Colloquia Schedule 2014-2015
October 8: Christopher Beckwith (Indiana University) “Tokharian and Indic influence on rulership ideology in the first Türk Empire: The meaning of Aršilaš (“Ashina”) and Türkwač in context”
November 17: Kathryn E. Graber (Indiana University) “Here Be Dragons: Charting an Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethnolinguistic Categories”
December 1: Tóth-Czifra Erzsébet (Cultural Linguistics Doctoral Research Programme, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest) “Hungarian: Myths, Facts, and Cognitive Linguistics?”
February 2: Paul Losensky (Indiana University) “Coherence and Cohesion in Two Ghazals by Sā’eb Tabrizi”
March 23: Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Central European University) “Negation in Uralic Languages”
Colloquia Schedule 2013-2014
November 6: Nicola Di Cosmo (Princeton University) “The Pax Mongolica Reconsidered: Venice, the Golden Horde, and the Fourteenth-Century Crisis”
February 26: István Benczes (Cornivus University, Hungary) “From Goulash Communism to Goulash Populism”
March 5: Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Institute of Mongolian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies, Russian Federation) “The Buriat Lamas at the Interface Between Two Empires”
Colloquia Schedule 2012-2013
November 7: Jennifer Dubeansky (Indiana University) “Where’s Kujula? Tracing the Early Route of Kushan Conquest”
December 4: Sergei Miniaev (Institute of the History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia) “The Xiong-Nu”
February 13: Saule Satayeva (Central State Archive of Cinema and Photo Documents, Kazakhstan), “Recovering and Preserving the Richness of Central Asian Nomadic Life: The Challenges for Public Memory”
February 20: Roberto Vitali (Independent Scholar) “The Khams Region in the Context of Tibet’s Post-Imperial Period (9th-Early 11th Centuries)”
April 10: Ablet Kamalov (R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Kazakhstan) “The Eastern Turkestan Republic (1944-1949) Through the Eyes of Western Diplomats”
April 14: Edward J. Lazzerini (Indiana University) “The Agency of Learned Natives and the Production of Oriental Knowledge in the Russian Empire”
Colloquia Schedule 2011-2012
September 14: Monica Whitlock (Journalist) “Through the Looking Glass: The Andijan Massacre—A Film and a Conversation”
November 29: KODAMA Kanako (Chiba University, Japan) “Ecological Resettlement in Western Mongolia”
January 18: Paul Werth (University of Nevada at Las Vegas) “Foreign Confessions in Foreign Contacts: Religion across the Borders of the Russian Empire”
January 19: Paul Werth (University of Nevada at Las Vegas) “The Russian Empire and the Problem of Religious Diversity”
February 8: Isaac Scarborough (Indiana University) “Out from Behind the Statues: Daily Life in Modern Turkmenistan”
February 22: Kate Graber (Independent Scholar) “Mixed Messages: Media and Language Politics in Ethnic Buryatia (Russian Federation)”
February 29: TACHIBANA Makoto (Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research) “The Forgotten History of Mongolia: The Bogd Khaan Government of 1911-1921″
March 7: Elise Anderson (Indiana University) “Making Minzu Heritage in Xinjiang”
March 21: Elena Vedernikova (Mari State University, Russian Federation) “Endangerment of the Mari Language: Myth or Reality?”
March 28: Eric Fry-Muller (Indiana University) “Revisiting Marpa the Translator: Narratives, Questions, and the Vajravarahi Controversy”
April 4: Tim Grose (Indiana University) “Heads of the Class: Uyghur Women’s Pursuit of Higher Education, Ethnic Identity, and Redefining Gender Roles”
Colloquia Schedule 2010-2011
October 20: Rebekah Tromble (Indiana University) “Bad Islam: The Myth of Uzbek Radicalism in Kyrgyzstan”
November 3: Aimee Dobbs (Indiana University) “Nineteenth-Century Colonial Convergence: The Role of Tiflis in the Development of an Azerbaijani Intelligentsia”
November 17: Elliot Sperling (Indiana University) “The Last Era of Mongol Domination in Tibet”
January 26: Ondrej Klimes (Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) “Uyghur Perceptions of Community and its Interests from Late Qing to the 1930s”
February 9: Noor O’Neill Borbieva (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne) “Cosmopolitan Longing: Faith, Desire, and Material Struggle in Kyrgyzstan”
February 16: Chris Atwood (Indiana University) “A Mongolist Looks at Kazakh Nomads: Comparative Approaches to Central Eurasian Society”
February 23: Karl Reichl (Universität Bonn) “Voice and Presence: Performance Aspects of Turkic Oral Epics”
March 2: Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University) “The Manchu Conquest of China as ‘Just War'”
March 9: Paul Buell (Charité Medical School Berlin) “The Mongols and Information Exchange: Arabic Medicine in 13th and 14th-Century China”
March 23: Del Schwab (Indiana University) “Bookstores, Kiosks, and Mosques: The Market for Islamic Literature in Kazakhstan”
March 30: Christopher Beckwith (Indiana University) “Huns and Turks”
April 6: Brian Baumann (Independent Scholar) “Astral Allegory and the Secret History of the Mongols”
April 13: Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University) “Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road”
Colloquia Schedule 2009-2010
September 23: Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania) “Trading and Raiding on the Eurasian Steppe: The Grave Goods of a Turkic Chieftain”
October 7: Michael Frachetti (Washington University) “The Process of Pasturalism in Eurasia: A Mountain View to the Steppes”
November 4: Gardner Bovingdon (Indiana University) “Ürümchi’s Hot July”
January 20: Paul Losensky (Indiana University) “You are the Meaning Behind Every Form: Translating the Ghazals of Amir Khusrow”
January 27: Nicole Willock (Indiana University) “New Approaches in Tibetan Studies: Studying the life of A lags Tshe tan zhabs drung”
February 3: Anne Pyburn (Indiana University) “Chinggis Khan or Santa Claus: Choosing a Heritage for Kyrgyzstan”
February 17: Cholpon Turdalieva (American University of Central Asia)
“Kyrgyz Identity through the Lens of 19th-Century Travelogues”
February 24: Tristra Newyear (Indiana University) “Early Buryat Theater and the Drama of Literacy”
March 10: David Anthony (Hartwick College) “The Archaeology of Indo-European Origins”
March 31: Elliot Sperling (Indiana University) “Tanguts on the Tibetan Plateau”
April 14: David Somfai Kara (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) “Popular Islam among Post-Soviet Kazakh and Kirghiz“
Colloquia Schedule 2008-2009
October 15: Christopher I. Beckwith “The Central Eurasian Culture Complex: Engine of Dynamic Change in Pre-Medieval Japan, France, and Tibet”
October 29: Ágnes Fülemile “Royalties, Nobles and Burgers in National Dress – Pageantry and Competing ‘Displays’ of Legitimacy in the Last Empires of Europe: The Case of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy”
November 12: Christopher I. Beckwith “Scholastic Argument Structure in Medieval Central Asian Philosophical Texts”
December 3: Erdem Cipa “Selim the ‘Grim’: What’s in a Nickname?”
January 21: Chris Atwood “Ouyang Xiu, Rudi Lindner, and the Turco-Sogdians of Inner Mongolia: Some Notes from the History of ‘Tribalism’ on China’s Inner Asian Frontier”
February 4: Christiane Gruber “Real Absence: Picturing God in Islamic Art”
February 18: Martin Spechler “Is Russia Winning in Central Asia?”
