Anne Blackburn, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, explores how textual and material arguments for and about sovereignty in early second-millennium C.E. Sukhothai (in what is now northern Thailand) were shaped by transregional circulations involving the Indian Ocean and its riverine extensions. Eric Huntington, the T.T. & W.F. Chao Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University, acts as moderator. This lecture is part of the "Transnationality and the Silk Roads" webinar series co-hosted by the Dunhuang Foundation and Rice University's Department of Transnational Asian Studies. Special thanks to Professors Shih-shan Susan Huang and Eric Huntington of Rice University for programming this series.