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May 24, 2019 7:00 pm
Centre Congregational Church
Main St, Brattleboro, VT
Friday, May 24, 2019
Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) presents “Kyrgyzstan: Heart of Central Asia,” a talk by NYU faculty member Christopher Edling
The Centre Congregational Church (Parlor)
193 Main St., Brattleboro
Free and Open to the Public
7:00 JOIN US FOR COFFEE, TEA, AND CONVERSATION
7:30 THE PRESENTATION BEGINS
Silk road nomads. Russian-speaking Muslims and mountains – oh, the mountains! Kyrgyzstan, named for 40 tribes united by a folkloric leader (kirk is the Kyrgyz word for “forty”), is a small post-Soviet republic at complex crossroads of tradition and modernity. In this talk, Christopher Edling will talk about his time as a Fulbright researcher in Kyrgyzstan, including his study of bride kidnapping in the region.
To learn more about this and future WWAC programs, please visit http://www.windhamworldaffairscouncil.org