Professor L.H.M Ling has recently published two posts (her second one appeared today – October 29th) for The Huffington Post. The articles “What Ebola Tells us About Ferguson and ISIS” and “Learning from the Silk Roads: Food, Manners and World Politics” incorporate current political, cultural and social issues with her work around The Silk Road, which describe the significance of the trade routes that also served as cultural transmissions, connecting East and West Asia. Merchants, traders and other travellers used the route and over generations, The Silk Road represents the exchange of religion, language, knowledge about other cultural traditions.
Professor Ling was part of the ICI Fellows program, Prosperity and Inequality that took place from 2008-2010. She teaches a class at The New School entitled “Non-Western Approaches to the World” and created The Global Intimate/Silk Road Research Initiative. She is the author of recent two publications: The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations and Imagining World Politics: Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times.