The Cotton Republic: Colonial Practices in Soviet Uzbekistan?
A new post is live at The CESS Blog, by Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (NRU HSE), "The Cotton Republic: Colonial Practices in Soviet Uzbekistan?"
Emma Sabzalieva
Author Interview: Film and Identity in Kazakhstan
A recent interview with Rico Isaacs, author of Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (Bloomsbury 2018), has been published at The CESS Blog.
Statement of concern over the indictment of Professor Andrei V. Kubatin, Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent
CESS issues a statement of concern regarding the indictment of our colleague, Andrei V. Kubatin (Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent), in Uzbekistan.
Kemal H. Karpat – Obituary
Kemal H. Karpat was a scholar of Ottoman history and a strong promoter of Ottoman, Turkish, and Central Asian studies.
Safer and Fairer: The Value of Cooperative Approaches to Fieldwork
A new post is live at The CESS Blog by Philipp Lottholz of the University of Marburg.
Thomas T. Allsen – Obituary
Thomas T. Allsen was one of the most outstanding scholars of the history and culture of Medieval Eurasia and of the Mongol Empire, in particular.
The Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research Project
A new post is up at The CESS Blog by James Plumtree of the American University of Central Asia.
Shifting Seas: The Lived Landscapes of Aral
A new post is up at The CESS Blog by Grace H. Zhou of Stanford University.
Author Interview with Scott Levi: The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the Global Age
A new post is up at The CESS Blog. Author and historian, Scott Levi, reflects upon the questions posed to him at a recent author-critic forum centered around his latest book.
Representing the Social Costs of Migration: Abandoned Wives or Nonchalant Women
A new post is up at The CESS Blog by Malika Bahovadinova of the Oriental Institute at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.