Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

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

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

Mongols, Uyghurs, and Xinjiang

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

CHAIR: Anne Broadbridge
DISCUSSANT: Michael Hope
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Sun, Oct 28th, 09:00

•Russian Exploration of Chinese Central Asia: Sergei Oldenburg’s Travelogue as a Source on the Early XX Century Uyghur Society of Xinjiang
Ablet Kamalov (University Turan)

•Drenched in Tears: Gender and Memory in the Uyghur Diaspora
Sandrine Emmanuelle Catris (Augusta University)

•Early 20th Century Agro-Developmental Visions in Xinjiang
Brian Cwiek (Indiana 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 History and Historiography of Central Asia from the 17th to the 19th Century

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

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)

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

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

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