Central Asia Workshop Archive

Central Asia Workshop: Reflections: A Summer in Tajikistan

Presentation by Julie ErshadiThursday, October 10, 2019
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Disenchanted With the Immigration Dream-Nightmare: The Sociological Formation of Ex-Immigrant Subjectivity

Presentation by Jacob ThomasFriday, November 22, 2019
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

CAW: Dzongkha, GNH and the Hegemonic in Bhutan: Manufacturing Nationalism and Transnational Belonging Through Language

Presentation by Brian Young, Department of AnthropologyThursday, January 23, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Indo-European Linguistics of Central Asia I

Workshop with Hrach Martirosyan, Lecturer in Eastern Armenian, Department of Near Eastern Languages & CulturesTuesday, February 4, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

POSTPONED: Indo-European Linguistics of Central Asia II

Workshop with Hrach Martirosyan, Lecturer in Eastern Armenian, Department of Near Eastern Languages & CulturesTuesday, February 18, 2020

Central Asia and Tibet I

Workshop with Federica Venturi, visiting scholar in the Department of AnthropologyThursday, February 20, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Central Asia and Tibet II

Workshop with Federica Venturi, visiting scholar in the Department of AnthropologyThursday, February 27, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Editing and Rewriting in Medieval Persian Poetry

Presentation by Julie Ershadi, Program of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & CulturesThursday, March 5, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Authoritarian Governments: Who Can Leave and Who Can't?Monday, May 18, 2020
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Banishing Acts in the Arslan Tash Amulets

Presentation by Marilyn Love, Department of Near Eastern Languages & CulturesWednesday, May 20, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop 2017-2018 Planning MeetingThursday, October 5, 2017
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Race and Performance in the Modern Middle EastWednesday, May 31, 2017
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Modernization Narratives in Kazakhstan

A workshop led by Julia McLeanTuesday, May 23, 2017
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Mongolia: Reflections on a tourist visit and economic challenges

Dr. Jerry Nickelsburg (UCLA Anderson School of Management) will show photographs from his time in Mongolia and lead a discussion on the country's economy.Wednesday, May 10, 2017
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

In Conversation with Dr. Ali Igmen, CSULB History

Discussion will focus on his current book project on four Kyrgyz actresses who figured into a chapter in his first book, titled Speaking Soviet with and Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan. A more detailed abstract and possibly a reading will be circulated in advance of the meeting. Dr. Igmen will likely discuss his oral history interviews with and about these four actresses, who worked between the 1930s and 1990s. Friday, May 5, 2017
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Infrastructure Nationalism in Russia: Hard Borders and Soft InteriorsWednesday, April 26, 2017
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

UCLA Central Asia Workshop Annual Graduate Student ConferenceThursday, April 20, 2017
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Spring Quarter Planning Meeting and the Future of Central Asia Studies

We will discuss two readings related to the future of Central Asia Studies and also plan the workshop's spring quarter schedule.Tuesday, April 11, 2017
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Teaching Central Asia

A workshop focused on syllabus and course content developmentWednesday, February 22, 2017
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Development in the Altai Region

This week, our discussion will explore cross-border development in the Altai region between Russia and China. In preparation, please read the paper, "The Altai Road: Visions of Development across the Russian–Chinese Border," by Pal Nyiri and Joana Breidenbach (2008).Wednesday, February 1, 2017
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Pre-Screening Discussion with Director Bradley Rappa

A one-hour discussion with Bradley Rappa, an Assistant Professor in the Cinema, Photography and Media Arts program at Ithaca CollegeThursday, January 26, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop

We will meet on Wednesday, January 18 to discuss workshop plans for the quarter and publicizing our annual conference on April 20. Wednesday, January 18 12:00-1:45 pm Bunche 10383 Please RSVP as lunch will be served.Wednesday, January 18, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Spring Conference Planning Meeting

Our final meeting of the quarter.Wednesday, November 30, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Playing Race: Representations of Blackness in the Comedies of Yaʿqūb Ṣannūʿa

A workshop led by Cal Margulis.Wednesday, November 16, 2016
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Workshop and Films on Silk Road

A discussion of Mes Aynak and the Dunhuang Caves followed by an evening film screening at Melnitz.Wednesday, November 9, 2016
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

“The moment you entered, I left myself”: the body as the mark of mundane and mystical desire in Sa‘di's ghazals"

A workshop led by Renata StauderWednesday, November 2, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Theories and Methodologies for Researching Climate Change in Post-Soviet SpacesWednesday, October 26, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch with Guest Lecturer Sara Koplik

