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Event	Causes and Consequences of Han-Uyghur Tension in Xinjiang
When	Monday, November 9, 2009 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where	Intercultural Center McGhee Library, ICC 3rd Floor
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Details	Inter-ethnic violence between Hans and Uyghurs in the summer of 2009 brought international attention to China's troubled efforts to integrate its vast Central Eurasian territory, yet much remains unclear even about what happened in the early days of July. This panel will examine the riot and the emerging story of China's massive crackdown on Uyghurs, along with the underlying issues of development and security and possible repercussions in the broader region. Sean Roberts is the Director of International Development Studies Program and Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Joining the Elliott School in 2008 as the Director of the International Development Studies program, Professor Roberts is a cultural anthropologist with extensive applied experience in international development work. Having conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Uyghur people of Central Asia and China during the 1990s, he has published extensively on this community in scholarly journals and in collected volumes. In addition, he produced a documentary film on the community entitled 'Waiting for Uighurstan' (1996). In 1998-2000 and 2002-2006, he worked at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Central Asia on democracy programs, designing and managing projects in civil society development, political party assistance, community development, independent media strengthening, and elections assistance. During the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years, Dr. Roberts was a post-doctoral fellow in Central Asian Affairs at Georgetown University. At the same time, he continued to work on development projects for a variety of NGOs and served as a Senior Program Officer at the Center for Civil Society and Governance at the Academy for Educational Development where he managed a peace-building project in Darfur, Sudan and an anti-corruption project in Moldova. He is the author of a popular blog on Central Asia, entitled 'The Roberts Report on Central Asia and Kazakhstan' (www.roberts-report.com) and frequently comments on current events in Central Asia for the media and the foreign policy community. James A. Millward is Professor of Intersocietal History at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he teaches Asian and world history. His research focuses on the modern history of Chinese frontiers with Inner and Central Asia, including Mongolia, Tibet and especially Xinjiang; he also researches global and silk road musical exchanges. Millward's publications include 'Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864' (Stanford, 1998), 'New Qing Imperial History: The Manchu Summer Palace at Chengde' (RoutledgeCurzon 2004), and 'Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang' (Columbia, 2007). Millward received his B.A. at Harvard University in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, his M.A. at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in Far Eastern Studies, and his Ph.D. at Stanford University in History. Murray Scot Tanner is a China Specialist at the Center for Naval Analyses. He has published widely on Chinese and East Asian politics and security issues, and is recognized as one of the country's top specialists on internal security, social unrest, policing, and intelligence in China. Among his many books and articles are 'Chinese Economic Coercion Against Taiwan: A Tricky Weapon to Use' (RAND, 2007), 'The Politics of Lawmaking in China' (Oxford, 1998), and 'China Rethinks Unrest' (The Washington Quarterly, 2004). Dr. Tanner has previously served as Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University, Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, as a senior staff member for the US Congress, and as a China analyst for the US Government. Raised in Syracuse, NY, Scot received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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Sponsors	The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and the Asian Studies Program
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