Central-Eurasia-L Announcement Archive
2. Conferences and Lecture Series
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CONF./CFP- Annual Meeting of the Mongolia Society, Chicago, March/April 2005

Posted by: Susie Drost <monsocindiana.edu>
Posted: 28 Oct 2004


2005 Call for Papers

The 2005 Annual Meeting of The Mongolia Society will be held in conjunction 
with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), March 31 - April 3, 2005, at 
the Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL.  Therefore, we are placing a call for panel 
participants.

In order to participate, you must be a member of The Mongolia Society and 
submit an abstract for consideration no later than January 15, 2005. The 
abstract must contain the title of the paper and be no more than 300 words. 
If your abstract is accepted, you will have 20 minutes to present your 
paper, which will include five minutes of discussion. The exact time of the 
meeting and panel will be announced as plans are formalized.

Please submit your abstract to:

Susie Drost
322 Goodbody Hall, IU
1011 E. 3rd St. 
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
E-Mail: monsocindiana.edu

The Mongolia Society
322 Goodbody Hall, IU
1011 E. 3rd St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
Tel: (812)855-4078
Fax: 812-855-4078
E-Mail: monsocindiana.edu
Web: www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc

CONF./CFP- American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 2006

Posted by: Stephen Rapp <hisshrlangate.gsu.edu>
Posted: 28 Oct 2004


2006 American Historical Association Conference Theme:

"Nations, Nationalism, and National Histories"

History has always been important for the development of nations, which draw 
meaning and identity from a real or invented common past. At the same time, 
nations have been important for the development of historiography; nations 
shape the way historians draw their maps, arrange their books, and define 
their areas of specialization. But nations are problematic as well as 
powerful. Most nations are the arbitrary result of circumstance and 
contingency and not the inevitable expression of natural ethnic or cultural 
communities. Nations must be constructed, sometimes imposed. Like other 
sources of political allegiance, nationalism is the result both of 
compulsion and consent, at once source and product of political power. 
National histories are deeply implicated in the nation's construction and 
defense. Our task as historians is to do justice to the significance of 
nations, nationalism, and national histories, without accepting them 
uncritically; to explain them without explaining them away.

The Program Committee invites proposals for sessions on the origins, 
development, and variety of nations, nationalism, and national histories. 
Specific areas of interest include the process of national formation and 
national disintegration; the development of national cultures and their 
relationship to regional and transnational cultural forms; the political 
evolution and social context of nationalism; the role of history in nation 
building and of nations in the emergence of history as a discipline; and 
comparative studies of nations and nationalism, both across time (for 
example, in the modern and pre-modern eras) and space (for example, in Japan 
and its former colonies). We are interested in critical analyses of the 
nation as a historiographical category, including the exploration of 
alternative ways of organizing and imagining political, social, and cultural 
institutions. We particularly welcome sessions that bring together the 
fruits of such critical analyses with the work of public history, showing 
how historians can affect collective perceptions of a national past.

Celia Applegate (Univ. of Rochester) and Kären Wigen (Stanford Univ.) are 
co-chairs of the 120th Annual Meeting.

Call for Proposals for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the AHA

Online submission of proposals required for meeting that will launch 
innovative modes of presentation.

The 120th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held 
January 5-8, 2006, in Philadelphia. The Program Committee welcomes proposals 
from all members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), from 
affiliated societies, from historians working outside the United States, and 
from scholars in related disciplines. Proposals on all historical periods 
and topics and from all chronological and geographic areas of specialization 
are welcome. To stimulate discussion of issues essential to the practices 
and uses of historical scholarship, the Program Committee has chosen for the 
annual meeting the featured theme of "Nations, Nationalism, and National 
Histories." As always, papers and sessions on all topics will be welcomed 
and considered, regardless of their relation to the meeting theme.

In a departure from past practice, the 2006 Program Committee-following the 
recommendations of the AHA's Research Division-will encourage several new 
ways of presenting scholarship. In addition to the traditional sessions in 
which formal papers are presented, the 2006 meeting will offer a variety of 
other formats. Poster presentations, sessions in which the papers are made 
available electronically ahead of time, thematic workshops, roundtable 
discussions, and other experimental formats are all possibilities. These are 
discussed in some detail in the article by Roy Rosenzweig ("Should the AHA 
Annual Meeting Be Changed?"). The committee will therefore welcome 
submissions that do not follow the traditional format, and encourages 
presenters to consider taking advantage of the many new options that are 
becoming available.

An even more radical departure from past practice-but one that is designed 
to streamline the entire process and make it easier still for scholars to 
submit proposals-is the requirement that all proposals (for papers and 
panels in any of the formats) should be submitted online at the specified 
web page, which can be reached at http://www.historians.org/annual/. This 
means that proposals cannot be submitted in any other form or through any 
other medium (mail, fax, or e-mail). The article by Debbie Ann Doyle, 
"Electronic Proposal Submission System to Be Used for 2006 Meeting," 
describes the new process.

Proposals must be submitted by midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on February 
15, 2005. It will not be possible to submit proposals after that date. 
Proposals for workshops have an earlier deadline of December 15, 2004. The 
committee will consider only complete panels or workshops (that is, those 
that include all presenters), and not single-paper proposals. Individual 
submissions can be considered, however, for the poster sessions that will be 
a new feature in the 2006 meeting. While experience has shown that it is 
very difficult to find matches for single papers or to form panels around 
them, poster sessions will be eminently suited for such solo presentations. 
Scholars wishing to find prospective co-panelists for putting together 
complete panels may, of course, find the "Panel Locator" very helpful.

Please consult the "Annual Meeting Guidelines" when preparing a proposal, 
and carefully follow the instructions for submitting a proposal.

All persons appearing on the program must be members of the AHA, the 
exceptions being foreign scholars and scholars from other disciplines. 
Questions about the content of proposals should be directed to the Program 
Committee co-chairs Celia Applegate and Kären Wigen.

Questions about the electronic submissions process may be e-mailed to 
ahahistorians.org with "2006 Annual Meeting" in the subject line. Questions 
about the new policies and new modes of presentation may be e-mailed to 
Robert Townsend, AHA assistant director for research, at rtownsend 
historians.org.

CONF./CFP- Kazakhstan in the Global Economy, IWEP, Almaty, Dec. 14, 2004

Posted by: Aziz Burkhanov <centrazizyahoo.com>
Posted: 27 Oct 2004


Call for Papers

Kazakhstan in Global Economy: Problems and Perspectives

Institute of World Economy and Policy (IWEP)

14 December 2004

Institute of World Economy and Policy invites individual paper proposals for 
the Conference entitled "Kazakhstan in Global Economy: Problems and 
Perspectives" to be held on Tuesday December, 14 2004 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Professors and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts of 
papers on issues of Kazakhstan's economy in all fields.  Individual papers 
will be assigned by the conference organizers to a suitable panel.

The following information is required for the submission:

 - name of presenter
 - institutional affiliation
 - contact information
 - title and a short abstract of paper
 - please note if you need any audio-visual equipment

Preferences include but are not limited to:

 - Regional Economic Integration in Central Asia
 - Kazakhstan's economy on its way to global economical system
 - Economic relations of Kazakhstan with developed countries
 - Transitional economies specifics.

Institute of World Economy and Policy together with Fridriech Ebert 
Foundation will provide an accommodation during the conference as well as 
trip funding.

Deadline:

All proposals must arrive before November, 25 2004.

Submit this information via e-mail as an attachment (.doc or .rtf formats 
preferred) to:

Gulnar Smailova - smailovaiwep.kz
Aziz Burkhanov - burkhanoviwep.kz

Fax: +7-3272-501066
Telephone: +7-3272-508142; 508143

CONFERENCE- 2005 Eurasian Archaeology Conference Information Now Available On-Line

Posted by: Dave Peterson <dlpetersuchicago.edu>
Posted: 27 Oct 2004


Dear Colleagues,

The website for the 2nd University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology 
Conference, scheduled for April 15-16, 2005, is now up and running. You will 
find the website at <http://acc.spc.uchicago.edu/eurasianconference>.

The Call for Papers, Participant Form, Transportation Options, and 
Accommodation Information are posted on the website in documents available 
to view and download. Please pass this message on to interested friends and 
colleagues.

We hope to see you in Chicago in April!

With very best wishes,

Eurasian Archaeology Conference Committee
University of Chicago

CONF./CFP- Social & Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University, April 2005

Posted by: Zhanara Nauruzbayeva <zhanarastanford.edu>
Posted: 26 Oct 2004


Call for Papers

First Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social 
Anthropology
Anthropology of the State - the State of Anthropology

Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9, 2005

Deadline for 100-150 word abstracts: no later than January 1, 2005

This graduate student conference aims to bring together students and 
professors from the San Francisco Bay area and beyond in the interests of 
interdisciplinary research, with particular regard to anthropology and 
cultural studies.

The ideas of the nation and the State, as metaphors for the dynamics of 
power and the production of identities, are sites of elaborate theoretical 
legacies. Spatial configurations of the local, the global, the national and 
the transnational resonate with explicit or implicit references to the State 
as a material, as well as ideological, construction. As such, discussions of 
the State figure into just about any social analysis.

Rather than reifying the State, we would like to conceptualize it as a set 
of discourses and practices - as a site of cultural and social production 
that is imbricated in diffuse power relations and forms of governmentality. 
Instead of positing a fixed definition of the State, this conference seeks 
to explore how an anthropological approach can contribute innovative ways of 
conceptualizing power. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, we will 
investigate how the State is implicated in our research, as well as in the 
changing paradigms of our fields.

We are seeking the most compelling papers reflecting on a broad range of 
topics, from political economy, neoliberalism, race and class, to religion, 
violence, performance, texts, science & technology studies, collective 
memory, identity, gender, migration, sovereignty, international human rights 
regimes, popular culture, medical anthropology, diaspora, materiality, and 
questions of national identity.

During the conference proceedings, panels will give way to a range of 
workshops, which will provide a more intimate and slightly less structured 
environment for graduate students and discussants to exchange ideas on 
conference themes.  Presentations will be 15 minutes long (papers should be 
6-7 pages in length).

Faculty discussants will include: Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine, Anthropology), 
Philippe Bourgois (UCSF, Anthropology), Donald Donham (UC Davis, 
Anthropology), James Ferguson (Stanford, Anthropology), Laurie Hart 
(Haverford College, Anthropology), Matthew Kohrman (Stanford, Anthropology), 
Liisa Malkki (Stanford, Anthropology), Purnima Mankekar (Stanford, 
Anthropology), Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley, Anthropology), George Marcus 
(Rice, Anthropology), Bill Maurer (UC Irvine, Anthropology), Lisa Rofel (UC 
Santa Cruz, Anthropology), Roger Rouse (UC Davis, Anthropology), Carol Smith 
(UC Davis, Anthropology), Barbara Voss (Stanford, Anthropology), Sylvia 
Yanagisako (Stanford, Anthropology), and more to be announced in the months 
ahead.

Guidelines for Submissions:

Paper proposals should incorporate one or more of the themes of the 
conference, listed above.  A proposal for a paper should consist of a 
100-150 word abstract.  Paper proposals must also include the paper title, 
and the name, day and evening phone numbers, fax number, e-mail address, 
surface mail address and institutional affiliation of the presenter.

Electronic Submissions:

Please send submissions (as well as inquiries) by email to: 
stanford2005conferencehotmail.com, either included in the body of the email 
message or as an email attachment (in Word DOC or RTF format).

Non-Electronic Submissions:

If you are unable to email your proposal, you may send either a 
PC-compatible floppy disk containing the document (in Word DOC or RTF 
format) to:

Submissions, Graduate Student Conference
Anthropology of the State - the state of Anthropology
Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Stanford University
Building 110, Main Quad
Stanford, CA 94305
USA

Deadline for receipt of submission of abstract: 5:00 p.m. January 1, 2005

Presenters will be notified of the conference committee's decision by email 
by February 5, 2005.

Presenters must submit a final draft of their paper by 5:00pm March 1, 2005

There will be no conference registration fee.

CONF./CFP- 12th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conf., Indiana Univ., April 2005

Posted by: Assoc. of Central Eurasian Students <acesindiana.edu>
Posted: 26 Oct 2004


The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) of Indiana University

Call for Papers

12th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference

Saturday April 9, 2005

ACES invites panel and individual paper proposals for the Twelfth Annual 
Central Eurasian Studies Conference to be held on Saturday April 9, 2005 at 
Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Graduate students, professors 
and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts of papers on 
Central Eurasian issues in all fields. Central Eurasia is defined, for the 
purpose of this conference, as the vast area and peoples of:

 - The Mongolian plateau (Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, southern Siberia, Kalmyks)
 - The Tibetan plateau and the Himalayas (Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan and
Sikkim)
 - The oases of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uighur)
 - The Steppe Turks (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tatars, Bashkirs)
 - Afghanistan and Iran
 - Turkey and Azerbaijan
 - The Finno-Ugric peoples (Hungary, Finland, Estonia)


Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged. Individual 
papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the conference committee to 
a suitable panel.

New this year: An honorable distinction of best paper will be awarded.

Submission Instructions

The following information is required for submissions:

1) names of all authors (also note name of the person presenting the paper)
2) institutional affiliation and title/position
3) contact information: e-mail address, postal address, telephone/fax numbers
4) one page Curriculum Vitae
5) title of paper
6) an abstract of the paper, which is no more than 300 words and is in a 
   publishable condition for the booklet of conference abstracts
7) specify geographic location and thematic panel preference. Thematic panel 
   preferences include but are not limited to: SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES, 
   NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY, NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, MUSIC AND CULTURE, 
   POLITICS, HISTORY, EDUCATION, ARCHAEOLOGY
8) requests for any audio-visual equipment requests (overhead, slide 
   projector, Powerpoint, etc.)

Please note that abstracts longer than 300 words may be rejected.
ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.

Deadlines:

International submissions: December 1, 2004
Domestic submissions: February 1, 2005

International presenters will be informed by December 20, 2004.
Domestic presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 20, 2005.

Submit this information:

via e-mail as an attachment (.doc or .rtf formats preferred) to:
ACESindiana.edu

Or a hard copy sent to:

The Twelfth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference
Goodbody Hall 157
Indiana University
1011 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA

Fax: (812) 855-7500
Telephone: (812) 855-9510

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- Panel on Altai-Sayan Region, 2005 ESCAS Conf., Krakow

Posted by: Agnieszka Halemba <halembaeth.mpg.de>
Posted: 26 Oct 2004


Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a panel for the 9th Conference of the European Society for 
Central Asian Studies, to be held 12-14 September 2005 in Krakow, Poland.

We would like to create a space where researchers working on contemporary 
processes in the Altai-Sayan region can meet and discuss the potential 
contributions of Altai-Sayan regional studies to larger theoretical debates 
(please see panel description below).

Paper proposals from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences 
will be considered. The deadline for submission of the panel proposal is 15 
November. Therefore, we must have your paper proposals by 12 November. 
Please send a title of your presentation and a 200-word abstract to 
halembaeth.mpg.de and donahoeeth.mpg.de

We look forward to receiving your abstracts.

Brian Donahoe
Agnieszka Halemba
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle/Saale
Germany

Panel proposal
ESCAS 9th Conference, 12-14 September 2005
Central Asia: The Local, the Regional and the Global
Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland

Panel co-chaired by Dr Agnieszka Halemba and Dr Brian Donahoe
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/ Saale, Germany

The Altai-Sayan Region: At the Crossroads of Area Studies

The Altai-Sayan region is situated at the point where Russia, China, 
Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together. It is an ecological transition zone 
between the boreal forests of Siberia and the Inner Asian steppes; a 
linguistic and cultural transition zone between Turkic and Mongolic peoples; 
and a meeting point between Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and local 
religious traditions. This region has been recognized as an ecological unit 
(e.g. by the WWF in the context of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion Initiative), 
yet it falls between the cracks of the traditional academic institutional 
"area studies" approach, which recognizes Inner Asian Studies, Central Asian 
Studies, and Russian Studies (including Siberia). While scholars working in 
this region fruitfully draw on literature and approaches from all sides of 
this tripartite division, for purposes of conferences, publications, and 
general regional affiliation,  they find themselves pushed by the existing 
structure of academia to affiliate with one or another of the recognized 
"areas," or to constantly switch between them. Rarely (if ever) have 
scholars of the Altai-Sayan region had the opportunity to meet at one 
conference and discuss the complex blend of social, political, economic, and 
ecological phenomena present in this diverse area.

This panel will bring together scholars working within the Altai-Sayan 
region. Our aim is to create a space for researchers interested in this 
region to discuss their work, consider future collaboration and explore the 
potential contributions of Altai-Sayan regional studies to larger 
theoretical debates.

Confirmed presenters:

Dr Brian Donahoe
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Dr Agnieszka Halemba
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Stefan Kirst
PhD student Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Dr Istvan Santha
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Dr Lukasz Smyrski
Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, Poland

CONFERENCE- Dynamics of Transformation in Central Asia, Rome, Italy, Nov. 5-6

Posted by: Matteo Fumagalli <M.Fumagallisms.ed.ac.uk>
Posted: 25 Oct 2004


'Dynamics of Transformation in Central Asia - Perspectives from the Field'
Rome, Italy
5-6 November 2004

The Central Asia Research Network (CARN), the UK Central Asia Graduate 
Students Network, the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and 
the Caucasus (ASIAC), and the University of Roma Tre (Rome, Italy) would 
like to invite all interested parties to attend the conference 'Dynamics of 
Transformation in Central Asia -  Perspectives from the Field', Rome Italy, 
on the 5-6 November 2004. The event is hosted by The Department of History, 
Geography and Anthropology of the University of Rome III (Dipartimento di 
Studi Storici Geografici Antropologici, Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, 
located at via Ostiense 236, Rome).

The focus of the conference is to provide a forum for Ph.D. students working 
on Central Asia to present and discuss their research. The conference will 
consists of about twenty presenters grouped into thematic panels with 
opportunity for discussion in each. In the great majority of cases they will 
be presenting results based on original fieldwork.

All are welcome to attend, particularly those at Ph.D. level. If you are 
aware of students in your institution who are starting out on or considering 
Ph.D.  level research, we would request that you pass the information on to 
them. The previous six such conferences have proven an excellent opportunity 
to build one's academic network and discuss research issues with peers in an 
informal environment.

