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CALL FOR PAPERS- CESS Annual Conf., Oct. 14-17, 2004, Indiana Univ.

From: Central Eurasian Studies Society <CESS(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 11 Dec 2003


CALL FOR PAPERS

Central Eurasian Studies Society
Fifth Annual Conference (2004)

October 14-17, 2004
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

The CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY (CESS) invites panel and paper
proposals for the Fifth CESS Annual Conference, October 14-17, 2004, in
Bloomington, Indiana.  The event will be held at Indiana University,
hosted by the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center.

Panel and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social
science scholarship on Central Eurasia are welcome.  The geographic
domain of Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea and Iranian Plateau
to Mongolia and Siberia, including the Caucasus, Crimea, Middle Volga,
Afghanistan, Tibet, and Central and Inner Asia.

Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged and will be
given some preference in the selection process.  Individual papers are
also welcome and will be assigned by the program committee to an
appropriate panel with a chair and a discussant.  We also welcome attendees
who do not wish to participate in a panel (see the
Registration/Pre-registration Form for information:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html).

There has been a huge growth in the interest in the CESS conference as
our society has become more established.  Attendance rose from less than
150 in the first three annual conferences to over 800 at the fourth one
(Harvard 2003), including nearly 500 people from nearly 40 countries who
participated in the ca. 80 panels on the program.  We expect the
conference this year will be an even stronger event, and we hope that
all interested in this region will try to come.

Please note that due to this high level of interest, and the fact that
the total number of participants in CESS 2004 will be more limited due
to space constraints, we anticipate that the selection of papers will be
very competitive.


SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

The Conference Committee accepts ONLY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS -- either
by webform (see forms for Pre-organized Panels and for Individual Papers
at: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html), or by an e-mailed
form in MS Word format in the case of those who don't have web access.
This is because website submissions can more easily be processed than
other methods, and we have limited resources to manage the hundreds of
submissions that we anticipate receiving.  Those who don't have access
to the website may contact us and we will e-mail the submission forms in
MS Word format.

The following information is required for submissions; we suggest that
you prepare the text before accessing the website so you can simply
paste the information into the form:

FOR PAPER PRESENTERS: 1) Name, 2) Current institutional affiliation,
3) Title/position, 4) E-mail, 5) Postal address, 6) Telephone, 7) Fax,
8) Title of Paper, 9) Abstract of Paper (a summary of the paper of 200-
300 words; abstracts longer than 300 words may be rejected), 10) Any
audio-visual equipment requests (specify: overhead projector, slide
project, video player), 11) A one-page CV which contains the information
which the panel chair may require for introductions, and includes the
presenter's educational background (highest degree, year awarded,
awarding institution, and field of study).

FOR PANELS: Proposals may be submitted for regular panels (with
presentation of scholarly papers) and roundtable panels (featuring
discussion of a current topic in the field).

REGULAR PANELS: In addition to the information for paper presenters (as
indicated above), the following are also required: a) a title for the
proposed panel, and b) name, affiliation, and contact information of the
panel chair and discussant.  Panels should have four or five paper
presenters, a chair, and a discussant.  The program committee can accept
panel submissions which lack up to two of these, but no panel proposal
should have fewer than four-five people who have given a firm assurance
that they will participate in the conference unless they are prevented
by circumstances out of their control.  If the panel as proposed does
not include a full complement of panelists (i.e., 4-5 presenters,
discussant and chair), the other panel participants may be filled in as
necessary by the program committee if the panel proposal is accepted.
Pre-organized panels should be thematically coherent and may be
organized by a scholarly organization (though this is not required).

ROUNDTABLE PANELS: A roundtable has four to six presenters and a
chair/moderator.  For roundtable proposals, the organizer must provide a
paragraph describing the panel objectives and providing justification
for use of the roundtable format.  The same information is required of
each participant as for regular panels with the exception that abstracts
are not required.

BEST PAPER AWARD: There will be an award in the amount of $500 given to
the best graduate student conference paper submitted to the Awards
Committee for consideration.  See the CESS awards webpage for details
(http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Awards.html), or contact the Awards
Committee Co-chair, Dr. Uli Schamiloglu <uschamil(a)wisc.edu>.

MONGOLIA SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING: From this year, the Mongolia Society
will be holding its annual meeting concurrently with the CESS Conference
(and we expect other related associations will do the same).  For more
information about the Mongolia Society meetings when it is available,
see: http://www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc/


IMPORTANT NOTES:

 * SUBMISSION FORMAT: Do not send your proposal in any format other than
   the webform or the MS Word form, as the committee will not consider
   it in that case.

 * ENSURING QUALITY PROPOSALS: Since the selection process is expected
   to be quite competitive, we strongly advise you to follow the
   Guidelines for Writing Abstracts available on the conference website
   (see below).  Those who do not do this will have significantly lower
   chances of their proposal being accepted.  If you do not have web
   access, we can send you the guidelines by e-mail upon request.

 * COMMITMENT TO PARTICIPATE: By submitting a proposal, you are
   indicating your serious intention to participate in the conference --
   including to take the necessary steps to obtain any required visa or
   funding -- unless prevented by circumstances out of your control.
   You will be asked to confirm your commitment in June after your
   proposal is accepted.

 * E-MAIL CONTACT: Since all communication with prospective participants
   is via e-mail, and we will require your confirmation of participation
   in June after proposals are accepted and again in September when all
   of your visa and travel arrangements should be in place, it is
   vitally important that you make sure we always have an e-mail address
   that will reach you.

 * ABSTRACTS OF PUBLISHABLE QUALITY: If you are accepted and participate
   in the conference, your abstract will be published, so please write
   it carefully to avoid errors and ensure that it conforms with the
   criteria for a good abstract (see Guidelines for Writing Abstracts
   available on the conference website; see below).

 * PROGRAM LIMITATIONS: No participant may present more than one paper
   at the conference.  Without special justification, the program
   committee will not schedule any individual to appear on more than two
   panels as a presenter or discussant.


SCHEDULE OF KEY DATES

Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals:  APRIL 2, 2004.

 * Note: Submissions after this date may be accepted only in the case of
   special justifying circumstances and at the discretion of the program
   committee.

Notification of acceptance:  by June 1.

 * The Conference Committee will provide, upon request, mailed or faxed
   invitation letters to support an application for a visa or travel
   funds; these will be sent in the second half of June.  Note:
   Obtaining a U.S. visa can be take a long time, and we urge
   participants to begin the process immediately upon notification of
   their proposal's acceptance.

Pre-registration deadline:  SEPTEMBER 10.

 * Note: Pre-registration is not required, but entitles you to reduced
   registration fees.

Deadline for notification of audio-visual requests:  August 15.

Papers should be submitted to chairs/discussants:  by SEPTEMBER 23.

 * Paper presenters will be informed via e-mail in mid-September of the
   e-mail addresses of their panel's chair and discussant, to whom they
   should send their papers by the deadline.

Conference:  OCTOBER 14-17.

 * Arrival to Bloomington is on the afternoon/evening of Thursday, Oct.
   14.  Panels begin from Friday morning and continue through mid-day on
   Sunday, Oct. 17.


REGISTRATION

Membership in CESS is not required for participation in the Annual
Conference, though we strongly encourage it, and CESS membership
entitles you to reduced conference registration fees.  See the CESS
Membership Form for details (http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Membership.html).

Payment of registration fees IS REQUIRED for all attending the
conference, as follows:

Regular fee members*:    $55 (pre-registration) or $65 (at conference)
Reduced fee members**:   $35 (pre-registration) or $45 (at conference)
Non-members:             $80 (pre-registration) or $90 (at conference)
Indiana Univ. students:  $30 (pre-registration) or $35 (at conference)
IU student CESS members: $20 (pre-registration) or $25 (at conference)

* "Regular fee members" are those who have paid their annual dues at
   $30.
** "Reduced fee members" are those who have current membership at
   reduced fees ($0-$15).

For methods of payment, see the Registration Form at:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html.

NOTE:  CESS DOES NOT have funds to support the costs of conference
participation.  Participants must obtain their own funding -- from
personal resources, their own institutions, or grant-giving
organizations which provide conference travel grants.  Some further
information about possible sources is available on the Supplementary
Conference Information page at: http://www.iub.edu/~cess2004


TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS

Indiana University in Bloomington is one of the strongest and
longest-standing centers for the study of Central Eurasia.  Bloomington
is located 50 miles south of Indianapolis, where the nearest major
airport is located.  From the Indianapolis airport, a shuttle service is
available to Bloomington, and bus lines connect Bloomington to other
major nearby cities.  More details are available on the Supplementary
Conference Information page at: http://www.iub.edu/~cess2004 (available
after Dec. 15).

