Dimensions of Uyghur Displacement and Challenges to Scholarship

Activity Type: 
Panel Discussion
Date: 
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 11:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Posvar 5702
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

CHAIR: James A. Millward | DISCUSSANT: Kelly Hammond
ROOM: Posvar 5702 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

•Settlement and Ethnic Conflict
Mukeddes Omer (American University)

•A “Flavorless” Song for Xi Jinping: Changing Uyghur Soundscapes in the People’s War on Terror
Elise Anderson (Indiana University Bloomington)

•Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: How Uyghurs from China Became Foreign Fighters in Syria
Sean Roberts (George Washington 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