9:00-9:30
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Arrival and welcome
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9:30-10:30
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Panel 1
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Chair/Discussant
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Dr Michael Shenkar
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Alexandra Slucky, University of York
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Culinary Communities of the Silk Roads: an isotopic and archaeobotanical approach to exploring dietary patterns in Medieval Urban Central Asia
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Benjamin Sharkey, University of Oxford
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Writing Central Asian history from the perspective of minority faith communities: Central Asian Christians
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10:30-10:45
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Coffee break
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10:45-11:45
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Panel 2
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Chair/Discussant
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Dr Mollie Arbuthnot
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Malika Zehni, IHR and University of Cambridge
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Imperial gaze and infectious narratives: recording medical crises in Russian Central Asia
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Roman Osharov, University of Oxford
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The Caucasus and Central Asia under Russian rule – transfer of people and knowledge on Russia’s imperial borderlands, 1870-1890
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11:45-13:00
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Lunch
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13:00-14:00
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Panel 3
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Chair/Discussant
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Dr Tamar Koplatadze
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Jonas Löffler, University of Cologne
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Between Colonial Rule and Local Self-Empowerment. Western Art Music in Tiflis/Tbilisi around 1900
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Ali Porteous, University of Oxford
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‘Ridiculing fellow countrymen and heaping praise upon Europeans’: The Uses and Abuses of Satire in the Azerbaijani Press (1906-1914)
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14:00-14:15
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Coffee break
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14:15-15:15
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Panel 4
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Chair/Discussant
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Dr Alexander Morrison
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Matthias Battis, University of Oxford
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Stalinabad 1930: The convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
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Kamila Akhmedjanova, University of Oxford
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Central Asian intellectual trends in the 19th century - case study of Ahmad Donish
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15:15-15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30-17:15
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Panel 5
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Chair/Discussant
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Prof Edmund Herzig
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Sofya du Boulay (Omarova), USTA Mentorship Program
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Constructing foundational myths in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
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Abigail Scripka, ZZF Potsdam
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Negotiating Traditional Identity in Kazakhstan Post-Independence through Tengrism
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Megi Kartsivadze, University of Oxford
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Nation-building and the Legacy of Stalinism in post-Soviet Georgia
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Jan Tomek,
University of Oxford
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The conceptual standing of Iran and Turkey in the nation-building of the republics of the Caspian-Central Asia region
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17:15-17:30
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Coffee break
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17:30-18:30
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Concluding roundtable
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