GUEST LECTURE ‘Utopian Speak’: Language Assimilation in China’s Yanbian Korean Borderland, 1958-1976 by Dong Jo Shin Date 17. 6. 2020 2:30 PM Location Trainee centre ONLINE on ZOOM Join Zoom meeting HERE Abstract China’s ethnically Korean citizens in the Yanbian borderland underwent language suppression during the era of high socialism, driven by a sweeping vocabulary of Maoist social utopianism. As China’s ‘leading ethnic group’, the revolutionary Han undertook an ‘Anti-Local Nationalism’ campaign denunciation advising that ethnic…

GUEST LECTURE Maintaining Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Tajikistan: Knowledge Practises Among Smallholder Farmers in the Zerafshan Valley by Andreas Mandler Date & Time 10. 6. 2020 10:00 AM Location Trainee centre ONLINE on ZOOM Join Zoom meeting HERE Abstract Due to its mountainous topography, Tajikistan has very little arable land at disposition. However, more than 70% of the Tajik population lives in rural areas. Since national independence, Tajikistan’s agricultural sector, and its rural communities too, undertake…

Guest lecture Leactures by Libor Dušek Date Postponed to autumn Location Trainee centre 3.40, Vodární 6, Olomouc Program MONDAY Methodology I: Experience of own field research in Central Asia: 2005-2018 TUESDAY Kyrgyzstan vs. Tajikistan: Comparison of Turkic and Persian culture in post-soviet Central AsiaMethodology II: Security risks in field research in High Asia WEDNESDAY Three faces of Wakhan: Transformations of the traditional way of life of highlanders living on the territory of Afghanistan, Tajikistan and…