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  • Camels and Colonial Armies. The Logistics of warfare in Central Asia in the early 19th century 
    Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014)
    This article explores the use of camels for baggage transport by European colonial armies in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on two episodes: the Russian winter expedition to Khiva, and the march of the ...
  • Central Asia as a part of the Russian Empire 
    Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2011)
    An excessively lengthy review article analysing the collectively-authored volume 'Tsentral'naya Aziya v Sostave Rossiiskoi Imperii', published by 'Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie' in 2007
  • Challenges in teaching and curriculum development for 'History of Kazakhstan' at Nazarbayev University 
    Alexander Stephen, Morrison (2014)
    This is the text on which I based a talk in Russian given at the plenary session of a conference held at the Eurasian National University on the 22nd November 2014. It was published in the conference proceedings: E.B. ...
  • Challenges to fieldwork before 1914 and today: Adaptation, Omission, Rediscovery 
    Forêt, Philippe (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2014)
    John Chappell and, before him, Lord Curzon have reminded us that much can be gained from reviewing earlier writings and from listening to interruptions and silence.1 In January 2010, I discovered with amazement a wealth ...
  • COPING WITH COVID-19: EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING 
    Guven, Funda; Omarbekova, Gulnara (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-03)
    The next talk of our Spring 2021 speaker series will feature Funda Guven (Assistant Professor, Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies) and Gulnara Omarbekova (Associate Professor, Department of Kazakh Language ...
  • COVID-19, THE MEDIA AND HISTORICAL MEMORY 
    Elliott, Bowen (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-10)
    The next talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Elliott Bowen, (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “COVID-19, the Media, ...
  • COVID-19: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE 
    Stitt, Nancy; Crape, Byron; Sarria-Santamera, Antonio (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-11)
    The last talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Nancy Stitt (RN, BSN, BC-RN; Nursing Professional Development Specialist; Program Director; Department of Nursing Education; Nazarbayev University School of ...
  • CREATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ISLAM OF THE KAZAKH STEPPE: THE STEPPE, THE EMPIRE, AND THE OUTSIDER 
    Baiseit, Dina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022-04)
    Thesis: The depiction of Islam that the Qazaqs practiced during the 19th and early 20th centuries differed hugely in the accounts of the outsiders and insiders. The first group, which included colonizers and foreigners, ...
  • De la vertu au vice: l'espace des loisirs à Macao (1910-1930) 
    Forêt, Philippe (2003-05-16)
    Le nom Macao (Aomen en chinois, Ou-mun en cantonais) proviendrait d’une corruption du nom du temple A-ma (Make miao en chinois, Ma-kok miu en cantonais) qui se situe à l’entrée (men, mun) du Port Intérieur. Le temple est ...
  • «De la vertu au vice: l’espace des loisirs à Macao (1910–1930)» 
    Forêt, Philippe (Chronos Verlag, 2005)
    Je propose un jeu sur l'espace des loisirs, sur la célébration et le dénigrement d'une baie et d'une rue, sur le mariage et le divorce d'une ville et de son littoral, et sur les pratiques iconographiques de répétition et ...
  • Early Sources on the Qazaqs and their Khans 
    Alexander Stephen, Morrison (2015-09-11)
    This paper was the basis of the 5-minute lecture I gave at the plenary session of the recent 'Mengilik El' conference to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the founding of the Qazaq khanate, held at Nazarbayev University ...
  • FACT OR FICTION: WHAT DO PEOPLE IN KAZAKHSTAN BELIEVE ABOUT COVID-19? 
    Schenk, Caress (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-11)
    The next talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Caress Schenk, (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “Fact or Fiction: ...
  • FACT-TRACKING BELIEF AND THE BACKWARD CLOCK: A REPLY TO ADAMS, BARKER AND CLARKE 
    WILLIAMS, JOHN (Manuscrito, 2018-09-08)
    In “The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, and Safety” (2015), Neil Sinhababu and I gave Backward Clock, a counterexample to Robert Nozick’s (1981) truth-tracking analysis of knowledge. In “Knowledge as Fact-Tracking True ...
  • The Fatimid Legacy and the Foundation of the Modern Nizari Ismaili Imamate 
    Beben, Daniel (I. B. Tauris., 2017)
    The Fatimid era is ubiquitous today in the discourse of the Nizari Ismaili imamate. Yet this was not always the case. As with other societies and religious communities the world over, the arrangement and presentation ...
  • FOOD, CANNIBALISM, AND ANTI-ASIAN RACISM IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 
    Griffin, Clare (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-09)
    The second talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Clare Griffin, (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “Food, Cannibalism, ...
  • From objective right to subjective rights: the franciscans and the interest and will conceptions of rights 
    Duffel, Siegfried (2010)
  • From Tibet Confidentially. The Secret Correspondence of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to Agvan Dorzhiev, 1912–1925 
    Samten, Jampa; Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2012)
    Letters, like human beings, can have complicated fates. This is especially true for the letters presented here – letters that were for many years stored on the dusty shelves of the Antireligious Museum of Verkhneudinsk. ...
  • Globalizing Macau. The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930) 
    Forêt, Philippe (Routledge, 2006)
    This chapter deals with the ambiguity that political authorities feel toward culture and history when they are pressed to enlarge and modernize urban infrastructures. I will discuss the strategy followed by the Harbour ...
  • How “Modern” was Russian Imperialism? 
    Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2012)
    In this paper I explore the characteristics which historians normally attribute to 'modern' forms of Imperialism, and whether these make sense when applied to Russia. I conclude by making some tentative suggestions as to ...
  • Human rights 
    Duffel, Siegfried (2015)
    "As I’m writing this, Christians are brutally murdering Muslims in the Central African Republic; people in Syria are being bombed, starved, and tortured; and homosexuals still face the death penalty in Iran as well ...