On Tuesday, March 25th, from 4-5pm the Central Asian Studies RIW will have a writing workshop in 1014 Tisch with Baktygul Chynybaeva to discuss a chapter from one of her (many!) current writing projects - a  fictionalized version of her childhood memories from 1991-1998, exploring how Central Asia changed when the Soviet Union collapsed.  Free food will be provided. Baktygul Chynybaeva is an award winning human rights, healthcare, and climate change journalist from Kyrgyzstan, who additionally at Michigan is a 2024 Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow. She will share with us a draft of her first chapter of her semi-fictionalized memoir which beautifully starts in 1991 with her translating the collapse of the Soviet Union as depicted by the television from Russian to Kyrgyz to her grandparents. 
While we have had many workshops before regarding monographs and articles-in-progress, but this is a first foray into fiction! We will hope many people will come. We will send out copies of the chapter about 1 week before the event, please sign up on Sessions to receive a copy of the chapter when we send them out.