The primary accommodations for conference attendees, as well as the
conference sessions, will be in the Indiana Memorial Union Hotel and
Conference Center (IMU) at 900 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405.
Those attending CESS 2004 may obtain a reservation for one of the rooms
set aside for our conference in the IMU by contacting reservations as
follows: phone: +1 (812) 856-6381, toll free: 800-209-8145,
fax: +1 (812)  855-3426, e-mail: <imuhotel(a)indiana.edu>,
web: http://imu.indiana.edu/hotel_conference_center/

Other options for accommodations in Bloomington, as well as more
practical information for conference attendees may be found on the
Supplementary Conference Information page at: http://www.iub.edu/~cess2004
(available after Dec. 15)

FURTHER INFORMATION

The Co-chairs of the Conference Committee are:

Dr. Laura Adams (Georgetown University; lladams2(a)earthlink.net)
Dr. Edward J. Lazzerini (Indiana University; elazzeri(a)indiana.edu)

Full information about CESS 2004 in Bloomington may be found on the
conference webpages:

 * Main conference website:
   http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
 * Registration: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html
 * Program (available in June 2004):
   http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Program.html
 * Full information about hosting and location at Indiana University:
   http://www.iub.edu/~cess2004 (Note: This page will become available
   after Dec. 15)

Virtually all informational questions about the conference can be
answered by consulting the above-mentioned webpages.  If you don't have,
web access or if you don't find the answer to your questions there, you
can contact the conference organizers by e-mail at
<cess2004(a)indiana.edu> (Note: this address will be functional after Dec. 15).

The hosts of future CESS conferences are as follows:
2005 - Boston University
2006 - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
2007 - University of Washington-Seattle
2008 - University of Wisconsin-Madison

CONFERENCE-RELATED CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO:

CESS 2004 Annual Conference
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)
Indiana University
Goodbody Hall 324
Bloomington, IN 47405   U.S.A.
fax: +1 (812) 855-8667
tel.: +1 (812) 856-5263
e-mail: cess2004(a)indiana.edu (Note: this address will be functional
   after Dec. 15)
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
 

LECTURE- The Yellow Temple: New Light on Mongolia's Past, Dec. 14, Worcester Art Museum

From: Alexandra E. Cleworth <illyria(a)charter.net>
Posted: 10 Dec 2003


14 Dec 2003 at 2:30pm
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA

The Yellow Temple: New Light on Mongolia's Past

The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) - Worcester Society will
present a dual slide illustrated lecture on the restoration efforts at
Baldan Baraivan, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in the Khentii aimag
of Mongolia. The talk will discuss an overview of the site within the
context of the Mongolia monastic tradition, repressed during most of the
20th century. The site is being restored by Cultural Restoration Tourism
Project, a non-profit organization combining local professionals with
international volunteers to both rebuild the site, and to study its
significance in understanding the spread of Tibetan Buddhism across central
Asia.

Lecture is free and open to the public, with free parking and
handicapped-accessible entry.

Museum website http://www.worcesterart.org for directions.

Alexandra Cleworth

Cultural Restoration Tourism Project
E-mail: alexandra(a)crtp.net
Web: http://www.crtp.net

Archaeological Institute of America
Governing Board Trustee
Web: http://www.archaeological.org

AIA - Worcester Society, President
E-mail: illyria(a)charter.net
Web: http://webpages.charter.net/illyria
 

LECTURE- Lisa Golombek, Aga Khan Lecture, Sackler Museum, Dec. 11-12

From: Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture <agakhan(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Dec 2003


Aga Khan Lecture:

Please come to the two-part Aga Khan lecture next Thursday, December 11th,
and Friday, December 12th, 5:30-6:30p.m. in Room 318 at the Sackler Museum,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. (Lecture is free and open to the public.)

Thursday, December 11 & Friday, December 12

Dec.11: "Chinoiserie Ceramics in the Muslim World: Telling Them Apart"

Dec.12: "Kerman, the 'Miniature' Isfahan: A Study in Urban History"

Dr. Lisa Golombek
Royal Ontario Museum

Please call or email with any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

Ruth R. MacQuiddy
Program Coordinator
Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture
Harvard University
Sackler 412
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2355
Fax: 617-496-8389
Email: agakhan(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

ROUNDTABLE- Georgia's Rose Revolution, Tues. Dec. 9, 6 pm at KSG

From: Maggie Osdoby Katz <maggie_osdoby_katz(a)ksg05.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Dec 2003


Need some inspiration?

UPRISING TO REFORM?:
ROUNDTABLE ON THE ROSE REVOLUTION IN GEORGIA

TUESDAY, DEC 9
6-7 pm
Taubman C (5th floor, by elevator only)
KSG
Refreshments served!!

In November, Georgians took to the streets and forced the resignation of
President Eduard Shevardnadze.  Will democratic and market reforms finally
stick?

Join us for a roundtable discussion with experts from the KSG and Fletcher
student bodies:

Gela Bezhuashvili (KSG-MC/MPA)
Deputy Minister of Defense, 2000-2003

Irakli Chkonia (Fletcher)
Advisor, Speaker of Parliament (Zurab Zhvania), 1995-2000

Vanessa Acker (KSG-MPP1)
Political/Military Officer, American Embassy, Tbilisi, 2001-2003

George Kiziria (Fletcher)
Second Secretary, Embassy of Georgia in Egypt, 2001-2003

Maggie Osdoby Katz (KSG-MPP1)
Political/Economic Officer, American Embassy,Tbilisi, 1999-2000

Annaliis Abrego (KSG-Staff)
Intern, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2000
Thesis: "Arshemdgari (That Which Failed in the Process of Becoming):
A Study of Democratization in Georgia", 2001.

Troy Etulain (Fletcher)
Work in Georgia and Abkhazia, Summer 2003

Sponsored by the International Development Network with assistance of the
Caspian Studies Program
 

FELLOWSHIP- Postdoctoral Fellowships, Research in Islamic Architecture, AKPIA-MIT

From: Jose Luis Arguello <jlar(a)mit.edu>
Posted: 8 Dec 2003


Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
AKPIA(a)MIT

2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Islamic Architecture

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA(a)MIT) is pleased to
announce its postdoctoral fellowship program for the academic year
2004-2005. The fellowship program is intended for scholars with Ph.D.
in any field related to architecture and architectural and urban history who
are engaged in research on an Islamic topic.

One or two fellowships will be granted for the year.  The fellowship
duration can range from two months to a maximum of two semesters or nine
months.  Fellows are expected to give at least one public lecture during
their stay at MIT and to participate in the program's scholarly and academic
activities.  The fellowship award consists of monthly stipend not to exceed
the amount of $2,400 (before taxes) per month and one roundtrip ticket for
the fellow from his/her usual place of residence.  Fellows will be
responsible to find their own housing during their fellowship period.  AKPIA
will provide the fellows with library card and an email account at MIT.

Deadline for application is March 1, 2004.  Results will be announced no
later than April 30, 2004.  Applicants should send a C.V., a research
proposal specifying the desired period of stay and other sources of funding
if available, at least one writing sample, and two letters of
recommendation.  No electronic applications will be accepted.  Applicants
are encouraged to seek other sources of funding to supplement the fellowship
award.

Scholars with their own financial resources or on sabbatical who wish to
apply to AKPIA fellowships are also welcome.  AKPIA reserves the right to
prorate its fellowship when combined with another grant or fellowship.

Please send all application material in 2 copies to:

Prof. Nasser Rabbat
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
MIT, Room 10-390
Cambridge, MA 02139
Fax: 617-258-8172

For further information please send email to <akpiarch(a)mit.edu>, or call
617-253-1400, or visit the web at
http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/AKPsite/index.html

Jose Luis Arguello
Senior Administrative Assistant,
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

MIT, 10-390
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139
USA

Phone: 617-253-1400
Fax: 617-258-8172

Aga Khan Program Web Site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/AKPsite/index.htm
 

IAAS LECTURE- Peter Purdue, Trade, Transformation, and Terror on the Chinese Frontier, Dec. 9

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Dec 2003


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon lecture
at the First Floor Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue
on Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History at MIT,
will speak on "Trade, Transformation, and Terror on the Chinese Frontier."

You may bring your own lunch to the Common Room; Snacks will be provided.
Room opens at 12:30, presentation at 1:00 p.m.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: (617) 495-3777
Fax: (617) 495-4306
E-mail: iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

GRANTS- Undergraduate Human Rights Internship Funding Opportunity

From: Molly Curren <molly_curren(a)harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Dec 2003


The University Committee on Human Rights Studies invites applications for
summer 2004 Undergraduate Human Rights Internships. Up to 10 summer
internships will be available to qualified students seeking to work for
8-10 weeks in a human rights organization in the U.S. or abroad. The
internships enable students to put theoretical knowledge and interests into
practice and to learn about the practical challenges involved in
implementing human rights. Every student interested in the practice of
human rights is strongly encouraged to apply. Application forms will be
available on the UCHRS website, www.humanrights.harvard.edu, by late
December.

The deadline for internship applications is Friday, February 4, 2004. For
more information, please see our website or contact Molly Curren, UCHRS
Coordinator, at (617)496-4950.


Molly Curren
Coordinator
Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Eliot 201
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-4950

www.humanrights.harvard.edu
 

CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGE COURSES - Spring Semester 2004

From: Gulnora Aminova <aminova(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 3 Dec 2003


To:    Harvard Students wishing to study Central Asian languages
From:  Gulnora Aminova (Instructor, Uzbek and Tajik Language)
Re:    Central Asian Language Courses, Spring 2004

Any Harvard student interested in intensive beginning Uzbek and/or Tajik
language instruction during Spring Semester 2004 should contact Ms. Gulnora
Aminova at <aminova(a)fas.harvard.edu> or (617) 547-1862 as soon as possible.
Ms. Aminova is now in the process of organizing her classes for next
semester and needs to hear from prospective students as soon as possible.

Please also inform the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus office at
<centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu> or (617) 496-2643 of your interest.

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

IAAS LECTURE- Jacob Dalton, Early Development of the Padmasambhava Cult, Dec. 2

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 25 Nov 2003


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon lecture
at the First Floor Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue
on Tuesday, December 2, 2003

Dr. Jacob P. Dalton, the International Dunhuang Project, the British
Library, will speak on "The Early Development of the Padmasambhava Cult"

You may bring your own lunch to the Common Room; Snacks will be provided.
Room opens at 12:30, presentation at 1:00 p.m.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: (617) 495-3777
Fax: (617) 495-4306
E-mail: iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

IAAS LECTURE- Marina Ilich, The Cakravarti Ideal in Manchu Inner Asia, Nov. 19

From: John Schoeberlein <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Nov 2003


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon lecture
at the First Floor Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue
on Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Marina Illich, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
will speak on "The Cakravarti Ideal in Manchu Inner Asia: A Study of the
Fifth Dalai Lama's Influence on a Nascent Manchu State."

You may bring your own lunch to the Common Room; Snacks will be provided.
Room opens at 12:30, presentation at 1:00 p.m.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: (617) 495-3777
Fax: (617) 495-4306
E-mail: iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

AKPIA LECTURE- P. Centlivres, Iconomania and Iconophobia inAfghanistan, Nov 13

From: Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture <agakhan(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 13 Nov 2003


Please come to the Aga Khan lecture today, Thursday, November 13th,
5:30-6:30p.m. in Room 318 at the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA. (Lecture is free and open to the public.)

Thursday, November 13

"Iconomania and Iconophobia in Afghanistan: Religious and Political
Images from Zaher Shah to Bin Laden Sultan"

Professor Pierre Centlivres
Director, Institute of Ethnology at the University of Neuchatel

Please call or email with any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

Ruth R. MacQuiddy
Program Coordinator
Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture
Harvard University
Sackler 412
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2355
Fax: 617-496-8389
Email: agakhan(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

CASPIAN STUDIES SEMINAR- The Caucasus: Post-Election Wrap-Up, Nov. 20

From: Caspian Studies Program <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Nov 2003


Harvard University's Caspian Studies Program is pleased to invite you to a
seminar given by

John Boit
South Caucasus Regional Director of Internews Network

and

Kent Lucken
Election Observer in Georgia's November 2 Parliamentary Elections

entitled:

"The Caucasus: Post-Election Wrap-Up and Freedom of the Press"

Thursday, November 20
2:30--4:30 P.M.
BCSIA Library, Littauer 369, Kennedy School of Government

Chair: Brenda Shaffer, Ph.D.
Caspian Studies Program Research Director

for details, see:
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/events.cfm?program=CSP&ln=upcoming&gma=4&gma

light refreshments will be served

Please RSVP by November 17, 2003, to CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu
 

COLD WAR STUDIES SEMINAR- Famine and the Soviet Regime in Kazakhstan, Nov. 6

From: Davis Center <daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Nov 2003


Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Thursday, November 6
Cold War Studies Seminar

"Famine and the Soviet Regime:  Nomads, Peasants, and the State in
Kazakhstan, 1928-1936"
Niccolo Pianciola (University of Naples)

625 Mass Ave, Seminar Room 2
12:15 - 2:00pm
 

IAAS LECTURE- Peter Golden, The Shaping of the Turkic Peoples, Nov. 6

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 30 Oct 2003


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon lecture
at the First Floor Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue
on Thursday, November 6, 2003

Peter Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University
will speak on "Ethnogenesis in the Tribal Zone: The Shaping of the Turkic
Peoples."

You may bring your own lunch to the Common Room; Snacks will be provided.
Room opens at 12:30, presentation at 1:00 p.m.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: (617) 495-3777
Fax: (617) 495-4306
E-mail: iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

HURI SEMINAR- Symposium on Famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, Oct. 20

From: Tymish Holowinsky <holowins(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 Oct 2003


The Harvard Ukrainian Institute is pleased invite all those interested to
attend the following symposium presented as part of  the HURI Seminars in
Ukrainian Studies series:

The Ukrainian Terror Famine of 1932-33: Revisiting the Issue and the
Scholarship Twenty Years After the HURI Famine Project

Session 1 (1:00 - 2:30):
The 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine: Its Specificities, Its Context

"The Great Famine in Ukraine and the Nationalities Question" Terry D. Martin
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

"The Great Famine of 1932-33: Consequences and Implications" Andrea Graziosi
Professor of History, University of Naples "Federico II" Visiting Professor
of History, Harvard University

Session 2 (2:45 - 4:00):
A Prologue and an Epilogue to the 1932-1933 Famine

"The Other Great Collectivization Famine: Kazakhstan 1931-1933"
Niccolo Pianciola Ph.D. candidate, Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati,
Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples

"The Post-Famine Countryside in the Mid and Late 1930s" Gijs Kessler
Research Fellow, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Session 3 (4:15 - 6:00):
Issues, Sources, Scholarly Agenda:  A Roundtable Discussion

Moderator:

Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Participants:

Alexander Babyonyshev [Sergei Maksudov] Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Juliette Cadiot
Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Andrea Graziosi
Professor of History, University of Naples "Federico II" Visiting Professor
of History, Harvard University

Terry D. Martin
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

Roman Szporluk
Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

All sessions will take place in the Seminar Room of the Ukrainian Research
Institute, 1583 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.  For more information,
call 617/495-4053 or visit the Institute web site
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/news.html

Send all inquiries to huri(a)fas.harvard.edu.

Tymish J. Holowinsky
Executive Director
Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: 617/495-4081
Fax: 617/495-8097
 

IAAS LECTURE- Oktor Skjaervo, New Material on History in Bactria, Oct. 29

From: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Oct 2003


The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a luncheon lecture
at the First Floor Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue
on Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Oktor Skjaervo, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
will speak on "From the Caves of Afghanistan: New Material for 500 Years
of Social and Political History in Bactria."

You may bring your own lunch to the Common Room; Snacks will be provided.
Room opens at 12:30, presentation at 1:00 p.m.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Harvard University
9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: (617) 495-3777
Fax: (617) 495-4306
iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

LECTURE- America's Contribution to the Tibetans' Struggle for Survival, Oct. 10

From: Asia Center <asiactr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Oct 2003


"America's Contribution to the Tibetans' Struggle for Survival"

Friday, October 10, 12:30-2:00 PM

Ken Knaus, Associate in Research, Fairbank Center, Author of "Orphans of
the Cold War"

Seminar Room 1, 625 Mass. Ave. Central Square, Cambridge

Modern Asia Series
Sponsored by the Asia Center
Tel. (617) 496-6273
 

Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group Fall 2003 Organizational Meeting

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Oct 2003


The Organizational Meeting of the

Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group

will be held on:

Tuesday, October 14, 4:15-6:00 pm
in Room 2 at 625 Massachusetts Avenue (in Central Square), 2nd Floor

This will be a time for introductions of new people -- all interested people
are encouraged to join.

We are a bit late getting started this semester, due to the conference that
was just held -- seemingly a big success with over 800 people attending from
about 40 countries!

ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP

The Working Group on "Society, Politics and Culture in Central Asia and the
Caucasus" is a bi-weekly forum for discussion of projects on Central Asia.
The Working Group is aimed at providing a context for focused discussion on
Central Asian and Caucasus-related topics among Harvard graduate students,
faculty, and other interested scholars in the Cambridge and Boston area.
Central Asia, for these purposes, is understood to include the states of
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, as well as
closely related areas: the Caucasus, the Volga Basin, Southwestern Siberia,
Mongolia, 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 Working Group is chaired by John Schoeberlein, Director of the Harvard
Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus. The Working Group is an activity of
the Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus at the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies and is sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences.  The group has been meeting since 1994.  Refreshments are a
regular feature of the meetings. Guest speakers are also sometimes invited.

In the organizational meeting, we will discuss the schedule for future
meetings, which will be on Tuesdays, alternating with the meetings of the
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar (public seminar series).

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.  Note 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 and directions to our new location at 625
Massachusetts Ave., please call my assistant at (617)496-2643, or write to
<centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>.

I look forward to your participation!

