[Discussion] Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group Fall 2004 Organizational Meeting

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Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group Fall 2004 Organizational Meeting
The Organizational Meeting of the
Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group
will be held on:
Tuesday, October 12, 4:15-6:00 pm
in Room 2 at 625 Massachusetts Avenue (in Central Square), 2nd Floor

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 temporary location
at 625 Massachusetts Ave., please call my assistant at (617)496-2643, or
write to <centasia@fas.harvard.edu>.

I look forward to your participation!

John Schoeberlein

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Dr. John Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center \ Harvard University
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 262 \ Cambridge, MA 02139 \ USA
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