Conferences
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The First Annual OASIES Graduate Student Conference
"Interrogating Inner Eurasia"
Sunday, April 13, 2008 from 5 to 8:00 pm
Columbia University in the City of New York
The Gottesman Libraries @ Teachers College | 525 W. 120th St.
Group Study Room 306
Panels include: Imperialism and Inner Eurasia: Xinjiang, the Caucasus, and Armenia; Negotiating the Nation in Iran and Central Asia; Bringing Europe to Asia;
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Conference Schedule
5:00 - 5:10 Opening Remarks
5:10 - 5:40 Imperialism and Inner Eurasia: Xinjiang, the Caucasus, and Armenia
"Discovering the Xinjiang: A Brief History of Human Ecology in China's 'New Dominion'" - Darren Byler, Columbia University
"Violence at the Ends of Empire: The Catastrophes of the Circassians and Armenians" - Owen Miller, Columbia University
5:45 - 6:45 Negotiating the Nation in Iran and Central Asia
"'Tant pis pour nous': Nationalism, Symbolic Martyrdom, and the Iranian Oil Crisis"- Arya Rejaee, New School for Social Research"Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy Towards South Asia"
- Bek-Ali Yerzhan, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan"Foreign Investment Law in the Republic of Kazakhstan"
- Maulenov Kassym Syrbaevich, Kazakh-British Technical University, Kazakhstan
6:50 - 7:50 Bringing Europe to Asia
"Sex and Gender in the Soviet Union"
- Jessica Teicher, Columbia University"Hungarian Voices at the League of Nations"
- Andrew Behrendt, University of Chicago"Investigating the Mysterious East: Friar John of Plano Carpini's Mission to the Mongols" - Hannah Barker, Columbia University
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This event is free and open to the public. For more information about this or other events visit www.oasies.org or e-mail contact@oasies.org. _____________________________________________________________________________ Photo by Baba Steve