Breaking Bread in East Turkestan: Uyghur Bakeries and Settler Colonialism in China’s New Frontier (19th–21st Centuries)

{"title":"Breaking Bread in East Turkestan: Uyghur Bakeries and Settler Colonialism in China’s New Frontier (19th\u201321st Centuries)","description":"\u003Cp\u003EL\u00e9o Maillet, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Geneva, presents research on bread and its modes of production, circulation and consumption in East Turkestan from the nineteenth century to the present. Focusing on Uyghur bakery practices, Maillet examines how bread shapes daily subsistence, social practices and forms of resistance to Chinese settler colonialism. The lecture situates culinary practices within broader historical and political transformations to reveal overlooked perspectives on community survival and resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn French.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","start_date":"2026-10-27","end_date":"2026-10-27","date":"Tuesday 27 October, 14:30","timings":[{"timing_start_date":"20261027T123000Z","timing_end_date":"20261027T140000Z"}]}