States of economic exception: entangled sovereignties and the cross-border economy in North-East Asia, 1898-1930
Niccolò Pianciola is Associate Professor of History at the University of Padua, Italy. He has published works on the great famine in Kazakhstan of the 1930s, Tsarist policies in Central Asia, and forced migration in Eurasia. Prior to his current position, he taught at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. On the topic of the talk, he recently published “Opium Regimes of Imperial Collapse: The Russian Far East during the Civil War (1917-1922)”, Ab Imperio 3 (2021): 111-135 and “Illegal Markets and the Formation of a Central Asian Borderland: the Turkestan-Xinjiang Opium Trade (1881-1917)”, Modern Asian Studies 54/6 (2020): 1828-1875.
Date: 4 November 2024, 17:00 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Niccolò Pianciola (University of Padua)
Organising department: Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Organiser contact email address: richard.ramage@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of: RESC Monday Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Richard Ramage