In case anyone in the New York-New Jersey area is interested, I'll be giving a talk at Princeton on Monday, December 7. My talk is entitled "Politicizing Islam: Tsarist Officials and Protesting Muslims in Russia's Volga Region, 1870-1905."  The talk begins at 12 noon and will be located in 202 Jones Hall, in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. More information on the Brown Bag lectures can be found here. 

I'll be talking about protests and petition campaigns taking place among Muslim communities in the Volga region in the late nineteenth century. Among other things, the talk will focus on the breakdown of communications between tsarist officials and Muslim communities and the attitudes of Volga Muslims to the expansion of the tsarist state in the region during the post-reform era. 

The talk is open to the public and you're free to bring your lunch!