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A Glance at the Byzantine Sources of Göktürk History
Dr. Mihaly Dobrovits: A Glance at the Byzantine Sources of Göktürk History
Find out more »Kiraz Perinçek: The Extraordinary Creatures on the Sogdian Sarcophagi Found in China
Commanding Central Asian commerce from 500 to 1000 D.C., Sogdians played a very important role in trade along the Silk Road. Zeravshan River basin in today’s Uzbekistan and Tajikistan was their central place of settlement. Samarkand, which is in the intersection of many roads, was Sogdians’ most important capital city from the old days to more recent times. Organized in city-states, Sogdians never had a central state or an army, but they succeeded in founding an empire of trade that…
Find out more »New Approaches in Folklore Research: Different Applications of Semiotics Theory
Prof. Dr. Arzu Öztürkmen: New Approaches in Folklore Research: Different Applications of Semiotics Theory ‘Folklore’ has been an important field of humanities since the nineteenth century. Starting off from the history of folklore research, this presentation discusses the opportunities provided by the discipline of folklore in understanding both the historical ethnographies, and the complex cultural forms of our time. Semiotics theory contributes in the analysis of many cultural forms, from the Ottoman oral and visual culture to todays popular art.…
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