Timeline

Learn about our research activities under the Nara to Norwich project.

The arrival of belief: religion and archaeology at the extremities of the silk roads, AD 500–900

CJS Research seminar

01 November 2017

The Arrival of Belief at the Extremities of the Silk Roads: Recent work on the archaeology of the interface between incoming and local religions in Eurasia 400 – 1000 AD

Conference
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22 November 2018

Research trip to Japan and Korea

Travelling workshop

June 2019

Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes

Publication

03 October 2019

Nara to Norwich: the Arrival of Belief, religion and archaeology at the extremities of the Silk Roads AD 500-1000

Publication
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12 December 2019

Nara to Norwich: art and belief at the ends of the Silk Roads

Seminar

19 December 2020

Okinoshima in world perspective: Weaving narratives of ritual, politics and exchange

Lecture
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25 January 2020

Transformation Act: Early Eighth-Century Relic Devotion and the Emerging “Prince Shōtoku Cult” at Hōryūji

Lecture
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17 June 2021

Faces of Faith: Early Japanese Religious Statuary at the Sainsbury Centre

Exhibition information announced
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18 June 2021

Research trip to Istanbul

Travelling workshop

15 February 2023