Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus Events
The events draw a varied audience with an interest in the region.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office
Disclaimer
Please note that every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained on the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot guarantee, however, that subsequent changes have not been made. Please be advised to check information relating to scheduled events by using the contact information provided.
2012
February
02/02/12
- Kazakhstan between Stability and Transformation: Elections, Politics, and Protests
Mr Kairat Abuseitov (Ambassador of Kazakhstan in the UK), Dr Edward Schatz (University of Toronto), and Dr Bhavna Dave (SOAS)
09/02/12
- Shadow Governance: Approaches to Government and Institutions in Eurasia's de facto States
Dr Laurence Broers (Research Associate, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, SOAS)
16/02/12
- Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages
Please refer to the programme
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
20/02/12
- 'An Enemy We Created': The Myth of the Taliban / Al-Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn (Authors)
There is thus an urgent need to re-examine the known facts of the Taliban-al-Qaeda relationship and to tell the story of the Taliban's encounter with internationalist militant Islamism, which is what Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn set out to do in An Enemy We Created.
23/02/12
- Labour migrants from Central Asia in Russia: Isolation or integration into the Russian society
Professor Sergei Riazantsev (Head of the Centre of Social Demography and Economic Sociology, Institute of Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
March
07/03/12
- Problems in Establishing Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2012
Thomas Barfield (Boston University)
08/03/12
- Confronting Legacies of Displacement in the South Caucasus -Panel organised by Conciliation Resources
Rachel Clogg (Caucasus Programme Director), Mira Sovakar (Caucasus Projects Manager), Laurence Broers (Caucasus Projects Manager)
15/03/12
- Non-electoral protest groups in electoral environments: the “new settlements” of Bishkek and the 2011 presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan
Dr John Heathershaw and Mr Serik Beimenbetov (University of Exeter)
May
02/05/12
- The Price of Influence: Geopolitics and Human Rights in Central Asia, 2001-2011
Professor Alexander Cooley (Barnard College, Columbia University)
29/05/12
- Shakespeare in Kabul
Stephen Landrigans (Author) and Qais Akbar Omar (Author)
November
15/11/12
- Why Central Asian scholarship needs a strong social theory?
Dr Balihar Sanghera (University of Kent)
Please note that this seminar is taking place on Thursday, 15 November (not Wed, 14 as was originally advertised).
21/11/12
- The Nagorny Karabakh peace process: is there a way out of the impasse? A public debate
Discussants: Tatul Hakobyan (Civilitas) and Tabib Huseynov (Saferworld)
29/11/12
- When mullahs rise up: Explaining variation in Muslim protests in Central Asia
Alisher Khamidov (Newton International Fellow at Newcastle University)
