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Speaker, CHEN Hao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Abstract: The term 鈥淭urk鈥� in the works of European writers from the late Medieval to Early Modern times specifically refers to the Turkic-speaking people in Asia Minor. For the vast population of Inner Asia, both Turkic- and Mongolic-speaking, another term 鈥淭artar鈥� was used. The Swedish officer and a captive of the Battel of Poltava, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676-1747) pioneeringly observed the similarity between the languages in Siberia and in Asia Minor, and therefore proposed a more compatible linguistic category Turco-Tartarian to designate the people of the above two regions. In the 18th century, thanks to the on-the-spot investigation by the Jesuits in China, more accounts concerning the earlier nomadic people such as Xiongnu, Rouran and Tujue attracted the attention of European scholars, and made them believe that on the north side of the Great Wall there existed a continuous polity which had been hostile to 鈥淐hina鈥� for thousands of years. Joseph de Guignes (1721-1800) attempted to identify the distant ethnic groups in the far east with those already familiar to Europe, i.e. the Hun, the Avar, and the Turk. With the new sources about China and Inner Asia, people in Europe began to realize that 鈥淭artar鈥� was an outdated name for the people in Inner Asia. As the usage of 鈥淭urco-Tartarian鈥� became obsolete in Europe, 鈥淭urkic鈥� gradually stood out as an independent linguistic category, including more and more synchronous languages such as the Yakutian, the Uyghur and etc. The linguistic relationship encouraged people like the Hungarian Orientalist, Hermann/脕rmin V谩mb茅ry (1832-1913), to go further to explore more similarities among those groups in the sense of race and ethnicity. The last decade of the 19th century when the Orkhon Inscriptions belonging to the Tujue period (8th AD) were discovered and deciphered, marks the zenith of the accumulation of knowledge about the term 鈥淭urk鈥� or more specifically 鈥渢he Turkic-speaking people鈥�, referring to both the diachronic groups as early as the Tujue and the synchronous groups from Asia Minor to Manchuria.

Speaker, CHEN, Hao, Shanghai Jiaotong

鈥楢elius Aristides' speech In Praise of Rome: Epideictic Rhetoric and Ideological Negotiation鈥�.

This Live Chat session gives all History students the chance to ask the department's support staff any questions about the University鈥檚 Mitigating Circumstances process. Join us to find out more about how to apply, what kind of evidence you need, and what mitigation might do for you.

This is a group Live Chat for current undergraduate and postgraduate History students. Queries about specific cases will not be discussed via Live Chat.

Pre- Said lecture event--

Come join us in conversation with Adania Shibli, as we discuss her haunting Minor Detail (2017).

'A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian People.鈥�

— New Directions

The novel is accessible electronically via the University Library. For further information, please contact: Nadia.backleh@warwick.ac.uk

When: Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 4.15-6pm, followed by a drinks reception

Where: Oculus, OC 1.03

Abstract: In this talk, Professor Bryan Cheyette will bring together the memories and narratives of two groups of people who suffered under slavery: the victims of the slave plantations in the American south before the American Civil War; and those who underwent forced labour in the concentration camps in Europe. He will focus on two icons: Frederick Douglass, whose fugitive slave narratives are considered representative of the antebellum slave plantations in the American South; and Primo Levi, who described himself as a 鈥榮lave鈥� in Auschwitz-Monowitz, a forced labour satellite camp about four miles from the industrialized killing in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This talk is called 鈥榙ecolonizing testimony鈥�, following the Nigerian Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, who argues that the long history of testimony goes back to the transatlantic slave trade.

Bio: Bryan Cheyette is Emeritus Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading. His research interests include modernism and politics, fiction and ethnicity, postcolonial literature, theories of 鈥榬ace鈥� and modernity, and Holocaust testimony. His recent work connects the history of antisemitism with colonialism and anti-black racism. He is the editor or author of 11 books, including The Ghetto: A very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (Yale University Press, 2014). He is currently writing a concise history of testimony from slave narratives to refugee stories.

Laura MacMahon (Cambridge), 'Restless traces: family archives in recent French documentary'

This paper explores the repurposing of family archives in two recent French documentary films, Une histoire 脿 soi (Amandine Gay, 2021) and Les ann茅es super-8 (Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot, 2022). Drawing on studies of archival remediation in cinema, and of home movies as particularly restless sites of familial memory, I consider how both films engage with latent histories of subjectivity and dispossession. Gay, Ernaux and Ernaux-Briot explore the politics of gender, race and class, in France and beyond, during the periods addressed by their films. While these films trace different conflicts of identity (around motherhood in Les ann茅es super-8, and adoptive childhood in Une histoire 脿 soi) and different kinds of archival gaps, my paper seeks out points of contact between them.

Laura McMahon is an Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis (Legenda, 2012). She is currently working on a project on feminist historiography and archival engagements in recent moving image practice in a global context.

This seminar will take place in the 糖心TV Faculty of Arts Building, room FAB2.48, 4.30pm-6pm.

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

presents the 20th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture 

Acting Contrapuntally 

by ADANIA SHIBLI 

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 

5 pm, Faculty of Arts Building 0.03 

The lecture is free and open to the public

To register:  

ADANIA SHIBLI is a Palestinian novelist and essayist. Her novel Minor Detail was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021

With the support of: Faculty of Arts, Society and Culture Spotlight, and the Humanities Centre Visiting Speakers鈥� Fund