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• SEMINAR- Rubab Music and Modal Thinking in Afghanistan, John Baily, Fri., Dec. 13 Posted: 12 Dec 2002
• EVENT- Reinterpreting Forms of Sacred Space from Tibet and Japan, Dec. 12 Posted: 10 Dec 2002
• TALK- Kazakh Music, Noriko Toda, Friday, Dec. 6 - TOMORROW Posted: 5 Dec 2002
• LECTURE- Yin Yang, Science and Dialectics: A New Approach, Dec. 5 Posted: 4 Dec 2002
• CONCERT/FILM- Afghanistan Concert and "A Kabul Diary", Dec. 12, Music Dept/CMES Posted: 3 Dec 2002
• FILMS- Film Screenings from Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Tufts, Dec. 2002 Posted: 2 Dec 2002
• INNER ASIA LECTURE- Ethnic Conflicts in 1920s China, Ruohong Li, Dec. 4 Posted: 27 Nov 2002
• PANEL DISCUSSION- Anthony Saich, Peter Purdue, Fairbanks Center, Dec. 3 Posted: 27 Nov 2002
• PANEL- Russia's Struggle with Chechnya, KSG Caspian Studies Program, Nov. 26 Posted: 25 Nov 2002
• TODAY- Russia's Chechnya Policy, Dan Epstein, Post-Communist Seminar Posted: 19 Nov 2002
• SEMINAR- Juliette Cadiot, Russian Censuses, Mon., Nov. 18, HURI Posted: 15 Nov 2002
• LECTURE- "On Reading al-Farabi," Charles Butterworth, Nov. 19 Posted: 14 Nov 2002
• SEMINAR- Social Anthro. Dissertation Defense, Buriats of Mongolia, Nov. 5 Posted: 2001
• HURI SEMINAR- Soviet Nationalities Policies in the 1920s-1930s, Nov. 4 Posted: 1 Nov 2002
• SEMINAR- John LeDonne, A Russian Proposal to Make War on China (1790s), Nov. 7 Posted: 23 Oct 2002
• SEMINAR- The Armenian Turkish Reconciliation Effort, Oct. 31 Posted: 23 Oct 2002
• PROGRAM INFO.- Intensive Arabic Workshops, October 2002, Cambridge, Mass. Posted: 15 Oct 2002
• EVENT- An Evening with Rumi, Prof. Soroush, Oct. 15, Harvard Divinity School Posted: 10 Oct 2002
• SEMINAR- Pashtuns and the North-West Frontier Province, Oct. 11, WCFIA Posted: 9 Oct 2002
• CONCERT- Sufi Devotional Music, Andover Hall, Oct. 17, 2002 Posted: 8 Oct 2002
• COURSE- Jihad in Arabic Fiqh Texts, Professor Mottahedeh Posted: 23 Sep 2002
• CONFERENCE- Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices, Oct. 5, Harvard/MIT Posted: 22 Sep 2002
• Correction: Central Asia and Caucasus Working Group to be on *Tuesdays* Posted: 20 Sep 2002
• CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGE COURSES - Fall Semester 2002 Posted: 20 Sep 2002
• COURSE- Central Asian Culture and Society, 1st Meeting Today Posted: 18 Sep 2002
• OPEN HOUSE- Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program, Pound Hall, Sept. 19 Posted: 12 Sep 2002
• LECTURE- Wasfi Kailani, Chechens of the Middle East, KSG Caspian Studies Program Posted: 10 Sep 2002
• HARVARD PROGRAM - NAME AND ADDRESS CHANGE Posted: 27 Jun 2002
• LECTURE- Kakhi Kenkadze, Georgian Local Elections, KSG Caspian Studies Program Posted: 21 May 2002
• CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGE TUTORIALS IN UZBEK AND TAJIK - July-August 2002 Posted: 21 May 2002
• TALK- Turkmenistan Today, Meret Orazov, Ambassador of Turkmenistan, May 24 Posted: 20 May 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Mariya Pulman, Human Rights in Kazakhstan, May 23 Posted: 17 May 2002
• CONF.- Roundtable on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia, May 11-13 Posted: 10 May 2002
• SEMINAR- Martin Andrew, The PLA and the Insurgency in Xinjiang, May 14 Posted: 9 May 2002
• DAVIS CTR SEMINAR- Publishing in Chechnya, Mussa Muradov, May 13 Posted: 8 May 2002
• SUMMER REMINDER- Please Notify Central-Asia-Harvard-List of Address Changes Posted: 2 May 2002
• BCSIA Director's Seminar, Friday, May 3 with Boris Shikhmuradov Posted: 29 Apr 2002
• IAAS LECTURE- Michal Biran, China, Nomads and Islam under Qara Khitai, May 1 - Posted: 25 Apr 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Boris Shikhmuradov, Political Opposition in Turkmenistan, May 2 - Posted: 25 Apr 2002
• YARSHATER LECTURES- Priscilla P. Soucek, Iranian Artistic Identities - Posted: 23 Apr 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Kamoludin Abdullaev, Tensions in Tajikistan, May 1 - Posted: 23 Apr 2002
• REMINDER: CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Larry Goodson, "Post-War Afghanistan," April 23 - Posted: 21 Apr 2002
• FILM/DISCUSSION- Assassination of Russia [About Bombings in Moscow], April 29 - Posted: 22 Apr 2002
• CONFERENCE Women and the Labor Market: The Islamic World, 25-26 May, ILSP - Posted: 16 Apr 2002
• LECTURE- Russian Socialism and the Islamic Revival, Amb. Thomas Simons, Apr. 17 - Posted: 16 Apr 2002
• CFP- Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices..., Oct. 5, Harvard/MIT - Posted: 16 Apr 2002
• REMINDER: CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Intelligentsia in Kyrgyzstan, A. Tabyshalieva, April 17 - Posted: 11 Apr 2002
• ILSP LECTURE- Continuity and Change in Islamic Law, Eyyup Sait Kaya, Apr. 25 - Posted: 15 Apr 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Intelligentsia in Kyrgyzstan, Anara Tabyshalieva, April 17 - Posted: 11 Apr 2002
• NELC LECTURE- Avicenna's Philosophical Correspondence, David Reisman, April 16 - Posted: 10 Apr 2002
• INNER ASIA LECTURE- Traditional Values of Mongols, Ts. Tsetsenbileg, April 11 - Posted: 10 Apr 2002
• LECTURE- Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, Pavel Baev, Apr. 12, Caspian Studies Program - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR, M. Müller, Preventing Conflict in Central Asia, April 24 - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
• LECTURE- Wine in Ottoman Crimea, Oleksandr Halenko, April 9 - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
• REMINDER- Olivier Roy, From Where does Bin Laden Come?, April 10 - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
• CONFERENCE- The Cold War and Its Legacy in Tibet, 20-21 April, HPCWS - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
• C.A. WORKING GROUP- April 10, Kai Wegerich, "Water Scarcity in Uzbekistan" - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Dr. Larry Goodson, "Post-War Afghanistan," April 23 - Posted: 5 Apr 2002
  
• SEMINAR- Western Broadcasting and Muslim Audiences, James Critchlow, Apr. 2 - Posted: 28 Mar 2002
• LECTURE- Turkic Communities in the 19-21 c., Helene Perrin Wagner, April 3 - Posted: 25 Mar 2002
• LECTURE- Olivier Roy, From Where does Bin Laden Come?, April 10 - Posted: 20 Mar 2002
• C.A. WORKING GROUP- Mar. 20, R. Varenik, Inter-ethnic Relations and the Media - Posted: 16 Mar 2002
• LECTURE- Assessing US Policies in Afghanistan..., Charles Dunbar, Mar. 19 - Posted: 16 Mar 2002
• GRANTS- Undergraduate Research Awards, Human Rights Studies - Posted: 15 Mar 2002
• C.A. WORKING GROUP- Mar. 13, G. Abikeyeva, "Central Asian Cinematography" - Posted: 12 Mar 2002
• LECTURE- Iran's Reaction to September 11, Nasser Hadian - Posted: 8 Mar 2002
• TUFTS LECTURE- Eric Sievers, Water Resources and Conflict in C. Asia, Mar. 6 - Posted: 5 Mar 2002
• ILSP LECTURE- Iran's Reaction to September 11 by Nasser Hadian, Mar. 13 - Posted: 26 Feb 2002
• LECTURE- Islam in Central Asia, K. Abdullaev, Feb. 28, Brown Univ. - Posted: 25 Feb 2002
• LECTURES- Rebuilding Society in Afghanistan, Feb. 23, Wellesley College - Posted: 19 Feb 2002
• DAVIS CTR SEMINAR- Edward Walker, Impact of War in Chechnya..., Feb. 25 - Posted: 18 Feb 2002
• LECTURE- Islam and September 11, Feb. 14, 2002, Wellesley College - Posted: 14 Feb 2002
• FLETCHER TALK- Afghanistan Ambassador, "Rebuilding Afghanistan" - Posted: 12 Feb 2002
• FORUM- Working for Peace in Afghanistan, Kennedy School, Feb. 11 - Posted: 11 Feb 2002
• LECTURE- Political Islam, Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar, MIT - Posted: 7 Feb 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR, Ilias Akhmadov, Prospects for Peace in Chechnya, Feb. 4 - Posted: 29 Jan 2002
• DISCUSSION- Reconfiguration of Identity in Central Asia, Feb. 5 - Posted: 28 Jan 2002
• CENTRAL ASIA WORKING GROUP, Spring Semester 1st Meeting, Wed., Feb. 6 - Posted: 28 Jan 2002
• New Course on Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought - Posted: 25 Jan 2002
• Focus on Islam in Central Asia - Islamic Civilizations 125 (NELC) - Posted: 25 Jan 2002
  

SEMINAR- Rubab Music and Modal Thinking in Afghanistan, John Baily, Fri., Dec. 13

From: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 12 Dec 2002


Friday, December 13, 2002, 2:00-4:00 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University
Open to the public
Admission Free

Ethnomusicology Seminar with Dr. John Baily

"The rubab as the embodiment of modal thinking in Afghanistan"

Dr. John Baily, Reader in Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths' College, University 
of London has been studying and performing the music of Afghanistan since 
doing fieldwork in Herat in the 1970s that was the basis of his book, Music 
of Afghanistan: Professional musicians in the city of Herat (Cambridge 
University Press, 1988), and he has produced many articles, CD's and films 
on the subject. His most recent publication, a report entitled "Can you stop 
the birds singing? The censorship of music in Afghanistan", published by 
Freemuse, contains a number of proposals designed to maintain the music 
culture in Afghanistan. Baily now directs The Afghanistan Music Unit (AMU) 
at Goldsmiths which aims to monitor and assist the process of rebuilding 
music culture in Afghanistan, especially the activities of Radio Afghanistan 
and Kabul TV.

