The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius : Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world”, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.
March 15, 2017, 6:30pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
The lecture represents an introduction to the history of Xinjiang, from prehistory to 1949, founding year of the People’s Republic of China. The main purpose of the presentation is to highlight the strategic role of the region, China’s westernmost frontier and one of the main hubs along the legendary Silk Road. Through a historical, geographical and literary analysis, the skecth shows how Xinjiang’s “central” position favoured the influx of a plurality of cultures and populations, thus contributing to the emergence of rich and complex civilisations. In the course of this presentation some of the region’s main historical trajectories will be analysed in order to explain the roots of today’s ethnic tensions crisscrossing Xinjiang.
Alessandro Rippa è postdoctoral fellow presso l’università Ludwig-Maximilian di Monaco di Baviera, affiliato al progetto “Remoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World” finanziato dal Consiglio Europeo della ricerca. Alessandro ha ottenuto il dottorato in antropologia presso l’università di Aberdeen, ha vissuto in Cina per diversi anni e condotto ricerca etnografica in Xinjiang e Pakistan tra il 2009 e il 2013.
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