John Schoeberlein

______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John 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:schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia & Caucasus Program Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/
<Central Asian Studies World Wide>: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/
<Central-Eurasia-L> Editorial Address: Central-Eurasia-L(a)fas.harvard.edu
<CE-L> Archive: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Central-Eurasia-L.html
______________________________________________________________________________
 

LECTURE- The Study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Cultures in Xinjiang, Oct. 10, Boston U.

From: Int'l Center for East Asian Arch. & Cultural History <asianarc(a)bu.edu>
Posted: 8 Oct 2003


"Issues in the Study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Cultures in Xinjiang,
China"

Dr. Jianjun Mei, Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Needham Research Institute,
Cambridge, UK

Friday, October 10, 12:00 PM

International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History, 650
Beacon Street, 5th Floor (at the Kenmore Square "T" Station on the Green
Line)

Note: Refreshments will be provided. The talk is free and open to the
public.

East Asian Archaeology Forum
Sponsored by International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural
History

Contact: (617) 358-8000, asianarc(a)bu.edu, URL address:
http://www.bu.edu/asianarc/
 

Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group Fall 2003 Organizational Meeting

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 8 Oct 2003


The Organizational Meeting of the

Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group

will be held on:

Tuesday, October 14, 4:15-6:00 pm
in Room 2 at 625 Massachusetts Avenue (in Central Square), 2nd Floor

This will be a time for introductions of new people -- all interested people
are encouraged to join.

We are a bit late getting started this semester, due to the conference that
was just held -- seemingly a bit success with over 800 people attending from
about 40 countries!

ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP

The Working Group on "Society, Politics and Culture in Central Asia and the
Caucasus" is a bi-weekly forum for discussion of projects on Central Asia.
The Working Group is aimed at providing a context for focused discussion on
Central Asian and Caucasus-related topics among Harvard graduate students,
faculty, and other interested scholars in the Cambridge and Boston area.
Central Asia, for these purposes, is understood to include the states of
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, as well as
closely related areas: the Caucasus, the Volga Basin, Southwestern Siberia,
Mongolia, 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 Working Group is chaired by John Schoeberlein, Director of the Harvard
Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus. The Working Group is an activity of
the Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus at the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies and is sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences.  The group has been meeting since 1994.  Refreshments are a
regular feature of the meetings. Guest speakers are also sometimes invited.

In the organizational meeting, we will discuss the schedule for future
meetings, which will be on Tuesdays, alternating with the meetings of the
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar (public seminar series).

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.  Note 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 and directions to our new location at 625
Massachusetts Ave., please call my assistant at (617)496-2643, or write to
<centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>.

I look forward to your participation!

John Schoeberlein

______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John 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:schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia & Caucasus Program Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/
<Central Asian Studies World Wide>: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/
<CentralAsia-L> Editorial Address: mailto:CentralAsia-L(a)fas.harvard.edu
<CA-L> Archive: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/CASWW_CentralAsia-L.html
______________________________________________________________________________
 

COURSE OFFERING- The Meanings of Islam in Central Asia

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Sep 2003


The following course is being offered Fall Term -- it may be found in the
Harvard Courses of Instruction under Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations in the Islamic Civilizations section.


Islamic Civilizations 160

The Meanings of Islam in Central Asia

Fall term, Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00.
Sever Hall, Room 304.

John S. Schoeberlein
Office: 625 Massachusetts Ave. Room 262
tel.: 617-495-4338
e-mail: schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu

Course Description

The course will examine the changing role of Islam in Central Asia through
history from a multi-disciplinary perspective.  Central Asia is on the
margins of the Islamic world, though integral to it, and the course will
consider the ways that the regions' position on transcontinental trade
routes and desert-oasis borderlands have led to particular expressions of
the processes which are common to the Islamic world more widely.  It will
also look at the process of modernization and the role of Islam in the
Russian and Soviet imperial contexts.  Particular attention will be given to
the current political, cultural and social processes in which Islam plays a
part in the post-Soviet era.  Students will explore a wide range of topics
in the course readings and their papers.

Primarily for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.  Some
background in Central Asia and/or Islamic civilization preferable.
 

Central Eurasian Studies Society 4th Annual Conference, Harvard U., Oct. 2-5

From: John Schoeberlein - CESS Conference Committee <CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Sep 2003


Dear Colleagues and Students:

The Annual Conference of the Central Eurasia Studies Society, hosted by the
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus and Harvard's Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies, is now just a couple of weeks away -- Oct.
2-5.  We are very excited about what is looking to be an extraordinary
event ... perhaps the largest- and richest-ever gathering of specialists on
this region.

Some of the highlights of the conference include:

 * Over 80 panels on aspects of the study of Central Eurasia.
 * Over 500 panelists representing nearly 40 countries and the full
   spectrum of fields of study.
 * Two plenary panels featuring a line-up of prominent and innovative
   thinkers and practitioners:
   - "Central Eurasian Political Development and Stability: Effects of
     International and Regional Actors,"
   - "Central Eurasian Studies: The State of the Field."
 * A mini film festival, featuring two of the region's most prominent
   and influential filmmakers -- Yusup Razykov and Rachid Nougmanov --
   presenting their films, as well as a number of documentaries from the
   region.
 * An opening event hosted by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
   Studies on Friday, Oct. 3, and a reception hosted by Harvard's Caspian
   Studies Program on Oct. 4.
 * Exhibits by publishers, booksellers and organizations active in the field.
 * A journalists's discussion forum ... and more.

YOUR INVOLVEMENT IS WELCOME:

1) Attend the conference.  If you are interested in attending, please find
full information at the conference website at
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html , where you'll find the
preliminary program (to be updated again within the next day or so).  You
will find there "Info for Attendees" with answers to most questions you
might have.  We also URGE you to fill in the registration form, so that we
can anticipate the number of attendees and so we can prepare your
registration packet.

2) Volunteer!  We are looking for interested students and others to volunteer
in various capacities -- providing information to attendees, helping with
the registration desks, helping with AV set-up, etc.  Conference Volunteers
will receive reduced registration fees and a conference T-shirt -- and the
pleasure of working with the great, diverse team of people putting this
conference together.  If you are interested in volunteering, please send an
e-mail with "CESS Volunteer" in the subject line to <CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu>.

3) Help with Home-Stays.  We need some volunteers to serve as home-stay
hosts for scholars coming from Central Eurasia on limited funds.  We have
had a lot of support from the community, but could use some more.  If you
are able to provide a place to stay for someone during the conference (Oct.
2-5), please contact M. Thuma at <minniemac(a)aol.com> (Ms. Thuma has
graciously coordinated this and is helping a large number of people).

For full information, see:

http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html

If you questions that are not answered there, you can contact us (see below)
-- but please bear in mind that we are now extremely busy with conference
preparations, so we request that you take advantage of the website first,
before contacting us.  Remember that we have hundreds of people contacting us!

On behalf of the CESS Conference Committee and the Davis Center, I encourage
you to become involved in this rare event.

Sincerely,

John Schoeberlein
Chair, CESS Conference Committee
Director, CESS Secretariat
Director, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus


CESS Conference Committee contact info:

e-mail: CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
615 Massachusetts Ave. Rm. 262, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
tel. +1/617-496-2643
fax  +1/617-495-8319
 

CASPIAN STUDIES SEMINAR- Chechen Self-Government, Nabi Abdullaev, Sept. 24

From: Caspian Studies Program <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 15 Sep 2003


Harvard University's Caspian Studies Program is pleased to invite you to a
lecture by

Nabi Abdullaev

Former Associated Press Correspondent
and
Current Mid-Career Master of Public Administration candidate at the Kennedy
School of Government

entitled

"Chechen Self-Government: Is Islam an Obstacle?"

Wednesday, September 24
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Bell Hall, Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University

Moderator: Brenda Shaffer, Ph.D.
Research Director, Caspian Studies Program

For details, see:

<http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/events.cfm?program=CSP&ln=upcoming&gma=4&gma">

Light refreshments will be served

Please RSVP by September 19, 2003 to <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

CASPIAN STUDIES SEMINAR- Rosemarie Forsythe, ExxonMobil Corp, Sept. 18

From: Caspian Studies Program <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Sep 2003


Harvard University's Caspian Studies Program, is pleased to invite you to a 
lecture by:

Rosemarie C. Forsythe
Senior Government Relations and Issues Advisor
ExxonMobil Corporation

entitled

"Caspian Oil in a Global Energy Context: Personal Reflections of a
Policymaker, Diplomat, and Oil Company Executive."

Thursday, September 18
12:00-2:00 PM
Fainsod Room, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Chair: Brenda Shaffer, Ph.D
Research Director, Caspian Studies Program

For details, see:
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/events.cfm?program=CSP&ln=upcoming&gma=4&gma"

A light luncheon will be served. 
Please RSVP by September 15, 2003 to CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu.

JOB- Boston Area Research Institute

From: Monika Shepherd <shepherd(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 31 Jul 2003
 

Pending Confirmation of the Position

A Boston-area research institute seeks qualified bilingual (Russian and
English) applicants with editorial and organizational/administrative
experience for challenging opportunities.

