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) at Indiana University “The Central…
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 with CESS Communications Associate Kenneth…
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 during the socialist era because…
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 volume 30 Years since the Fall of…
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 Delusion of State Building in…
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 in China: The Xinjiang Class…
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 New Books Network; you may…
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 book Ocean of Milk, Ocean of…
A new post is available at The CESS blog by Arzuu Sheranova of Corvinus University of Budapest, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding by International Organizations and the Government in Kyrgyzstan Since…
A new post is available at The CESS blog by Elena Okladnikova of Herzen University (Translated by Richard Bland of University of Oregon), Vera Zaporozhskaya – Scholar of Siberia Editor’s…
A new post is available at The CESS blog by Kamila Kovyazina, Rural Women in Kazakhstan: Double Vulnerability This blog presents some of the results of the study of rural women’s economic…
A new post is available at The CESS blog by Jakhongir Kakhkharov of Flinders University, Australia, Framing the Impact of Remittances from Labour Migrants in Central Asia Labour migrants’ remittances…
A new post is available at The CESS blog. Alfinura Sharafeyeva (University of Adelaide) interviews Professor Richard Pomfret (University of Adelaide) about the course of his work and career, including…
A new post is available at The CESS blog by Sara O’Connor of University of California Irvine, Presence is Dominance: The History of Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site and Russia’s Influence…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
A new post is live at The CESS blog. In this second installation of our series featuring those books shortlisted by CESS for this year’s prize, we welcome Nurlan Kabdylkhak…
A new post is live at The CESS blog. This is the first in a series of author interviews highlighting the books shortlisted for this year’s prize. Here we welcome…
A new post is live at The CESS blog by Maria Louw of Aarhus University, "Aging in the Absence of the Young and in the Presence of the Ancestor Spirits"
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.
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…