Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Adalyat Issiyeva
Doctoral Colloquium:听Adalyat Issiyeva (guest speaker, musicology)
Title: 聽"Between Two Fires: Uyghurs under Cultural Oppression in China and Russia"
Abstract:听For many decades, due to their precarious geopolitical situation, Uyghurs have been the subjects of colonial treatment, which includes territorial dispossession, displacement, exploitation of land and human resources, and excessive social, cultural, and political control. Living between and under two powerful totalitarian regimes 鈥� the Soviet Union and China 鈥� they鈥檝e been denied the right to live and practice their traditional customs and culture, including music. This talk will explore various past and present efforts to assimilate, sanitize, appropriate, and transform Uyghur culture into a simplified and exoticized form, aimed at alluring foreign tourists and settlers. It will also address the similarities in Stalin鈥檚 and Xi鈥檚 policies of deliberate manipulation and erasure of Uyghur history and identity, as well as the Uyghurs鈥� attempts to challenge the dominant nationalist narrative.
Adalyat Issiyeva聽is a faculty member at Concordia and 91直播 Universities. As a representative of a Uyghur community raised in Soviet Kazakhstan, she has always been interested in exploring how the voices of minorities are woven into the polyphonic texture of a multi-ethnic empire. Her book聽Representing Russia鈥檚 Orient: from Ethnography to Art Song, which received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award, addresses how ethnographies, music, and literary works from and about Russia鈥檚 periphery helped to shape Russian cultural and musical identity. Her most recent study focuses on the state-regulated construction of musical identities for ethnic minorities during the Stalin era.
NOTE:听Disruptions to the metro/bus schedule are planned for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. After afternoon rush hour service, there will be an interruption until 11 pm. Please consult the STM website and plan accordingly. We will start the presentation exactly at 4:30 in order to end well before 6:00.
The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.