Final program

Friday 5th November

Panel 1: Identity (trans)Formation in Central Asia

 - Alisher Ilkhamov (Open Society Foundation - London.  London, UK): Origins 
   of Uzbek Identity and Implications for Fieldwork Research
 - Courtney A. Mills (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK): 
   Deconstructing a National Narrative: Niyazov's Project of Historical 
   Revision in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan
 - Gero Fedtke (Humboldt University, Germany): How Bukharans Turned into 
   Uzbeks and Tajiks
 - Matteo Fumagalli (University of Edinburgh, UK): Ideas and frames among 
   Uzbeks 'abroad'

Panel 2: Institutions and Social Dynamics

 - John Heathershaw (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK): 
   Understanding Institution-Building in Tajik State and Civil Society Using 
   Levels of Analysis: the Cases of Decentralization, Judicial Reform and 
   Political Parties/Elections
 - Anja Schoeller-Schletter (University of Bonn, Germany): Deficits in legal 
   design and implementation: How excessive executive power and limited checks 
   and balances impede institutional reform in Uzbekistan
 - Gunda Wiegman (Free University of Berlin, Germany): the Role of Formal 
   and Informal Local Institutions in the Process of Stabilization in
Tajikistan

Panel 3: Religion and Islam in Contemporary Central Asia

 - Habiba Fathi (IFEAC, Tashkent, Uzbekistan): The Particularities of 
   Women's Religious Practices in Post-Soviet Central Asia
 - Paolo Sartori (University 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy): Islah, Ijtihad and 
   Taqlid: Islamic Reformism and Salafiyya on the Shaping of Contemporary
Islam 
   in Uzbekistan
 - Irene Hilgers (Max-Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle, 
   Germany): Do Uzbeks Have to be Muslim? The Religious Marketplace and the 
   Question of Uzbek Identity

Panel 4: Civil Society: New Approaches

 - Romana Careja (University of Bern, Switzerland): Building civil society 
   in Kyrgyzstan: where ideals and politics collide
 - Brian Grodsky (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, US): Organizational 
   Responses to Repression: From Political Opposition to Human Rights Advocacy 
   in Uzbekistan

Saturday 6 November 2004

Panel 5: Gender and Family

 - Igor Savin (NGO Dialog, Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early 
   Warning of Conflict, Kazakhstan)  Ethnicity and sexuality in post-soviet 
   Kazakhstan: changing identities and statuses among European women in
Asiatic 
   multicultural society
 - Chiara De Santi (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) Cultural 
   Revolution and Resistance in Uzbekistan during 1920s. New Perspectives on 
   the Woman Question
 - Irina T. Liczek (New School University, New York, NY - US): The limits of 
   gender policy-making in contemporary Central Asia: the cases of
Turkmenistan 
   and Kyrgyzstan

Panel 6: Transformations in Rural Societies

 - Niccolo Pianciolla (Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati, Neaples, Italy): 
   Nomads, Peasants, and the State: Decolonization in Semireche 1920-22
 - Tommaso Trevisani (Centre for Development Research, Bonn, Germany): 
   Decollectivisation and Social Transformations in Uzbekistan
 - Nodir Djanibekov (Centre for Development Research, Bonn, Germany): Input 
   and Output Interlinks among Large Farms, Private Farms and Households in 
   Khorezm Region

Panel 7: Security and issues of state transformation in Central Asia

 - Fabrizio Vielmini (Ehess, Paris, France), Implications of US Military 
   Presence in Central Asia Security System: Evolution, Current Situation, and 
   Future Perspectives
 - Luca Anceschi (LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia): Central Asian 
   Diplomatic Elites in the Post-Soviet Era: Transformation or Transition

The organising committee:

Chiara De Santi (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
Matteo Fumagalli (Edinburgh University, UK)
Paolo Sartori (University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
Tommaso Trevisani (Centre for Development Research, Bonn, Germany)

For all enquiries contact romeconference2004yahoo.com.

CONF./CFP- ASN 2005 Convention, Paper Submission Deadline November 4

Posted by: Dominique Arel <dareluottawa.ca>
Posted: 25 Oct 2004


Please send your proposals to Dominique Arel at dareluottawa.ca (backup 
address: darelbrown.edu)

Call for Papers

"Understanding Nationalism: Identity, Empire, Conflict"

10th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of 
Nationalities (ASN)

International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
14-16 April 2005

100 panels on the Balkans, the Baltics, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, 
Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkey, Greece, Afghanistan, 
Pakistan, Kurdistan, China, and Mongolia

**INCLUDING a Special Section on Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism**

AS WELL AS thematic panels on Islamic Movements, Genocide and Ethnic 
Violence, Anthropology of Identity, Citizenship and Nationality, Conflict 
Resolution, Demography, and EU Expansion

AND the screening and discussion of new ** Films/Documentaries**

The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary 
scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of 
topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict, 
state-building and the study of empires in Central/Eastern Europe, the 
former Soviet Union, Eurasia, and adjacent areas. Disciplines represented 
include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, economics, 
geography, socio-linguistics, psychology, and related fields.

For the second consecutive year, the 2005 Convention will feature a new 
section devoted to theoretical approaches to nationalism, from any of the 
disciplines listed above. The papers in this section do not necessarily have 
to be grounded in an area of the former Communist bloc usually covered by 
ASN, provided that the issues examined are relevant to a truly comparative 
understanding of nationalism-related issues. In this vein, we are welcoming 
theory-focused and comparative proposals, rather than specific case studies 
from outside Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

The 2005 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries or 
feature films made within the past year and available in VHS or DVD format. 
Most videos selected for the convention will be screened during regular 
panel slots and will be followed by a discussion moderated by an academic 
expert.

The 2005 Convention invites proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS or PANELS. A 
panel includes a chair, three presentations based on written papers, and a 
discussant. Proposals using an INNOVATIVE format are also particularly 
encouraged. Examples of new formats include a roundtable on a new book, 
where the author is being engaged by three discussants; a debate between two 
panelists over a critical research or policy question, following rules of 
public debating; or special presentations based on original papers where the 
number of discussants is equal or greater than the number of presenters.

The 2005 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as DISCUSSANT on a 
panel to be created by the program committee from individual paper 
proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be 
self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal.

There is NO APPLICATION FORM to fill out in order to send proposals to the 
convention. All proposals must sent by email to Dominique Arel at 
dareluottawa.ca. INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS must include the name and 
affiliation of the author, the title of the paper, a 500 word abstract and a 
100 word biographical statement. PANEL PROPOSALS must include the title of 
the panel; a chair, three paper-givers, and a discussant; and the name, 
affiliation, email and 100 word biographical statement of each participant. 
PROPOSALS USING AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT must include the title of the panel; 
the names, affiliations, emails, and a 100 word biographical statements of 
each participant and a discussion on the proposed format. INDIVIDUAL 
PROPOSALS TO SERVE AS DISCUSSANT must include the name, affiliation, and 
areas of expertise of the applicant and a 100 word biographical statement.

All proposals must be included IN THE BODY OF A SINGLE EMAIL. Attachments 
will be accepted only if they repeat the content of an email 
message/proposal, and if all the information is contained IN A SINGLE 
ATTACHMENT.

Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation 
costs. ASN has no funding available for panelists.

An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of 
proposals. Applicants will be notified in December 2004 or early January 
2005. Information regarding registration costs and other logistical 
questions will be communicated afterwards.

Panels related to Eurasia in previous conventions included:

 - Regional and National Minorities in Central Asia and the Middle East
 - Identity among Uzbeks and Tajiks
 - Population and Demography in Central Asia
 - Privatization in Eurasia: Legal and Ethnographic Perspectives
 - Security Issues in the South Caucasus
 - Chechnya: The Emergence of an Ideologized Conflict
 - Minorities in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
 - Discourses of Nationalism in Turkey
and many more.

The full list of panels from last year's convention, for the geographical 
and thematic sections, the video screenings, and the new section on Theories 
of Nationalism, can be accessed at:

http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2004_Final_Program.pdf.

The programs from past conventions, going back to 2001, are also online.

Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised 
in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space, 
advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For 
information, please contact Convention Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos 
(gnb12columbia.edu).

People are invited to join ASN by logging in to 
http://www.nationalities.org/member_Info.asp. A yearly membership to ASN is 
$60 ($35 for students). Members receive the journal Nationalities Papers 
quarterly, a registration discount at the ASN Annual World Convention, and 
other perks.

The London-based Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism 
(ASEN) is holding its 15th Annual Conference, entitled Nation and Empire, on 
Wednesday and Thursday, April 20-21, 2005, at the London School of 
Economics, four days after the ASN Convention concludes in New York. 
European scholars are invited to consider submitting proposals to both 
academic gatherings. Acceptance by the ASN Convention will not preclude an 
acceptance by the ASEN conference, and vice versa. Details for the London 
conference can be found at 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/conference2005.htm

We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

The Convention organizing committee:

Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director
Troy McGrath, Program Chair
David Crowe, ASN Chair of Advisory Board
Dominique Arel, ASN President

Deadline for proposals: 4 November 2004 (dareluottawa.ca)(backup address: 
darelbrown.edu)

The ASN convention's headquarters are located at the:

Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB
420 W. 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
USA

Tel: 212 854 8487
Fax: 212 666 3481
E-mail: gnb12columbia.edu

SEMINAR- Alisher Ilkhamov, Radical Islam in Uzbekistan, Oct. 28, Univ. of London

Posted by: Nim Nijjer <nn2SOAS.AC.UK>
Posted: 22 Oct 2004


Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar:

'Radical Islam in Uzbekistan'

Alisher Ilkhamov,
Open Society Institute, London

Thursday, 28th October at 17:30

Room G52
Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
London, United Kingdom

CONF./CFP- Int'l Society for Folk Narrative Research, Tartu, Estonia, July 2005

Posted by: Maret Kark <maretkut.ee>
Posted: 22 Oct 2004


14th Congress of International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Tartu

NB! Registration deadline prolonged until 1. November!!!

Various fields of research have been concerned with the study of narratives 
and performance in the past dozens of years. This has brought along searches 
and experiments in folklore studies and linguistics, ethnology and 
psychology, social anthropology and medical science, geography and fine arts.

During the last ten years the focus has been on communication in the 
Internet, and the relationship between media and oral narrative tradition.  
Oral history, identification of self and ethnicity through narratives, links 
between fiction and reality, moral issues, the second life of narratives in 
printed publications and archives have inspired scholars to study new and 
traditional folk narratives.

The 14th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research 
(ISFNR) will be held in July 26-31, 2005, in Tartu, Estonia. The Society, 
founded in 1958, supports and encourages scholarly research in folklore.

The Congresses are held in every four years, with regional interim 
conferences in-between. The ISFNR members take interest in a number of 
disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including folklore 
studies, anthropology, cultural studies, comparative literatures, 
linguistics, history, museology, education and ethnography.

The central topic of the Tartu Congress will be Narrative Theories and 
Modern Practices. The program will include plenary sessions, workshops, 
thematic panel sessions and forums. The publications and periodicals issued 
since the 13th congress will be displayed. Poster presentations will 
introduce research centres and disciplines.

Themes of the congress sessions are:

1. Theoretical schools of folk narrative research
2. Narrative genres: survival and changes
3. Public and private
4. Networks
5. Cross-cultural communication
6. Mapping and storing

Registration and further information on themes and sessions on the Congress 
website: <http://www.folklore.ee/isfnr>

Due date for registration is November 1, 2004, and due date for abstracts 
April 15, 2005. For further information, and also if you wish to set up a 
panel, forum or round-table discussion, please contact the local organising 
committee by mail, e-mail or fax.

About folklorists in Estonia

The congress will be held in Tartu, Estonia. Estonian folklore has been 
recorded since the 1840s. Tartu University opened a chair of folkloristics 
in 1919, the Academic Folklore Society was established in 1925 and Estonian 
Folklore Archive in 1927, 1947 Department of Folkloristics, etc.  Folklore 
publications in (both Estonian and) English include different series of 
scientific publications, conferences and seminars are held.  Currently, 
folklore can be studied in Tartu from the BA to PhD levels.

About Tartu, the congress city

Tartu is the second largest town in Estonia with 101 901 inhabitants 
(01/01/98). Tartu is situated in southeastern Estonia on the banks of the 
scenic river Emajgi (the Mother River). The town is considered to be the 
oldest both in Estonia and also in the Baltic States, first being mentioned 
in historical Slavic chronicles in 1030. In 1224, after the German Brethren 
of the Sword had captured Tartu, it became the centre of a bishopric. In 
medieval times the town was an important trading town belonging to the 
Hanseatic League. During its long and complicated history Tartu has been 
under Russian, Polish, Swedish and German rule. In accordance with the 
changes of the governing power Tartu has had several different names: 
Tarbatu, Dorpat, Derpt, Jurjev.  Tartu is known as the cradle of Estonian 
culture. This fame goes back to the year 1632 when the Swedish King Gustav 
II Adolph founded a university here. The first Estonian song festival was 
held here in 1869, and the oldest Estonian theatre Vanemuine was founded the 
following year. Nowadays Tartu is an interesting town with an exciting blend 
of culture, science, art and history, as well as vibrant economy.

ISFNR 14 Vanemuise 42 EE 51003 TARTU ESTONIA fax: +3727-377-706 e-mail: 
isfnrfolklore.ee.

On behalf of the organising committee,
Mare Koiva,
Estonian Literary Museum

LECTURE- Tom de Waal, A Loya Jirga for Chechnya, Oct. 25, Columbia Univ., New York

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 21 Oct 2004


A Loya Jirga for Chechnya?
by Tom de Waal (Institute for War & Peace Reporting)

Harriman Institute Chechnya Speaker Series

Monday, October 25, 2004
12:00 pm

Harriman Institute/Columbia University, Room 1219
420 West 118th Street
New York

After more than a decade of protracted violent conflict, chaos and 
cataclysmic change, few good strategies for restoring peace and normalcy in 
Chechnya remain. In light of the failure of "Chechenization", negotiations 
and "anti-terrorist operations" etc., Tom de Waal is proposing a return to 
Chechnya's traditional parliamentary model as a way to reconcile Chechen 
society and to find arrangements with Russia and promote peace.

Tom de Waal has been the London-based Caucasus Editor and Program Manager at 
the Institute for War and Peace Reporting since 2002. He has spent the past 
fifteen years writing about the former Soviet Union. He completed a degree 
in Russian and Modern Greek at Oxford before working for the BBC, the Moscow 
Times and the Times in London and Moscow. He is co-author with Carlotta Gall 
of Chechnya: A Small Victorious War, the first full-length book about 
Chechnya in English and is author of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan 
Through Peace and War, the first thorough book in English about the Nagorny 
Karabakh conflict.

www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html

CONF./CFP- 9th Annual ESCAS Conference, September 2005, Krakow, Poland

Posted by: Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek <gabriele.rasulyunivie.ac.at>
Posted: 21 Oct 2004


CALL for PAPERS 1st CIRCULAR

European Society for Central Asian Studies Ninth Conference on Central Asia: 
The Local, the Regional and the Global

12-14 September 2005

Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland

The European Society for Central Asia Studies invites panel and paper 
proposals for the Ninth Conference, to be held in the historical city of 
Krakow, Poland. The event will be co-organized by the Institute of Oriental 
Philology of the Jagiellonian University and the Foundation "Institute for 
Strategic Studies".

The proposed overarching theme for the conference is the interconnection of 
local, regional and global trends throughout time and space. For centuries 
Central Asia has functioned as a link between various regions, most notably 
the Middle East, South Asia and China. Developments in Central Asia have not 
only had their impact on these adjacent regions. Central Asia itself has 
been exposed to various regional and global influences throughout its 
history, amongst others leading to shifts in the importance of Central Asia. 
Following a period where Central Asia represented one of major global 
centres, the region turned into a periphery during the era of colonialism 
and imperialism. As a result of recent political and economic 
reconfigurations and the ruptures associated with transformation processes 
in the wider region, Central Asia regained its focal position in the 
political, economic and cultural considerations. This new attention to the 
region is at the same time closely related to a modern globalizing world, in 
which rapid transformation processes take place at an increasing speed.  
These developments, however, have their historical roots, local and regional 
backgrounds and repercussions. The shifts in the centrality of Central Asia 
are manifested in various domains of the socio/political and cultural 
developments and are not new to the region, which in the past was one of the 
major global continuums.

Central Asia's linkages and their impulses will be highlighted in the 
discussions during the conference and analysed from various angles 
throughout time and space.

Panels and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social 
sciences on Central Asia are welcome in particular such as:

 - history & archaeology;
 - sociology & anthropology;
 - language &  literature;
 - religion & philosophy;
 - folklore studies & ethnography;
 - civil society & human rights;
 - political sciences & economics;
 - environment & development;
 - regional, cross-regional & trans-national studies.

The geographic domain of Central Asia according to the definition of the 
ESCAS covers contemporary Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, 
Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Northern Iran, Northern Afghanistan, North-Western 
China, Trans-Caspia and South Siberia.

Submissions of pre-organized panels and roundtable proposals are strongly 
encouraged and will be given some preference in the selection process. 
Individual papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Organizer to 
an appropriate panel.

Attendees who do not wish to present a paper but would like to be a 
chair/discussant are most welcome. Please indicate your preference upon 
pre-registration.

1. Modalities:
Venue: historical buildings of the one of the eldest universities of Europe 
Collegium Novum & Collegium Maius.

Language: English. No translation facilities will be provided.

2. Submission of Proposals
Program limitations: Each participant may present only one paper at the 
conference. Each paper presentation should not exceed 20 minutes. The 
presenters are encouraged to prepare and bring with them handouts or any 
other materials for distribution, as the Organizers will not be able to 
provide photocopying or computer services.

To ensure a broad and active participation, any individual should appear at 
maximum at two panels as a chair or a discussant.

Commitment to participate: When submitting a proposal, the Organizers assume 
a serious intention to participate. This includes also undertake steps to 
obtain necessary travel permissions and visas.  Please remember that as of 1 
May 2004 Poland has joined the European Union and visa requirements have 
changed. Should you need any information (www.msz.gov.pl) or visa support, 
the Organizers must be informed together with submission of a proposal. Once 
the proposal has been accepted, the participation must be confirmed.

Submission format:

 - An abstract and a brief CV for individual papers, including contact 
details, in particular e-mail address/fax number.
 - A panel programme incl. abstracts and brief CVs of contributors.
Only English language electronic submissions will be accepted in the MS Word 
format.

Ensuring quality proposals: Since the selection process may be competitive, 
the presenters and panel organizers are expected to ensure the proper 
quality of papers, including submission formats for abstracts and final 
papers according to academic standards and publishable quality. The 
Organizers plan to produce a book of abstracts and subsequently a 
publication of conference proceedings (see attached excellent models of 
Abstract and Paper Guidelines kindly made available by the Central Eurasian 
Studies Society).

Equipment: Together with the proposals, the author is asked to indicate the 
need for audio-visual equipment and the technical 
specifications/requirements. This is an important notification as the 
Organizers may not be able to accommodate all requests. Should the equipment 
request be changed/abandoned, please inform immediately the Organizers.

Panels:

Pre-organized panels should be thematically coherent and should include:
 - a title
 - a programme/abstracts
 - details of panel chair and discussant(s) as well as participants.

Pre-organized panels should include not more than five presentations, should 
identify a chair and discussants. Panel organizers are also very much 
encouraged to ensure funding for participants Central Asia, Caucasus and 
Afghanistan.

Roundtables:

Organized as open discussions, the proposals can refer to presentations made 
by/on organizations, research initiatives, network groups, curricula etc.

Publication of conference papers:

The Organizers plan to publish conference proceedings/papers, pending 
availability of funds. The presenters are requested to preliminarily 
indicate the interest in including their papers in the volume upon submission.

3. Schedule of Key dates:
Submission of proposals: 31 October 2004

Notification of acceptance: 1 January 2005

Pre-registration: 15 January 2005

Submission of papers to the panel chair and discussants: 31 July 2005

4. Registration
Pre-registration is necessary for accommodation needs and limited space at 
the conference facilities. Upon pre-registration, there will be provided 
detailed information about accommodation standards and possibilities.

Conference fee is set for Euro 40.00, for students Euro 20, payable to the 
indicated bank account at pre-registration:

Bank BPH, Oddzial w Krakowie, ul. Golebia 24,  31-007 Krakow
45 1060 0076 0000 3100 0037 8244.

5. Travel and Accommodation

Travel
Krakow can be reached directly by air from Budapest, Chicago, Copenhagen, 
Frankfurt, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Tel Aviv, Vienna and 
Zurich. With the development of cheap carriers it is worthwhile to explore 
those airline, which provide such services. The airport Krakow-Balice is 
about 15 km outside Krakow. You can take an airport bus or taxi to the 
centre of Krakow. Otherwise one can fly through Warsaw and reach Krakow by 
intercity train (2,5 hrs).  There are also some international train 
connections  (www.pkp.com.pl) and numerous international coaches 
(www.eurobus.pl).

Accommodation
Dormitories
The primary accommodations for conference attendees are Student Hostels 
where about 100 rooms were preliminarily booked at a price of about Euro 25 
incl. Continental breakfast. Those interested in using the hostels should 
contact the Organizer not later than 31 October 2004.

Hotels
Krakow has several hotels in different price categories and standards 
ranging from Euro 35 single room incl. breakfast up to Euro 150 incl. 
breakfast. Reservations in those hotels should be made individually by 
looking up the Krakow hotels web-page address: 
http://www.warsawhotel.com/krakow-hotels.htm or ORBIS travel agent: 
http://www.orbis.pl. These are individual arrangements and the organizers 
will not be responsible for any inconveniences or financial issues.

