To protect and inherit the precious cultural heritage along the Silk Road, and to exchange and explore new concepts, new methods and new technologies for the protection and utilization of cultural heritage, during October 3rd to October 6th, the International Seminar on the “Protection and Utilization of Silk Road Cultural Heritage: History, Art and Technology”was jointly organized by the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwest University, the Collaborative Research Center for Archaeology of the Silk Roads, the China-Central Asia Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Human and Environment Research (C-CHEL), the International Center for Space Technologies of Natural and Cultural Heritage under the auspices of UNESCO (HIST), the International Conservation Center Xi'an (IICC-X), and China Association for Conservation Technology of Cultural Heritage. And the seminar was held in Samarkand and Termez cities of Uzbekistan.
56 participants from 8 countries, including China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Russia and France, participated in the seminar.
At the opening ceremony, Dilmurod Nasimov, First Vice-Rector of the “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan, welcomed and thanked the scholars and guests from all over the world. Sun Qingwei, President of Northwest University, delivered a speech virtually.
The Chief Scientist Wang Jianxin of the Collaborative Research Center for Archaeology of the Silk Roads, and other professors and archaeologists delivered online and offline speeches. After the opening ceremony, NWU professor Tie Fude delivered a keynote speech entitled “The concept and practice of cultural relics protection”, the keynote reports session is hosted by the vice president of Northwest University, Professor Chen Fulin.
During the seminar, the 30 experts and scholars attending the seminar exchanged ideas and made discussions on the topics of “the concepts, methods and practices of the Silk Road cultural heritage protection”, “research on Silk Road site protection technology”, “studies on Silk Road cultural relics protection and restoration” and other topics.
