Distinguished Speaker Series | "Uyghurs Today: What Happened to the Camps?"
Thu, Mar 17
|ZOOM
with Dr. Gardner Bovingdon, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Central Eurasian Studies and International Studies
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
ZOOM
About the event
About the Program:
As we all watch the Russian invasion of Ukraine in horror and anguish, it's easy to forget that suffering continues in other places. In the course of the Q & A, I'd like to point out that the camps are still there, though other institutions have sprung up - still primarily aimed at punishing, and then erasing, religiosity and cultural difference. Though Uyghurs are the majority population, Kazakhs and others have been among the detained. Thus the forcible assimilation campaign appears to target all Turkic Muslims in the region. It will be good to consider the campaign in the context of an increasingly confident, and increasingly nationalist, Chinese Communist Party, and ultimately widen the view to take in Taiwan and Ukraine.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Gardner Bovingdon researches nationalism, identity politics, and ethnic conflict in China and Central Asia. His first book,The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land (Columbia,…