MA required, preferably Ph.D. candidates (A.B.D.)

If interested, please contact the Institute Director at (617) 353-5815.
 

CONFERENCE- Central Eurasian Studies Society, Oct. 3-5, 2003, Harvard U.

From: John Schoeberlein <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 27 Jun 2003
 

Dear Colleagues:

I hope you will consider attending the up-coming Annual Conference of the
Central Eurasian Studies Society, which will be held at Harvard University
on October 2-5, 2003.  We've just completed the Preliminary Program, and it
promises to be quite an event.  It appears it will be the largest gathering
of specialists focused on Central Eurasia ever to be convened.  Many of the
world's leading scholars, as well as a good selection of the "new
generation" of specialists will be presenting their work.

Please have a look at the Preliminary Program on the conference website at:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Program.html

This year's CESS Annual Conference is hosted by the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

The program will include more than 400 panelists, and we expect the number
of people attending the conference could be as many as 700.  The conference
will feature more than 60 panels on topics covering all aspects of the
politics, history, society and culture of the Central Eurasian region --
extending from the Caucasus, Iran and the Volga Basin to Tibet, Mongolia and
Siberia, including all of Central Asia and Inner Asia.

In addition, the conference will include a cultural program (music and
films), as well as two plenary sessions addressing "The State of Central
Eurasian Studies" and "Current Issues Facing Central Eurasia," each with a
panel of prominent and ground-breaking speakers.  Friday evening there will
be a informal catered dinner for all attendees and on Saturday evening 
there will be a reception hosted by the Caspian Studies Program (at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government).

You can find information for attendees, including the pre-registration form
on the conference website.  If you do not have access to the web, you can
contact us at <CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu> or call +1/617-496-2643 for
information.

The conference will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners
focusing on the region.  Early October is the most lovely time to visit
historic Boston/Cambridge, so we feel confident that your attendance of the
conference will be both pleasant and enriching.

I hope that we will see you there!

Sincerely,

John Schoeberlein
Chair, CESS Conference Committee
Director, CESS Secretariat

E-mail:  CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
Fax:  +1/617-495-8319
Tel.: +1/617-496-2643

_____________________________
Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus \ Harvard University
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Rm 262 \ Cambridge, MA 02139 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338  asst.: +1/617-496-2643  fax: +1/617-495-8319
Central Asia and Caucasus Program website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/
Central-Eurasia-L: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Central-Eurasia-L.html
_____________________________
 

Posting for C-A-H-L: EVENT- A Night in Kabul, Winchester High School, MA, June 27

From: Monika Shepherd <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 18 Jun 2003
 

PARSA
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support for Afghanistan

A NIGHT IN KABUL

A benefit to support Afghan women and children through PARSA, Physiotherapy
and Rehabilitation Support for Afghanistan, called "A Night in Kabul," will
be held at the Winchester, Mass. High School Auditorium at 80 Skillings Road
on Friday, June 27 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Starting at 6 p.m., Armen the Magician entertains kids ages 3 to 10. Adults
and students enjoy dessert and coffee and peruse the Afghan Handicrafts table.

The world premiere documentary "Return to Afghanistan, The Forgotten Land"
by Mary Lou Bigelow, shot in October 2002, will be shown at 7 p.m.

A panel discussion follows featuring Najim Azadzoi, Kamar Habibi, Razia Jan,
Wali Shairzay, Tahera Shairzay, Eve Lyman (Afghans for Civil Society), Karen
Hirschfeld, Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould and Mary Lou Bigelow, who
recently revisited Afghanistan.  MIT Professor Reinhard Goethert will moderate.

Suggested donation by check to PARSA at door or mail to "A Night in Kabul"
c/o Arlington Rotary Club, P.O.Box 23, Arlington, MA 02474: $18 adults and
$12 students.

The event is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Farhad Ahad, who
appeared on "The Soul of Afghanistan" panel in March, 2002.

View flyer and press release at <www.maryloubigelow.com> or leave at message
at 781-645-0504

Committee for PARSA Support:

Mary Lou Bigelow * Karen Hirschfeld * Linda Kane * Sydelle Pittas
 

SUMMER REMINDER- Please Notify Central-Eurasia-L of Address Changes

From: John Schoeberlein <schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 May 2003
 
 
With the academic year ending, we would like to ask you, PLEASE:  If you
anticipate a change in your e-mail address, please let us know before your
old e-mail account closes.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.  If we have to try to determine whether your e-mail
account has closed based on the errors we receive from your address, this
takes A LOT OF TIME.  This is because we have to distinguish permanently
expired addresses from temporary problems, which are common.  Because this
is sometimes difficult, we might mistakenly unsubscribe someone who is
experiencing temporary problems, so for the sake of everyone, please be
sure your address does not add to these problems.

To UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS, please just send a note telling us the old address
*and* the new one.  Note also that it is always possible to unsubscribe by
using the "mailto:" unsubscribe address in the header of every posting to
Central-Eurasia-L.

If you are subscribed to any of the following lists, you can let us know to
update them at the same time or go to the web pages to provide your
information: - 
Central-Asia-Harvard-List http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/HPCAC_CAHL.html  
Central-Asia-Inst-List http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_C-A-I-L.html 
Ferghana-Vally http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Ferghana-Valley.html 
AnthEurasia http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_AnthEurasia.html 
Central Eurasian Studies Society mailing list http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Mailing_List.html


By doing this simple task, you will help reduce the burden of administering
Central-Eurasia-L.

Thank you very much for your cooperation!

John Schoeberlein
Central-Eurasia-L Editor
mailto:centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

For more information, see:
http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Central-Eurasia-L.html

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

From: Central-Asia-Harvard-List Editor <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 May 2003


With the academic year ending, we would like to ask you, PLEASE:  If you
anticipate a change in your e-mail address, please let us know before your
old e-mail account closes.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.  If we have to try to determine whether your e-mail
account has closed based on the errors we receive from your address, this
takes A LOT OF TIME.  This is because we have to distinguish permanently
expired addresses from temporary problems, which are common.  Because this
is sometimes difficult, we might mistakenly unsubscribe someone who is
experiencing temporary problems, so for the sake of everyone, please be
sure your address does not add to these problems.

To UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS, please just send a note telling us the old address
*and* the new one.

By doing this simple task, you will help reduce the burden of administering 
Central-Asia-Harvard-List.

Thank you very much for your cooperation!

John Schoeberlein
Director, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
mailto:centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

For more information, see:
http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/HPCAC_CAHL.html
 

Memorial Service for Annemarie Schimmel

From: Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations <nelc(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 May 2003	 


A memorial service for Annemarie Schimmel, Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture
Emerita, will be held on Friday, May 23, at 2:30 p.m. at the Memorial
Church. The service will be followed by a reception in the Thompson Room of
the Barker Center. All members of the Harvard Community are invited to attend. 

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
tel: 617/495-5757
fax: 617/496-8904
www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc

Seeking Cambridge/Boston Home-Stay Hosts for CESS Annual Conference

From: John Schoeberlein - CESS Conference Committee <CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 20 May 2003

   
Dear Friends and Colleagues:

I want to ask your help in connection with the Annual Conference of the
Central Eurasian Studies Society, which will be held at Harvard in October
2-5, 2003.  For the benefit of colleagues from Central Eurasia, we are
trying to help organize home-stays for some of the participants.  As you
know, the cost of an inexpensive Boston hotel is 2-3 times more than the
typical academic salary in many Central Eurasian countries.  Some of our
colleagues will be able to find funding for their travel, but if we can't
help them with accommodations, they will be unable to afford to come.

If you have the possibility to host a visitor or two during these several
days (Oct. 2-5), we would be most grateful -- and you will no doubt have
the lifelong friendship of a dedicated scholar from the region.  There is 
no need for fancy accommodations -- only that there be reasonably 
transportation to get to the Harvard campus

Margaretta Thuma has very kindly offered to help coordinate this for us,
and has been contacted by those participants who are hoping for home-stays.
If you can offer to host someone -- or if you know generous souls who
would enjoy this opportunity to meet with some pretty interesting visitors
-- please be in touch with Ms. Thuma at <minniemac(a)aol.com>.

Thank you very much,

John Schoeberlein

Director, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Chair, Conference Committee, Central Eurasian Studies Society
E-mail: CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu
 

EVENT- Thomas W. Simons, Islam in Globalizing World, Harvard Book Store, May 9

From: Amanda Darling <adarling(a)harvard.com>
Posted: 8 May 2003


Please join us for Harvard Book Store's May 9th Friday Forum with Thomas W.
Simons Jr., Director of the Program on Eurasia in Transition at Harvard's
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Visiting Diplomat-Scholar
at Wellesley College, who will be discussing his new book ISLAM IN A
GLOBALIZING WORLD.

