Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society

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

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, Kazakhstan
  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

Date

• 20 novembre 2015, 9h00-17h00

Lieu

• INALCO – 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris

Organisateurs

• CERI-Sciences Po
• Central Asia Program at the George Washington University
• Responsable scientifique : Bayram Balci, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE auprès de bayram.balci@sciencespo.fr

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Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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