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IAAS Lecture: The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese "Chinese" Art in the Harvard Art Museums

April 07, 2021

Sarah Laursen , Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Harvard Art Museum The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese "Chinese" Art in the Harvard Art Museums Abstract Wednesday, April 7 at 1:15 pm Eastern Time Online event. Register for Zoom...

IAAS alum Jeff Eden's new book

March 24, 2021

IAAS alum Jeff Eden's new book God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War with Oxford University Press will come out on April 1, 2021. The first book in English about the Soviet Muslim experience in the Second World War Offers the reader a...

IAAS Lecture: Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II

March 03, 2021

Robert Morrison , Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II Abstract Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm Eastern Time . Online event. Register for Zoom meeting link Inner...

Harvard Human Rights Working Group event: The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide

February 28, 2021

The Harvard Human Rights Working Group, part of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR), is organizing an event on the Uyghur genocide which will take place on Sunday, February 28th. The event will feature presentations from Professor Rian...

IAAS Lecture: Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires

February 03, 2021

Wei-chieh Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires Abstract Wednesday, February 3, at 1:15 pm Eastern Time Online event. Register for Zoom...

Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet

December 02, 2020

IAAS Lecture by Dr. Lobsang Yongdan, Research Fellow, University of Bonn Abstract Wednesday December 2, 1:15 pm Eastern Time Online via Zoom. RSVP here to receive link to join.

Uyghur Poetry in Translation

November 24, 2020

Uyghur Poetry in Translation November 24th, 12:00 - 1:15 PM ET https://guestlist.co/events/666291 Join us for a Zoom webinar with Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rena Yashat Aybal, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening...

NY Times: China Disappeared My Professor. It Can't Silence His Poetry

November 23, 2020

Read the November 23 New York Times op-ed by IAAS alum Joshua Freeman (PhD '19) China Disappeared My Professor. It Can’t Silence His Poetry. Freeman is currently a Cotsen postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows.

The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis

November 04, 2020

Prof. Arienne Dwyer , Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas Abstract Register for Zoom link

IAAS Co-Sponsored Event: Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire

November 03, 2020

Tuesday, November 3, 2020 | 4-5:30pm | RSVP for Zoom link Ahmed al-Rahim, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia Sponsored by The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and the Committee on Inner Asian and...

Jeff Eden's book "Slavery and Empire in Central Asia" now in paperback

July 14, 2020

IAAS alum Jeff Eden (PhD '16) first published Slavery and Empire in Central Asia in 2018. The 2020 paperback edition of the book is now available via Cambridge University Press. Jeff Eden is Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland...

IAAS Alum Joshua Freeman in conversation with Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut

June 17, 2020

Watch this May 12 video of Joshua Freeman (PhD '19) and Tahir Hamut discussing one of Hamut's recent poems (in Uyghur, with subtitles): PEN to Paper: The Translator and the Poet