Harvard Book Store's acclaimed Friday Forum Series invites prominent
scholars into the store for a spirited discussion of their new books. Forums
take place on Fridays at 3 PM in the bookstore during the academic year. No
tickets are required. For more information about this event and the Friday
Forum series, visit <http://www.harvard.com/events/fridayforum.html>

Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you there!

Amanda Darling
Senior Marketing Coordinator
Harvard Book Store
PW's 2002 Bookseller of the Year!
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
ph: 617.661.0372
fax: 617.497.7842
e-mail: <adarling(a)harvard.com>
 

LECTURE- Mabel Cabot, A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia, May 1

From: Globe Corner Bookstore <events(a)gcb.com>
Posted: 28 Apr 2003


Mabel Cabot, Author of "Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China 
& Mongolia, 1921-1925"

Thursday, May 1, 6:00 pm

Location:

First Parish Church
3 Church St.
Harvard Square, Cambridge

Book signing and Reception following the lecture:

The Globe Corner Bookstore
28 Church Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge

The Globe Corner Bookstores Adventure Travel Lecture Series

Note: Free, reservations requested.  Not wheelchair accessible.

Contact: <events(a)gcb.com>, 617 730-3900 x21
 

Life After War: Film Screening and Discussion with Sarah Chayes, May 1

From: Barbara Petzen <bpetzen(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 Apr 2003


Life After War

The struggle to rebuild war-ravaged Afghanistan is seen through the eyes of 
Center for Middle Eastern Studies alumna and former NPR war correspondent 
Sarah Chayes. Quitting her job in mid-career because she "was compelled to 
do more than just report," Chayes returned to Afghanistan as a humanitarian 
after the events of September 11, 2001. Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger 
follows Chayes in this unique and sometimes harrowing documentary as she 
battles rugged conditions, struggles with limited resources and eventually 
must confront an Afghan warlord to rebuild a small village destroyed by U.S. 
bombs in the battle for Kandahar.

Film and discussion Thursday, May 1, 4-6 p.m.
Room 406, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
1430 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Co-sponsored with Afghans for Civil Society

Barbara Petzen
Outreach Coordinator,
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
1430 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)496-1002
(617)495-4078
 

PROGRAM INFORMATION- Intensive Arabic Workshop, Newton, Mass., May 3-4

From: "W. Salmun" <wafaams(a)hotmail.com>
Posted: 25 Apr 2003


This will be the last Intensive Workshop (Part I) for beginners to be 
offered this year (2003).

Intensive Arabic Workshop I in Newton, MA

Sponsored by the Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS) in 
Cambridge, MA on Saturday & Sunday, May 3 and 4.  Learners will practice 
Arabic reading and writing, vocabulary and simple grammar and will leave the 
workshop able to read and write words and phrases.

Location:

Walker Center
171 Grove St.
Newton, Mass.

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: 7 registrants
Maximum: 15

Saturday, May 3, 9:30 AM-4:30 PM
Sunday, May 4, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM

Registration Fee:

$150 (with a package of 2 books & 2 CDs)
With lunches on both days: $175

Registration Deadline:  April 30, 2003

INEAS members receive 15% to 35% discount.

No registration is allowed at the door

Holiday Inn is located at 399 Grove St., 10-minute walk from the Walker 
Center for those who need accommodation.
To make reservations, call the Holiday Inn at (617) 969-5300. Please make 
reservations before April 30.

Professional Development Points (PDP's): 13

For Registration, please visit our website at <http://www.INEAS.org> and 
click on 'events'. The registration form will be in the bottom of the page.

Please mail check payable to INEAS with registration form to:

Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS)
P.O. Box 425125
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: (617) 86-INEAS (864-6327)

CHINA LUNCH SEMINAR- Russian-Chinese Relations since the 18th Century, May 5

From: Asia Center <asiactr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 Apr 2003


"The Bear Watches the Dragon: Russia's Perceptions of China and the
Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations since the Eighteenth Century"

Alexander Lukin, Professor of Comparative Politics, Moscow State Institute
of International Relations

Monday, May 5, 12:30 PM
Seminar Room 2, 625 Mass Ave.
Central Square, Cambridge

China Lunchtime Seminar

Co-Sponsored by the Fairbank Center and the Davis Center

Fairbank Center Telephone: (617) 495-4046
Davis Center Telephone: (617) 495-4037
 

SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR- Partisans of Allah: Jihad in Theory and History, May 2

From: Asia Center <asiactr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 Apr 2003


"Partisans of Allah: Jihad in Theory and History"

Ayesha Jahal
Professor of History, Tufts University and MacArthur Fellow


Friday, May 2, 4:00-6:00 PM
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge

South Asia without Borders Seminar

Sponsored by the Asia Center
Telephone: (617) 496-6273
 

CASPIAN STUDIES PANEL- US Military Cooperation with the South Caucasus, May 13

From: Caspian Studies Program <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 21 Apr 2003


The Caspian Studies Program at Harvard University, in cooperation with the
Black Sea Security Program, is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion
about U.S.-Caucasian security cooperation featuring senior security experts
from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

"U.S. Security and Military Cooperation with the Countries of the South
Caucasus: Successes and Shortcomings."

Tuesday, May 13, 2003
12:30-1:50 PM
Taubman BC
5th Floor, Taubman Building
Kennedy School of Government

Speakers:

 * Ashot Voskanian
   Head, Policy Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

 * Elman Agayev
   Deputy Chief, Security Affairs Department, Azerbaijan

 * Mamuka Kudava
   Director, Department of USA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Georgia

Chair:

Brenda Shaffer
Research Director, Caspian Studies Program

Due to increased concerns about international terrorism, the United States
has paid more attention to the Caucasus region over the past year and a
half than ever before.

U.S. cooperation with countries in the region has taken the form of both
bilateral military ties (such as the U.S. military's training of Georgian
military personnel in counterterrorism methods) and attempts to integrate
Caucasian countries into international security organizations (such as the
NATO Partnership for Peace Program).

But is U.S. policy toward the Caucasus--determined largely by Washington's
own international security interests and focused primarily on
counterterrorism and regional cooperation--helping Armenia, Azerbaijan, and
Georgia confront what these three countries perceive as their own most
urgent security needs?

A light luncheon will be served.
Please RSVP by Thursday, May 8 to <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>


The Caspian Studies Program
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 John F. Kennedy Str. Cambridge, MA 02138
telephone: (617) 496-1981
fax: (617) 496-8779
email: <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
web: <http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/?program=CSP>
 

CASPIAN STUDIES EVENT- UNDP's Kalman Mizsei, Eastern Europe & CIS, April 23

From: Caspian Studies Program <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Apr 2003


The Center for International Development, the Caspian Studies Program, and
the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe present:

"Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: UNDP's
Perspective of Development and Integration Challenges"

with

Mr. Kalman Mizsei
Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and
the Commonwealth of Independent States, United Nations Development
Programme

Wednesday, April 23, 2003
4:00-5:30 PM
Allison Dining Room, Kennedy School of Government
5th Floor, Taubman Building

with

Ambassador Richard Morningstar
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government;
former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union moderating

RSVP to cid_events(a)harvard.edu by Monday, April 21.
Light refreshments will be served.

Kalman Mizsei is the Assistant Administrator and the Director of the
Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Assistant
Secretary-General of the United Nations.  He also serves as the Deputy
Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl.  Prior to his
current position at UNDP, Mr. Mizsei was the Chief Investment Officer for
Central and Eastern Europe with American International Group, Inc.  He has
also served as chairman of the Hungarian Export Import Bank, Ltd. and of
the Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Ltd.  As Vice President for Economic
Programmes of the EastWest Institute as well as in other positions, Mr.
Mizsei has acted as a senior advisor to governments of the regional on
their economic transition and reform as well as on such issues as
privatization, debt relief, governance, banking, and bankruptcy reform.  He
served as Deputy Director of the Institute for World Economics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was a major participant in the East and
Central European Transformation project sponsored by the United Nations
University.  Mr. Mizsei was born in Budapest, Hungary.  He holds a Ph.D. in
Economics from the Budapest University of Economics.
 

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS SEMINAR- Barnett Rubin, Afghanistan, April 21

From: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Apr 2003


Central Asia & Caucasus Seminar Series Spring 2003

"Afghanistan: A Regional Perspective on Reconstruction"

Dr. Barnett Rubin
Director of Studies and Senior Fellow
Center on International Cooperation
New York University

Monday, April 21
4:15-6:00 pm

Seminar Room 3
625 Massachusetts Avenue
Central Square, Cambridge

Open to the public

Sponsored by:

Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
/ Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies


Directions to our new location at 625 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square
can be found at:
<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about_us/directions.html>

For further information, contact:

Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus, 617-496-2643,
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 617-495-4037,
daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
 

PRESENTATION- Human Rights in Chechnya, KSG Belfer Center, April 17

From: Harvard Friends of Amnesty International <amnesty(a)hcs.harvard.edu>
Posted: 17 Apr 2003


This Thursday at 6 PM, please join Harvard Friends of Amnesty International 
for....

