Talk by Erika Monahan, University of New Mexico on 'Bukharan Networks in Early Modern Eurasia'

Cambridge Central Asia Forum in collaboration with the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge invites you to a talk by

Erika Monahan, University of New Mexico

on

'Bukharan Networks in Early Modern Eurasia'

Date: 4 March 2022

Time: 11am-1pm (UK time)

Venue: Zoom Registration  https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcO2qqj4pG9Typ7Ia4fD6vhc5LvGlzqkn 

Everyone is welcome.

Abstract: Erika Monahan is an associate professor of History currently on leave from the University of New Mexico, where she teaches courses in Russian and East European history, Environmental History,  Empire, Commerce in the Early Modern World, and Eurasian Borderlands. Her first book, The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016) which won the Lincoln Book Prize and two honorable mentions, is scheduled to come out in a Russian language translation published by NLO (Novoe Literaturnaia Obozrenie) in 2022. She is  the author of “Locating Rhubarb: Early Modernity’s Relevant Obscurity,” in Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, ed. Paula Findlen (Routledge, 2013).  She co-edited, along with Michael Flier, Valerie Kivelson, and Daniel B. Rowland, the volume Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics–Institutions–Culture. Essays Honoring Nancy Shields Kollmann (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2017). Two current and related projects include a study of the Dutchman Nicolaas Witsen‘s (1641-1717) connections with Russia, and a study of the maps of Siberian cartographer Semen Remezov (ca. 1642–post-1720), which Witsen drew on in creating a new map of Eurasia.

 For more information please go to https://centralasia.group.cam.ac.uk/