Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

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

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

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Asian Studies Center