Support for covering costs of participation
NOTE: The Organizers DOES NOT have funds to support the costs of conference 
participation. Participants are strongly advised to seek their own funding 
from own institutions or grant-giving organizations.

As a special incentive for participants from Central Asia, Caucasus and 
Afghanistan, the Organizers will try to seek funds to cover the 
accommodation costs at the Student Hostel.

Special facilities for handicapped are unfortunately not available in all 
conference venues.

Sightseeing tours will be organized.

Correspondence address:
ESCAS IX
Institute of Oriental Philology
Jagiellonian University
Al. Mickiewicza 9/11
31-120 Krakow
Poland

Fax: 04812 4226793
E-mail: escas9thvela.filg.uj.edu.pl

Guidelines on Abstract format and Paper format:

Abstract format guidelines

An abstract is a very brief summary of your paper.  An abstract is not a 
description of the paper or an introduction to the paper.  Your abstract 
should be 200 to 300 words (abstracts longer than 300 words may be rejected 
by the selection committee with no further consideration) and should include 
the following information:

 - The topic of your paper. 
 - Your research method and/or sources.
 - Your specific argument and/or central findings so that anyone who reads 
   the abstract will know what the results of your research are.
 - The relevance of your argument or findings to a larger body of scholarly 
   literature.

Below is an example of a very good abstract from the 2001 CESS Annual 
Conference (submitted by Steven Duke; word count: 173 -- note that, at that 
time, the maximum word limit was 200):

This paper focuses on the development of schools for Tatars, Mordvinians, 
Ukrainians, and Germans in Saratov Province (Guberniia) from 1865 to 1895.  
These schools included two and three-class schools run by the Ministry of 
Education, confessional schools (Muslim, Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran), 
and locally supported public schools.  I argue that this section of the 
Middle Volga region experienced a significant expansion in the number of 
schools available and the number of pupils attending those schools in the 
last few decades of the nineteenth century, although significant challenges 
remained to the expansion of literacy and educational opportunities for the 
non-Russian population.  In contrast to standard interpretations, I argue 
that many communities were successful in exercising local initiative in 
their educational affairs; as a result, they experienced much more local 
autonomy than the Ministry of Education preferred.  This paper is based on 
published materials, including a four-volume study by the Saratov Provincial 
Academic Archeographical Commission, and on archival materials from the 
Saratov State Historical Archive.

Paper format guidelines

Theological Sources of the Taliban's Principles of Governance
Paper presented at the:
CESS 5th Annual Conference
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
14 October 2004
Ahmed Rashidov
Visiting Scholar
University of Westminster
Dept. of Religious Studies
127 Main Street
Westminster, MA 02173 U.S.A. 
tel. +1 (718) 765-4321
e-mail: arashidovunivwest.edu

WORKING PAPER: Not for citation or distribution without permission of the 
author.

Abstract
[A summary of the paper of 200 words or less.  See the Glossary above for a 
definition of the abstract.]

Introduction
[Presentation of the main argument of the paper and a description of how 
this argument will be developed in the course of the paper.]
[Body of the Paper]
[Elaboration of the argument with supporting evidence.]

Conclusion
[Concise re-statement of the paper's main contributions to scholarship.]
References [or Bibliography]
[Listing of the sources and scholarly literature which are cited in the 
paper, with complete bibliographical information on each item.]

CONF./CFP- Anthropology Panels Needed, 2005 AAASS Convention, Salt Lake City

Posted by: Katherine Verdery <verderyrsage.org>
Posted: 21 Oct 2004


From: Katherine M Verdery
E-mail: verderyrsage.org

Anthropologists of the former Soviet bloc: Panels needed for the December 
2005 AAASS meetings

Since 1989, opportunities have greatly increased for fieldwork in the 
countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Indeed, as other 
areas of the world have been shutting down, this region is the main "growth 
area" for anthropology.  The resulting work has been of excellent quality 
-so much so that three past presidents of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), considering our research in the 
region to be the most interesting of that in any field, have changed the 
dates of the  AAASS meetings so they no longer conflict with the AAA 
convention.  They also nominated an anthropologist (me) to run for the AAASS 
presidency; my election a year ago makes me the first anthropologist to hold 
this office.

In December 2005, the AAASS convention will feature anthropology, starting 
with the presidential address.  I am very eager to have a program full of 
anthropology panels, covering a wide spectrum of topics.  My goal is to show 
people in other fields the benefits an anthropological perspective can bring 
to the study of this region: how it enriches our understanding of the 
"sacred trinity" of research topics that have emerged so far (privatization, 
democratization, marketization) and broadens people's sense of the 
potentially interesting phenomena available for investigation.  It would be 
wonderful to have sessions ranging from Central Asia eastward to the new EU 
member states (Hungary, Poland, etc.), on topics ranging from the "sacred 
trinity" to consumption, religion and ritual, governmentality, personhood, 
transformations of time and space, EU accession, the forms neoliberalism is 
taking in this region, or whatever else anyone is working on.

The convention will be held in Salt Lake City, an unusually beautiful 
setting.  The standard format for AAASS panels is a chair, 3 papers, and 1-2 
discussants; the paper-giving slot is 20 minutes.  Ordinarily the program 
committee considers only pre-formed panels, not single submissions (we are 
working on changing that, but the change might not be in place for 2005).  
Panel submissions are due in early January. I would request that anyone 
thinking of submitting a panel let me know ahead of time at 
verderyrsage.org (please put "AAASS panel" in the subject line) so I can be 
sure something will be happening and perhaps coordinate.

Here is an opportunity to have real substantive exchange with other 
anthropologists working in our area, while engaging fellow area specialists 
in dialogue as well (something we can't do at Soyuz meetings).  Please grasp 
it!

Katherine Verdery
President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
E-mail: verderyrsage.org

PANEL DISCUSSION- Afghanistan's Presidential Election 2004, Asia Society, Oct. 26, New York

Posted by: Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield <akangaspuntasorosny.org>
Posted: 19 Oct 2004


Asia Society cordially invites you to:

Afghanistan's Presidential Election 2004

Speakers:

 - Kimberly Marten, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 
   Barnard College;
 - Nobutaka Miyahara, Professional Fellow, Weatherhead East Asia Institute 
   and Former DCM and Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan;
 - Robert Templer, Asia Program Director, International Crisis Group

Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
New York, NY

On October 9th, Afghanistan conducted its first direct presidential election 
that will be followed by parliamentary elections in 2005.  These are steps 
that will hopefully evolve a country ravaged by years of bloodshed to a more 
stable, prosperous and democratic state.  Even with the presence of 
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), warlords still hold sway in 
many regions and security issues continue to hamper the Transitional 
Government's efforts to stabilize and rebuild the country.  Where does the 
presidential election fit in Afghanistan's democratic transition? What's at 
stake in Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election? How can the people of 
Afghanistan be convinced to give up their tribal loyalties and think more in 
terms of one unified Afghanistan? How might the post-election Afghanistan 
address the issues of human rights, the role of the women and the role of 
religion?  What is the status of the reconstruction efforts and how can the 
international community play a more constructive role in this front?  Join 
us to discuss these and many more pertinent issues.

This program is part of a yearlong series at the Asia Society titled 
Elections 2004: The Changing Face of Asia? Major support for the Asia 
Society's Policy Programs is provided by the Nicholas Platt Endowment for 
Public Policy. **United Airlines is the Preferred Airline of Asia Society**

$7 Students w/ ID
$10 Member/NGO
$15 Nonmember

Advance registration or ticket purchase is highly recommended.  A credit 
card is required to hold a reservation.

Please call the Box Office at 212-517-ASIA, or send complete information by 
fax at 212-517-8315, or email: boxoasiasoc.org

SEMINAR- The Great Gamble? Elections in Afghanistan, Oct. 20, Univ. of London

Posted by: Nim Nijjer <nn2SOAS.AC.UK>
Posted: 19 Oct 2004


The Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus is pleased to 
present the details of this week's seminar:

Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 17.30 hrs

Room G60
Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
London, United Kingdom

Andrew Wilder, Director, Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul
'The Great Gamble? Elections in Afghanistan'

For further details please contact Dr Bhavna Dave, telephone +44 (0)20 7898 
4734 or email bd4soas.ac.uk or Mrs Nim Nijjer email nn2soas.ac.uk.

Mrs Nim K Nijjer
Manager, Centres & Programmes Office
Brunei Gallery
SOAS
10 Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London, WC1H 0XG
Tel: 020 7898 4893
Email: nn2soas.ac.uk / centressoas.ac.uk

CONFERENCE- Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, Nov. 5-6, 2004, London

Posted by: Ildiko Beller-Hann <beller-hannowz.uni-halle.de>
Posted: 15 Oct 2004


Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia

The Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus at the School of 
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, will host an international 
conference entitled "Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia" 
on November 5-6, 2004. The conference is sponsored by the China and Inner 
Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies in conjunction with the 
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, by the British Academy, and by SOAS. Its aim is 
to explore through a comparative, multi-disciplinary approach the 
'in-between-ness' of the Uyghurs, a people whose study has traditionally 
fallen within either Central Asian Studies or Sinology. This conference 
brings together 16 scholars from different ethnic, national and disciplinary 
backgrounds.

All sessions are free and open to the public. However, we request that 
potential auditors contact Rachel Harris (rhsoas.ac.uk) in advance.

For more information please contact any of the organisers:

Ildiko Beller-Hann (beller-hannowz.uni-halle.de)
M. Cristina Cesaro (cristinacesarovirgilio.it)
Rachel Harris (rhsoas.ac.uk)
Joanne N. Smith (J.Smithnewcastle.ac.uk)

PROGRAMME

All sessions will be held in Room B102 in the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, 
Thornhaugh St. Russell Square, London.

FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER

9.00-9.30 Registration, Brunei Gallery lobby

9.30 Welcome from the head of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and 
the Caucasus
Ildiko Beller-Hann - Opening remarks

MORNING SESSION: Setting the Scene - Demography, Politics and Contemporary 
Tourism

9.45 Nicolas Becquelin - Research Director, Human Rights in China, Hong Kong.
"Bettering the Uyghurs: State Strategies in Xinjiang, 1955-2005."

10.30David Wang - Institute of Modern Languages, University of Queensland, 
Brisbane, Australia.
"The Uyghurs and Disparity in Xinjiang's Social Demography."

11.15 Coffee break

11.30 Gardner Bovingdon - Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana 
University, USA.
"The Influence of Central Asian Politics on Uyghurs' Political Visions."

12.15 Rahila Dawut - Literature Department, Xinjiang University, Urumchi, PR 
China.
"Are the Uyghurs prepared for the fast development of tourism in Xinjiang?"

13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: Multiplicity and Hybridity of Uyghur Identities

14.30 Laura Newby - Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
"What made a Uyghur?"

15.15 Arienne M. Dwyer - Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, USA.
"Local identities and local dialects: the ethnodialectology of Uyghur."

16.00 Coffee break

Presentation by Jun Sugawara, Department of History, Aoyama Gakuin 
University, Japan.
ORIAS (Online Resources for Inner Asian Studies) - the new online database 
of works on Xinjiang and Union List of Chaghatay manuscripts.

16.30 Joanne N. Smith - School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle 
Upon Tyne, UK.
"'Ethnic Anomaly' or Modern Uyghur Survivor? A Case Study of the Minkaohan 
Hybrid Identity in Xinjiang."

17.15 Sean R. Roberts - USAID/Central Asia Mission, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
"'The Dawn of the East': A Portrait of a Uyghur Community Between China and 
Kazakhstan."

SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER

MORNING SESSION: Uyghur language, literature, arts and music

9.30 Asad Sulayman - Literature Department, Xinjiang University, Urumchi, PR 
China.
"The Emergence of Uyghur Surname Problems in Xinjiang: A Discussion of the 
Current Reformation of Uyghur Names and Surnames."

10.15 Michael Friederich - Bamberg University, Germany.
"Uyghur representations of Xinjiang realities."

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Nathan Light - Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of 
Toledo, USA.
"Jimjit Yatqan Qum: Mapping Uyghur Cultural Territory."

12.15 Rachel Harris - Music Department, SOAS, University of London, UK.
"Regional Traditions of Muqam across Central Asia."

13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: Uyghur Socio-Cultural Practices

14.30 Cristina Cesaro - independent scholar, Italy.
"Polo, laghman, so say: Situating Uyghur Food between Central Asia and China."

15.15 Ablet Kamalov - Institute of Oriental Studies, Kazakh Academy of 
Sciences; Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
"The Uyghurs as a part of Central Asian commonality."

16.00 Coffee break

16.15 Edmund Waite - Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit (MIASU), 
Cambridge University, UK.
"The Emergence of Muslim Reformism in Chinese Central Asia: Islam amongst 
the Uyghurs of Kashgar."

17.00 Ildiko Beller-Hann - Centre for Oriental Studies, Martin Luther 
University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
"Ritual and Belief among the Uyghur in a Comparative Framework."

17.45 Concluding remarks

19.30 pm Dinner for the participants and invited guests

Dr Ildiko Beller-Hann
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum
Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Muehlweg 15
Halle/Saale
D-06114
Germany

OSI FORUM- Tom de Waal, The North Caucasus After Beslan, Oct. 26, New York

Posted by: Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield <akangaspuntasorosny.org>
Posted: 14 Oct 2004


The Central Eurasia Project invites you to attend:

The North Caucasus After Beslan

with

Tom de Waal
Caucasus Editor and Program Manager
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
12:30 2:00 pm

Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
Third Floor, Room 3A
New York, NY 10019

Tom de Waal has been the London-based Caucasus Editor and Program Manager at 
the Institute for War and Peace Reporting since 2002. De Waal spent the past 
fifteen years writing about the former Soviet Union. He completed a degree 
in Russian and Modern Greek at Oxford, before working for the BBC, the 
Moscow Times and the Times in London and Moscow. He is co-author with 
Carlotta Gall of "Chechnya: A Small Victorious War," the first full-length 
book about Chechnya in English and is author of "Black Garden: Armenia and 
Azerbaijan Through Peace and War," the first thorough book in English about 
the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.

To RSVP please fax this sheet to Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield at (212) 548-4607 
or e-mail a response to akangaspuntasorosny.org.

Name: 
Affiliation: 
Lunch will be served.

CONF./CFP- The Golden Horde and Its Successor States, Istanbul, April 2005

Posted by: Timur Kocaoglu <tkocaogluku.edu.tr>
Posted: 14 Oct 2004


Call for Papers (1st Circular)

2nd International Conference on the Golden Horde and Its Successor States
Istanbul, 22-24 April 2005

Submission of abstracts are invited for the inter-disciplinary conference on 
the study of the Golden Horde state and its successor khanates of Kazan, 
Crimea, Astrakhan, and Siberia in the fields of history, culture (language, 
literature, arts, architecture, and music), politics, and economy. The first 
two panels will be devoted to the Golden Horde and the three panels to the 
successor khanates. There will be only two panels (morning and afternoon) 
each day and each panel will have 5 to 6 papers with two discussants at the 
end.

Abstracts should be ca. 500 words in length and should include a title.   
They must be received latest by November 15, 2004. The abstracts can be 
submitted by e-mail (preferred), by fax or by regular mail to: E-mail: 
tkocaogluku.edu.tr Fax: +90-212-338-1559 Mail: Timur Kocaoglu, Center for 
Strategic Studies, Koc University, Rumeli Feneri Yolu, Sariyer 34450, 
Istanbul, Turkey.

An international board consisting of distinguished Turkish, US, and Tatar 
scholars of the Golden Horde will examine and evaluate the proposed 
abstracts. The authors of the abstracts will be notified individually latest 
by December 6, 2004 whether or not their paper proposals were accepted by 
the board (full confidentiality is promised).  Those who will be instructed 
to write their conference papers, have to submit the final drafts of their 
papers latest by April 14, 2005 (the chairman and two discussants of each 
panel need to receive the papers of their panelists by April 15).

The languages of the conference are Turkish and English (simultaneous 
translations will be provided). The papers presented at the conference will 
be published in a single volume after six months (The authors will have 
three months to make corrections, additions or to expand their conference 
papers for the publication).

The conference will be held at a hotel with convenient conference facilities 
near the center of Istanbul (will be announced later). The travel, 
accommodation, and meal expenses of all authors of the accepted papers will 
be met by the organizing foundation.

The present conference is organized by the non-profit research foundation 
"Ayaz-Tahir Turkistan Idil-Ural Vakfi" (Ayaz-Tahir Turkistan Volga-Ural 
Foundation). This is a follow-up meeting of the following past conferences: 
"International Conference on the 750th Anniversary of the Golden Horde 
State" (Kazan State University, Kazan, Aug. 8-11, 1993); "From Kalkha to 
Astrakhan, 1223-1556: International Golden Horde History Research 
Conference" (Kazan State University, Kazan, June 23-26, 1998);  "Tatars and 
Tatarstan Conference" (Marmara University, Istanbul, February 27, 2003); and 
the "Volga-Ural Workshop" (Bilkent University, Ankara, Feb. 20-21, 2004).

Contact person for the conference:

Timur Kocaoglu
Executive Board Member of the Foundation "Ayaz-Tahir Turkistan Idil-Ural 
Vakfi" and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, Koc University, 
Istanbul
E-mail: tkocaogluku.edu.tr

SEMINAR SERIES- Center of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus, SOAS-London

Posted by: Bhavna Dave <bd4soas.ac.uk>
Posted: 14 Oct 2004


Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Term I 2004-05
Seminar Programme

Thursdays 17:30
Room G52

School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
London, United Kingdom

14 October Dr. Bhavna Dave, SOAS.
"September 2004 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan: Managing Loyalty and 
and Opposition to the Regime"

20 October Andrew Wilder, Director, Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul.
"The Great Gamble? Elections in Afghanistan"
NOTE: This lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, at 17:30, Room G-60

28 October Alisher Ilkhamov, Open Society Institute, London
"Radical Islam in Uzbekistan"

11 November Adam Payne, University of East Anglia
"Markets and Livelihoods in Afghanistan"

18 November Andrew March, St. Johns College, Oxford.
"State Ideology and the Legitimation of Authoritarianism in Karimov's Uzbekistan"

2 December Scott Newton, SOAS
"The Over-Determination of Self-Determination: Soviet Constitutional Law and 
International Law in the Caucasus (Abkhazia and South Ossetia)"

For further information, please contact Dr. Bhavna Dave at bd4soas.ac.uk or 
0207 898 4734

Dr Bhavna Dave
Department of Politics and International Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
United Kingdom

Tel 44 207 898 4734
Fax 44 207 898 4559

OSI FORUM- Women of Authority in Central Asian Islam, Oct. 20, New York City

Posted by: Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield <akangaspuntasorosny.org>
Posted: 12 Oct 2004


The Central Eurasia Project invites you to attend:

Women of Authority in Central Asian Islam

with

Habiba Fathi
Researcher
The French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
12:30 2:00 pm

Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
Third Floor, Room 3B
New York, NY 10019

Habiba Fathi is Researcher at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies 
in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and the author of recent book "Femmes d'autorite 
dans l Asia centrale contemporaine" (Women of Authority in Contemporary 
Central Asia).  While uncovering the role of female actors in Muslim 
religion, Fathi s fascinating study of women s religious practices 
challenges the view that women occupy a subservient position in Islam. 
According to Fathi, women not only participate in religious life but may 
come to occupy a position of authority. Fathi s book is the result of her 
personal experience as well as field research in the five Central Asian 
republics (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan).

To RSVP please fax this sheet to Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield at (212) 548-4607 
or e-mail a response to akangaspuntasorosny.org.

Name: 

Affiliation: 

Lunch will be served.

CONFERENCE- 5th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society

Posted by: CESS Conference Committee <CESSfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Oct 2004


Dear Colleagues:

We wish to inform you about and encourage you to attend the upcoming CESS 
5th Annual Conference, to be held next week in Bloomington, Indiana -- Oct. 
14-17.  We expect the conference to be a very rich and interesting event.  
It will include 57 panels with over 250 panelists (ca. 200 papers).  There 
will be a music and dance program as well as a film program and a large 
number of book and other exhibits.

The keynote speech will be by Prof. Ronald Suny on the "Dialectics of Empire."

Please find additional details below and the full program on the website at 
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html

If you are interested in attending, please fill out the registration form 
at: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html

Note that space is limited, especially for the welcoming reception and 
dinner on Friday.  If you do not register in advance, you will be admitted 
to the conference only if space allows.  When you register, we will send 
notice that you can RSVP for the Friday evening events -- be sure to respond 
promptly to ensure your place.  (If you are on the program or have already 
registered, you do not need to register again.)


Program Highlights

Thurs., Oct. 14
3:00-5:00 pm - Registration in the IMU, East Lounge (Mezzanine, Rm. M003)
   (NOTE: This is changed from the original schedule of 3:30-5:30)
4:00-6:00 pm - Welcome with drinks and hors d'oeuvres hosted by the Inner 
   Asian and Uralic NRC in IMU, The Federal Room (Second Floor, Rm. 267)

Fri., Oct. 15
8:00 am-4:00 pm - Registration in the IMU, East Lounge (Mezzanine, Rm. M003)
Sessions: 9:00-10:45 am, 11:00-12:45 pm, 2:00-3:45 pm, 4:00-5:45 pm
6:00-7:00 pm - Cash bar and hors d'oeuvres in IMU, Solarium and Patio (First 
   Floor, Rm. 180)
7:00-9:00 pm - Informal catered dinner/reception (Complimentary with ticket 
   given at registration) in the IMU, Alumni Hall (First Floor, Rm. 176)

Sat., Oct. 16
8:00 am-4:00 pm - Registration in the IMU, East Lounge (Mezzanine, Rm. 003)
Sessions: 9:00-10:45 am, 11:00-12:45 pm, 2:00-3:45 pm
Plenary Session: 4:00-5:45 pm - Ronald Suny, Keynote Speaker, IMU, 
   Whittenberger Auditorium (First Floor, Rm. 151)
7:30-9:30 pm - Music and Dance Program (Complimentary with ticket), 
   Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington

Sun., Oct. 17
8:30 am-12:45 pm - Registration in the IMU, East Lounge (Mezzanine, Rm. M003)
Sessions: 9:00-10:45 am, 11:00-12:45 pm

Note that events of the Mongolia Society's Annual Conference and the Annual 
Meeting of the American Institute of Afghan Studies will also be held in 
conjunction with the CESS Conference.

A program of films related to Central Eurasia will be presented Friday, 
2:00-6:00 pm in Wylie Hall, Rm. 015.

The exhibits area, including many book and informational exhibits (and CESS 
conference T-shirts on sale!), will be in the IMU, Frangipani Room 
(Mezzanine, Rm. M051) as follows: Friday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm; Saturday, 8:00 
am-5:00 pm; Sunday, 8:00-11:00 am.


We hope to see you there, and wish all attendees a wonderful time.

Sincerely,

CESS Conference Committee
CESSfas.harvard.edu
617-496-2643

PANEL DISCUSSION- Russia, Chechnya & US Policy Post-Beslan Crisis, Oct. 12, Wash. DC

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 8 Oct 2004


Tuesday, October 12, 2004:

Panel Discussion "Russia, Chechnya and US policy post-Beslan Crisis"
Stimson Center "Security for a New Century" series

11:00 a.m. - noon
2105 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.

Please join us for a discussion with Katya Sokirianskaya of the Russian 
human rights organization Memorial and Sarah Mendelson, a Russia specialist 
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Ms. Sokirianskaya will address the fundamental aspects of Russia's terrorist 
crisis/threat, from the perspective of an eyewitness to the hostage crisis 
last month in Beslan. She is a long-time observer of the North Caucasus and 
a has been a resident of the region (Chechnya and Ingushetia), where she 
works with Memorial and teaches at Grozny State University. Ms. Mendelson 
will address the need for US concern about the shaky state of Russian 
democracy, the importance of Russian domestic politics to US national 
security and the long term value in upholding democratic and rule of law 
principles-especially when "fighting terrorism" is used as an excuse for 
undemocratic behavior (as in Chechnya). How might US policy help bolster 
democratic institutions in Russia? What might be the first steps toward a 
political framework for conflict resolution in Chechnya?

"Security for a New Century" is a bipartisan study group for Congress. We 
meet regularly with U.S. and international policy professionals to discuss 
the post Cold War and post 9/11 security environment. All discussions are 
off-the-record. It is not an advocacy venue. Call Lorelei Kelly at 225-5161 
for more information.

For more information, go to:

www.stimson.org

www.chechnyaadvocacy.org

CONF./CFP- Identity and Culture, Bogazici Univ., Istanbul, June 14-17, 2005

Posted by: Gonul Pultar <gonulbilkent.edu.tr>
Posted: 8 Oct 2004


Second and Final Call for Papers

Identity and Culture
14-17 June 2005
Bogazici University, Istanbul (Turkey)

Third Cultural Studies Conference
co-organized by the
Group for Cultural Studies in Turkey and the
Dept. of West. Lang. and Lit. of Bogazici University

The Group for Cultural Studies in Turkey and Bogazici University invite 
proposals for a cultural studies conference entitled "Identity and Culture" 
they are co-organizing on 14-17 June 2005 in Istanbul (Turkey). Seeking to 
explore the topic from a wide range of scholarly points of view by focusing 
on issues of identity in its multiple relationships with various facets of 
culture, the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary conference aims to 
interrogate established notions of identity both in Turkey and outside of 
Turkey.

We welcome proposals for papers that break new ground in generating theory, 
or constitute innovative critical or comparative work that would lead to 
theoretical formulations and methodology. The conference intends to examine 
issues of identity in Turkey among the peoples in the lands of the former 
Ottoman empire, among the Euro-Turks (and Turkish-Americans, Australasian 
Turks, etc.), among the Turcophone peoples in countries and regions in 
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (in Central Asia, the Caucasus, 
and the Russian Federation) and those Turcophone minorities in such 
countries as Iran and China. We welcome submissions related to identity 
including, but not limited to, the following:

 - Cultural identity/Ethnic identity
 - Identity and belonging /Identity and difference
 - Building identity/"social engineering"
 - Identity and nation building myths
 - National identity /national identity building projects
 - Transnational identity
 - Religious identity
 - Linguistic identity
 - Sexual identity
 - Gender/heterosexual/homosexual/metrosexual identity
 - Identity within the context of hybridity/diaspora/ migration/exile
 - Fluidity of identity
 - Historical identity/identities in history
 - Enculturation/ acculturation/transculturation and identity
 - Political identity
 - Imperial(ist) identity
 - Hegemonic identity/subaltern identity
 - Identity in the private and public spheres/identity and private and 
   public spheres
 - Identity in multicultural societies
 - Identity and "minorities"/Being of the minority in the Republic of Turkey 
   /Being a Turk as a member of a minority group (Azeri in Iran, Uyghur in 
   China, etc.)
 - Post-Soviet Turk(ic) identity
 - Ottoman identity
 - Mughal identity
 - Devsirme identity
 - "Sabetayist" identity
 - Identity forged by the Republic of Turkey/Identity formation during the 
   establishment of the Republic of Turkey (reforms, laws, measures, 
   institutions, etc.)
 - Ethnic identities in the Republic of Turkey
 - Being a Turk in Europe/ USA/Australia /Asia/Africa
 - Having the identity of a foreigner in the Republic of Turkey
 - Being a Turk today in the former Ottoman lands
 - Being the "other" of the Westerner
 - "Western" identity/"Eastern-Oriental" identity
 - Muslim identity in the eyes of the Westerner/Turkish identity in the eyes 
   of the Westerner
 - Identity forged by the media
 - Identity in cyberspace
 - Super-identity/sub-identity
 - Imagined identity
 - Invented identity
 - Identity of the terrorist/anarchist/revolutionary
 - Identity of the reformist/reform and identity
 - "Islamist" identity
 - "Tanzimatci" identity
 - Identity and ideology
 - Regional/local identity
 - Space and identity /habitus and identity
 - "Modern" identity/identity and modernity/identity formed by modernity
 - Relationship of identity with rationalism and positivism.
 - Symbolic identity/identity as symbol
 - Memory and identity/identity and memories
 - Narrative identity
 - Body identity
 - Identity as object of desire
 - Frozen/ossified identity
 - Crystallized identity
 - Representation/representations of identity
 - Representation/representations of identities
 - Racial identity
 - Social identity/Class identity/Identity and democracy
 - Identity in the globalized world/Global identity
 - Consumer identity
 - Capitalist identity /socialist identity
 - Karaim/Khazar/Jewish Turkish identity
 - Syriac/Orthodox/Protestant/Christian Turkish identity
 - Alewite identity
 - Identity of tarikat/freemason lodge member
 - Professional identity/familial identity
 - Identity of the intellectual
 - Social change and identity
 - Identity of the captive/interned: the jailed, the asylum intern, etc.
 - Identity and popular culture
 - Conservative/reactionary/status-quo-loving identities and their reasons
 - Is there an "Anatolian identity"?
 - Identity and "master narratives"
 - Identity of the emigre/emigrant/immigrant/exchangee (mubadil)
 - Fragmentation of identity/fragmented identities
 - Turkish identity since the "Hyung-nus": phases/history/theories
 - Theoreticians of Turkish/Turkic identity (Yusuf Akcura, Sadri Maksudi 
   Arsal, Ismail Gasprali, Ziya Gokalp, Mirsait Sultangaliyef, etc.)
 - Trauma experienced in identity change (from Ottoman subject to citizen of 
   the Republic of Turkey, from citizenship of the Republic of Turkey to 
   citizenship of EU/USA/Canada/Australia/from homo sovieticus to citizenship 
   of the Republic of Turkey/of Western states, etc.)
 - As factor(s) in identity formation:
Language/media/literary text/biography - otobiography - festschrift/
visual material (art works, photography, film, etc.)/
material culture (artifact, lieu de memoire, building)/
intangible culture - oral text/heritage/
official history /state/societal "icon"s/
alphabet/educational institutions/publishing houses/museums/
tradition/dance - music - songs - folk songs, tradition of asik /
show business/sports - games/
law/social sciences/religion (and its institutions)/
family (and its members)/society (and its institutions)

The working language of the conference is Turkish. Abstracts of 100-200 
words or complete papers, containing five key words, should be sent along a 
brief curriculum vita. Panel proposals with three to four papers should 
include, besides the panel proposal and five key words, abstracts of the 
papers in the panel, and brief curriculum vitae of the chair, presenters, 
and discussant(s) if any.

Send no later than 31 October 2004 by e-mail to programkcstgroup.org; by 
fax to +90 212 287 2470 (Attn.: Cultural Studies Conference); or by snail 
mail to "Cultural Studies Conference," Department of Western Languages and 
Literatures, Faculty of Science and Letters, Bogazici University, PK. 2, 
Bebek, Istanbul (Turkey).

For more information, write to the same addresses or look at 
<www.cstgroup.org>.

Letters of acceptance, along with further details of the conference, will be 
mailed by the first week of December 2004.

On behalf of the organizers:

Isil Bas <isilboun.edu.tr>
Gonul Pultar <gpultarcstgroup.org>

CONFERENCE- Portrait, Poetry and Biography in the Iranian World, Amherst College, Oct. 15

Posted by: Jamal Elias <jjeliasamherst.edu>
Posted: 8 Oct 2004


Majalis ul-ushaq: Portrait, Poetry and Biography in the Iranian World

October 15th 2004, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, Chapin Hall, Room 101
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002

Session I: 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm

 - "Admonishing Words and Exemplary Bodies: Toward a 'Fair and Balanced' 
    Approach to the History of Sufism," Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
 - "On Seeing: Relationships of Resemblance in Pre-modern Islamic Thought," 
    Jamal J. Elias, Amherst College
 - "Divine Devotion and Filial Failure: The Pattern of Ignoring Parental 
    Concerns in Some Sufi Hagiographies," Farooq Hamid, Whittier College

Session II: 2:45 pm to 4 pm:

 - "Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities: 
    The Khalvati-`Ishqi-Shattari Continuum," Devin Deweese, Indiana University
 - "Portraiture and Biography: Sufi Images in Sixteenth Century 
    Manuscripts," E. Sara Wolper, University of New Hampshire
 - "Defining Kingship and Authority in Early Safavid Painting: Lessons from 
    the 1604 Shahnama of Firdawsi," Kishwar Rizvi, Barnard College

Discussion: 4:10 pm to 5 pm:

Discussion led by Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles

Reception: 5 pm

Paid for by the Willis Wood Fund and Hamilton Fund at Amherst College

For further information, please contact Ms. Diane Dix (dldixamherst.edu, 
413-542-2181) or Jamal Elias (jjeliasamherst.edu, 413-542-2285).

SEMINAR SERIES- Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Posted by: Yelena Kalyuzhnova <y.kaluyzhnovareading.ac.uk>
Posted: 8 Oct 2004


The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies
The University of Reading

presents:

Weekly Seminars

Every Wednesday, 5.00 pm - 6.00 pm in Room 127 HUMSS

The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies
The University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 218,
Reading, RG6 6AA
United Kingdom

October 13th, 2004
Dr. Yelena Kalyuzhnova and Dr Uma Kambhampati, The Centre for Euro-Asian 
Studies. "Education or Employment - Factors Determining the Post-Compulsory 
Education Choices of Young People in Kazakhstan".

October 20th, 2004
Mr. Max Watson, Economic Adviser, DG ECFIN, European Commission, Visiting 
Fellow, The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies. "Transition Economies: Second 
Generation Challenges".
Discussant: Dr. Steven Fries, Deputy Chief Economist, EBRD

October 27th, 2004
Professor Michael Kaser, Oxford University, Member of the Centre for 
Euro-Asian Studies. "The Turkmen Economy: Evaporating in the 'Golden Lake of 
the Desert'."

November 3rd, 2004
Professor Jane Falkingham, Southampton University. "Poverty in Tajikistan, 
recent trends and prospects."

November 10th, 2004
Mr. Martin Tod, Head of Brand and Marketing Communications, Vodafone. To be 
confirmed

November 17th, 2004
Ms. Indira Kaliaskarova, BG Group. "Towards Energy Security: Overview of the 
UK Gas Market".

November 24th, 2004
Mr. Finian O'Sullivan, Burren Energy PLC. "How Reliable are Russia and the 
CIS States as Non OPEC Swing Producers?"

December 1st, 2004
Mr. Nabil L. Khodadad, Chadbourne &Parke. "Financing Oil and Gas Projects in 
the Caspian and Black Sea Regions".

For more information, contact:

The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies
The University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 218
Reading, RG6 6AA
United Kingdom
tel: +44 118 3786637
fax: +44 118 3786274
web: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/IEAS

SEMINAR- Minority-Majority Relations in Soviet, Post-Soviet Abkhazia & Karabakh, Oct. 26

Posted by: LSE European Institute <Transcaucasusaol.com>
Posted: 7 Oct 2004


LSE Forum for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Schapiro Seminar

Restructuring Minority-Majority Relations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Abkhazia 
and Karabakh

Speaker: Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Cambridge

Date: Tuesday, 26 October 2004

Time: 5:00pm

Venue: London School of Economics
D702, Clement House

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.  Entry is on a 
first come, first serve basis.

For More Information go to:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2004/2004
0930t1812z001.htm

LECTURE- Dru Gladney, China's 'Xinjiang Problem,' York University, Toronto, Oct. 22

Posted by: Maire O'Brien <obrienmyorku.ca>
Posted: 7 Oct 2004



York Centre for Asian Research
Centre for Refugee Studies
Department of Anthropology
Department of Political Science

present

Dru C. Gladney
Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

China's 'Xinjiang Problem': Another Chechnya?

Date: Friday, October 22, 2004
Time: 11:00 - 3:30 p.m.  Light Lunch Provided
Room: Anthropology Multipurpose Room, 2054 Vari Hall
Location: Keele Campus, York University

Dru C. Gladney Currently a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in 
Germany, Dr. Gladney is Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology at the 
University of Hawai'i at Manoa. A Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the 
University of Washington, Seattle, he has been a Fulbright Research Scholar 
twice, and has conducted long-term field research in China, Central Asia, 
and Turkey. He has authored over 50 academic articles and chapters, as well 
as the following books: Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's 
Republic (Harvard University Press, 1996, 1st edition 1991) Ethnic Identity 
in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality (Wadsworth, 1998); and 
Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, 
Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S. (Editor, Stanford University Press, 1998). A 
consultant to the Soros Foundation, Ford Foundation, World Bank, UNHCR, 
National Academy of Sciences, the European Center for Conflict Prevention, 
and UNESCO, Prof. Gladney has been regularly featured on CNN, BBC, National 
Public Radio, al-Jazeerah, and in Newsweek, Time Magazine, Washington Post, 
Honolulu Advertiser, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and 
The New York Times. His most recent book is: Dislocating China: Muslims, 
Minorities, and Other Sub-Altern Subjects (Chicago: University of Chicago 
Press).

York Centre for Asian Research
For information contact: ycaryorku.ca
Ste. 270 York Lanes, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Web: www.yorku.ca/ycar

CONF./CFP- Post-Soviet Islam: an Anthropological Perspective, Max Planck Inst., Germany

Posted by: Johan Rasanayagam <rasanayagameth.mpg.de>
Posted: 6 Oct 2004


Call for Papers

Conference 'Post-Soviet Islam: an anthropological perspective'
June 29th - July 1st, 2005

Organizers: Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Johan Rasanayagam
Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

The aim of this conference is to bring together social anthropologists and 
other social scientists working on issues relating to Islam in the Former 
Soviet Union. We welcome proposals from both local and foreign scholars who 
have completed extensive field research in the region.  Papers dealing with 
Islam in other postsocialist contexts will be considered if they fit in with 
the overall themes of the conference.  After being suppressed by state 
authorities within the Soviet Union, Islam has re-entered the public sphere 
in the successor states. Of course, this is taking place very differently 
across the region. In Central Asia the majority of the populations in the 
new independent republics profess to be Muslim. In other areas, the Muslim 
population forms a minority, as in Georgia, or are part of a semi-autonomous 
Muslim entity within the larger Russian Federation.  The aim of the 
conference is to compare these differing experiences as well as to explore 
possible commonalities of the post-Soviet context. An important outcome 
would be to relate the anthropology of Islam in this region to the well 
developed anthropological literature on Islam in other areas of the world. 
Is there something about the post-Soviet experience which can provide a 
distinctive insight into these debates.

The conference will focus on following areas:

Islam and politics
An important issue in the post-Soviet states is the involvement of Islam in 
the sphere of politics. In Central Asia, for example, state authorities 
attempt to co-opt Islam as a source of legitimacy for their regimes, while 
at the same time political and militant opposition groups throughout the 
region draw on Islam as the foundation of their programmes. There is a 
struggle, often violent, over the right to define what constitutes proper 
Islamic practice, what it means to be a 'true' Muslim. This feeds into 
trends within anthropology that approach Islam as a discourse or ideology, a 
resource for resistance to domination and a blueprint for social and 
political life.

Local Muslim practice and global Islam
Conflict is not confined to ruling regimes and political oppositions.  Imams 
and others who have a formal education in core Islamic texts of the Koran 
and Hadith often criticise much of local practice as un-Islamic since it is 
not founded on the sacred texts but instead derives from tradition. At the 
same time local Muslim practices, which include the visiting of shrines, 
various forms of religious healing, and the celebration of life cycle 
rituals within an Islamic frame, continue to have a strong following, and 
practitioners make their own appeals to legitimacy and 'Muslimness'. This 
relates to the rich body of literature dealing with how we might incorporate 
both the variety of local practices and the ideal of a universal, textual 
Islam within a unitary framework.

