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WORK STUDY JOB- Research Asst., Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Dec 2000


We are looking for a student with Federal Work Study eligibility to work on
a variety of research and program tasks in the Harvard Forum for Central
Asian Studies.  Please let me know if you are interested and available.
Please note:

1) The range of possible tasks includes: a) research/information gathering,
b) editing and data compilation, c) database functions, d) web and e-mail
distribution list functions.

2) The ideal candidate(s) would have: a) some interest and/or experience in
Central Asia/former Soviet Union/Islamic world, b) research experience, c)
knowledge of Russian language, and d) strong computer skills (ideally with
database and web experience).

3) The position is available only to candidates who are (or will soon be)
located in Boston/Cambridge, who are eligible for Federal Work Study from
the financial aid office, and who have the proper INS status to work in
the US.  (We cannot assist in relocating you to Boston, nor in obtaining a
work visa).

The Forum for Central Asian Studies is a small program supporting research
and training on Central Asia at Harvard University.  The Forum is
co-sponsored by Harvard's Davis Center for Russian Studies and the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies.  The Research / Program Assistant(s) will work
on research and/or other organizational tasks which are supported by the
Forum and other organizations.

We are looking for people who are initiative-takers and team-workers.

Applications should be submitted as soon as possible to ensure full
consideration, though they will be accepted until the position(s) have been
filled.  Send your cover letter and resume to:

Monika Shepherd
Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel.: +1 +1/617-496-2643
fax: +1 +1/617-495-8319
e-mail: centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

Thank you for your interest.

John Schoeberlein
______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1 +1/617-495-4338  asst.: 496-2643  fax: +1 +1/617-495-8319
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Forum Website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
______________________________________________________________________________

INNER ASIAN LUNCH- Michael Hall, Tajikistan, Dec. 6 Lecture (with Slides)

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 30 Nov 2000


Title: "Tajikistan: Three Years after the Civil War"
Lecturer: Michael Hall, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard

Date: Wednesday, December 6
Place: Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street
Time:  Lunch at 12:30, lecture (with slides) at 1:00

Nature of event: Luncheon and lecture
University sponsor:  The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Web Link:  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iaas/
Open to the public
Telephone: 617-495-3777
Other details:  You may bring your own lunch or purchase it in the Coolidge
Hall cafeteria


Ema Williams
Staff Assistant
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

New Graduate Student Research Workshop on Inner Asia

From: Helene Perrin Wagner <hperrin(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 30 Nov 2000


Dear all,

The Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Committee (IAAS) has set up a new
Graduate Student Research Workshop on Inner Asia.  We hope that this
workshop will be of interest to grad students from different departments at
Harvard, based on the cross-civilizational dimensions of the area.

The theme of the workshop for 2000-2001 will be "Transnational systems in
Inner Asia".

The workshop will focus on discussions of graduate students' research
projects, as well as on  readings recommended by faculty or students.
Faculty will join us on an occasional basis. The format of the workshop is
informal and primarily designed for students to share their insights on the
field in a searching but friendly manner. Good food and wine will be served.

We will have bi-monthly sessions on Mondays from 5:30 to 7:00 pm:


Dec 4, Fairbank Center Lounge, Room 311, Coolidge Hall

Discussion on the concept of Inner Asia. Reading: David Christian, "Inner
Asia as a Unit of World History."

Copies of the article can be picked up from Ema at the IAAS office, Room
102, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Tel: 495-3777


Dec 18, Thompson Room, #101, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street (the large
living room on the ground floor)

Presentation by Gray Tuttle, Ph.D student in IAAS: "Chinese Buddhist
intermediaries in Sino-Tibetan politics: Modern China's "multi-nationality"
state-building rhetoric and Buddhist "Brotherhood". It will be a short
presentation (20-30 mn) followed by a discussion. Supplementary reading:
"Finding Buddhists in World History".


The Jan 8 and Jan 29 meetings will also take place in the Thompson Room at
the Barker Center.  If you would be interested in doing a short presentation
or if you want to recommend a topic for discussion, or if you have any
questions, just contact me: hperrin(a)fas.harvard.edu


Helene Perrin Wagner
IAAS/Graduate Student Research Workshop on Inner Asia:
"Languages, Religions and Cultures"
Coolidge Hall 102, 1737 Cambridge St.
Tel: 617-493-4086

SEMINAR- Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies in Post-Soviet Russia

From: Ann Conry <aconry(a)wjh.harvard.edu>
Posted: 29 Nov 2000


ANTHROPOLOGY AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA

Mikhail Rodionov

Professor of Middle East History, Oriental Department, University of St.
Petersburg; Head, Department of S and SW Asia, Peter the Great Museum of
Anthropology and Ethnography.

Please join us for the first of two talks/discussions on Russian and Soviet
anthropology.  The second will be on contemporary feminist anthropology in
Russia, by Valentina Uspenskaya.

Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Date: Friday, 1 December 2000
Venue: William James Hall 401

Contact: Engseng Ho  (ho(a)wjh.harvard.edu)

Department of Anthropology
Harvard University

SEMINAR- Siberian-Mongolian Cultural and Ecological Exchange, 7 Dec.

From: Ian McIntosh <imcintosh(a)cs.org>
Posted: 28 Nov 2000


A Siberian-Mongolian Cultural and Ecological Exchange

Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, Harvard University
Thursday December 7, 4 pm - 6 pm

Cultural Survival Inc. is an indigenous peoples advocacy organization based
in Cambridge Massachusetts. Founded in 1972 by Harvard Anthropology
Professor David Maybury-Lewis, our mission is to promote the rights, voices
and visions of indigenous peoples worldwide.

Our Totem Peoples Preservation Project is designed to preserve and promote
the well being and lifestyle of the traditional Siberian and Mongolian
reindeer herders.

On Thursday December 7, 2000 4-6pm at Coolidge Hall, Cultural Survival is
hosting a seminar/discussion on wilderness protection and sustainable
development in the project area - Lake Baikal, Mongolia and Siberia. This is
unprecedented gathering of ecologists, geologists, land use planners,
reindeer specialists, and culture bearers of Buriat, Tuva and Dukha heritage
(including a shaman and throatsinger).

Members of the visiting team include:

1. Governor Nicolei Muglataevich Matoshkin, Head of the Olkhon region
     Administration; of Buryat ethnic background, Olkhon, Irkutsk Oblast,
Russia.
2. Dr. Bimba Namzalov, Botanical Ecologist, Buryat State University, Ulan
     Ude, Buryatia, Russia.
3. Mr. Sergei Ondar, Chairman of the Committee on Ecology for the Republic
     of Tuva.
4. Dr. Tatiana Savenkova, Russian Specialist on Protected Areas and Lake
     Baikal watershed, Irkutsk.
5. Dr. Vladimer Ignatovich, Russian geologist and land use planner, Ulan
     Ude, Buryatia.
6. Dr. Shagdurova, Buryat, architect for the Tunkinsky National Park of
     Buryatia.
7. Mr. Batulag Solnoi, of Mongolian Dukha heritage, a reindeer biologist who
     works with both the Mongolian Reindeer Fund and the Totem Project.
8. Ayan-ol Sergeyevich Sam, 17 year-old Tuvan cultural artist, male
     throatsinger and traditional Tuvan instrument musician from the Erzin
     district of Tuva Republic, Russia.
9. Ai-Churek Sheezhekovna Oyun, 39 year old Tuvan shamaness, chairwoman of
     the Tos-der Shamanic Society of Tuva. She performs healing and spiritual
     rituals traditional to the Tuvan culture.
10. Ms. Galina Deshke, translator, 38 years old of Tuvan heritage, speaks
     English-Russian-Tuvan and is coordinator of the Totem Project in Tuva.