 

EVENT- Reinterpreting Forms of Sacred Space from Tibet and Japan, Dec. 12

From: Asia Center <chinalaifas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Dec 2002


Reinterpreting Forms of Sacred Space from Tibet and Japan

Thesis Work by Christopher Parlato

Opening Receptions:

Thursday December 12, 6:00 pm
"Three Pilgrimages"
An installation in the Mather House Three Columns Gallery Through
January 31st
Three Columns Gallery, Mather House, 10 Coperwaithe St., Cambridge

Thursday December 12, 7:30 pm
"Temple"
A Public Installation in Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts, Harvard University
Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Sponsored by the Visual and Environmental Studies Program

 

TALK- Kazakh Music, Noriko Toda, Friday, Dec. 6 - TOMORROW

From: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Dec 2002


"Globalization Imagined, the Nation Represented: a Study of the Orchestra of 
Folk Instruments in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan"

Noriko Toda, Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology

The talk will be held in the Friday Lunch Talk series at the Music 
Department.  It is a weekly informal meeting for student's presentation.  
Pizza will be served!

Friday, December 6 (TOMORROW), 12-1 pm
Room 8, Music Building, Harvard University (behind the Science Center)

LECTURE- Yin Yang, Science and Dialectics: A New Approach, Dec. 5

From: Asia Center <opatrickfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Dec 2002

  
Thursday, December 5, 12:30 pm

A Special Presentation sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and
the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research:

"Yin Yang, Science and Dialectics: A New Approach - A Tibetan Philosopher's
View"

Professor Phuntsok Wanggyal, a famous figure in modern Tibetan history, has
devoted much of the last 30 years to studying and developing theories and
laws underlying natural phenomena.  He is a Professor and Ph.D. Instructor
in Philosophy at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, Chairman of the Preparation Committee at the China Tibetan
Buddhist Philosophy and Modern Science Institute in Beijing and former
Member of the National People's Congress Nationalities Committee."

Talk will be given in Chinese, translated into English

Seminar Room 2
625 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor
Central Square
Cambridge

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for
East Asian Research

Tel: 617-496-6273


 

CONCERT/FILM- Afghanistan Concert and "A Kabul Diary", Dec. 12, Music Dept/CMES

From: Jonathan Ramljak <jramljakfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Dec 2002

 
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Ethnomusicology Seminar, and the 
Music Department, Harvard University are pleased to present a performance 
and film screening by Ethnomusicologist Dr. John Baily, one of the leading 
exponents of Afghan music in the West and an accomplished performer of the 
Afghan rubab.  He will be accompanied in the concert by Asif Mahmoud, a 
master tabla player from Afghanistan who teaches Afghan music in the United 
States and England.

Dr. John Baily, Reader in Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths' College, University 
of London has been studying and performing the music of Afghanistan since 
doing fieldwork in Herat in the 1970s that was the basis of his book, Music 
of Afghanistan: Professional musicians in the city of Herat (Cambridge 
University Press, 1988), and he has produced many articles, CD's and films 
on the subject. His most recent publication, a report entitled "Can you stop 
the birds singing? The censorship of music in Afghanistan", published by 
Freemuse, contains a number of proposals designed to maintain the music 
culture in Afghanistan. Baily now directs The Afghanistan Music Unit (AMU) 
at Goldsmiths which aims to monitor and assist the process of rebuilding 
music culture in Afghanistan, especially the activities of Radio Afghanistan 
and Kabul TV.  Dr. Baily was in Kabul this fall, where he shot documentary 
footage for a film, "A Kabul Diary,"  a rough cut of which will also be 
shown at Harvard on December 13.  Baily will be present to introduce the 
film, provide voice-over commentary on the documentary footage, and answer 
questions from the audience.

Thursday, December 12, 2002, 8:00 PM
Paine Hall, Harvard University
Admission Free

Classical, Popular and Folk Music from Afghanistan

John Baily,
Afghan Rubab

Asif  Mahmoud,
Tabla

Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Ethnomusicology 
Seminar, and the Music Department, Harvard University.  Contact 617-495-4056.


Friday, December 13, 2002, 7:00 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University
Admission Free
"A Kabul Diary" a documentary film on the rebuilding of musical culture in 
Afghanistan, based on Ethnomusicologist John Baily's visit to Kabul in 
October 2002.

Directed by Dr. John Baily, Goldsmiths' College, University of London.

Baily will be present to introduce the film, provide commentary and answer 
questions from the audience.

Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. 
Contact 617-405-4056.


 

FILMS- Film Screenings from Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Tufts, Dec. 2002

From: Roham Alvandi <roham.alvanditufts.edu>
Posted: 2 Dec 2002


Southwest Asia and the Caucasus Forum
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University

Invites you to

A Screening of Films from Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia

All screenings are free and open to the public. Free pizza and drinks will
be served at each screening. Screenings will be held in Room 205, Cabot
Intercultural Center, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford.

Monday, December 2, 7pm (90min)
Cabot 205

>From Iran, 'Best Picture' at the 1999 Montréal Film Festival
Rang-e Khoda (The Color of Paradise), 1998

Written and Directed by Majid Majidi
(In Persian with English subtitles)

Thursday, December 5, 7pm (81min)
Cabot 205

>From Kyrgyzstan, winner of the Silver Leopard Prize at the 1999 Locarno
International Film Festival,

Beshkempir (The Adopted Son), 1998

Directed by Aktan Abdykalykov
(In Kyrgyz with English subtitles)

Monday, December 9, 7pm (75min)
Cabot 205

>From Armenia

Nran guyne (Red Pomegranate), 1969

Directed by Sergei Paradjanov
(In Armenian with English subtitles)


 

INNER ASIA LECTURE- Ethnic Conflicts in 1920s China, Ruohong Li, Dec. 4

From: Asia Center <opatrickfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Nov 2002

"Joseph F. Rock (1884-1962) and Ethnic Conflicts in China's Border Provinces
in the 1920s"

Dr. Ruohong Li, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Wednesday, December 4, 12:30-2 pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Note: Gathering at 12:30, talk begins at 1 p.m.; please bring your
own lunch and snacks will be provided.

Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Tel: (617) 495-3777
E-mail: <iaasfas.harvard.edu>


 

PANEL DISCUSSION- Anthony Saich, Peter Purdue, Fairbanks Center, Dec. 3

From: Asia Center <opatrickfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Nov 2002


PANEL I:

Anthony Saich, Professor of Government, Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University

"Governing China: The Significance of the 16th Party Congress"

Tuesday, December 3, 5:15 pm

PANEL II:

Peter Perdue, Professor of History, MIT

Peter Perdue's forthcoming book, "China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of
Central Eurasia, 1600-1800"

Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 pm

Sponsored by the Fairbank Center
Seminar Room, 625 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, Central Square, Cambridge
Tel: (617) 495-4046

To attend the dinner after the first panel, RSVP to Rich Foster at:
<rafosterfas.harvard.edu> by Wednesday, November 27.

The cost for dinner is $15.00 ($5.00 for students) payable by check made out
to Harvard University. Cancellation policy: three days in advance or we must
charge.)  The talks are open, and anyone can attend one or both talks
without attending the dinner.


 

PANEL- Russia's Struggle with Chechnya, KSG Caspian Studies Program, Nov. 26

From: Inna Ososkova <Inna_Ososkovksg03.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Nov 2002


Tuesday, November 26th
4:00 PM, Malkin Penthouse
Kennedy School of Government
A panel discussion with international security experts:

"Russia's Struggle with Chechnya. Implications for International Terrorism."

In conjunction with the Caspian Studies Program and International Security 
& Diplomacy PAC

Panelists include:

 * Professor Jessica Stern
 * Professor Monica Toft
 * Miriam Lanskoy
 * Moderator: Dr. John Reppert

Jessica Stern is a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy
School. From 1994-95 she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and
Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was
responsible for national-security policy toward Russia and the former
Soviet states, and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling
and terrorism.

Monica Duffy Toft is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy
School of Government and the Assistant Director of the John M. Olin
Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. Her research interests include
international relations, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and
interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national security,
and military and strategic planning

Miriam Lanskoy is completing her Ph.D. dissertation at Boston University on
the origins and implications of Russia's current war in Chechnya. She is a
Program Manager of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and
Policy (ISCIP). She has contributed articles to SAIS Review, Nationalities
Papers, Analysis of Current Events, Eurasianet, and the Central
Asia-Caucasus Analyst.

John C. Reppert is Executive Director (Research) for the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. He joined the Center in October 1998 after retiring as
a Brigadier General from the U.S. Army, following nearly 33 years of active
service. He has specialized in areas of international arms control and
military affairs of the states of the former Soviet Union.

Refreshments will be provided.


 

TODAY- Russia's Chechnya Policy, Dan Epstein, Post-Communist Seminar

From: Dan Epstein <depsteinfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Nov 2002


The Post-Communist Seminar meets this afternoon at 4pm in Seminar Room 1 at 
the Davis Center at 625 Mass Ave in Central Square.

The presenter will be Dan Epstein and the discussant will be Robert Krikorian.

The paper is entitled: "The Incoherent Russian State: Positing a theoretical 
explanation for the failure of Chechnya policy".

