The Mutiny of 1864: Revisiting Xinjiang's 'Muslim Uprisings'

Tuesday, 16 June 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm

TOSCCA Seminar Series
Trinity Term 2026
All Seminars will be held at 5pm on Tuesdays in Lecture Room 4, New College, with the exception of that in 5th week which will be online.

3rd week (12th May): Alex Ulko: ‘Five dimensions of culture: navigating Central Asia towards a contemporary art history’.

4th week (19th May): Dilnoza Duturaeva (University of York/ONGC): ‘Animal Power in the Highlands: Qarakhanid Hybrid Camels to China.’

5th week (26th May): Kayvan Tahmasebian (Heidelberg/ONGC): ‘A textual materialist reading of Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh’s Maktubat’. (Please note that this seminar will be held online).

6th week (2nd June): Mehmet Önder Duran (Usak University/ONGC): ‘The Prometheans of Turkistan: Students Abroad and the National Struggle’.

7th week (9th June): Simon Theobald (Notre Dame/ONGC): title tbc

8th week (16th June): Eric Schluessel (Keble): ’The Mutiny of 1864: Revisiting Xinjiang's “Muslim Uprisings”.’

Speaker(s): Dr Eric Schluessel (Keble College)

Series: TOSCCA Seminar Series

Venue: New College - Holywell Street Oxford

Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Department)

Organiser: Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre

Host: Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre

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