Islam as a source of individual or communal identity and morality How are 
gender relations, ideas about the family, patterns of communal organisation 
and economic activities being influenced by Islam in the post-Soviet 
context, and how does Islam interact with other sources of authority and 
value such as socialist ideology and practice. The conference aims to 
compare how these issues are shaped by differing social and political 
realities and/or informed by a common Soviet legacy.

We especially encourage fieldwork based papers which investigate regional 
problems from a local perspective. Abstracts of no more than 500 words 
should be submitted by the 15th of January 2005 to both organisers. 
Presentations will be limited to 30 minutes and participants will be 
expected to submit a full draft of their paper for circulation by 15th of 
May 2005. The working language is English.

For further information contact:

Johan Rasanayagam, email: rasanayagameth.mpg.de
Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, email: kehleth.mpg.de

For information about the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology visit:
www.eth.mpg.de

LECTURES- Presentations on Chechnya, Oct 8 & 11, Harriman Institute, New York

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 5 Oct 2004


Harriman Institute Chechnya speaker series

Friday, October 8, 2004, 12:10 pm:

"Terrorist Crisis In Russia: Roots And Consequences -- Eyewitness Beslan"
Presentation by Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Memorial Nazran, Chechen State 
University)

Monday, October 11, 2004, 12:10 pm:

"Russia's War on Terror and Its Implications"
Presentation by Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Endowment, Moscow)

Both events will take place at the Harriman Institute/Columbia University, 
Room 1219
420 West 118th Street
New York

For details (speaker's bios, etc.) go to 
http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html or 
http://sipa.columbia.edu/REGIONAL/HI/events.html

BRIEFING- Roots & Consequences of Russia's Current Terrorist Crisis, Oct. 12

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 4 Oct 2004


The Roots and Consequences of Russia's Current Terrorist Crisis

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty invites you to a briefing by:

Ekaterina Sokirianskaia
Nazran representative, Human Rights Center "Memorial" and Assistant 
Professor, Chechen State University (Grozny, Chechnya)

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
9:00AM-10:30AM
Washington DC

Ekaterina Sokirianskaia reports for and represents the Moscow-based Human 
Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran, Ingushetia. She is an Assistant 
Professor at Chechen State University in Grozny, in the Department of 
Political Science and Geopolitics of that institution's Faculty of History. 
Sokirianskaia has lived and worked in the Northern Caucasus since 2001, 
residing in Nazran since January 2003. Ms. Sokirianskia was an eyewitness to 
the events in Beslan, which she covered for Memorial.

For details, including how to RSVP, go to:
http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html

PANEL DISCUSSION- After Beslan: Russia's War on Terror, Oct. 11, Columbia Univ.

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 4 Oct 2004


The Human Rights and Terrorism Panel Series Presents:

After Beslan
Russia's War on Terror: Chechnya and Beyond

October 11, 2004
7:00 PM
517 Hamilton Hall
Columbia University, 116th and Broadway
New York City

Please join us for a panel discussion that will explore issues of human 
rights and terrorism in the Northern Caucasus in light of the recent tragedy 
in Beslan.

Speakers will include Scott Horton (International League for Human Rights), 
Dr. Mia Bloom (Center for Global Security at Rutgers University) and 
Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Chechen State University and Memorial, Nazran).  
See below for speaker biographies.

Refreshments will be served~

Sponsored by: Barnard College Human Rights Program, Columbia College Human 
Rights Program, Chechnya Advocacy Network

Dr. Mia Bloom is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University 
of Cincinnati and consults for the New Jersey Office of Counter-Terrorism. 
She is also a member on the Council of Foreign Relations.  Dr. Bloom has 
taught and conducted research at Princeton, Cornell and Harvard 
Universities. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, 
an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a BA from McGill 
University in Russian and Middle East Studies. She is an expert on 
terrorism, rape in war and child soldiers. Her research explores human 
rights violations against civilians in times of war and subsequent 
government responses. Her forthcoming book, Dying to Kill: The Allure of 
Suicide Terror, discusses the global phenomenon of suicide terror.

Scott Horton is Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University School of 
Law and a partner with the New York law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & 
Tyler LLP.  He also serves as President of the International League for 
Human Rights and is a director of the Moscow-based Andrei Sakharov 
Foundation.  He studied law at the Universities of Munich and Mainz in 
Germany and received his J.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin 
in 1981. He has represented the legendary human rights activist and 
dissident Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner, as well as several 
other Russian, Czech, Armenian and Azerbaijani dissidents. He has worked 
with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, and is a 
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Horton also chairs the 
Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Association of 
the Bar of the City of New York. He is also an advisor of the Open Society 
Institute's Central Eurasia Project, and a director of the International 
Center for Not-for-Profit Law, the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for 
Preventive Action and numerous other non-governmental organizations. He is 
the author of over one hundred publications, focusing mainly on legal reform 
and national development in the Former Soviet Union.

Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, an eyewitness to the events in Beslan, is Assistant 
Professor of Political Science and Geopolitics at the Chechen State 
University in Grozny and works for the distinguished Russian human rights 
organization Memorial in Nazran, Ingushetia. She received her BA from the 
Department of English-Japanese Linguistics at St. Petersburg Pedagogical 
University in 1998 and an MA in Political Science from the Central European 
University in Budapest in 2001. In 2002, she defended her dissertation at 
St.Petersburg University on ethnic conflict in Chechnya from 1991 to 1994. 
She is currently a PhD candidate at Central European University. Ms. 
Sokirianskaia has worked in the Northern Caucasus since 2001.

CONF./CFP- Religious Conversion after Socialism, Max Planck Inst., Germany, April 2005

Posted by: Mathijs Pelkmans <pelkmanseth.mpg.de>
Posted: 1 Oct 2004


Call for Papers

Conference 'Religious Conversion after Socialism'
April 7-8, 2005

Organizers: Mathijs Pelkmans, Laslo Foszto and Irene Hilgers
Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology will hold a two-day 
conference on 'religious conversion after socialism' on 7th and 8th April 
2005. The aim is to bring together anthropologists and other social 
scientists who have done extensive research on aspects of religious 
conversion in the postsocialist world. Both established specialists and 
young scholars are invited to submit abstracts for papers before 31 October 
2004.

Throughout the postsocialist world, the increased activity or new arrival of 
'foreign' religious groups has attracted attention and caused commotion. 
While Orthodox Churches vehemently protested the arrival of Protestant 
missions, governments in the southern range of the postsocialist world 
worried about the influx of Muslim missionaries and their (perceived or 
real) threat to political stability. Public concern in many postsocialist 
countries was further magnified by the apparent success of these religious 
movements, often leading to anxiety about social or national disintegration. 
Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, 
social scientists have been remarkably silent about the subject. Many social 
scientists still dwell on the 'revival' or 'renaissance' of religious 
traditions after atheism and assume a process of (interrupted) continuity 
between contemporary religious forms and their pre-socialist referents. The 
topic of conversion is especially well suited for mounting a challenge to 
such taken for granted notions about postsocialist religious dynamics, as 
well as to provide new insights into anthropological understandings of 
conversion.

Who is adopting 'new' religions? What are their motivations for embracing a 
'new' faith? Conversion in postsocialist contexts is often connected to the 
destabilization of socio-political contexts and the supposed spiritual and 
ideological 'vacuum' that arose with the collapse of communism. But although 
such notions may provide a valuable starting point, they do not explain why 
and how certain religious groups are able to gain and retain influence in 
this 'vacuum,' while others tend to lose their position. Are instances of 
religious conversion motivated by a drive towards real or imagined 
'modernities', as has been argued in other (colonial) contexts? Or 
conversely, are they to be understood as a reaction against the 
destabilizing and individualizing forces of global capitalism? In assessing 
particular religious shifts and changes, it may be crucial to explore the 
socialist past. While state-endorsed atheism had profound secularizing 
effects in some cases, in others socialist rule tended to 'naturalize' 
equations of religious, ethnic and national categories. Different socialist 
pasts will undoubtedly influence the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of 
religious conversion.

Besides studying the background and causes of conversion, it is equally 
pertinent to address the impact of conversion on social and political 
contexts. Religious conversion may challenge local notions of ethnicity and 
nationality as in the case of Kazakhs and Kyrgyz who convert to Protestant 
Christianity. Or conversely, it may reinforce dominant stereotypes about 
'self' and 'the other,' as has been noticed for Muslim Georgians who embrace 
the majority religion of the nation, Orthodox Christianity. In most 
instances it is also important to study 'anti-conversion.' The influx of 
missionary groups and conversion of community members may provoke a 
backlash, i.e. negative reactions towards the new religion and prompt some 
to strengthen religious traditions that previously had only been of nominal 
importance.

Ethnographic accounts of postsocialist religious dynamics may also lead to a 
challenge to analytical concepts including conversion itself. Even a 
minimalist definition of religious conversion, implying both a 'turning 
from' and a 'turning to,' cannot be applied uncritically to people who have 
grown up with only limited involvement in religious life, or even none at 
all. Moreover, although the recent massive influx of missionaries would 
appear to legitimate comparisons with colonial contexts, the background and 
practices of these new missionaries is often very different from those that 
have figured prominently in anthropological literature. By critically 
assessing the circumstances and dynamics of religious change, and by 
analyzing the precise roles of missionaries, local religious institutions, 
and the state in processes of conversion, it may be possible to further 
anthropological knowledge about conversion in colonial and postcolonial 
contexts. Comparisons of this type are particularly encouraged for they can 
shed light on religious renewals after socialism.

Abstracts of 300 to 500 words should be electronically submitted by the 31st 
of October 2004 to the organizers. Presentations will be limited to 20 
minutes and participants will be expected to submit a full draft of their 
paper by 15th of March 2005, for circulation among conference participants.

Mathijs Pelkmans, email: pelkmanseth.mpg.de

Laslo Foszto, email: fosztoeth.mpg.de

Irene Hilgers, email: hilgerseth.mpg.de

For information about the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology visit 
www.eth.mpg.de

CONF./CFP- REES Graduate Student Conference, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Feb. 2005

Posted by: Ellen Mercer <epm0924aol.com>
Posted: 30 Sep 2004


Call for Papers: Second Annual University of Pittsburgh
REES Graduate Student Conference
February 25-26, 2005

Shifting Borders: political and cultural boundaries in Eastern Europe, 
Russia, and Central Asia

Borders in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia have been the subject of 
intense contestation and revision over the course of the 19th and 20th 
centuries.  Boundaries within Europe's multinational empires faced constant 
strain with the rise of nationalism and were redrawn following the 
dissolution of the empires in the First World War.  Soviet nationalities 
policies codified, even invented nationhood in bounded and institutionalized 
Central Asian republics.  Major territorial shifts occurred again after 
World War II.  The dissolution of the Soviet Union ushered in yet another 
revision of the map, and today we watch as the borders of Europe continue to 
change.  The debates about the boundaries of and within these regions are 
held at all levels of society, thus calling for a discussion that crosses 
disciplinary borders as well.  The University of Pittsburgh's Graduate 
Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia, in cooperation with 
the Center for Russian and East European Studies, invites fellow graduate 
students working on related topics from all disciplines to submit abstracts 
for our second annual graduate student conference.

The conference will raise a broad range of questions about the nature of 
boundaries within and around Eastern Europe and Central Asia.  We welcome 
papers ranging in scope from multinational empire, to nation state, to 
ethnic minorities.  Papers that engage the debates surrounding the 
boundaries of the regions themselves, such as the question of Central versus 
Eastern Europe, are also welcome.  In addition to questions of geography, 
governance, and citizenship, papers dealing with boundaries between 
cultures, languages, genders and artistic traditions are highly encouraged.

Students of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia who are working on 
issues related to boundaries are encouraged to submit abstracts by
December 1, 2004.

Further details about submission requirements, dates, housing, etc. can be 
found on the conference's web page (http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca) or by 
emailing sorc+gosecapitt.edu.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM- 17th Annual Georgian Studies Day, Univ. of Wales, Nov. 16, 2004

Posted by: Tamara Dragadze <dragadzeukaol.com>
Posted: 30 Sep 2004


17th Annual Georgian Studies Day
Convened by Dr. Tamara Dragadze with Newport Kutaisi Association and Embassy 
of Georgia

Email Contacts:

catherinephilpott9828.fsworld.co.uk or tysonfamily2ukgateway.net

"The New Georgia - New Opportunities"

The University of Wales, Newport South Wales
Caerleon Campus

Tuesday 16th November 2004

Programme:

At the event this year on Tuesday, 16th November 2004 at the University of 
Wales, Newport we will have the following programme:

10.15-10.30 Registration

Opening and General Overview


11.00-11.15 Opening remarks by the Mayor of Newport Cllr. Paul Cockeram
11.15-11.30 Presentation by H. E. Amiran Kavadze, Ambassador of Georgia
11.30-11.35 Presentation by Dr. Tamara Dragadze, Chair
11.35-12.00 Presentation by Mr. Kakha Lomaia, Minister of Education and 
            Science from Georgian Government
12.00-12.15 Presentation by Sir Brian Fall, from the British Government
12.15-12.30 A Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government

Economic and Business overview

12.30-12.45 Presentation by Youri Poluneev, European Bank for Reconstruction 
            and Development
12.45-13.00 Presentation by Mr. David Mumladze, Governor of the Imereti Region

13.00 -14.00 Lunch Break

Economic and Business overview (cont.)

14.00-14.15 Presentation by Dr. Merab Klimiashvili
            "Roots of Democracy in Georgia"
14.15-14.30 Presentation by David Robson, CanArgo
            "The Energy Potential of the New Georgia"

Cultural and Science overview

14.30-14.45 Presentation by Professor Michael Vickers on Archaeology
14.45-15.00 Presentation by Michael Bloom on Music
15.00-15.15 Presentation by Mrs. Tinatin Khidasheli, Young Lawyer's Association
15.15-15.45 Twin Cities: reports from Newport Kutaisi Association Bristol 
            Tbilisi Twinning Association
15.45-16.15 Work in Progress including reports from participants and setting 
            a tentative date for next year.
16.15-16.30 Concluding remarks by Dr. Tamara Dragadze, Chair

16.30-18.0 Wine and Cheese reception

CONFERENCE- Armenia/South Caucasus & Foreign Policy Challenges, Univ. of Michigan, Oct. 2004

Posted by: Sara Sarkisian <sarkisiaumich.edu>
Posted: 29 Sep 2004


International Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Armenia/The South Caucasus and Foreign Policy Challenges

During four days in October the Ann Arbor campus of the University of 
Michigan will become the gathering point for diplomats and scholars who, for 
the past 15 years, have been involved in the shaping or study of the foreign 
policies and conflict resolution processes of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

The international conference, titled "Armenia/the South Caucasus and Foreign 
Policy Challenges," is being organized by the Armenian Studies Program at 
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and will be held at the main campus 
of the University on October 21-24, 2004. The conference is co-sponsored by 
the International Institute, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African 
Studies, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, The Department of 
History, the Near Eastern Studies Department and the Political Science 
Department.

This unique gathering will bring together some thirty-five scholars, past 
and present diplomats, and conflict negotiators from over ten countries, 
including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Iran, the European 
Union, Canada, and the US to discuss the challenges faced by these republics 
in developing policies in a fast changing world, the path traveled in 
resolving outstanding conflicts, with special emphasis on the Nagorno 
Karabakh problem.

The conference will be open to the general public. All sessions will provide 
ample opportunity for the attending public to participate in the question 
and answer and discussion segments. Information on the conference is 
available on the website of the University of Michigan Armenian Studies 
Program, www.umich.edu/~iinet/asp/.  Inquiries can be made by writing to 
Sara Sarkisian (sarkisiaumich.edu). All sessions will take place at the 
Alumni Center, main campus.

The preliminary program of the conference follows.

International Conference
"Armenia/The South Caucasus and Foreign Policy Challenges"
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor/October 21-24, 2004

Preliminary Program
Thursday, October 21 - Day One
5:00 - 5:30 PM
OPENING
1. Prof. Gerard Libaridian
Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Opening Remarks
2. Prof. Mark Tessler
Vice-Provost for International Affairs; Director of the International 
Institute; Political Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Introduction to the Conference

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Panel I: Evolving International Relations and the South Caucasus

How have the collapse of the USSR and events of worldwide significance since 
affected our understanding of international relations and relations between 
states? What has been the impact of these changes on the way states like 
those in the South Caucasus integrate in the world community? How have 
perceptions of the South Caucasus changed considering developments in the 
Near East?

1. Dr. Vitaly Naumkin
Director, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Russia
2. Prof. Hadi Semati
International Relations Department, Tehran University
Currently at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
3. Prof. Michael Kennedy
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Friday, October 22 - Day Two
08:30 - 10:30 AM
Panel II: Armenian Foreign Policy in Historical Context

Can one speak of recurring foreign policy problems that have characterized 
Armenian history ? Are there patterns in the way Armenians have perceived, 
developed and practiced foreign policy during the past two centuries? In 
what way are these questions relevant to post-Soviet Armenia? What role has 
the Diaspora played in the making of Armenian foreign policy?

1. Dr. Ashot Sargsyan
Senior Researcher in History, Matenadaran; Senior Archivist, President 
Ter-Petrossian Archives, Armenia
2. Prof. Kevork Bardakjian
Near Eastern Studies Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3. Prof. Ronald Suny
Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4. Dr. Razmik Panossian
Director, Policy and Programs, Rights and Democracy, Montreal

10:30 - 11:00 AM - Coffee break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
PANEL III: The World as Seen by the South Caucasus

How do Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia perceive their region in relation 
each other, to their neighbors, and to the larger community of states? What 
do they see as their main challenges in their foreign policy agenda?

1. Ambassador Araz Azimov
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Azerbaijan
2. Ambassador Nika Tabatadze
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgia
3. Ambassador Rouben Shugarian
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

2:00 - 3:30 PM
PANEL IV: The South Caucasus as Seen by the Regional Powers

What are the policies of the three major powers neighboring the South 
Caucasus--Russia, Turkey and Iran-toward the South Caucasus? What is the 
role of the region in the overall foreign policies of these three states and 
how does it affect their relations with other states?

1. Prof. Hossein Seifzadeh
International Relations Department, Tehran University
2. Prof. Ahmet Han
International Relations Department, Bilgi University, Istanbul
3. Dr. Evgueny Kozhokin
Director, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Moscow

4:00 - 5:30 PM
Panel V: The South Caucasus as Seen by the West

What are the policies of Europe and the US toward the South Caucasus? What 
is the role of the region in the overall foreign policies of the West and 
how does it affect their relations with other states?

1. Dr. Svante Cornell
Uppsala University, Sweden, and SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC
2. Amb. Terhi Hakala
EU Special Representative to the South Caucasus, Finland
3. Mr. John Fox
Director of Caucasus and Central Asia Affairs, US Department of State

Saturday, October 23 - Day Three
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Panel VI: The Impact of the South Caucasus on the Study of International 
Relations

Do developments in the South Caucasus since independence-including problems 
of economic and political transformation, conflicts, and energy 
transportation issues-compel us to revise our understanding of international 
relations or are accepted models of relations between states adequate?

1. Prof. Charles King
Political Science Department, Georgetown University, Washington DC
2. Prof. Stephen Jones
Department of Political Science, Mount Holyoke College
3. Mr. Asbed Kotchikian
Department of Political Science, Boston University

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel VII: The World of Conflicts

How do we explain the high concentration of conflicts in the South Caucasus? 
What are the similarities and differences between them? Which, if any, of 
the conflict resolution approaches apply to the region? Is international 
mediation the proper means to resolve these conflicts?

1. Dr. Ghia Nodia
Director, Center for Democracy and Peace, Tbilisi
2. Prof. Bruno Coppieters
Political Science Department, Free University of Brussels
3. Mr. Arman Grigorian
International Relations, Columbia University/Wesleyan University
4. Mr. Tom de Waal
Author; Institute for War and Peace Studies, London

2:00 - 6:00 PM
PANEL VIII: Nagorno Karabakh: A Case Study in Conflict Resolution in the 
1990s - A Round Table discussion

How did the international community perceive the conflicts in the region, 
especially the problem of Nagorno Karabakh? What was right and what went 
wrong with the OSCE Minsk Group process charged with the resolution of that 
conflict? What lessons can be learned from it?

How does the leadership of Nagorno Karabakh perceive the problem and the 
solution?

1. Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov
Former Karabakh negotiator for Russia, Moscow (retired)
2. Ambassador Omer Ersun
Former Karabakh negotiator for Turkey, Istanbul (retired)
3. Ambassador Joseph Presel
Former Karabakh negotiator for the US, Washington DC (retired)
4. Dr. Mahmood Vaezi
Deputy Director, Center for Strategic Research, Tehran
Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran
5. Ambassador Tofik Zulfugarov
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Karabakh negotiator, Azerbaijan
6. Ambassador David Shahnazaryan
Former Minister of National Security and Karabakh negotiator, Armenia

Special Presentation
7. Ashot Ghoulian
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno Karabakh, Stepanakert

Sunday, October 24 - Day Four

9:00 - 11:00 AM
Panel IX: Reconciling the Past and the Future

How can we assess the path traveled by the South Caucasus republics? What 
are the main similarities and differences in their foreign policies? Is 
there need and/or room for a common foreign policy? What should be the main 
focus at this time?

1. Dr. Leila Alieva
President, Center for National and International Studies, Baku
2. Dr. Archil Gegeshidze
Senior Research Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and 
International Studies, Tbilisi; former advisor to President Edvard Shevardnadze
4. Prof. Edward Walker
Political Science Department, University of California, Berkeley

LECTURE- Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan, Columbia University, Sept. 30

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 28 Sep 2004


Situation of Chechen Asylum Seekers in Azerbaijan
Presentation by Thomas Faustini, UNHCR Baku

Harriman Institute/ Columbia University
420 West 118th street, room 1219
Thursday, September 30, 2004, 2pm

Thomas Faustini has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for 
Refugees (UNHCR) in Baku for four years and has in that time focused on the 
Chechen refugees there. He will return to Baku as a US State Department- 
sponsored Junior Professional Officer next month.

The situation of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan is of particular interest, 
because the Azerbaijani government has refused to give them any kind of 
recognition. As CIS citizens, they are considered "tourists" rather than 
refugees, have no access to propiska and other papers, legal employment or 
any government services, although some of them have been there for years. As 
a result, the community, which is some 8,000 strong, is desperately poor, 
without perspective for the future and in constant limbo. Their plight is 
drowned out by the larger issue of Azeri IDPs from Nagorno-Karabakh and 
Chechen IDPs in Ingushetia, who are more numerous and have received all the 
attention of international donors. The UNHCR is trying to provide basic 
support, but their efforts are hampered by lack of resources. The Baku 
Chechens are just one aspect of what is a massive crisis of displacement 
affecting the Chechens.

The event is open to the public.

Chechnya Advocacy Network/www.chechnyaadvocacy.org

WORKSHOP- Islam and Politics in Central Asia, Dushanbe, October 25-27

Posted by: Galina Bityukova <gbityukovabilim.kz>
Posted: 27 Sep 2004


Central Asian Resource Center will conduct a workshop titled "Islam and 
Politics in Central Asia" in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on October 25-27.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore contemporary status of Islam and 
political influence, socio-political role of Islam in Central Asian states.

Special attention will be given to issues & problems as follows:

 - Historical aspects of relationship between religion and society in 
   Central Asia, with special reference to Islam;
 - Specific aspects of Islamic faith and culture in Central Asia;
 - Are Islamic organizations/movements a potential source of terrorism in 
   Central Asia?
 - Constructed re- Islamization of Central Asian societies: Whose benefit? 
   Who could win?
 - Prospects and limits of political participation: The failure of political 
   Islam in Central Asia?
 - New Great Game: who spread influence, whose domination?

The workshop places a strong emphasis on curriculum design and teaching 
methods that could be implemented into elective courses on Islam and 
Politics, Contemporary political issues in Central Asia.

The program is intended for scholars & researchers who are teaching 
political science at university level institutions.

For those who are interested in participation, please, contact Galina 
Bityukova at:

gbityukovabilim.kz

Galina Bityukova
CARC Academic leader-coordinator in Political Science
Bilim - Central Asia
65 Abylaikhan str., office 13
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tel/Fax: +7 (3272) 59 76 18
E-mail: gbityukovabilim.kz

CONF./CFP- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Univ. of Toronto, May 2005

Posted by: Gillian Long <gillian.longutoronto.ca>
Posted: 23 Sep 2004


Dear Colleagues,

The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS 
2005) will be held at the University of Toronto in Canada on May 12-14, 
2005.  The proceedings of the conference will be published in due course in 
"Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia".  Volume 7, the papers from CIAS 
2004, should be available in time for this year's conference.

The general theme of this year's gathering will be "Traders and Trade Routes 
of Central and Inner Asia, Then and Now."  It is hoped that this subject 
will be of interest to scholars from various disciplines.

This is an invitation to submit proposals for papers. The time allowance for 
any presentation is 20 minutes. Please include the title, a one-page summary 
and a short copy of your curriculum vitae and send them, by email, to me at 
gillian.longutoronto.ca or to Professor Michael Gervers at 
gerverschass.utoronto.ca

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2004 and those selected will be 
notified by email as soon as possible thereafter.

We regret that we do not have the financial resources to help with any 
transportation or accommodation costs.  However inexpensive accommodation is 
available on-campus, and we will do our best to expedite visa applications 
and offer hospitality during the conference.

We look forward to receiving many interesting proposals and to hosting 
another stimulating and enjoyable conference in Toronto next May.

For further information see www.utoronto.ca/deeds/cias/cias.html

The website will be updated regularly as more information becomes available.

Sincerely

Gillian Long
Administrative Co-ordinator for CIAS
Tel: 416 978 4882

SYMPOSIUM/CFP- Russian, Central Asian, Jewish Culture, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel, Jan. 2005

Posted by: Rina Lapidus <alrlhsmail.biu.ac.il>
Posted: 17 Sep 2004


A Voice Calling

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to propose subjects for lectures in the symposium organized 
by the Department of Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Humanities of 
Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

The symposium will take place from the 9th to the 12th of January 2005.  The 
subject to be discussed is the influence of Russian and Central Asian 
culture on Jewish culture in the 20th century.

The symposium will focus on the following questions:

1. The mutual influence of Russian and Central Asian literature and Jewish 
   literature in the 20th century.

2. The influence of the Russian and Central Asian languages on Hebrew and 
   Yiddish in the 20th century.

3. The influence of the Russian and Central Asian visual arts on Jewish art, 
   as in the decoration of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries.

4. The influence of Russian and Central Asian folklore on Jewish folklore of 
   all kinds.

5. The influence of Russian and Central Asian music on Jewish and Israeli 
   music.

You are requested to send in a summary of your lecture to the following 
e-mail address: alrlhsmail.biu.ac.il

The summary should arrive before the 10th of October 2004 and should not 
exceed 300 words.

Looking forward to meeting you,

Professor Rina Lapidus,
Organizer of the Symposium

CONF./CFP- ASN 2005 World Convention, Columbia University, April 2005

Posted by: Dominique Arel <dareluottawa.ca>
Posted: 17 Sep 2004


Call for Papers

"Understanding Nationalism:
Identity, Empire, Conflict"
10th ANNUAL WORLD CONVENTION of the
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES (ASN)

International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
14-16 April 2005

***Earlier submission deadline: 4 November 2004***

Contact information:
proposal submission: dareluottawa.ca
exhibitors, advertisers: gnb12columbia.edu

100 panels on the Balkans, the Baltics, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, 
Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkey, Greece, Afghanistan, 
Pakistan, Kurdistan, China, and Mongolia
**INCLUDING a Special Section on
Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism**

AS WELL AS thematic panels on
Islamic Movements, Genocide and Ethnic Violence, Anthropology of Identity, 
Citizenship and Nationality, Conflict Resolution, Demography, and EU Expansion

AND the screening and discussion
of new ** Films/Documentaries**

The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary 
scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of 
topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict, 
state-building and the study of empires in Central/Eastern Europe, the 
former Soviet Union, Eurasia, and adjacent areas. Disciplines represented 
include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, economics, 
geography, socio-linguistics, and related fields.

For the second consecutive year, the 2005 Convention will feature a new 
section devoted to theoretical approaches to nationalism, from any of the 
disciplines listed above. The papers in this section do not necessarily have 
to be grounded in an area of the former Communist bloc usually covered by 
ASN, provided that the issues examined are relevant to a truly comparative 
understanding of nationalism-related issues. In this vein, we are welcoming 
theory-focused and comparative proposals, rather than specific case studies 
from outside Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

The 2005 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries or 
feature films made within the past year and available in VHS or DVD format. 
Most videos selected for the convention will be screened during regular 
panel slots and will be followed by a discussion moderated by an academic 
expert.

The 2005 Convention invites proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS or PANELS. A 
panel includes a chair, three presentations based on written papers, and a 
discussant. Proposals using an INNOVATIVE format are also particularly 
encouraged. Examples of new formats include a roundtable on a new book, 
where the author is being engaged by three discussants; a debate between two 
panelists over a critical research or policy question, following rules of 
public debating; or special presentations based on original papers where the 
number of discussants is equal or greater than the number of presenters.

The 2005 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as DISCUSSANT on a 
panel to be created by the program committee from individual paper 
proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be 
self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal.

There is NO APPLICATION FORM to fill out in order to send proposals to the 
convention. All proposals must sent by email to Dominique Arel at 
dareluottawa.ca. INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS must include the name and 
affiliation of the author, the title of the paper, a 500 word abstract and a 
100 word biographical statement. PANEL PROPOSALS must include the title of 
the panel; a chair, three paper-givers, and a discussant; and the name, 
affiliation and 100 word biographical statement of each participant. 
PROPOSALS USING AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT must include the title of the panel; 
the names, affiliations, and a 100 word biographical statements of each 
participant and a discussion on the proposed format. INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS TO 
SERVE AS DISCUSSANT must include the name, affiliation, and areas of 
expertise of the applicant and a 100 word biographical statement.

All proposals must be included IN THE BODY OF A SINGLE EMAIL. Attachments 
will be accepted only if they repeat the content of an email 
message/proposal, and if all the information is contained IN A SINGLE 
ATTACHMENT.

Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation 
costs. ASN has no funding available for panelists.

An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of 
proposals. Applicants will be notified in December 2004 or early January 
2005. Information regarding registration costs and other logistical 
questions will be communicated afterwards.

The full list of panels from last year's convention, for the geographical 
and thematic sections, the video screenings, and the new section on Theories 
of Nationalism, can be accessed at 
http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2004_Final_Program.pdf.The programs from 
past conventions, going back to 2001, are also online.

Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised 
in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space, 
advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For 
information, please contact Convention Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos 
(gnb12columbia.edu).

People are invited to join ASN by logging in to 
http://www.nationalities.org/member_Info.asp. A yearly membership to ASN is 
$60 ($35 for students). Members receive the journal Nationalities Papers 
quarterly, a registration discount at the ASN Annual World Convention, and 
other perks.

We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

The Convention organizing committee:
Gordon Bardos, Executive Director
Troy McGrath, Program Chair
David Crowe, ASN Chair of Advisory Board
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Deadline for proposals: 4 November 2004 (dareluottawa.ca)

The ASN convention's headquarters are located at the:

Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB
420 W. 118th St. 
New York, NY 10027
212 854 8487 tel
212 666 3481 fax
gnb12columbia.edu

CONF./CFP- Comparative Literary Criticism, Baku Slavic University, Oct. 2004

Posted by: Kamal Abdullayev <bakslavuniverhotmail.com>
Posted: 3 Sep 2004


CALL FOR PAPERS

BAKU SLAVIC UNIVERSITY

International Conference "COMPARATIVE LITERARY CRITICISM"

Dear Colleague,

On October 29-31, 2004 Baku Slavic University holds International Conference 
named "Comparative literary criticism".

Topics to be discussed at the Conference:

 - Methodological and theoretical problems of comparative literary criticism
 - Typological, genetic and comparative-historical literary criticism, 
   comparative poetics
 - Comparative research of literatures of different nations
 - Problems of the theory of the literature in comparative aspect of research
 - Questions of comparative mythology and folklore
 - Study of interpretation

Working languages of the conference are Azerbaijanian, English, and Russian.

Materials of the Conference will be published.

Reports/Theses/Lecture materials and biographical details of participants 
are accepted till September, 15, 2004. Theses are sent by e-mail only as an 
enclosure; formats of files - doc. or rtf.

Length of theses - no more than 2 pages (approximately 6500 printed signs). 
A font - Times New Roman 12pt, fields - 2,5 sm (all four); a line spacing - 
unary.

"Cap" is made out as follows (each point - the new paragraph):

1. The name of the report.
2. Name of the author
3. Name of the organization that you represent
4. Keywords (no more than 5 words)
5. Brief summary in English (1-4 phrases, up to 500 printed signs)

Cost of travel will be covered by conference participants; cost of 
accommodation will be covered by organizer (BSU).

Please, contact secretary of organizing committee, Ms. Gular Sultanova if 
you have any questions related to organization. The additional information 
will be given to conference participants later.

Our Address:

Organizational Committee of the Conference
25 Suleyman Rustam Street
370014 Baku
Azerbaijan Republic

Tel: (+99412) 4402770
Fax: (+99412) 4402770

Web: http://www.bsu-az.org
E-mail: slavic_uniinbox.ru

Information about the Participant:

Title of Lecture:
Surname:
Name:
Patronymic:
Sex:
Citizenship:
Joint Authors (if available):
Place of work (or education):
Academic Titles and/or Degrees:
Position/Employed as:

Address:
Street:
City:
Country:
ZIP Code:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail Address:

Date of arrival:
Date of departure:

Signature:

Date:

CFP- World Congress of Sociology, Call for Papers on Post Socialist Societies

Posted by: Pamela Abbott <P.Abbottgcal.ac.uk>
Posted: 2 Sep 2004


I will be organising a session on post - socialist societies at the 37th 
World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology to be held in 
Stockholm, Sweden from 5th to 9th July 2005.

More details about the conference can be found at: 
http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis2005.

Offers of papers can be made directly to me.  Anyone wanting to have a paper 
considered for presentation at the congress should send an abstract directly 
to me by December 2004.

I will inform you as quickly as possible about the outcome of your submission.

Professor Pamela Abbott Ac SS
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow G4 0BA
United Kingdom

E-mail: P.Abbottgcal.ac.uk

CONF./CFP- Death in Turkic Culture, Marmara University, Istanbul, Nov. 2004

Posted by: Emine Gursoy-Naskali <naskalitnn.net>
Posted: 1 Sep 2004


Reminder / Call for Papers:

The Center for Turkic Studies of Marmara University (Istanbul) is organising 
a symposium on "Death in Turkic Culture" on 25-26 November 2004.

If you would like to participate in this symposium, please send us the title 
and a very brief summary of your paper by 30 September 2004.

There is no participation fee; travel, board and lodging expenses must be 
met by the participants.

Prof. Dr. Emine Gursoy-Naskali
Director of the Center for Turkic Studies

Doc. Dr. Gulden Sagol
Secretary to the symposium

Tel: 90.216 347 96 41/1166
Fax: 90.216 347 87 83 (Dekanlik)
Email: guldensagolmarmara.edu.tr, naskalitnn.net

Address: Marmara University, Goztepe Campus
Ziverbey, Istanbul
Turkey

OSI FORUM- Challenges in Afghanistan, Sept. 15, 2004, Washington DC

Posted by: Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield <akangaspuntasorosny.org>
Posted: 1 Sep 2004


The Central Eurasia Project invites you to attend

CHALLENGES IN AFGHANISTAN

The Failure of Security Policy and the Upcoming Presidential and 
Parliamentary Elections

with

Kevin Lanigan
Co-author, Minimal Investments, Minimal Results: The Failure of Security 
Policy in Afghanistan
(Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, June 2004)

Andrew Reynolds
Co-author, The Challenge of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in 
Afghanistan: Minimizing flaws and maximizing legitimacy
(Working title of an upcoming report, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation 
Unit, September 2004)

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CSIS
1800 K Street, NW
Conference Room B
Washington, DC 20006

Kevin Lanigan, a Washington, DC, attorney, served in Afghanistan as a 
mobilized Army Reservist with the US-led Coalition for 9 months in 2002-03 
in a variety of capacities, including as the Coalition's liaison officer to 
the UN, as it's ministry-level security/rule of law officer, and as the 
initial planning commander of the Mazar-i-Sharif provincial reconstruction 
team (PRT). He returned to Afghanistan for several months as a civilian 
consultant with The Asia Foundation in fall 2003. This summer, he assisted 
the AREU with a study of security conditions and trends in Afghanistan, and 
in developing recommendations for improving security for voter registration 
and elections. Findings and recommendations from this study were published 
in AREU's June 2004 briefing paper, 'Minimal Investments, Minimal Results: 
The Failure of Security Policy in Afghanistan.'

Andrew Reynolds is Associate Professor of Political Science at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching focus 
on democratization, constitutional design and electoral politics. He has 
worked for the United Nations, the International Institute for Democracy and 
Electoral Assistance (IDEA), the UK Department for International 
Development, the US State Department, the National Democratic Institute, the 
International Republican Institute, and the Organization for Security and 
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He has also served as a consultant on issues 
of electoral and constitutional design, most recently reporting on election 
preparations in Afghanistan, and as an advisor on constitutional issues for 
Iraq.

To RSVP please fax this sheet to Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield at (212) 548-4607 
or e-mail a response to akangaspuntasorosny.org.

Name: 
Affiliation: 

CONFERENCE- Inter-Afghan Youth Summit, Toronto, Oct. 2-3, 2004

Posted by: Rameen Moshref <RameenMaol.com>
Posted: 27 Aug 2004


Inter-Afghan Youth Summit
IAYS-VI

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 2-3, 2004

Invitation

On behalf of the IAYS Advisory Committee, Afghan-Canadian Professionals of 
Ontario (ACPO) and the Afghan-Canadian Youth Organization (ACYO), you are 
cordially invited to attend the sixth annual Inter Afghan Youth Summit 
(IAYS-VI) on Saturday, October 2nd, and Sunday, October 3rd, 2004.  The 
event will be held at the North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Street, in 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The goal of IAYS is to promote the shared interests of organizations and 
dedicated young individuals actively working towards the benefit of 
Afghanistan and their local Afghan communities worldwide.  This year's venue 
marks the first time since its inception in 1999 that it has been held 
outside of the US, and Toronto is proud to be the host.

The theme of this year's Summit is "Empowering Youth".  Youth play a unique 
and crucial role in shaping our communities both inside and outside of 
Afghanistan.  Challenged by the obstacles and opportunities of resettlement 
in the West, and a changing social, political and cultural atmosphere in 
Afghanistan, there is a renewed urgency to invest in our youth and thus our 
future.

We hope that you can join us in creating an environment where we can discuss 
a multi-dimensional, visionary and inclusive approach to empowering our 
youth.  The event will include guest speakers, open discussions, workshops, 
an informal dinner with the guest speakers, as well as a tour of the city of 
Toronto.

The conference is a unique opportunity for qualified attendees to get 
support, network and introduce their organization. The deadline for 
registration is September 10th, 2004. Early registration is recommended, as 
space is limited and subject to an approval process. More information is 
provided with the registration form and details attached.  Please contact us 
at: iays6yahoo.ca.

For more information on the Afghan-Canadian Professionals of Ontario and the 
Afghan-Canadian Youth Organization, please visit us at: www.acpoweb.org and 
www.afghanyouth.ca respectively.

We look forward to your attendance in and participation during the Summit.

