In the fifth appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, whixh took place the 26th of April, Ermanno Visintainer talks about how Christians came into contact with Chinese culture in the Middle Ages, while Hayrettin İhsan Erkoç explains how Muslims came into contact with Chinese culture during the same period. The conference will focus more on cultural aspects than on political or military ones.

Hayrettin İhsan Erkoç is an associate professor in the field of general Turkish history and works as an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Department of General Turkish History . His research focuses on the organisation, army, religion, mythology and social structure of pre-Islamic Turks, with an emphasis on the Göktürk period.

Ermanno Visintainer is an honorary professor at the M. Tynyshpayev University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. An orientalist and Turkologist, he has written numerous articles on Turkology and geopolitics for various newspapers and magazines.