(1) Sevket’s Publications & Academic Works

 

Sevket’s Publications & Academic Works

  • Freelance researcher: 2015 to present
  • Post-doctoral research associate 2012 to 2014 (SOAS, University of London) Working project title: Seaside-resort Muslims and mosques in South-East England: Historical, cultural & social change in 21st century UK.
  • Senior Teaching Fellow 2011 to 2012 (SOAS, University of London)
  • Senior examination invigilator 2012 to 2022 (SOAS, University of London)
  • PhD. 2011 completion (SOAS, University of London) Socialisation Channels, Education, & Theory in Soviet-era Central Asia, 1924 to 1991 CE.
  • MA (SOAS, University of London) 1998 to 2000

PUBLICATIONS

2025

(1) Book Review J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture in Crisis, 2017 Download PDF

(2) Book Review Emma Gannon, SABOTAGE: How To Silence Your Inner Critic And Get Out Of Your Own Way (2020) Download PDF

(3) Book Review Janina Ramirez, Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It (2022) Download PDF

(4) Book Review Thomas Erikson, Surrounded By Narcissists: Or How To Stop Other People’s Egos Ruining Your Life (2022) Download PDF

(5) Book Review James Walvin, A History of Slavery (2007) Download PDF

(6) Book Review Jem Duducu, The Sultans: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Rulers and Their World: A 600-Year History (2018) Download PDF

(7) Book Review Chris van Tulleken, Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food…and Why Can’t We Stop? (2023) Download PDF

(8) Book Review Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: A Graphic Novel, 2020 Download PDF

(9) Book Review Olivette Otele, African Europeans: An Untold History, 2020 Download PDF

(10) Book Review Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920, 2015. Download PDF

(11) Book Review Gabor Mate, The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health, and Healing a Toxic Culture (2022) Download PDF

(12) Book Review Claudia Hammond, The Art Of Rest: How To Find Respite In The Modern Age, (2019) Download PDF

(13) Book Review Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, (2019) Download PDF

(14) Book Review Margalit Fox, The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (2022) Download PDF

(15) Book Review Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybermetrics (2023) Download PDF

(16) Book Review Helen Fisher, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray, (1992) Download PDF

(17) Book Review Jonathan Clements, A Brief History of Khubilai Khan: Lord of Xanadu: Emperor of China, (2010, 2017) Download PDF

(18) Book Review Gregory Claeys, Utopia: The History of an Idea (2011, 2020) Download PDF

(19) Book Review N. Katzer, S. Budy, A. Kohring, & M. Zeller, Euphoria and Exhaustion: Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society (2010) Download PDF

(20) Book Review Sevket Akyildiz, The Young Pioneers and the Komsomol of Uzbekistan: Soviet Citizenship and Values (London: 2014, 2021) Download PDF

(21) Book Review James Riordan, Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR (1977, 1980) Download PDF

(22) Book Review James Riordan, Soviet Sport: Background to the Olympics (1980) Download PDF

(23) Book Review Sarah Chaney Am I Normal: The 200-Year Search For Normal People (And Why They Don’t Exist) (2022) Download PDF

(24) Book Review Paul Heike, The Myths That Made America: An Introduction To American Studies (2014) Download PDF

(25) Book Review Elizabeth E. Bacon, Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change (1966, 1980) Download PDF

2024

(1) Book Review Chris Hemmings, Be A Man: How Macho Culture Damages Us and How to Escape It (Biteback Publishing, 2017) Download Here

(2) Book Review Claire Hayes, Finding Hope in the Age of Anxiety: Recognise it, Acknowledge it and Take Your Power Back (Ireland: Gill Books, 2017) Download PDF

(3) Book Review Tyson Fury, Behind the Mask: Tyson Fury (London: Arrow Books, 2021) Download PDF

(4) Book Review Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal The Future of the World (London: Elliot and Thompson, 2021) Download PDF

(5) Book Review Audrea Lim (ed.) The Case For Sanctions Against Israel (London, New York: Verso, 2012, Kindle Book) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6658177199

(6) Audiobook Review Gillian Ross, Meditation: Practices for Awakening the Third Eye (Bolinda Audio: Australia, 2020) Download PDF

(7) Book Review A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures by Lucy Leonelli (London: Unbound, 2022) Download PDF

(8) Book Review Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (London: Old Street, 2022) Download PDF

(9) Book Review Gideon Levy, The Punishment of Gaza (London, New York: Verso, 2010, Kindle Book) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6291154544

(10) Book Review George Yancy, Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future, (Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) Download PDF

(11) Book Review Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology of Occupation Around the World (London, New York: Verso, 2023, Kindle Book) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6553467458

(12) Book Review Lisa Schneidau Botanical Folktales of Britain and Ireland (2018) Download PDF

(13) Book Review Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens (ed.) Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (London, New York: Verso, 1988, 2001, Kindle Book) Download PDF

(14) Book Review David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (London: Penguin, 2019) Download PDF

(15) Book Review Guy Standing, Basic Income: And How We Can Make it Happen (London: Penguin, 2017) Download PDF

(16) Book Review Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible (2020) Download PDF

(17) Book Review Zonn, I.S, (et al.) The Aral Sea Encyclopedia (2009) Download PDF

(18) Book Review Gul Berna Ozcan, BUILDING STATES AND MARKETS: Enterprise Developments In Central Asia, 2010 Download PDF

(19) Book Review Shannah Kennedy, THE LIFE PLAN: Simple Strategies for a Meaningful Life (2015) Download PDF

(20) Book Review Lee Brosan, An Introduction To Coping With Stress, 2018 Download PDF

(21) Book Review: On Being An Introvert or Highly Sensitive Person: A Guide To Boundaries, Joy and Meaning by Ilse Sand (2018) Download PDF

(22) Book Review Jared Diamond, COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (2006) Download PDF

(23) Book Review Michael Rywkin, Moscow’s Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia (1990) Download PDF

(24) Book Review Anita Moorjani Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing (2022) Download PDF

2023

(1) Book Review Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (ed.) Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation (London, New York: Verso Books, 2015, Kindle Book) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377069021_Malek_Hoke_PALESTINE_SPEAKS_Narratives_Of_Life_Under_Occupation_2015

(2) Book Review Ilan Pappe, Ten Myths About Israel (London: Verso, 2017, Kindle Book) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6081683520

(3) Book Review Anne Helen Petersen, Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation (London: Vintage, 2021) https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kulturder/issue/81245/1384839

(4) Book Review Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History (London: PaperMac, 1996) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376185955_Noel_Malcolm_BOSNIA_A_Short_History_1996

(5) Book Review Edward A. Allworth, The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland (London: Duke Uni Press, 1998) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375120647_THE_TATARS_OF_CRIMEA_RETURN_TO_THE_HOMELAND

(6) Article “Physical Culture and Sport Will Become Part and Parcel of Everyday Life”: Khrushchev’s Communist Sports in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan, 1953 to 1964, Vakanuvis — International Journal of Historical Researches, Vol. 8, Autumn 2023: 2155 – 2173. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/80543/1297039

(7) Book Review Chris Gosden, THE HISTORY OF MAGIC: FROM ALCHEMY TO WITCHCRAFT, FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE PRESENT (London: Penguin, 2021) https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sinopusd/issue/80451/1354134

(8) Book Review Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It (London: Penguin, 2015) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374368262_Owen_Jones_The_Establishment_And_How_They_Get_Away_With_It_2015

(9) Book Review Paul Strathern, Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2019) https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/80084/1318574

(10) Book Review Damien Le Bas, The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain (London: Vintage, 2018) https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sinopusd/issue/76800/1255556

(11) Book Review David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2022) https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sinopusd/issue/76800/1292814

(12) Book Review Azeem Ibrahim, The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide (London: Hurst & Company, 2018). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/76367/1235978

(13) Book Review Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards (London: Headline, 2020). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/76367/1237116

(14) Book Review Christina Lamb, Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women (London: William Collins, 2020). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kulturder/issue/76129/1238261 

(15) Book Review Ian Williams, Every Breath You Take: China’s New Tyranny (Glasgow: Birlinn, 2021). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367053094_Ian_Williams_Every_Breath_You_Take_China’s_New_Tyranny_2021

(16) Book Review Kerry Brown, What Does China Want? China’s World (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367053321_Kerry_Brown_What_Does_China_Want_China’s_World_2017 

2022

(1) Article ‘Traditional Sports and Games among Central Asia’s Turkic Muslim Peoples, 1400 to 1850 AD: Training, Hunting, and Festivals’, Vakanuvis — International Journal of Historical Researches, Vol. 7, No. 2, Autumn 2022: 571-601. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/72861/1121265

(2) Book Review Neil Ansell, The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest (London: Tinder Press, 2021). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/72861/1121131

(3) Book Review Bill Emmott, The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea (London: The Economist Books, 2018). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/72861/1162812

(4) Book Review Carl Rommel, Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, Austin (University of Texas Press, 2021). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WC4UCTGDPZUU3F5AEEAA/full?target=10.1080/17460263.2022.2113012

(5) Book Review Jonathan Lyons, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilisation (London: Bloomsbury, 2010). https://www.academia.edu/82631675/The_House_of_Wisdom_How_the_Arabs_Transformed_Western_Civilisation

(6) Book Review Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (London: Bloomsbury, 2019). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cjas/issue/70068/1138708

(7) Book Review Jeroen Van den Bosch, Adrien Fauve, Bruno De Cordier (eds.) European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History, Politics, and Societies (Eurasian Insights: Strengthening Central Asian Studies in Europe EISCAS, 2021). https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/vakanuvis/issue/69103/1089560

(9) Book Review Suketu Mehta, This Land is Our Land: An Immigrants Manifesto (London: Vintage, 2019). https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tjds/issue/69249/1055055

(10) Book review Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities, London: Picador, 2019. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/vakanuvis/issue/67143/1048367

2021

(1) Book review Jorg Matthias Determann, Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020). https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/vakanuvis/issue/61105/907435

(2) Article ‘Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan 1985 to 1991‘, Vakanuvis — International Journal of Historical Researches, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2021: 1-35. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/vakanuvis/issue/61105/880436

(3) Book review Elizabeth Dryson, The Moor’s Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End, London: Profile Books, 2018, pp. 206.  https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/vakanuvis/issue/65175/997490 

2020

(1) Book review Mohd Aslam Bhat, The Sociology of Central Asian Youth: Choice, Constraint, Risk, 2018, pp. 160, in Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 72, No 5, 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2020.1764756

(2) Book review Jong Sung Lee, A History of Football in North and South Korea, c 1910 – 2002: Development and Diffusion, 2016, pp. 280, in Sport in History, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460263.2020.1772596

(3) Article ‘Cultural Change in Central Asia: Brezhnev, Modern Sports, and Memories in Uzbekistan, 1964 to 1982‘, History Studies–International Journal of Historical Researches, Vol. 12, No. 1, Feb 2020, pp. 34-54. http://www.historystudies.net/dergiayrinti/cultural-change-in-central-asia-brezhnev-modern-sports-and-memories-in-uzbekistan-1964-to-1982_1593

2019

(1) Article ‘Modern and Folk Sport in Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin: Uzbekistan from 1925 to 1952‘, Vakanuvis — International Journal of Historical Researches, Vol. 4. Issue 2, 2019, pp. 515-541. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/vakanuvis/issue/48884/595032

(2) Book review (2019): Seth Bernstein, ‘Raised Under Stalin. Young Communists and the Defence of Socialism’. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 71., Issue 3, 2019, pp. 511-513. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2019.1593621

2017

(1) Book Chapter ‘Sport has become the privilege of the millions: Physical culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991′, Alexander Morrison and S.S. Saxena (eds), Proceedings of the XII Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies: Central Asia: A Maturing Field, University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, Cambridge Scientific Publishers, 2017).  https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12437990

2015

(1) Article ‘Introducing Seaside Town Muslims: Eastbourne Mosque History and Politics‘, Journal of Muslims in Europe, Vol. 4. Issue. 2, 2015, pp. 197-222, Download PDF

2014

(1) Book S. Akyildiz & R. Carlson (eds), Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, London: Routledge (2014). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415704533/

(2) Book Chapter ‘Learn, learn, learn!’ Soviet-style in Uzbekistan: Aims and Implementation, in S. Akyildiz and R. Carlson (ed.) Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, London: Routledge (2014). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415704533/

(3) Book Chapter ‘Introduction: The Soviet Legacy‘, in S. Akyildiz and R. Carlson (eds) Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, London, Routledge, (2014). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415704533/

2012 & 2013

(1) Book Chapter ‘Soviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991: Implementation and Legacy‘, in Dave Day (ed.) Sports and Coaching – Pasts and Futures. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, (2012). ISBN 9781905476770 http://buyonline.mmu.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=793&deptid=17&catid=67&prodvarid=0

(2) Article ‘Sovietisation in Uzbekistan 1980-1991: A Success or Failure?‘, Twentieth Century Communism-A Journal of International History: Local Communisms, Issue 5. June 2013. ISBN 978-1-907103-83-4 Lawrence & Wishart. 

http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/twentiethcenturycommunism/issue/TCC5.html

(3) Book review Donahoe, Brian & Joachim Otto Habeck (eds) Reconstructing the House of Culture: community, self, and the makings of culture in Russia and beyond (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01798_29.x/abstract

(4) Article ‘An Introductory History of Soviet Uzbek Academics 1924-1960‘, Polyvocia SOAS Journal of Graduate Research Students, Vol 4, Spring 2012. https://www.academia.edu/1516721/An_Introductory_History_of_Soviet_Uzbek_Academics_1924-1960.

2011

(1) Article ‘Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan 1951-1991‘, Polyvocia SOAS Journal of Graduate Research Students, Vol. 3, Spring-2011. Download PDF

2010

(1) Article ‘The Rediscovery of a Freshwater Spring beside the Sea: A Local Holy Well?‘ Download PDF

 Public engagement and outreach

Media and blogs

Conference & workshop convenor & administrator

Annual PhD Methodology Conference: Regional Studies, Panel Chair of Post Soviet East Europe and Central Asia, London Centre for Social Studies (LCSS) & SOAS, University of London, 14 March, London 2015.

Social and Economic Development in Central Asia: Theory and Practice: Hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London & the Eurasia Studies Society of Great Britain and Europe (TESS-GB-EUROPE), Bedford Square, London, 24 January 2014. http://eurasiastudies-society.com/london-2014a/

Muslims and Sports Workshop 2013. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Russell Square, London, 6 July 2013. http://eurasiastudies-society.com/2013b/ http://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/06jul2013-muslims-and-sports-workshop-.html

METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES AND CHALLENGES  PhD CONFERENCE 2013. Advisory committee member & chairperson of the panel: Academic Research and Technology.  Convenor: the London Centre for Social Studies (LCSS), held at King’s College, University of London, London, 19 April 2013. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/eventrecords/LCSS-PhD-Conference-2013-Methodological-Choices-and-Challenges.aspx

METHODOLOGIES AND THEORIES IN THE THIRD DECADE hosted by The Eurasia Studies Society TESS (of Great Britain & Europe) with Royal Holloway, University of London. Bedford Square, London. November 2012.

SECOND ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY EURASIA POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE hosted by The Eurasia Studies Society TESS (of Great Britain & Europe).  Room G2. The School of Oriental and African Studies, London. 18 February 2012. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20120218

Chairperson at ‘THE 2ND CONFERENCE ON TURKS ABROAD’. Turkish Society of SOAS. SOAS, Room G2 London, 10 February 2012.

2011 SOAS POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON CENTRAL ASIA, THE CAUCASUS AND EURASIA. Brunei Gallery, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London. 26 February 2011.http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/index.php?nd=2011-02-21&view=wee

Conference papers

  • Recession and Cutting State Subsidies, Limited ‘Market Reforms’ in Sport and Leisure – and Public Critique: Russia and the Five ‘Stans’, 1986-1991, British Society of Sports History BSSH Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, Olga Crisp Room, Senate House, London 11 May 2015.
  • History of Eastbourne Mosque. Eastbourne Local History Society (ELHS), St. Saviours & St. Peters Church Hall, Eastbourne, East Sussex, Tuesday 2.00-3.15pm, 3 February 2015.
  • My paper was read in my absence by Prof. Hugh Goddard: Seaside Town British Muslims: Eastbourne’s Mosque Community, Inaugural Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 11 April 2014, University of Edinburgh, April 2014.
  • ‘The Rise and Fall of Local Capitalist Entrepreneurs, Tea Houses and Day Trips: Wannock, East Sussex, UK’.  The British Society of Sports History (BSSH), South of England Sport and Leisure History Network Workshop, Leisure and Tourism Panel, South East Branch, University of Sussex, 26 October 2013.
  • ‘Sport is Revolutionary And Not A Distraction For the Working Class!: Soviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991’. BRITISH SPORTS STUDIES CONFERENCE. University of Glasgow, Scotland. September 2012.
  • ‘A Freshwater Spring Beside the Sea: A Local Holy Well’. AFFECTIVE LANDSCAPES CONFERENCE. University of Derby. 25/26 May 2012.
  • ‘Building the Soviet City and Fostering Physical Culture: The Tashkent Story’. SPORT AND THE CITY: COMPETITION, CULTURES, IDENTITIES AND URBAN LIFE SINCE 1880. Westminster University. 24/25 April 2012.
  • ‘A Multicultural Pioneer Palace in Soviet Tashkent: Acquiring Civic Values in Leisure’. POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE USSR AND STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET BLOC. University of Nottingham. 17/18 March 2012.
  • ‘The People of Uzbekistan and the Olympics 1924-2012: Prestige and Multicultural Heroes’. BOSPORUS SOCIETY: CULTURE AND ECONOMICS. The School of Oriental and African Studies, London. December 2011.
  • ‘Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan: Prestige, Values and Multicultural Heroes’. THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CENTRAL ASIASTUDIES (ESCAS)XII BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – CENTRAL ASIA: A MATURING FIELD. Churchill College,University of Cambridge.20-22 September 2011.
  • ‘Would the Soviet Central Asians Rebel against Moscow circa 1980-1991?: State Multiculturalism and the Internalization of Civic Values’. TWENTIETH CENTURY COMMUNISM’S: LOCAL COMMUNISMS. University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales. 30 June – 1 July 2011.
  • ‘Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan 1951-1991: Prestige, Values & Multicultural Heroes’. SPORTS AND COACHING: PASTS AND FUTURES. Manchester Metropolitan University. 25-26 June 2011.
  • ‘A Multicultural Pioneer Palace in Soviet Tashkent: Acquiring Civic Values in Leisure’. SITES OF CITIZENSHIP. Kings College, University of London. 10 June 2011.
  • ‘When Activism Is Channelled By The State: Red Academics In Uzbekistan Circa 1930s-1940s’. SOAS RESEARCH STUDENTS CONFERENCE: ACTIVISM & ACADEMICS. The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 12 March 2011.
  • ‘Soviet Olympic Culture In Uzbekistan 1951-1991: Prestige & Local Heroes’. TRACES OF EMPIRE: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL CONTACTS ACROSS CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM. Department of East Asian Studies & Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds. 7 June 2010. http://www.ocamagazine.com/symposium-%E2%80%9Ctraces-of-empire-cultural-and-linguistic-contacts-across-central-and-inner-asia%E2%80%9D

Open access essays

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