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Digital Memory and a ‘Massacre’: Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
with Sarah Kendzior, Al Jazeera English and Noah Tucker, Courage Services and Registan.net The speakers will examine the transnational effort by ethnic Uzbeks to document the June 2010 violence and mobilize international support, first for intervention to stop the conflict and then in an effort to defend minority rights and preserve evidence of alleged injustices suffered by the community in Kyrgyzstan. These efforts… Continue reading Digital Memory and a ‘Massacre’: Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
Is there a place for Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic? Lessons from Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Societal Renewal in Osh
Co-Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarswith Morgan Y. Liu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University Ethnic Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) attempted to create a place for themselves in the Kyrgyz-dominated nation-state since its independence in 1991. For a while, there were reasons to be optimistic about this minority community. Even though… Continue reading Is there a place for Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic? Lessons from Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Societal Renewal in Osh