Please call Ian McIntosh on 617 441 5410 for further details of the exchange.

SPECIAL MEETING OF C.A. WORKING GROUP- Nov. 29, Kornely KAKACHIA and SUN Zhuangzhi

From: John Schoeberlein <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Nov 2000


This week we will have a special meeting of the Central Asia Working Group
which all interested persons are encouraged to attend.  There will be two
presentation:

The first will be a brief presentation by Dr. Zhuangzhi Sun, an IREX
scholar from China, who will speak about the research that he is currently
conducting on "China and Central Asia in the New International Environment."

Dr. Sun is the Deputy Director of the Central Asian Department, Institute
of East European, Russian and Central Asia Studies, at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences in Beijing.  Dr. Sun has researched and written extensively
on Central Asia's new role in regional, as well as international politics.

The main speaker will be Mr. Kornely Kakachia, a visiting scholar from
Georgia, who is an IREX Fellow in the Contemporary Issues Program, as well
as President of the Georgian Young Political Scientists Association.  The
topic of his presentation will be:

"Groupings in CIS -- Five against Six: Russia's policy towards the "Near
Abroad"

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 29
Time: 4:15-6:00 pm
Place: 1737 Cambridge St., Coolidge Hall, Room 215 (Bergson-Ulam Seminar Room)

For more information contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

SEMINAR- Siberian-Mongolian Cultural and Ecological Exchange, 7 Dec.

From: Ian McIntosh <imcintosh(a)cs.org>
Posted: 8 Nov 2000


A Siberian-Mongolian Cultural and Ecological Exchange
Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, Harvard University
Thursday December 7, 4 pm - 6 pm

Cultural Survival Inc. is an indigenous peoples advocacy organization based
in Cambridge Massachusetts. Founded in 1972 by Harvard Anthropology
Professor David Maybury-Lewis, our mission is to promote the rights, voices
and visions of indigenous peoples worldwide.

Our Totem Peoples Preservation Project is designed to preserve and promote
the well being and lifestyle of the traditional Siberian and Mongolian
reindeer herders.

On Thursday December 7, 2000 4-6pm at Coolidge Hall, Cultural Survival is
hosting a seminar/discussion on wilderness protection and sustainable
development in the project area - Lake Baikal, Mongolia and Siberia. This is
unprecedented gathering of ecologists, geologists, land use planners,
reindeer specialists, and culture bearers of Buriat, Tuva and Dukha heritage
(including a shaman and throatsinger).

Members of the visiting team include:
1. Governor Nicolei Muglataevich Matoshkin, Head of the Olkhon region
   administration; of Buryat ethnic background, Olkhon, Irkutsk Oblast,
   Russia.
2. Dr. Bimba Namzalov, Botanical Ecologist, Buryat State University, Ulan
   Ude, Buryatia, Russia.
3. Mr. Sergei Ondar, Chairman of the Committee on Ecology for the Republic
   of Tuva.
4. Dr. Tatiana Savenkova, Russian Specialist on Protected Areas and Lake
   Baikal watershed, Irkutsk.
5. Dr. Vladimer Ignatovich, Russian geologist and land use planner, Ulan
   Ude, Buryatia.
6. Dr. Shagdurova, Buryat, architect for the Tunkinsky National Park of
   Buryatia.
7. Mr. Batulag Solnoi, of Mongolian Dukha heritage, a reindeer biologist who
   works with both the Mongolian Reindeer Fund and the Totem Project.
8. Ayan-ol Sergeyevich Sam, 17 year-old Tuvan cultural artist, male
   throatsinger and traditional Tuvan instrument musician from the Erzin
   district of Tuva Republic, Russia.
9. Ai-Churek Sheezhekovna Oyun, 39 year old Tuvan shamaness, chairwoman of
   the Tos-der Shamanic Society of Tuva. She performs healing and spiritual
   rituals traditional to the Tuvan culture.
10. Ms. Galina Deshke, translator, 38 years old of Tuvan heritage, speaks
   English-Russian-Tuvan and is coordinator of the Totem Project in Tuva.

Please call Ian McIntosh on 617 441 5410 for further details of the exchange.

FELLOWSHIPS- Post-Doc at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian Studies

From: Donna Griesenbeck <griesenb(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 1 Nov 2000


The Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University invites
applications to its 2001-2002 fellowship program, for post-doctoral research
in the humanities and social sciences on Russia and the Soviet successor
states. Awards of up to $31,000 will be made to scholars who have received
the Ph.D. within the past five years. Awards for more senior scholars may be
made and will vary according to need. Approximately five awards will be
made. Awards are usually for the academic year, but shorter-term
appointments can be arranged as well. A limited number of non-stipendiary
affiliations with the Davis Center are also available.

Application Checklist and Procedure
 - Application form (available on the Web at
   http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~daviscrs/research.html ). To request an
   application form by mail, please call +1/617-495-4038, e-mail
   doc(a)fas.harvard.edu, or write to the Fellowship Program at the address
   below.
 - Project description (no longer than 5 pages)
 - Brief curriculum vitae, including academic background (institution(s),
   field(s) of study, degree(s), and years); employment history; and major
   publications
 - Three letters of reference* evaluating your work and proposal.
   * Note:  Letters of reference should be sealed, signed across the back of
   the envelope, and sent to you directly.

Send the unopened references, along with 17 copies of your application form
and all supporting materials, to:

Fellowship Program
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA  02138

Double-sided copies will be appreciated.

Application deadline is December 15, 2000. All materials including letters
of recommendation must be received at the Davis Center by the deadline.
Decisions will be announced by mid-March 2001.

Any questions about the progam should be addressed to:
Jean Johnson, tel. +1/617-495-4038, dcpdoc(a)fas.harvard.edu

Donna Griesenbeck
Officer for Student Programs and Publications
Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA  02138
Phone: 617-495-1194
Fax: 617-495-8319
email: griesenb(a)fas.harvard.edu

INNER ASIAN LECTURE- Leonard van der Kuijp, Nov. 8

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 1 Nov 2000


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard invites
you to a luncheon and lecture
at Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 2 on Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Prof. Leonard Van Der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan
Studies will speak on
"Dorjepel: A Tibeten Thaumaturge at the Court of Külüg Qaghan"
You may bring your own lunch or purchase it in the Coolidge Hall cafeteria
Lunch at 12:30, lecture at 1:00.

LECTURE- Taliban Representative on Afghanistan, Tufts Fletcher School, Oct. 25

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Oct 2000


"The Political Situation in Afghanistan"
Mr. Abdul Hakeem Mujahid, Representative of the Taliban to the U.S.

