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New Inner Asia journal! Mari Valdur, who was in the doctoral research trenches in Ulaanbaatar with me back in the day, N. Altantugs and P. Delgerjargal, two of my friends and academic hosts, and Griffin Creech, a fellow shabi of Atwood bagsh, all have great articles!
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November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New Inner Asia journal! Mari Valdur, who was in the doctoral research trenches in Ulaanbaatar with me back in the day, N. Altantugs and P. Delgerjargal, two of my friends and academic hosts, and Griffin Creech, a fellow shabi of Atwood bagsh, all have great articles!
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
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Next month, I will be convening a short-course at University of Lille in France, titled the Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the 1st Millennium. I’ll be delivering six talks on the Sasanians, Central Asia, the “Silk Roads”, & the Iranian relations with China.
ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Next month, I will be convening a short-course at University of Lille in France, titled the Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the 1st Millennium. I’ll be delivering six talks on the Sasanians, Central Asia, the “Silk Roads”, & the Iranian relations with China.
ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
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A decade after Q-pop’s rise Kazakhstan’s youth artists push creative boundaries but silent limits on free expression remain https://ow.ly/1x6t50XfL29 #Qpop #Kazakhstan #NinetyOne #Youthculture #QpopScene
Q-Pop Is Back. Is Kazakhstan Ready This Time? - The Times Of Central Asia
Around 2015, Kazakhstan saw the rise of Q-pop, led by the boy band Ninety One. A decade on, the cultural tension remains: while youth artists enjoy greater
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October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A decade after Q-pop’s rise Kazakhstan’s youth artists push creative boundaries but silent limits on free expression remain https://ow.ly/1x6t50XfL29 #Qpop #Kazakhstan #NinetyOne #Youthculture #QpopScene
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@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...
Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation
India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...
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In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why Area Studies Matters (opinion)
If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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22) The fact that the imperfect can be negated with mā but *only* when it is phrase-initial (lā needs to be used otherwise) is a beautiful leftover of the etymological origin of the negator mā as a question word mā "what?" (Arabic has wh-fronting).
September 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
22) The fact that the imperfect can be negated with mā but *only* when it is phrase-initial (lā needs to be used otherwise) is a beautiful leftover of the etymological origin of the negator mā as a question word mā "what?" (Arabic has wh-fronting).
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21) The system which marks ف with one dot above and ق with two dots above appears to be a rather late innovation (3rd/9th or 4th/10th century in the Mashreq?). The earliest documents use one dot below and above to distinguish them (which letter gets what dot differs).
September 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
21) The system which marks ف with one dot above and ق with two dots above appears to be a rather late innovation (3rd/9th or 4th/10th century in the Mashreq?). The earliest documents use one dot below and above to distinguish them (which letter gets what dot differs).
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20) We don't really know when the feminine ending develops its typical spelling with two dots on top ة to differentiate it from ه. But it could be as late as the 4th century/10th century.
Not all consonantal dottings were developed in one go. This system underwent evolution.
Not all consonantal dottings were developed in one go. This system underwent evolution.
September 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
20) We don't really know when the feminine ending develops its typical spelling with two dots on top ة to differentiate it from ه. But it could be as late as the 4th century/10th century.
Not all consonantal dottings were developed in one go. This system underwent evolution.
Not all consonantal dottings were developed in one go. This system underwent evolution.
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19) We don't really know when the ء sign was invented. But it might be as late as the 3rd/9th c., and even there it remained optional. Nothing can be deduced from the absence of a hamzah sign in terms of the phonetics of Middle Arabic texts if they stem from a time the sign had not yet been invented
September 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
19) We don't really know when the ء sign was invented. But it might be as late as the 3rd/9th c., and even there it remained optional. Nothing can be deduced from the absence of a hamzah sign in terms of the phonetics of Middle Arabic texts if they stem from a time the sign had not yet been invented
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🤖 Sur Android :
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Colle ça : dns.adguard.com
Redémarre si besoin. Et savoure ce silence 😌
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August 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Redémarre si besoin. Et savoure ce silence 😌
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Awesome dispatch from @meduza.io's The Beet on how Wikipedia's Central Asian-language pages are being built up/translated/grown: mailchi.mp/meduza.io/wi...
