Olympic Torch, Korla, Xinjiang, 2009. Photograph by Tom Cliff
Date: November 3-4, 2011, The Australian National University*
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
November 3 sessions are open to the public.*
Please RSVP to tom.cliff@anu.edu.au by October 26, 2011
November 4 sessions are by invitation only.
Location: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1
The Australian National University
*The Opening Address and First Workshop Session will also be available on the IU-Bloomington Campus by videoconference on November 2, 2011, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the International Programs Building, 201 N. Indiana Avenue. RSVP to panasia@indiana.edu. Remaining sessions will be recorded and made available on this site.
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars whose work examines the details of the human-level interactions that take place in both the rural and the urban settings of Xinjiang. The aim is to go beyond ethnic conflict and realist geopolitics in thinking about Xinjiang’s past, present and future. Presenters include:
Gardner Bovingdon, Indiana University
Keynote Address
David Brophy, The Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU
The Language of Loyalty in Qing Xinjiang
Sandrine Catris, Indiana University
Xinjiang in the Cultural Revolution
Chen Yangbin, La Trobe University
Towards Another Minority Educational Elite Group in Xinjiang?
Michael Clarke, Griffith University
Toward a New Geopolitics of Xinjiang? Negotiating between Outside-In and Inside-Out Perspectives
Tom Cliff, The Australian National University
Legends and Aspirations of the Oil Elite
Ayxem Eli, University of Tasmania
From Han to Uyghur: Construction and Dissolution of Ethnic Identity in Qomul/Hami, Xinjiang (1880s – 1980s)
Joshua L. Freeman, Xinjiang Normal University
Lutpulla Mutellip: Whose Martyr?
Anthony Garnaut, University of Melbourne
Whose New Dominion? A Gansu Perspective on the History of Xinjiang
Tim Grose, Indiana University
The “Peacocks” are Leaving China’s Northwest, and so are some Uyghurs
Laura Newby, University of Oxford
Bondage on Qing China’s Northwest Frontier
David O’Brien, University College Cork
The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away: How the Misrule of Wang Lequan Brought Uyghur and Han Closer Together
Joanne Smith-Finley, University of Newcastle, UK
“Turkestan Lovesongs”, “New Flameco” and the Emergence of the “World Citizen”in Urban Xinjiang
Jun Suguwara, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
New Approach to Xinjiang Urban History: Beyond the “Demolition” of Old Kashgar
Nabijan Tursun, Independent Scholar
The Role of the Central Asian Uyghur Intellectual in Soviet Xinjiang Policy
Marika Vicziany, Monash University
The Kashgar Project: Cultural Heritage and Employment Creation?
Sponsored by:
The Australian Centre on China in the World
Department of Political & Social Change, The Australian National University
The ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute
Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
University of Tasmania
Organised by:
Tom Cliff, The Australian National University, Tom.Cliff@anu.edu.au
Ayxem Eli, University of Tasmania, Ayxem.Eli@utas.edu.au
