01: Friday, February 7, 3:00-5:00pm
02: Friday, February 28, 3:00-5:00pm
03: Friday, March 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Hybrid In-Person and Virtual Events via Zoom
About the event:
About the Speakers
Rebecca Clothey, PhD, is Professor and Department Head, Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University with a joint appointment as Professor in the Drexel School of Education. Her research interests primarily include ethnicity and community-driven education initiatives. In particular, her recent research has focused on the efforts of the Uyghur community to maintain and preserve their culture for the next generation both within China and in the Diaspora.
Nicole Willock is an Assistant Professor of Asian religions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, with a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies and Religious Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. Through her translations of writings by Tibetan polymaths, such as Tseten Zhabdrung, her research examines the intersections between moral agency, Tibetan literature, Buddhist modernism, and state-driven secularization projects in twentieth-century Tibet.
Denise Y. Ho (何若書) is an associate professor in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she teaches modern Chinese history. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.
Tashi Rabgey is Research Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School where she specializes in statehood, authoritarianism and territorial politics, with a focus on multilevel governance and the politics of scale in the People’s Republic of China. She also works on constitutional and international legal issues relating to special status arrangements of asymmetric states and autonomous regions in comparative global contexts. Her primary regional focus is Tibet and Greater China, with a specialization in the Sino-Tibetan dispute.
Amy Liu is a professor and the Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in issues of ethnic politics, language policies, and international migration, with regional focuses on Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Her current work studies Chinese communities in Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and Serbia. She has gone into the field to study Chinese migrant communities in Romania with the support of a 2015-2016 J. William Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.
Sean R. Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies (IDS) MA program at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He has studied the Uyghur people for 30 years, and he is the author of The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority.
About the Organizer:
Associate Professor Eric Schluessel (History and International Affairs at George Washington University) is a social historian of China and Central Asia, and his work focuses on Xinjiang (East Turkestan) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Registration
This event is open to the public. Guests who register for the online event will receive details for joining the Zoom meeting.
