In the afternoon of September, Professor Lin Zhihong, the Asia-Pacific researcher of UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the researcher of CREOPS, University Paris-Sorbonne, gave a lecture on “the importance of protecting silk road heritages”. Zou Hao, the party secretary of SFL, and researchers of RCIOIC attended this lecture with Professor Zhu Xianlong, the associate dean of RCIOIC and SFL as the chairman.

Professor Lin is giving the lecture

Professor Lin illustrated the value and importance of protecting silk road heritages from the perspective of economy, history and culture. He took “transnational application of silk road for world heritage”as an example with abundant data and pictures, showed how scholars of different institutions and countries broke the limitations of nationality, religion and identity, and how they worked together to overcome obstacles for the world heritage application of silk road.

Professor Lin talked about the targeted countries’ research of RCIOIC and the current research of Indian Ocean regions in the world. He also introduced in details some international academic institutions and lectures relating to RCIOIC, and offered feasible suggestions on the research perspective of those targeted counties.

After the lecture, Professor Lin had active interactions with RCIOIC members and answered many questions about the research of Indian Ocean island countries. Professor Lin suggested that region and country research should be done with an international outlook and SFL can fully take advantage of foreign languages to communicate with academic research institutions in the world.

Professor Lin and RCIOIC Members

This lecture is one of the special lectures organized by RCIOIC of SCUT. RCIOIC will continue to invite experts and scholars at home and abroad to give lectures on region and country research as well as constructive suggestions on RCIOIC’s development.

(Photo&Article:Feng Yaodong/RCIOIC)