On Uyghur Personal Names
UW Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, Wisconsin
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About the Speaker:
Gulnisa Nazarova is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. She was born in Kyrgyzstan, grew up in Uzbekistan, and received her BA and MA degrees
in Russia. In 1992 she defended a doctoral dissertation on Uyghur Lexicology and received a PhD in Uyghur Studies in Almati (Kazakhstan). She has been teaching the Uyghur language at Indiana
University since 2005. In 2015 she received Indiana University’s Trustees Teaching Award.
About the Lecture:
This lecture will focus on the history, origin, and meaning of Uyghur personal names.