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@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@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@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@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@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@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@gmal.com
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