This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Date & Time:
Thursday, April 23, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PT)
Location:
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Speakers
- Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (National University of Mongolia & University of Cambridge)
- Azfar Moin (University of Texas at Austin)
- Matthew Mosca (University of Washington)
- Naveena Naqvi (University of British Columbia)
- Ekaterina Pukhovaia (Leiden University & Utrecht University)
- Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto)
- Will Sherman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Schedule
Breakfast
8:30am – 9:00am
Welcome
9:00am – 9:15am
Remarks by Barbara Arneil (UBC Political Science) and Hasan Siddiqui (UBC Asian Studies)
Panel 1: Sovereignty and Imperial Form
9:15am – 10:45am
Discussant: Bruce Rusk (UBC Asian Studies)
“Translation Imperii: From the Mongolian Great State to the Daiching Great State”
Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (University of Cambridge & National University of Mongolia)
“Religion and Sovereignty of the post-Mongol Muslim Empires: A View from Coinage”
Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
Coffee break
10:45am – 11:00am
Panel 2: Frontier Subjects
11:00am – 12:45pm
Discussant: Alexandra Hoffmann (UBC Asian Studies)
“Zaydi Sayyids in Ottoman Yemen (1538-1635): Collaboration and Resistance”
Ekaterina Pukhovaia (Utrecht University & Leiden University)
“Qasim ‘Ali Khan Afridi: An Afghan Soldiering Humanist between Empires”
Naveena Naqvi (University of British Columbia)
“Locusts, Wolves, and Heretics: Constructing ‘the Afghan’ as a Mughal Technology of Empire”
Will Sherman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Lunch break
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Lunch for all registered attendees and walk in Nitobe Gardens
Panel 3: Archives and Information
2:15pm – 3:45pm
Discussant: Renisa Mawani (UBC Sociology)
“Trans-Imperial Archives”
Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto)
“Mongol Imperial Sources in Qing Imperial Information Networks”
Matthew Mosca (University of Washington)
Break
3:45pm – 4:00pm
Closing
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Closing discussion moderated by Shoufu Yin (UBC History), John Christopoulos (UBC History), and Hasan Siddiqui (UBC Asian Studies)
