[Discussion] COURSE OFFERING- History & Nationalism in Central Asia, 2005 CEU Summer Univ.

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

COURSE OFFERING- History & Nationalism in Central Asia, 2005 CEU Summer
Univ.

History and Nationalism in Central Asia
July 4-15, 2005

[This course is being taught as part of the 2005 Central European
University Summer Program in Budapest, Hungary.  For more information
about the program, go to www.ceu.hu/sun]

As this course is supported by a grant from INTAS, which covers the
participation costs of selected applicants from NIS countries (New
Independent States of the former Soviet Union) applications from these
countries are encouraged.

NIS countries are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan.  Grant recipients are expected to be of 35 years of age or
less at the starting date of the course and must be permanently living
in one of the NIS and be NIS citizens. (NIS scientists with a permanent
residence outside the NIS or with a temporary research position lasting
longer than 6 months outside the NIS at the time of the summer school
are not eligible to receive INTAS support.)

The INTAS grant includes tuition fee, accommodation, subsistence and
travel costs at the cheapest possible price (APEX, PEX or "excursion"
must be used). Visa and travel insurance expenses may be included in the
travel costs.

Course Director: Ablet Kamalov, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University,
Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan


Faculty:

Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Agnes Birtalan, ELTE University, Budapest

Mihaly Dobrovits, Central Asian Studies, Miskolc University

Vincent Fourniau, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS),
Paris

Anuar Galiev, Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Almaty

Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia

Catherine Poujol, National Institute of Oriental Languages and
Civilizations (INALCO), Paris


Brief course description

The course will use interdisciplinary perspective to examine the
phenomenon of Revising and Rewriting of the History in Central Asia. It
will examine the roots of this phenomenon going back to the colonial
time of print-capitalism, which fostered the emergence of 'imagined
communities' in Central Asia and look at the problem from a theoretical
point of view placing it rightly within the theoretical concepts
existing in Historical Anthropology, Post-Colonial Studies and Area Studies.

The course will focus, among others, on such problems as the complex
interplay between Invention and Mythologization of the History and
Ethno-Nationalism as well as emerging new national Identities. It will
introduce the multifaceted debate on the nature of invention of the
History and reveal its correlation with state building process,
politics, and political regimes and show the role of History Writing in
social and cultural life of societies during the transition period. The
comparative analysis of the History Writing process in Central Asian
states with those in other post-Communist societies (Caucasus, Mongolia)
as well as Chinese Central Asia (Xinjiang) will enable to reveal general
tendencies in the process of Rewriting of the History and describe it as
a natural phenomenon for the contemporary post-colonial societies. The
course will give participants the skills necessary to apply academic
theories, concepts and methodology to their own researches and teaching
curricula.

For more details visit www.ceu.hu/sun




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