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Central Asia Workshop

The Central Asia Workshop is an interdisciplinary discussion group sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia. The goal of the workshop is to encourage graduate student research on Central Asia by creating a space where students and interested faculty can discuss research, theory and ideas with others who have experience or interest in the region. The workshop is a forum for exploring recent research and classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives that inform work in Central Asia. Past discussion topics have included Tatar language and identity; environmental activism in Central Asia; mental health, religion and healing in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; imagining modernity; gendered national identity; and the Uighurs of Xinjiang.

Central Asia Workshop 2012-2013

CAW: Borders, Ethnicity & Conflict: The Ferghana Valley Border Closing

Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Space and Bor(un)d(ari)ers between China, Russia, Mongolia and Tibet: Political and Cultural Barriers in Eastern Eurasia

Led by Andrew Grant
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Paper Presentation Workshop

TBD
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh

Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Dangerous Fortunes and Vitalities in Inner Asia

Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: CANCELLED


Tuesday, November 20, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema

Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Tulpan

A Kazakh film discussion
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Tulpan, pt. 2

A Kazakh film discussion
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Health in Post-Socialist Georgia

Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: From Ethnic Groups to Nationalities and Nations

led by Andrew Grant, UCLA Dept. of Geography
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Rogers Brubaker Readings

Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Mathematics of Beauty: the Science of Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia

Led by Igor Demchenko
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: "Beyond Identity Fetishism"

Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Biological Citizenship


Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: African-Americans in the USSR


Tuesday, March 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: "Nomadic and domestic: dwelling on the edge of Ulaanbaatar"

Rick Miller, Geography
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: "Childhoods at School: Negotiating Modernity, Social Change, and Identity in Ladakh, India."

Presented by Bonnie Richard, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: Nation and State Building


Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: Nation and State Building, cont'd


Wednesday, April 17, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: Nation and State Building, cont'd


Wednesday, April 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: Relationship between the State and Multinational Entities with regards to the Art Market

Led by Naomi Caffee
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: "The Art of Not Being Governed"

Led by Andrew Grant
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: Migration, Trade, Travel

Led by Marjan Wardaki
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: TBD

Led by Catherine Formusa
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: TBD

Led by Feruza Djumaniyazova
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop 2011-2012

CAW: Dru Gladney

Readings and discussion with Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012

CAW: Transnational Afghanistan

Readings and Discussion with Nile Green, UCLA
Monday, January 23, 2012

CAW: Islam after Communism

Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, February 06, 2012

CAW: Development and Civil Society

Central Asia Workshop: readings and discussion
Monday, February 27, 2012

CAW: Tengriism

Readings and Discussion with Kagan Arik, University of Chicago
Monday, March 05, 2012

CAW: "Democracy@Large"

Film screening of "Democracy at Large" (2006)
Monday, April 02, 2012

CAW: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travelogues and the Construction of Political Space

Readings and discussion with Christine Noelle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Monday, April 09, 2012

CAW: Lanuage and Identity Practice Presentations

Talks for Language and Identity in Central Asia by UCLA Grad Students
Monday, April 23, 2012

CAW: Central Asia: The Geopolitical Perspective

Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, May 07, 2012

CAW: Contemporary Urbanization in Mongolia and Eastern Tibet

Led by Rick Miller and Nancy Levine
Monday, June 04, 2012

CAW: Borders, Ethnicity & Conflict: The Ferghana Valley Border Closing

Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

CAW: Space and Bor(un)d(ari)ers between China, Russia, Mongolia and Tibet: Political and Cultural Barriers in Eastern Eurasia

Led by Andrew Grant
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

CAW: Paper Presentation Workshop

TBD
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh

Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

CAW: CANCELLED


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema

Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Meetings will be held Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30 pm. Students who attend all workshops can receive course credit by enrolling in History M287/Anthropology M287.

For more information, Please contact Hannah Reiss (hreiss@ucla.edu)
or Elizabeth Leicester (eleicester@international.ucla.edu)