Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uighur Culture
This Forum event will present Uighur Human Rights Project (UHRP) report under the same title, focusing on China's policy of eradication of the Uighur cultural heritage. The speaker, Mr. Bill Drexel, has spent the last several months researching Kashgar with the Uyghur Human Rights Project, following up on his research on Chinese state surveillance as a
Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University from 2018 to 2019. Bill holds an MPhil from
Cambridge University in Political Theory and a BA from Yale University in the Humanities. Cumulatively, he has spent the last 4 years at the intersection of religion and politics, conducting research across East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Moderator: S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at AFPC
When: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 10am EDT
The event was live-streamed on our Facebook page and is now available on Youtube.