Cambridge Central Asia Forum Seminar Series
Michaelmas term 2024
11am-1pm (Friday)
Room S1, Allison Richard Building
4 October Munira Shahidi, Shahidi Foundation (Tajikistan)
Book Launch: East-West Dialogues in the 21st Century: Poetics of Cultural Diplomacy
In collaboration with King’s Silk Road Programme, King’s College
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
Venue: Jesus College
25 October Ariane Sadjed, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries
8 November Obaidullah Baheer, Bard College, USA & Visiting Fellow, LSE
The Impact of Empire on Afghanistan's long and short history
15 November Münevver Tekcan, Kocaeli University
The role of prominent Sufi leaders and Sufi movements in the Islamisation of Central Asia and the Mongol Khanates
29 November Zyenip Tuba Sungur, University of Ankara (ASBU)
Nation as Conceptualised in Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
6 December Address by Sir Laurie Bristow, Master, Hughes Hall TBC