SEMINAR- Juliette Cadiot, Russian Censuses, Mon., Nov. 18, HURI

From: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute <huri_itfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Nov 2002

 
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to announce:

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Ethnic Categorization in Censuses and Census Projects in the
Russian Empire

Juliette Cadiot
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies,
Brown University

Monday, November 18, 2002
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Seminar Room, Ukrainian Research Institute
1583 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(near Pound Hall on the Law School campus)

HURI
Phone: 617/ 495-4053
Fax: 617/ 495-8097
Email: hurifas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu


 

LECTURE- "On Reading al-Farabi," Charles Butterworth, Nov. 19

From: Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations <nelcfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 14 Nov 2002

 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN & LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS 

presents 

Charles Butterworth, 
Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland 

"On Reading al-Farabi: The Straight Path" 

a lecture in honor of 
Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic, Emeritus 

on Tuesday, November 19, 2002  4:30 pm 

Semitic Museum, Room 201 
6 Divinity Avenue 
Cambridge, MA 02138 


Harvard University 
Department of Near Eastern 
Languages and Civilizations 
6 Divinity Avenue 
Cambridge, MA 02138 
(617) 495-5757 
nelcfas.harvard.edu 


 

SEMINAR- Social Anthro. Dissertation Defense, Buriats of Mongolia, Nov. 5

From: Sue Hilditch <hilditchwjh.harvard.edu>
Posted: 2001

 
Harvard University Department of Anthropology
Social Anthropology Dissertation Defense

Between Hearth and Celestial Court: Gender and the Politics of Shamanic 
Practices among the Buriats of Mongolia

by Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn

Tuesday, November 5, 2002
5:15 p.m.
Room 422, William James Hall

Questions?  Contact Sue Hilditch at Hilditchwjh.harvard.edu call (617) 
496-4672.


 

HURI SEMINAR- Soviet Nationalities Policies in the 1920s-1930s, Nov. 4

From: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute <huri_itfas.harvard.edu> 
Posted: 1 Nov 2002

 
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to announce:

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Reflections of Russian Emigré Thinkers on Soviet Nationality Policies,
1920s-1930s

Igor Torbakov
Consultant/Analyst, EurasiaNet, Open Society Institute
Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute

Monday, November 4, 2002
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Seminar Room, Ukrainian Research Institute
1583 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(near Pound Hall on the Law School campus)

HURI
Phone: 617/ 495-4053
Fax: 617/ 495-8097
Email: hurifas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu


 

SEMINAR- John LeDonne, A Russian Proposal to Make War on China (1790s), Nov. 7

From: Davis Center <daviscrsfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Oct 2002

 
Davis Center Historians' Seminar

"Poor Consular Ambitions: A Russian Proposal to Make War on China (1790s)"

John LeDonne (Associate, Davis Center)

Thursday, November 7
12:15-2:00pm
Robinson Hall, Lower Library
Harvard University

For further information, contact:

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Telephone: (617) 495-4037
E-mail: <daviscrsfas.harvard.edu>
Web: <http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu>


 

SEMINAR- The Armenian Turkish Reconciliation Effort, Oct. 31

From: Center for Middle Eastern Studies <mideastfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Oct 2002

 
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

STUDY GROUP ON MODERN TURKEY

The Armenian Turkish Reconciliation Effort

By

David Phillips
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Preventive Action,
Council on Foreign Relations

Thursday, October 31st, 2002
Barker Center, Thompson Room (Rm110), Quincy St., Cambridge
3:00-4:30 PM

PROGRAM INFO.- Intensive Arabic Workshops, October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.

From: "W. Salmun" <wafaamshotmail.com>
Posted: 15 Oct 2002

 
Professional Development Points (PDP) are available for educators who will 
complete any of the Arabic Intensive Workshops sponsored by the Institute of 
Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS)

The October educational month is designed to teach English speakers standard 
Arabic reading and writing (not speaking), Islam, Qur'an, history of the 
arts and more.

The Three-level workshops will be held in Cambridge, Mass.
186 Hampshire St. (off of Prospect Ave. in Central Sq.)

Intensive Arabic Workshop I

This two-day workshop is designed for beginners who had no prior knowledge 
of Arabic.  The workshop teaches the alphabet, letter connection (script), 
pronunciation, vowels, definite and indefinite nouns and adjectives as well 
as reading and writing exercises.  Learners Are Expected To Participate And 
Do Homework.

Minimum: 5 registrants
Maximum: 8

Wednesday, October 16, 1:00-8:00 PM
Thursday, October 17, 1:00-8:00 PM

$140 (with 2 books and 2 CDs)
Registration deadline:  October 14
No registration is allowed at the door.

You will receive the workshop program upon registration (see form below)
PDP's: 14

Intensive Arabic Workshop II

This two-day workshop is designed for those who completed Workshop I or 
those who have limited knowledge of Arabic reading and writing.  It will 
cover simple rules of hamza, feminine nouns and adjectives, prepositions and 
prepositional phrases, pronouns and introduction to sentence structure.
Attendees will also learn to read from the Qur'an.  Learners Are Expected To 
Participate And Do Homework.

Minimum: 5 registrants
Maximum: 8

Saturday, October 19, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday, October 20, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Registration: $95 (for those who purchased the Arabic package or completed 
Workshop I)
$140 (with 2 books and 2 CDs)

Registration deadline:  October 16
No registration is allowed at the door.

You will receive the workshop program upon
registration (see form below)
PDP's: 15

Intensive Arabic Workshop III

In this two-day workshop, attendees will continue learning pronouns, be 
introduced to numerals and move into more complex sentence structure with 
focus on advanced reading, writing and vocabulary.

Minimum: 5 registrants
Maximum: 8

Saturday, October 26, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday, October 27, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Registration: $100 (for those who purchased the Arabic package or completed 
Workshop II)
$140 (with 2 books and 2 CDs)

Registration deadline:  October 22
No registration is allowed at the door.

You will receive the workshop program upon
registration (see form below)
PDP's: 15

Registration for three workshops (I, II & III):  $310
(includes a package of 2 books and 2 CDs)

PDP's for 3 workshops: 44


Registration form

Name: 

Address: 

Tel: 
Fax: 

Email: 

Have you learned Arabic before? 

Where did you learn it? 

Have you learned other foreign languages besides Arabic?
Yes ___   No ___
If yes, which? 

Why are you learning Arabic? 

What do you know about Islam?  Please write a paragraph


Registration type:

Workshop I  ___
Workshop II ___
Workshop III ___
Workshop I, II & III  ___

___ I want to obtain PDP certificate

Number of registrants ___
Total amount:  $ ___

Please mail check payable to INEAS with registration form to:

Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS)
P.O. Box 425125
Cambridge, MA 02142

We accept Visa and Master Card

Tel: (617) 864-6327
Fax: (617) 323-5950
Website: http//www.INEAS.org

INEAS is an independent, tax-exempt organization geared to educate the 
public and inform the media on issues related to the Arab & Islamic Worlds, 
Africa and the non-Arab Middle Eastern communities.


 

EVENT- An Evening with Rumi, Prof. Soroush, Oct. 15, Harvard Divinity School

From: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Oct 2002

 
[NOTE: See contact info below.  --CAHL]

You are cordially invited to come join members of the Harvard Divinity School
community for a weekly lecture-series on one of the greatest mystics of 
all-time:

An Evening With Rumi, Poet Of The Soul:

A weekly lecture-series presented by Professor Abdolkarim Soroush,
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.

First Lecture:
When: Tuesday, October 15th at 7:30pm (future times/days TBA)
Where: The Sperry Room of Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School

Who is Professor Soroush?

Professor Soroush is one of the leading Muslim intellectuals in the world
today whose background in Rumi spans nearly 300 audio-cassette lecture tapes.
His efforts at reform in Muslim intellectual thought have been situated in the
tradition of the late poet-philosopher, Muhammad Iqbal of the Indian 
sub-continent.

For more information, please contact:

Sohail Shakeri
E-mail: <sshakerihds.harvard.edu>
Cell: (617)501-7978

Martin Nguyen
E-mail: <mnguyenhds.harvard.edu>
Telephone: (617) 493-4732

Special thanks to: Shura': Islamic Forum of Harvard Divinity School


 

SEMINAR- Pashtuns and the North-West Frontier Province, Oct. 11, WCFIA

From: Kathleen Hoover <khooverwcfia.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Oct 2002


SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

"Ethnicity and Empire: The Pashtuns and the North-West Frontier 
Province of India"
Robert Nichols
Assistant Professor of Historical Studies, Richard Stockton College

Friday, October 11, 2:00-4:00 P.M.
Bowie/Vernon Conference Room, Room 228, 1033 Massachusetts Avenue
WE HAVE MOVED!  Just a 5 minute walk from the heart of Harvard
Square.  Walk east on Massachusetts Avenue, past the Inn at Harvard.
On your left, pass Remington Street, then Trowbridge Street, and
find our building at 1033 Mass. Ave.  Click
<http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/contdirections.asp> for a map.

The South Asia Seminar is co-chaired by Professors Devesh Kapur (on leave 
2002-2003) and Sugata Bose and is co-sponsored by the Asia Center.


 

CONCERT- Sufi Devotional Music, Andover Hall, Oct. 17, 2002

From: Alison Jane Edwards <alison_edwardsharvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Oct 2002

 
A Program on History, Theory, and Performance of Turkish Music

Sufi Devotional Music
6:30 PM, Thursday, October 17
Andover Hall, Braun Room
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA

The Center for the Study of World Religions, in partnership with the
Music Study Group and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, hosts
a performance of Sufi devotional music on Thursday, October 17at 6:30 PM, 
in Andover Hall.

Three members from the world-renowned Turkish ensemble Lalezar perform 
classical Ottoman devotional songs and dances.  The program includes a 
short presentation of the art form by scholars Virginia Danielson, Curator 
of the Archive of World Music in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library; Ali 
Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim languages and Culture; and 
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, to provide context 
and meaning for non-Turkish speaking audience members who wish to discover 
a deeper understanding of the interconnections between the music and Islam.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Lalezar is a seven-piece group, comprised of three vocalists and four 
instrumentalists, that plays Turkish classical music from the last four 
centuries.  Three of its members will be at Harvard the week of October 14.

For more information contact:

Rebecca Kline, Events Coordinator
Center for the Study of World Religions
Telephone: (617) 495-4476
E-mail: <rklinehds.harvard.edu>

Or visit the Religion and Arts Intiative webpage at:
<http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/arts/>


 

COURSE- Jihad in Arabic Fiqh Texts, Professor Mottahedeh

From: On behalf of Professor Roy Mottahedeh <mottahedfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Sep 2002

 
[NOTE: This course is for Harvard students.  If you are not a Harvard 
student, check with your registrar's office if you have questions concerning 
your eligibility to register for Harvard courses.]


