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A virtual event hosted on September 22, 2021 by the Central Asia Program at the George Washington University About this event The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia offers the…

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YouTube Seminars at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies

14 July, 2020

YouTube Seminars at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies Our partner, The French Institute for Central Asian Studies | Institut français d’études sur l’Asie centrale (IFEAC), created in the 1990s in…

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Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia

1 May, 2020

Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia Sinophobia in Central Asia is real. But does that translate into a threat to China’s lasting presence in the region? By Sebastien PeyrousePublished by The Diplomat,…

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Post-Doctoral Fellowships

29 April, 2020

Post-Doctoral Fellowships The Graduate School of Development seeks to recruit two post-doctoral fellows: one fellowship is tenable at the Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI), Khorog, Tajikistan, the other at the…

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Tommaso Aguzzi

7 April, 2020

Tommaso Aguzzi Tommaso Aguzzi is a freelance photographer born and raised in Castelleone di Suasa, a small village in the Italian hills between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic Sea.…

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Kasia Ploskonka

7 April, 2020

Kasia Ploskonka Kasia Ploskonka is currently a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London with a focus on autonomy and agency within contemporary art of post-Soviet Central Asia. She has…

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Soft Infrastructure Development in Central Asia 2020: Effective Infrastructure Development Through Legislation, Regulation, Policies, Governance, and Public Private Frameworks

26 March, 2020

Soft Infrastructure Development in Central Asia 2020: Effective Infrastructure Development Through Legislation, Regulation, Policies, Governance, and Public Private Frameworks (December 6, 2019) The resource-rich and geographically strategic region of Central…

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Unveiling Girls’ Madrasahs in Kyrgyzstan

6 February, 2020

By Aichurek Kurmanbekova CAP Paper 228 (CAAF Fellows Papers), January 2020 Aichurek Kurmanbekova graduated from the Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University with a BA in Political Science (2008) and the OSCE…

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Now Accepting Applications for CESSI 2020!

22 October, 2019

The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now accepting applications! We offer courses in intensive elementary and intermediate Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Additional levels and languages (such as…

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Central Asian Migrants in Western Europe International Conference

21 October, 2019

Dates: January 10/11, 2020 Venue: Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal, Lagoa – Algarve (Portugal). Convenor: António Eduardo Mendonça – antonioeduardo@campus.ul.pt (IGOT – UL) Dear colleagues, We have the pleasure to announce the International…

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Conference call for papers–New Perspectives in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies

10 September, 2019

Call for Papers New Perspectives in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (Ohio) welcomes applications from advanced graduate students…

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CESS 2019 Call for Proposals Now Open!

11 February, 2019

We are delighted to announce that the call for proposals for CESS 2019 is now open. Proposal submissions may be made until March 21, 2019. Central Eurasian Studies Society 20th Annual…

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

20 March, 2018

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 Survey Analysis What I wanted…

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The Destruction of Ethnic Identity: The Uyghur People Fight for Freedom in the Shadow of Chinese Oppression

25 December, 2017

Source: The Liberty Web Enver Can, Founder and President of The Ilham Tohti Initiative (ITI), shares with us his moving, and often heart-breaking, account of the Chinese attempt at…

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Global Powers and Competing ‘Fixes’ in Central Asia

15 December, 2017

By CAP Transcript of the presentation by Dr. Balihar Sanghera, Director of Graduate Studies (Taught), Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent; George F. Kennan Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center December 1,…

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The Impact of Ethnic Minorities on China’s Foreign Policy: The Case of Xinjiang and the Uyghur

6 December, 2017

Author: Michael Clarke, National Security College, Australian National University Source: Sage Journals, China Report (Link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0009445516677361 ) Abstract: This article argues, through a case study of the evolving impact of…

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The Diplomat: In Xinjiang, Ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz Face Increased Pressure

6 December, 2017

News from the Region Author: Catherine Putz, Managing Editor of the The Diplomat Source: The Diplomat (Link: https://thediplomat.com/2017/11/in-xinjiang-ethnic-kazakhs-and-kyrgyz-face-increased-pressure/ ) In recent months, ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz in China’s Westernmost province…

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Интервью с воинами-интернационалистами Афганской войны 1979-1989 годов

21 May, 2014

Интервью с воинами-интернационалистами Афганской войны 1979-1989 годов This book offers unique insight into the memory of the Central Asian afgantsy,who fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of 1979-1989. This work…