Contemporary Uyghur Society in a time of "Reeducation"

Date
Tue October 1st 2019, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Event Sponsor
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford Global Studies Division, Center for East Asian Studies, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, WSD Handa Center for Human Rights & Int'l Justice
Location
Encina Commons Room 123
Contemporary Uyghur Society in a time of "Reeducation"
Speaker:

Over the past 20 years there have been widespread social transformations among the Uyghur population of Northwest China. Despite attempts by the state to regulate Uyghur Islamic traditions and cultural education, new forms of social life have emerged. At the same time, strong critiques of more traditional forms of local Islam have begun to circulate in Uyghur popular discourse. This panel addresses this dynamic transformation by analyzing themes of social control, religious movements and state authority and how these dynamics are related to processes of group identification.

Rushan Abbas, Director, Campaign for Uyghurs

Sean R. Roberts, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies Program, The George Washington University

Darren Byler, Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington

David Palumbo-Liu (moderator), Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Image: S. Tittarini, Xinjiang, 2014. CC.