Sincerely,

Haroon Mohsini
President
Afghan-Canadian Professionals of Ontario (ACPO)
Member, IAYS Advisory Committee
Web: www.acpoweb.org

Hangama Ahmadzai
Chairperson-Board of Directors
Afghan Canadian Youth Organization (ACYO)
Web: www.afghanyouth.ca

WORKSHOP PROGRAM- NATO ARW Workshop on Central Eurasia, Sept 8-11, Leiden

Posted by: M. Rozing <M.Rozinglet.leidenuniv.nl>
Posted: 25 Aug 2004


NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Towards Social Stability and Democratic 
Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security

8-11 September 2004
Leiden, the Netherlands

Please find below the list of presenters and paper titles for the upcoming 
NATO ARW Workshop Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in 
Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security

For more information, please see our contact details below.

For the full programme, please visit our website:
www.iias.nl/iias/agenda/NATO

Presenters and paper titles:

Drs Hrant Abrahamyan
The fight for democracy in Armenia as a factor of regional stability

Prof. Nazim Imanov
Political and economic development: Correlation in the Southern Caucasia

Dr Togrul Juvarly
Contradicting factors in democratic governance building: Based on experience
in Azerbaijan

Prof. Nina Dyulgerova
Georgia: Challenges to internal security in perspective of external
political priorities

Prof. Robert Cutler
Possibilities and constraints for (post)authoritarian democratization in
Central Asia

Prof. Jacques Legrand
Compromise as specifically nomad contributions to description, understanding
and dealing with tensions, conflicts and security threats

Nana Janashia
Transboundary management of nature resources as one of the preconditions for
economical and political stability of the South Causasus region

Dr Otar Kandelaki
The impact of internal conflicts on economic situation in Georgia and
secessions regions

Dr Beate Eschment
Non-democratization in Central Asia: Some observations and explanations

Dr Elena Yurevna Sadovskaya
Demographic processes in Kazakhstan: Do they lead to stability or 
destabilization

Prof. Marat Ishankulov
Environment and social security in the Republic of Kazachstan

Prof. Sabit Zhusupov
The dynamics of social-political processes in Kazachstan (1991-2004)

Dr David Lewis
Elites and political transition in Central Asia: Possible scenarios of the 
upcoming elections

Dr Nur Omarov
National sustainable development as a key component of international 
development in Central Eurasia at the beginning of the 21st Century

Dr Saodat Olimova
Social protests and Islamic movements in Central Eurasia

Dr Irina Morozova
Nation-building in Central Asia: Creating new states' mythologiesr

Dr Mehdi Amineh
Central Asia in new international relations

Kees Homan
The lack of regional cooperation in the field of water management in 
Central-Asia as a scource of potential conflict

Prof Touraj Atabaki
Mapping the states in Central Eurasia: Domestic harmony and regional
challenges

Prof. Coby van der Linde
Chairperson

Dr Pinar Akcali
Secularism under threat: Radical Islam in Central Asia

Ms. Tamara Makarenko
Unraveling the Eurasian Security Nexus: The interplay between terrorism, 
organised crime and the drug trade

Prof. Michael Kaser
Growth accounting for nine Eurasian economies: Factors differentiating 
future prospects from Soviet and transition experience

Dr Greg Austin
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: What answers does it provide for soft 
security threats in Central Asia

Prof. Martin C. Spechler
Gradual economic reform in Uzbekistan: Two steps forward, one step back

Dr Mehrdad Haghayeghi
Changing dynamics of security in Central Asia

Prof. Martha Brill Olcott
Lessons from state building efforts in Central Asia

Dr Marufa Tokhtakhodjaeva
Uzbekistan: Government vs. civil society

Dr Farkhod F. Tolipov
The gap between de-jure and de-facto democratization in Uzbekistan: Nine 
problems of proto-democracy

Dr Alisher Ilkhamov
The Conflict of post-Soviet Nationalist Ideologies in Central Asia: From 
statehood mythologies to regional cold wars

Dr. Paul Geiss
Regionalism and statehood in Soviet and independent Central Asia: 
Turkmenistan in comparative View

Prof. Catherine Poujol
Islam and globalization in Central Asia : Democracy or justice

Prof. E.J. Zuercher
Discussant

Prof. Asef Bayat
Discussant

Ms Marloes Rozing, MA
Organizing Committee

International Institute for Asian Studies
Postal address: P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands

Visiting address: Nonnensteeg 1-3, 2311 VJ Leiden
Tel: +31-(0)71-527 2227
Fax: +31-(0)71-527 4162
Web: www.iias.nl

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral 
research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its main 
objective is to encourage the study of Asia and to promote national and 
international cooperation in this field. The geographical scope of the 
institute covers South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia.  
The institute focuses on the humanities and the social sciences and, where 
relevant, on their interaction with other sciences.

CONF./CFP- Halford Mackinder Symposium, Tashkent, Dec. 2004, Deadline Extended

Posted by: Nick Solly Megoran <nwm20cam.ac.uk>
Posted: 24 Aug 2004


The organisers have extended the call for papers until October 1st 2004.

Sir Halford Mackinder's Heartland: A Help or Hindrance?

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2-3 December 2004

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, many political scientists and 
geographers, in Central Asia, the UK, the US, and elsewhere have used 
Mackinder to analyse Central Asia's place in the inter-state system. This 
has coincided with a renewed scholarly interest in Mackinder by geographers 
and political scientists. For example, in 2003 the Royal Geographical 
Society held a symposium to mark the centenary, and discuss how his ideas 
have been used up until today. This symposium highlighted the versatility 
and contentiousness of Mackinder's legacy, and also gaps in our knowledge of 
how his ideas travelled from the UK to other countries.

These themes will be discussed at an international symposium in Tashkent in 
December 2004, one century on from the original lecture. It will be 
co-sponsored and hosted by the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and 
the Center for Political Studies, and supported by the UK Committee on 
Central and Inner Asia.

Possible themes for papers include, but are not limited to:

 - Mackinder and the analysis of the foreign policies of Central Asian states, 
   and the policies of other states towards Central Asia: are his ideas a help 
   or hindrance?
 - The intellectual history of how Mackinder's ideas 'travelled' from London 
   to Central Asia, for example via the USSR and USA
 - Mackinder's moral imperative: empire or democracy?
 - The place of Central Asia and Russia in Mackinder's writings
 - Mackinder and contemporary international relations
 - Practical implications for policy makers and practitioners, in the fields 
   of foreign relations and civil society.

Although the focus is on Central Asia, proposals for more general papers on 
Mackinder will also be welcome.

The languages of the symposium will be English, Uzbek and Russian, and 
translation will be available. Before the symposium, Mackinder's 1904 paper 
will be translated and made accessible to local participants, and all 
participants will be assisted in accessing relevant sections of his later 
work (in English).

The symposium format is intended to facilitate genuine discussion and 
collaboration between participants. This will be enhanced by giving foreign 
speakers the chance to stay as guests in the homes of local colleagues, and 
excursions including a 'geopolitical tour' of Tashkent covering 
contemporary, Soviet and pre-Soviet periods. There will also be the option 
of an excursion to the ancient cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, the latter 
being the capital of Tamerlane's Eurasian empire.

The conference fee is US $45, but participation is free for citizens of CIS 
countries. For special reductions for students and others, please contact 
the organisers. Abstracts of up to 200 words, in Uzbek, English or Russian, 
are to be submitted by October 1st 2004.

To submit abstracts, discuss ideas, or to obtain more information, please 
contact:

Sevara Sharapova
Associate Professor of Political Science
Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies
Uzbekistan
E-mail: sevara_sharapovayahoo.com

Nick Megoran
Research Fellow in Geography
Sidney Sussex College
Cambridge, UK
E-mail: nwm20cam.ac.uk

CONF./CFP- 2005 SOYUZ Symposium, March 2005, Indiana University

Posted by: Sarah D. Phillips <sadphillindiana.edu>
Posted: 24 Aug 2004


CALL FOR PAPERS: 2005 SOYUZ symposium, "Post Post Socialism?"
Indiana University, Bloomington

SOYUZ, the Post-Communist Cultural Studies Interest Group of the American 
Anthropological Association (AAA), invites paper submissions for its 2005 
meeting, to be held March 4-5, 2005, at Indiana University in Bloomington. 
The two-day symposium is an intimate forum where scholars (including 
graduate students, junior faculty, and senior faculty) from across the world 
can exchange ideas and engage in dialogue.

The theme of this year's symposium is "Post Post-Socialism?"  Scholars have 
recently begun suggesting that many aspects of social and cultural life once 
considered unique to socialist and post-socialist societies actually have 
parallels in post-colonial, post-modern, and post-welfare societies.  Just 
what these parallels are still requires concrete discussion, but in all 
cases we sense that old analytical models that anticipate stability in 
social organization and relations, centralized systems of political power, 
and master cultural narratives - have lost much of their explanatory 
potential.  Empirically, we see societies in transition, states struggling 
to maintain authority, citizens who hold diverse hierarchies of values, and 
a general fragmentation of order, power, and cultural norms and 
expectations.  Is this kaleidoscope of social and cultural forms really a 
new phenomenon?  Has it always been there?  Does it really reflect a 
transitory moment, to be resolved soon into new patterns of order and 
authority?  Or will the study of culture and society be increasingly 
challenged by these changes?

We would like to develop this line of inquiry as it applies to the 
post-socialist societies of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, 
Africa, and Latin America.  Participants in SOYUZ symposia have 
traditionally been specialists in the study of Eastern Europe and the former 
Soviet Union.  In the last several years, however, we have encouraged 
specialists on other socialist and post-socialist societies to join our 
discussions to better clarify what social and cultural patterns are best 
identified as "socialist" or "post-socialist"; which are local variations of 
these broad patterns; and which ought better to be considered under other 
analytical categories ("European," "national," "rural," etc.).

Proposed papers should therefore be based on ethnographic research in a 
socialist or post-socialist society.  Presentations may come from any 
discipline (anthropology, sociology, folklore, political science, history, 
literary scholarship, etc.), if they strive to creatively and successfully 
combine solid ethnographic and/or empirical evidence with theory.  We are 
also open to multiple topics (including, but not limited to, such recently 
popular themes as memory and nostalgia, tourism, new economic patterns 
including consumption, advertising, and property restitution, health and 
healing, national and transnational identity processes and politics, the 
constraints and promises of membership in the EU or other international 
organizations, gender and sexuality, youth and the elderly, minority 
relations, media, high culture, and the entertainment industries, and 
folklore and folklife).  We do, however, request that participants 
critically reflect on the significance of post-socialism as an analytical 
and comparative category, particularly in the current era of "posts".  
Papers from graduate students who are completing or have completed their 
dissertation research are especially encouraged and welcome.

We tentatively hope to have travel scholarships available for up to two 
foreign scholars.

Please send an abstract (no longer than 500 words) and a brief CV by October 
15, 2004 to:

Sarah D. Phillips
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University
Student Building 130
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
USA

E-mail: sadphillindiana.edu

Applicants will be notified of the organizing committee's decision in 
December, 2004.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM- Preliminary 2004 CESS Conf. Program Available On-Line

Posted by: 2004 CESS Conference Committee <cessfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Aug 2004


The preliminary program for the 2004 annual conference of the Central 
Eurasian Studies Society being held October 15-17 at Indiana University in 
Bloomington, Indiana, USA, is now available on-line at 
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu.

For more information about the conference venue, hotels, and registration, 
please see the links on the "annual conference" page.

If you are interested in attending the conference, please register (using 
the website above) and make your accommodation arrangements as soon as 
possible, as hotel space will be limited. For more information about the 
conference venue and hotels, please visit the conference website: 
http://www.iub.edu/~cess2004/.

If you have any questions, please direct them to cess2004indiana.edu

WORKSHOP- NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Sept. 2004, The Netherlands

Posted by: M. Rozing <M.Rozinglet.leidenuniv.nl>
Posted: 13 Aug 2004


NATO Advanced Research Workshop
Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: 
Challenges to Regional Security
8-11 September, 2004 Leiden, the Netherlands

Overview

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop - Towards Social Stability and 
Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security - 
will critically assess existing knowledge on soft security issues in the 
post-socialist states of Central and Inner Asia and the Southern Caucasus: 
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, 
Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.

The workshop will focus on:

(1) the risks faced, and in turn posed, by societies threatened by economic 
collapse, unemployment, disintegration and marginalisation; and

(2) the ability of governments and elites to deal effectively with these 
threats. As recent events in the region and neighbouring countries have 
shown, the greatest threats to Central Eurasian security are internal.

At present, social-economic conditions in the region vary from unstable to 
disastrous. In order to survive, many inhabitants of Central Eurasia are 
turning to the growing illegal sectors of the economy, most notably the 
production and trade of drugs and weapons. Certain groups, particularly 
youth, have become targets for recruitment by local and international 
criminal groups and terrorist organizations. Most Central Eurasian regimes 
in power since the early 1990s have tried to prevent further social 
polarisation, fragmentation and violence by establishing strong 
authoritarian rule. While the newly independent states declare themselves to 
be democratic, secular, law-governed republics, real political systems - in 
the name of preventing civil war, social chaos, and Islamic fundamentalism - 
have been repressive and, at times, despotic.

The workshop will assess existing social security challenges in Central 
Eurasian countries and analyse, in view of the region's democratisation, the 
effectiveness of government policies in addressing them.

Co-directors:

Prof. W.A.L. Stokhof (IIAS, the Netherlands)
Dr I.Y. Morozova (IIAS/Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)

Organizing Committee:

Dr M.P. Amineh (IIAS/Institute of International Relations Clingendael, the 
Netherlands)
Dr D Lewis (International Crisis Group, UK)
Dr F. Tolipov (The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Uzbekistan)

Lectures:

Prof. T. Atabaki (University of Amsterdam) - Mapping the states in the 
Central Eurasia domestic harmony and regional challenges

Prof. R. Cutler (Carleton University, Institute of European and Russian 
Studies) - Possibilities and constraints for (post)authoritarian 
democratization in Central Asia

Prof. A. I. Fursov (The Institute for Russian History, The Russian State 
University for the Humanities) - The Centrality of Central Asia or Limits of 
Historical Turbulence (longue duree view)

Prof. M. Kaser (Eurasian Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford) 
- Growth accounting for nine Eurasian economies: Factors differentiating 
future prospects from Soviet and transition experience

Dr. D. Lewis (Director of Central Asian Projects of International Crisis 
Group) - Elites and political transition in Central Asia: Possible scenarios 
of the upcoming elections

Prof. L.A. Friedman (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian 
and African Studies ) - Central Asia: Level of living of the population and 
the problem of national security

Prof. N. Imanov (International Eco-Energy Academy, Baku ) - Political and 
Economic Development: Correlation in the Southern Caucasus
Prof. Martha Brill Olcott (The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) - 
Lessons from State Building Efforts in Central Asia

Dr. F.F. Tolipov (University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent) - The 
gap between de-jure and de-facto democratization in Uzbekistan: Nine 
problems of proto-democracy

Prof. S. Zhusupov (The Kazakhstan Institute of Socioeconomic Information and 
Forecasting) - The Dynamics of Social-Political Processes in Kazakhstan 
(1991-2004)

Venues:

 - University Council Room, Rapenburg 73, Leiden (8 September)
 - Mattias de Vrieshof 2, Building 1170/ Room 004 (9 September)
 - Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden (10-11 September)

Sponsors:

 - NATO (Science and Technology/ Policy and Organisation)
 - IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies) - www.iias.nl
 - Leiden University
 - KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
 - CNWS (Research School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies)

For Registration and Information, please contact:

Dr I.Y. Morozova imorozovafmg.uva.nl
IIAS Secretariat iiaslet.leidenuniv.nl

CONF./CFP- 2004 Mongolia Society Meeting, Deadline for Papers Extended

Posted by: The Mongolia Soeciety <monsocindiana.edu>
Posted: 13 Aug 2004


Call for Papers Deadline Extended to September 1, 2004

The 2004 Annual Meeting of The Mongolia Society will be held in conjunction 
with the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) in Bloomington, Indiana, 
during October 15-17, 2004. Therefore, we are placing a call for panel 
participants. In order to participate, you must be a member of The Mongolia 
Society and submit an abstract for consideration no later than September 
1st, 2004. The abstract must contain the title of the paper and be no more 
than 300 words. If your abstract is accepted, you will have 20 minutes to 
present your paper, which will include five minutes of discussion. The exact 
time of the meeting and panel will be announced as plans are formalized. 
Please submit your abstract to:

Susie Drost
The Mongolia Society
322 Goodbody Hall, Indiana University
1011 E. 3rd St. 
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005

E-mail: monsocindiana.edu

Since The Mongolia Society will be meeting in conjunction with CESS, October 
14-17, 2004, information about the conference venue, lodging and other 
information about Bloomington, Indiana is available at 
http://www.iub.edu/~cess2004/.

Please make your housing arrangements early, as lodging at the conference 
venue, the Indiana Memorial Union, is limited. There will also be rooms 
available in nearby hotels.

CONFERENCE- FEL VIII, Endangered Languages & Linguistic Rights, Barcelona, Oct. 2004

Posted by: Nicholas Ostler <nostlerchibcha.demon.co.uk>
Posted: 10 Aug 2004


Eighth International Conference
hosted by the Foundation for Endangered Languages:
"On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights"

Coorganized by Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Unesco Chair of Languages and 
Education, Catedra Unesco de Llengües i Educaci)

The conference will take place in central Barcelona, October 1st - 3rd 2004

But there will also be excursions:

 - 29-30 September (Aranese-Occitan in the Val d'Aran)
 - 4 October (Catalan in French Catalonia)

The website for the conference is at:
http://www.iecat.net/recerca/centreslabs/8FELConference/8FELConference.htm

also accessible via our own web-site:
http://www.ogmios.org/

The site includes conference & registration information, the programme, 
details of excursions and the original call for papers.

If you are planning to come, please register as soon as possible.

Note:

If you intend to register on site (despite the surcharge), please at least 
inform the organizers in Barcelona in advance by SENDING AN E-MAIL NOW to:

<Catedra.Unescoiecat.net>

This is particularly important if you are hoping to come on one of our 
excursions.

Joan Albert Argenter
Catedra UNESCO de Llengües i Educaci
Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Carrer del Carme, 47
E-08001 Barcelona
Catalonia, Spain

Tel: +34 933 248 585
Fax: +34 932 701 180

E-mail: Catedra.Unescoiecat.net

CONF./CFP- IACERHRG 6th Annual Conference, Tbilisi, Oct. 23-24, 2004

Posted by: Levan Urushadze <iacerhrg98hotmail.com>
Posted: 4 Aug 2004


Dear Sirs/Madams,

I inform you, that the 6th Annual Conference of the International 
Association "CAUCASUS: Ethnic Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics" 
(IACERHRG) will hold in October 23-24, 2004, in Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia).

Main themes will be:

1. Problem of the National Self-Determination of the Chechen People;
2. Human Rights situation in the Caucasus;
3. "Georgia's Rose Revolution" and the future development of Georgia;
4. Questions of development of the Civil Society in the countries of the 
   Caucasus;
5. The Round Table on the problems of the Caucasus.

Deadline for registration and for abstracts (1,5-2 pp): October 1, 2004.

Full information about the Conference is published on the Web Site:

http://www.geocities.com/iacerhrg/Events/Events.html

I cordially invite you to participate in the Conference and hope for your 
coming in Tbilisi.

With kind regards,

Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze,
Chairman of IACERHRG

Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, July 28, 2004

IACERHRG
G.Tsabadze Street 3-32
Tbilisi 0112
Republic of Georgia

Tel/Fax: 995 (32) 348651
E-mail: iacerhrg98hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/iacerhrg/iacerhrg.html

Contact Person: Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze (Chairman)

SEMINAR/CFP- Human Development Seminar, Kokand, Uzbekistan, Aug. 27-28, 2004

Posted by: Dinora Azimova <dazimovadssp.uzsci.net>
Posted: 4 Aug 2004


Development Support Service Program of UNDP, Uzbekistan will hold the Second 
Regional Seminar in Kokand for NGOs, community organizational, civil 
society, researchers and specialists on theme "Gender and Ecology through 
the prism of Human Development" to be held in Kokand, August 27-28, 2004.