Professor Roy Mottahedeh will offer a course (under History 2886: Topics in 
Islamic History) on "Jihad in Arabic Fiqh Texts "  if a sufficient number of 
interested students contact him by 2:00 PM, Tuesday September 24th, 2002 
(Email: mottahedfas.harvard.edu) or in person in his office (1430 Mass. 
Ave, 5th floor).

A good mastery of legal Arabic is required.

The course will meet 2:00-4:00 PM on Tuesday

Prof. Mottahedeh will be in his office at 2:00 PM


 

CONFERENCE- Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices, Oct. 5, Harvard/MIT

From: Prita Sandy Meier <smeierfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 22 Sep 2002

 
Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices as Sites of Agency, Mediation, 
and Change

A Graduate Symposium
History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard University
Department of Architecture, MIT

Saturday, October 5th, 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Mass. Ave, Room 1-390
Cambridge, MA
617.258.8438
Open to the Public

9:00: Coffee and Muffins

SESSION I: PRACTICING MODERNITIES

9:30- 11:45
Discussant: Professor Arindam Dutta, MIT
Introduction: Sarah Rogers, MIT

Aykan Erdemir, Harvard University
"Alternative Modernities? 'Modern' Alevis and Alevi Alternatives"

Ifdikhar Dadi, Cornell University
"Word and Image in Modern Islamic Art"

Ibra Sene, Michigan State University
"Hizbut Tarqiyya: On Islamic Youth and Alternative Modernity in Senegal 
(1975-2000)"

Babak Rahimi, European University Institute (Italy)
"Ritual, Public Sphere, and Islamic Modernity: The Native Politics of 
Muharram Ceremonies in the Iranian Port-City of Bushehr"

12:00- 1:15: Lunch

SESSION II: REFRAMING MODERNISM

1:30- 3:15
Discussant: Professor Sibel Bozdogan, University of California, Berkeley
Introduction: Kristina Van Dyke, Harvard University

Talinn Grigor, MIT
"The (meta)Morphosis of a Modernism: The Use/Misuse of Pahlavi Monuments in 
Revolutionary Iran, 1934-1987"

Michelle Rein, University of Pennsylvania
"Fouq Figuig: Sanctity, Sacriledge, and Spolia Between the Gateway to 
Paradise and the Ends of the Earth"

Gerard van de Bruinhorst, International Institute for the Study of Islam in 
the Modern World
"Muslims, Moons, and Modernities: Islamic discourses on 'id celebration in 
Tanzania"

3:15: Coffee Break

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

3:30-5:00
Introduction: Prita Meier, Harvard University
PROFESSOR SALAH HASSAN, Cornell University

Organized by: Prita Meier and Kristina Van Dyke, Dept. of Art and Art 
History, Harvard University, and Sarah Rogers, History, Theory, and 
Criticism Section of the Dept. of Architecture, MIT (contact: 
kristinavandykeaol.com)

Sponsored by: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard 
University and MIT, Dept. of Architecture, MIT, and the School of 
Humanities, MIT

Special Thanks to: Nasser Rabbat, Gulru Necipoglu, Philip Khoury, Stanford 
Anderson, Arindam Dutta, Sibel Bozdogan, Deborah Kully, Rebecca Chamberain, 
Jack Valleli, Jon Rucket

Correction: Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group to be on *Tuesdays*

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeberfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Sep 2002

 
The first meeting of the Central Asia and Caucasus Working Group will be
held on Tuesday, September 24, 2002, as was previously announced, at 625
Mass. Ave in Room 2 on the second floor.

In a correction to the previous notice, it should be noted that all of this
semester's meetings of the Working Group will be held on Tuesdays.  The
meetings of the Working Group will usually alternate with meetings of the
Central Asia & Caucasus Seminar Series, which will also be held on Tuesdays
from 4:15 to 6:00 pm at 625 Mass. Ave.

We apologize for any confusion that our previous announcement may have
caused and hope to see you all next Tuesday at 4:15 pm.

John Schoeberlein

__________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus \ Harvard University
625 Massachusetts Ave, Rm. 262 \ Cambridge, MA 02139 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  asst.: +1/617-496-2643  fax: +1/617-495-8319
mailto:schoeberfas.harvard.edu
Central Asia & Caucasus Program Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/
<Central Asian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/
<CentralAsia-L> Editorial Address: mailto:CentralAsia-Lfas.harvard.edu
<CA-L> Archive: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/CASWW_CentralAsia-L.html
__________________________________________________________________________


 

CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGE COURSES - Fall Semester 2002

From: Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Sep 2002

 
From:  John Schoeberlein (Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus)
Re:    Central Asian Language Courses, Fall 2002

Any Harvard student interested in beginning or intermediate Uzbek language
instruction during Fall Semester 2002 should contact Ms. Gulnora Aminova at
<aminovafas.harvard.edu> or (617) 547-1862 as soon as possible.  Please
also inform the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus office at
<centasiafas.harvard.edu> or (617) 496-2643 of your interest.

During Spring Semester 2003 both Uzbek and Tajik language instruction will
be available to Harvard students.  Anyone who is interested in enrolling in
the Spring Semester classes should let Ms. Aminova know as far in advance as
possible.

Uzbek and Tajik language classes are available to Harvard students at no cost.

John Schoeberlein

__________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus \ Harvard University
625 Massachusetts Ave., Rm. 262 \ Cambridge, MA 02139 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  asst.: +1/617-496-2643  fax: +1/617-495-8319
mailto:schoeberfas.harvard.edu
Central Asia and Caucasus Program Website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/
<CentralAsia-L> Editorial Address: mailto:CentralAsia-Lfas.harvard.edu
<CA-L> Archive: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CASWW_CentralAsia-L.html 
 

COURSE- Central Asian Culture and Society, 1st Meeting Today

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeberfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 18 Sep 2002

 
[NOTE: This course is for Harvard students and for those who can cross 
register in Harvard courses.  If you have questions about the possibility of 
cross registering, please contact your registrar's office.]


Central Asian Culture and Society
Islamic Civilizations 124
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Instructor: John Schoeberlein

Central Asia -- usually noted for its obscurity -- has been thrust into the 
center of world attention over the past year with the US-led war in 
Afghanistan and associated developments.  This course is not primarily about 
terrorism in Central Asia, but it provides the provides the in-depth 
knowledge of the region required to understand the post-Soviet 
transformation of Central Asia, the role of Islam, "modernity", and the 
impact of political and other interventions in the region in their the 
cultural and historical context.

If you are interest in taking and are not able to make the first meeting, 
please send a note to John Schoeberlein <schoeberfas.harvard.edu> 
explaining your relevant background and interest in taking the course.


Islamic Civilizations 124. Central Asian Culture and Society.

John Schoeberlein (Lecturer on Central Asian Studies)

The course explores the diversity and continuity in contemporary Central 
Asian culture and society and their historical roots. Course readings draw 
on diverse sources from travelers' and ethnographic accounts to indigenous 
traditions and Western analyses. Topics include principles of social order 
and cultural values stemming from nomadic traditions, Islamic civilizations, 
nationalist movements and the Soviet system. Particular attention is devoted 
to post-Soviet developments and the challenges of social transformation and 
potential conflict facing the region.

Note: Intended primarily for graduates and advanced undergraduates; some
background in the Near East and/or the Soviet Union desirable. Enrollment
limited.

Half Course (Fall term), Wed., 2:00-4:00, Sever Hall 304.

About the Instructor:

John Schoeberlein is Director of the Program on Central Asian and the 
Caucasus at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian 
Studies.  He is a political anthropologist with fieldwork experience 
spanning over 15 years in the Soviet Union and its successor states of 
Central Asia.  His work focuses on issues of identity, religion, ethnicity, 
nationalism and conflict.  Recently, he has been extensively engaged in 
advising international organizations and governments on issues of conflict 
prevention in the region and the implications of developments following 
September 11.
 

OPEN HOUSE- Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program, Pound Hall, Sept. 19

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsplaw.harvard.edu>
Posted: 12 Sep 2002

 
Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program

Invites interested students to an Open House

Thursday, September 19, 2002
5:00 to 7:00 pm
Pound Hall 501

Learn About The Program's Activities For Students
Meet Faculty, Staff, And Visiting Scholars
Buffet Dinner

The Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
Pound Hall 501
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA  02138
617-496-3941
www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ILSP/


 

LECTURE- Wasfi Kailani, Chechens of the Middle East, KSG Caspian Studies Program

From: Caspian Studies Program <sdijfkharvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Sep 2002

 
The Caspian Studies Program presents:

"The Chechens of the Middle East: Between Original and Host Cultures"
Wasfi Kailani
University of Yarmouk (Jordan)

When: Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Where: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Room: BCSIA Library (Littauer Building, Room 369)
Time: 2:15-4:00 pm
Sponsor: Caspian Studies Program
Contact: Susan Lynch, 617-496-1981; SDIINTERNharvard.edu

As space is limited for this event, RSVPs are required. Please RSVP by
Monday, September 18, 2002 to Susan Lynch 617-496-1981 or 
<SDIINTERNharvard.edu>.

Most recent press coverage of Chechens has focused on their two wars with
Moscow for political control in the North Caucasus during the past decade.
In addition, Chechen militants have taken part in a variety of conflicts in
other Muslim-populated regions, including Afghanistan.

What is less known is that there are a number of Chechen diaspora
communities in the Middle East -- including in Syria, Jordan, Israel, and
Turkey. Many of the activists from the Middle East who are involved in the
conflict in Chechnya are actually of Chechen origin, although they are
often mistakenly referred to as Arabs.

Wasfi Kailani, an anthropologist from Jordan, has conducted extensive
fieldwork among Chechens living in the Middle East, and will share his
findings and observations in this Caspian Studies Program seminar on
September 18.


 

HARVARD PROGRAM - NAME AND ADDRESS CHANGE

From: John Schoeberlein <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Jun 2002


Dear Colleagues:

Please note:  Our program at Harvard -- formerly known as the Harvard Forum
for Central Asian Studies -- has officially changed its name to:

Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus

Also, last week we moved into temporary quarters, as they are reconstructing
our building.  For the next 2.5 years (hopefully not more), we will be at the
following address:

Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 262
Cambridge, MA 02139   U.S.A.

Our telephone, fax and e-mail remain the same:

tel.:   +1/617-496-2643
fax:    +1/617-495-8319
e-mail: centasiafas.harvard.edu

For those visiting our office, it is now located just by the subway stop
exit in Central Square.  You will need an ID or prior arrangement to get in.

The Central Eurasian Studies Society, which is hosted by our program, is
also changing address as above.

By the way, the Davis Center (formerly the Russian Research Center) is also
changing its name: Now it will be the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies.

The Harvard Program for Central Asian Studies is sponsored by the Davis
Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in cooperation with the Center for
Middle Eastern Studies and the Asia Center.

We look forward to staying in contact with you.

Sincerely,

John Schoeberlein

___________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus \ Harvard University
625 Massachusetts Avenue \ Cambridge, MA 02139 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  asst.: +1/617-496-2643  fax: +1/617-495-8319
schoeberfas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Program website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/

President, Central Eurasian Studies Society
625 Massachusetts Avenue \ Cambridge, MA 02139 \ USA
CESSfas.harvard.edu
CESS website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cess

<Central Asian Studies World Wide>: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww
<CentralAsia-L> Editorial Address: CentralAsia-Lfas.harvard.edu
<CentralAsia-L>: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/CASWW_CentralAsia-L.html
___________________________________________________________________________


 

LECTURE- Kakhi Kenkadze, Georgian Local Elections, KSG Caspian Studies Program

From: Caspian Studies Program <sdijfkharvard.edu>
Posted: 21 May 2002


The Caspian Studies Program presents:

"Georgia on the Eve of Local Elections"

a presentation by

Kakhi Kenkadze
Fellow, Weatherhead Center for Science and International Affairs

This event will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2002, from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm 
in the Allison Dining Room on the 5th floor of the Taubman Building. A map 
is attached for your convenience.  
http://map.harvard.edu/level3/3KennedySchool.shtml

A light luncheon will be served starting at 12:00. As space is limited for 
this event, RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Annaliis Abrego via e-mail at 
Annaliis_Abregoharvard.edu or at 617-496-1981.

Democratic development in Georgian society and politics has been accompanied 
by brutal ethnic conflicts in the form of civil war in Abkhazia and Ossetia 
over the past decade. However, for all the difficulties encountered while 
constructing a civil society and a nation based on the rule of law, Georgia 
is often cited as one of the more successful nations of the former Soviet 
Union in promoting political pluralism and a culture of free and democratic 
elections. In this light, the upcoming local elections in Georgia will 
provide another chance for the fledgling nation to prove its commitment 
towards the ideals of liberal democracy to the international community.

Kenkadze will provide a brief overview of the political developments in 
Georgia, characterize major political forces and their leaders, and describe 
how domestic politics influence Georgia's foreign policy.

This promises to be a particularly relevant discussion, as Georgia's local 
elections for the positions of mayors and governors will be held on June 2, 
2002. Local elections precede parliamentary elections by a year and are a 
good indication of the ever-changing political landscape in Georgia.

Kakhi Kenkadze has been actively involved in the Georgian political scene 
for many years. He is currently a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for 
Science and International Affairs. Previously, he was the deputy head of the 
Service of International Relations, where he regularly highlighted foreign 
and national security interests and policies for President Eduard 
Shevardnadze. He frequently provided the president with translation 
assistance. In addition, Kenkadze served as Foreign Policy Advisor to 
Shevardnadze and the State Council of Georgia. He also served with the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in East Timor and Albania.


 

CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGE TUTORIALS IN UZBEK AND TAJIK - July-August 2002

From: John Schoeberlein <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 May 2002


From:  John Schoeberlein (Director, Harvard Program on Central Asia)
    Summer tutorial opportunities

Any Harvard student or affiliate wishing to take an intensive summer 
tutorial on Uzbek or Tajik languages should contact the office of the 
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at <centasiafas.harvard.edu> or 
617-496-2643.  Instruction is available for beginning and intermediate-level 
Uzbek and for beginning-level Tajik in July and August of this year.  Please 
let us know of your interest as soon as possible.  The tutorials are 
available to Harvard students at no cost.  Please also copy your message to 
Ms. G. Aminova <aminovafas.harvard.edu>.

__________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus \ Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  asst.: +1/617-496-2643  fax: +1/617-495-8319
mailto:centasiafas.harvard.edu
Program on Central Asia Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/
<Central Asian Studies World Wide>: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/
<CentralAsia-L> Editorial Address: mailto:CentralAsia-Lfas.harvard.edu
<CA-L> Archive: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/CASWW_CentralAsia-L.html


 

TALK- Turkmenistan Today, Meret Orazov, Ambassador of Turkmenistan, May 24

From: Michael Witzel <witzelfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 May 2002


The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies,
The Archaeology Wing, Department of Anthropology,
The Committee on Inner Asian & Altaic Studies

cordially invite you to a talk by the

Ambassador of Turkmenistan

Prof. Meret Orazov

entitled:

Turkmenistan today:
Political, economic and cultural perspectives

on Friday May 24, 4 pm
at 2 Divinity Ave, Common Room

Please let all interested know!


Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)
home page:  http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm


 

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Mariya Pulman, Human Rights in Kazakhstan, May 23

From: Harvard.Program.on.Central.Asia.and.the.Caucasusfas.harvard.edu
Posted: 17 May 2002

<centasiafas.harvard.edu>


Mariya Pulman
Consultant and Head of the Judicial Department of the International Bureau
on Human Rights, Almaty, Kazakhstan

"Human Rights Law in Kazakhstan and the Prospects for Development of the
Legal Defense System"
(in Russian, with translation)

Thursday May 23
4-5:30 pm

Room 215 - Bergson-Ulam Seminar Room
Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St.
Open to the public

For more information, contact:

Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 617-496-2643
centasiafas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia

CONFERENCE- Roundtable on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia, May 11-13

From: Sanskrit & Indian Studies <sanskritfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 10 May 2002

     
The Fourth Harvard Roundtable on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia

May 11-13, 2002, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA

For full conference details, please visit:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/RoundTableSchedule.html

The panel on Central Asia is as follows -- other panels cover Indus
Civilization and South Asian languages and prehistory:

Saturday, May 11, 9:30 am (Breakfast available at 9:00 am)
Room 212

CENTRAL ASIA: ARCHAEOLOGY, LANGUAGE & GENETICS

E. Kuzmina: Indo-Iranians and Archaeology

A. Parpola: Proto-Aryan, Proto-Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian in
archaeological perspective

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky: Indo-Iranians and archaeology

M. Witzel: The Indo-Iranians: Archaeology and Linguistics

P. Francalacci: Mitochondrial DNA in Central Asia (Kirghiz, Kazhaks and
Uighurs)

M. Cattani and M. Tosi: Farmers' towns and herders' campsites in Bronze Age
Margiana: A First Understanding of a Transitional Landscape from the
Archaeological Record

E. Menghi and M. Tosi: Excavations at Kafir Kala and the Archaeological
Survey of the Zeravshan Valley to the South of Samarkand: First Results.

J. Bengtson: Macro-Caucasian Cultural Vocabulary (Basque, Burushaski,
Caucasian)

V. Blazek: Elamo-Arica


Jennifer L. Petrallia
Department Administrator
Harvard University
Sanskrit and Indian Studies
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dept. Phone: 617-495-3295
Direct Line: 617-496-8570
Fax: 617-496-8571
email: jpetrallfas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit

SEMINAR- Martin Andrew, The PLA and the Insurgency in Xinjiang, May 14

From: Leslie Hassan-Seidman <lhassanfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 May 2002


Tuesday, May 14, 12:15 PM

The People's Liberation Army and the Insurgency in Xinjiang: The Doctrine of
Active Defence

Martin Andrew
Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales

China Lunchtime Seminar
Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center
Contact: 617-495-4046

DAVIS CTR SEMINAR- Publishing in Chechnya, Mussa Muradov, May 13

From: Davis Center <daviscrsfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 May 2002


Comparative Economics Luncheon Seminar

"Publishing under Fire in Chechnya"
Mussa Muradov  (Editor-in-Chief, Grozninskii Rabochii)

Coolidge Hall, 215
Monday, May 13
12:15-2:00 pm

For further information, contact:

Helen S. Grigoriev
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4037
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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

From: Central-Asia-Harvard-List Editor <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 2 May 2002

        
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BCSIA Director's Seminar, Friday, May 3 with Boris Shikhmuradov

From: Annaliis Abrego <annaliis_abregoharvard.edu>
Posted: 29 Apr 2002         


BCSIA Director's Seminar
co-sponsored by the Caspian Studies Program

"Security and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caspian Region: Does 'the
Caspian Smell Blood' or Peace?"

with

Boris Shikhmuradov
former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan

Date:  Friday, May 3, 2002
Time:  12:15 - 1:45pm (A buffet lunch will be available at noon)
Place: BCSIA Library (L369)

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a
Director's Seminar entitled "Security and Conflict in Central Asia and the
Caspian Region: Does 'the Caspian Smell Blood' or Peace?" with Boris
Shikhmuradov, former Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan.

Boris Shikhmuradov will discuss regional security in Central Asia and the
Caspian region with a special focus on the recent failed summit on the legal
status of delineation of the Caspian Sea.  At the long awaited two-day
summit which gathered the Presidents of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan in Ashgabat to discuss the Caspian's legal
status, the leaders agreed to continue discussing the issues but failed to
come to any agreement or even issue a joint statement.  President Nazarbayev
of Kazakhstan said "the problem was larger than we expected" and President
Niyazov of Turkmenistan warned that "the Caspian smells blood."

