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Friday, October 22, 2021; 3:00-4:30 pm MST: "Environmental and Cultural Impact on Indigenous Peoples of Central Asia"Presenters: Scholars Dr. Laura Popova, ASU Archaeologist, and Dr. Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko of the University of Copenhagen; Moderator: Dr. Nicholas DelSordi“Palimpsest Landscapes: Untangling the Legacies of Ürümqi, Panjakent, and Mes Aynak”By Dr.

Friday, November 5, 2021; 3:00-4:30 pm MST: "Roots from the Region"A panel of experts raised in Central Asia: Current Fulbright scholar from Kazakhstan at ASU Dr. Beibit Shangirbayeva, Dr. Orhon Myadar of University of Arizona & Dr. Nargis Kassenova at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University); Moderator: Dr. Michael Little CrowAbout the series:Central

Central Asia: Global and Local Wisdom Series: "Indigenous Peoples of Central Asia"Friday, October 8, 2021; 3:00-4:30 pm MSTPresenter: Historian Dr. Morris Rosabi of Columbia University; Moderator: Dr. Albert CelozaThe Communist and post-Communist period have proven to be harmful to the land, water, and air in Central Asia and Mongolia. Economic and political policies have

Credit Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dr. Peter Hershock is the director of the center’s Asian Studies Development Program and recently released a book about artificial intelligence, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future." Hershock says our development of artificial intelligence will eventually lead to the ethical singularity, "a point at which evaluating competing value systems and conceptions of humane intelligence take on infinite value/significance." In his book, he looks back at historic schools of thought such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Socrates to find insig...

Revamping the Hawaii Tourism Authority; Homeschooling on the rise in Hawai‘i; Reality Check with Civil Beat: Federal vaccine requests; Benefits and