A one-day workshop organised by the Long History of Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood research network, with the following esteemed speakers:
Christine Allison (Professor of Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter), Ahmad Ashraf (Managing Editor & Co-Principal Investigator of Encyclopaedia Iranica, Columbia University), Arezou Azad (Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Birmingham), Djene Rhys Bajalan (Lecturer, American University of Iraq Sulaimani), S. Peter Cowe (Professor of Armenian Studies, UCLA), Bert G. Fragner (Professor of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences), Tim Greenwood (Lecturer in Medieval History, University of St. Andrews), Boris James (Researcher at Ifpo (Institut Français du Proche-Orient), Erbil), James R. Russell (Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University).
This workshop is focused on speakers of the Middle East’s major Indo-European languages, and takes an explicitly comparative approach to the strategies and modes by which actors and communities constructed resultant identities.
The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood Research Network is convened by Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas Matheou, and sponsored by TORCH.
The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood
Contact name: Ilya Afanasyev
Contact email: ilya.afanasyev@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Open to all
