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SEMINAR- SDI Caucasus and Caspian Series- Ilham Aliev, SOCAR

From: Elena_Kostritsyna/FS/KSG(a)ksg.harvard.edu - Posted: 10 Nov 1997


The BCSIA Caspian Working Group
and
The SDI Seminar Series on "The Caucasus and the Caspian"

ILHAM ALIEV
First Vice President of the State Oil Company
of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)

and representatives of leading U.S. oil companies
including EXXON, Mobil and Pennzoil

on

Azerbaijan
The New Source of Energy for the 21st Century

Friday, November 21, 1997
4:00-6:00

Taubman Conference Center

John F. Kennedy School of Government
Taubman Building, 5th Floor (Rooms, A,BandC)

For further information, contact:  Fiona Hill, 496-1394

CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP- Schedule for the Rest of Fall Semester

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 6 Nov 1997


Nov. 13 (Thurs.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 3
CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP
Omirserik Kasenov
Former head of the Inst. for Strategic Studies in Kazakstan and current
     Rector of Kainar University (Almati, Kazakstan)
"Central Asia between Russia and the Islamic World: Security Challenges and
     Western Interests"

Nov. 25 (Tues.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 3
CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP
Thomas J. Barfield
Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, Boston Univ.
"Post-Socialist Feudalism in Uzbekistan"

Dec. 9 (Tues.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 3
CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP
Jeffrey Sachs
Prof. of International Trade, Economic Dept., and Director of Harvard
     Institute for International Development
"The Prospects for Economic Growth in Central Asia"

Dec. 16 (Tues.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 215 (Bergson/Ulam Room)
CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP and RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY SEMINAR, DAVIS CENTER FOR
     RUSSIAN STUDIES
Dinora Azimova
Division of Political Analysis and Prognosis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
     Uzbekistan, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Center for
     International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), Stanford Univ.
"Security in Central Asia: Contradictions between the Local, National and
     Regional Interests"

SEMINARS- Central Asia related Seminars at the Davis Center

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 6 Nov 1997


November 6        OCCASIONAL SEMINAR, co-sponsered by the
Thursday          Davis Center and the Fairbanks Center
12:30-2:00 p.m.   Gilbert Rozman
Bergson/Ulam Rm.
Coolidge Hall 215

                  "Russia's Great Power Relations in Asia"

November 10       OCCASIONAL SEMINAR, co-sponsered by the
Monday            Davis Center and the Center for European Studies
4:15-6:00 p.m.    Michael Kennedy
Garden Room       Director, Center for Russian and East European
Coolidge Hall     Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

                  "Transition Culture, Social Problems and Identity
                  Formation: Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan Through
                  Focus Groups"

LECTURE- M. Khodarkovsky, Russia in North Caucasus, Fri. Oct. 31

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 30 Oct 1997


Friday, October 31  -  DCRS HISTORIANS' SEMINAR
2:00-4:00 p.m., Coolidge Hall, 4

Michael Khodarkovsky - Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago
"Of Christianity, Enlightenment and Colonialism:  Russia in the North
     Caucasus before the Nineteenth Century"

For further information, contact:
     Elsa Ransom
     Davis Center for Russian Studies
     Harvard University
     1737 Cambridge Street
     Cambridge, MA 02138
     tel.: 617-495-4037  fax: 617-495-8319

IAAS Talk: Jiger Janabel- Mongol Impact on Kazaks and Uzbeks

From: Susan P. Bourneuf <sbourn(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 29 Oct 1997


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon and lecture at
Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 2
Wednesday, November 5, 1997
Lunch at 12:30, presentation at 1:00

Jiger Janabel
IAAS Ph.D. recipient
will speak on
"The Mongol Impact on the Formation of the Ethnic Kazaks and Uzbeks"

You may bring your own Lunch or
Lunch can be bought in Coolidge Hall's dining room
and taken into Seminar Room 2

Susan Bourneuf, Staff Assistant
Regional Studies -- East Asia
Inner Asia and Altaic Studies
Phone: 495-3777
Fax: 495-4306
sbourn(a)fas.harvard.edu

Lecture Thursday: Gulru Necipoglu, Scroll Design from Iran

From: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture <islarch(a)mit.edu>
Posted: 28 Oct 1997


"Thoughts on a Late Medieval Design Scroll from Iran: Geometry and Ornament
in Islamic Architecture"

a lecture by Harvard Aga Khan Professor Gulru Necipoglu

3:30 p.m.
Thursday
30 October 1997

MIT
Building 5 - Room 216

this lecture is being presented as part of the Fall Forum series
in conjunction with History, Theory and Criticism at MIT

for more information contact +1/617-258-8438
<dtavit(a)mit.edu>

BROWN BAG LUNCH TALK- Mongolian Studies in Inner Mongolia

From: Nicola Di Cosmo <dicosmo(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Oct 1997


Friday, October 17, 12-1.30 pm

Brown-bag Lunch Talk

Mr Uljeyt (Librarian, Inner Mongolian Academy of Social Sciences)

will speak on:

"Mongolian Studies in Inner Mongolia (PRC): Resources and Scholarly Trends"

Common Room
Harvard-Yenching Institute
2, Divinity Avenue

Sponsored by:
The Committee for Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and
The Harvard-Yenching Library

Source: Nicola Di Cosmo <dicosmo(a)fas.harvard.edu>

Buddhist Spirituality: Doctrine and Practice

From: Society for the Study of Religion <ssr(a)bu.edu>
Posted: 14 Oct 1997


Greetings,

Please join the Society for the Study of Religion at Boston
University the Monday evening of October 20th, as we welcome
Professor John Makransky of Boston College to deliver a lecture
entitled: "Buddhist Spirituality: Doctrine And Practice."  The
lecture is free and open to the general academic community.  It
will begin at 8:00 P.M. in Sargent College room 101, located at
635 Commonwealth Avenue, on the Boston University campus.