Date: Wednesday, October 25
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: ASEAN Auditorium at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University
University sponsor: Program In Southwest Asia And Islamic Civilization /
Central Caucasus Forum at Tufts University
Open to the public

Contact Person: Ms. Kelley-Leccese
Telephone: 617-628-5000, ext. 7-2734
Web Link: http://www. fletcher.tufts.edu/news_events/calendar_s00.html

WORK STUDY JOB- Managing Editor, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review

From: Ahmed Jebari <jebari(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 29 Sep 2000


Work-Study Position: Managing Editor for the Harvard Middle Eastern and
Islamic Review

Duties include management of the business, administrative, and financial
aspects of the journal, maintaining subscription database, learning and
working with Pagemaker, receiving submissions, and preparing monthly reports.

A minimum of 5 hours/week is required. Hours will vary at different stages
of the production process. Hourly rate to be determined.

The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review is an annual, student run
academic publication of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

If interested, please contact Naghmeh Sohrabi (sohrabi(a)fas.harvard.edu) or
Giancarlo Casale (casale(a)fas.harvard.edu).

Central Asia Working Group 2000-2001

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 22 Sep 2000


Central Asia Working Group 2000-2001

NOTE: The Organizational Meeting of the Central Asia Working Group will be
held on:

Wednesday, September 27, 4:15-6:00 pm
in the Bergson/Ulam Room (Coolidge Hall room 215, 1737 Cambridge Street)

This will be a time for introductions of new people -- all interested people
are encouraged to join. We'll also hear a short report from Arne Haugen --
many will remember him as a visiting Ph.D. student from Norway at Harvard a
couple of years ago -- who will talk about his research on the history of
the process by which national categories came to be defined in Central Asia
in the early 20th century.


ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP

The Working Group on "Central Asian Society, Politics and Culture" is a
weekly forum for discussion of projects on Central Asia. 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. Central Asia, for these purposes, is understood to
include the states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan and
Tajikistan, as well as closely related areas: the Caucasus, the Volga Basin,
Southwestern Siberia, Mongolia, Northern Iran, Afghanistan, etc. 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
helpful discussion by the group as a whole. The Co-chairs of the Working
Group are John Schoeberlein and Engin Sezer. Refreshments are a regular
feature of the meetings. Guest speakers are also sometimes invited.

If you would like to receive 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: this is
not the same as the Central-Asia-Harvard-List, so you'll have to indicate
specifically if you want to be included). 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 distributed 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 on the word about it. Please also consider the possibility of
presenting a project at some point in the course of the semester or the
year, and come to the first meeting with ideas. 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. For
general information/questions, please call my assistant at +1/617-496-2643, or
write to <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>.

I look forward to your participation!

John Schoeberlein

______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1 +1/617-495-4338 fax: +1 +1/617-495-8319
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Forum Website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
______________________________________________________________________________

INNER ASIAN LECTURE- Mark Elliott, The Qing as Successor State, Oct. 4

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Sep 2000


"The Qing as a Successor State of the Liao, Jin, and Yuan: Manchu Historical
Consciousness in the Pre-conquest Period"

Professor Mark Elliott, Visiting Professor, EALC

Date: Wednesday, October 4
Nature of event: Luncheon and lecture
University sponsor: The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Web Link: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iaas/
Place: Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street
Time: Lunch at 12:30, lecture at 1:00
Open to the public
Telephone: 617-495-3777
Other details: You may bring your own lunch or purchase it in the
Coolidge Hall cafeteria

Thank you,
Ema Williams
Staff Assistant
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

JOB- Research/Program Assistant Job(s), Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 26 Jul 2000


We are looking for people to work on a variety of research and program tasks
in the Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies. Depending on the skills and
time availability of the best candidates, the work may be configured in
various ways, including possibly a full time position, or a combination of
part-time people. Please let me know if you are interested and available.
Please note:

1) The range of tasks includes: a) research/information gathering, b) editing
and data compilation, c) database functions, d) web and e-mail distribution
list functions, e) administrative tasks.

2) The ideal candidate(s) would have: a) some interest and/or experience in
Central Asia/former Soviet Union/Islamic world, b) research experience, c)
knowledge of Russian language, and d) strong computer skills (ideally with
database and web experience).

3) This could be ideal work for a graduate student, and if you are eligible
for Federal Work Study, this would be a strong advantage.

4) The position is available only to candidates who are (or will soon be)
located in Boston/Cambridge, and who have the proper INS status to work in
the US. (We cannot assist in relocating you to Boston, nor in obtaining
a work visa).

The Forum for Central Asian Studies is a small program supporting research
and training on Central Asia at Harvard University. The Forum is
co-sponsored by Harvard's Davis Center for Russian Studies and the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies. The Research / Program Assistant(s) will work
on research and/or other organizational tasks which are supported by the
Forum and other organizations.

We are looking for people who are initiative-takers and team-workers.

Applications should be submitted by Aug. 4 to ensure full consideration,
though they will be accepted until the position(s) have been filled. Send
your cover letter and resume to me at the address listed below. Please do
not call me. You should also submit your application through the Harvard
employment office:

Website: http://www.hr.harvard.edu/employment/jobs.html
Harvard University Employment Office
11 Holyoke Street Cambridge, MA 02138 +1/617-495-2771 +1/617-495-2772
Office hours: Mon-Fri: 9am - 5 pm

One relevant position has been posted in the employment office under
requisition no. 6370. Note meanwhile that the position may be reconfigured
somewhat, depending on the applicant pool. Therefore, in your cover letter,
please indicate what your ideal time commitment would be, and what special
skills and interests you would bring to the position.

John Schoeberlein
______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1 +1/617-495-4338 fax: +1 +1/617-495-8319
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Forum Website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
______________________________________________________________________________

SUMMER REMINDER- Please Notify Central-Asia-Harvard-List of Address Changes

From: Central-Asia-Harvard-List <Central-Asia-Harvard-List(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 May 2000


With the academic year ending, we would like to remind you that if you
anticipate a change in your e-mail address, please update your subscription
before your old address goes bad. This is important to us because, when
addresses go bad, we have to spend time figuring out what the problem
is. We get error messages sent back to us, but it is often difficult to
distinguish between temporary problems and permanent ones (and we don't
want to arbitrarily unsubscribe people with temporary problems, which are
quite common, especially in Central Asia).

To update your address, send a message to:
majordomo(a)fas.harvard.edu

In the text of the message, include the following two lines:

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[You should substitute "[old_address]" with your obsolete e-mail address
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best if you do omit it.]

By doing this simple task, you will help lesson the burden of administering
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Thank you for your cooperation!

