“Elegy To A Uyghur Dreamscape”
Photographs by Lisa Ross
Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative, the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities
Exhibit: Elegy To A Uyghur Dreamscape
Photography exhibition depicting everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region. The photographs, taken by Lisa Ross, depict beds and their occupants outside in the open air. Sleeping outdoors is a traditional means to keep cool in the hot desert climate for many Uyghurs, Xinjiang’s Muslim-majority ethnic group. This way of life, however, is rapidly disappearing under the Chinese government’s mass detentions of many of the region’s residents.
Read the Fairbank Center’s introduction to the exhibition, accompanied by translations in Uyghur and Chinese.
The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities
February 25 - March 29, 2020, CGIS South Building Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA.
View the exhibit online on the Harvard Asia Center website
A discussion with Sophie Richardson, China Director at Human Rights Watch, and Rayhan Asat (HLS LLM ’16) international lawyer. Moderated by Professor William Alford, Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
Hosted by Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights, East Asian Legal Studies at HLS, and the Program of Law and Society in the Muslim World.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, and the Harvard Muslim Law Students Association.
Monday, March 9, 2020, 12pm to 1pm Harvard Law School, WCC 2009 Classroom
Read a summary of the March 9 discussion written by the Human Rights Program at HLS
Exhibit: Three Uyghur Poets
February 14 - March 29, 2019
An exhibit of work by three contemporary Uyghur poets, with translations by Ph.D. Candidate Joshua Freeman, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies.
On display in the Asian Centers' Lounge, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge from February 14 - March 29, 2019.
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Harvard University Asia Center.
Co-Sponsored Talk:
"The historical geographic background of the Silk Road"
Prof. Ge Jianxiong, Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University
November 21, 2016 5-6 pm, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Film screening:
"The Eagle Huntress" by Otto Bell
Film screening co-sponsored by the Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series and the Harvard Art Museums
March 23, 2017 6:00 pm, Harvard Art Museums, 0505 - Menschel Hall
Film screening: "The Land of Many Palaces"
Film screening followed by discussion with directors Adam Smith and Song Ting.
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
January 30, 2015 7:30pm
CGIS Belfer Case Study Room (S020), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street
Dr. Ablet Kamalov, Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
March 26, 2013, 4-5pm CGIS Knafel North Building, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series event co-sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies
