CONF./CFP.- Cultural & Linguistic Contacts across Central Asia,
Leeds,
June 7

Posted by: Geoffrey Humble <g.f.hum...@leeds.ac.uk>

Call For Papers

Traces of Empire: Cultural and linguistic contacts across Central and
Inner Asia

A postgraduate symposium at the University of Leeds, Monday 7th June
2010

Keynote Speaker: Dr Alexander Morrison (University of Liverpool)

This gathering of postgraduates and early career academics is intended
to combine historical depth with contemporary focus of anthropological
and political approaches. It will consider the development and impact
of political and religious ideology, patterns of exchange, travel and
trade across the numerous polities, from the Türk to the Qing to the
USSR, that have shaped the region over the centuries. Areas of
discussion might include:

* Silk routes, caravans, and passes: travel and landscape
* Sedentary/nomadic contacts: trade, peace, war, and conflict
resolution
* Linguistic diversity and homogeneity
* Performance and communication: music, film, new media
* Material culture, art, manuscript and textual traditions
* Religious orthodoxy, syncretism and spread
* Centralization, control and resistance
* Construction and transmission of images of gender and sexuality

Abstracts (of up to 300 words) should be submitted electronically to
Geoff Humble g.f.hum...@leeds.ac.uk by Monday the 18th of January
2010.