The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2025
Tuesdays, 5pm, Lecture Room 4, New College
1st Week – 29th April Stephen Wheatcroft (Melbourne): ‘Mapping and analysing the Kazakh famine of 1930-33 in regional and chronological detail’
2nd Week – 6th May Sarah Slye (Cambridge): ‘The Experience of the Nations of the Caucasus 1917-1921, and Implications for Today’
3rd Week – 13th May Jeanine Dagyeli (Vienna): ‘The Karakul trade in 19th-century Bukhara’
4th Week – 20th May Madeleine Reeves (Oxford): ‘Striking with hunger: the politics of the belly in Kyrgyzstan, 1989-1991.’
5th Week – 27th May Adeeb Khalid (Carleton): ‘Rescuing the Basmachi from Ideology’
6th Week – 3rd June Alex Mikaberidze (Louisiana State): ‘Oriental Despotism Reconsidered: The Georgian Monarchy in the 18th Century’
7th Week – 10th June Ulfat Abdurasulov (Vienna): ‘Echoes of the Amu-Darya: Information Management in Peter the Great’s Central Asian Ventures’.
8th Week – 17th June Alexander Morrison (Oxford): ‘The Revolution of 1905 in Turkestan’
