{"id":79000,"date":"2023-03-28T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=79000"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:11:00","slug":"emeritus-professor-to-discuss-his-china-expedition-march-29-at-main-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_28_2023\/emeritus-professor-to-discuss-his-china-expedition-march-29-at-main-library","title":{"rendered":"Emeritus Professor to Discuss His Silk Road Expedition March 29 at Main Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, professor emeritus of cardiovascular surgery and humanities, will discuss his 2017 China expedition to retrace a great historical highway in a lecture titled \u201cIn Search of the Silk Road,\u201d Wednesday, March 29, at the Main Library in downtown Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at 6 p.m., the free, public event is hosted by the Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities in the UToledo College of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain was part of a seven-member expedition to explore the ancient Silk Road in China. The Silk Road was a 4,000-mile-long caravan road that connected China with Europe for 1,700 years beginning in 200 B.C.E. On that ancient highway and its many branches, religions, cultures, art and music mingled and flourished. In addition, the highway was a conduit for the spread of diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.utoledo.edu\/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7FSuVUthgkaiiiwe74BPkMq1zutFCt4oEhwbsRBJkQJpAMCwwbrbG7\">event\u2019s webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64211\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hussain-10172019-7293-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64211\" class=\"wp-image-64211\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hussain-10172019-7293-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hussain-10172019-7293-copy.jpg 5079w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hussain-10172019-7293-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hussain-10172019-7293-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hussain<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_28_2023\/emeritus-professor-to-discuss-his-china-expedition-march-29-at-main-library\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hussain-10172019-7293-copy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Beginning at 6 p.m., the free, public lecture is the final event in this year&#8217;s speaker series hosted by the Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":64211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79055,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79000\/revisions\/79055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}