     Sincerely,
     James Doyle
     Director, SSR Universal

REMINDER: Lecture Event - Wednesday Night Oct 15

From: AKPIA <islarch(a)mit.edu>
Posted: 14 Oct 1997


"From North Africa to Central Asia: Aga Khan Program Fieldwork and Research"

A special two part series with presentations by graduate students from
Harvard University and MIT

6:00 p.m. at MIT; Building 4, Room 163

TONIGHT
Wednesday 15 October 1997

"Architecture in Bosnia Before and After the War" Birgul Colakagu
"Jerba, Tunisia: Where Many Cultures Meet" Kristen Little
"The Mellah of Rabat, Morocco"  Minakshi Mani
"Summer Fieldwork in Uzbekistan"  Nnema Ugwuegbu

Wednesday 22 October 1997

"Syria: Horizontal Layering of History"  Talin Der-Grigorian
"The Ottoman Empire in the 1873 World Exposition" Ahment Ersoy
"The Shrine of Shaikh Safi in Ardabil" Kishwar Rizvi
"Umayyad Desert Complexes: Jordan, Syria and Lebanon" Lara Tohme
"The Good-Looking Men and Women of the Jerba '97 Survey" Mark DeLancey


Judith Bauman
Part-Time Senior Secretary,
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT +1/617-253-1400 <islarch(a)mit.edu>

WORK STUDY JOB for Central Asia Forum

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Oct 1997


We need someone who is interested in and eligible for work study employment
at the Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies.  Hours aree quite flexible,
and the work will be varied (and not terribly complex).  In addition to the
work study pay, you will receive our great appreciation...

If you are interested, please contact me right away (as I'll be going out
of the country soon).  If you know of someone else who might be interested,
please pass the word on.  We could indeed use more than one person.

The Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies a coordinating entity for the
study of this region at Harvard.  For this work, you do not need to be
involved in studying the region (though we may be able to infect you with
our fascination with it...)

Thanks for your interest,

John Schoeberlein-Engel
Director, Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

Harvard Guide to Grants and Guide to Postdoctoral Fellowships

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Oct 1997


New editions for 1997-98 have been published of

The Graduate Guide to Grants

and

The Harvard Guide to Postdoctoral Fellowships

Both are edited by Cynthia Verba.

For more information, contact the Office of Student Affairs, Byerly Hall,
495-1816.

JOB/RESEARCH OPP.- Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Tajikistan

From: Rafique Keshavjee <rafique(a)keshavjee.usa.com>
Posted: 7 Oct 1997


Seeking two Graduate Students for work in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is about to implement an ambitious project
to strengthen the humanities at the undergraduate level in universities in
Central Asia.  Under the title of the Aga Khan Humanities Project for
Central Asia, this project will start implementation in November 1997 and
continue until the end of 1998, when it may be renewed.  It is based in
Dushanbe, and involves collaboration with several universities, where it
will test a core curriculum that is thematically based.  The languages of
the curriculum material will be Russian, English, Tajik (in Cyrillic, as
well as in Persian scripts), as well as other languages, in line with
expansion of the scope of the project in the region.  The Project consists
of a Director, Project Officer and an academic staff of nine, plus support
staff.

The Project requires two translators each working half-time, to translate
all material and correspondence from Russian into English.  The material to
be translated will include conceptual planning documents, as well as
curriculum material in several media.  The other half of each position can
be devoted to the student's own research.  The specific hours of work can
be worked out with the Project Director, as long as one translator is
available at all times of operation.

The Project offers the following:
1.  $10,000 per annum for each half-time position.
2.  Airfare to and from Tajikistan.
3.  Assistance in obtaining entry visas and visa extensions.
4.  Assistance in obtaining accommodation.
5.  Assistance in access for research purposes, as long as the topic
    of research does not affect the integrity of the Project.

Required:
1.  Native or complete command of English.
2.  Advanced reading knowledge of Russian, particularly in the
    Humanities.
3.  Ability to work under tight deadlines.
4.  Ability to work in a team environment.
5.  Ability to avoid jargon and to write English concisely and
    pithily.

Desired:
1.  Familiarity with Central Asian culture and history.
2.  Experience in living overseas.
3.  Experience in writing fiction or working in the arts.

Start Date:
November 1997 if possible, but no later than January 1998.

Contact (before October 17):

Rafique Keshavjee
Director
Aga Khan Humanities Project for Central Asia
63 Upland Road
Concord, MA 01742
Tel.: 978-287-0538
Fax:  978-287-0539
e-mail: rafique(a)keshavjee.usa.com

After October 17, or if applicant is already in Central Asia:
e-mail: rafique(a)akefhum.td.silk.org
Tel. 7-3772-276935 or 230944

Harvard Assoc of Tibetan Studies Inaugural Lecture: Mythos Tibet

From: Tashi Rabgey <rabgey(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Oct 1997


I am writing to inform you about the upcoming inaugural lecture of the
Modern Tibetan Studies Forum, presented by the Harvard Association of
Tibetan Studies.  The lecture will be given by prominent Tibetan writer
and critic Jamyang Norbu.  It will be held on Wed. October 8 at 4:30pm in
the Dudley Fireside Room.

MYTHOS TIBET
Tibet in Film, Fiction, and Fantasy of the West

A lecture by Jamyang Norbu

Tibet has always exerted a unique fascination on the outside world,
especially the West. This lecture traces the earliest sources of the
"Shangrila" myth -- of the hidden kingdom of ancient learning and lost
wisdom, deep in the heart of Asia -- from medieval Christian legends to its
circumstances now within New Age millenarian beliefs. This stereotype of
Tibet has been sufficiently widespread and enduring to carve itself a small
niche in popular literature (and later films) from Victorian times to the
present day.

