Thursday, May 10, 2007

[CESS] Announcing: 1) CESR 5-2; 2) Move of Secretariat to Miami University of Ohio

This message has two purposes: To announce the publication of the new
issue of the Central Eurasian Studies Review - vol. 5, no. 2 (see the
letter below from CESR's Chief Editor, Marianne Kamp); and to announce
the move of the CESS Secretariat to its new home at Miami University
of Ohio's Havighurst Center.

This will be the last notice that you receive from CESS at its first
home, Harvard University's Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus.
I am happy to inform you that we are passing the baton to new and able
hands. My role -- always meant to be temporary -- as director of the
Secretariat following my two-year term as CESS's first president has
now ended. We have established a new position, which is filled on an
interim basis by Michael Rouland -- that of Executive Director of CESS.

My goal was to institutionalize CESS so that it can be solid and
enduring, and not dependent on or closely associated with any
individual(s), but rather to be a strong collective, with a strong
institutional base in place. I believe we have made great progress
toward that goal, and an important reflection of this is that we are
completing our first move -- as the Secretariat will now move on a
regular 5-year term basis.

I believe, thanks to everyone's efforts in building CESS, there is now
an international community of scholarship on this region which did not
exist in this way before, and I believe that we are making important
steps toward raising the quality of scholarship and scholarly
communications in this field.

I appreciate the interest and support that you have shown for this
undertaking. And I give my warm wishes to those who will be carrying
the initiative forward. We are very fortunate to have Laura Adams as
president and Michael Rouland as interim executive director. Most of
all, we are fortunate to have this vibrant community, based on shared
interests and concern for the region -- and you, as a part of it.

Sincerely,

John Schoeberlein
Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
centasia@fas.harvard.edu


Note the new contact information for CESS:

Central Eurasian Studies Society
Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056, U.S.A.

tel.: +1 / 513-529-0241
fax: +1 / 513-529-0242

CESS@muohio.edu
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/

Letter from Marianne Kamp announcing the new issue of CESR

We are happy to announce that the Fall 2006/spring 2007 issue of
Central Eurasian Studies Review is now published in its on-line form.
You can access CESR at the CESS website address given here:
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesr/pdf/CESR_05_2.pdf

The paper version of CESR 5-2 is not yet published, but should become
available this summer.

After publication of CESR 5-2, CESR will change format. Starting with
issue 6-1 (Fall 2007), CESR will come out as an on-line publication.
Please read the "Letter from the Editor" found at the beginning of
Issue 5-2 for a complete explanation of changes to CESR. With Issue
6-1, Virginia Martin will again become Editor-in-Chief of CESR, and
Marianne Kamp will step down as editor.

Announcements will soon be made calling for new contributions to CESR.

Marianne Kamp
Editor-in-Chief, Central Eurasian Studies Review
mkamp@uywo.edu

Contents of CESR 5-2:

Letter from the Editor

Perspectives:

Adeeb Khalid, What Jadidism Was, and What It Wasn't: The
Historiographical Adventures of a Term

Theme Section: Knowledge-making about Central Eurasia

Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, Comparative Perspectives on Central Asia and
the Middle East in Social Anthropology and the Social Sciences (Part 2 of 2)

Ali F. Igmen, Viewing Kyrgyz Politics through "Orientalist" Eyes

Sener Aktürk, Reflections on a Central Eurasian Model: A Foucauldian
Reply to Barfield on the Historiography of Ethno-Nationalisms

David Gullette, First Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in
Cultural and Social Anthropology: Anthropology of the State ­ the
State of Anthropology

Research Reports:

Taleh Ziyadov, Trans-Caspian Pipelines and Implications for Security
in the Caspian Region

Martha Merrill, Internationalization of Higher Education in
Kyrgyzstan: Three Potential Problems

Ulan Ergeshbaev, External Labor Migration of Kyrgyzstan's Indigenous
Population and Its Socio-Economic Consequences

Navbahor Imamova, International Broadcasting to Central Asia: The
Voice of Reason or Opposition?

Ravshan Fatchullaev, Methodological Problems in the Studies of Varnish
Miniatures of Uzbekistan

Tatyana D. Skrynnikova and Darima D. Amogolonova, Discourse on
Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Buryatia

Book Reviews:

Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the
Making of the Soviet Union. Reviewed by Matthew J. Payne

Kahar Barat, trans., ed., The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the
Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang, Ninth and Tenth
Chapters. Reviewed by James A. Millward

Valery Tishkov, Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. Reviewed by
Michael A. Reynolds

Georgi M. Derluguian, Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A
World-Systems Biography. Reviewed by Rebecca Gould

Stephen F. Jones, Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to
Social Democracy 1883-1917. Reviewed by Stephen H. Rapp, Jr

Irina Babich and Akhmet Yarlykapov, Islamskoe vozrozhdenie v
sovremennoi Kabardino-Balkarii: perspektivy i posledstviia. Reviewed
by Alexander Knysh

Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, Les Russes du Kazakhstan:
identitiés nationales et nouveaux états dans l'espace post-soviétique.
Reviewed by Jeff Sahadeo

Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling, eds., Central Eurasia in
Global Politics: Conflict, Security, and Development. Reviewed by
Agnieszka Paczynska

Alexander Cooley, Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires,
States and Military Occupations.Reviewed by Kevin D. Jones

Tigran Martirosyan and Silvia Maretti, Scholars' Guide to Washington,
D.C. for Central Asian and Caucasus Studies: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Reviewed by James A. Millward

Conference Reports:

Workshop on the Social Dimensions of Understanding Illness and Healing
in Islamic Societies from Africa to Central Asia, Reported by: Ildikó
Bellér-Hann

International Conference on Problems and Success Factors in Business:
Perspectives from Emerging Markets and Transition Economies III,
Reported by: Ibrahim Kele and Gülnaz Baltabaeva

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