Giving a paper entitled “Colonialism with Chinese Characteristics: From Frontier to Settlement in Xinjiang/Eastern Turkistan.” It will part of a panel on 'Debating Settler Colonialism, Spatial Dispossession and Cultural Genocide across Geographical Contexts: Towards Tabula Rasa on China’s Northwest Frontier.’ Other participants include Joanne Smith Finley, Darren Byler, and Eric Schluessel.

(EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS)

Giving a paper entitled “The Implications of the Human Rights Crisis in Xinjiang for China’s Influence in Central Asia” on a panel called “China’s Growing Role in Central Asia: Transformation, Protest, and Politics along the Belt and Road.” Other participants include Ed Schatz, Alex Cooley, Colleen Wood, and Nargis Kassenova.

(THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS)

I will present a paper entitled on a panel entitled “Cultural Genocide, Global Discourses of Terrorism and China’s Bid to ”on a panel entitle”on a panel entitled “Cultural Genocide, Global Discourses of Terrorism and China’s Bid to Remake the World Order” along with colleagues David Brophy and David Tobin.

(THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS)

This will be a discussion with students and faculty on the plight of the Uyghurs inside China

(THIS EVENT HAS BEEN. CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS)

This will be a public discussion of the present situation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with myself, Nury Turkel, and Mihrgul Tursun.

(THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS)