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 

7:50 - 8:00 Closing Remarks

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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.

The Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) is a community of Columbia University graduate students from varied disciplines and area studies perspectives. Our goal is to foster dialogue and partnership across the academic spaces bounded by the East Asian, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Russian area studies paradigms as we investigate Inner Eurasia.


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