Monday, May 5, 2008

CONF.- Programme for CIAS 2008 at the University of Toronto, May 16-17

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CONF.- Programme for CIAS 2008 at the University of Toronto, May 16-17

Posted by: Central and Inner Asia Studies U. of Toronto <cias@utoronto.ca>

Programme

The Material Culture, Language and Religion of Central and Inner Asia

Thirteenth Annual Seminar of Central and Inner Asia Studies,
University of Toronto

Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17, 2008

Croft Chapter House & Room 179, University College


Friday

8.30 - Registration, Book Sales

8.50 - Welcome

9.00 - NIYOZOV, Sarfaroz (OISE, University of Toronto, Canada)
Ismailis of Central Asia: the More Things Change, the More they
Remain the Same: Post-Soviet Development Challenges

9.30 - GOYUSHOV, Altay (Georgetown University, USA)
Post-Soviet Islamization in Azerbaijan: Revival of Islam or
Adaptation of "New Religion"?

10.00 - KING, Matthew (University of Toronto, Canada)
Unburying the Buddha: Strategies for Recovering and Recreating a
Mongolian Buddhist Tradition

10.30-10.45 - Break - Tea and Coffee

10.45 - MENDIKULOVA, Gulnara (World Association of the Kazakhs)
Migrations in Contemporary Central Asia and Islam: Spreading of
Faith or Risk of Expanding Islamization (Religious Radicalism)?

11.15 - KHAN, Mir Baiz (Scarborough, Canada)
Survival of Spiritual Life: Religious Poetry in the Central Asian
Ismaili Muslim Tradition

11.45 - LYMER, Kenneth (Wessex Archaeology, UK)
Visions of deer: rock art and the archaeology of religion in
ancient Central Asia

12.15-1.15 - Light lunch (provided)

1.15 - BAHRY, Stephen (OISE, University of Toronto)
A study of the revitalization of West Yugur (Turkic) and East Yugur
(Mongolic) languages in Sunan Yugur County in Gansu, Northwest China

1.45 - OBERFALZEROVÁ, Alena (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Ethnolinguistic Approach to the Study of the Mongolian Nomads

2.15 - RIND-PAWLOWSKI, Monika (J. W. Goethe University, Germany)
The Chalkandu -- Ethnologic description and a first glimpse at
their subordinate clause construction

2.45 - 3.00 Break

3.00 - BENJAMIN, Craig (Grand Valley State University, USA)
"... the great deliverer, the righteous, the just, the autocrat,
the god, worthy of worship". Kanishka the
Great and Kushan Imperial Religion

3.30 - KOLBAS, Judith (Macquarie University, Australia)
Mongol coinage of the caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah

4.00 - JONGEWARD, David (University of Toronto, Canada)
Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries


Saturday

8.45 - Registration, Book Sales

9.00 - HEWITT, Farida (Wilfred Laurier University, Canada)
Women's Place in the Material Culture, Language and Religion of Baltistan

9.30 - ELI, Ayxem (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
Ablution Water, Widowhood and Social Support

10.00 - MULLINS, Willow (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Philanthropic Tourism: Kyrgyz Crafts and Colonial Logic

10.30-10.45 - Break - Tea and Coffee

10.45 - NORWOOD, Angela (York University, Canada)
Wayfaring Signage as Evidence of Cultural Navigation in Ladakh India

11.15 - THOMPSON, Chad, (Nipissing University, Canada)
Inauthentic Urbanism: The Civic Sublime in Bishkek and Dushanbe

11.45 - HEWITT, Kenneth (Wilfred Laurier University, Canada)
Legends and Legacies of the Landslides; catastrophic rockslides in
the settlement, stories, and place names of
the Karakoram Himalaya, Inner Asia

12.15-1.15 - Light lunch (provided)

1.15 - ZHAO, George (University of Toronto, Canada)
What was Khubilai Khan's Zhongguo? A survey on the term of Zhongguo
(Middle Kingdom?) in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)

1.45 - BOHNET, Adam (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ginseng is Poison: Confucian Discussions of North Hamgyong

2.15-2.30 - Break

2.30 - SOBTI, Manu (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Settings of Power & Spectacle - Reflections on the building and
re-building of urban spaces in the early-medieval Central Asian city

3.00 - WICKHAM-SMITH, Simon (Seattle, USA)
"Love One Another, My People": Politics and Poetry in the Work of
Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar (1957-1999)

3.30 - Closing remarks. Michael GERVERS (University of Toronto)


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