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CHINA CURRENT EVENTS WORKSHOP- Dautcher and Perdue, Xinjiang/Borderlands, June 9

From: Gwendolyn Stewart <gestewar(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 May 2000


China Current Events Workshop: CHINA 2000

Friday, June 9, 3:30-5:00, in Coolidge Hall, Room 3

Jay Todd Dautcher,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research:
"Xinjiang"

Peter C. Perdue,
Professor of History, MIT:
"Beijing and the Borderlands, Then and Now"

Moderator: Gwendolyn Stewart

SEMINAR- Developments in Kyrgyz Republic

From: Melissa Griggs <mgriggs(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 May 2000


Friday, May 19, 2000, 12:00-1:30 pm, Room 215
Comparative Economics Luncheon Seminar
Askar Kutanov (President-rector of Academy of Management under the President
of Kyrgyz Republic and Corresponding Member of Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences)

"Economic, Business and Education Developments in Kyrgyz Republic"


Melissa Griggs
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4037
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~daviscrs

CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGE TUTORIALS - Summer 2000

From: John Schoeberlein <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 Apr 2000


To: Harvard Students wishing to study Central Asian languages
From: John Schoeberlein (Director, Forum for Central Asian Studies)
Re: Summer tutorial opportunities

Any Harvard student wishing to take a summer tutorial on Central Asian
languages (esp. Uzbek or Tajik, though other languages might also be
possible to accommodate) might contact the Forum for Central Asian Studies
office at centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu or 496-2643. Please let us know of your
possible interest as soon as possible. The tutorials are available to
Harvard students at no cost. If your interest is in Uzbek or Tajik, please
also copy your message to Ms. G. Aminova <aminova(a)fas.harvard.edu>.


______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ 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
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Forum Website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
______________________________________________________________________________

CONFERENCE- Reinterpreting Shamanism, Harvard Divinity School, May 2, 2000

From: Brooke Palmer <bpalmer(a)hds.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Apr 2000


Reinterpreting Shamanism: New Criteria for Research and Analysis

Tuesday, May 2, 2000

Harvard Divinity School
Center for the Study of World Religions
42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Introduction:

1:00 pm Gary Anderson, Acting Director of CSWR

Session I:

1:00-3:00 pm 'Classical' Shamanism

Mary MacDonald
Local and Universal Dimensions in the Study of Shamanism

Tom Oller
Defining Shamanism: Mongolia: Black Shamans, Yellow Shamans, Muslim Shamans

James Rusell
The Question of Shamanism in the Pre-Islamic Culture of the Iranian Peoples


3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break
Director's Conference Room

Session II:

3:30-5:30 pm Expanding Notions of Shamanism
Janet Piedilato
Shamanic ritual performance

Eugene Taylor
Shamanism and the American Psychotherapeutic Counter-Culture

Jane Magon
Shamanism, Illness and Healing: the Art of Frida Kahlo

Anne Davenport
The Metaphor of Dismemberment in Descartes

5:30-7:00 pm Dinner
Director's Conference Room

Session III:

7:00-9:00 pm Reinterpreting Shamanism: New Criteria for Research and Analysis

Herbert Benson

Michael Winkelman

Daniel Noel

Session IV:

9:00 pm Short talk and video presentation

L. Kendall
An Initiation Kut for a Korean Shaman

Young-ho Kim
Korea as the axis mundi to be - A common perspective of Korean shamans

This symposium is funded in part by the Center for the Study of World
Religions and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT

Brooke Palmer
Educative Planning Assistant
Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions
42 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel: +1/617-496-5834
fax: +1/617-496-5411
bpalmer(a)hds.harvard.edu
  

DCRS HISTORIANS SEMINAR- Adrienne Edgar, Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule, 4/28

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Apr 2000


Friday, April 28, 2:15-4:00 pm, Coolidge Hall 215

Historians' Seminar

Adrienne Edgar (Visiting Scholar, Davis Center)
"Emancipation of the Unveiled: Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule, 1924-1929"

For more information, contact:
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4037
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~daviscrs

CENTRAL ASIA WORKING GROUP- Kathleen Collins, Clan Politics, May 1

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Apr 2000


Clan Politics, Regime Convergence, and the Long-term Transition (1995-1999)

Kathleen Collins
Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University

May 1 (Mon.) 4:15-6:00
Coolidge Hall Room 215

For more information, contact:
Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
+1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

CENTRAL ASIA WORKING GROUP- Brenda Shaffer, Azerbaijanis in Iran, April 24

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Apr 2000


Azerbaijanis in Iran: Ethnic Politics and Collective Identity

Brenda Shaffer
Post-doctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
April 24 (Mon.) 4:15-6:00
Coolidge Hall Room 215

For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
+1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

INNER ASIAN LECTURE- James Bosson, Europe's Introduction to Mongolia

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Apr 2000


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
announces a luncheon and lecture

Wednesday, May 3, 2000
Lunch at 12:30, Lecture at 1:00
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3, 1737 Cambridge Street

Prof. James Bosson
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University

will speak on

Overland Contact: The Swedish Connection and Europe's
      Introduction to Mongolia

The lecture is free and open to the public. You can bring your lunch, or
lunch can be purchased in the Coolidge Hall cafeteria and brought into
seminar room 3.

For more information, please contact:
Alan G. Wagner
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
Coolidge Hall 102
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: +1/617-495-3777
Fax: +1/617-495-4306
iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu

CASPIAN SEMINAR- Ethnic Conflicts in Chechnya and Dagestan, KSG, Apr. 17

From: Emily Goodhue <emily_goodhue(a)harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Apr 2000


Please join the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project on

Monday, April 17th

for a Caspian Studies Program Seminar on

Ethnic Conflicts in Chechnya and Dagestan
Dr. Magomadkhan Magomedkhanov

Senior Researcher at the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography, 
Dagestan branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Advisor to the Dagestan 
Government on ethnic issues; Advisor to the Chief of Muslim Spiritual Board 
of Dagestan (Mufti); Advisor and co-founder of the Shamil Foundation.  Dr. 
Magomedkhanov was also very influential in the research for the SDI report 
"Russia's Tinderbox" by Fiona Hill (1995)

Dr. Musa Yusupov
Head of the Sociology Department at Grozny State University; 
Editor-in-chief of "OILA" magazine on Chechnya.

Chair: John Reppert
Executive Director of Research at the Belfer Center for Science and 
International Affairs

Please note that our presenters will be speaking in Russian, but we will 
have consecutive translation
2:30 to 4 pm
BCSIA Library, (L369) Third floor of the Littauer Building
Kennedy School of Government
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Alisher Ilkhamov, Kolkhozes vs. Farming for the Market in Uzbekistan

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 12 Apr 2000


CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR

Monday, April 17, 4:15-6:00

"Divided Economy: Kolkhozes vs. Farming for the Market in Post-Soviet
Uzbekistan"

Alisher Ilkhamov, Director, Expert Sociological Center Visiting Scholar, 
 Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

Monday, April 17, 4:15-6:00

Coolidge Hall Room 215

For more information, contact:
Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Vitaly Naumkin, North Caucasus and Caspian, Fri., Apr. 7

From: Emily Goodhue <emily_goodhue(a)harvard.edu>
Posted: 6 Apr 2000


CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR

Please join us on Friday, April 7 from 2 to 4 pm for a seminar on

"The Current situation in Northern Caucasus and the Caspian"

Vitaly Naumkin, President of the International Center
for Strategic and Political Studies, Moscow, since 1991

Taubman A, Fifth floor of the Taubman Building, Kennedy School of Government,
79 John F. Kennedy Street

Sponsored by:
The Forum for Central Asian Studies
and
The Caspian Studies Program at
The Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, BCSIA

ISLAMIC LEGAL STUDIES LECTURE- Transformation of the Shari'a, Apr. 5

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Apr 2000


OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

TITLE: The Transformation of the Shari'a: From Jurists' Law to Statute Law

BY: Professor Ruud Peters
Professor of Islamic Law, University of Amsterdam

WHEN: This Wednesday, April 5, 2000

TIME: 4:30 - 6:00 PM

WHERE: Pound Hall 102 (Harvard Law School)

Cheese and crackers will follow lecture.

