THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SILK ROAD ACADEMIC STUDIES SYMPOSIUM REPORT
The Seventh International Silk Road Academic Studies Symposium was held in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, from June 6th to June 8th, 2024.
It was attended by 137 participants from 9 countries, in a blended format. The Symposium is organized every year by an international consortium of world-wide prestigious universities and institutions situated along the Silk Roads and headed by The European Centre for Peace and Development University for Peace est. by the United Nations.
Eminent ECPD Professors submitted papers at the Symposium, and among them were Prof. Dr. Nicolas Maclean, Prof. Dr. Andrew Smith, Prof. Dr. Paolo Sabbatini, Prof. Dr. Sven Maricic, Prof. Dr. Hakan Yalap, Ass. Prof. Milica Golubović Tasevska and Prof. Dr. Ljiljana Markovic (The Symposium Chair).
The host University of this year's Symposium was The University of Georgia, the most prestigious University in the Republic of Georgia, with more than 10,000 students, of which over half are international students. The Symposium offered the venue for numerous meetings pertaining to the details of the agreed-upon Master and Doctoral Studies in Culture Studies and Turkic Studies.