Boris Shikhmuradov served in the foreign service of the Soviet Union from
1975-1992 and in the Government of Turkmenistan from 1992-2001.  He was the
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Turkmenistan from 1995-2000.  His recent
posts have also included Special Envoy on Caspian and Afghan Affairs (August
2000-March 2001), Ambassador of Turkmenistan to China (2001), and Head of
Turkmenistan's delegations to the UN and international summits.  In 1995 and
1996, in coordination with a UN special mission in Afghanistan, Shikhmuradov
led a shuttle diplomacy mission between the Northern Alliance (Burhanuddin
Rubbani and Ahmad Shah Masood) and the Taliban Movement (Mullah Omar and
Wkil Ahmad Muttawakil).  Foreign Minister Shikhmuradov was one of the most
powerful figures in Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov's circles
until he left the government, officially announced his opposition to the
President in October 2001, and formed the People's Democratic Movement of
Turkmenistan.  Since Shikhmuradov's departure from the government, numerous
other high ranking ministers and leaders have joined his opposition movement.

We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a stimulating and informative
discussion.

RSVP REQUIRED!

Please RSVP to Kathleen Siddell by email at kathleen_siddellharvard.edu or
at 495-3745.  Be sure to specify the event you will be attending.  As space
is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come - first
served basis

IAAS LECTURE- Michal Biran, China, Nomads and Islam under Qara Khitai, May 1

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaasfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Apr 2002


Inner Asian and Altaic Sudies invites you to attend a talk:

"China, Nomads and Islam: Nomad-Sedentary Relations Under the Qara Khitai
(Western Liao) 1124-1218"

Michal Biran
Institute for Asian and African Studies,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and School of Historical Studies, IAS

Wednesday, May 1, 2002
Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 3
Lunch 12:30, presentation 1:00

You my bring your own lunch or lunch can be bought
in the Coolidge Hall cafeteria and taken to Seminar Room 3.


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

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Boris Shikhmuradov, Political Opposition in Turkmenistan, May 2

From: Central Asian Studies <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Apr 2002


Special Meeting of the Central Asia Seminar Series Spring 2002

"Political Opposition in Turkmenistan"

Boris Shikhmuradov
Former Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan

Thursday, May 2
12:15 - 2:00 pm

Room 215 - Bergson/Ulam Room
Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Open to the public

Mr. Shikhmuradov, until recently, was one of the most powerful figures in
the circles of Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov.  Recently, there
have been signs of significant upheaval in what previously appeared to be
the most tightly run political systems in Central Asia.  Information about
the inner workings of Turkmenistan's political system is scarce, and this is
particularly true regarding the question of political opposition.  The role
of opposition forces is bound to be crucial as Turkmenistan faces the
possibility of a transition of power.

For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies/Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 617-496-2643
centasiafas.harvard.edu
http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

YARSHATER LECTURES- Priscilla P. Soucek, Iranian Artistic Identities

From: Ahmed Jebari <jebarifas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Apr 2002


Yarshater Lecture Series

Memory, Regionalism and the Construction of Iranian Artistic
Identities: 800-1500

Professor Priscilla P. Soucek
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Islamic Art
New York University
Institute of Fine Arts

Monday, April 29th - Thursday, May 3rd
  6-7:30 p.m.

Mon.: Memory and Monuments: Reinterpreting Traces of the Past

Tues.:  Writing and Visual Culture in Samanid Khurasan

Wed. : Looking East, Looking West: The Role of Painting in Mongol Iran

Thurs: Solomon, Shah-i Chiragh and the Bibliofile Culture of Shiraz


Coolidge Hall, Room 3
1737 Cambridge Street
6:00-7:30 PM

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Kamoludin Abdullaev, Tensions in Tajikistan, May 1

From: Central Asian Studies <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 23 Apr 2002


Central Asia Seminar Series Spring 2002

"Tensions in Tajikistan Following the 1997 Peace Accord and September 11"

Dr. Kamoludin Abdullaev
Sumitomo Bank Fellow
Yale University Center for International and Area Studies

Wednesday, May 1
4:15-6:00 pm

Room 215 - Bergson/Ulam Room
Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Open to the public

Dr. Abdullaev is a senior research scholar from Tajikistan at Yale
University this year.  He has extensive experience in conflict resolution
and has worked as a policy analyst for a number of different international
NGOs.

For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies/Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 617-496-2643
centasiafas.harvard.edu
http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

REMINDER: CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Larry Goodson, "Post-War Afghanistan," April 23

From: Monika Shepherd <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 Apr 2002


April 23


Central Asia Seminar Series Spring 2002

"Post-War Afghanistan: Will Warring Factions Turn to Peaceful Nation-Building?"

Dr. Larry Goodson
Associate Prof. of International Studies
Bentley College

Tuesday, April 23
4:15-6:00 pm

Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Open to the public

Sponsored by:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies/Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

For further information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies, 617-496-2643, centasiafas.harvard.edu
Web: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

FILM/DISCUSSION- Assassination of Russia [About Bombings in Moscow], April 29

From: Davis Center <daviscrsfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 22 Apr 2002


Please join us for a showing of

"Assassination of Russia"

A controversial documentary by Boris Berezovsky about the 1999 apartment
building bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk that killed more than 300 people.
[The Russian authorities attributed these bombings to Chechen terrorists,
though this is called into question.]

The showing will be followed by a discussion with Yuriy Felshtinsky, a
Russian historian and co-creator of the documentary, and Yuriy Lozinskiy,
human rights defender from Ryazan, and a former member of the Ryazan
Memorial.

Monday, April 29th
Coolidge Hall, room 2
12:15-2:00 pm

Film Viewing and Discussion is Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian
Studies.


Helen S. Grigoriev
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4037
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

CONFERENCE Women and the Labor Market: The Islamic World, 25-26 May, ILSP

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsplaw.harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Apr 2002


ILSP Spring 2002 Conference

Women and the Labor Market: The Islamic World, Past and Present

May 25 and 26, 2002, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

A conference organized by the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law
School in collaboration with Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University

"Women and the Labor Market" will look into and discuss the Muslim woman's
role in labor and economic production and the laws that control her
activities, e.g. those in the realm of personal status and family law, and
those having to do with labor, crafts, and exchange. Comparison will be made
between the pre-modern and modern periods, the latter being roughly the 19th
and 20th centuries depending on location. Although the emphasis is on the
legal, the focus will be divided into three particular areas, the legal, the
social, and the professional, as follows: 1. Laws regulating women's work.
2. Social attitudes toward women's work. 3. Working women and their
professions.

Questions such as: How did the Shari'a deal with women's labor? What are the
relevant doctrines? Did men complain in court of women leaving the home to
work or were the complaints for other reasons? Did women need their
husband's approval before going out to work? Did craftswomen go through the
same exams as male counterparts before being licensed to practice? What is
the role of customary law? What are the laws guiding the work of women in
Muslim countries today? What is the discourse behind the control of women's
work? How compliant are the labor laws of Muslim countries? What is the
picture presented by women's work in Muslim countries compared to conditions
elsewhere? are some of those that will inform the first two sections.  The
third, on working women and their professions in both medieval and modern
times, will discuss Women and Medical Practice, Women and the Legal
Profession, Women in the Market-Place, Women and Property, Women
Theologians, and Women and Domestic Labor.

Speakers at the conference are :

Amira Sonbol (Georgetown University)
Reem Abu Hassan (Obeidat, Freihat & Hadidi, Amman)
Christina Jones-Pauly (University of Bonn)

Maya Shatzmiller (The University of Western Ontario)
Asma Asfaruddin (University of Notre Dame)
Hoda al-Sada (Cairo University)
Sheila Carapico (University of Richmond)

Randi Deguilhem (University of Aix-Marseille)
Michael Fischbach (Randolph-Macon College)

Hoda al-Sa'di (Cairo University)
Hibba Abu-Gideiri (George Washington University)

Madeline Zilfi (University of Maryland, College Park)
Ramadan al-Kholi (Cairo University)

David Powers (Cornell University)
Elyse Semerdjian (University of Michigan, Flint)

Dalenda Largueche (Tunisia)
Fatma Gueche (University of Constantine, Algeria)

Omaima Abubakr (Cairo University)
Sumaiya Hamdani (George Mason University).

For more information, the final program, and a registration form, please
access http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ILSP/conference.html or contact
ilsplaw.harvard.edu or 617-496-3233.


Peri Bearman
Associate Director
Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
Pound Hall 501
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
tel 617-496-3622
fax 617-496-2707

LECTURE- Russian Socialism and the Islamic Revival, Amb. Thomas Simons, Apr. 17

From: Nina Tumarkin <ntumarkinwellesley.edu>
Posted: 16 Apr 2002


Great Twentieth-Century Ideologies: Russian Socialism and the Islamic Revival

Ambassador Thomas Simons, Consulting Professor of 20th Century International
History, Stanford University

Date: April 17, 2002
Time: 8:00 p.m.

Place: Library Lecture Room, Wellesley College
Sponsor: Davis Fund for Russian Area Studies

Now a Consulting Professor of 20th Century International History at Stanford
University, Ambassador Simons had a long and distinguished diplomatic
career. In the 1990s, he was American Ambassador to Poland (1990-1993);
Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to the New Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union (1993-1995); and most recently, American Ambassador to
Pakistan: (1996-1998).

CFP- Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices as Sites of Agency, Mediation, and Resistance, Oct. 5, Harvard/MIT

From: Kristina Van Dyke <kristinavandykeaol.com>
Posted: 16 Apr 2002


CALL FOR PAPERS

Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices as Sites of Agency, Mediation,
and Resistance

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
History, Theory, Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture, MIT
Cambridge, MA

October 5, 2002

Recent scholarship has challenged the definition of modernity as an
invention of the West that spreads with the rise of industrialism,
capitalism, the nation-state, and colonialism. Taking the disruption of this
deterministic model as a starting point, the symposium seeks to ask how the
conceptual orientation of modernity shifts once we begin to critically
consider a more complex range of locales. Specifically, the examination of
Islamic cultural practices during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
will allow us to explore alternative ways of shaping and defining what
exactly constitutes the experience of modernity.

Our focus on traditionally marginalized positions is intended to activate
the discourse on modernity and the multi-directional flows of people, goods,
ideas, and cultural practices.

The conference will serve as an opportunity to go beyond the essentializing
definition of Islamic culture as a practice firmly rooted in the past,
religious subject matter, and a geographical heartland and will also bring
into dialogue the relations between diverse modernities, including those of
the West.