If you have any questions, please call ILSP at +1/617-496-3941, or e-mail us
at ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu; for upcoming lectures and conferences, please
visit our website at www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ILSP


Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave. Pound 501
Cambridge, MA 02138 +1/617-496-3941
website: www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP

INNER ASIAN LECTURE- Uradyn E. Bulag, Ethnopolitics in North China, Apr.5

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Apr 2000


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
announces a luncheon and lecture

Wednesday, April 5, 2000
Lunch at 12:30, Lecture at 1:00
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3, 1737 Cambridge Street

Uradyn E. Bulag
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College of the CUNY
will present

A Genealogy of National Unity: The Peace-Marriage and Ethnopolitics in
North China

The lecture is free and open to the public. You can bring your lunch, or
lunch can be purchased in the Coolidge Hall cafeteria and brought into
seminar room 3.


For more information, please contact:

Alan G. Wagner
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
Coolidge Hall 102
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: +1/617-495-3777
Fax: +1/617-495-4306
iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu

FILM- "Genghis Blues" at the Brattle Theater

From: Jeff Spurr <spurr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 2 Apr 2000


Dear Friends and Colleagues,

For those of you who missed "Genghis Blues" the first time around,
are interested in Inner Asian culture and/or the throat singing of
Tuva, and would like the opportunity to see an uncommonly profound
and moving documentary, the Brattle is providing another opportunity.
The film shows at 5:15, 7:30 and 9:15 this Tuesday, April 4.

Jeff Spurr

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- R. Nougmanov, National Identity in Kazakhstan, April 3

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 30 Mar 2000


Kazakhstan: Selfishness vs. Self Interest -- Can National Identity Change the
Direction in which a Country Is Headed?

Rachid Nougmanov
Kazakh Filmmaker and Opposition Politician

April 3 (Mon.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 215

For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

SEMINAR- Islamic Movement in Central Asia, Oliver Roy

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 24 Mar 2000


Please join us on Tuesday, April 4 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
in Taubman A Dining Room for a seminar:

"The Islamic Movement in Central Asia:
Between Nationalism and Internationalism"

A Presentation by Olivier Roy, senior researcher at CNRS (French National
Center for Scientific Research) since 1985 and part-time consultant for the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since 1984 (specializing in: Iran,
Afghanistan, Central Asia, Political Islam)

Taubman A is located on the 5th floor of the Taubman building,
Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street

Sponsored by:
The Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
and
The Caspian Studies Program of
The Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project

For more information, email Emily_Goodhue(a)harvard.edu

BU ANTHRO LECTURE- Uzbeks in Afghanistan Politics, G. Rasuly-Paleczek,Mar. 29

From: "Janet O'Neil" <oneil(a)bu.edu>
Posted: 22 Mar 2000


Boston University
Department of Anthropology
Presents:

Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek

Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek received an MA in Sociology and Political Science
in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Turkology, and Islamic Studies
in 1984. Presently she is a post doctoral fellow in the Agrarian Program at
Yale University.

"Local and National Politics in Northeastern Afghanistan:
The Uzbeks and their Relations with the Afghan State"

Wednesday, March 29, 2000
4:00 PM CAS Room 130
685 Commonwealth Avenue

The session will focus primarily on the time period spanning the early
nineteenth century through the late 1970's. The lecture will investigate
not only the political system of the Uzbeks, but also the changes in local
politics as a direct result of the Afghan State and its increasing efforts
to penetrate local societies with its institutions. Additionally, the
reaction of the Uzbeks to the state encroachment and the outgrowth of new
forms of local political alliances will be explored. Throughout the
presentation, the goal sill be to understand the reconfiguration of the
Uzbek identity within the context of the state's nation-building process.


Janet R. O'Neil
Department Administrator
Boston University
Department of Anthropology
232 Bay State Road
Room 105
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-2195
Fax: 617-353-2610
E-Mail: <oneil(a)bu.edu>

LECTURE- Turkmenistan: From the Soviet Past Towards a New Monarchy?

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Mar 2000


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
announces a luncheon and lecture:

Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Lunch at 12:30, Lecture at 1:00
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3, 1737 Cambridge Street

Rustem Safronov
correspondent, Novaya Gazeta and BBC Russian and Central Asian Services
will speak on

"Turkmenistan: From the Soviet Past Towards a New Monarchy?"

The lecture is free and open to the public. You can bring your lunch, or
lunch can be purchased in the Coolidge Hall cafeteria and brought into
seminar room 3.

  

PANEL DISCUSSION- Self Determination, Autonomy and China, March 17

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Mar 2000


The Harvard Asia Law Society will host a panel discussion of "Self
Determination, Autonomy and China" on Friday, March 17 at 5:00 pm in Langdell
South. The panelists will include Michael Davis of the Chinese University
of Hong Kong (discussing Hong Kong's autonomy within the PRC), Ann
Frechette of Harvard (discussing Tibetan autonomy and independence issues),
Alan Wachman of Tufts (discussing Taiwan), and Gardner Bovingdon of Cornell
(discussing the Muslim, western Chinese province of Xinjiang). A reception
will follow.

There will be a limited number of seats available at Changsho for dinner
with the speakers. Please RSVP to Nathan Bush (nbush) by Thursday, 12
noon. This meal will cost paid HALS members $5, and nonmembers $10. Space
will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

For further information or directions, please contact:
nbush(a)law.harvard.edu

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- David Abramson, Corruption/Aid/Uzbekistan, March 20

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Mar 2000


"Constructing Corruption: Foreign Aid, Bureaucratization and Uzbek Social 
Networks"

David M. Abramson
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Watson Institute for International Studies

March 20 (Mon.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 215

For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR- Barnett Rubin, Afghanistan Hijacking and Regional Conflict

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 14 Mar 2000


Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Friday, March 17
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

South Asia Seminar - Cosponsored with the Asia Center
Barnett Rubin
Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
"Behind the Nepal-Amritsar-Dubai-Qandahar Hijacking: Growth of a
Regional Conflict Complex in South-Central Asia"


For more information please call 617/495-4420.

