The Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out: Representation, Authority, and Inequity Conference is co-sponsored by the Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies, The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University, The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies at New York University, The Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University, The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University, and The Department of Anthropology at New York University.
SCHEDULED PARTICIPANTS
Keynote: Madeleine Reeves, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, “What contrasts, virtually immeasurable!” Difference, delimitation, and representations that matter in the Ferghana valley.
Closing Remarks: Arienne M. Dwyer, Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas; Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center.
Panelists:
Lan Wu (Columbia East Asian) – Clash of Authorities – Mongol Buddhists in 1780’s China
Kelsey Rice (UPenn History) – Musical Jadidism: Azeri Opera
Betty Hensellek (NYU Fine Arts) – Sasanian-Senmurv Kaftan: Nomadic Assimilation of Imperial Imagery
Julian Gantt (CUNY Anthropology) – Representing Oil and Authority in Azerbaijan
Christopher Edling (Columbia Creative Writing) – Bride Kidnapping Doesn’t Exist in Armenia
Sansar Tsakhirmaa (John Hopkins Political Science) – Ethnic-boundary-making among Uyghurs and Mongolians
Ion Marandici (Rutgers Political Science) – An unfinished transition: oligarchs and anti-oligarchic discourses in the Republic of Moldova (2009-2012)
Brinton Ahlin (NYU Anthropology) – Cultivation of Tajikness
Emily Wang (Princeton Slavic) – Blok, Race, Revolution
Gloria Funcheon (Univ. of Kansas Russian) – Creating a Dam National Space: Social Realism of Roghun
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