This "Shangrila" view of Tibet has helped to attract tremendous
international attention to Tibet and the Tibetans, but the powerful fantasy
elements in this concept seems to have interjected a dreamlike quality into
current Western appreciation of the Tibetan holocaust making it appear less
immediate, real or consequential than other conflicts and crisis around the
globe.
---------------------------------------------------
Jamyang Norbu is a novelist, playwright and a leading commentator on
Tibetan affairs. He was, early in his life, a member of the Tibetan
resistance in Mustang. He was also director of the Tibetan Institute of
Performing Arts and editor of the largest independent Tibetan newspaper,
Mangtso (Democracy). He is currently one of the founding directors of the
Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, which has
received the Freedom Award from Denmark for its work to bring about the
intellectual and cultural emancipation of the Tibetan People.

     JAMYANG NORBU

Jamyang Norbu was educated at St. Joseph's College in Darjeeling. He has
been extensively involved in the preservation of Tibetan culture, having
been the director of the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (1979-84),
and also the manager of the first Tibetan cultural troupe to tour abroad --
Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore -- in 1975. He has written
four plays and a traditional opera libretto, all of which have been
successfully produced. He also edited and contributed to Performing
Traditions of Tibet, a major collection of articles from ethnomusicologists
and other Tibet experts from all over the world.

Norbu was one of the conveners of the first Tibetan Youth Congress (1970),
which is now the largest Tibetan political organisation in exile. As well
as being deeply involved in the Tibetan freedom struggle for over
twenty-five years, Norbu has regularly commented on Tibetan and Chinese
affairs in Tibetan, Indian and Western publications. A collection of his
political essays (Illusion and Reality) was published in book-form by the
Tibetan Youth Congress, to commemorate the Tienanmen massacre, an event
Norbu had, in his writings, predicted as inevitable. Chinese authorities in
Tibet have, on the other hand, derided his writings as being
inconsequential as "the wings of a fly beating against a boulder".

Norbu is one of the four founding directors of the AMNYE MACHEN INSTITUTE,
Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, which was inaugurated in Dharamshala
on the 28th of June, 1992.  The Institute also received the 1995 Poul
Lauritsen Freedom Award (from Denmark) for its work to bring about the
intellectual and cultural emancipation of the Tibetan society.

Norbu has also written literary reviews for the Japan Times, and
short-stories for Indian and Tibetan magazines. His first book, Horseman in
the Snow, written in 1978, is the biography of an old Khampa warrior and
his personal fight against the Red Army. The latest edition of this book is
entitled Warriors of Tibet, and published in London in 1986 by Wisdom
publications. The books has also been translated into Tibetan, Japanese,
and French. Norbu was once briefly a member of the Tibetan resistance force
at Mustang and is currently working on an account of the war of resistance
in Tibet, for Bloomsbury Publications, London. For his writings Norbu has
been awarded a bursary by the Scottish Arts Council, along with eight other
Scottish-based writers and poets, for the year 1991.

Norbu was till recently the editor of Mangtso (Democracy), the largest
independent Tibetan language newspaper. He is also editor of Lungta, a
biannual journal on Tibetan culture published in Switzerland in English and
French.

Norbu has lectured on Tibet and China at more than a hundred universities
and institutions in the USA, Canada, Australia, France, Switzerland, India,
Japan and the UK; at such venues as the Harvard Law School, The Harvard
Education Forum, the John.F.Kennedy School of Government, MIT, Columbia
University, the John King Fairbanks Centre for East Asian Research,
Stanford University, U.C.L.A, U.C. Berkeley, The National Holocaust
Memorial Museum (Washington D.C.) the Canadian Institute of International
Affairs, the Royal Ontario Museum, Cambridge University, The Royal Academy
of Arts (London), and many others. He has also appeared on a number of TV
and radio shows and interviews all over the world to argue the case for Tibet.

Some recent writings of Jamyang Norbu

Lungta: Journal of Tibetan Culture and Politics #8, "The Amnye Machen
Range, Ancestor of the Tibetans", Amnye Machen Institute, 1995,
Dharamsala,(editor and contributor).

Lungta: Journal of Tibetan Culture and Politics #9, "Two Thousand Years and
More of Tibetan Poetry", Amnye Machen Institute, 1996,Dharamsala,(editor
and contributor).

"Lhasa Past and Present", Introductory essay to Map and Index of Lhasa
City, Amne Machen Institute, 1995, Dharamsala.

"Warten Im Exil: Traum und Wirklichkeit. Die Tibetfluchtlinge im 36 jahr",
in DU: DIE ZEITSCHRIFT DER KULTUR,  #7 July 1995, Switzerland.

"'Confucius Say'...Old Values for New Tyrannies" in Tibetan Review, July
1997, Delhi.

"Non Violence or Non Action, Some Gandhian Truths about the Tibetan Peace
Movement", in Tibetan Review, August 1997, Delhi.


Tashi Rabgey
3 Dunning Way Apt # 98, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Tel: +1/617-524 7218

Subscribe to the CMES Calendar via E-Mail

From: Center for Middle Eastern Studies <mideast(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Oct 1997


From now on you can receive the bimonthly update of CMES events delivered
directly to your e-mail account.  If you wish to be sent the calendar via
e-mail, please send a message to CMES at either Ahmed Jebari's address,
<jebari(a)fas.harvard.edu>, or to <mideast(a)fas.harvard.edu>.

Aga Khan Program Fall Event Calendar

From: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture <islarch(a)mit.edu>
Posted: 3 Oct 1997


The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Fall Events Calendar 1997

Special Two-Part Lecture Series
"From North Africa to Central Asia: Aga Khan Program Fieldwork and Research
Overview"

Wednesday
15 and 22 October
6:00 p.m.
MIT
Building 3 - Room 133
pizza and refreshments will be served

Graduate students from Harvard and MIT discuss their ongoing work.