        

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Tamara Sivertseva, Daghestan, March 6

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 2 Mar 2000


"Daghestan: The Quest for Identity"

Dr. Tamara Sivertseva
Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace
Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of
Sciences

March 6 (Mon.) 4:15-6:00 Coolidge Hall Room 3


For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies +1/617-496-2643
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

FAIRBANK CENTER LECTURE- Jay Dautcher, Uighur Islam, March 2

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 29 Feb 2000


Thursday, March 2, 4:00 pm
"Uighur Islam: Piety, Prosperity and Political Protest in 1990s Xinjiang"
Jay Dautcher
Fairbank Center Seminar Series
Seminar Room 4, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Sponsored by the Fairbank Center
Tel. 617-495-4046

With questions, contact: opatrick(a)fas.harvard.edu

BOSTON UNIV. LECTURE- Hamid Algar, Uses of a Hadith, Mar. 3

From: The Society for the Study of Religion at BU <ssr(a)bu.edu>
Posted: 28 Feb 2000


The SSR cordially invites to attend a lecture from Professor Hamid
Algar, entitled:

"To Renew the Religion each Hundred Years: the Varying Uses of a Hadith"

Friday, March 3rd, 2000
6:30 PM
BU LAW School, room 570

Professor Algar received his Ph.D. in Islamic studies in 1965 from Cambridge
University. Since that time, he has served on the faculty of the Near
Eastern Studies department at the University of California at Berkeley,
teaching such subjects as classical and modern Persian, classical and modern
Turkish, Arabic legal texts, Islamic Bibliography, Quranic Studies, Sufism
and Shi'ism.

Professor Algar is the author of several major studies, including: _Religion
and State in Iran, 1785-1906: The Role of the Ulama in the Qajar Period_,
_Mirza Malkum Khan: A Biographical Study in Iranian Modernism_, _The Roots
of the Islamic Revolution_, as well as more than 1,000 articles in English,
Farsi and Turkish.

He serves as a consultant and writer for the _Encyclopedia Iranica_, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, _Simurg_, the _International Journal
of Middle Eastern Studies_, the _Encyclopedia Islamica_ as well as
encyclopedias in Farsi and Turkish.

Professor Algar is also a major translator from Arabic, Farsi and Turkish.
He has translated the most important works of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini and
Turkey's Said Nursi into English.


The lecture is free and open to the public, all are invited to attend.
Please RSVP in advance, however, to the SSR at: <ssr(a)bu.edu>. The BU LAW
School is the tallest building on campus, located behind the BU School of
Theology at 745 Commonwealth Avenue, and is easily accessible by train on
the MBTA Green "B" train service, at the "BU Central" stop. We hope that you
may attend. Thank you.

--The SSR

FILM SCREENING/DISCUSSION- Prisoner of the Mountains, Feb. 28, Kennedy School

From: Ingrid Tamm <Ingrid_Tamm/FS/KSG(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Feb 2000


Please join us for a film and discussion on Chechnya:

"PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS"

Leo Tolstoy's classic tale of love and war, set in Chechnya, comes alive in
this film about two Russian soldiers who are captured by Chechen rebels
during the war in the Caucasus. A Cannes award winner and Academy Award
Nominee. Directed by Sergei Bodrov (in Russian with English subtitles).

Guest speakers to discuss the film afterwards include Sergei Grigoriev,
Senior Advisor to the Chair of the All-Russian Television and Radio Company.
Brenda Shaffer, Fellow, International Security Project, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs.

Date: Monday, February 28, 2000
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Littauer 140, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge
Directions: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/bcsia/bcsia.nsf/map
Contact: Jasmine_Friedman(a)harvard.edu or 617-495-5819

Sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Strengthening
Democratic Institutions Project

DAVIS CTR ECONOMICS LUNCHEON- Don Marshall, Caspian and Sakhalin Oil, March 1

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 24 Feb 2000


Wednesday, March 1, 12:30-2:00 pm, Coolidge Hall Room 4
Comparative Economics Luncheon Seminar
Don Marshall (Consultant)
"Baku and Sakhalin: Is There Oil in Them Thar Wells?"


For more information, contact:

Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4037
mgriggs(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~daviscrs

ASIA CENTER LECTURE- Susan Whitfield, Mapping Central Asian Antiquities

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 24 Feb 2000


Friday, March 3, 2:00 pm
"Mapping Dunhuang and Central Asian Antiquities"
Dr. Susan Whitfield, The British Library
Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

The International Dunhuang Project at the British Library is a 
collaborative initiative to recreate a Buddhist library from the first 
millennium AD on the Internet, with high quality digital images and 
scholarly information freely available to everyone: http://idp.bl.uk/

Dr. Susan Whitfield is the author of the recent book, Life along the Silk 
Road, among other works.

Sponsored by the East Asia Digital Resources Planning Group and the Asia Center
Tel. 617-496-6273

With questions, contact: opatrick(a)fas.harvard.edu

INNER ASIAN LECTURE- Dunhuang Art in the Tenth Century, March

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Feb 2000


"Dunhuang Art in the Tenth Century: Links with the Uygurs"
Prof. Lilla Russell-Smith, SOAS, University of London
Wednesday, March 1
Lunch at 12:30, lecture at 1:00
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Free and open to the public. You may bring your lunch or purchase one in
the Coolidge Hall cafeteria and take it into Seminar Room 3.

Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. For more
information contact Alan Wagner at 495-3777 or iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
Coolidge Hall 102
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: +1/617-495-3777
Fax: +1/617-495-4306

SEMINAR- The Karabagh Conflict: A Clash of Civilizations?, B. Shaffer, Feb. 15

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 14 Feb 2000


Davis Center Occaisional Seminar

"The Karabagh Conflict: A Clash of Civilizations?"
Brenda Shaffer
Kennedy School of Government


Coolidge Hall 215
12:30p -2:00p

For more information, call: 495-4037

CONF.- 3rd Int'l Conf. on Islamic Legal Studies: The Madhhab, Harvard, 4-6 May

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Feb 2000


On May 4-6, 2000 the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, MA, will host and sponsor an international conference on the
madhhab, the Islamic school of law, with discussions on such innovative
topics as madhhab-formation, inter-madhhab polemics, anti-madhhab tendencies,
contemporary developments, the madhhab and the state, etc. All sessions
will be held at Austin Hall on the Law School campus. For more information,
including a registration form, please access our website
(www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP) or contact Peri Bearman
(pbearman(a)law.harvard.edu).

Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave. Pound 501
Cambridge, MA 02138 +1/617-496-3941
website: www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP

CONFERENCE- Islam and Constitutionalism, Harvard Law School, 7-9 April

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Feb 2000


A conference hosted by the Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Held on April 7-9, 2000 at Austin Hall on the Law School Campus

This conference is organized around two broad questions: How have
interpretations of Islam affected constitutionalism among Muslim peoples?
How has constitutionalism affected interpretations of Islam as a political,
legal, and social ideology among Muslim peoples? The conference will analyze
constitutional concerns in the works of medieval Islamic theorists, explore
how nineteenth-century Muslims drew upon these classical sources as well as
Western conceptions of constitutional government to produce movements
advocating for Islamic constitutionalism, and focus on how constitutionalism
and Islamic thought and activism have interacted during the twentieth
century in the historical experience of Muslim states and among Muslims in
non-Muslim majority states.

The panels will be addressing four broad topics: 1) Actors and ideologies;
2) Controversies in framing a constitution; 3) Principles and institutions
of the constitution; and 4) Controversies in constitutional interpretation.
Within the panels, country studies will be presented, to provide an optimum
treatment of thematic context. An academic program of the conference
follows, with on the overleaf a list of the speakers and topics at the
conference.

