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Workshop “Ideas and Practices: Exploring Economic and Social Transformation in Central Asia” at Max Planck Institute in Halle

WORKSHOP 11–13 October 2018 ORGANIZED BY: Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia (CASCA Halle-Zurich) VENUE: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Advokatenweg 36 |…

Job announcement: Program Manager (Caspian Policy Center)

Program Manager JOB SUMMARY: The Program Manager is responsible for taking the lead in all program components, including: managing administrative and logistical tasks; assisting with…

Tajik Intensive and Central Asian Studies – Abroad

The School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) is pleased to announce a new Tajik Intensive program. For many years, SRAS students have had the opportunity…

The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs

Sean R. Roberts (2018) The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs, Critical Asian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 This article provides an overview of People’s Republic…

False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security

Author: Yitzhak Shichor Source: The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies Abstract: A remote region in Western China usually avoided by foreigners, and even…

Voices from the Diaspora: Uyghur Journalists and Protests Against China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown

Separated Souls: Uighur journalist’s unbreakable resolve to help her detained family Source: Amnesty International Gulchehra Hoja still remembers the first time her daughter, then three…

Central Asia Security Workshop: Securing and Securitizing Policies

Central Asia Security Workshop, March 5, 2018 Transcripts of the presentations Roger Kangas, National Defense University US Strategy for South Asia/Afghanistan and its Impact on Central Asia I’ll…

Central Asia Security Workshop: Rethinking the Obvious. Changes in Perceptions, Strategies and Policies

Central Asia Security Workshop, March 5, 2018 Transcripts of the presentations Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University Kazakhstani Perceptions of External Powers. Unexpected Findings of…

Central Asia Security Workshop: Central Asia’s Regional Environment. Moves and Stabilities

Central Asia Security Workshop, March 5, 2018 Transcripts of the presentations Alexander Cooley, Columbia University Central Asia as Part of Greater Eurasia? Prospects and Challenges And it’s a…

Central Asia Security Workshop – 2018 (video)

5 March 2018 Full video of the event:

Research Update: Security Matters in Marriage, Song and Dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands, and Uyghur Gathering

Author: Mei Ding, Fudan University Source: Central Asian Survey Abstract: Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China in 2016…

East Turkistan, the Forgotten Country

Author: Çağdaş Duman Source: Research Gate There exist the Pamir Mountains and Karakum Desert in the south and the Altay Mountains in the north…

Assessing the Impact of NGO Peacebuilding Programs in the South Caucasus: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh

By Jeyhun Veliyev CAP Paper 204 (CAAF Fellows Papers), March 2018 Jeyhun Veliyev is a junior researcher interested in political economy, energy security, conflict, human…

Culture and Islam in Late Central Asia (video)

15 February, 2018 Full video of the event:

The Central Asian Political Exiles Newsletter Winter 2017/2018

Welcome to the first issue of the Central Asian Political Exiles (CAPE) Newsletter! Over the past decade, Central Asian states have grown emboldened and have…

Call for Papers: “The EU, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in A New Era”

The EU, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in A New Era Bruges, Belgium,7-8 June 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS The Brussels Academy for China…

‘Bourgeois’ Islam, Prosperity Theology, and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia (video)

29 January, 2018 Full video of the event:

19th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS 2018) October 24-28, 2018, University of Pittsburgh

About the Annual Conference CESS Annual Conferences have been held at universities around North America since 2000, currently offering up to 70 panels and attracting…

Engaging Youth to Sustain (Inter-Communal) Peace at the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan Border

By Jafar Usmanov CAP Fellows Paper 203 (CAAF Fellows Papers), February 2018 Jafar Usmanov is a researcher on youth development issues in Tajikistan. He has…

Culture and Islam in Late Soviet Central Asia

By CAP CAP Paper 199, January 2018 On February 15, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program organized a workshop on “‘Culture and Islam in Late Soviet…

Workshop: The Caucasus and Central Asia in Conversation: The Importance of Stories and Archives from the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periphery

The Second Annual Ralph T. Fisher Workshop at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign June 15-16, 2018 Co-Conveners: Eva Rogaar (UIUC) and Ben Bamberger (UIUC) [email protected]…

Conference “Eurasia at the Crossroads,” March 30, 2018

The Organization for the Advancement of Inner Eurasian Studies (OASIES) will host a conference at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University on Friday, March 30,…

Grassroots Peacebuilding: Cross-Border Cooperation in the Ferghana Valley

By Diana Mamatova CAP Fellows Paper 202 (CAAF Fellows Papers), January 2018 Diana Mamatova is a young professional in the areas of peacebuilding, development and…