Eric Schluessel
Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ.
Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
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- Strange choices from the university whose library is building America's biggest collection of Uyghur books. And a press that published @seanroberts.bsky.social The War on the Uyghurs. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... library.princeton.edu/about/librar...
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- This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- They’re back!! ❤️😭🫡
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- Monday, Nov 18, 4:00–5:00 Eastern Time/10:00–11:00 CET, we'll host an online talk by Prof. Don Wyatt on Africans in Early Modern China! Register here. www.eventbrite.com/e/through-po... Hosted by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies/East Asia NRC
- Um, "Sinology" 🀄, I guess? (Emoji for labeling purposes.) *Two* positive reviews of my Tarikh-i Ḥamidi translation came out this week! From Jun Sugawara in the JAS: doi.org/10.1215/0021... From Tristan Brown in the Journal of Chinese History: doi.org/10.1017/jch....
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- The June 2024 issue of Late Imperial China is out! muse.jhu.edu/issue/52704 We have four articles on gender, agriculture, forestry, and suicide: You Wang (Chicago), "Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan" #Qing ... (1/4)
- The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GW seeks an Assistant Director (Taiwan specialist)! ~25% research and ~75% admin. Starts August. AD would report to me as director and help lead a great budget and events team. Taiwan expertise is essential, as is experience managing budgets and writing grants.
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- Hey everyone! If you're feeling generous, today is the day to give to the Uyghur Studies Initiative at GW! For us, a little bit goes a very long way. Here are some successes from our first year as an endowed initiative: 1. We teach Uyghur language! 2. Summer grad student research funding! (con't)
- I'm really proud that we at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GWU can offer this to our students. This and our endowment-supported Uyghur language classes make, I think, a strong beginning for the Uyghur Studies Initiative.
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- David Brophy's translation of Kashgari's In Remembrance of the Saints has won the Hanan Prize for Translation! Nicole Willock's Lineages of the Literary got the Smith Inner Asia Book Prize! Plus an honorable mention for Lawrence Zhang's Power for a Price! So happy for friends and colleagues. :)
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- Thursday's China Peripheries Seminar, online 1:00–3:00 PM Eastern, features Emily Yeh on "Development and the Environment in Tibet" and Guldana Salimjan on "Ecology and Settler Colonialism in Xinjiang!" I'm so proud to be putting two of the scholars I admire most in the spotlight. Sign up here!
- On the Bird App, I've suddenly been followed by a bunch of pro-Falun Gong accounts and a bunch of anti-Falun Gong bots. To be clear, nothing—NOTHING—can make me go see Shenyun.
- Upcoming: Sigur Center's China Peripheries Seminar! Zoom series on pressing contemporary issues re: Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang/East Turkestan, and Islam in China. Speakers are all scholars with extensive on-the-ground experience who take on their topics from critical perspectives. Sign up:
- Launching the Chinese translation of Land of Strangers in Taiwan! Online Book Launch:《異鄉人之地：清帝國在新疆的教化工程》 時間｜10:00-12:00, January 27, 2024 (UTC/GMT+8) 主講｜許臨君（That's me!，喬治華盛頓大學現代中國史副教授） 與談｜蔡偉傑（國立中正大學歷史學系助理教授） Registration: reurl.cc/XqEbER
- 4-year PhD scholarship at SOAS through Rachel Harris' project "Maqām Beyond Nation."
- Obvious but bears repeating, loudly and often: "Fund Chinese language programs more generously at American universities and high schools, and fund researchers studying China’s military, political system, economy, languages, culture and history." What we do requires money. We need more.
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- "... Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing." contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...
- This gives me life. That is, Brendan O'Kane's posts on poetry translation remind me why I got into this field to begin with, where we can and ought to find joy in the work, and how we can push ourselves to do better by being a little bolder. I agree with the spicy footnote.
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- OMG, this made me so, so happy. "Boods" ❤️
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- I had the honor of sitting down with the Tarim Talks podcast! We talked about the Tarikh-i Ḥamidi and Uyghur history and historiography. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/-1DwZY2b1Cc?... Listen on the Tarim Network website: www.thetarimnetwork.com/podcast/epis...
