A
presentation by Khashayar Beigi
Khashayar Beigi is a PhD Candidate in
Anthropology at University of California-Berkeley and a former National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellow. His research interests include Central Asia,
Islamic pedagogy, historiography of the Silk Road, and migration between
Tajikistan and Russia. He has lived in Tajikistan for two years and recently
coming back from a six month research in Russia.
Our guest will sketch some historical facts,
cultural contexts, sociopolitical dynamics and some old literature of Tatarstan
through graphs and pictures that he took himself in Kazan, Bulgar (known as
historical Bolghar; currently a small town, which the UNESCO World Heritage
Committee declared as a World Heritage Site in 2014), and Moscow.
The event will take place at SRH on Sunday, January 25, at 1-2:30pm.
Silk Road House,
1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 (between Milvia & Martin Luther
King; enter by side door in passageway under black Zabu Zabu awning); e-mail: silkroadhouse@yahoo.com; website: www.silkroadhouse.org; facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHouse; tel.:
510-981-0700.
Silk Road House
events are sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation.
