A work-in-progress seminar series on current research focusing on Central Asian history, culture and languages

Below is the programme for the seminar series organised by Visiting Professor Svetlana Gorshenina from the CNRS (France) and colleagues from across the University of Oxford and beyond.

15 November 2024

Claude RAPIN (CNRS-ENS, Paris), “Note on a route in Turkestan from Alexander the Great to the railroad era (the Iron Gates near Derbent in Surkhandarya)”

Jaimee COMSTOCK-SKIPP (University of Oxford), “The illustrated Tavārīkh-i guzīda-yinuṣratnāma in the British Library”

22 November 2024

Kamila AKHMEDJANOVA (University of Oxford), “Literature and Politics in Early Soviet Central Asia: Case Study of Sadriddin Aini’s Odina and Margi sudkhūr.”

Didar SADYK (Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre / A. Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics, Almaty, Kazakhstan), “Linguistic tendencies in the poly-cultural space of Almaty”

29 November 2024

Roman OSHAROV (University of Oxford), “Policing and Ethnography in Asian and Russian Tashkent, 1890-1987”

Svetlana GORSHENINA (Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre / CNRS, Paris), “Discussions around Old Photographs of Russian Turkestan on Facebook: Between (Neo)-Imperialism, Nostalgia, Orientalism, Nationalism, and Decolonization»

6 December 2024

Meruyert IMANGAZINA (Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre / Kazakh national university named after Al-Farabi, Almaty), “Nonverbal Communication and its Role in the Kazakh Culture”

Kymbat SLYAMBEKOV (The Institute of Linguistics named after A. Baitursynuly, Almaty, Kazakhstan), “The pragmatic function of the word «I» in the political leaders' speech”