A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Presented by the Central Asia Workshop
Thursday, May 28, 20153:00 PM - 6:00 PM
1261 Bunche Hall
3:00-3:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Nancy Levine, Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology
Panel Moderated by
Rick Miller, Ph.D., Geography
3:20-3:50 Panel 1: Social Mobility on the Tibetan Plateau
"Ethnicity, Place and Territory: Urban Stakes of Xining City’s Tibetans"
Andrew Grant, Geography
"Imagining Charitable Futures: Ladakhi Teens’ Aspirations as Givers and Providers"
Bonnie Richard, Anthropology
3:55-4:25 Panel 2: Old Circulations
"Playing Race: The Development of Blackface Performance in Iran during the Long Nineteenth Century"
Cal Margulis, History
"Transnational Families between Afghanistan and Germany: Social Connections in the Early Twentieth Century"
Marjan Wardaki, History
4:30-4:40 Break
4:40-5:10 Panel 3: New Currents
"The Arctic and Central Asia: Russian Resource Extraction on its Northern and Southern Frontiers"
Mia Bennett, Geography
"Convenient Anxieties: Some (Skeptical) Thoughts on ISIS and Central Asia"
Ali Nehmé Hamdan, Geography
5:15-5:45 Discussant
Naomi Caffee, Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sponsor(s): Program on Central Asia