Darren Thies, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Embassy Dushanbe This lecture will be given over Zoom. Register here. Darren Thies will share perspectives and advice on the career of a diplomat, learning foreign languages (particularly Persian …

Alexa Kurmanov, PhD Student, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley This event will be held over Zoom. Register here. What does intersectionality as praxis look like in Kyrgyzstan? Grassroots feminist, LGBTQ and transfeminist groups …

Sarah Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland This lecture will be given over Zoom. Register here. The Kazakh famine of the 1930s was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime. More …

Sean Roberts, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies program at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs This lecture will be given over Zoom: REGISTER …

Artemy Kalinovsky, Professor of Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies, Temple University This lecture will be given over Zoom. Register here. Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and  Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell University Press, 2018) investigates …

Gulnoza Odilova, Associate Professor of Uzbek Language and Literature, Tashkent State University This lecture will be given over Zoom. Register here. The presentation discusses the stylistic, pragmatic, phraseological, lexical-semantic problems of literary translation from Uzbek …