#  IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2020-21 

 



###  Previous Events, Spring 2021 virtual IAAS Lectures:

 April 7, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET *The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese "Chinese" Art in the Harvard Art Museums*  *[Abstract ](/file_url/188)* **Sarah Laursen**, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Harvard Art Museum February 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET **Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires**  [Abstract](/file_url/186) **Wei-chieh Tsai**, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University March 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET ***Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II***   *[Abstract ](/file_url/187)* **Robert Morrison**, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College ###  Previous Events, Fall 2020 virtual IAAS Lectures:

 September 16, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET **The Secret Life of a Turkic Lexeme: Grammaticalization in Modern Uyghur**  [Abstract and Bio](/file_url/179)   **Dr. Gülnar Eziz**, Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay Languages, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University   
October 7, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET **A Tangle of Hair-Knots: Uṣṇīṣa Buddhas and Intertextuality in Early Tibet**  [Abstract](/file_url/180) **Prof. Jacob Dalton**, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, UC Berkeley November 4, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET **The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis**  [Abstract](/file_url/181) **Prof. Arienne Dwyer,** Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas December 2, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET **Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet** [Abstract](/file_url/182) **Dr. Lobsang Yongdan**, Research Fellow, University of Bonn