Abstract

We are delighted that our inaugural Silk Roads Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Scott Levi, chair of the department of history at Ohio State University.

Professor Levi is a specialist in the social and economic history of early modern Central Asia. His books include ‘The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709–1876: Central Asia in the Global Age’ (2017); ‘Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road’ (2015); and ‘The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550–1900’ (2002) and he will present his most recent monograph ‘The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), which highlights many themes of connectivity across the trade networks of early modern Central Asia.