Lectures:

"Continuity and Receptivity in Industrial Valley Architecture: The Tomb of
Sadan Shahid"
Visiting Scholar Barry Flood, Harvard GSD

Friday 10 October
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Sackler Museum 318

Friends of Islamic Art lecture series


"Detachment and Fixity: the Question of Identity in Arab/Islamic Architecture"
Samer Akkach, Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture
University of Adelaide, Australia

Thursday 23 October
6:00 p.m.
MIT
Building 3- Room 133


"Provincial Architecture in Islamic Egypt"
Visiting Professor Doris Behrens Abouseif, Harvard GSD

Monday 27 October
6:00 p.m.
MIT
Building 1- Room 390


"From Mohenjodaro to Shujaabad: The Grand Tradition of Urban Planning in
Pakistan"
Visiting Professor Abdul Rehman, MIT

Wednesday 29 October
6:00 p.m.
MIT
Building 3- Room 133

this lecture supplements Professor Attilio Petruccioli's graduate course
"From Region to Neighborhood: Reading the Islamic City"


"History and Restoration: Reflections on the Negotiation of Neglect"
Shawkat Toorawa, Department of Humanities History Lecturer
University of Mauritius

Wednesday 5 November
6:00 p.m.
MIT
Building 3- Room 133


for more information contact +1/617-253-1400
<islarch(a)mit.edu>

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
MIT 10-390
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Special Event on Central Asian Architecture - Aga Khan Program

From: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture <islarch(a)mit.edu>
Posted: 3 Oct 1997


The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is hosting 2 evenings of
Harvard and M.I.T. Graduate Student Presentations

Wednesday 15 and 22 October
6-8 p.m.
MIT
Room 4-163

Titles and speakers TBA.

This is a two part series of presentations by Harvard University and MIT
Aga Khan Program Graduate Students.  They will discuss their ongoing
research and fieldwork in countries spanning North Africa and Central Asia.
Open to the public.

for more information contact +1/617-253-1400
<islarch(a)mit.edu>

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
MIT 10-390
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

LECTURE- ussia, the United States, Iran and the "Islamic Factor" in Central Asia, Mohiaddin Mesbahi

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 26 Sep 1997


Monday, Sept. 29, 1997
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Coolidge Halll, Room 4
12:00-1:30 pm

Mohiaddin Mesbahi
"Russia, the United States, Iran and the 'Islamic Factor' in Central Asia"
Prof. of International Relations
Florida International University

October Central Asia Related Lectures at the DCRS

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 26 Sep 1997


UPCOMING LECTURES RELATED TO CENTRAL ASIA
     At the Davis Center for Russian Studies

For further information, contact:
     London M. King
     Davis Center for Russian Studies
     Harvard University
     1737 Cambridge Street
     Cambridge, MA 02138
     tel.: 617-495-4037  fax: 617-495-8319

Wednesday, October 8  -  DCRS COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS LUNCHEON SEMINAR
12:30-2:00 p.m., Coolidge Hall, 4

Nicholas and Ruth Daniloff  - Director of Journalism Program, Northeastern
"Azerbaijan:  With Riches Come Risks"


Thursday, October 9  -  DCRS RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY SEMINAR
12:00-2:00 p.m., Bergson/Ulam Rm., Coolidge Hall, 215

Pauline Jones Luong - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for
     International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Yale University
"Strategies for Energy Development in Central Asia:  Domestic and Foreign
     Implications"


Friday, October 10  -  DCRS HISTORIANS' SEMINAR
2:00-4:00 p.m., Coolidge Hall, 4

David Schimmelpenninck - Visiting Scholar, John. M. Olin Institute for
     Strategic Studies
"The Unknown Przhevalskii:  Imperialism and Russia's Great Game in Inner
     Asia, 1871-1888"


Monday, October 20  -  DCRS RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY SEMINAR
12:00-2:00 p.m., Bergson Ulam Rm., Coolidge Hall, 215
Co-sponsored with the Center for Middle East Studies (CMES)

Alexei Vassiliev - Director, Institute of Africa, Russian Academy of Science
"The Future of Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East"


Friday, October 31  -  DCRS HISTORIANS' SEMINAR
2:00-4:00 p.m., Coolidge Hall, 4

Michael Khodarkovsky - Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago
"Of Christianity, Enlightenment and Colonialism:  Russia in the North
     Caucasus before the Nineteenth Century"

Lecture- Kumbakonam: Sacred and Royal City of South India

From: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture <islarch(a)mit.edu>
Posted: 24 Sep 1997


The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture presents:

a lecture by Vivek Nanda
Senior Research Associate
Faculty of Architecture and History of Art
University of Cambridge, UK

KUMBAKONAM: A Sacred and Royal City of South India

6:00-8:00 pm, Wednesday, 24 September 1997
MIT Building 8-105

call 253-1400 for more information

Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

COURSE OFFERING- Art in the House of Tamerlane (1370-1506)

From: "David J. Roxburgh" <roxburgh(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Sep 1997


FA 126x Art of the House of Tamerlane (1370-1506)
Fall term 1997
M, W, (F), 11 am, Sackler 318
David J. Roxburgh

Course Description:

The lecture course covers the art and architecture sponsored by Tamerlane
and his descendants in Iran and Transoxiana (Central Asia) in the years
between Tamerlane's campaigns and the demise of political power.  Lectures
alternate between the study of media (arranged chronologically), and a
thematic treatment of critical issues (for example: patronage as a means of
legitimization and cultural assimilation; exploitation of steppe and sown
sources of power and prestige; change in socio-economic structure;
regional/ metropolitan architectural traditions; the formation of a
canonical visual idiom in public and private space; and the patronage of
elite royal women).

Key readings extracted from a wealth of recent literature and primary
sources made available in English translation will be used.

