Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

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

Strands of Power in Medieval Eurasia

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

CHAIR: Stefan Kamola
DISCUSSANT: Anne Broadbridge
ROOM: Posvar 3610 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

• The Power of the Foreign in Pre-Modern West Eurasia
John Latham Sprinkle (University of London)

•Towards a Prosopography of Medieval Eurasian Nomads
Agustí Alemany (Autonomous, University of Barcelona)

• The Affordances of Orthodox Christianity for Georgian Vernacular Religion
Kevin Tuite (University of Montreal)

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

Author-Critic Forum: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia

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

CHAIR: Sarah Tynen
ROOM: Alcoa Room 228, Barco Law | Fri, Oct 26th, 14:15

AUTHOR
• Natalie Koch (Syracuse University)

CRITICS
• Suzanne Harris-Brandts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Alexander Diener (University of Kansas)
• Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)
• Diana Kudaibergenova (Lund University)

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

Gender and Identity

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

CHAIR: Elena Kim | DISCUSSANT: Saltanat Childress
ROOM: Posvar 3200 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

• The Role of Governments in Promoting Women’s Leadership in Central Asia
Azhar Baisakalova (KIMEP University)

• Women’s Time Use and Decision-Making in Mongolian Herding Households
Mieke Meurs (American University); Amarjargal Amartuvshin (University of the Humanities)

• The Coverage of Politics of Reproduction (Femicide/Foeticide/ Abortions) in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia
Tina Tsomaia (Georgian Institute of Public Affairs)

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

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