ONLINE: China and the Uyghurs: Cultural Genocide in the Name of Counterterrorism
UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA) lecture.
press release: Please join CREECA today, Thursday April 8, at 4:00 pm CDT (via Zoom) for a lecture By Sean Roberts, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at George Washington University: “China and the Uyghurs: Cultural Genocide in the Name of Counterterrorism.” This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison.
Sean Roberts is an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies program at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Dr. Roberts is an anthropologist who has studied the Uyghur people of China and Central Asia for thirty years, writing his dissertation on the Uyghurs of the China-Kazakhstan borderlands while a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. He has published numerous articles in academic journals, edited volumes, and in policy-oriented publications about the Uyghurs, and he is the author of the recently published book, The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press, 2020).
The lecture will be held on Zoom from 4:00-5:15 pm, CDT. The lecture itself will last for ~45 minutes, followed by time for Q&A.
The link to register for the Zoom meeting is here:
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/
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