Central Eurasian Studies Committee 2013 Lecture Series

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Central Eurasian Studies Committee
2013 Lecture Series

For more information visit centralasia.uchicago.edu

Feb 15    
Stuart 102   
4pm 

Ryan Perkins 
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Honor Killings, Cultural Tropes and the Question of Afghan Historical Agency

Feb 18   
Classics 110   
1pm    

Douglas Northrop   
Associate Professor of Modern Central Asian studies, University of Michigan

Earthquakes and Empire in Eurasia

Feb 22  
Stuart 102
4pm

 John Woods   
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, UChicago
    

Framing the Timurid Aristocratic Order

Mar 8          
Franke Institute   
4pm  

Heather Sonntag

CREECA Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Visual Contest for Colonizing Central Asia: Russian Photography, Album Mania and Territorializing Turkestan     

*Rescheduled--check back for new date and time*   
Stuart 102  
4pm    

Kagan Arik   

Ayasli Lecturer in Turkish, UChicago

Some Pre-Islamic Elements in the Daily Life of Nomadic Kazaks            

May 17  
Stuart 102  
4pm

Uli Schamiloglu   
Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   
The Black Death and Religiosity in the Muslim Turkic World (14th-15th Centuries)

May 24  
Stuart 102  
4pm    

Marianne Kamp   
Associate Professor of History (Modern Middle East, Modern Central Asia and the Soviet Union), University of Wyoming

Sharia, Socialism, and Rights: The 1917 Debate in the Muslim Women’s Association, Kazan

May 31   
Stuart 102   
4pm

Thibaut d’Hubert   
Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, UChicago

Jami, Education and the Formation of South Asian Curricula