CONF.- Islam in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: Legal, Social and Political Aspects, SOAS-London, June 13

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CONF.- Islam in the Post-Soviet Caucasus, SOAS-London, June 13

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almut@chechnyaadvocacy.org>

June 13, 2008

Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
(http://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/)

B102, Brunei Gallery
SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London
9 am-6 pm

A one-day conference about (mostly) contemporary developments
concerning the role of Islam in politics, society, culture and armed
conflict across the Russian North Caucasus, with local, Russian and
international experts presenting field and archive-based research.

Speakers/Chairs:

Anna Zelkina (SOAS, Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus)
Domitilla Sagramoso (Kings College, London University)
Moshe Gammer (Professor, Department of the Middle East History,
Tel-Aviv University)
Aude Merlin (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Ahmet Yarlykapov (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian
Academy of Science, Moscow)
Naima Neflyasheva (Caucasian Studies Centre, Institute of African
Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow)
Michail Roschin (Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of
Science, Moscow)
Amir Navruzov (Institute of History Archeology and Ethnography,
Russian Academy of Science, Daghestan)
Shamil Shikhaliev (Department of Oriental Manuscripts, Institute of
History, Archeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Science, Mahachkala)
Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy
of Science, Moscow)
Sylvia Serrano (Centre d'Etudes du Monde Russe et Sovietique -
EHESS/CNRS, Paris)
Musa Basnoukaev (Department of Economics, The Chechen State
University, Groznyi)
Galina Khizrieva (Russian Institute of Cultural Studies, Moscow)
Ahmet Sultygov (PhD Candidate, Russian Institute of Cultural Studies, Moscow)

Download a detailed schedule, including titles of presentations, at

http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html. To register, please email
Anna Zelkina at azelkina@googlemail.com.

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