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Central Eurasia in Focus: Advancing Research, Building Community
📣 Paid Internship 📣 Central Asia Program for Regional Cooperation & Connectivity 📍 Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan On-site student/graduate training, research, and professional development. 📅 Application deadline: August 15, 2026 👉️ Apply with a CV via this form: buff.ly/o9IgeSN
📣 Call for Chapters 📣 Social Capital, Resilience, and Governance in Central Asia and the Caucasus - Edited Volume 📅 Abstract Submission Deadline: August 15, 2026 👉️ For more details, please visit a full call for chapters in our recent post to the CESS website: buff.ly/yVpUHUD #centraleurasia
📣 Upcoming Hybrid Event 📣 Chornobyl Cinema: From Atomohrad Utopia to Contaminated Ruin (A lecture by Stanislav Menzelevskyi) 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 @ 17:00EST 👉️ For more details on the event, see the recent post on the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute website: buff.ly/9NfVi85
📣 Upcoming Workshop Deadline 📣 Entangled Transformations: Temporalities, Experiences, and Critical Histories of Postsocialist Change in Europe 📅 December 9-11, 2026 📍 University of Warsaw Submission deadline: July 31, 2026 👉️ For more details, see the following link: buff.ly/YdVkvS9
👥 Central Eurasian Studies Society Online Community Forum 👥 ❓️ Hoping to connect withwith a wider network of scholars, students, and professionals in the field? 👉️ Visit our Online Community Forum here: buff.ly/hKqZc6n #CESS #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #communityforum #networking
📣 Upcoming Hybrid Seminar 📣 The manuscript legacy of Bakhytzhan Karataev (1860–1934) as a historical source on the 1905–1907 revolution and the Civil War in Western Kazakhstan 📅 Monday, July 27, 2026, 02:00–03:00 👉️ For online registration: buff.ly/VbsRKpQ 📷️ Event poster courtesy of SRC
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Sexuality and Regimes of Expertise: Bodies, Gender and Sexual Health in Southern and Eastern Europe (1940s-1990s) 📅 January 21-22, 2027 📍 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 👉️ For more info, see our recent Facebook post about the workshop: buff.ly/dWJ99SM #centraleurasia
📣 Resource Spotlight 📣 📚️ Online Archive - Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) The CIUS's online archive features an array of historical materials, including oral histories, academic interviews, recordings, performances, and broadcasts. 👉️ Access the archive here: buff.ly/TXgWySj
📣 Sponsor Spotlight 📣 The Central Eurasian Studies Society extends its gratitude to our 2026 Gold Sponsor, the MacMillan Center's Central Asia Initiative at Yale University. 👉️ To become an Institutional Member, see our membership page: buff.ly/KRoYJBi #CESS2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Off the Radar: Moving Images, Exhibition and Distribution Practices 📅 December 4–5, 2026 📍 National Film School KIMO, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Vilnius, Lithuania 👉️ For more information, see the conference webpage: buff.ly/NPb7Cqy #centraleurasia #eurasia
📣 Open Position 📣 Head of Department - Entanglements and Reordering 📍 Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe 👉️ For more information on the position, associated responsibilities, and instructions on applying, see the listing on the GWZO website: buff.ly/ibByptg
📣 Job Opportunity 📣 Kyrgyz Translation Project 📍 Motion Picture Solutions MPS seeks US-based Kyrgyz linguists to support a translation project, including: - Kyrgyz language instructors - Grad students - Researchers - Translators and interpreters Interested? Contact: julian.lorenzo@withmps.com.
