Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Jobs for Orphans, Taxes for Kulaks, and Love of Tractors: Collectivization Oral Histories from Uzbekistan

Marianne Kamp
Wednesday, October 28
2PM EST | 1PM CST | 11AM PST

Register in advance: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdemspzIjH9KTxzaRNi3azsFBJYj0sZIb

Speaker:
Marianne Kamp, Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University

Please join us on October 28 for a talk on "Jobs for orphans, taxes for kulaks, and love of tractors: collectivization oral histories from Uzbekistan" by Marianne Kamp

Marianne Kamp is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. She started doing oral history research in Uzbekistan in 1992 and earned a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1998. She is the author of The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington Press, 2006), and editor and co-translator with Mariana Markova of Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: a 19th century ethnography from Central Asia (Indiana University Press 2016). Her recent articles include "Hunger and Potatoes: the 1933 Famine in Uzbekistan and Changing Foodways," Kritika ; with Russell Zanca, "Recollections of Collectivization in Uzbekistan: Stalinism and Local Activism," Central Asian Survey.

This lecture series is a collaborative effort to showcase an area studies specialist from each center focusing on the Russian, East European, and Central Asian world region. The series is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Russian, East European & Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University; the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin; the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin - Madison; the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at The University of Chicago; and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University.

Each center will host their own lecture via their personal social media channels. Please contact the host center for any necessary accommodations. To view the full list of lectures in the series click here. If you miss a lecture, it will be available online afterwards through the host center.