CAW participants are invited to attend lunch with guest speaker Dr. Sara Koplik prior to her lecture later that day.Wednesday, October 19, 2016
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Language Politics in Buryatia

A discussion led by Julia McLean, AnthropologyWednesday, October 12, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop 2016/2017 Planning Meeting

Planning meetingWednesday, September 28, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Fall PlanningThursday, October 8, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Bilingualism, Literature and Cultural Policies in Timurid Central Asia

Presented by Marc ToutantThursday, October 22, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

CAW Meeting: Vernacular Conquest? A Persian Patron and his image in the 17th-century Deccan

A presentation by Subah DayalThursday, October 29, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

CAW Meeting: Finding Iranians of African Descent in English-Language Travel Literature

A presentation by Cal MargulisThursday, November 5, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

CAW Meeting: Indian Sufi Politics across the Indian Ocean

A presentation by Sohaib BaigThursday, November 12, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

CAW Meeting: The Ottoman Consulates of British India and Indian Muslim Associations in the Financial and Religious Economies of the Ottoman Empire, 1849-1913

A presentation by Michael O'SullivanThursday, November 19, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

CAW Meeting: The Travels of Afghans and Germans

A presentation by Marjan WardakiThursday, December 3, 2015
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Winter Quarter Planning MeetingThursday, January 7, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Rethinking the Ottoman Imitation of Persian Poetry

A presentation by Murat Umut InanThursday, January 14, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Reading and Discussion with Prof. Ron SelaThursday, January 21, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Urban Immobility and Cyberspace

A presentation by Andrew GrantThursday, January 28, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: A reading and discussion with Prof. Alexandre PapasThursday, February 4, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Religious Reform and Sufi Hagiography

A presentation by Mohsin AliThursday, February 18, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Hui Muslims in the Invention of China Constructing One Discourse and Deconstructing the Other

A presentation by Hai PengThursday, February 25, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Playing Race: Representations of Blackness in the Comedies of Yaʿqūb Ṣannūʿa

A presentation by Cal MargulisThursday, March 3, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Spring Quarter PlanningThursday, March 31, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Conference PlanningThursday, April 7, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Representing the Land of the “Internal Other"

A presentation by Selim Hai Peng Thursday, April 14, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: A reading with Prof. John Woods

A workshop with Prof. John WoodsMonday, April 18, 2016
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Abdülhak Hamid: An Ottoman Londoner

A presentation by Sevim Kebeli, visiting scholar at the UCLA Department of EnglishThursday, May 19, 2016
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: How Tatiana's Voice Rang Across the Steppe": The "Miraculous" Russian Text in the Formation of the Modern Kazakh Canon

Presentation by Naomi Caffee
Thursday, October 16, 2014
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Afghan-German Connections in the Early 20th Century

Presentation by Marjan Wardaki
Thursday, October 23, 2014
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Beyond Lesser Syria: Spaces of the Syrian Civil War

Presentation by Ali Nehme Hamdan
Thursday, November 6, 2014
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Tracing Central Asian Foodways in the Arctic and Beyond

Presentation by Mia Bennett
Thursday, November 13, 2014
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Beyond Jobs and Money: Schooling for Wellbeing in the Western Himalayas"

Presentation by Bonnie Richard
Thursday, November 20, 2014
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: A Screening and Discussion of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 2008 Film Three Monkeys

Presentation by Kate Creasey
Thursday, December 4, 2014
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

Presentation by Naomi Caffee
Thursday, January 15, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Bamiyan Archeology

Presentation by ShaoXuecheng
Thursday, January 22, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Ottoman Visions of Modernity

Presentation by Mike O'Sullivan
Thursday, January 29, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Chinese Creation of Investment-Friendly Spaces in Central Asia

Presentation by Mia Bennett
Thursday, February 5, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Islamic Traditional Paper Cutting in China

Presentation by Huaping Shen - Visiting Scholar from Beijing Institute of Technology
Thursday, February 12, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: TBD
Thursday, February 19, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Resisting Acculturation in the City

Presentation by Andrew Grant
Thursday, February 26, 2015
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Abu Rida al-Barbari: Race and Power in 1870s Egypt

Presentation by Cal Margulis
Thursday, March 5, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Job Talks and Networking
Thursday, March 12, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Guest Speaker Murod Ismailov
Friday, March 20, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Spring Planning Meeting
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: A discussion Stephane Dudoignon's Paper
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: The Birth and Times of Mackinder's Heartland

A presentation by Andrew Grant
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: The Development of Blackface Performance in Iran during the Long Nineteenth Century

A Presentation by Cal Margulis
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Graduate Conference Planning Meeting
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: A discussion of "They Were All from the Country," with Stéphane Dudoignon
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Transnational Families in Weimar Germany: Social Connections Between Germany and Afghanistan in the Early Twentieth Century:

