The Steppes: Crucible of Eurasia - units.muohio.edu - Miami University

Saturday, December 1
9:30-10:00 a.m. Morning coffee
10:00-11:20 a.m. Sergey Miniaev, Ordos Style Bronzes in Russia: New Discoveries
William Honeychurch (co-authors: James Lankton, Chunag Amartuvshin),
Silk Roads or Steppe Roads: Gobi Evidence for Mediterranean Goods in
the Xiongnu Polity
Moderator: Claudia Chang
11:20-11:40 a.m. Break
11:40-1:00 p.m. Yihong Pan, Locating Advantages: The Survival of the Tuyuhun 吐谷渾
State on the Edge (300-580s)
Aleksandr Naymark, Sogdiana–Mawarannahr: The Life on the Edge of
the Steppes
Moderator: Matthew Gordon, Department of History, Miami University
1:00-2:30 p.m. Lunch
Student Poster Session II (Eurasian Nomads and History; Senior Capstone
Seminar: The Horse in Human History)—in Gallery II:
Rachel Blake, What Is It with Girls and Horses? How Societal Needs
Fostered the Love between Horses and Girls; Daniel Brooks, The Horse
and Cowboy Culture: Truth and Tall Tales; Brooke Clifford,
Anthropomorphism: How Our View of the Horse Shapes Modern Society;
Nicholas DiCesare, The Magyar Migration: The Transition from
Nomadism to Sedentarism; Kimberly Foster, Kalmyk Sovereignty: From
Nomadic Supremacy to Russian Ascendance; Vincent Kuertz, The New
World, Plus and Minus Horses; Corey Lack, The Global Nomad: The
Comparison of Native American Indians and Eurasian Nomads; Erin
McCrate, The Modified Horse
2:30-3:50 p.m. Kenneth Lymer, Animals Entangled in Art: The Lives of Zoomorphic
Imagery in Central Asia during the 1st Millennium BCE
Katheryn Linduff, Belt Buckles: Metallurgical and Iconographic Markers
of Distinction
Moderator: Trudy Kawami
3:50-4:10 p.m. Break
4:10-5:30 p.m. Daniel Prior, Integral or Incidental? Indo-European Mythic Fragments in
Inner Asia
Edward Vajda, Between Forest and Steppe: Language and Ethnicity in
Early Inner Asia
Moderator: Christopher Atwood
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