- Organising Institutions
- Department of East Asian Studies (ESTAS) of the University of Geneva (Unige)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Center for Turkic, Ottoman, Balkanic and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC)
- School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)
- Centre de recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée (CERMOM) of the University of Languages and Civilizations (INALCO)
- EASt, Research Centre on East Asia (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- European Uyghur Institute (IODE) Dates Nov. 9-10, 2022 ǀ 09:30-19:00 Location Online, link and information at: https://www.unige.ch/lettres/estas/actu/actualite University of Geneva, Bâtiment des Philosophes (Address: Boulevard des Philosophes 22, 1204 Genève), Grand amphithéâtre (Room: Phil 201) Organisers
- Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB/EASt – IODE)
- Eleanor J. HART (IODE)
- Léo MAILLET (SNSF – Unige – EHESS)
- Dilnur REYHAN (Inalco – IODE)
Day 1 – Wednesday 9th of November
09:00 – Tea and coffee for participants
09:30 – Welcoming remarks
Panel 1: Colonialism and the Writing of Uyghur and Chinese History
Chair: Léo MAILLET (SNSF – UNIGE – EHESS)
Discussion: Eleanor J. HART (IODE) & Nicolas ZUFFEREY (UNIGE)
10:00 – Anonymous Scholar (Palacký University Olomouc) – “The Inconsistent Narratives in Uyghur History: An Example of China Manipulated Uyghur Culture” (30 min + 30 min Q&A)
11:00 – James MILLWARD (Georgetown University) – “Evolving Approaches to Empire and Colonialism in Chinese History: the Case of the Uyghur Region” (30 min + 30 min Q&A)
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch break: Uyghur buffet for participants and the audience
Panel 2: Society and Institutions in Colonial East Turkestan
Chair: Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB/EASt – IODE)
Discussion: Emilia SULEK (UZH – ISEK) & Shriya PATNAIK (IHEID)
13:30 – Kevin KIND (John Hopkins University) – “Musulman Conscripts in Colonial East
Turkestan, 1903-1906” (30 min + 30 min Q&A)
14:30 – Rune STEENBERG (Palacký University Olomouc) – “Anti-colonial Kinship?
Southern Uyghur Kinship as Institutional Resistance” (30 min + 30 min Q&A) 15:30 – 16:00 – Break: Tea, coffee and snacks for participants and the audience
Keynote lecture 1:
Chair: Dilnur REYHAN (Inalco – IODE)
Discussion: Robert BARNETT (King’s College) & Laure ZHANG (UNIGE)
16:00 – Adeeb KHALID (Carleton College) – “Eastern Turkestan between China and Russia, 1864–1949: The Writing of History and the Politics of Comparison” (Online) (60 min + 60 min Q&A)
18:00 – Concluding remarks 20:00 – Dinner for participants
Day 2 – Thursday 10th of November
09:00 – Tea and coffee for participants
09:30 – Welcoming remarks
Panel 3: Economic Survival in the New Frontier
Chair: Eleanor J. HART (IODE)
Discussion: Léo MAILLET (SNSF – UNIGE – EHESS) & Emilia SULEK (UZH – ISEK)
10:00 – Eric SCHLUESSEL (George Washington University) – “Markets, Merchants, and
Misery in the Turn-of-the-Century Tarim Basin” (30 min + 30 min Q&A)
11:00 – Anonymous Scholar (Palacký University Olomouc) – “From Transnational to Translocal, from Craftsmen to Surplus Labour – the Changing Position of Uyghur Felt-Makers in the 20th Century” (30 min + 30 min Q&A)
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch break: Uyghur buffet for participants and the audience
Panel 4: Uyghurs and Identity Politics in the People’s Republic of China
Chair: Dilnur REYHAN (Inalco – IODE)
Discussion: Aminata Buganzi KINANA (IHEID) & Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB/EASt – IODE)
13:30 – YAMADA Tomoki (Independent Scholar) – “The PRC’s Ethno-Religious Policy in Xinjiang (1949-1959): In the Party’s Archive” (30 min + 30 min Q&A)
14:30 – Rian THUM (University of Manchester) “How the Uyghurs Became a Minority”
(30 min + 30 min Q&A)
15:30 – 16:00 – Break: Tea, coffee and snacks for participants and the audience
Keynote lecture 2:
Chair: Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB/EASt – IODE)
Discussion: Robert BARNETT (King’s College) & Dilnur REYHAN (Inalco – IODE)
16:00 – Nabijan TURSUN (Independent Scholar) – “Occupation or Peaceful Liberation? PRC in East Turkestan/Xinjiang under Stalin-Mao Alliance in 1949” (60 min + 60 min Q&A)
18:00 – Concluding remarks
20:00 – Dinner for participants