CASI HLW

Meetings

Intergrating Workshops

Their aim is to integrate more scholars from the region by pairing them with CASI Literature and History Workshops’ participants who focus on the same subject matter and work in the same languages. This will allow CASI to broaden the impact of its workshops beyond US and European scholarly communities and to give something back to the indigenous traditions it studies. CASI will also use this smaller forum to highlight the research of current AUCA faculty and to attract high-quality candidates by building workshops around their research and ideas and by helping them to put their own contributions to the Central Asian arts and humanities “on the map.”

Conference panels

Participants in CASI History and Literature Workshop put together six panels in 2019 alone. Members of the workshop presented at both the CESS (Central Eurasian Studies Society) and ESCAS (European Society for Central Asian Studies) conferences, with talks on oral literature, Soviet Central Asian fiction, and on issues of self and other in the literary art of imperial Central Asia. This was in addition to a panel on Central Asian literature at the 2020 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention, part of CASI’s broader effort to build bridges between the workshop and literary fields outside the narrow confines of Central Asian studies.

Publications