Cambridge Central Asia Forum Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2024

Cambridge Central Asia Forum Seminar Series

Michaelmas term 2024

11am-1pm (Friday)

Room S1, Allison Richard Building

Registration

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pc-ygrDssHNYlARR1yMaSAyk9A86o8ypL

4 October Book Launch: East-West Dialogues in the 21st Century: Poetics of Cultural Diplomacy, by Prof Munira Shahidi, Shahidi Foundation, Tajik National University and Shahdi Foundation. In collaboration with Dr Gillian Tett, OBE, Provost, King’s College, Cambridge.

18 October COP29 Baku Edition: A Discussion with His Excellency Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to United Kingdom, Moderated by Dr Siddharth S Saxena, Director Cambridge Central Asia Forum & COP29 Azerbaijan Science Advisory Board Member

25 October Bukhara and Beyond. Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries,  Ariane Sadjed, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences

8 November The Impact of Empire on Afghanistan's long and short history, Obaidullah Baheer Visiting Fellow, LSE, PhD Fellow at New School, USA

15 November The role of prominent Sufi leaders and Sufi movements in the Islamisation of Central Asia and the Mongol Khanates, Münevver Tekcan, Kocaeli University CANCENLLED due to personal circumstances of the speaker

22 November Identifying the (Eurasian) shared space, Conversation with Dr Said Reza Husseini, King's Silk Roads Programme and Ms Prajakti Kalra, Cambridge Central Asia Forum

29 November Nation as Conceptualised in Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Zyenep Tuba Sungur, University of Ankara (ASBU)

6 December Kabul: Final Call, A Book Discussion by HE Dr Sir Laure Bristow, President, Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge & Former UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Russia and Afghanistan.