Please join us as we welcome Tansen Sen, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai, for a lecture as part of the University of Virginia's "Assessment of China's Belt and Road Initiative" project speaker series. Professor Sen has done extensive research in India, China, Japan, and Singapore with grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Japan Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore). He was the founding head of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Center in Singapore and served on the Governing Board of the Nalanda University. His talk "Inventing the 'Maritime Silk Road'" will be held on Wednesday, October 5, from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. in Monroe 130.

To attend the event via our concurrent livestream on Zoom, please register here.