Activity Type:
Panel Discussion
Date:
Saturday, October 27, 2018 - 09:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Posvar 3800
Contact Person:
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone:
412-648-7403
Contact Email:
sad96@pitt.edu
Event Web Site:
CHAIR: Judith Kolbas | DISCUSSANT: Beatrice Manz
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Sat, Oct 27th, 09:00
•Collecting Histories: Hafez-E Abru and the Reception of Rashid Al-Din
Stefan Kamola (Eastern Connecticut State University)
•An Earth-Shattering Kaboom! The Mongols and the Use and Transmission of Gunpowder
Timothy May (University of North Georgia)
•Climate Change and the Medieval Central Eurasian State: The Response of the Golden Horde
Uli Schamiloglu (Nazarbayev University)
•Doing It on Horseback: Kazakh Self-Identity and the Classic Dombra Song
Moldir Oskenbay (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University); Paul Buell (University of North Georgia)
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