No previous classes in Islamic art and architecture or in Middle East
history and culture are required.

SYLLABI available in Dept. of Fine Arts, Sackler, 2nd floor.

COURSE OFFERING- The Zoroastrian Religion

From: James Russell <russell(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Sep 1997


Early Iranian Civilizations 104. The Zoroastrian Religion
James R. Russell
half course (fall term)
W., 1-3, Siever 215

A survey of the pre-Islamic religion of the Iranian and Armenian peoples,
based upon the Gathaas of Zarathustra, the Old Persian inscriptions,
Pahlavi texts, and materials of surrounding countries.  The survival of the
Farsa amongst the Parsis of India.  Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity
School as 3585.

Central Asia Working Group to convene TUES. Sept. 30

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Sep 1997


NOTE: The Central Asia Working Group is to convene TUESDAY, Sept. 30

The Working Group on "Central Asian Society, Politics and Culture" is a
weekly forum for discussion of projects on Central Asia.  With support from
the Ford Foundation provided through the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, the Working Group is aimed at providing a context for focused
discussion on Central Asian topics among Harvard graduate students,
faculty, and other members of the Harvard community.  Each week is devoted
to a presentation of some work-in-progress (a thesis prospectus, chapter,
or paper) by one of the Working Group participants, accompanied by critical
discussion by the group as a whole.  The Faculty Sponsors of the Working
Group are Edward L. Keenan, John Schoeberlein-Engel, and (especially for
fall semester) Engin Sezer.  Refreshments are a regular feature of the
meetings.  Guest speakers are also sometimes invited.

The first meeting of the Central Asia Working Group will be TUESDAY, Sept.
30.  Those who have participated in the past should note that the meetings
will be on Tuesdays (NOT Wednesdays, as before).  The meeting time is
4:15-6:00 in room 215 of Coolidge Hall (the Bergson/Ulam Room).

If you are interested in receiving the regular notices about presentations
in this forum (even if you don't expect to attend regularly), please let me
know and I will add your address to the address list for this purpose.
Note that since the Working Group activities are generally aimed at the
Group's membership, regular information about the up-coming meetings will
ONLY be distibuted to those who ask to be included on this list.

If you know of anyone who might be interested in joining the Working Group,
please pass the word on about it.  Please also consider the possibility of
presenting a project at some point in the course of the semester or the
year.  Bear in mind that the project can be something rather "raw", though
ideally you should have a (draft) paper that can be distributed in advance
of your presentation.

Please contact me with any questions or suggestions you might have.

I look forward to seeing you there!

John Schoeberlein-Engel

Dr. John Schoeberlein-Engel \ Director
Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  fax: +1/617-495-8319
E-Mail: <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Central Asia Forum Web Site: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

LECTURE- A. Gunder Frank: Reorienting World History: From Central Asia's Centrality to China's Middle Kingdom

From: Nicola Di Cosmo <dicosmo(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 13 Sep 1997


The Committee for Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the Fairbank Center
are pleased to announce a talk by

Professor Andre Gunder Frank:

     REORIENTING WORLD HISTORY
     From Central Asia's Centrality to China's Middle Kingdom

The talk will take place on Wednesday, September 24 in Coolidge Hall,
Seminar Room 4, from 4 to 5:30 pm.

COURSE OFFERING- Music of Central Asia and the Middle East

From: Virginia Danielson <v_danielson(a)harvard.edu>
Posted: 12 Sep 1997


"Maqam Traditions of the Middle East and Central Asia" (Music 190r) will
introduce you to music and musicians from the rich, improvisatory styles of
the Middle East and Central Asia.  From historical and ethnographic
perspectives, you will also examine the broader issues of performance and
social identity, music and politics and gender.

Mondays, 3-5 pm
Room 3, Music building
Professor Virginia Danielson

Up-Coming Seminars on Central Asia

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Sep 1997


September 10     Lowry Wyman
Wednesday        Independent Legal Consultant
12:30-2:00pm
Room 4           "Setting Up a Business in Uzbekistan: The Politics of Cotton"
Coolidge Hall


September 17     Boris Rumer
Wednesday        Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies
12:30 - 2:00pm
Room 4           "China and Central Asia: A New Common Market"
Coolidge Hall

Lowell Thomas photo album

From: Jeffrey Spurr <spurr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 18 Jun 1997


As a follow-up to my recent communication regarding our acquisition of a
photo album of Lowell Thomas' 1922 trip to Kabul, the following is a list
with our preliminary identifications, many of them extremely tentative or
capable of being substantially modified or fleshed out.  The initial
research has largely been carried out by Mark DeLancey, graduate student
in Islamic art.  I hope that this list will at least provide readers
with a better sense of the contents of the album.  My thanks to those who
have offered their help in this matter; it is wholeheartedly welcomed
whenever they should be in town.

Jeffrey B. Spurr


Lowell Thomas Photo Album, April 1923

1)  The car
2)  Portrait of Lowell Thomas
3)  Portrait of an old man
4)  Car stopped next to a round structure with window (guard post?)
5)  Car stuck in mud
6)  Mountainous landscape
7)  Pakistan/Afghanistan border.   Lowell Thomas posing with a border
    guard
8)  Peshawar, Pakistan (?)
9)  Nearing the Afghan end of the Pass.  The tents are those of British
    Soldiers encamped at the Indo-Afghan border. (Thomas, 1976)
10) Car passing though the gate at the Pakistan/Afghan border
11) Fortified gate, Jalalabad, Afghanistan (?)
12) Car passing out of the fortified gate, Jalalabad, Afghanistan (?)
13) Car stopped on the road, speaking with two Afghans (?),  one armed
14) Replacing a tire on the road
15) Men seated in a market stall, one smoking a water pipe
16) Court chamberlain assigned as an escort in Kabul ("Boots and Spurs")
(?)
17) Lowell Thomass quarters, Londoni Koti, Kabul
18) Riding in the car in Kabul, (left to right) Lowell Thomas, ?, ?,
"Boots and Spurs"
19) The party on horseback
20) Lowell Thomas in riding gear
21) Lowell Thomas standing next to a mounted Field-Marshall Shah Wali Khan
    in a field
22) + 23) Amir Amanullah and others mounted before Bala Hissar and old
city walls, Kabul
24) Unidentified columnar monument at the end of a tree-lined avenue
25) View through a city gate(?)
26) Merchant selling tea and fruits
27) Overlooking Kabul with the Mausoleum of Timur Shah at upper right
28) An overcrowded street, prelude to an event?
29) + 30) Houses along a canal
31) Friday prayers at the Id Gah Mosque, Kabul
32) A man in ragged clothes
33) A man smoking a water pipe
34) Covered bridge over the river in Kabul
35) Road by a canal
36) Shoe merchant
37) Approaching Jalalabad(?)
38) European-style palace, Kabul(?)
39) Four men sitting outside the palace in #39
40) Exiting Jalalabad gate(?)
41) Two Afghan men
42) Tomb of Babur in the Babur Bagh (garden), Kabul
43) Mausoleum of Timur Shah
44) An Afghan man
45) A fully-covered woman, with large, 3-domed Mughal-style mosque in
    background, Pakistan? Afghanistan?
46) Landscaped gardens, one of the four royal palaces at Kabul (second
    from left)
47) part of the gardens in #47
48) Bagh Bala Palace, Kabul vicinity
49) 2 gates (to gardens?) flanking road leading to domed (governmental?)
    building on terraced grounds, Kabul
50) A Kabul city gate(?)
51) The car parked at the entrance to a compound
52) Amir Amanullah and and unidentified person
53) Amir Amanullah mounted, in profile view
54) Amir Amanullah mounted, in military uniform and Pushtun headgear (?)
surrounded by mounted retinue riding through a gate
55) Amir Amanullah making a formal address
56) Mausoleum of Amir Abdur-Rahman, ca. 1880 - 1905
57) Amir Amanullah in military uniform
58) Unidentified man
59) The royal gardens at Paghman, west of Kabul
60) Amir Amanullah and his two daughters at Paghman gardens
61) Amir Amanullah with retinue at Paghman gardens - (left to right)
    second from left - Nadir Khan (?) (later Nadir Shah)
    center with turban - Prince Inayatullah (the three-day king)
    to his right - Amir Amanullah
    to his right with cowboy hat - Field Marshall Shah Wali Khan
    and 4 others
62) Amir Amanullah in military uniform
63) Unidentified official
64) two unidentified men, one in #64 and one in #66
65) Unidentified official
66) Travellers on foot in a mountain gorge, Khyber pass
67) A valley and small town in the Khyber pass
68) Bridge near the Khyber pass
69) Car stopped next to an elephant on the road
70) Elephant turning a water pump(?)
71) Car parked on a tree-lined avenue
72) Men with rifles lying in ambush in a valley
73) Car parked by British traffic officer at Trafalgar Square at army camp
    in #9, Pakistan


Jeffrey B. Spurr
Cataloguer for Islamic Art
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Fine Arts Library
Fogg Art Museum
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge  MA  02138 +1/617-495-3372, Fax: +1/617-496-4889

Aga Khan Program - 1920s photos of Afghanistan

From: Jeffrey Spurr <spurr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 May 1997


PHOTOS OF AFGHANISTAN

The Aga Khan Program at Harvard's Fine Arts Library has just acquired a
photo album presented by Lowell Thomas, famous American travel writer of
the 1920s-50s to a D.W. King in April 1923.  The 73 snapshots, most in a 6
and 3/8 by 4 and 1/2 inch format, chronicle his motor trip from Peshawar to
Kabul the previous year.  The subjects include the trip itself, wayside
encounters, types and personages (including a few of Amanullah Khan),
monuments, street scenes and so on.  We have also acquired his "Beyond
Khyber Pass" of 1925.  However, although a couple of the photographs are
reproduced in the book and many clearly deal with Kabul, not a single one
has a caption.

Aside from announcing the presence of this album in our collections, I
would gratefully welcome anyone in the local community with more than
passing acquaintance with the place (and time) who is willing to assist in
the identifications. Some of the monuments will be readily identifiable,
but this will not hold true for many of the subjects.

Jeffrey B. Spurr
Cataloguer for Islamic Art
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Fine Arts Library
Fogg Art Museum
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge  MA  02138 +1/617-495-3372, Fax: +1/617-496-4889

CENASIA Discussion List / Harvard Subscribers

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 18 May 1997


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the CENASIA discussion list at Harvard have been unsubscribed over the last
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Central Asia Workshop- Sodyq Safaev, Ambassador of Uzbekistan

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 12 May 1997


Central Asia Workshop
Thursday, May 15
2:00-4:00pm
Coolidge Hall Room 2
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA

The Honorable Sodyq Safaev, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States
     will give a talk entitled:

     "Challenges Facing Uzbekistan in a Changing
     International Environment"

The Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
For information, call: 496-2643

LECTURE- Clash of Civilizations in the Medieval World

From: Nicola DiCosmo <dicosmo(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 May 1997


Dr. Felicitas Schmieder (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt)
     "Clash of Civilizations in the Medieval World: Christian
     Strategies for Diplomacy and Conversion Among the Mongols"

Thursday, May 15. The talk starts at 1.00 pm.
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Sponsored by the Committee for Inner Asian and Altaic Studies,
Harvard University, Tel: 617-495-3777

Dr. Schmieder is a medieval historian and author of _Europa und die Fremden.
Die Mongolen im Urteil des Abendlandes vom 13. bis in das 15. Jahrhundert._
(1994).


