The Bregel Lecture Series honors the late Professor Emeritus Yuri Bregel and his many contributions to the study of Central and Inner Asian history and of Persian and Turkic historiography. Professor Bregel taught in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies from 1981 until 2000, serving also as Director of the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies from 1986 to 1997 and as Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center from 1989 to 1997.
Previous lectures included:
2019: Deborah Tor (Notre Dame), “Chivalry (futuwwa) in the Medieval Eastern Islamic World”
2018: Evrim Binbas (Bonn), “Mu'in al-Din Natanzi and his Chronicles: New Sources and Perspectives”
2017: Isenbike Togan (Boğaziçi University), “Chinggis Khan’s Policies and Structural Changes in the Tribal World of Inner Asia”
2016: Rian Thum (Loyola University), “Contemporary Chinese Central Asia in Deep Historical Perspective”
2015: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University), “Selves and Other in Central Asian Narratives”
2014: Allen J. Frank (Washington DC), “Muslim Cultural Decline in Imperial Russia: A Manufactured Crisis”
2013: Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), “The Pax Mongolica Reconsidered: Venice, the Golden Horde, and the Fourteenth-Century Crisis
2012: Jo-Ann Gross (College of New Jersey), “Mir Hasan Khamush: Narrative Traditions and the Construction of Sacred Genealogy in Badakhshan”
2011: Beatrice Manz (Tufts University), “Ulugh Beg and Transoxiana: How Much do the Sources Actually Tell Us?”
2010: Peter B. Golden (Rutgers University), “History and Historical Memory in the Pre-Chinggisid Turkic World”
2009: John Woods (University of Chicago), “Framing the Timurid Aristocratic Order”
2007: Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto), “Timurid Custom and Chinggisid Law: Continuity and Innovation”
2006: Charles Melville (Pembroke College, Cambridge University), “Creating an Image of Chinggis Khan”
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