Center for Archaeology Online Salon

Kate Franklin in conversation with Michelle Lelièvre about Dr. Franklin’s book

Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia

Friday March 11th ( 12.10-1.30pm ET)

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Kate Frankin is Lecturer in the Department of History, Classics & Archaeology at Birkbeck College London.

Kate Franklin is an archaeologist of medieval Armenia and the Caucasus and an indiscriminate enthusiast of speculative fiction, cuisine, and vintage textiles. Kate has been working on collaborative projects in the Republic of Armenia for a decade, exploring the ways that local politics and Silk Road culture were tangled together in landscape and space-time. Kate was trained as an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, and is curious about the experiences of medieval travel, intimacies of medieval embodiment, and the profound and mundane practices of medieval and early modern hospitality. Kate is field co-director of a project that combines thinking about routes and infrastructure, contemplating ‘domestic’ space, and appreciating the canyon landscapes of Vayots Dzor, Armenia.

Michelle Leliévre is Associate Professor of American Studies & Anthropology at William and Mary.