Cities worldwide are undergoing a profound transformation process under the umbrella of neoliberalism. Decentralization and deregulation of urban policy, and an increasing marketization and commercialization… Read More »CESS EVENT: Urban Activism in Central Eurasia
Dialogues between Blackness and Central Asia are not new but have been deemed unimportant in academia – it exposes whose and what type of work is privileged
The 2022 annual CESS conference was held in Bloomington, IN. from October 20th to 23rd at the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)… Read More »2022 Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society at Indiana University
Omar Sadr, the recipient of the 2022 CESS Best Book Award in the Social Sciences for his 2021 book “Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan,” talked… Read More »Understanding the role of history and culture of Afghanistan — Omar Sadr, CESS 22 Book Award Winner
Dr. Kenneth Linden presented D. Namdag’s “Howl of the Old Wolf” and Wolves as Metaphor in Socialist Mongolia at CESS 2022. The novel was banned… Read More »Dr. Kenneth Linden – CESS 2022 – Participant Highlight
A new post is available at The CESS blog. Alfinura Sharafeyeva (University of Adelaide) interviews Alexandr Akimov (Griffith University), one of the editors of the… Read More »Author Interview: 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries, edited by Alexandr Akimov and Gennadi Kazakevitch
A new post is available at The CESS blog. Niamatullah Ibrahimi (La Trobe University) interviews Romain Malejacq (Radboud University) about his book Warlord Survival: The… Read More »Author Interview: Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan, by Romain Malejacq
A new post is available at The CESS blog. Mirshad Ghalip (Indiana University) interviews Tim Grose (Rose Hulman Institute of Technology) about his book Negotiating Inseparability… Read More »Author Interview: Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity, by Tim Grose
A new post is available at The CESS blog. Nicholas Seay (The Ohio State University) interviews Shoshana Keller (Hamilton College) about her work for the… Read More »Author Interview: Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence, by Shoshana Keller
A new post is available at The CESS blog. Daigengna Duoer (University of California, Santa Barbara) interviews Matthew King (University of California, Riverside), on his… Read More »Author Interview: Oceans of Milk, Oceans of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire, by Matthew King