• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays, 17:00 (except Week 1 which is on Monday)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religious Conversion and Communal Identity in Central Asia: The Ismailis of Badakhshan
  Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scenarios of Empire: Russian Imperial Representations in the South Caucasus during the 19th Century
  Hubertus Jahn (Clare College, Cambridge)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Living standards in Central Asia before and after the revolution
  Beatrice Penati (University of Liverpool)

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Long-term Lease on Waqf Lands in Khorezm: Legal and Socio-Economic Implications
  Qahramon Yaqubov (Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Moving Out and Staying Connected. The Jews of Central Asia between Bukhara and Jerusalem
  Thomas Loy (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Sasanians in Southern Turkmenistan: The Archaeological Evidence
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Borders and border-making in the Russian conquest of Central Asia - from Persia to the Pamirs
  Alexander Morrison (New College)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - New Alphabet, Old Rules: Latinisation, Legacy and Liberation in Central Asia
  Sofya Omarova (Oxford Brookes)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - New Light on the Gift Exchange between China and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
  Yusen Yu (Corpus Christi, Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “We wanted to show that we were capable like our grandfathers.” Soviet-Afghan War veterans, political socialisation and the Great Patriotic War cult in Brezhnev-era Tajikistan
  Markus Göransson (Swedish Defence University)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From the Caspian to the Pamirs: poetic and religious connections between early modern Iran and Central Asia
  Gabrielle van den Berg (Leiden University)