Past Events
2005-2006
September 2005
Opening Reception
November 14, 2005
"Islam and Revolution in Soviet Central Asia"
Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College)
November 16, 2005
Reading Group Lunch
February 1, 2006
"Across the Steppes"
connecting
Peter Perdue (MIT) and
Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnati)
February 8, 2006
Reading Group Lunch
March 1, 2006
"Across the Black Sea"
connecting
Charles King (Georgetown University) and
Nicola di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study)
March 9, 2006
Reading Group Lunch
2006-2007
April 21, 2007
"Islam Across Eurasia" Spring Conference
"Islam and Politics at the End of the Ottoman Empire"
François Georgeon (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
"After the Commissars: The Legacy of the Socialist Past and Contemporary Islamic Practices in the Caucasus"
Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
"Muslim Chinese Inside and Out: Shifting Conceptualizations of Empire, Barbarians and Islam in Late Imperial China"
David Atwill (Pennsylvania State University)
November 30, 2006
"A Boxer Rebellion for Global Times"
Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine)
October 4, 2006
"Reactionary Modernists: Schisms and Asian Modernities
in Urad West Duke Banner, Mongolia"
Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge University)
Gray Tuttle, Discussant (Columbia University)
2007-2008
November 19, 2008
"The Making of a Post-Soviet PublicExhibiting Gifts to Soviet Leaders at the Kremlin Museum, Moscow:"
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Cambridge University) and Ol'ga Sosnina (Kremlin Museum)
February 6, 2008
"Faith in Empire: Religious Conversion and International Debates on Imperial Russia's Caucasian Frontier"
Paul Werth (UNLV)
April 9, 2008
"A Clash of Islams in the Northern Caucasus: The Sufi-Salafi Confrontation"
Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan)