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DESCRIPTION:This seminar will explore the 15th and 16th-century historiogra
 phies of Central Asia as written about during the Cold War\, and compare a
 nd contrast the approaches of Russian-language and Anglophone scholars. Gu
 landom Yuldasheva will present on “The Timurid Renaissance Revisited: Ma
 ria Subtelny and the Soviet Construction of Alisher Navoi\,” and illumin
 ate how academics interpreted the complexity of medieval Central Asia’s 
 cultural renaissance and reshaped it to serve contemporary agendas. The le
 gacy of these approaches continues to shape the study of the historical fi
 gure Navoi and the Timurid period in which he lived\, raising broader ques
 tions about historiography\, ideology\, and cultural memory.\n\n \n\nJaime
 e Comstock-Skipp will discuss “The ‘Iran’ Curtain: Cold-War Scholars
 hip on Illustrated Abu’l-Khayrid (Shaybanid) Arts of the Book from 16th-
 century Central Asia.” Her art historical focus dwells on the classifica
 tory interpretation of illustrated manuscripts from a dynasty that has rem
 ained understudied for political reasons both in the Soviet Union and outs
 ide. She will analyze how English and Russian-speaking academicians have s
 ituated the dynasty's arts in the trajectory of Persianate manuscript prod
 uction resulting in intellectual fissures dividing Iran from Central Asia\
 , and Russian-speaking and Anglophone scholars.\n\n\nGulandom Yuldasheva i
 s a scholar specializing in Turkic literature\, Islamic history\, and the 
 cultural legacy of Central Asia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in
  Turkish Studies and the Russian language from Tashkent State University\,
  Uzbekistan\, where she also completed her Master’s degree in Islamic Hi
 story. Following her graduate studies\, she worked extensively at the Inst
 itute of Oriental Studies named after Beruni under the Academy of Sciences
  of Uzbekistan\, focusing on Turkic literary manuscripts. Currently\, Ms. 
 Yuldasheva is a PhD candidate at the Tashkent State University of Oriental
  Studies\, where her dissertation explores the Timurid Renaissance in 15th
 -century Herat. \n\n\nJaimee Comstock-Skipp graduated from the University 
 of California\, Berkeley\, with a BA in Islamic Civilizations and the Arab
 ic language. Her first MA program was in the History of Art at Williams Co
 llege in Massachusetts (USA). She was a recipient of the Fulbright Grant i
 n Tajikistan and there learned Farsi and Tajiki. She received a doctorate 
 degree from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and wrote a disser
 tation about the art of the Abu'l-Khayrid dynasty in Transoxiana during th
 e 16th century\, and their diplomatic exchanges between courts within Cent
 ral Asia and the broader Turco-Persianate sphere encompassing Safavids\, O
 ttomans\, and Mughals. At present\, Dr. Comstock-Skipp is a Leverhulme Ear
 ly Career researcher at the University of Oxford writing a monograph about
  Abu'l-Khayrid manuscript arts.
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