[Discussion] CONF.- Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, Nov. 5-6, 2004, London

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CONF.- The Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, Nov. 5-6, 2004, London

Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia

The Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, will host an international
conference entitled "Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia"
on November 5-6, 2004. The conference is sponsored by the China and Inner
Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies in conjunction with the
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, by the British Academy, and by SOAS. Its
aim is
to explore through a comparative, multi-disciplinary approach the
'in-between-ness' of the Uyghurs, a people whose study has traditionally
fallen within either Central Asian Studies or Sinology. This conference
brings together 16 scholars from different ethnic, national and
disciplinary
backgrounds.

All sessions are free and open to the public. However, we request that
potential auditors contact Rachel Harris (rh@soas.ac.uk
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=rh@soas.ac.uk>) 

in advance.

For more information please contact any of the organisers:

Ildiko Beller-Hann (beller-hann@owz.uni-halle.de
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=beller-hann@owz.uni-halle.de>)
M. Cristina Cesaro (cristinacesaro@virgilio.it
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=cristinacesaro@virgilio.it>)
Rachel Harris (rh@soas.ac.uk
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=rh@soas.ac.uk>)
Joanne N. Smith (J.Smith@newcastle.ac.uk
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=J.Smith@newcastle.ac.uk>)

PROGRAMME

All sessions will be held in Room B102 in the Brunei Gallery at SOAS,
Thornhaugh St. Russell Square, London.

FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER

9.00-9.30 Registration, Brunei Gallery lobby

9.30 Welcome from the head of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and
the Caucasus
Ildiko Beller-Hann - Opening remarks

MORNING SESSION: Setting the Scene - Demography, Politics and Contemporary
Tourism

9.45 Nicolas Becquelin - Research Director, Human Rights in China, Hong
Kong.
'Bettering the Uyghurs: State Strategies in Xinjiang, 1955-2005.'

10.30David Wang - Institute of Modern Languages, University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia.
'The Uyghurs and Disparity in Xinjiang's Social Demography.'

11.15 Coffee break

11.30 Gardner Bovingdon - Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana
University, USA.
'The Influence of Central Asian Politics on Uyghurs' Political Visions.'

12.15 Rahila Dawut - Literature Department, Xinjiang University,
Urumchi, PR
China.
'Are the Uyghurs prepared for the fast development of tourism in Xinjiang?'

13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: Multiplicity and Hybridity of Uyghur Identities

14.30 Laura Newby - Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
'What made a Uyghur?'

15.15 Arienne M. Dwyer - Department of Anthropology, University of
Kansas, USA.
'Local identities and local dialects: the ethnodialectology of Uyghur.'

16.00 Coffee break

Presentation by Jun Sugawara, Department of History, Aoyama Gakuin
University, Japan.
ORIAS (Online Resources for Inner Asian Studies) - the new online database
of works on Xinjiang and Union List of Chaghatay manuscripts.

16.30 Joanne N. Smith - School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle
Upon Tyne, UK.
'Ethnic Anomaly' or Modern Uyghur Survivor? A Case Study of the Minkaohan
Hybrid Identity in Xinjiang.'

17.15 Sean R. Roberts - USAID/Central Asia Mission, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
'"The Dawn of the East": A Portrait of a Uyghur Community Between China and
Kazakhstan.'

SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER

MORNING SESSION: Uyghur language, literature, arts and music

9.30 Asad Sulayman - Literature Department, Xinjiang University,
Urumchi, PR
China.
'The Emergence of Uyghur Surname Problems in Xinjiang: A Discussion of the
Current Reformation of Uyghur Names and Surnames.'

10.15 Michael Friederich - Bamberg University, Germany.
'Uyghur representations of Xinjiang realities.'

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Nathan Light - Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of
Toledo, USA.
'Jimjit Yatqan Qum: Mapping Uyghur Cultural Territory.'

12.15 Rachel Harris - Music Department, SOAS, University of London, UK.
'Regional Traditions of Muqam across Central Asia.'

13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: Uyghur Socio-Cultural Practices

14.30 Cristina Cesaro - independent scholar, Italy.
'Polo, laghman, so say: Situating Uyghur Food between Central Asia and
China.'

15.15 Ablet Kamalov - Institute of Oriental Studies, Kazakh Academy of
Sciences; Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
'The Uyghurs as a part of Central Asian commonality.'

16.00 Coffee break

16.15 Edmund Waite - Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit (MIASU),
Cambridge University, UK.
'The Emergence of Muslim Reformism in Chinese Central Asia: Islam amongst
the Uyghurs of Kashgar.'

17.00 Ildiko Beller-Hann - Centre for Oriental Studies, Martin Luther
University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
'Ritual and Belief among the Uyghur in a Comparative Framework.'

17.45 Concluding remarks

19.30 pm Dinner for the participants and invited guests

Dr Ildiko Beller-Hann
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum
Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Muehlweg 15
Halle/Saale
D-06114
Germany


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