Jennifer Rose Webster, PhD
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Jennifer Rose Webster, PhD

Presentations

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Conference Presentations
Europe

"Conflicts of Healing: Medical Resorts, Pilgrimage, and Shrines in the Ferghana Valley"  |  2016 (upcoming)
Religion and Medicine: Healing the Body and Soul from the Middle Ages to the Modern Day, Birbeck University, London, UK, July 15-16

Central Asia

"Bountiful Forest: The Fruits of Heaven at Arslanbob Ata"  |  2016 (upcoming)
International Symposium on the Environmental Archive of Central Asia, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN, April 18-19

United States

"Resort or Shrine? Medicine, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in Kyrgyzstan"  |  2015
Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 17

"Becoming a Baqshy: Indigenous Healers in Rural Kyrgyzstan" |  2015
Russia, East Europe, and Central Asian Studies NW Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2

“Locating the Past: The Case of Takht-i Sulaiman” |  2015
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 3

“Sacred Space in the Pamirs through the Eyes of European Travelers” |  2011
Russia, East Europe, and Central Asian Studies NW Conference, Seattle, WA, April 16

“Apocryphal Texts and Their Communities: Authority in the Scripture on the Ten Kings” |  2004
Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, September 10
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Lectures & Round Table Discussions
United States

"In the Archives"  |  2015
University of Washington Digital History Colloquium, Seattle, WA, May 12

"Shrines and Healing in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan" |  2014
The Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Seattle, WA, January 28

"Shrines and Pilgrimage: The Case of Takht-i Sulaiman" |  2014
University of Washington History Department Colloquium, Seattle, WA, January 31

Central Asia

"Pilgrimage and Shrines in Central Asia" |  2012
IREX, Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN, July 12
Read my Scholar Research Brief: Pilgrimage and Shrines in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

"Negotiating Modernity: Places and Objects in the Context of Kyrgyzstan" |  2012
Research Seminar, Tian Shan Policy Center, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN, June 12

Book Reviews

“New Research on Sacred Places in Central Asia.” The Silk Road 11 (2013): 215-6

“New Turns on the Silk Road.” The Silk Road 9 (2011): 154-5

Articles in Progress

“Resort or Shrine? Medicine, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in Kyrgyzstan”

“Memory, Modernity, and Islam in the Ferghana Valley: the Shrine of Takht-i-Sulaiman”
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  • Home
  • About
    • CV
  • Research
    • Upcoming Research
    • Dissertation
    • On Location: Field Work in Kyrgyzstan
    • Presentations & Publications
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Philosophy
    • Courses
  • Contact