We welcome abstracts dealing with case studies within and outside of the
Islamic world and methodological critiques concerning problems and
possibilities of peripheries.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and be received by May 15, 2002.
Please submit abstracts via mail or email to:

Kristina Van Dyke
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Harvard University
485 Broadway
Sackler Museum
Cambridge, MA 02138
kristinavandykeaol.com


Prita Meier, Ph.D. candidate and
Kristina Van Dyke, Ph.D. candidate
Department of the History of Art and Architecture,
Harvard University

Sarah Rogers, Ph.D. candidate
Department of Architecture,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

REMINDER: CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Intelligentsia in Kyrgyzstan, A. Tabyshalieva, April 17

From: Central Asian Studies <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Apr 2002


Wednesday, April 17

Central Asia Seminar

"Transforming the World of the Intelligentsia: Education, Research and
Intellectual Pursuits in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan"

Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva (Visiting Scholar, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute,
Johns Hopkins University; Director, Institute for Regional Studies in
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Coolidge Hall, Room 215
4:15-6:00 pm

Dr. Tabyshalieva is a leading social scientist in Kyrgyzstan and the author
of numerous works on religion, regional cooperation, and ethnic issues in
Central Asia and especially the Ferghana Valley, among other topics.


For further information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
email: centasiafas.harvard.edu
tel.: 617-496-2643

ILSP LECTURE- Continuity and Change in Islamic Law, Eyyup Sait Kaya, Apr. 25

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsplaw.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Apr 2002


You're invited to attend the following brown bag lunchtime lecture,
sponsored by Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.

Eyyup Sait Kaya

"Continuity and Change in Islamic Law: The Concept of madhhab and the
Dimensions of Legal Disagreement in Hanafi Scholarship of the Tenth Century"

Thursday, April 25, 2002
12:00 - 1:15 PM

Pound Hall 512 (Harvard Law School)

*Cookies and cold drinks will be on hand
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Please call the Islamic Legal Studies Program at 617-496-3941, or e-mail
ilsplaw.harvard.edu with questions.

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Intelligentsia in Kyrgyzstan, Anara Tabyshalieva, April 17

From: Central Asian Studies <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Apr 2002


Wednesday, April 17

Central Asia Seminar

"Transforming the World of the Intelligentsia: Education, Research and
Intellectual Pursuits in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan"

Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva (Visiting Scholar, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute,
Johns Hopkins University; Director, Institute for Regional Studies in
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Coolidge Hall, Room 215
4:15-6:00 pm

Dr. Tabyshalieva is a leading social scientist in Kyrgyzstan and the author
of numerous works on religion, regional cooperation, and ethnic issues in
Central Asia and especially the Ferghana Valley, among other topics.


For further information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies
email: centasiafas.harvard.edu
tel.: 617-496-2643

NELC LECTURE- Avicenna's Philosophical Correspondence, David Reisman, April 16

From: Kimberly De Wall <kimberly_dewallharvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Apr 2002


Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 
presents:

Dr. David Reisman
Wellesley College

"'That's another headache': Reading Avicenna's philosophical correspondence"

Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 4:00pm

Semitic Museum, Room 201
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

**A handout may be collected from the NELC office the week before the 
lecture**

INNER ASIA LECTURE- Traditional Values of Mongols, Ts. Tsetsenbileg, April 11

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaasfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 10 Apr 2002


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a lecture by

Dr. Ts. Tsetsenbileg
Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Law
Mongolian Academy of Sciences

"Traditional Values of Mongols"

Thursday, April 11
4:15 p.m.

Coolidge Hall, Room 4

Dr. Tseveen Tsetsengileg has previously given a talk through the Inner Asian
and Altaic Studies luncheon lecture series on "Perceptions of Genghis Khan
Among the Mongols Today".  She is currently doing research at the Institute
of Philosophy, Sociology and Law at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.


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

LECTURE- Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, Pavel Baev, Apr. 12, Caspian Studies Program

From: Annaliis Abrego <annaliis_abregoharvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


The Caspian Studies Program presents:

A discussion with
Dr. Pavel Baev
Senior Researcher
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway

"Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and the Global War against Terrorism"

Date: April 12, 2002
Time: 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
Location: Allison Dining Room- located on the 5th Floor of the Taubman 
Building at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  A map is 
attached for your convenience.
http://map.harvard.edu/level3/3KennedySchool.shtml

A light luncheon will be served. As space is limited for this event, RSVPs 
are required. Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, April 9th to Annaliis 
Abrego at 617-496-1981 or Annaliis_Abregoharvard.edu.

Dr. Pavel Baev will discuss recent developments in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge 
and the immediate impact and political ramifications of the U.S. military's 
"train and equip" mission in Georgia. Dr. Baev will also explore the 
significance of the Pankisi Gorge in Russia's policy toward the Caucasus, 
particularly in the context of the war in Chechnya, and Russian reactions 
to the decision to deploy U.S. troops to Georgia.

Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a Senior Researcher and the head of the Foreign and 
Security Policy program at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo 
(PRIO). He graduated from the Moscow State University and worked in a 
research institute in the USSR Ministry of Defense. After receiving his PhD 
in 1988, he worked in the newly created Institute of Europe, Moscow until 
October 1992, when he joined PRIO. From 1995 to 2001 he was the editor of 
Security Dialogue, a quarterly policy-oriented journal produced by PRIO. He 
held a NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship for 1994-1996. He is the 
author of several books, among them The Russian Army in a Time of Troubles 
(SAGE, 1996). His articles on the Russian military posture, 
Russian-European relations, peacekeeping and conflict management in Europe 
appeared in Armed Forces and Society, European Security, International 
Peacekeeping, Jane's Intelligence Review, The Journal of Peace Research, 
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, and The World Today. He also 
authored "Russia Refocuses its Policies in the Southern Caucasus", the 
first in a series of working papers published by the Caspian Studies Program.

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR, M. Müller, Preventing Conflict in Central Asia, April 24

From: Monika Shepherd <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


Central Asia Seminar Series Spring 2002

"Preventing Conflict in Central Asia: The Experience of Swiss Cooperation"

Markus Müller
Visiting Scholar
Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

Wednesday, April 24
4:15-6:00 pm

Room 215 - Bergson/Ulam Room
Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Open to the public

For more information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies/Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

LECTURE- Wine in Ottoman Crimea, Oleksandr Halenko, April 9

From: Center for Middle Eastern Studies <mideastfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Between Religious Dogma and Fiscal Interest:
Viticulture and Wine Production In the Ottoman Crimea

by

Oleksandr Halenko
Visiting Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Tuesday, April 9th, 2002
Coolidge Hall, Room 1
3:00 pm

REMINDER- Olivier Roy, From Where does Bin Laden Come?, April 10

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsplaw.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


Distinguished Lecturer Series: Perspectives from Islamic Civilization on 
September 11

"From Where does Bin Laden Come? The Crossroads between Traditional Islamic 
Fundamentalism and Contemporary 'Anti-Imperialist' Struggle"
by
Olivier Roy (CNRS, Aix en Provence; 2002 Visiting Prof, Princeton Univ)

April 10, 2002
6:00 - 7:30

John Chipman Gray Room, 2nd floor, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School
Reception prior to the lecture at 5:30 pm in Pound Hall 335

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave.  Pound 501
Cambridge, MA  02138
+1/617-496-8260
website:  www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP

CONFERENCE- The Cold War and Its Legacy in Tibet, 20-21 April, HPCWS

From: Aiyaz Husain <husainfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


The Harvard Project on Cold War Studies (HPCWS) of Harvard University is
hosting a conference on "The Cold War and Its Legacy in Tibet: Great-Power
Politics and Regional Security," on 20-21 April 2002. Over 40 leading
specialists and policymakers from three continents, including scholars from
China and India, will discuss sixteen papers on the Cold War in Tibet,
current-day ethnic conflict, regional security in South Asia and its
implication to the West/US. Findings from the conference will be published
and disseminated to scholars and policy makers.

The program of events includes a guest lecture by U.S. Under Secretary of
State Paula Dobriansky, who is the most senior U.S. official responsible for
policy toward Tibet; the screening of a BBC documentary on the Tibetan
resistance movement; and a closing discussion on prospects for Sino-Tibetan
dialogue. All conference panels and the closing discussion will be free and
open to the public. The program and agenda are available on-line at the
HPCWS Internet site at:

The HPCWS is organizing the conference, and is co-sponsoring it with the
U.S. Institute of Peace and Harvard's Asia Center. For more information,
please contact:

Aiyaz Husain
Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: +1/617-495 1909
Fax: +1/617-495 8319
URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/
Email: hpcwsfas.harvard.edu or husainfas.harvard.edu

C.A. WORKING GROUP- April 10, Kai Wegerich, "Water Scarcity in Uzbekistan"

From: John Schoeberlein <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


In a special meeting of the Central Asia Working Group next week, we'll have
a presentation by Kai Wegerich on:

"Natural Drought or Human Made Water Scarcity in Uzbekistan?"

This will be on Wednesday, April 10, at 4:15 pm in Coolidge Hall, Room 215
(the Bergson-Ulam Seminar Room).   There will be refreshments.  All are
welcome.

Kai Wegerich is a Research Student at the University of London's School of
Oriental and African Studies.

Those who are planning on attending and who would like to obtain a copy of
the paper may stop by the office of the Harvard Forum for Central Asian
Studies in Coolidge Hall 224A, or send me an e-mail.  I EMPHASIZE:
Circulation of the paper is ONLY to those who will attend the Working Group
meeting (if you wish to obtain the paper otherwise, then you might contact
Mr. Wegerich at <wegerichyahoo.com>).

John Schoeberlein


With questions, contact: centasiafas.harvard.edu, 617-495-4338

CENTRAL ASIA SEMINAR- Dr. Larry Goodson, "Post-War Afghanistan," April 23

From: Monika Shepherd <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 5 Apr 2002


Note:  This seminar was originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 9 and has
been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 18.

Central Asia Seminar Series Spring 2002

"Post-War Afghanistan: Will Warring Factions Turn to Peaceful Nation-Building?"

