Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to announce Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, a lecture and book signing by Dr. Fred Starr, hosted by the Library of Congress and Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Fred Starr is the founding Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a joint transatlantic research center affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington (where he is a Research Professor) and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 5, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Thomas Jefferson Building, African Middle Eastern Reading Room, LJ-220 | Library of Congress