Gender, Identity, Multiculturalism

Activity Type: 
Panel Discussion
Date: 
Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 14:15
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Posvar 5604
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

CHAIR: Azatkul Kudaibergenova
DISCUSSANT: Joshua Freeman
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Thu, Oct 25th, 14:15

•Constructing a Free Woman’s Body in Modern Turkish Literature
Zehra Guven Kilicarslan (Indiana University)

•The Skull Speaketh in Many Tongues: On the Transposition of the Story of the Speaking Skull in the Turkic World
Kristof D’hulster (University of Ghent)

•Of Crossed-Dressed Batyrs and Transvestite Tricksters: Gender Performance in Central Asian Folk Tales
Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)

•“Seduced By Navayi”: Homo-Sociality and the Female Gaze in Khoqandian Poetics
Nicholas Walmsley (Al Quds Bard College of Arts and Science)

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