Issues of Sustainable development, water and human security will be 
discussed here in a friendly and productive manner. Establishing dialog 
between representatives of civil society of different Central Asian states, 
situated in Fergana Valley we will create basis for deepening of integration 
and re-integration processes in the region.

Those, who are eager to participate in the workshop, are invited to send 
their application to the address <dsspdssp.uzsci.net> indicating "HD 
Seminar in Kokand" in the subject line, to Layli Farmonova and Gulruh 
Abdusalamova.

There is no any official application form, but we would like to have thesis 
of your presentation (2-3 pages) send through Email to the above-mentioned 
address no later than August 15.

No financial support for foreign participants procured. However, we may find 
opportunity to cover partially travel expenses of representatives of civil 
society from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and from Uzbekistan to Kokand city 
and back.

Contact person: Gulruh Abdusalamova
E-mail: dsspdssp.uzsci.net

CONFERENCE- 2nd World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, June 2006, Amman, Jordan

Posted by: Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies <wocmes2riifs.org>
Posted: 29 Jul 2004


Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Amman, Jordan, 11-16 June 2006

The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) is pleased to announce 
that it has been chosen to organize and host the Second World Congress for 
Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES-2), which will take place in Amman, Jordan on 
11-16 June 2006. This will be the first time that experts on the Middle East 
drawn from all over the world and all branches of the humanities and social 
sciences (including economics, political science, media studies and others) 
will assemble together in the region to share and exchange their research, 
experience and ideas, and to discuss the challenges of methodology vs. 
theory and praxis vs. politics and their possible resolutions. It promises 
to be an unprecedented event that will finally bring Middle Eastern studies 
to the Middle East.

Initiated by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), 
the First World Congress was organized and hosted by the University of Mainz 
in 2002 and attracted over 2000 scholars, experts and students from around 
the globe. It involved the participation of the European Association for 
Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), the British, French, Italian and German 
Middle East studies associations (BRISMES, AFEMAM, SeSaMO and DAVO) and 
other similar organizations in North America, the Middle East and the 14 
other member countries of EURAMES.

RIIFS now extends its own invitation to all of the institutions and 
organizations that took part in the First World Congress and requests that 
they inform their members about WOCMES-2 and consider how they may 
contribute to its success. In particular, RIIFS asks that they begin 
coordinating their 2006 activities with the WOCMES-2 Secretariat in the 
autumn of 2004, organizing panels, workshops, symposia and major conferences 
under the WOCMES-2 umbrella.

This invitation also applies to other associations, research centres, 
university departments, international organizations and institutions which 
did not take part in the First World Congress, but which are involved in the 
study of the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim states of Central Asia 
in addition to those areas of the world directly or indirectly affected by 
developments in these regions. Calls for papers from individual scholars 
will be sent out in 2005.

Local and international media and high-ranking decision-makers involved in 
political, economic and cultural spheres are also expected to attend the 
Second World Congress and to disseminate, in the months that follow, the new 
ideas and interpretations that they encounter there. The working language of 
the congress will be English, with some French and Arabic.

Because the Second World Congress will actually take place in the Middle 
East, the cultural program is expected to be particularly rich. Organizers 
are presently considering two book fairs (Arabic/International) involving 
book-sellers, publishers and authors; exhibitions of modern Arab art by 
Jordan's national and local galleries; other exhibitions related to various 
aspects of Middle Eastern studies; a film festival with panel discussions; 
and concerts featuring musicians from across the Arab world. The timing will 
also be advantageous since the weather will be pleasant and many academics 
will be on their summer break, leaving them with ample time to explore 
Jordan's well-known tourist attractions (such as Petra, Jerash, Madaba and 
Mount Nebo), as well as those in neighbouring countries, during their visit 
to the region.

RIIFS is presently redesigning its website (www.riifs.org) and the new 
version is expected to be up and running in Autumn 2004. Once it is online, 
users will be able to click on the WOCMES-2 icon appearing on the home page 
in order to obtain more information and to register for the Second World 
Congress. Until that time, any further announcements will be sent out by 
list-serv and will also be posted on the RIIFS home page. Communications 
from the representatives of institutions and organizations interested in 
participating, as well as other urgent requests for further information, may 
be addressed to the e-mail address given below.

We look forward to hearing from friends and colleagues, old and new, in the 
coming months.

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President of WOCMES-2
HE Ambassador Hasan Abu Nimeh, Director of RIIFS
Baker al-Hiyari, General-Secretary of WOCMES-2

WOCMES-2 Secretariat
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS)
P.O. Box 830 562, Amman 11183, Jordan
Tel.: 962 6 4618051; Fax: 962 6 4618053
E-mail: wocmes2riifs.org
www.riifs.org

WORKSHOP- International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources, Dec. 12-14, Japan

Posted by: James A. Millward <millwarjgeorgetown.edu>
Posted: 28 Jul 2004


International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources
Hakone (Japan), Dec.12-14, 2004

DATE: Dec. 12-14, 2004
VENUE: Matsuzakaya Honten, Hakone, JAPAN
URL: http://www.uighur.jp/ws2004/index.htm

Organizers:

Tatsuo Nakami(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Yasushi Shinmen(Chuo University)
James A. Millward(Georgetown University)
Jun Sugawara (Aoyama Gakuin University)

An International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources will be held in 
Hakone, Japan from 12-14 December 2004.

In recent years, the historical study of Inner Asia has enjoyed rapid 
progress, particularly in regard to historical sources and materials. 
Underlying these advances is greatly improved access to pertinent materials 
in this region.

Likewise, there have also been remarkable developments in the historiography 
of Xinjiang (Chinese Central Asia), thanks to the utilization of manuscript 
materials in Arabic script and improved access to government archives.  
Individual researchers have assessed and consulted documents in Europe, 
Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and China, and are beginning to produce path 
breaking new research on the basis of these materials. However, many sources 
stored in private collections and government archives remain only partially 
accessible, and information about, and systemization of these sources 
remains inadequate.

The proposed International Workshop, the first such effort of its kind, will 
assemble Xinjiang specialists from around the world.  The goals of the 
Workshop are, first of all, to create an environment from for advancing 
Xinjiang historical research by sharing information on existing historical 
sources; and second, to promote discussion of the new directions in which 
the field of Xinjiang history is developing.

Workshop proceedings will be eventually be published in Japanese and English.

Please note: The workshop will be open to discussion of above-mentioned 
subjects.  The workshop is open to all interested; however, as capacity at 
the Hakone meeting space is limited, organizers may not be able to accept 
all requests to participate.

SPEAKERS AND TENTATIVE TITLES OF PRESENTATIONS (in alphabetical order)

BEISEMBIEV, Timur (National Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan)
"Previously unknown information on 19th century Chinese Turkestan from one 
Kokandian chronicle (Ta'rikh-i jahan-namay -- a Tashkent copy of Tuhfat 
at-tawarikh-i khani by Mulla 'Avaz Muhammad' Attar)

BELLER-HANN, Ildiko (Martin-Luther-Universitat, Germany)
"Toward a historical anthropology of Xinjiang "

DI COSMO, Nicola (Princeton University, USA)
"Uses of Manchu in the Qing Administration of Xinjiang "

HORI, Sunao (Konan University, Japan)
HUA, Li (Osaka Keizai Houka University, Japan)
"Materials on Chinese Muslim in Xinjiang from Manwen Lufu"

JALILOV, Amanbek (National Academy of Science, Uzbekistan)
KAMALOV, Ablet (National Academy of Science, Kazakhstan)
"The Uighur memoir literature and Oral stories as a source for the History 
of Eastern Turkestan Republic (1944-1949)"

KIM, Ho-dong (Seoul National University, Korea)
"Specimens of the 17th-Century Eastern Turki Edicts in Gunnar Jarring 
Collection"

MILLWARD, James A. (Georgetown University, USA)
"Man and the Environment in Chinese Central Asia: Sources from Space, the 
Ground, and in Between"

NAKAMI, Tatsuo (ILCAA, Japan),
NEWBY, Laura (Oxford University,UK)
"19th century Manchu documents relating to Xinjiang"

ONUMA, Takahiro (Tsukuba University, Japan),
"About one Chagatai-Manchu document of the Yarkand Begs in 1801"

SAWADA, Minoru (Toyama University, Japan),
"Three Groups of Tadhkira-i Khwajagan: Viewed from the Chapter of Khwaja Afaq"

SHINMEN, Yasushi (Chuo University, Japan),
SUGAWARA, Jun (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
"19-20c Qadi Documents from Kashghar and Khotan"

ZARCONE, Thierry (France)
"Sufi Families' Private Archives: Regarding Some Unknown Sources for the 
History of Sufi Lineages in 20th Century Xinjiang"

For more information, please contact

James Millward
E-mail: millwarjgeorgetown.edu

Jun Sugawara
E-mail: ws2004uighur.jp

LECTURE- Islam and the Struggle for Meaning in Chechnya Today, July 30, Wash DC

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almutchechnyaadvocacy.org>
Posted: 23 Jul 2004


Values Stronger than War: Islam and the Struggle for Meaning in Chechnya Today

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty invites you to a briefing by Zalpa 
Bersanova, a Chechen ethnographer and journalist

Zalpa Bersanova, a Chechen ethnographer, writer and journalist, will be 
presenting her research at Radio Free Europe in Washington, D.C. on July 30.

The title of her presentation is "Values stronger than war: Islam and the 
Struggle for Meaning in Chechnya Today"; it is about how war, violence and 
the dramatic changes experienced by Chechen society over the last decade 
have affected values and beliefs. She specifically focuses on the role of 
Islam and traditional Chechen norms of behavior in contemporary Chechnya.

Ms. Bersanova, who holds a Ph.D. from Moscow State University, received a 
grant from the Mac Arthur Foundation to conduct research on Chechen diaspora 
communities and is in the US to interview Chechen refugees here.

For details (time, place, RSVP etc.) go to 
http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html

CONF./CFP- Dynamics of Transformation in Central Asia, Italy, Nov. 5-6, Deadline Extended

Posted by: Matteo Fumagalli <M.Fumagallisms.ed.ac.uk>
Posted: 23 Jul 2004


Call for Papers - Deadline Extension and Reminder

Dynamics of Transformation in Central Asia - Perspectives from the Field A 
conference for research students to present and discuss their fieldwork 
Rome, Italy: November 5-6, 2004

Deadline for abstract submission extended to July 31, 2004.

The Central Asia Research Network (CARN), the UK Central Asia Graduate 
Students Network, the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and 
the Caucasus (ASIAC), and the University of Roma III (Rome, Italy) are 
pleased to announce the conference 'Dynamics of Transformation in Central 
Asia - Perspectives from the Field'. The conference is hosted by the 
Department of History, Geography, and Anthropology of the University Roma 
III (Rome, Italy).

The purpose of the conference is to discuss how Central Asian societies have 
adapted to, and shaped, social change in the period since independence from 
the Soviet Union. The concept of 'transformation' appears to be particularly 
useful here as it avoids the teleological and deterministic implications of 
the term 'transition', whilst allowing us to evaluate the multiplicity of 
outcomes in the transformational process.

The conference is conceived to provide a forum for Ph.D. students and other 
young scholars in the early stages of their career to discuss their 
fieldwork.  They are invited to submit abstracts on research methods, 
practices and outcomes in the study of patterns of civic, political, 
religious, cultural and economic transformation in contemporary Central Asia.

Paper proposals are invited to cover one or more of the following topic areas:

 - Redefining Identities
 - International Politics, Conflict and Security
 - Legal and Constitutional Transformations
 - Culture, Rituals and Religion
 - Civil Society: New Approaches
 - Gender and Family: History and Current Issues
 - Environment and Ecology
 - Economic policies and trends

For the purpose of this conference 'Central Asia' refers primarily to the 
five former Soviet republics. Papers are particularly welcome from 
researchers from the Central Asian countries. The organisers can give some 
assistance with visas and accommodation, but cannot cover any international 
travel expenses.

Submission of Proposals

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to romeconference2004yahoo.com (as 
an attachment in MS Word, RTF or PDF format). Please include:

1) Name
2) Institutional affiliation
3) Title/position
4) E-mail address
5) A one-page resume/CV
6) Title of Paper (maximum 20 words)
7) Abstract of Paper (maximum 500 words)

The working language of the conference is English.

The deadline for abstracts is 31st July 2004. Notification of acceptance 
will be by the middle of August. Full details of the program, conference 
fee, registration and accommodation arrangements will be available by the 
1st of September.

The Organisers

This conference builds on the successful experience of postgraduate 
conferences organized over the last few years by the Central Asia Research 
Network (CARN), a Europe wide network of young scholars currently conducting 
research in and about Central Asia, and the UK Central Asia Graduate 
Students Network, affiliated to the Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and 
the Caucasus (SOAS, University of London).

The Department of History, Geography and Anthropology of the University of 
Rome III (Dipartimento di Studi Storici Geografici Antropologici, Universita 
degli Studi Roma Tre) has established itself as a research-oriented centre 
with a strong interest in issues of development and international 
cooperation, as confirmed also by the popularity of its post-graduate 
program  (MSc in 'Educazione alla Pace: cooperazione internazionale, diritti 
umani e politiche dell'Unione Europea').  The Italian Association for the 
Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus (ASIAC) has been established in 
February 2003 as a cross-disciplinary association gathering scholars with a 
research interest in the areas of Central Asia and the Caucasus. It is 
currently based at the University of Turin (Department of History).

Organising Committee

Chiara De Santi (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
Michael Denison (Leeds University, UK)
Matteo Fumagalli (Edinburgh University, UK)
Irene Hilgers (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany)
Paolo Sartori (University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
Tommaso Trevisani (Centre for Development Research, Bonn, Germany)

For all enquiries contact romeconference2004yahoo.com. Please specify 
'Enquiry' in the subject of the email.

SEMINARS- John Schoeberlein, Anthropology in Central Asia, Samarkand, July 27-28, Tashkent July 30-31

Posted by: Zukhra Abdurakhmanova <zukhaliyahoo.com>
Posted: 22 Jul 2004


Dear All,

We would like to invite you for the open seminars conducted by Dr. John 
Schoeberlein, who is the Director of the Program on Central Asia and the 
Caucasus at Harvard University.

Dr. Schoeberlein will conduct seminars on two days each in Samarkand and 
Tashkent, and will address the following four topics:

1) Anthropology in Central Asia (generally about the nature of the field, 
   methodology, and application of anthropology in the Central Asian scholarly 
   context)
2) Anthropology of Identity
3) Anthropology of Ethic Diversity and Conflict
3) Anthropology of Islam

The seminars will be conducted in Russian.

The dates and times:

in Samarkand - July 27 at 9:00 am and July 28 at 9:00 am
in Tashkent - July 30 at 4:00 pm and July 31 at 10:00 am

The place:

In Samarkand (only July 27 and 28):

Samarkand Resource Center, which is placed in the building of Samarkand 
State University, Faculty of History (Universitetskii boulevar, 15)
Contact phone: +998 (3662) 33-72-31 or 59, 31-12-85 (fax)
E-mail: vafaevaonline.ru
Web-site: http://rescent.freenet.uz

In Tashkent (only July 30 and 31):

Main IREX office in Tashkent (see the map of our location:
http://www.irex.org.uz/), 4 proezd of Abdulla Kakhor Street, house 8 (close 
to "Karavan" restaurant)
Contact phone: +998 (71) 115-28-51, 115-28-54, 115-28-56, 115-28-49
Fax: +998 (71) 152-51-47

Everybody is welcome!

Zukhra Abdurakhamova

LECTURE- Uzbekistan, Terrorism, and the Values of U.S. Foreign Policy

Posted by: Jonathan C. Eastvold <eastvoldprinceton.edu>
Posted: 21 Jul 2004


Dr. Azizulla Gaziev
Respondent: Ms. Pamela Bromley

Monday, April 26
4:30 pm
62 McCosh Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Sponsored by the Human Values Forum of the University Center for Human Values

Dr. Gaziev is visiting senior staff at the Princeton Institute for
International and Regional Studies.  While living in Uzbekistan, he worked
on the Central Asia Project of the International Crisis Group and studied
cultural, social, and political factors that undermine peace and stability
in the region.  He is now working on a history of post-Soviet Uzbekistan.
He will be speaking on the current friendly relations between the United
States and the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan and their partnership in
fighting the War on Terror.  His talk will explore definitions of terrorism,
the moral implications of the practice of supporting non-democratic and
oppressive leaders both during the Cold War and today, and whether it is
possible to define values toward which American foreign policy strives in
the current period of international instability.

Ms. Bromley is a graduate student in Princeton's Department of Politics and
a Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
She specializes in international relations theory, non-governmental
organizations, and international aid.

CONF./CFP- Conference on Navoi and Jomi, Sept. 16-17, Samarkand State University

Posted by: Maryam Iman <maryami55yahoo.com>
Posted: 13 Jul 2004


The Ministry of Higher and Special Secondary Education of the Republic of
Uzbekistan

Alisher Navoi Samarkand State University

In collaboration with the International Institute of Central Asian Studies

Subject:

Conference to be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan from September 16th to
September 17th, 2004 entitled "Abdu-Rahmon Jomi and Alisher Navoi- a
historical sample of enduring collaboration" in honor of the 590th
anniversary of the renowned poet-philosopher Jomi.

Paper topics:

 - The status and influence of Abdu-Rahmon Jomi in world civilization
 - Abdu-Rahmon Jomi and Uzbek literature
 - Development of Eastern society and epochs of Jomi and Navoi: Problems of
   traditions and heritage in the research of medieval culture.
 - Abdu-Rahmon Jomi and the Nakhshbandi Tariqat
 - Economic and social conditions in Central Asia in the times of Jomi and
   Navoi
 - Social norms and customs through the lens of Jomi and Navoi
 - Cultural reflections in the XV century in the writings of Jomi and Navoi
 - Unsettled sociological issues in the era of Jomi and Navoi
 - Jomi's poetry
 - Linguistic problems in the epoch of Jomi and Navoi
 - Language and style of Jomi and Navoi

Submission guidelines:

 - Send papers via email to iicaasonline.ru as a word document.
 - Papers can be written in Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, English, French or German
 - Times New Roman, 14 font
 - 5-6 pages, left margin 1.5cm, right margin 2cm, top margin 2.5 cm.
 - Title page and abstract
 - Please include a resume including your name, initials, profession,
   workplace, and degrees earned (or education status).
 - Printed articles (please include two clean copies) are taken only
   alongside a soft copy (either CD or 3.5" diskette)

Paper Submission Deadline: August 26, 2004

Notification Date: September 1, 2004

The committee will try to provide room and board for all conference
participants, but participants must find funding for travel expenses
independently.  For any questions, feel free to contact the committee.

Address:

Attention Samadova or Zokhidov A.
Faculty of Tajik Philology
15 University Boulevard
703004 Samarkand
Uzbekistan

Tel: (998) (3662) 33-04-00
Fax: (998) (3662) 33-34-87 or 35-33-06

Attention Moshovir Memetova M.SH.
International Institute of Central Asian Studies
19 University Boulevard
703004 Samarkand
Uzbekistan

Tel: (998- 3662) 33-13-44 or 31-06-55
Fax: (998- 3662) 33-75-65
E-mail: iicasonline.ru

PANEL DISCUSSION- Chechnya After a Decade of Destruction, July 14, Washington DC

Posted by: Rebecca R Gould <rrg3nyu.edu>
Posted: 12 Jul 2004


The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience is holding a
panel discussion on the current situation in Chechnya with photojournalist
Stanley Greene, Chechen surgeon and author Khassan Baiev and Rachel Denber
of Human Rights Watch on July 14, 2004 at 7:00 pm in Washington, DC.

For more details on time and place, go to:
http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html

Reservations are required.

To make reservations, please call (202)488-0407

Rebecca Gould
Chechnya Advocacy Network

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