Virtual: Carolina Seminar Becoming a Kazakh in Tsarist Central Asia

Nurlan Kabdylkhak is a doctoral student in the UNC-CH Department of History. His research interests include religion, politics, and nationalism in late Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and contemporary Central Asia. He has an MA in Political Science from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and MA in International Area Studies from the University of Tsukuba. His current project studies Russian empire-building in the 19th century Central Asia.

The Carolina Seminar: Russia and Its Empires, East and West is co-sponsored by the Carolina Seminar Program, the UNC Department of History and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. Please note that the participants will give an overview of their projects, but will not read a formal paper. Instead, papers or book chapters will be circulated ahead of time to those who are interested in attending and participating in the discussion. Please contact Dr. Eren Tasar for more information (etasar@email.unc.edu)