FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2006

Guest Lecturer will speak about Popular Religion and Islam in Central Asia
 
Milwaukee, WI - The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University is pleased to announce the lecture Shamans, Saints, and Soviets: Popular Religion and Islam in Central Asia at 7 pm. on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 by Uli Schamiloglu, author and professor of the languages, cultures, linguistics and history of Central Asia. The lecture is offered in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Art and Conflicts in Central Asia running through January 21, 2007.
 
Dr. Schamiloglu is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia. He is also the chair of the Central Asian Studies Program at UW-Madison as well as the associate director of the Center for Middle East Studies. Dr. Schamiloglu received a B.A. from Columbia College in Middle East Languages and Cultures, an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in History .
 
Dr. Schamiloglu recently completed The Golden Horde: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Western Eurasia, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries (in press).
 
Dr. Shamiloglu’s lecture is sponsored in part by the Milwaukee Arts Board and the Marquette University College of Arts and Sciences Andrew W. Mellon Fund.