For the definitive program of the entire day's events, please access
http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP under Upcoming Events.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, April 7
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome and Project Introduction
9:30 - 10:30 Session 1 Medieval Theory: Juristic Literature
10:45 - 12:30 Session 2 Medieval Theory: Philosophical Literature
2:00 - 4:15 Session 3 Actors and Controversies
4:30 - 6:30 Session 4 Actors and Controversies

Reception, hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Saturday, April 8

9:00 - 10:15 Session 5 Principles and Institutions
10:30 - 12:00 Session 6 Principles and Institutions
1:30 - 4:00 Session 7 Principles and Institutions
4:30 - 6:30 Session 8 Constitutional Interpretations

Sunday, April 9
9:00 - 11:30 Session 9 Constitutional Interpretations
11:45 - 1:00 Session 10 Conclusion and Further Steps

SPEAKERS AND THEIR TOPICS

The Sunni Juristic Literature
Khaled Abou El Fadl, UCLA Law School
The Shi`i Juristic Literature
Louise Marlow, Wellesley College
The Sunni Philosophical Literature
Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland, College Park
The Shi`i Philosophical Literature
Hossein Ziai, University of California, Los Angeles
The 1861 Tunisian Constitution
Theresa Womble, University of Memphis
The 1876 Ottoman Constitution
M. Sukru Hanioglu, Princeton University
The 1906 Iranian Constitution
Said Amir Arjomand, SUNY, Stony Brook
Turkey
Hasan Kayali, University of California, San Diego
Iran's 1979 Constitution
Asghar Schirazi, Free University of Berlin
Saudi Arabia
Frank Vogel, Harvard Law School
Egypt
Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University
Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq
Chibli Mallat, University Saint Joseph, Beirut
Morocco
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Algeria
Hugh Roberts, London School of Economics
Libya
Karim Mezran, Johns Hopkins, SAIS
Sudan
Adam Abdelmoula, U.N. Human Rights Commission, Nairobi
Nigeria
John Paden, George Mason University
Afghanistan
Amin Tarzi, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Chechnya and Azerbaijan
Stephen Jones, Mount Holyoke College
Tajikistan
Muriel Atkin, George Washington University
Pakistan (pre-1979)
Mumtaz Ahmad, Hampton University
Pakistan (post-1979)
Charles Kennedy, Wake Forest University
Malaysia
Andrew Harding, University of London, SOAS
Indonesia
Sebastiaan Pompe, University of Leiden, Faculty of Law
India
Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
South Africa
Ebrahim Moosa, Stanford University

For more information with regard to attending this conference or filling in
a registration form, please consult our website, or contact Peri Bearman,
pbearman(a)law.harvard.edu, 617-496-3622.

Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave. Pound 501
Cambridge, MA 02138 +1/617-496-3941
website: www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP

Ride-Sharing from New York for Central Asia Working Group Meetings

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Feb 2000


Some people have expressed interest in finding others in the New York area 
who would like to ride-share on Mondays to attend meetings of the Harvard 
Central Asia Seminar and Working Group (which meet on Mondays, 
4:15-6:00). If you are also interested, please let me know and I'll put 
you in touch with the others.

John Schoeberlein
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu

SCHEDULE CHANGE- Islamic Civ 124 will meet Thurs. 4-6 in Coolidge 215

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Feb 2000


Please note that in a change of schedule, "Islamic Civilizations 124: 
Central Asian Culture and Society" will be meeting on Thursdays, 4:00-6:00, 
in Coolidge Hall room 215.

John Schoeberlein

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Uzbeks of Afghanistan, G. Rasuly-Palaczek,Feb. 14

From: Central Asian Studies <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Feb 2000


"Ethnic Identity versus Nationalism: The Uzbeks of Afghanistan and the
Afghan State"

Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
Tenured Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of
Vienna, and currently, Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in
Agrarian Studies, Yale University

The lecture will examining changing identity among Uzbeks of northern 
Afghanistan following on the Soviet invasion and the civil war.

Monday, Feb. 14
4:15 - 6:00
Coolidge Hall Room 215
1737 Cambridge Street


Forum for Central Asian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel.: +1/617-496-2643
e-mail: centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

NOTICE- Attempt to spread virus, masquerading with Harvard list address

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Feb 2000


Please be aware that I have received -- and therefore surmise that others 
may receive -- a message which masquerades as having been distributed by 
one of the Forum's lists, and which appears to be attempting to distribute 
a virus. This message contains an web link and an attached program file 
(identifiable by the .exe extension).

As a rule, it is very important that you should NOT EVER click on a web 
link or a program file in a message which you receive from someone 
unexpectedly. If you do not click on such links and you delete such 
attached files immediately, you should be safe from infection from viruses.

The lists which I run are protected from such malevolent people by the fact 
that we do not allow access to the address lists of subscribers as some 
lists do. However, the address of anyone posting to the list is obviously 
not protected in this way. I presume I received the mentioned message 
because I posted a message myself. If others have received such messages, 
it might be helpful if you let me know, so perhaps we can track down their 
origin.

I don't want to alarm anyone -- just bear in mind to be careful about web 
links and attached .exe files. The message I received was obviously not a 
posting which we would have distributed -- obvious for a number of reasons 
including that our lists never distribute attached files of any 
kind. Increasingly, thanks to the weird evil which besets some people, we 
all have to be aware of these simple precautions.

John Schoeberlein

LECTURE SERIES- Life and Language in Pre-Islamic Afghanistan, N. Sims-Williams

From: Ahmed Jebari <jebari(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 7 Feb 2000


The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and
The Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations
are proud to present the

EHSAN YARSHATER DISTINGUISHED LECTURES ON IRANIAN STUDIES 2000

Delivered by
Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams
University of London
School of Oriental and African Studies


Life and Language in Pre-Islamic Afghanistan:
A Bactrian Archive from the Northern Hindukush

Tuesday, February 22, 2000
Four Centuries of Bactrian Documents: a Survey

Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Literature and Religion

Thursday, February 24, 2000
Peoples, Languages, and History

Friday, February 25, 2000
The Bactrian Language

Coolidge Hall, Room 510
5:00 pm

SDI SEMINAR- Security in the Caucasus, V. Quluzada and E. Namazov

From: Melissa Carr <Melissa_Carr/FS/KSG(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 7 Feb 2000


The Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project's
Caspian Studies Program
at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
invites you to attend

"Security in the Caucasus"

a discussion with

Mr. Vafa Mirzaga Ogly Quluzada,
political analyst and
Advisor and State Counselor to the President of the
Azerbaijan Republic on Foreign Policy Issues

and

Mr. Eldar Sagif Ogly Namazov,
member of the Azerbaijani Parliament since 1995

Tuesday, February 8, 2000
from 2:30 to 4:00 PM
in the
BCSIA Library (Littauer 369)
coffee, tea, and snacks will be served

Mr. Vafa Quluzada is considered one of the most influential and progressive
figures in the field of Azerbaijani foreign policy. He has initiated new
ideas promoting development of U.S. - Azerbaijan relations, such as
collaboration among political and security organizations. He is widely
considered the key figure in the formation of a largely pro-western
Azerbaijani foreign policy. Furthermore, he has created and directs an
independent think tank, "Caspian Geopolicy Research Foundation," a
non-governmental organization aimed at conducting research on the economic
and political processes in the nations of the Caspian region.

