KIMEP University and the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) have the pleasure to announce the organisation of an international conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on May 18-19 2015, on the evolution of the welfare State in Central Asia. The cut down of Soviet subsidies after 1991 and the breakdown of a series of economic and political crises have considerably undermined the social role of the State in the region.

The Central Asia Program is happy to announce that the 16th Annual Meeting of the Central Eurasian Studies Society will be held at George Washington University in Washington DC, October 15-18th 2015. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2015. Selections will be announced in early May.

The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are pleased to announce the fifth annual Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute, CESSI, to be held at UW-Madison from June 15-August 7, 2015. Information and application materials are available on the CESSI Web site: creeca.wisc.edu/cessi

An Edwardian Evening on the Silk Road Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7:00pm Arts Club of Washington 2017 I Street, Washington DC 20006 Tickets are $25 or $20 for students. For more information contact silkroaddance@aol.com or go to http://events.kodoom.com/en/washington-dc/an-edwardian-evening-on-the-silk-road/73263/e/

The Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Friday, March 27, 2015 at the The Richard Ettinghausen Library at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University.

KIMEP University and the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) have the pleasure to announce the organisation of an international conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on May 18-19 2015, on the evolution of the welfare State in Central Asia.

The George Washington University – Elliott School of International Affairs’ Central Asia Program (CAP) welcomes applications for its Fellowship Program for the Fall semester (August 1-December 31, 2015).

The Central Asia Program welcomes its newest fellows for the Spring 2015 semester. Please join us in welcoming Nazik Muradova from Turkmenistan and Farrukh Irnazarov from Uzbekistan.

The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies recently released a report on the 10 most important issues facing Central Asia in 2015.

Call for manuscripts – Contemporary Central Asia. Societies, Politics and Cultures. At the crossroads of Russia, China, and the Islamic world, Central Asia remains one of the world’s least-understood regions…