Past Events

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Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Liza Go On" — a controversial film on the 1992-1993 war in Georgia's Abkhazia region — and a subsequent discussion with film director Nana Janelidze.

Associate Professor, Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University

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Unlike centrally promulgated Soviet atheism, the atheism encountered in Central Asian languages was far more contradictory, often embracing Islam and denigrating it at the same time. This talk will chart the phenomenon's birth in the 1950s and its development as a body of literature in the 1960s.

Recording Available

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, UNC Chapel Hill

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

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Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!" — a film about the impact of Stalinism on the people of Georgia — followed by a discussion with the director Nana Janelidze.

Professor, Ilia State University

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This seminar will discuss the origins of Uzbek popular music, including where it comes from and how it developed.

Recording Available

Associate Professor, Botir Zokirov National Institute of Estrada Art

Member of Union of Composers of Uzbekistan

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

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Join us for a screening of the documentary 'Two Poets and a River.' The film explores the lives and musical poetry of the two most prominent and innovative Wakhi musicians in Central and South Asia: Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. Afterward, join the Q&A with film director and Harvard professor Richard K. Wolf and Afghan musician Dawood Pazhman.

Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University