Wednesday, November 26, 2008

SEMINAR- Russia-Georgia Conflict, CCCAC, SOAS, London, Nov. 27

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SEMINAR- Russia-Georgia Conflict, CCCAC, SOAS, London, Nov. 27

Posted by: Jane Savory <js64@soas.ac.uk>

Dear All:

Please find listed below details of the Centre of Contemporary Central
Asia and the Caucasus event schedule for Term 1.

The seminars are free and open to the public. No booking is required.

Seminar

Date: Thursday, 27 November 2008

Time: 5.30-7pm

Title: Russia-Georgia Conflict: Implications for Sovereignty and
Autonomy in the Caucasus

Speakers:
* Bill Bowring (Law, Birkbeck College)
* Laurence Broers (Projects Manager in the Caucasus Programme,
Conciliation Resources)
* Domitilla Sagramoso (Department of War Studies, King's College)

Venue: G50, Main Building, SOAS

Contact: Bhavna Dave (bd4@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

All Welcome

Conference

Date: Thursday, 27 November 2008

Time: 9.00-17.30

Title: Chechnya After the War

Speakers Include:

Lord Rea (Save Chechnya Campaign)

Lord Judd (Former Rapporteur for Council of Europe on Chechnya)

Akhmed Zakaev (A former minister in the Chechnya government)

Dr Zukhra Kharkimova (Director of the children's hospital in Grozny
and deputy minister of health in Chechnya)

Tom Porteous (Director, Human Rights Watch, London)

Elena Burtina (Civic Assistance Committee, NGO, Russian Federation)

Willem de Jonge (Head of Mission, Medecins Sans Frontieres, (MSF) Russia)

Professor John Russell (Institute of Peace Studies at Bradford and
author of Chechnya: Russia's "War on Terror")

Dr Cerwyn Moore (Birmingham University)

Tony Wood (Assistant editor of the New Left Review)

Murad Batal Al-Shishani (Jordanian-Chechen Journalist for the BBC)

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

A panel of experts and distinguished speakers will be setting the
present situation in context. Many aspects of the current situation
will be explored with particular emphasis on the humanitarian
situation, using relevant material, information and experience. They
will explain and convey a better understanding of what is going on in
Chechnya at present and what the future is likely to hold for the area.

This is an important one day conference in which a panel of experts
and distinguished speakers will be setting the present post-war
situation, humanitarian, social and political in context.

To Book a Place

To book a place for the conference please call MARCCH on 020 8883 9999
or visit their website on www.marcch.org

Payment by cash or cheque ACCEPTED. Tickets: £15 (free for
students, OAPs and those on benefit)

Seminar

Date: Thursday, 4 December 2008

Time: 17.30-19.00

Title: Debating Debate in Northern Afghanistan

Speakers: Magnus Marsden (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
Venue: G50

Enquiries: Bhavna Dave, bd4@soas.ac.uk or Jane Savory, js64@soas.ac.uk

All are Welcome (seminars are free and open to the public). Booking
is not required unless otherwise stated.

Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh
Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG

Centre website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/


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