Mr. Eldar Namazov is a member of the Azerbaijani Parliament. He will be
serving as Deputy Director of the "Caspian Geopolicy Research Foundation."
Formerly the head of the Press Services of the Azerbaijan President's
Apparat, he was the leading analyst on international and domestic
developments. He was also among the first Azerbaijani scholars and
political scientists who voiced an independent opinion- even during Soviet
times. Mr. Namazov initiated two big media organizations: Panorama
Independent Newspaper and Space Independent TV Channel.

If you have questions about this event, please call Emily Goodhue, 496-1981

Central Asia Working Group, Spring Semester

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 2 Feb 2000


Please note that due to scheduling considerations of several of the members 
of the Working Group, we have shifted to meeting on Mondays, 4:15-6:00 (in 
Coolidge Hall room 215, as before).

Spring Semester's first meeting will be, then, on Monday, February 7. If 
you have note participated previously, feel free to come and learn more 
about this gathering of students, researchers, faculty and others where we 
discuss in an informal way projects in progress related to Central Asia 
(broadly defined to include everything from the Caucasus to Mongolia).

Write to me if you wish to be added to the list of those who receive 
regular e-mail announcements of our meeting agendas.

John Schoeberlein
______________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ 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
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Forum Website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
______________________________________________________________________

COURSE OFFERING- Islamic Civilizations 124. Central Asian Culture and Society

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Jan 2000


I will be teaching "Central Asian Culture and Society" this semester, and 
encourage all those who are interested in the broad region of "greater 
Central Asia" -- from the Caucasus to Mongolia -- to attend. See the 
course description below for details. The course gives particular 
attention to current problems faced by the region and their historical and 
cultural roots. The course is predominantly in seminar format, though the 
early classes will devote more time to building background knowledge on the 
region. My approach is maximally flexible to accommodate the particular 
interests of those who will be taking the course.

I would be glad to hear in advance from anyone who is interested in taking 
the course. If there are those who would like to take the course, but for 
whom the meeting time is a problem (Wed., 2-4), let me know, because some 
students have already lobbied for a change in the time. Such a change may 
not be possible, in fact, but it would be helpful to know how many people 
share this wish.

John Schoeberlein


Islamic Civilizations 124. Central Asian Culture and Society.
John S. Schoeberlein (Lecturer on Central Asian Studies)

The course explores the diversity and continuity in contemporary Central 
Asian culture and society and their historical roots. After building a 
basis of knowledge of the pre- and early-modern history of the region, and 
of its contemporary political context and institutions, the course will 
approach Central Asian culture, social structure and everyday life from a 
variety of angles. These will include perspectives available in various 
types of literature on the region, including the travel accounts of 
travelers to the region from pre-modern to recent times, indigenous 
literary and folklore traditions, nineteenth century Orientalist 
scholarship, and contemporary scholarly approaches. The course will draw on 
ethnographic accounts to develop a rich picture of the social meaning and 
cultural context of ways of life (from the historical caravan trade and 
pastoral nomadism to contemporary collective farm and urban life), 
community rituals, social institutions, religious practices, moral 
sensibilities and aesthetic traditions.

Note: Intended primarily for graduates and advanced undergraduates; some 
background in the Near East and/or the former Soviet Union desirable. 
Enrollment limited.
Half Course (Spring term), Wed., 2:00-4:00, Coolidge Hall Room 215, 
additional hour to be arranged.

INNER ASIAN LECTURE- Traditional Tibetan Medicine - February 2

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Jan 2000


"The Balance of Energies in Traditional Tibetan Medicine"
Dr. Keyzom Bhutti, former Director of the Tibetan Hospital of Darjeeling
Wednesday, February 2
Lunch at 12:30, lecture at 1:00
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Free and open to the public. You may bring your lunch or purchase one in
the Coolidge Hall cafeteria and take it into Seminar Room 3.

Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. For more
information contact Alan Wagner at 495-3777 or iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu


*******************************************
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
Coolidge Hall 102
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: +1/617-495-3777
Fax: +1/617-495-4306

SEMINAR- Foreign Minister of Chechnya Ilyas Akhmadov, Jan. 25

From: Central Asian Studies-Harvard <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Jan 2000


"The View From Grozny"

A special seminar of the Davis Center for Russian Studies

Date: Tuesday, Jan. 25
Time: 12:15 - 2:00
Place: Coolidge Hall Rm. 2, 1737 Cambridge Street

Contact Melissa Griggs, mgriggs(a)fas.harvard.edu for more information.

SEMINAR- Nurlan Ablyazov, What will it take for Kazakstan to Prosper?

From: Central Asian Studies-Harvard <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Jan 2000


The Davis Center for Russian Studies
Comparative Economics Luncheon Seminar:

"What will it take for Kazakstan to Prosper?"

Nurlan Ablyazov
Editor-in-Chief of "The Globe", Almaty

Date: Jan. 21, 2000
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
Place: Rm. 4, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street

Contact Melissa Griggs, mgriggs(a)fas.harvard.edu for more information.

COURSE OFFERING- HBS Course on Business in Emerging Markets

From: Robert Kennedy <rkennedy(a)hbs.edu>
Posted: 5 Jan 2000


Cross Registration Opportunity
New Opportunities in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business School
"X" Schedule (Mon./Tues. or Tues./Wed.)
1:30 - 2:50 pm, Aldrich 11

The world economy is in the midst of a vast transformation. Since 1985, 
more than 60 countries--accounting for more than one-third of the world's 
population and one-sixth of its GNP-have undertaken economic reforms that 
involve internal and/or external liberalization. The World Bank projects 
that these countries will account for more than half of world GDP growth in 
the next 25 years. While the opportunities in these markets are vast, the 
business environment differs substantially from that in developed economies.

New Opportunities in Emerging Markets (NOEM) is designed to develop 
students' capacity to start, manage, and invest in businesses in emerging 
markets. The course accomplishes this by exploring the opportunities and 
challenges facing business unit managers in less developed and transition 
countries. NOEM draws on contemporary economic research, a series of case 
studies, visits by case protagonists, and the instructor's experience as a 
consultant and investor in more than a dozen countries.

NOEM explores business strategy though four related modules These are:
o Traditional supply relations (i.e., low cost labor, natural 
resources, etc.);
o Traditional approaches to servicing local demand (i.e., leveraging 
global brands, establishing and managing joint ventures, market analysis, 
etc.);
o Analysis of the business environment (i.e., projecting industry 
dynamics, managing regulation and corruption, understanding the effects of 
hyperinflation and currency volatility on business unit economics, etc.)
o Complex industries where new business models apply. Cases topics 
include investment banking, telecommunications, software development, 
e-commerce, and venture capital.

If you have any questions about NOEM, please contact:

Professor Robert Kennedy
Morgan 277
Harvard Business School
495-6907
rkennedy(a)hbs.edu 

Professor Christopher Albanese
Morgan 290
Harvard Business School
495-6514
calbanese(a)hbs.edu


Professor Robert E. Kennedy
Morgan 277
Harvard Business School
Soldiers' Field
Boston, MA 02163

phone: 617-495-6907
fax: 617-496-5994
email: rkennedy(a)hbs.edu

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