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Language in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Policies and Processes

A public lecture by William Fierman (Indiana University at Bloomington, Central Eurasian Studies)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

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Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile

A one-day conference focusing on the development of Afghanistan's national literature over the past 50 years.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall

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Crossing the Roof of the World

A one-day conference on people and geopolitics in Trans-Himalayan trade presented by the UCLA Central Asia Initiative
Friday, February 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center

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Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization

Day 2 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Friday, February 26, 2010
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon

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Contemporary Chinese Migration to Central Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Responses (Case-study of Kazakhstan)

Elena Sadovskaya, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche, UCLA

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Persia Beyond the Oxus: The Circulation of Iranian Languages and Cultural Practices in Central Asia

International Conference hosted by the Central Asia Initiative
Thursday, April 22, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center

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Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia

a book talk with author Gul Ozcan (Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

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A book reading in French, Dari & English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author

Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author reads from his book The Patience Stone
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room

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Prestigious Goods along the Silk Road? An Archaeological Perspective

A lecture by ARMIN SELBITSCHKA (assistant professor of Sinology, University of Munich)
Friday, October 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall

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Magical 'Display' and Dancing Female Figures in the Religions of Ancient Eurasia

A lecture by Miriam Robbins Dexter, UCLA Women's Studies
Thursday, October 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
A163 Bunche Hall

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The Turkish Rom Social Dance Phenom

Modern Social "Belly Dance" as an Expressive Celebratory Tradition Among The Turkish Rom in Izmir and Istanbul, a lecture by Jaynie Aydin, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

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From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups: Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period

A lecture by Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

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Being Hui Muslim in Xinjiang: Ethnic and Religious Identity of a Minority in a Minority Region

A lecture by Yang Zhongdong, Xinjiang University
Thursday, October 28, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall

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Buddhist and Manichaean Textual Iconographies in Early Persian Poetry

A lecture by Stefano Pellò, University of Venice
Thursday, November 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

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The Floating Lexicon: Amitav Ghosh, Hobson-Jobson and the OED

A lecture by Kate Teltscher, Roehampton University
Monday, November 08, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
348 Humanities

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The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia

Central Asia Initiative International Conference
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall

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