Nicola Di Cosmo
Asst. Prof. of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Harvard University
Dept. of East Asian Langs. and Civilizations
2, Divinity Avenue
Cambridge Mass. 02138, USA
Ph.: +1/617-495-8363
email: dicosmo(a)fas.harvard.edu

LECTURE- J. Waardenburg, Normative and Practiced Islam

From: Susan Bourneuf <sbourn(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 Apr 1997


LECTURE

"Normative and Practiced Islam: A Search for the Right Concepts"
Jacques Waardenburg, Visiting Professor of Univ. of Toronto

Tuesday, April 29, 5:15

Common Room for the Center for the Study of World Religions
42 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

For information: 617-495-4495

Central Asia Workshop- Alisher Ilkhamov, Uzbekistan/Social Stratification

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Apr 1997


April 23                CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP
Wednesday               Alisher Ilkhamov
4:15-6:00 p.m.          Director of the Center for Social Research,
                        Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Bergson/Ulam Rm.
Coolidge Hall, 215      "Uzbekistan in Transition:  Dynamics of Social
                        Stratification"

Contact information:
Harvard Central Asia Forum +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

LECTURE- Yuri Slezkine, National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Apr 1997


LECTURE
sponsored by the Department of History, Harvard University

"The National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics"
Yuri Slezkine, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, May 2, 1997
Robinson Hall, Lower Level of the Library
2:00 p.m.

GRANTS- Islamic Legal Studies Program

From: Islamic Legal Studies <ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Apr 1997


Student organizations throughout Harvard are invited to submit proposals
to the Islamic Legal Studies Program for activities at Harvard related to
the Islamic world.  There is no restriction to the type of activities
which can be funded although projects that deal with legal phenomena in
the Islamic world will receive preference.  Six to eight awards, varying
in size between $300 to $500, will be distributed for the 1996-97 academic
year. Applications will be accepted throughout the year but should be
submitted preferably one month prior to the proposed activity.  The
proposal should not exceed two pages and should include a detailed budget,
with a specific amount requested from the Islamic Legal Studies Program;
it should also indicate how the activity will be promoted and advertised.
Proposals indicating matching funds from other sources will be
particularly welcomed. All activities must be open to the public, and the
Islamic Legal Studies Program should be recognized as a supporter or co-
sponsor.

Proposals should be submitted to:
     Barbro Ek
     Associate Director
     Islamic Legal Studies Program
     Pound Hall 504
     Harvard Law School

Central Asia Workshop- Kazakstan Delegation, April 2

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 Mar 1997


April 2                 CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP
Wednesday               The Hon. Bulat Nurgaliev, Ambassador of Kazakstan
to the
4:00-6:00pm             United States will hold a discussion on
                        "The Future of Kazakstan"

Coolidge Hall Room 3
1737 Cambridge St.

Ambassador Nurgaliev will be accompanied by several government Ministers
from Kazakstan who are part of an official delegation visit to the JFK
School of Government.

Contact information:
Harvard Central Asia Forum +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu


March 5                 CENTRAL ASIA WORKSHOP
Wednesday               Khozh Akhmed Noukhaev, 1st Deputy Prime Minister
of
4:15-6:00pm             Chechnya
                        "Chechnya and the Future of the Caucasus/Caspian
Coolidge Hall Room 3    Region"
1737 Cambridge St.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Luncheon

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 24 Feb 1997


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon at Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 2
at 12:30
Wednesday, March 5, 1997

Kim Gutschow, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology will speak and
show slides. "Reflections From a Nunner Rooftop: How Nuns Make Merit in
Zangskar Northwest India"

Lunch can be bought in Coolidge Hall's dining room and taken into Seminar
Room 2.  Lunch at 12:30, presentation at 1:00.

Contact Info:
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies 495-3777

Talk at MIT- Wed. Feb. 26- Aleksandr Naymark

From: Eric Sievers <esievers(a)igc.apc.org>
Posted: 24 Feb 1997


Aleksandr Naymark (Ph.D. expected this year from Indiana) will be speaking
on Wednesday at 5:30PM in Building 5, Room 216 about Cities Along the
Zeravshan in the First Centuries of Islam.  Sasha is an
archaeologist/historian/art historian who directed much research and
museum work in Samarkand and Central Asia before coming to the US.  The
talk is sponsored by the Aga Khan program which says that priority will be
given to MIT urban studies and architecture students.  Unfortunately, this
talk conflicts with the Wednesday seminar.  For those of you wishing to
attend, Building 5 is accessed through the main MIT entrance on Mass Ave
(up the impressive set of stairs where the crosswalk is).

Eric Sievers, MIT

Grants - Forum for Central Asian Studies

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 Feb 1997


Grants for Collaborative Research in Central Asia
     Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

The Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies offers support for research
projects involving Harvard-affiliated scholars in collaboration with
Central Asian colleagues.  The parameters of this program are open, as it
is meant to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the variety of needs
that scholars may have.  The following are the program priorities:

1)  The general unifying theme of this program is:  "Regional
Diversity and Integration in Central Asia"; this theme, meanwhile, is not
meant to be limiting, but rather to encourage individual research projects
to be framed in such a way as to have relevance to one another.

2)  Applications are accepted from Harvard-affiliated students and
scholars; the highest priority is given to proposals from graduate
students and junior faculty, though other Harvard-affiliates are welcome
to apply and the merits of any strong proposal will be given due
consideration.

3)  Projects must entail a truly collaborative relationship with
colleagues in Central Asia, promising to yield substantive scholarly
benefits to both sides.

4)  Projects must be relevant to current problems facing the region
following the break-up of the Soviet Union.  Where possible, they should
aim to make practical contributions to the resolution of such problems.

5)  "Central Asia", for these purposes, encompasses the five former-
Soviet Central Asian republics, though exceptional proposals relating to
immediately adjacent geographic areas may be considered.

