Uyghur Issue: History, Culture and Society

ATTENTION CHANGEMENT D’ADRESSE : INALCO – 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris

 

 

Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society

Organised by CERI-Sciences Po and Central Asia Program at the George Washington University

 

9:00-10:30am   China’s Political Strategies in Xinjiang

 
Chair: Hélène Le Bail, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, France

 

Dru Gladney, Pomona College, USA
China’s Policy toward Ethnic Minorities

Sean R. Roberts, George Washington University, USA
Development with Chinese Characteristics: The Implications of Top-Down Development in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Kilic Kanat, Penn State University, USA
The Evolution of the Perception of the Uyghur Resistance in China  

     

10:30-11:00am   Coffee break

11:00-12:30pm   Uyghur Identity. Resistance, Adaptation, Resilience

 
Chair: Sean R. Roberts, George Washington University, USA

Lauren Hansen, Cornell University, USA
Buying In or Selling Out? Middle Class Sensibilities in the Uyghur City

David Brophy, Sydney University, Australia
A Second-Generation Xinjiang Historiography: The Comprehensive History Project

Rachel Harris, SOAS, London University, UK
Song and Dance in Xinjiang: the New Battleground

1:30-3:00pm   The Transformations of Uyghur National and Religious Identities

 
Chair: Rémi Castets, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, France

Rémi Castets, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, France
Islam and Politics: Ideological Paths and Mutations of Uyghur Islamo-Nationalism

Mamtimin Ala, Independent scholar, Australia
‘I am not a White Flag’: The re-formation of Uighur Nationalism under Chinese Rule

Rian Thum, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
The Twelve Imams in Sunni Khotan

 

3:00-3:30pm   Coffee break

3:30-5:00pm   An Internationalized Uyghur Identity

 
Chair: Bayram Balci, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, France

Ablet Kamalov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstann
Uyghur Diaspora in Central Asia. Challenges and Opportunities

Chienyu Shih, Chuhai College, Hong Kong

Shaping Uyghur Identity through Cultural Activities: Meshrep among Various Uyghur Diasporas Communities in Europe

 

 

Responsable scientifique : Bayram Balci, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS

ATTENTION CHANGEMENT D’ADRESSE : INALCO – 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE auprès de bayram.balci@sciencespo.fr