Conferences
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The Organizations for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies
at Columbia University, New York University, and Yale University are pleased to announce the Fifth Annual OASIES Student Conference
"The Power of Identity: Forces of Change in Inner Eurasia"
which will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Princeton University
Keynote: Laura Adams, Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center; Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University
Closing Remarks: Alan H. Timberlake, Director of the Institute of East Central Europe; Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: February 5, 2012
The conference seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in the power dynamics that shape identity and the forces of identity that shape society. Papers should address categories of identity (such as ethnicity, gender, faith, citizenship, and class) and their interplay with the forces of religion, culture, politics, and markets. The scope of the conference takes in Eurasia past and present, spanning from the Black Sea to Mongolia, from Siberia to South Asia.
Stressing multidisciplinarity, submissions are welcome from a variety of departments (anthropology, archeology, art history, Central Asian Studies, East Asian languages and cultures, history, Middle Eastern Studies, Mongolian Studies, political science, religion, sociology, Slavic languages and literature and South Asian studies).
Possible approaches may include, but are not limited to:
- sexuality and the family
- networks of movement
- language and education
- disease and the body
- violence in various guises
- literature, folklore and the arts
- the state and its borders
- negotiating kinship and clan
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please include the following information with all submissions:
1)Name of presenter
2)Academic position and institutional affiliation
3)Title of the paper
4)Abstract of no more than 300 words
5)Audio-visual equipment needs
6)Contact information (please include e-mail address and telephone number)
Send submissions as an attachment (pdf or doc) to oasiesconference@gmail.com no later than February 5, 2012.
Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes in length.
Unfortunately, financial support is not available for participants .
Please circulate widely.
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Past Conferences
The Fourth Annual OASIES Student Conference
"Places and Perceptions: Space and Identity in Inner Eurasia"
Saturday, APRIL 9, 2011 at Columbia University in New York City.
3:00-4:30 Textual Encounters Across Eurasia
-"European clerics and missionaries on Mongols: The perception of the steppe barbarians in 13th century Europe"
Mirko Sardelic (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Columbia
University)
-"Nikolai Leskov's "On the Edge of the World":Orthodoxy, Protestantism and the Circumscribing of Russian Identity"
Nate Schenkkan (Columbia University)
-"Pushkin as a Young Saadi: Persian Poetry, the Russian Poet, and His Reception in Tajikistan"
Lisa Yountchi (Northwestern University)
4:30-6:00 Place-Making in Eurasia
-"The Architecture of the Four- Iwan Kosh"
Elena Paskaleva (Leiden University)
-"Mongolian Modern: From Centered Places to Encompassing Spaces"
Alan Wheeler (University of Cambridge and Lee University)
-"Astana in Kazakhstan and Astana in Siberia as a form of national Islam of Eurasia"
Irina Karabulatova (Tyumen State University)
The Third Annual OASIES Student Conference
"Power and Movement Across Eurasia"
Saturday, APRIL 10, 2010 at Columbia University in New York City. (Please Note New Date)
+ 2010 OASIES Graduate Conference Call for Papers
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The Second Annual OASIES Student Conference The First Annual OASIES Graduate Student Conference Sunday, April 13, 2008 from 5 to 8:00 pm 5:00 - 5:10 Opening Remarks 5:10 - 5:40 Imperialism and Inner Eurasia: Xinjiang, the Caucasus, and Armenia -"'Tant pis pour nous': Nationalism, Symbolic Martyrdom, and the Iranian Oil Crisis" -"Sex and Gender in the Soviet Union" _____________________________________________________________________________ Our events are free and open to the public. For more information about these or other events visit www.oasies.org or e-mail contact@oasies.org.
_____________________________________________________________________________ Photo by Ecololo
"Inner Eurasia: Crossing Boundaries"
Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 10 am to 5:30 pm
Columbia University in the City of New York
10-10:30 Breakfast and Registration
10:30-12 Negotiating Borders
-"Destiny and Fatality of the Last Soviet Generation: Timur Bekmametov's 2006 "Day Watch""
Anaita Khudonazar, University of California at Berkeley
-"Border-Making as National Consciousness: the Demarcation of the Ferghana Valley, 1924-1927"
Benjamin Loring, Georgetown University
-"Historiography Wars in Central Asia: Clashing History Narratives and Post-Independence Statehood of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan"
Mohira Suyarkulova, University of St. Andrews
Community and Identity
-"Comparative Study of Motifs in a Sassanid Fire-Temple and Central Asian Art"
Parisa Atighi Moghadam, Tohoku University
-"Kongrat Tribal Groups in Southern Uzbekistan: Overview of Studies"
Otabek Gulyamov, Simmons College
-"Kazakhstani Mass-Media Bias in Covering Ethnic Minority Issues"
Dinara Tussupova, Oklahoma State University
-"Culture of Modern Uzbekistan: Sociolinguistic Aspects"
Klara Nazmutdinova, Iowa State University
12-1 Lunch
1-2 Film: "Gift to Stalin"
3-4:30 Narratives of Empire
-"International Islam and Religious Identity in Central Asia"
James Pickett, Princeton University
-"Regional News and the Politics of Siberian Patriotism in the 1880s"
David Rainbow, New York University
-"The Image of the Kurds in the Sources of the Russian Empire"
Oleksandr Liapkalo, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Economic and Security Policy
-"Education in Kazakhstan: Economic Aspects"
Ainur Abdrazakova, Florida State University
-"Kazakh-Indian Nuclear Cooperation"
Bek-Ali Yerzhan, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
-"European Neighbourhood Policy and the South Caucasus Countries (The Case of Azerbaijan)"
Shahin Bayramov, Indiana University at Bloomington
-"The Partnership of Kazakhstan and the European Union: the Energy Dimension"
Ardak Yesdauletova, Eurasian National University
4:30-5:30 Reception
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"Interrogating Inner Eurasia"
Columbia University in the City of New York
Darren Byler, Columbia University
-"Violence at the Ends of Empire: The Catastrophes of the Circassians and Armenians"
Owen Miller, Columbia University
5:45 - 6:45 Negotiating the Nation in Iran and Central Asia
Arya Rejaee, New School for Social Research
-"Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy Towards South Asia"
Bek-Ali Yerzhan, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
-"Foreign Investment Law in the Republic of Kazakhstan"
Maulenov Kassym Syrbaevich, Kazakh-British Technical University, Kazakhstan
6:50 - 7:50 Bringing Europe to Asia
Jessica Teicher, Columbia University
-"Hungarian Voices at the League of Nations"
Andrew Behrendt, University of Chicago
-"Investigating the Mysterious East: Friar John of Plano Carpini's Mission to the Mongols"
Hannah Barker, Columbia University