Russia/Eastern Europe

Beyond the Nation: Central Asian Literatures and Cultures in Transnational Perspective

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 14:15

DISCUSSANT: Samuel Hodgkin
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Fri, Oct 26th, 14:15

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS
•Christopher Baker (American University of Central Asia)
•Emily Laskin (University of California, Berkeley)
•Naomi Caffee (Reed College)

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Empires of Paper: Central Asian Literature and the Construction of Imperial Subjectivity

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Naomi Caffee | DISCUSSANT: Eva-Marie Dubuisson
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Fri, Oct 26th, 09:00

•Uzbek Drama and the All-Soviet Sacralization of the Text
Christopher Fort (University of Michigan)

•Prestige Editions and Borrowing Privileges in the Stalinist Library of World Literature
Samuel Hodgkin (University of Chicago)

•Steppe Realism: Landscape, Imagination, and Empire in Nikolai Karazin
Emily Laskin (University of California Berkeley)

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Author-Critic Forum: Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Eva-Marie Dubuisson
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

AUTHOR
•Diana Kudaibergenova (Lund University)

CRITICS
•Eva-Marie Dubuisson (Nazarbayev University)
•Christopher Fort (University of Michigan)
•Christopher Baker (American University of Central Asia)
•Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)
•Boram Shin

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Trials and Courts in Eurasia

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Raufhon Salahodjaev | DISCUSSANT: Erica Marat
ROOM: Posvar 3600 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

•Courts of Women-Aksakals in the Kyrgyz Republic
Aisuluu Abubakirova (Kompozit Group Holding)

•Legal Recognition of Mental Disabilities in Azerbaijan: The Legal and Practical Challenges
Ravan Samadov (University of Bristol)

•Country Assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic: Fair Trial Standards and Meaning in Local Context
Iuliia Emtseva (University of Notre Dame); Elida K. Nogoibaeva (American University of Central Asia)

Location: 
Posvar 3600
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Narratives and Areal Linguistics

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Bert Beynen | DISCUSSANT: Cass Lowry
ROOM: Posvar 3600 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

•Sign Language Issues in Kyrgyzstan
Feruza Shermatova

•Being a Neighbor among Kazakhs: The Insights from Discourse Analysis of Personal Narratives
Aisulu Raspayeva (Rice University)

•A Diachronic, Usage-Based Model of Harmonic Change in Uyghur
Eric de Roulet (California State University Fullerton)

Location: 
Posvar 3600
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Early History and Archeology

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 14:15

CHAIR: Azamat Sakiev | DISCUSSANT: John Latham Sprinkle
ROOM: Posvar 3200 | Sat, Oct 27th, 14:15

•Kitan Liao Itinerant Courts: Mobility and Projection of Power
Zachary Hershey (University of Pennsylvania)

•The Historical Contextualization of Hāfiz Basīr within the Non-Ahrārī Line of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition
Aziza Shanazarova (Stanford University)

•Achieving Ancestorhood: The Reused Burials in the Peripheries of the Bukhara Oasis, Uzbekistan
Shujing Wang (New York University)

Location: 
Posvar 3200
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Central Asia in the Russian Empire

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: TBC | DISCUSSANT: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

•Imperial Expansion and Ethnic Transformation in the Russian Empire: The Chala-Qazaqs of the Kazakh Steppe
Nurlan Kabdylkhak (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

•The Kazakh Political Elite under the Russian Empire in the 19th century
Meiramgul Kussainova (Nazarbayev University)

•Comparing Imperial Borderlands: Law and Governance in Late 19th Century Crimea and Kazan
Stefan Kirmse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)

Location: 
Posvar 3610
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Soviet and Post-Soviet History

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Colin Martin | DISCUSSANT: Claire Roosien
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Fri, Oct 26th, 09:00

•The USSR Football League as a Microcosm of the Nationalities Question
Mauricio Borrero (St. John’s University)

•Soviet Uzbekistan’s Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War
Boram Shin (Hanyang University)

•The Political Economy of Natural Resources: The Soviet Union at the United Nations (1960-1980)
David Alenga (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Location: 
Posvar 3610
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Memory and Modernity

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Vasili Rukhadze | DISCUSSANT: Ali İğmen
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Sat, Oct 27th, 09:00

•Gendering Muslim Modernism: Azerbaijani Cultural Reformation, 1900-1918
Yelena Abdullayeva (University of Waterloo)

•Not Just Family Qurans: Unarchived Documents of Central Asia
Michael Hancock-Parmer (Ferrum College)

Location: 
Posvar 3610
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Turkestan and the “Great Game”

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Stefan Kirmse | DISCUSSANT: Alexander Morrison
ROOM: Alcoa Room 228, Barco Law | Fri, Oct 26th, 09:00

•The Kashgar Question: St Petersburg, Tashkent, and Yakub Beg
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (Brock University)

•Muslim Orphans in Colonial Tashkent According to Qādī Court Records
Nasriddin Mirzayev (International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan)

•Reproductive Health of Women in Turkestan: The Origins of Medicalization (Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)
Sanavar Shadmanova (Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan)

Location: 
Alcoa Room, 228 Barco Law
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

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