Dr. Larry Goodson
Associate Prof. of International Studies
Bentley College

Tuesday, April 23
4:15-6:00 pm

Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Open to the public

Sponsored by:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies/Davis Center for Russian Studies
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

and

The Davis Center for Russian Studies

For further information, contact:

Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies, 617-496-2643, centasiafas.harvard.edu
Web: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

Davis Center for Russian Studies, 617-495-4037, daviscrsfas.harvard.edu
Web: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

SEMINAR- Western Broadcasting and Muslim Audiences, James Critchlow, Apr. 2

From: Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 Mar 2002


"Western Broadcasting During the Cold War and the Lessons for Dealing with
the Islamic World Today"

James Critchlow

Davis Center for Russian Studies

Tues. April 2, 4:15-6:00
215 in Coolidge Hall (Bergson/Ulam Room)

The talk will discuss the lessons learned by the West during the Cold War
about how to reach out to people across cultural and ideological barriers
can and should be applied successfully today to problems of finding a common
language with Muslims despite cultural and, in this case, theological
barriers.  The speaker will deal with some specifics of the Muslim case.

For more information:

Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel.: 617-495-4037
e-mail: daviscrsfas.harvard.edu
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

LECTURE- Turkic Communities in the 19-21 c., Helene Perrin Wagner, April 3

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaasfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Mar 2002


Lecture Title:  "Turkic Communities in the 19th-21st centuries:
    Fragmentation or Cohesion?  The Interplay between Cultural and Social
    Structures in Highly Institutionalized, Segmentary Societies Set in
    Poly-Civilizational Milieux"

Speaker:  Helene Perrin Wagner; Ph.D., INALCO, Paris; Ph.D. candidate,
    Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Harvard University

Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Time: Lunch 12:30, presentation 1:00

Location: Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 3, Harvard University

Sponsored by: The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Note: You my bring your own lunch or lunch can be bought in the Coolidge
Hall cafeteria and taken to Seminar Room 3

LECTURE- Olivier Roy, From Where does Bin Laden Come?, April 10

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsplaw.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Mar 2002


Distinguished Lecturer Series: Perspectives from Islamic Civilization on
September 11

"From Where does Bin Laden Come?  The Crossroads between Traditional Islamic
Fundamentalism and Contemporary 'Anti-Imperialist' Struggle"
by
Olivier Roy (CNRS, Aix en Provence; 2002 Visiting Prof., Princeton Univ.)

April 10, 2002
6:00 - 7:30

John Chipman Gray Room, 2nd floor, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School.
Reception prior to the lecture at 5:30 pm in Pound Hall 335.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave.  Pound 501
Cambridge, MA  02138
(617) 496-8260
website: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP

C.A. WORKING GROUP- Mar. 20, R. Varenik, Inter-ethnic Relations and the Media

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeberfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Mar 2002


In a special meeting of the Central Asia Working Group this week, we'll have
a presentation by Raisa Varenik on:

"Coverage of Inter-Ethnic Relations by the Kazakhstani Media"

This will be on Wednesday, Mar. 20, at 4:15 pm in Coolidge Hall, Room 215
(the Bergson-Ulam Seminar Room).   There will be refreshments.  All are
welcome.

Raisa Varenik is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Forum for
Central Asian Studies through the IREX Contemporary Issues fellowship
program.  In Kazakhstan, she is a researcher at the Center for Humanitarian
Research (an independent research center).

Those who are planning on attending and who would like to obtain a copy of
the paper may stop by the office of the Harvard Forum for Central Asian
Studies in Coolidge Hall 224A, or send me an e-mail.  I EMPHASIZE:
Circulation of the paper is ONLY to those who will attend the Working Group
meeting (if you wish to obtain the paper otherwise, then you might contact
Dr. Varenik at <varenikfas.harvard.edu>).

John Schoeberlein


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LECTURE- Assessing US Policies in Afghanistan..., Charles Dunbar, Mar. 19

From: Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies <centasiafas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Mar 2002


TUESDAY, March 19

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar
"Assessing U.S. Policies in Afghanistan, Southwest Asia, and the Gulf"
Charles Dunbar, Warburg Professor, Simmons College; Former U.S. Ambassador
to Yemen and Qatar
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 2
phone: (617) 495-4420


Please direct inquiries to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
phone: (617) 495-4420

GRANTS- Undergraduate Research Awards, Human Rights Studies

From: Afreen Alam <afreen_alamharvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Mar 2002


University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Undergraduate Human Rights Research Award 2002

The University Committee on Human Rights Studies is pleased to announce the
first annual competition for undergraduate human rights research awards .
The awards are intended to support students carrying out research projects
anywhere in the world, including the United States, during the summer of
2002. The awards are made possible by the generous support of Harvard Law
School alumni Gustave and Rita Hauser.

Proposed research must relate to issues that implicate human rights
questions centrally. This stipulation allows for proposals from virtually
any discipline.  If human rights issues only feature tangentially in the
research proposal, the application for an award will be unsuccessful.
Examples of areas which fall within the scope of the awards include:

  * Trafficking of women and girls from Eastern Europe
  * Legal issues related to the Milosevic trial
  * Access to AIDS prevention and/or treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa
  * Differences between US and European approaches to the death penalty
  * Conflict between religious rights and women's rights
  * Poverty as a Human Rights violation
  * The relationship between the concepts of human security and human rights
  * Human Rights aspects of discriminatory access to education
  * A study of Human Rights violations in the Middle East/Afghanistan/Kashmir/
    Guatemala/China
  * The relationship between national security and human rights in times of
    national emergency
  * War and the protection of free speech
  * The role of film in promoting Human Rights
  * Strategies for preventing genocide
  * Intellectual property rights of indigenous people
  * How are the NGOs held accountable?
  * The drafting history of a human Rights Convention
  * What responsibilities do corporations have to protect Human Rights?


Eligibility

All Harvard College students with sophomore or junior standing in Spring
2002 are eligible to apply. The Human Rights Awards are intended to
encourage the focused research of rising juniors and seniors; therefore,
many students will wish to use the awards to prepare for junior tutorials or
senior theses.

Awards

Grants are made for up to $1,500. IRB approvals, if necessary, need not be
obtained before the proposal deadline (April 10). However, funds cannot be
disbursed for projects requiring IRB approval until such approval is
obtained. On the attached budget form, please itemize research expenses
(e.g., equipment, travel, participant payments). You may also include summer
living expenses (rent, food, etc).

If you are a junior in Spring 2002 and receive financial aid, you are also
eligible to apply for a Dean's Summer Research Award, which can cover the
summer savings requirement of your financial aid package.
http://www.seo.harvard.edu/research/deansummer.html

Program Components and Requirements
Each student will conduct research under the direction of a faculty mentor.
Mentors may be affiliated with any faculty of Harvard University; please
note that the signature of your Head Tutor is required to indicate
departmental approval.

In the autumn of 2002, all awardees will present their work, including a 5
page preliminary report at a research symposium attended by the faculty of
the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Faculty members will be
available to mentor awardees on the human rights aspects on their project
throughout the year. Awardees will also provide a final report (or copy of
thesis) by May 15, 2003.

Obtaining and Submitting Applications

To apply, please submit two copies of the following. Incomplete applications
will not be considered.

  * Completed application form. Please note that the form must be signed by
the Head Tutor or equivalent official of your concentration.  [Contact
Afreen Alam for copies of the form.]

  * Written research proposal (two page maximum). Your proposal must include
your research objectives and your plans for meeting them. Please be very
specific as to what procedures you plan to use (e.g., library research or
observation methods or experimental procedures). Also, please provide
information about the role of your faculty mentor.

  * Completed budget form. Please use the budget form to indicate how you
would use a Human Rights Award of $1,500 or less. Your budget request will
depend on the nature of your project and the particular equipment, supplies,
travel, and other reimbursements you will need, including summer living
expenses.

  * Résumé

  * Transcript (a photocopy or downloaded copy of a transcript is acceptable;
please note that it will take at least one week to obtain a transcript).

  * Original letter of support from the faculty mentor who will advise your
research (no e-mail letters accepted). Provide the mentor with the memo.
Letters may be sent directly from the faculty member but must arrive by the
application deadline.

Deadline and Decisions

All application materials must be received NO LATER than 4 PM on Wednesday,
April 10, 2002. The Student Research Subcommittee of the University
Committee on Human Rights will screen the proposals and announce decisions
by Thursday, April 25, 2002.

Contact:

Afreen Alam
Coordinator
University Committee on Human Rights Studies
79, JFK Street, Eliot 218
Ph: 617-384-8120, Fax: 617-495-4972
www.humanrights.harvard.edu

C.A. WORKING GROUP- Mar. 13, G. Abikeyeva, "Central Asian Cinematography"

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeberfas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 12 Mar 2002


In a special meeting of the Central Asia Working Group this week, we'll have
a presentation by Gulnara Abikeyeva on:

"Central Asian Cinematography as an Indicator of Social and Political
Vectors of Development"

This will be on Wednesday, Mar. 13, at 4:15 pm in Coolidge Hall, Room 215
(the Bergson-Ulam Seminar Room).   There will be refreshments.  All are
welcome.

Gulnara Abikeyeva is visiting this year from Kazakstan as a Fulbright
Scholar in the Russian Dept. at Bowdoin College.  She is a film critic and
is the author of a book entitled "Cinema in Central Asia".  In Kazakstan,
she is the Soros Foundation's Arts and Culture Program and she also teaches
film at the university.

Those who are planning on attending and who would like to obtain a copy of
the paper may stop by the office of the Harvard Forum for Central Asian
Studies in Coolidge Hall 224A, or send me an e-mail.  I EMPHASIZE:
Circulation of the paper is ONLY to those who will attend the Working Group
meeting (if you wish to obtain the paper otherwise, then you might contact
Dr. Abikeyeva at <gabikeyebowdoin.edu>).

John Schoeberlein

LECTURE- Iran's Reaction to September 11, Nasser Hadian

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsplaw.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Mar 2002


Islamic Legal Studies Program Distinguished Lecturer Series
Perspectives from Islamic Civilization on September 11

"Iran's Reaction to September 11"

by Nasser Hadian
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tehran;
Spring 2002 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University

When: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Place: Pound Hall 100 (Harvard Law School campus)
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm.
Reception at 5:30 pm in Pound 335 to precede the lecture.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave.  Pound 501
Cambridge, MA  02138
(617) 496-8260
website: www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP