Made possible by a generous gift from Matthew Nimetz, the workshop was first held in 2014 on the AUCA campus with the goal of identifying and gathering young literary scholars that might help establish the study of Central Asian literature as a legitimate “field” in Central Asian scholarship., a discipline in which policy concerns often crowd out studies of the arts and humanities. Every article, thesis, and panel the workshop produces reinforces CASI’s reputation as a center of innovative research on the arts and humanities in Central Asia. That reputation is unique and valuable to AUCA as an institution steeped in the liberal arts tradition.
Literature Week is a part of CASI’s Workshop on Literature and History. Supported by a generous contribution from Matthew Nimetz, the aim of the workshop is to create a community of junior scholars and advanced graduate students committed to studying literature and to applying literary tools and methodologies to the study of literary art in the Central Asian past.
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