Book Launch: Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia

BELMONT, Mass. —The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) and the Armenian Institute (London) will present a book launch and discussion of Dr. Kate Franklin’s groundbreaking study Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia on Sunday, October 31, 2021, at 1:00  p.m. Eastern. The program will be accessible live on Zoom (registration required) and on NAASR’s YouTube Channel.

While the Silk Road is widely studied, hotly debated and often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the lives of ordinary people who lived on these nexuses of intercontinental exchange. Dr. Franklin sets out to correct this picture, guiding the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it.