Becoming an Activist Scholar: Towards More Politically Engaged and Socially Accountable Research Practices in Central Asian Studies
A new post is available at The CESS blog by Mohira Suyarkulova of American University of Central Asia, Becoming and Activist Scholar: Towards More Politically Engaged and Socially Accountable Research Practices in Central Asian Studies Editor’s note: Here we present the full text of one of the invited key note speeches at this year’s annual […]
Connecting the Dots Around the XUAR Camps:Bringing Together a Year of Diverse Research
A new post is live at The CESS blog by Rune Steenberg of University of Copenhagen, Connecting the Dots Around the XUAR Camps: Bringing Together a Year of Diverse Research It has been a good year since the international media and organisations world wide have begun to pay increased attention to the internment camps in […]
In Memoriam – David Morgan (1945-2019)
Professor David Orrin Morgan passed away on October 23, 2019 due to endocarditis and multiple organ failure after aortic valve replacement and a coronary bypass graft two days prior. Although his death at age 74 was far too early, he left an enduring legacy through his family, scholarship, and the students he mentored. Best known […]
Author Interview: Leah Feldman on “On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus”
In this fourth and final installment of our author interview series, the CESS blog is pleased to welcome Bruce Grant (New York University), in conversation with the winner of this year’s CESS book prize, Leah Feldman (University of Chicago) for her work On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus. From the Cornell […]
Author Interview: Jeff Eden on “Slavery and Empire in Central Asia”
A new post is live at The CESS blog. In this third installation of our series featuring those books shortlisted by CESS for this year’s prize, Sergey Salushchev (University of California, Santa Barbara) who interviews Jeff Eden (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) about his book Slavery and Empire in Central Asia. From the Cambridge University Press website: […]
Turkologist Andrei Kubatin Acquitted September 26, 2019
September 27, 2019 CESS is very pleased to share the news of Andrei Kubatin’s acquittal yesterday by a Tashkent regional criminal court. Nadezhda Ataeva, President of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, posted a photo of Kubatin and his family with a comment, “Free!” See the following articles at Ferghana News and Eurasia.net […]
More of the Same: Kazakhstan’s Leadership Change Between Ageing Leadership and Popular Discontent
A new post is now up at The CESS blog by Luca Anceschi of University of Glasgow, More of the Same: Kazakhstan’s Leadership Change Between Ageing Leadership and Popular Discontent If there is only one lesson to be learned from Kyrgyzstan’s recent presidential dispute—a chain of tumultuous events that led to the arrest and detention […]
Statement concerning disappearance and sentencing of Tashpolat Tiyip, former President of Xinjiang University
We, the members of the Central Eurasian Studies society, express our strong concern over the disappearance and sentencing of Tashpolat Tiyip, a prominent Uyghur academic. Tashpolat Tiyip was the President of Xinjiang University. It has been reported that he currently faces execution in China.
Statement concerning the detention of Rahile Dawut, Professor of Uyghur folklore, detained in Xinjiang
On behalf of the members of the Central Eurasian Studies society, we write to express our strong concern over the disappearance of our academic colleague Rahile Dawut.
The History of Soviet Anthropology in Kazakhstan
In this special post Rinat Shayakhmetov, grandson of the first Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Zhumabay Shayakhmetov and himself a researcher of Soviet Kazakhstan, presents a narrative history of his uncle Noel Shayakhmetov, one of Kazakhstan’s first scientists working in the field of physical anthropology.