Epics as Heritage workshop conducted by the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI)

November 2, 2022

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Central Asian Studies Department invites you to the Epics as Heritage workshop conducted by the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI).

Date: November 5-6
Place: AUCA, T16

Broader Central Asia – or central Eurasia – is the homeland of rich Turkic and Mongolian epic traditions that have been documented, “preserved” and published under the auspices of either the Soviet Union or socialist China.

Nowadays this “epic heritage” is enthusiastically promoted, hotly disputed, and fervently branded at UNESCO, with few if any attempts to problematize the literary representations of orality, or the creation of “national epics.” This workshop aims to open a discussion on these issues and to ground these discussions of epics as literature or epics as heritage in a broad comparative context.

Workshop participants: George Fitzherbert (University of Oxford), Svetlana Jacquesson (AUCA), Michael Long (independent scholar), Talant Mawkanuli (University of Washington), James Plumtree (AUCA-CEU), and Jonathan Ratcliffe (ANU).

If you want to join us during the workshop, please contact in advance at
casi@auca.kg or jacquesson_s@auca.kg

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