Russia/Eastern Europe

Revolution and Stalinism in Central Eurasia

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

CHAIR: Claire Roosien | DISCUSSANT: Michaela Pohl
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

•Displaced Soviet Children During the Great Patriotic War in Uzbek SSR: Experiences of Evacuation, Adoption, and Adaptation
Zukhra Kasimova (University of Illinois, Chicago)

•“Where is the Registan?” Imagining Soviet Samarkand in 1930s Travel Writing
Colin Martin (Carleton University)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Writing and Re-Writing the History of Soviet Kazakhstan

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

CHAIR: R. Charles Weller | DISCUSSANT: Flora Roberts
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Fri, Oct 26th, 14:15

•World War II: Searching on Kazakhs in France and Belgium
Gulnara Mendikulova (Satbayev University)

•The Study of Kazakhs in WWII as a Significant Part of Nation-Building
Aliya Akatayeva (Satbayev University)

•Neither Rupture Nor Continuity? Uncertain Portrayals of Soviet history in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Historiography
Zhanat Kundakbayeva (al-Farabi Kazakh National University)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Central Eurasian Environmental and Animal Histories

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Vasili Rukhadze | DISCUSSANT: Jonathan Schlesinger
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Sun, Oct 28th, 09:00

•The Chivalry of the Dog: Moral Dimensions of the Human-Canine Relationship in Medieval Anatolia
Marissa Smit (Harvard University)

•Environmental Geographies of Mongol China
Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania)

•Ravenous Beasts, Pitiful Sinners, and Class Enemies: A History of the Wolf in Mongolia
Kenneth Linden (Indiana University)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Political Ecology of Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/25/2018 - 14:15

CHAIR: Amanda Wooden | DISCUSSANT: Mohira Suyarkulova
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Thu, Oct 25th, 14:15

•Changing Perceptions of Kyrgzstan’s Walnut Forests
Matthias Schmidt (University of Augsburg)

•Tajik Dam Novels as Sources for the Political Ecology of Postwar Central Asia
Flora Roberts (Leiden University / University of Tubingen)

•When and How the Ice of a Highland River Matters: Political and Affective Perspectives on the Naryn in Kyrgyzstan
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (University of Tübingen)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Geographies of Piety in Kashgaria: New Sources, New Perspectives

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Joshua Freeman | DISCUSSANT: Rubina Salikuddin
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Sun, Oct 28th, 11:00

•Pious Endowments and Rural Economy in the “Kashgar Triangle” ca. 1900
Eric Schluessel (University of Montana)

•Mapping Old Kashgar: Mahallas and Pious Institutions in Documentary Sources
Jun Sugawara (Lanzhou University)

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

New Approaches to the Mongol Empire

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

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)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Conceptual Influences in the Mongol Empire

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

CHAIR: Beatrice Manz | DISCUSSANT: Timothy May
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

• The Khan and the Elite: The Muscovite Perception of the Political Culture of the Crimean Khanate during the Reign of Ivan IV
Charles Halperin

• Bulqa and Üile: Chaos and Obligation in the Formative Years of the Mongol Empire (1206-1259)
Michael Hope (Yonsei University)

• The Khan’s Merchant: The Role of the Ortoq in Forming Partnerships
Enerelt Enkhbold (National University of Mongolia)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Gender in the Mongol Empire

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

CHAIR: Timothy May
DISCUSSANT: Stefan Kamola
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Fri, Oct 26th, 14:15

• Royal Women and the Ordo in Yuan China
Ruth Dunnell (Kenyon College)

• Women and Men Both: A Revisionist History of the Mongol Empire
Anne Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts)

• Brothers, Sisters and Others: Royal Siblings and Practices of Politics in the Early Modern Central Asia
Nurten Kilic-Schubel (Kenyon 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

CESS Book Prize Author-Critic Forum for Joo-Yup Lee’s Qazaqlïq

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Uli Schamiloglu
ROOM: Alcoa Room 228, Barco Law | Sun, Oct 28th, 11:00

AUTHOR
• Joo-Yup Lee (University of Oxford)

CRITICS
• Scott Levi (Ohio State University)
• Beatrice Manz (Tufts University)
• Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Author-Critic Forum: Scott Levi’s The Rise and Fall of Khoqand

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/25/2018 - 14:15

CHAIR: James Pickett
ROOM: Alcoa Room 228, Barco Law | Thu, Oct 25th, 14:15

AUTHOR
• Scott Levi (Ohio State University)

CRITICS
• Patryk Reid (University of Pittsburgh)
• Alexander Morrison (University of Oxford)
• Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College)
• Nurten Kilic-Schubel (Kenyon College)

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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