CENTRAL ASIA WORKING GROUP- Fall 2005 Organizational Meeting, Sept. 27
The Organizational Meeting of the
Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group
will be held on:
Tuesday, September 27, 4:15-6:00 pm
in Room S-354 at 1730 Cambridge St., 3rd Floor,
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
This will be a time for introductions of new people -- all interested people
are encouraged to join.
About the Working Group
The Working Group on "Society, Politics and Culture in Central Asia and the
Caucasus" forum that meets every other week for discussion of projects on
Central Asia. The Working Group is aimed at providing a context for focused
discussion on Central Asian and Caucasus-related topics among Harvard
graduate students, faculty, and other interested scholars in the Cambridge
and Boston area. Central Asia, for these purposes, is understood to include
the states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and
Tajikistan, as well as closely related areas: the Caucasus, the Volga Basin,
Southwestern Siberia, Mongolia, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. Each week is
devoted to a presentation of some work-in-progress (a thesis prospectus,
chapter, or paper) by one of the Working Group participants, accompanied by
helpful discussion by the group as a whole.
The Working Group is chaired by John Schoeberlein, Director of the Harvard
Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus. The Working Group is an activity of
the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies. The group has been meeting since 1994. Guest
speakers are also sometimes invited.
In the organizational meeting, we will discuss the schedule for future
meetings, which will be on Tuesdays, alternating with the meetings of the
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar (public seminar series).
If you would like to receive the regular notices about presentations in this
forum (even if you don't expect to attend regularly), please let me know and
I will add your address to the address list for this purpose (note: this is
not the same as the Central-Asia-Harvard-List, so you'll have to indicate
specifically if you want to be included). Note that since the Working Group
activities are generally aimed at the Group's membership, regular
information about the up-coming meetings will ONLY be distributed to those
who ask to be included on this list.
If you know of anyone who might be interested in joining the Working Group,
please pass on the word about it. Please also consider the possibility of
presenting a project at some point in the course of the semester or the
year, and come to the first meeting with ideas. Note that the project can
be something rather "raw", though ideally you should have a (draft) paper
that can be distributed in advance of your presentation.
Please contact me with any questions or suggestions you might have. For
general information/questions and directions to our new office at 1730
Cambridge St., please call my assistant at (617)496-2643, or write to
<centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>.
I look forward to your participation!
John Schoeberlein
Dr. John Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center \ Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St., Room S-327 \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338 asst.: +1/617-496-2643 fax: +1/617-495-8319
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Program website:
http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>:
http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
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<CE-L> Archive:
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