Higher Education

Gender, Identity, Multiculturalism

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

CHAIR: Azatkul Kudaibergenova
DISCUSSANT: Joshua Freeman
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Thu, Oct 25th, 14:15

•Constructing a Free Woman’s Body in Modern Turkish Literature
Zehra Guven Kilicarslan (Indiana University)

•The Skull Speaketh in Many Tongues: On the Transposition of the Story of the Speaking Skull in the Turkic World
Kristof D’hulster (University of Ghent)

•Of Crossed-Dressed Batyrs and Transvestite Tricksters: Gender Performance in Central Asian Folk Tales
Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)

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

Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature

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

CHAIR: Christopher Fort | DISCUSSANT: Emily Laskin
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Sat, Oct 27th, 14:15

•Kyrgyz Translated into Kyrgyz
Azatkul Kudaibergenova

•Literature ad Marginem? Imagining National Territory in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Russophone Writing
Dmitriy Melnikov (KAZGUU University)

•Ideological Narratives, Evaluation and Representation of the Georgian Soviet Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s
Ana Todua (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

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

Intersections of History and Literature: Translation and Academia in Central Eurasian Studies (Roundtable)

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

CHAIR: Joshua L. Freeman | DISCUSSANT: Chris Fort
Room: Posvar 5604 | Sat, Oct 27th, 09:00

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS

•Christopher Fort (University of Michigan)
•Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)
•Nicholas Walmsley (Al Quds Bard College of Arts and Science)
•Joshua Freeman (Harvard University)

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

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

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