Uyghur – Central Asia Program

Room 602, 6th floor1957 E St NWWashington, DC 20052 Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Central Asia Program for a talk with the editors of the new volume Uyghur…

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“Dear Nike, Just Don’t Do It!”: A Transnational Digital Connective Action on the Issue of Forced Uyghur Labor at Nike Sweatshops in China

23 December, 2021

By Tomiris Mashan Tomiris Mashan is a Master’s student in Comparative Social Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from…

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Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)

3 February, 2021

Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang February 3, 2021 Virtual discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies…

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Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang

22 January, 2021

More than a million — some say 3 million — Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been arbitrarily detained and imprisoned in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2016. China…

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MOSCOW – Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, Society

30 September, 2020

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Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan

30 September, 2020

with Sean Roberts, Associate Professor and Director, International Development Studies Program, GWU With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan, like many others in the former USSR, began to resurrect…

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Eastern Turkistan Folklore: Uyghur Music and Dance Archive Recordings (video)

24 January, 2018

A collection of music and dance performances from East Turkistan / Xinjiang, China recorded in the 1980s.

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Native Rhythms in the City: Embodied Refusal Among Uyghur Male Migrants in Urumchi

26 December, 2017

Author: Darren Byler, University of Washington Source: Central Asian Survey Abstract: Over the past two decades, state-directed Han settlement and capitalist development in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central…

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For Uighur Militants in Syria, the Real Enemy Is China

26 December, 2017

Author: Associated Press Source: The National It was mid-afternoon when the Chinese police officers barged into Ali’s house set against cotton fields outside the ancient Silk Road trading post…

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The Destruction of Ethnic Identity: The Uyghur People Fight for Freedom in the Shadow of Chinese Oppression

25 December, 2017

Source: The Liberty Web Enver Can, Founder and President of The Ilham Tohti Initiative (ITI), shares with us his moving, and often heart-breaking, account of the Chinese attempt at…

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China Gathering Blood, DNA and Iris Scans from Massive Database of Millions in Muslim Province

19 December, 2017

Author: Christina Zhao Source: Newsweek Chinese police have started gathering blood types, DNA samples, fingerprints and iris scans from millions of people in its Muslim-majority Xinjiang province to build a…

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Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society

21 October, 2016

Annual Uyghur Studies Conference Series Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society Zvenigorod, Russian Federation, 23-26 October 2016 Download PDF

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Interview with Ablet Kamalov: On Studying the History and Contemporary Situation of the Uyghurs

28 January, 2016

By Ruslan Izimov

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Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society

21 May, 2015

Annual Uyghur Studies Conference Series Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society Second International Conference on Uyghur StudiesHistory, Culture, and SocietyUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB),CERI-Sciences Po, INALCOCentral…