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CFP/PANELS- Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, Panel CFPs

Posted by: John Schoeberlein <centasia at fas.harvard.edu>



Please find below several calls for papers for specific panels, to be
proposed for the Central Eurasian Studies Society annual conference,
which will be held October 28-31, 2010 at Michigan State University in
East Lansing, Michigan, and/or the Second CESS Regional Conference at
Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (KORA), Middle East Technical
University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, July 29-30, 2010.  For complete
information about the conferences, including guidelines for writing
abstracts, see:
https://www.units.muohio.edu/cess/CFP_2010.html (Michigan) and
https://www.cess.muohio.edu/regional_conf_10.html (Turkey).

Note that other panels were posted a couple of days ago.  Furthermore,
the deadline for the Michigan conference is very soon (Mar. 5) and the
Ankara conference is already past (so those hoping to present at that
conference will need to make sure whether their proposal can be
considered after the deadline).  Those interested should contact the
organizers immediately.

Please note that the Conference accepts presentations only in English.
Also note that you must be/become a member of CESS in order to make a
presentation at this conference.  For full information about CESS,
see: http://www.cess.muohio.edu/

If you are interested in proposing a paper that would fit one of the
proposed panel themes, send your reply to the person listed as
organizing that panel.

The following panel themes are proposed (see details below):

  - "Strange Individuals" (Michigan)

  - Four Panels on Central Asian Culture (Michigan)

  - Three Panels on Educational Issues (Michigan)

  - Panel on "Travel Writing and the 'Contact Zone': Past and Present
    Perspectives" (Ankara)


All panel proposals require the following information for each panel
participant, so you should send the panel organizer this information
(If you are unsure of whether your paper proposal fits the proposed
panel, you may want to contact the organizer before sending the
complete information):

1) Name
2) Current institutional affiliation
3) Title/position
4) E-mail address
5) Postal address
6) Telephone
7) Fax
8) Title of Paper
9) Abstract of Paper (a summary of the paper of 200-300 words;
    abstracts longer than 300 words may be rejected)
10) A brief (100 word) biographical statement that contains the
    information which the panel chair may require for introductions, and
    includes the presenter's educational background (highest degree, year
    awarded, awarding institution, and field of study).


Panel on "Strange Individuals"

From: Olga Bessmertnaya <olgabessm at gmail.com>

I'd like to catch the remaining days before the deadline to propose
organizing a panel for the annual CESS conference (Michigan) on
'STRANGE INDIVIDUALS' across cultures, regions, and periods in Central
Eurasia. The 'strange' ones include, on the one hand, those taken as
such in their milieus: all sorts of adventurers, impostors, and
'tricksters' crossing cultural, confessional and social boundaries,
those in search of their identities, changing and 'trading' them,
those making unusual choices, developing original strategies, breaking
norms and/or developing them to their extremes, and suggesting new
ones. On the other hand, they are those persons in your research area,
that you yourself find something strange about, something unusual and
unrecognized in existing literature. The topic might be taken through
a biography or just a single situation. The aim of the panel is to
compare individual experiences in the social contexts that challenge
the stable and fixed identities and ways of behavior, exposing an
individual face to face with  the Other, and/or face to face with the
Past and Future - and thus to better understand those broad contexts
as such. To see differences in the odd forms of individual behavior in
'modern' and 'pre-modern' ('traditional') societies would be of
special interest.

Depending on your topics proposed, the geographical and chronological
scope of the panel might be more concretely defined.

My presentation will be on a writer and journalist in late imperial
Russia: born Jewish and baptized to Orthodoxy, he reinvented his
identity as Circassian and Muslim, and worked as a State agent against
Muslim opposition. I'll consider his choice of identities, strategies
of deceit, and reasons for the opposite sides to trust him, so as to
analyze, in the context of modernizing processes, the meaning of
Muslim belonging/otherness in the different cultural and political
settings involved.

If you'd like to present or participate in this panel as chair or
discussant, please contact me ASAP at olgabessm at gmail.com

Olga Bessmertnaya, Ph.D.,
Senior researcher,
Russian State U. for Humanities, Moscow


Four Panels on Central Asian Culture

From: Elmira Kuchumkulova <elmira.kuchumkulova at ucentralasia.org>

I'm proposing several panel ideas/themes for the Annual CESS at MSU,
Oct. 29-31, 2010 to recruit potential presenters. Those who wish to
join any of these panels, please contact me ASAP. Given that the
deadline for submission is March 5, please provide specific
information on your topic, institutional affiliation, and whether you
will have funding to travel to the Conference. There may be
opportunities to partially support the scholars for selected panels.

Panel # 1: Nomadic Legacy in Modern Central Asia: Traditions,
Continuity, and Change

Panel # 2: Native Sources on Culture and History of Central Asia:
Central Asian Oral Literature in English Translation

Panel # 3: Revival and Promotion of Traditional Music in Post-Soviet
Central Asia

Panel # 4: Spiritual and Social Aspects of Death Rites in Central Asia

Elmira Kochumkulova, Research Associate
University of Central Asia (UCA), Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic


Three panel proposals on Educational Issues

From: Duishon Shamatov <duishon.shamatov at ucentralasia.org>

I am proposing several panel ideas / themes in the field of education
for the annual CESS at MSU, October 26-31, 2010 to invite potential
presenters.

Panel # 1: The Impact of Educational Reforms on Quality,
Sustainability and Empowerment

Panel # 2: Influence of International Tests on National Standards and
Educational Policy

Panel # 3:  Equity Issues in Education in Central Asia

Those who wish to join any of these panels, please contact me ASAP.
Given the deadline for submission is March 5, please provide specific
information on your topic, institutional affiliation (including
personal info and address).  There may be opportunity to support those
scholars who may not have funding to travel to the conference.

Dr. Duishon Shamatov
Research Associate
207 Panfilov Street
720040 Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan
Phone:   996-312-691-822, Ext. 415
Fax:       996-312-696-029
Website: www.ucentralasia.org


Panel on "Travel Writing and the 'Contact Zone': Past and Present 
Perspectives"

From: Cholpon Turdalieva <turdalieva at gmail.com>

I propose to organize a panel "Travel Writing and the 'Contact Zone':
Past and Present Perspectives" for Second CESS Regional Conference,
Ankara, Turkey, July 29-30, 2010.

Travel writing is important intellectual and dynamic source that
rapidly developed and is still developing at the time of global
economic challenges and sociocultural changes. Since the II World War
numerous books, dairies, texts, accounts, pictures, drawing, and
newsletter articles produced  by travelers  has become a source for
critical colonial and postcolonial scholarship. The aim of the panel
is to debate topics related to  theoretical and methodological agenda
that contains key  points as authorship, literary critics, ethics of
travel texts and traveler, textual reliability,  as well as to
discuss broad issues such as nation, tradition, place, gender and
identity that are described or encouraged by travelers  in the "contact 
zone".

If you would like to present or participate in this panel as a
participant, chair or discussant, please contact me by March 1 at:
turdalieva at gmail.com

Cholpon Turdalieva
Associate Professor
Anthropology Department
American University of Central Asia
205 Abdymomunov Str., 720040 Bishkek
tel.:+996 312 663309
E-mail.: turdalieva at gmal.com



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