Presented by Marjan Wardaki
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Unbound

Presented by the Central Asia Workshop
Thursday, May 28, 2015
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Film Screening: The Silk Road of Pop
Thursday, May 29, 2014
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Blogging, the Arctic, and Central Asia
Friday, May 16, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Indigenous knowledge in post-Soviet Siberia and Central Asia

Indigenous knowledge, sometimes used interchangeably with the term "local knowledge," is defined by UNESCO as "the understandings, skills and philosophies developed by societies with long histories of interaction with their natural surroundings." This week we will be discussing the role of indigenous knowledge in sustaining communities and environments in post-Soviet Siberia and Central Asia.
Friday, April 25, 2014
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Being Ladakhi and Becoming Educated: Growing Up at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity

Presentation by Bonnie Richard
Friday, April 11, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Selected readings by Devin DeWeese

Led by Naveena Naqvi, Dept. of History
Friday, October 11, 2013
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Exploring the Weak State in Central Asia

Led by Ali Hamdan, Dept. of Geography
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Exploring the Weak State in Central Asia, Pt. 2

Led by Ali Hamdan, Dept. of Geography
Friday, October 25, 2013
10:45 AM - 2:15 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Migrant Voices in Contemporary Russian Theater

Presentation by Dr. Naomi Caffee
Friday, November 1, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: History of Subaltern Studies and its Application to Afghan History

Discussion with Marjan Wardaki, History
Friday, November 8, 2013
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Central Asia Workshop: A Tale of Two Master Plans and the Architecture of Neutrality

Presentation by Andrew Kovacs, Architecture
Friday, November 15, 2013
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Ladakhi Schools and the Question of Cultural Re/Production

Bonnie Richard will be presenting "Ladakhi Schools and the Question of Cultural Re/Production"
Friday, December 6, 2013
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Winter 2014 Planning Meeting
Thursday, January 16, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop: Winter 2014 Planning Meeting
Thursday, January 16, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Secularism & Islam in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

Discussion of Maria Louw's chapter: "Being Muslim the ironic way: Secularism, religion and irony in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan"
Thursday, January 23, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Geography of Central Asia's Energy Resources

This week in Central Asia Workshop, Mia Bennett (a doctoral student in geography) will be leading our discussion of the geographical and geopolitical implications of developing Central Asia's energy resources and infrastructure.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Tibet between China and India: Hydrology, Environment, and Development

Using a chapter from Brahma Chellaney's 2011 book, Water: Asia's new battleground, we will discuss ways of reformulating Central Asian issues into lecture material for a geography course on development and the environment.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Teaching Central Asia

This week in Central Asia Workshop we will discuss how to integrate Central Asian topics into the classroom.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Discussion with Prof. Jonathan Lipman: Islamic Soundscapes in China
Monday, February 24, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Ambiguous Legacies: Ethnic Geopolitics in Crimea

Central Asia Workshop
Thursday, March 6, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

"The Silk Road of Pop" Documentary Screening

The Central Asian music scene is alive and roaring. A documentary about rap crews, rockstars, and their fans in the northwest of China.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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 6, 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 4, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Tulpan, pt. 2

A Kazakh film discussion
Tuesday, January 8, 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 5, 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 5, 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 3, 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 1, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: "The Art of Not Being Governed"

Led by Andrew Grant
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: CANCELLED
Wednesday, May 15, 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: Transnational governance and transnational threats in Uzbekistan

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

CAW: "History of the Regions"

Led by Feruza Djumaniyazova
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CAW: Dru Gladney

Readings and discussion with Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 9, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Transnational Afghanistan

Readings and Discussion with Nile Green, UCLA
Monday, January 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Islam after Communism

Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, February 6, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Geography Practice Presentations

Talks for American Association of Geographers by UCLA Grad Students
Monday, February 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Development and Civil Society

Central Asia Workshop: readings and discussion
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Tengriism

Readings and Discussion with Kagan Arik, University of Chicago
Monday, March 5, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Workshop

Topic TBD
Monday, March 19, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: "Democracy@Large"

Film screening of "Democracy at Large" (2006)
Monday, April 2, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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

Readings and discussion with Christine Noelle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Monday, April 9, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Lanuage and Identity Practice Presentations

Talks for Language and Identity in Central Asia by UCLA Grad Students
Monday, April 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Central Asia: The Geopolitical Perspective

Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, May 7, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAW: Contemporary Urbanization in Mongolia and Eastern Tibet

Led by Rick Miller and Nancy Levine
Monday, June 4, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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 6, 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