Central Asian Wikipedians, unite!
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August 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Awesome dispatch from @meduza.io's The Beet on how Wikipedia's Central Asian-language pages are being built up/translated/grown: mailchi.mp/meduza.io/wi...
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One like, one Arabic linguistics opinion
One like, one Greek linguistics opinion.
One like, one Thucydides opinion.
July 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
One like, one Arabic linguistics opinion
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That Uyghurs and others were the educators of the Mongols and administrated the Empire for them, using Uyghur language. It was partially the case, but only partially. Mongols had also their words, literally, and using the original Mongolian terminology is a way to acknowledge this.
July 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
That Uyghurs and others were the educators of the Mongols and administrated the Empire for them, using Uyghur language. It was partially the case, but only partially. Mongols had also their words, literally, and using the original Mongolian terminology is a way to acknowledge this.
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#ContraAI 🤖: report on shutdown resistance of OpenAI done by Palisade Research: "Even with the explicit instruction 'allow yourself to be shut down', three of the models we tested, all from OpenAI’s series of reasoning models, sabotaged the shutdown program.“ palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdow...
Shutdown resistance in reasoning models
We recently discovered some concerning behavior in OpenAI’s reasoning models: When trying to complete a task, these models sometimes actively circumvent shutdown mechanisms in their environment—even w...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#ContraAI 🤖: report on shutdown resistance of OpenAI done by Palisade Research: "Even with the explicit instruction 'allow yourself to be shut down', three of the models we tested, all from OpenAI’s series of reasoning models, sabotaged the shutdown program.“ palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdow...
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Are you doomscrolling right now?
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What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling
Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Are you doomscrolling right now?
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
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Dr. Bakhtiyor Karimov’s “Averaged Turkic Language” is a groundbreaking vision for uniting Turkic nations through a shared linguistic bridge timesca.com/building-a-b... #TurkicLanguage #TurkicNations #DrBakhtiyorKarimov #TurkicCulture #LanguageDevelopment
Building a Bridge of Tongues: One Uzbek Linguist’s Pursuit of Turkic Unity - The Times Of Central Asia
For nearly five decades, Uzbek linguist Dr. Bakhtiyor Karimov has worked quietly on an ambitious vision: the creation of a shared, auxiliary language for
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June 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Dr. Bakhtiyor Karimov’s “Averaged Turkic Language” is a groundbreaking vision for uniting Turkic nations through a shared linguistic bridge timesca.com/building-a-b... #TurkicLanguage #TurkicNations #DrBakhtiyorKarimov #TurkicCulture #LanguageDevelopment
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When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.
May 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.
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Have you ever read (or taught) literature from Uzbekistan? Bring your students this Uzbek story by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega) with resources on migrant workers, Islamophobia in Eastern Europe, and more. buff.ly/JNPu2ee
May 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Have you ever read (or taught) literature from Uzbekistan? Bring your students this Uzbek story by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega) with resources on migrant workers, Islamophobia in Eastern Europe, and more. buff.ly/JNPu2ee
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Gift link for today's NYT article about the UChicago class in which they have a multi-day costumed LARP re-enacting the Papal Election of 1492. (Aka the Pope LARP.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’
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May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Gift link for today's NYT article about the UChicago class in which they have a multi-day costumed LARP re-enacting the Papal Election of 1492. (Aka the Pope LARP.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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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!
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Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025
This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#GeorgianPerspectives #Georgia #Caucasus #Tbilisi
The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze.
stefan-applis-geographien.com/2024/03/24/t...
The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze.
stefan-applis-geographien.com/2024/03/24/t...
The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze.
Georgia was the host country of the International Tourism Fair in Berlin in 2023. The country presented itself under the motto „infinite hospitality“. At the same time, the capital, Tbi…
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April 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#GeorgianPerspectives #Georgia #Caucasus #Tbilisi
The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze.
stefan-applis-geographien.com/2024/03/24/t...
The Georgian capital is re-created from the perspective of the tourist gaze.
stefan-applis-geographien.com/2024/03/24/t...
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This is wonderful:
63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide
Not one cuisine, not eight, but many more. Our best shot at a comprehensive-ish guide.
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November 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
This is wonderful: