Epics and Memory

Activity Type: 
Panel Discussion
Date: 
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 11:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Posvar 3911
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/

CHAIR: Attila Mateffy | DISCUSSANT: Nicholas Walmsley
ROOM: Posvar 3911 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

• Creating Histories: The Epic Hero Manas and Other Pasts in the Talas Valley, Kyrgyzstan
Nathan Light (Uppsala University)

• Hasan Hodja Nisari’s Collection of Biographies Entitled Muzekkir-I Ahbab [Remembrance of Friends] and Central Asian Literature, Social Structure, Religious and Cultural Life in 16th
Century
Emrah Ilik (University of Pittsburgh)

• Variation and Tradition Performance in Recent Recordings of the Mans Epos
Alymkan Zheenbekova (National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic); James Plumtree (American University of Central Asia)

• Living through Spaces of Memory: Art Practice as Research on Collective Memory and Trauma in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Assel Kadyrkhanova (University of Leeds)

• Khaqani’s Many Colors—Expressions from the Spiritual and the Regal, with Joy and Sorrow, in Court and in Prison
Habibeh Rahim (St. John’s University)

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Director's Office
Confucius Institute
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Graduate Organisation for the Study of Europe and Central Asia
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
Humanities Center
Office of the Provost's Year of PittGlobal
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh Press
The World History Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Central Eurasian Studies Society
China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development
World Regions: 
Russia/Eastern Europe