Dear colleagues,
Please see the announcement below from Ilya Vinkovetsky for more details on Adeeb Khalid’s upcoming talk at SFU.
All best wishes,
Katia
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Simon Fraser University's School of International Studies and Department of History are pleased to pleased to
host Adeeb Khalid, the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies & History at Carleton College (Minnesota, USA) who, on October 20 will speak on the Russian Revolution and nation-making in early Soviet Central Asia as
well as the current situation in Uzbekistan, in view of long-time leader Islam Karimov's recent death. The particulars of the talk:
Adeeb Khalid, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies & History
at Carleton College
(Minnesota, USA)
Nation
Making in the Early Soviet Union: Uzbekistan Reconsidered.
Uzbekistan
appeared on the map in 1924. Adeeb Khalid traces its emergence in the interstices between Soviet nationalities policies and the strivings of the Central Asian Muslim intelligentsia. Understanding the origins of the Uzbek national project also sheds light on
the place of Uzbekistan in the wider Central Asian context and is thus of profound contemporary relevance.
location and time:
5:15
-7:00 pm, Thursday, October 20
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, room 1510 (Tree Island Industries Conference
Room).
515
W. Hastings Street, Vancouver
Everyone welcome.
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Dr. Katherine Bowers
Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies
Dept. of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies
The University of British Columbia
Email:
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Office: 212 Buchanan Tower
Phone: (604) 822 6431
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