, Fostering Intercultural Understanding, International Forum on Spice Route, Jakarta, September 20-23, 2021.

  • Keynote Speaker. ‘Heritage and Geopolitics’, Key Thinkers and Concepts Lecture for 2021, Western Sydney University, September 21, 2021.

  • Invited Speaker. ‘Heritage Futures in Southeast Asia’, Launching new International PhD programme on Heritage Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, August 3, 2021.

  • Keynote Speaker. Cultural Heritage and Creative Innovation: Establishing the Cultural and Creative Nexus for the Guangdong-Hong Kong--Macao Greater Bay Area, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, May 31-June 1, 2021.

  • Invited Speaker. ‘The Silk Roads of the 21st Century; A Civilizational Revival?’, China's Quest for International Status: Lessons and implications, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, April 21, 2021.

  • Invited Speaker. ‘The Geocultural Politics of the Silk Road’, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 15, 2021.

  • Invited Speaker. Double Book Launch: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads, Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University, March 25, 2021. View the session recording here, and the IR Insider brief on their website.

  • Invited Speaker. ‘Geocultural Power: The Revival of the Silk Roads in the 21st Century’. UCL Institute of Archaeology Silk Roads Centre, January 11, 2021.

  • Invited Speaker. ‘Heritage Diplomacy Along the Silk Roads.’ Eurasian Research Institute, Almaty, December 17, 2020

  • Invited Speaker, ‘The Maritime Silk Toad: Towards a new era of geocultural diplomacy’ at the Maritime Silk Road: Exchanges and Mutual Learning between Civilizations, Guangzhou, November 2020.

  • Keynote Speaker, ‘Reimagining the Past Through the Sea; The unfolding futures of architectural history and heritage’, at ‘The 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand’, 18-25 November, 2020.

  • Invited Speaker, ‘Heritage Diplomacy along the Silk Road’, at the Cultural Dialogue, Peace and Development on the Silk Road, Iranian Research Centre for the Silk Road, Tehran, 10 November, 2020.

  • Invited Speaker, ‘The Geopolitics of Geocultural Pasts’ at ‘Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia Pacific’, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, November 6-7, 2020.

  • Keynote Speaker presenting ‘When Scholars and Professionals meet, what do they talk about? Cosmopolitan histories in the age of Belt and Road’, at the ‘International Conference on Heritage Conservation along the Belt and Road Zones: Between politics and professionalism’, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, October 23-34, 2020.

  • Invited Speaker, ‘The Maritime Silk Road: Diplomacy, geopolitics, and histories of connectivity at the Asian Civilizations Museum ‘Maritime Trade Routes Webinar Series’, 13th August 2020. View the session recording here.

  • Invited Speaker, ‘Cultural Heritage in Crisis: A conversation series’ at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and Foreign Affairs Hellenic Edition, July 2020.

  • Invited Speaker, ‘Shared Destiny or Geocultural Politics? Space and Infrastructure across Eurasia’, at the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, UC Berkeley, 2-4 April, 2020.

  • Keynote Speaker, ‘The Silk Roads: Corridors of cooperation?, at the Heritage Management Education and Practice Conference, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, 6-8th December, 2019.

  • Keynote Speaker, ‘The Digital Silk Road and Heritage Diplomacy’, at the Digital Cultural Heritage: Future Visions Conference, Tongji University, Shanghai, 23-24th November, 2019.

  • Invited Speaker, ‘The Maritime Silk Road, A Geography of Connectivity between Australia and China?’, at the China Australia Transcultural Studies Conference, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 20-21st November, 2019.

Grants and Awards

  • 2020 elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

  • $20,000 USD - ‘The Heritage of War in Southeast Asia: Towards the intangible’. UNESCO project grant 2021

    Over the past two decades Asia has undergone a war memory boom, and as the gravity of power in the region shifts away from America and Japan, the legacy of World War II has become a source of acute political tension. This UNESCO Jakarta funded project speaks to those concerns and gives public attention to popular histories of war and conflict in the Southeast Asian region, using the framework of intangible cultural heritage. This current project centres around the production of a podcast series and small format publication for distribution to museums and heritage organisations in Southeast Asia. The podcast series will include casual interviews and discussions with academics, local community members, curators and heritage linked NGO’s.

  • $25,000 USD - ‘Maritime Shared Heritage: Networking the museums of Southeast Asia’, UNESCO project grant 2020

    The Maritime Shared Heritage project seeks to develop a collaborative network of museums, located in Southeast Asia, to showcase shared maritime histories and encourage innovative connectivities. Focusing on 3-4 museums in the region, this project will provide a platform for museums to enhance dialogue between one other, and through the use of material collections, highlight shared regional maritime narratives and transnational histories of the sea.

  • £299,838.59 GBP - ‘Living with Violent Heritage: Contests and coexistence in post-war Sri Lanka’, British Academy - Heritage, Dignity and Violence 2019 Programme (2019-2021)

    The Living with Violent Heritage exchange (LiVHERe) provides new multidisciplinary insights into the relationship between heritage and conflict in the increasingly fraught setting of post-war Sri Lanka. Winter’s research component of the project asks the question; can exogenous geocultural power ever contribute domestically to the avowed goal of harmonious co-prosperity?

  • $26,183 AUD The Maritime Silk Road: Historicizing connected pasts across the Indian Ocean and East Asia, UWA Research Collaboration Award 2019

    The project will produce publications on the Maritime Silk Road that help us decentre land-based, nation-state-based epistemologies of Eurasian history and heritage. It will also produce a major thematic study that will guide maritime heritage policies for governments across Asia and the Indian Ocean Rim, and UNESCO World Heritage policy.

  • $1,002,574 AUD Heritage Diplomacy and One Belt One Road, ARC Future Fellowship 2018-2022.

    This project addresses China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, utilising the concept of heritage diplomacy to interpret the role culture plays in shaping trade and diplomatic relations. It aims to develop new knowledge about 21st Century diplomacy and the political drivers of heritage preservation today. Expected outcomes of the project include collaborations with OBOR think tanks and universities in Australia, China and Central Asia, and an open access mapping database based on international heritage documentation standards. This should significantly assist Australian and heritage international agencies like ICOMOS and UNESCO understand the large scale forces and pressures that shape their future conservation policies in the region.