Talk by Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex, on Beyond the Jewish Triangle: A Comparative and Connective Analysis of Muslim and Jewish Central Asian Emigres in the Twentieth Century

Cambridge Central Asia Forum invites you to a seminar with

Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex

on

Beyond the Jewish Triangle: A Comparative and Connective Analysis of Muslim and Jewish Central Asian Emigres in the Twentieth Century

Date: 4 March

Time: 10:30am

Venue: S1, Alison Richard Building 

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcuiurzMuEtI94kgsmNarXHN6LJEy_DuW

Biography:  Prof Magnus Marsden completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2002. Between 2002 and 2007, he was the Graduate Officer in Research at the Centre of South Asian Studies and a Title A Research Fellow at Trinity College. He is now at Sussex as Professor of Social Anthropology since November 2013. He is the Director of the Sussex Asia Centre. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and worked on ethnographic projects in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and China. Most of his fieldwork has been conducted in Khowar, the forms of Persian spoken in Afghanistan (sometimes referred to as 'Dari') and Tajikistan ('Tajiki), and, to a lesser degree, in Pashto and Urdu. 

Everyone is welcome.