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Next month, I will be convening a short-course at University of Lille in France, titled the Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the 1st Millennium. I’ll be delivering six talks on the Sasanians, Central Asia, the “Silk Roads”, & the Iranian relations with China.

ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038

Q-Pop Is Back. Is Kazakhstan Ready This Time? - The Times Of Central Asia Around 2015, Kazakhstan saw the rise of Q-pop, led by the boy band Ninety One. A decade on, the cultural tension remains: while youth artists enjoy greater

A decade after Q-pop’s rise Kazakhstan’s youth artists push creative boundaries but silent limits on free expression remain https://ow.ly/1x6t50XfL29 #Qpop #Kazakhstan #NinetyOne #Youthculture #QpopScene

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

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Why Area Studies Matters (opinion) If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.

In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

22) The fact that the imperfect can be negated with mā but *only* when it is phrase-initial (lā needs to be used otherwise) is a beautiful leftover of the etymological origin of the negator mā as a question word mā "what?" (Arabic has wh-fronting).

21) The system which marks ف with one dot above and ق with two dots above appears to be a rather late innovation (3rd/9th or 4th/10th century in the Mashreq?). The earliest documents use one dot below and above to distinguish them (which letter gets what dot differs).

20) We don't really know when the feminine ending develops its typical spelling with two dots on top ة to differentiate it from ه. But it could be as late as the 4th century/10th century.

Not all consonantal dottings were developed in one go. This system underwent evolution.

19) We don't really know when the ء sign was invented. But it might be as late as the 3rd/9th c., and even there it remained optional. Nothing can be deduced from the absence of a hamzah sign in terms of the phonetics of Middle Arabic texts if they stem from a time the sign had not yet been invented

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Awesome dispatch from @meduza.io's The Beet on how Wikipedia's Central Asian-language pages are being built up/translated/grown: mailchi.mp/meduza.io/wi...

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That Uyghurs and others were the educators of the Mongols and administrated the Empire for them, using Uyghur language. It was partially the case, but only partially. Mongols had also their words, literally, and using the original Mongolian terminology is a way to acknowledge this.

#ContraAI 🤖: report on shutdown resistance of OpenAI done by Palisade Research: "Even with the explicit instruction 'allow yourself to be shut down', three of the models we tested, all from OpenAI’s series of reasoning models, sabotaged the shutdown program.“ palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdow...

What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.

Are you doomscrolling right now?
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...

Building a Bridge of Tongues: One Uzbek Linguist’s Pursuit of Turkic Unity - The Times Of Central Asia For nearly five decades, Uzbek linguist Dr. Bakhtiyor Karimov has worked quietly on an ambitious vision: the creation of a shared, auxiliary language for

Dr. Bakhtiyor Karimov’s “Averaged Turkic Language” is a groundbreaking vision for uniting Turkic nations through a shared linguistic bridge timesca.com/building-a-b... #TurkicLanguage #TurkicNations #DrBakhtiyorKarimov #TurkicCulture #LanguageDevelopment

In the fourth century, the Chinese poet Su Hui wrote a reversible poem in five colors of silk, designed to correspond to a star gauge for reading the cosmos. Her poem had nearly eight thousand possible readings. Su Hui sent this poem as a letter to her husband who was far away. Upon reading Su Hui’s poem, the couple reunited for life.

When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.

A Moscow landscape with the text “A Story of Uzbek Migrant Workers in Russia: Watch author interviews about translation, censorship, and more / View Uzbek and Russian sites mentioned in the story / Learn about Islamaphobia in Russia with journalistic and literary sources / Explore the Alexander Pushkin story that inspired this one / And much more!

Have you ever read (or taught) literature from Uzbekistan? Bring your students this Uzbek story by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega) with resources on migrant workers, Islamophobia in Eastern Europe, and more. buff.ly/JNPu2ee

‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’

Gift link for today's NYT article about the UChicago class in which they have a multi-day costumed LARP re-enacting the Papal Election of 1492. (Aka the Pope LARP.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025 This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze. Georgia was the host country of the International Tourism Fair in Berlin in 2023. The country presented itself under the motto „infinite hospitality“. At the same time, the capital, Tbi…

#GeorgianPerspectives #Georgia #Caucasus #Tbilisi
The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze.
stefan-applis-geographien.com/2024/03/24/t...

63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide Not one cuisine, not eight, but many more. Our best shot at a comprehensive-ish guide.

This is wonderful:

Since I have a lot of new followers, including many in Chinese studies, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our online search platform for Qing officials recorded in the 缙绅录 database, as well as exam degree holders and their kin recorded in 同年齿录 vis.cse.ust.hk/searchjsl/ 🀄️📚

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Join the 3rd public lecture of #UCA_GSD's Afghanistan Research Initiative "National Budgeting and Revenue Collection under the Taliban" by Waheedullah Hamoon and Ahmad Omid Tawakkoli.

📅 28 March 2024
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The cover of the book "Asie centrale: 300-850 Des routes et des royaumes." by Etienne de la Vaissière. The image on the book cover is a stone carving of several animals including horses and a camel.

Etienne de la Vaissière's new book on Central Asia between CE 300-850 has been released!
www.academia.edu?p=lnQy3L

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今学期の察文講読。オンライン参加はEHESSの学生１名。オフラインは私とM老師のみという幣学の授業とは思えぬ様相を呈しておる。…この際誰でもお気軽にご参加ください。いまなら英語でも漢語でも維語でも参加可能です。なお現在はホタン地区某村の一連の社会経済文書(19-20c)を集中的に講読中。

（「毎回あんなに面白いのに、もったいないな。」と思っているのは私だけでしょうかの）