ANOTHER WAR ON TERROR? Human Rights in Chechnya

A presentation by Bela Tsugaeva and Eliza Moussaeva, human rights activists
who work with victims and refugees in Chechnya and Ingushetia, Russia.

6:00 pm
Bell Hall
5th floor of the Belfer Center
Kennedy School of Government

Free pizza and refreshments will be provided

Co-sponsored by:

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Harvard College Human Rights Consortium

More about the speakers:

Eliza Moussaeva

In Chechnya, where few US journalists and US officials dare to tread, Ms.
Eliza Moussaeva has been on the front lines in documenting human rights
violations. Ms. Eliza Moussaeva is the head of the regional branch of the
human rights organization Memorial in Nazran, Ingushetia. Her office
provides free legal consultations to Chechen refugees and monitors the legal
situation in Chechnya. Her office also work on trial cases at the Court of
Strasbourg. She has contributed to several books on human rights in Chechnya
including "Cleansing." Memorial is a movement that gained prominence during
the years of Perestroika, or opening, during the 1980's. The main tasks of
the organization are to record and preserve the memory of severe political
persecution in the Soviet Union, as well as gathering information about
gross human rights violations in the territories of the former USSR. Ms.
Moussaeva is trained as a psychologist and works on the psychological
rehabilitation for victims. Ms. Moussaeva graduated from the Chechen State
University in 1987 with a degree in Geography. She later went on to obtain
an advanced degree in psychology and from 1996 to 2000 worked as a faculty
member at the Pedagogical Institute of Grozny.

Bela Tsugaeva

Bela Tsugaeva was the administrator of the Nazran Legal Counseling Center
working with internally displaced persons from Chechnya, for the
International Rescue Committee, and for the Danish Refugee Council. She
currently works in World Vision as a program assistant. Ms. Tsugaeva
graduated from the Chechen State University in 1993 with a degree in
English. She stayed on as faculty after graduation and is currently in her
third year of postgraduate work in English. Ms. Tsugaeva has residences in
Grozny, Chechnya and Nazran, Ingushetia.

For more information, please email <amnesty(a)hcs.harvard.edu>
 

Caspian Stds Seminar- Amb. Morningstar, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, May 8

From: Caspian Studies Program <CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>
Posted: 16 Apr 2003


The Caspian Studies Program at Harvard University is pleased to invite you
to a luncheon seminar with Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar on the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.

The luncheon will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2003, from 1:00-2:30 PM in
the Allison Dining Room on the 5th floor of the Taubman Building at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Ambassador Morningstar, former Special Advisor to the President and
Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy, will address the
topic, "From Pipedream to Pipeline: The Realization of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline."  Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Research Director of
the Caspian Studies Program, will chair.

Ambassador Morningstar is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy
School and is a former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and Special
Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance for the New
Independent States of the former Soviet Union.  As Special Advisor on the
Caspian, he played an integral role in helping to develop the BTC pipeline.

A light luncheon will be served.  Please RSVP by May 5, 2003, to
<CSP(a)ksg.harvard.edu>.  We look forward to seeing you at this event.

Sincerely,

The Caspian Studies Program
 

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS SEMINAR- Alanna Cooper, Central Asian Jews, April 22

From: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 14 Apr 2003


Central Asia & Caucasus Seminar Series Spring 2003

"Looking Out for One's Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of
Communism"

Dr. Alanna Cooper
Senior Fellow
Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University

Tuesday, April 22
4:15-6:00 pm

Seminar Room 2
625 Massachusetts Avenue
Central Square, Cambridge
Open to the public

Sponsored by:

Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
/ Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies


Prior to the USSR's demise, some 45,000 Central Asian Jews lived in the 
republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.  Like most of the Jews of the Soviet 
Empire, their contact with the wider Jewish world was severely limited 
during the 70 years of Communist rule.  Since the dissolution of the Soviet 
Union, however, the iron curtain, which let few in and few out, has been 
thrown wide open.  Both outward movement, in the form of massive emigration, 
and inward movement, in the form of travelers and emissaries, has 
reconnected Central Asia's Jews with the wider Jewish world.  Based on 18 
months of fieldwork among Central Asia's Jews, this paper demonstrates that 
their religious practice and their notions of Jewish identity became highly 
localized during the Soviet era.  Furthermore, the paper explores the work 
of a number of Jewish emissary organizations that have established a strong 
presence in Uzbekistan since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.   It 
demonstrates how local Jews' assumptions about religion and self have been 
challenged by the variety of new global definitions of Judaism and 
Jewishness to which they have been introduced.


Directions to our new location at 625 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square
can be found at:
<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about_us/directions.html>

For further information, contact:

Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus, 617-496-2643,
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 617-495-4037,
daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
 

CHINESE RELIGION SEMINAR- Veiling Practices in the Xi'an Muslim District, Apr. 11

From: Asia Center <asiactr(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Apr 2003


"Headcovers (gaitou) and Saudi Kerchiefs (shajin): A Look at Women's Veiling
Practices in the Xi'an Muslim District"

Maris Gillette, Haverford College

Friday, April 11, 12:30 PM
Seminar Room 3
625 Mass Ave.
Central Square, Cambridge

Coordinators: Rob Weller and Michael Puett

Seminar on Chinese Religions

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

EVENTS- Chechnya Series at Harvard Law School

From: Stephan Sonnenberg <ssonnenb(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 9 Apr 2003


Negotiating Chechnya's Future: Human Rights, Terrorism & the Prospects for
Peace

Please join the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Harvard
Law School Human Rights Program for three events focusing on Chechnya and
its continued violent struggle with Russia.  This series seeks to explore
the prospects of negotiating a settlement to the conflict in Chechnya, given
the recent shifts in international geopolitical thinking, the global war on
terrorism, and continued allegations of grievous human rights abuses by
Russian forces.

Wednesday, April 16, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (Harvard Law School, Pound 101):

Panel Discussion (presentations followed by questions and answers) with
special guests:

 * Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister of Chechnya
 * Oleg Kharkhordin, visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and
   Eurasian Studies at Harvard
 * Arthur Martirosyan, Conflict Management Group negotiation specialist with
   extensive experience in Chechnya
 * Nicholas Daniloff (moderator), journalist and former Moscow bureau chief
   for U.S. News & World Report

Thursday, April 17, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Harvard Law School, Pound 204):

Screening of film Prisoner of the Caucasus, a modern-day retelling of the
classic Tolstoy novel on the conflict of cultures in the Caucasus, followed
by discussion.

Wednesday, April 30, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Harvard Law School, Pound 204):

Screening of the film Immortal Fortress, a documentary on the conflict in
Chechnya, followed by discussion.

Refreshments will be served at all three events.

The events are free and open to the public.

If you have any questions, please see the PON website:
<http://www.pon.harvard.edu/news/2003/chechnya.php3>

or contact Stephan Sonnenberg at <ssonnenb(a)law.harvard.edu>
 

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS SEMINAR- Musa Yusupov, The Situation in Chechnya, Apr 8

From: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus <centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 7 Apr 2003


Central Asia Seminar Series Spring 2003

"The Situation in Chechnya: Prospects for Settlement of the
Russian-Chechen Conflict"

Musa Yusupov
Head of the Center for Socio-Strategic Research, Groznyi

Tuesday, April 8
4:15-6:00 pm

The lecture will be given in Russian with translation.

625 Massachusetts Avenue (Central Square)
Seminar Room 2
Cambridge, MA

Open to the public

Sponsored by:

Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus/Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

and

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

For further information, contact:

Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus, 617-496-2643,
centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 617-495-4037,
daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/
 

FILM/DISCUSSION- Women and Citizenship, Islamic Legal Studies Program, April 9

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 4 Apr 2003


The Islamic Legal Studies Program invites you to:

"In the Name of God: Women and Citizenship"

An evening of film and discussion on religion, politics, citizenship,
and the place of women in the public domain.

Wednesday, April 9
7:00 - 9:30 pm

Langdell South (NOTE corrected venue)
Harvard Law School

The evening begins with a showing of the 2002 film "Mrs. President: Women
and Political Leadership in Iran" by Shahla Haeri, Director of the Women's
Studies Program at Boston University. The 45-minute film is comprised of
interviews with six of the would-be candidates and two feminist journal
editors, interspersed with footage of the 2001 campaign.

Following the film, director Professor Haeri will be joined for a panel
discussion by:

 * Eva Bellin, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
 * Houchang Chehabi, Professor of International Relations, Boston University
 * Rachel McCleary, Director of the Project on Religion, Political Economy
   and Society, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard
University

Moderator:

Frank Vogel, Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School

Refreshments will be served.

For planning purposes, We would be happy to hear if you plan to attend,
though an rsvp is not required. Please let us know if you have any
questions, and we hope you can join us for this wonderful event.

Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
1563 Mass Ave.  Pound 501
Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: (617) 496-3941
Website: <www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ILSP>

JOB/VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES- Afghan Legal History Project, Harvard Law School

From: Islamic Legal Studies Program <ilsp(a)law.harvard.edu>
Posted: 28 Mar 2003


Professor Frank Vogel, Harvard Law School, seeks participants for a research
project during spring and summer 2003. Three types of opportunities are
available: full-time paid researchers, part-time paid program support, and
volunteer working group members.

1) The full-time research group will consist of 3-5 members and will produce
short to medium length research papers on such topics as:

 * Afghan legal history, including past constitutions, court systems,
   general legal structure
 * diverse influences on legal and political development, including Sufism,
   Shi'ism, Sunnism, tribalism
 * the role of secular ideologies such as Marxism

The project's end products will explore the history of Afghan legal culture
and present a normative picture to inform current political developments.
The tone and positioning of the papers will be academic and neutral; the
audience will be general but will include NGOs, donors and policymakers,
both Afghan and international. The project aims to increase sensitivity and
inform decision-making and discussion among those participating in the
rebuilding of Afghanistan. Papers produced for this project may not be used
in other contexts.

The full-time positions will run for 10 weeks starting June 16 and will be
paid an hourly rate of $20 for a 40 hour week. Shared office space will be
provided at the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School.  A
minimum time commitment of 30 paid hours (5 hours per week over 6 weeks)
will also be required between April and May to prepare for the summer
project. This time will be compensated at the standard student research
assistant rate of $14 per hour.

Candidates must have strong research skills and experience and some regional
and/or subject matter expertise. Foreign language skills (Arabic and Farsi
as well as European languages) are particularly valuable.

2) There is also a part-time (10 hours per week maximum) position available
   to support the project in the following ways:

 * Organize enrichment events to inform research and discussion, such as
   visiting speakers, films, conferences, etc.
 * Administer regular working group meetings for research feedback and
   discussion
 * Cultivate outreach network to ensure project addresses the most critical
   issues for policy makers
 * Develop and expand bibliography and project library

This position represents an excellent way for someone with another summer
commitment in Cambridge to participate in and support the project.
Candidates may not hold any other paid position at Harvard University during
this period, due to labor limitations.

3) In addition to paid positions, the project also invites participation in
an unpaid working group which will meet regularly (one evening weekly or
bi-weekly) throughout July and August to review and discuss research papers
in progress. We welcome all interested parties, regardless of background or
field of expertise, as long as a commitment can be made to attend a majority
of the scheduled meetings.

Questions can be addressed to Becca O'Brien at <robrien(a)law.harvard.edu> or
Kristin Mendoza at <kmendoza(a)fas.harvard.edu>


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>

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION- CESS Annual Meeting, Oct. 2-5, 2003, Harvard University

From: John Schoeberlein - CESS Conference Committee <CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Posted: 19 Mar 2003


Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
4th Annual Conference
October 2-5, 2003
Harvard University

Submission Deadline: April 4, 2003


Dear Colleagues:

I want to encourage your participation in the Central Eurasian Studies
Society's Annual Meeting, which will be held at Harvard this year in
October.  I hope and expect that this will be worth your while and I very
much hope that you will be involved.

This should be an important event for all those interested in Central
Eurasia (Inner Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Volga Basin, etc.).  We
expect that it will be an unprecedented gathering of scholars of this field,
drawing in both the prominent scholars, as well as many of the graduate
students and others with a commitment to the area.  As you may know, the
Central Eurasian Studies Society been developing rapidly and has now grown
to over 1,000 members.  We anticipate as many as 200+ panel participants at
the conference.  For more information about all of CESS's activities, see:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu

We hope you can present a paper, or better still, encourage some of your 
colleagues to join you in a panel on a topic of common interest.  Please 
think of this as your opportunity to bring together some of the really 
interesting people whom you would like to engage in a stimulating session.  
We particularly look to the Harvard community and area scholars to help in 
this, since your encouragement to colleagues to come to Boston at this time 
will undoubtedly add to the draw.  As you know, October is undoubtedly the 
best time to visit Cambridge!

Note that the conference will be held over three days, with arrival on
afternoon/evening of Thursday, Oct. 2, and sessions running from Friday
morning through Sunday morning (Oct. 3-5).  Please save these dates in your
schedule!

Please also note that the **deadline** for paper or panel submissions is
April 4.

The Call for Papers is included below.  Full information about the
conference is available from the website at
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html

Please let me know if you have any questions.  I very much look forward to
your participation enhancing the conference.

Yours Sincerely,

John Schoeberlein

Director, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Chair, CESS Conference Committee
Past-President, Central Eurasian Studies Society

e-mail: CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu
web:    http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html


*  *  *  *  *  *

Call for Papers
CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY (CESS)
Fourth Annual Conference (2003)

October 2-5, 2003
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) invites panel and paper
proposals for the Fourth CESS Annual Conference, October 2-5, 2003, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The event will be held at Harvard University,
hosted by the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard's Davis
Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Panel and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social
science scholarship on Central Eurasia are welcome.  The geographic domain
of Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea and Iranian Plateau to
Mongolia and Siberia, including the Caucasus, Crimea, Middle Volga,
Afghanistan, Tibet, and Central and Inner Asia.

Please see the conference website
(http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html), or contact us for full
conference information and proposal submission requirements (e-mail:
CESSconf(a)fas.harvard.edu).

Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged and will be
given some preference in the selection process.  Individual papers are also
welcome and will be assigned by the program committee to an appropriate
panel with a chair and discussant.  We also welcome attendees who do not
wish to participate in a panel (see the Pre-registration Form on the
conference website).


SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

The Conference Committee accepts only electronic submissions -- either by
webform or by e-mail form in the case of those who don't have web access.
Please contact us to receive the e-mail submission forms in MS Word or PDF
format (please specify your preference).

The following information is required for submissions; we suggest that you
prepare the text before accessing the website so you can simply paste the
information into the form:

For paper presenters: 1) Name, 2) Current institutional affiliation,
3) Title/position, 4) E-mail, 5) Postal address, 6) Telephone, 7) Fax,
8) Title of Paper, 9) Abstract of Paper (a summary of the paper not exceeding
200 words), 10) Any audio-visual equipment requests (specify: overhead
projector, slide project, video player), 11) A one-page CV which contains
educational background and other information which the panel chair may
require for introductions.  If you are accepted and participate in the
conference, your abstract will be published, so please write it carefully to
avoid errors and ensure that it conforms with the criteria for a good
abstract (see Guidelines for Writing Abstracts on the conference website).

For panels: Proposals may be submitted for regular panels (with presentation
of scholarly papers) and roundtables (featuring discussion of a current
topic in the field).

Regular Panels: In addition to the information for paper presenters (as
indicated above), the following are also required: a) a panel title, and
b) name, affiliation, and contact information of the panel chair and
discussant.  Panels should have four or five paper presenters, a chair, and
a discussant.  The program committee can accept panel submissions which lack
up to two of these; the other panel participants will be filled in as
necessary.  Pre-organized panels should be thematically coherent and may be
organized by a scholarly organization (though this is not required).

Roundtable Panels: A roundtable has four to six presenters and a
chair/moderator.  For roundtable proposals, the organizer must provide a
paragraph describing the panel objectives and providing justification for
use of the roundtable format.  The same information is required of each
participant as for regular panels with the exception that abstracts are not
required.

Best Paper Award: There will be an award in the amount of $500 given to the
best graduate student conference paper submitted to the Awards Committee for
consideration.  See the CESS awards webpage for details
(http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Awards.html), or contact the Awards
Committee Chair, Prof. Gregory Gleason <gleasong(a)unm.edu>.

Program Limitations: No participant may present more than one paper at the
conference.  Without special justification, the program committee will not
schedule any individual to appear on more than two panels as a paper
presenter or discussant.


SCHEDULE OF KEY DATES

April 4, 2003       Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals

June 2, 2003        Notification of acceptance

September 1, 2003   Pre-registration deadline

September 15, 2003  Papers should be submitted to chairs/discussants

October 2-5, 2003   Conference
 - Arrival to Cambridge/Boston on the afternoon/evening of Thursday, Oct. 2
 - Sessions from Friday morning and through mid-day on Sunday, Oct. 5


REGISTRATION

Membership in CESS is not required for participation in the Annual
Conference, though we strongly encourage it, and CESS membership entitles
you to reduced conference registration fees.  See the CESS Membership Form
for details: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Membership.html

Payment of registration fees is required for all attending the conference,
as follows:

Regular fee members*:          $55 (pre-registration) or $65 (at conference)
Reduced fee members**:         $35 (pre-registration) or $45 (at conference)
Non-members:                   $70 (pre-registration) or $80 (at conference)
Harvard students:              $30 (pre-registration) or $35 (at conference)
Harvard student CESS members:  $20 (pre-registration) or $25 (at conference)

*  "Regular fee members" are those who have paid their annual dues at $30.
** "Reduced fee members" are those who have current membership at reduced
   fees ($0-$15).

For methods of payment, see the Proposal Submission Form on the conference
website.

NOTE: CESS does not have funds to support the costs of conference
parti