In August many of us were at the biannual Conference of the Association of Persianate Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Our contributions included a roundtable on Histories and Historiographies of 16th- to early 18th-century Central Asia led by our director, Florian Schwarz, a panel on Central Asian National Identities with our deputy director Ariane Sadjed, and with Jeanine Dagyeli a panel on Capitalism in Turkestan: Foreign Investments and Local Entanglements.
Our Bruno De Nicola, Stefan Kamola, and Sara Mirahmadi also joined a panel on Continuity and Transformation in Persianate Mongol Intellectual History organised by Carina Dreyer, and Robert Steele presented his book on Pahlavi relations with Africa.
Thanks to the hosts and organisers: these vital spaces for sharing our work show the importance of having many and diverse disciplines and scholars coming together to build better research on the Persianate world and its connections!