📣 New Graduate Program 📣 📖 Transnational History MA 📍 Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic 👉️ Further program details and a link to the application interface can be found here: buff.ly/j2Qf5le 📅 Application deadline: August 31, 2026 #TransnationalHistory
📣 Sponsor Spotlight 📣 Central Eurasian Studies Society extends its gratitude to our 2026 Gold Sponsor, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Harvard University. 👉️ To become an Institutional Member, see our membership page: buff.ly/KRoYJBi #CESS2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies
📣 Resource Spotlight 📣 Collaborative Data Network with Eastern Europe The Research Network Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe (KonKoop) presents a new database, Collaborative Data Network with Eastern Europe (KoDaNetOst). 👉️ Explore the KoDaNetOst datasets using this link: buff.ly/kxbUUfx
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Fishing Communities and Livelihoods in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia 📅 Mar 10-11, 2027 📍 Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient 👉️ For more details on the workshop's scope and abstract submission, see the link below: buff.ly/LD07bQ8 📅 Submission deadline: August 1, 2026
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Women’s Education, Careers, and Social Change in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and Beyond, 1860s–1920s 📅 December 3–4, 2026 📍 Yerevan, Armenia 👉️ Read the full Call for Abstracts here: buff.ly/rXc36SB #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #maxweberosteuropanetzwerk
📣 Call for Nominations - CESS Board 2026 📣 For more information on available positions, eligibility, and applying, see our recent post on the CESS website: buff.ly/PLHGzPZ 📅 Nominations deadline: August 20, 2026 @ 23:59 EST 📨 Voting will take place from August 25 to September 1, 2026. #CESS
📣 Conference Spotlight with Malika Kartanbayeva 📣 At last month's CESS Regional Conference 2026, we spoke with Malika Kartanbayeva, recent graduate of the MA in Central Asian Studies Program at the American University of Central Asia. 👉️ Watch here: buff.ly/sFrtSkJ #CESS2026 #centraleurasia
❗️ Conference Report ❗️ Last month, Central Eurasian Studies Society hosted our 2026 Regional Conference at Nazarbayev University. We are pleased to share a preliminary report on conference proceedings. 👀 Keep an eye out for updates on CESS 2027, to be hosted at the Harriman Institute in Fall 2027!
📣 Wissenschaftskolleg Fellowship 📣 📅 2027-2028 Academic Year 📍 Berlin, Germany 👉️ For more details, see the fellowship website: buff.ly/veiM2wB 📅 Application deadline: September 1, 2026 #humanities #socialscience #wissenschaftkollegfellowship #fellowshipopening #berlin
📣 Call for Submissions 📣 The Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies invites articles between 8,000 and 10,000 words in length. 📩 JSAS submission platform: buff.ly/IjgSGz9 📅 Rolling deadline 👉️ More details: buff.ly/tjDGhGe #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #eurasia #armenianstudies
📣 Hybrid Conference This Week 📣 Eurasia as Global Risk: Nuclear, Security, and Borders 📅 July 16-17, 2026 📍 Slavic-Eurasian Research Center and Online via Zoom For more details and online registration, see the symposium webpage: buff.ly/oHjMpFo #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #eurasia
💥 Part-Time Visiting Lecturer/Professor in Armenian Studies 💥 📍 Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University 👉️ For more details and a link to the application form, see this link: buff.ly/MSeuXMN #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #armenianstudies
📣 Sponsor Spotlight 📣 Central Eurasian Studies Society extends its gratitude to our 2026 Platinum Sponsor, The Harriman Institute - Columbia University. 👉️ To become an Institutional Member, see our membership page: buff.ly/KRoYJBi #CESS2026
📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 5th International Conference of Esimde Unveiling the 1990s: Paths to Independence in the Post-Communist World 📅 October 2-4, 2026 📍 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan For more info, see Esimde's recent Facebook post: buff.ly/bpIl4PI Poster design: Nagima Abdrakhmanova
Fellowship Opening UPenn's Wolf Humanities Center invites applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. 👉️ See details here: buff.ly/KSjdYUL The 2027–2028 topic will be Empire. Scholars of Eurasia are encouraged to apply. 📅 Application deadline: November 1, 2026 (23:59 EST)
A special thanks to the sponsors of last week's CESS Regional Conference 2026 at Nazarbayev University! Your support made this year’s conference a reality, bringing together our scholarly community in Astana. #CESS2026 #eurasianstudies #centraleurasia #NazarbayevUniversity #astana
📣 CESS 2026 is just around the corner! 🧑💻 The recent post on our website outlines information on: - Accessing Nazarbayev University - Scheduling - Cultural Programming - Traveling in Astana - Dining Information - And more 👉 See the post here: tinyurl.com/yz47bame #CESS2026