New Approaches to the History and Historiography of Central Asia from the 17th to the 19th Century

Activity Type: 
Panel Discussion
Date: 
Saturday, October 27, 2018 - 14:15
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Posvar 3610
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

CHAIR: Ali Igmen | DISCUSSANT: Nurten Kilic Schubel
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Sat, Oct 27th, 14:15

•Ahmad Yasavi in the Narrative Traditions of the Ismailis of Badakhshan
Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)

•The Russian Conquest of Central Asia in Persianate Historiography
Alexander Morrison (University of Oxford)

•Isolation or Integration? The Bukharan Crisis in the 18th Century
Scott Levi (Ohio State University)

•Layered Sovereignty in Eurasia’s Age of City-States
James Pickett (University of Pittsburgh)

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