[Discussion] PROGRAM INFO.- CEU Summer Univ. Course on Central Asia & Nationalism, New Deadline

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

PROGRAM INFO.- CEU Summer Course, Central Asia & Nationalism
New Deadline

Reminder about CEU Summer University course

We are still accepting applications for the summer course "History and
Nationalism" organized by CEU from July 4 to July 15, 2005 in Budapest,
Hungary. (See information about the course below).

We will accept applications until March 7, 2005.

For the application requirements and procedure please visit our website
at http://www.ceu.hu/sun/.

This course is supported by an INTAS Grant, which enables us to offer
full scholarship including travel, accommodation and stipend for
participants from NIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine and Uzbekistan).

"History and Nationalism in Central Asia"
July 4 - 15, 2005
Central European Summer University
Budapest, Hungary


Course Director:

Ablet Kamalov, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Institute of Orienta=
l
Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan


Faculty:

Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
=C1gnes Birtalan, ELTE University, Budapest
Mih=E1ly 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 Studi=
es.

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.


The Summer University was established in 1996 and is aiming to involve a
high-level international faculty (including CEU faculty), and excellent
advanced doctoral students, junior or post-doctoral researchers,
teachers and professionals as participants. While application from all
over the world is encouraged, continued priority is given to applicants
from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and countries
experiencing emerging democracies worldwide. Applicants from these
countries, when admitted on merit, will be eligible for scholarship,
while those from developed countries will usually be expected to pay fees=
.

CEU Summer University
N=E1dor u. 9.
Budapest 1051
Hungary
Tel: (36 1) 327 3069, 327 3811
Fax: (36-1) 327 3124
E-mail: summeru@ceu.hu

Further information on the course (detailed course description, faculty
CVs, etc.), on eligibility criteria and funding options available at
http://www.ceu.hu/sun


Non-discrimination policy statement

Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of -
including, but not limited to - race, color, national and ethnic origin,
religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational
policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and
athletic and other school-administered programs.



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