The CESS 2024 Conference took place in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, from June 6–9, 2024, hosted by the esteemed Turan University, one of Kazakhstan’s leading educational institutions.

For CESS 2024, we invited submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship across the region. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia, Inner Asia, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe. Practitioners and scholars in all fields were encouraged to participate.

The CESS Annual Conference in Almaty was a huge success, becoming the largest CESS Conference to date, with over 400 attendees from all over the world. CESS President Ablet Kamalov (Turan University) and CESS Past President Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University) played a key part in the organization of the conference.

Keynote Speakers 

The CESS Annual Conference in Almaty had two keynote speakers: Sarah Cameron, who spoke about studying Central Asia in the age of climate change and Gulnara Abikeyeva, who explored the decolonization of Central Asian cinema.

The conference was in-person only.

CESS 2024 Conference on social media: The conference hashtag on Twitter was #CESS2024. Find CESS on Twitter @CESS_news and on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/cess.info.

Programme
Interviews from the conference can be found on our YouTube channel

Conference Committee
Chair: Ablet Kamalov. Ablet Kamalov is a Professor of History at Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. His research interests include the history, historiography, and culture of the Turkic peoples of Chinese Central Asia, primarily the Uyghurs, and Diaspora studies.