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Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out

April 5, 2013

April 5, 2013  |  OASIES 2013 Conference

 

The Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out: Representation, Authority, and Inequity Conference is co-sponsored by the Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian SocietiesThe Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University, The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies at New York UniversityThe Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University, The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University, and The Department of Anthropology at New York University.

Each year the Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) brings together scholars with intersecting interests from around both New York City and the worldwide academic community to discuss an interdisciplinary theme of theoretical relevance and importance for the region of Eurasia, broadly defined. The sixth annual graduate student conference, to be held on April 5, 2013, is entitled Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out: Representation, Authority, and Inequity.
The 2013 conference prompts reflection on the idea that representations in the world are always stratified, coming from different positions and holding different valences of authority, and that these representations often produce or reproduce inequality, whether they come from observers on the outside looking in or from observers on the inside looking out. Conference participants engage with this claim by exploring diverse kinds of representations (including literary, musical, visual, and oral) and issues such as stratification, centers and peripheries, elites (intellectual, political, economic, and religious), diaspora, governance and citizenship, gender and ethnicity, and the negotiation of belonging. OASIES stresses multidisciplinarity by inviting submissions from a variety of departments, including but not limited to anthropology, archaeology, art history, history, literature, political science, religion, and sociology, as well as area studies programs focusing on Central Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East, Mongolia, and South Asia.

 

SCHEDULED PARTICIPANTS

Keynote: Madeleine Reeves, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, “What contrasts, virtually immeasurable!” Difference, delimitation, and representations that matter in the Ferghana valley.

Closing Remarks: Arienne M. Dwyer, Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas; Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center.

Panelists:

Lan Wu (Columbia East Asian) – Clash of Authorities – Mongol Buddhists in 1780’s China

Kelsey Rice (UPenn History) – Musical Jadidism: Azeri Opera

Betty Hensellek (NYU Fine Arts) – Sasanian-Senmurv Kaftan: Nomadic Assimilation of Imperial Imagery

Julian Gantt (CUNY Anthropology) – Representing Oil and Authority in Azerbaijan

Christopher Edling (Columbia Creative Writing) – Bride Kidnapping Doesn’t Exist in Armenia

Sansar Tsakhirmaa (John Hopkins Political Science) – Ethnic-boundary-making among Uyghurs and Mongolians

Ion Marandici (Rutgers Political Science) – An unfinished transition: oligarchs and anti-oligarchic discourses in the Republic of Moldova (2009-2012)

Brinton Ahlin (NYU Anthropology) – Cultivation of Tajikness

Emily Wang (Princeton Slavic) – Blok, Race, Revolution

Gloria Funcheon (Univ. of Kansas Russian) – Creating a Dam National Space: Social Realism of Roghun

 

For more information, please visit http://www.oasies.org.

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April 5, 2013
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Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012 United States
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