6)  Projects should contribute to the development of a broader
knowledge of Central Asian society, and should aim to make such knowledge
available to the widest appropriate audience.

Proposals will consist of the following:

1)  A current curriculum vitae for each of the key participants in the
proposed project.

2)  A narrative proposal, detailing:  goals, methodology, expected
products, the current state of development of the project and its role in
the applicant's scholarly development, and how the project addresses the
priorities of the program.

3)  A proposed budget of support requested from the Forum, providing
specific justification for the request:  This should indicate other
support for the project that is being sought or is already committed.
Applicants should bear in mind that available funds are limited, and the
Forum might provide only a portion of that needed to finance the complete
proposed project. Therefore, one should ensure that a variety of other
sources of funding are sought where possible and appropriate.

4)  Graduate students must submit two letters of recommendation, which
specifically assess the merits of the project and the applicant's
preparation and competence to carry it out.

5)  Applicants are encouraged to include with the application samples
of work relevant to the project (e.g., a paper, a thesis prospectus,
etc.).

The deadline for applications will be April 4 for funds to be available
for research in the summer of 1997.  All research funded by such grants
must be completed by September 15, 1997.

Anyone interested in submitting an application should contact John
Schoeberlein-Engel to ensure that the proposed project meets the program
goals, and to answer any questions about the program requirements. These
grants are made possible by support from the Ford Foundation provided to
the Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies.

Dr. John S. Schoeberlein-Engel, Director
Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138

tel.: +1/617-495-4338   fax: +1/617-495-8319
e-mail:  <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>

Short Consulting Job Opp. in Uzbekistan

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Feb 1997


To:   The Harvard Central Asian Studies Community
From: John Schoeberlein-Engel

I have been contacted by a businessman who wants to hire a consultant on a
business project in Uzbekistan.  What he needs is someone who has 1) a
knowledge of Central Asia (esp. Uzbekistan), and 2) the ability to write
effectively.  The writing project is a business plan for his company's
program to sell cotton seed in Uzbekistan.  Depending on how much the
person knows about Uzbekistan, the job might require a short trip to
Uzbekistan accompanying this gentleman in March for familiarization with
circumstances there.  Note that he does not expect that the person will be
versed in devising business plans -- they have it worked out for the most
part already -- it is rather a matter of writing it up.

If you are interested, or can suggest someone else who might be, please
let me know as soon as possible.

John Schoeberlein-Engel


Dr. John Schoeberlein-Engel \ Director
Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  fax: +1/617-495-8319
E-Mail: <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>

Central Asia Working Group - meeting Wed. Feb. 12

From: John Schoeberlein-Engel <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Feb 1997


To Members of the Harvard Central Asian Studies Community:

The first Spring Semester meeting of the Central Asia Working Group will
be this Wednesday -- all are welcome.  The Working Group is primarily
oriented toward the work of Graduate Students, but we also benefit greatly
from the participation of other members of the Harvard community.  The
weekly agenda is discussion of a given participant's project -- usually
based on a draft of a writing project in progress.  The Working Group
meets on Wednesdays at 4:15 in Coolidge Hall room 215; refreshments
compliment the friendly discussion.

This week's presentation will be by Michael Hall (Inner Asian and Altaic
Studies), on the topic of language policy in the Pamir mountain region
(Tajikistan).

Michael will send a copy of the synopsis of his paper around to Working
Group members via e-mail.  If you would like a paper, this will be
available in Coolidge 224.

If you are not on the Working Group mailing list and wish to be, or if you
want any further information, please contact me.

John Schoeberlein-Engel

Dr. John Schoeberlein-Engel \ Director
Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  fax: +1/617-495-8319
E-Mail: <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>

GRANT OPPORTUNITY- Travel Grants for Research in Development, HIID

From: Ellen Pigott <epigott(a)hiid.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Feb 1997


The Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) offers a
limited number of grants for undergraduate or graduate students in the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences doing research in the field of development.
These grants, which average $800 per award, are meant to defray the costs
of air travel, other transportation costs, or direct research costs such
as computer time and data acquisition costs for students planning to do
research in a developing country.  Preference will be given to applicants
who have a continuing interest in international development as evidenced
by their areas of concentration and course selection and by their
activities and experience.

Applications should be submitted by April 4, 1997 to:
     Ms. Ellen Pigott
     HIID
     79 J.F.K. Street
     Littauer 307 B
     Cambridge, MA 02138
     Tel.: 496-3616

LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION: Throat Singers of Tuva

From: Ann Steuernagel <steuern(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Jan 1997


March 3   7:00 p.m.   Room 1 of the Music Building
Musical Representations of Nature Among the Pastoral Herders of Tuva
Prof. Ted Levin, Dartmouth College
co-sponsored by the Harvard Central Asia Forum

Huun-Huur-Tu: Throat Singers of Tuva lecture/demonstration on March 3 at
4:00 p.m. in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building sponsored by
the Learning from Performers Program of the Office for the Arts

Contact Information:

Ann Steuernagel
Music Department
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

steuern(a)fas.harvard.edu
ph:  617-495-9859
fax: 617-496-8081

Inner Asian lunch reminder

From: Susan P. Bourneuf <sbourn(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Jan 1997


INNER ASIAN LUNCHEON

Just a reminder that Professor Wheeler Thackston, Professor of the
Practice of Persian and Near Eastern Languages will deliver a presentation
today on "Mirza Haydar Dughlal and the Last Chaghatay Khans" at the Inner
Asian and Altaic Studies luncheon in Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 2 at 12:30.
Bring your lunch.  Presentation begins at 1:00.

Best,  Susan Bourneuf

Susan Bourneuf, Staff Assistant
Regional Studies -- East Asia
Inner Asia and Altaic Studies
Phone: 495-3777
Fax: 495-4306
sbourn(a)fas.harvard.edu

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