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SUMMARY: Forging Empire: Networks\, Encounters\, and Contestation in the Ea
 rly Modern World
DESCRIPTION: This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is requ
 ired. Date & Time: Thursday\, April 23\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PT) Loca
 tion: Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1
 Z2   Speakers Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (National University of Mongolia & Un
 iversity of Cambridge) Azfar Moin (University of […]
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  caption="" width="website"]</p><p>This talk is free and open to the public
 . Registration is required.</p><p><strong>Date & Time</strong>:<br />Thursd
 ay\, April 23\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PT)</p><p><strong>Location</stron
 g>:<br />Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC V6
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 p><p> </p><h2><b>Speakers</b></h2><ul><li>Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (National
  University of Mongolia & University of Cambridge)</li><li>Azfar Moin (Univ
 ersity of Texas at Austin)</li><li>Matthew Mosca (University of Washington)
 </li><li>Naveena Naqvi (University of British Columbia)</li><li>Ekaterina P
 ukhovaia (Leiden University & Utrecht University)</li><li>Natalie Rothman (
 University of Toronto)</li><li>Will Sherman (University of North Carolina a
 t Charlotte)</li></ul><p> </p><h2><strong>Schedule</strong></h2><h3>Breakfa
 st</h3><p><strong>8:30am - 9:00am<br /></strong></p><p> </p><h3>Welcome</h3
 ><p><strong>9:00am - 9:15am</strong></p><p>Remarks by Barbara Arneil (UBC P
 olitical Science) and Hasan Siddiqui (UBC Asian Studies)</p><p> </p><h3>Pan
 el 1: Sovereignty and Imperial Form</h3><p><strong>9:15am - 10:45am</strong
 ></p><p>Discussant: Bruce Rusk (UBC Asian Studies)</p><p>“<em>Translation I
 mperii</em>: From the Mongolian Great State to the Daiching Great State”</p
 ><p style="padding-left: 40px\;">Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (University of Cam
 bridge & National University of Mongolia)</p><p>“Religion and Sovereignty o
 f the post-Mongol Muslim Empires: A View from Coinage”</p><p style="padding
 -left: 40px\;">Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)</p><p> </p><h
 3>Coffee break</h3><p><strong>10:45am - 11:00am<br /></strong></p><p> </p><
 h3>Panel 2: Frontier Subjects</h3><p><strong>11:00am - 12:45pm</strong></p>
 <p>Discussant: Alexandra Hoffmann (UBC Asian Studies)</p><p>“Zaydi Sayyids 
 in Ottoman Yemen (1538-1635): Collaboration and Resistance”</p><p style="pa
 dding-left: 40px\;">Ekaterina Pukhovaia (Utrecht University & Leiden Univer
 sity)</p><p>“Qasim ‘Ali Khan Afridi: An Afghan Soldiering Humanist between 
 Empires”</p><p style="padding-left: 40px\;">Naveena Naqvi (University of Br
 itish Columbia)</p><p>“Locusts\, Wolves\, and Heretics: Constructing ‘the A
 fghan’ as a Mughal Technology of Empire”</p><p style="padding-left: 40px\;"
 >Will Sherman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)</p><p> </p><h3>Lu
 nch break</h3><p><strong>12:30pm - 2:00pm</strong></p><p>Lunch for all regi
 stered attendees and walk in Nitobe Gardens</p><p> </p><h3>Panel 3: Archive
 s and Information</h3><p><strong>2:15pm - 3:45pm</strong></p><p>Discussant:
  Renisa Mawani (UBC Sociology)</p><p>“Trans-Imperial Archives”</p><p style=
 "padding-left: 40px\;">Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto)</p><p>“Mongo
 l Imperial Sources in Qing Imperial Information Networks”</p><p style="padd
 ing-left: 40px\;">Matthew Mosca (University of Washington)</p><p> </p><h3>B
 reak</h3><p><strong>3:45pm - 4:00pm<br /></strong></p><p> </p><h3>Closing</
 h3><p><strong>4:00pm - 4:30pm</strong></p><p>Closing discussion moderated b
 y Shoufu Yin (UBC History)\, John Christopoulos (UBC History)\, and Hasan S
 iddiqui (UBC Asian Studies)</p>
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