PROG. INFO.- INTRAC's Training Course "Managing People", Oct. 29-31, 2007, Bishkek

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PROG. INFO.- INTRAC's Training Course "Managing People", Oct. 29-31, Bishkek

Posted by: Kazbek Abraliev <kazbek.abraliev@gmail.com>

INTRAC Training Course "Managing People," October 29-31, 2007
(3 days, non-residential, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan )

Dear Friends and Colleagues in Development:

We have pleasure in sending you information about 3-day course
"Managing People" which will be held in Bishkek on 29-31 October,
2007. Please note that the dates of this course have been changed.

The aim of the course is to help organisations achieve their strategic
aims through good human resource (HR) management.

This is the first time we have run this course in Central Asia. We
believe it will provide valuable assistance to local / regional
offices, managers of international programs and major local NGOs.
Often HR issues come low down on the management agenda - below project
management and reporting. Therefore this course will encourage
managers to consider what aspects of HR management need to be improved
locally. And how to encourage other managers plus local partner
organisations to take up this challenge.

The emphasis of the course will be on people and performance
management. This includes leading teams and working with people from
other cultures. It will be a practical approach, as usual for INTRAC,
with case studies and role plays. How to address poor performance,
conflict resolution, gender and diversity in the work environment: all
these difficult issues will be touched upon and placed in the HR
framework. All questions will be related back to participants' own
work and managerial responsibilities.

The course programme will be available soon. If you would like to see
it, please contact us at our Bishkek email.

To apply for this course or to find out more about INTRAC Open
Training Programme in Central Asia, please contact: Burma Baitokoeva,
Programme Officer

Email: icap@intrac.kg

INTRAC Central Asia Programme,
Regional Office, 107 Kievskaya (3rd Floor)
Bishkek 720001, Kyrgyz Republic
Tel: +996 312 611402, 612360

INTRAC is a non-profit organisation working in the international
development and relief sector. We support non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) around the
world by helping to explore policy issues, and by strengthening
management and organisational effectiveness.
http:// www.intrac.org

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CONF./CFP- 2008 Soyuz Annual Meeting: Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through the Lens of Postsocialism, Apr. 24-27, 2008, Berkeley

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CONF./CFP- 2008 Soyuz Annual Meeting: Critical Inquiry/Postsocialism, Apr. 2008

Posted by: Alexei Yurchak <yurchak@berkeley.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

2008 Soyuz Annual Meeting
University of California, Berkeley
April 24-27, 2008

THEME:

"Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through the Lens of Postsocialism"

The disintegration of Soviet and Eastern European socialisms not only
ushered in rapid and overwhelming transformations in the former socialist
lifeworlds, but also engendered the emergence of the problem-space of
"postsocialism" that spans well beyond the boundaries of the former
socialist states. In this year's Soyuz conference, we would like to
consider: how can theoretical insights gained in our critical engagements
with postsocialism shed new light on questions central to contemporary
anthropology and critical social inquiry more broadly.

For example, how might our inquiry of postsocialism illuminate:
* current global configurations of liberalism and neoliberalism,
democracy and neo-conservatism, sovereignty and citizenship, biopower
and international law, religion and secularism, risk and security,
global capitalism and labor outsourcing?

* complex parallels between late socialist and late capitalist social
formations at the level of institutions, practices, sentiments,
knowledge, subjectivity, aesthetics?

* current postcolonial engagements (considering that the ideological
opposition capitalism/socialism, in relation to which postcolonial
criticism emerged, is now in the past)?

We are now inviting submissions for the conference. The selected papers will
interrogate the relevance of the theoretical insights gained in engagements
with postsocialism for other contexts, areas and problems of contemporary
world. They will consider the implications of postsocialism, both as a
historical formation and as a problem-space, for the problems interrogated
in contemporary anthropology and social inquiry.

The conference organizing committee:

Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell)
Dace Dzenovska (UC Berkeley)
Larisa Kurtovich (UC Berkeley)
Alex Beliaev (UC Berkeley)
Nina Aron (UC Berkeley)

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008.
Please send submissions electronically (preferable) to: yurchak@berkeley.edu

Or by mail to:

Alexei Yurchak
232 Kroeber Hall
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

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JOB- Professor of Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University

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JOB- Professor of Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University

Posted by: Michael David Graskemper <graskemp@fas.harvard.edu>

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University seeks to make a
full-time professorial appointment in Contemporary Islamic Thought and
Life to be jointly situated in the Committee on the Study of Religion
and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. We
strongly favor making a senior appointment, but we would also consider
exceptionally qualified candidates at the assistant or associate
level. The anticipated start date for this position is July 1, 2008.

The candidate should demonstrate a deep understanding of the
intellectual and religious discourses of one or more contemporary
Muslim societies in their cultural, social, political, and historical
contexts. We understand religious and intellectual discourses in the
broadest sense, including, but not limited to, contemporary
literature, theology, ritual, ethics, political thought, and social
practice. The candidate should have high proficiency in using
relevant contemporary and historical texts, including foundational
texts of the Islamic tradition, in their original languages.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach both undergraduate
and graduate students and to participate in the broader religious
studies and Islamic studies communities at Harvard.

Candidates whose applications are received by November 1, 2007 will
receive full consideration.

Applicants should submit a letter to the search committee discussing
their interest in the position, their qualifications, their research,
and their teaching interests and experience. In addition, they should
submit a full curriculum vitae. Materials should be sent to: Chair of
the Search Committee, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies
Program, Harvard University, One Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138.

Harvard University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer
and strongly encourages applications from and nominations of women and
minority candidates.

Michael David Graskemper
Program Administrator
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
Harvard University
One Bow Street, 324 & 325
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.3347 & 617.495.3379

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PUBL.- China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, August 2007

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PUBL.- China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, August 2007

Posted by: Nicklas Norling <nnorling@silkroadstudies.org>

The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program is
pleased to announce the release of the August 2007 issue of the China
and Eurasia Forum Quarterly.

The issue is online at the following link:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/CEF_quarterly.htm

The PDF-version of the entire issue is available at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007.pdf

Contributions to this issue include:

1. Central Asia­National Interests and Regional Prospects
Johannes F. Linn
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Linn.pdf

2. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Europe
Alyson J.K. Bailes
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Bailes.pdf

3. The Russian Resurgence in the Middle East
Robert O. Freedman
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Freedman.pdf

4. Mongolia and Nuclear Age
Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007
/Jargalsaikhan.pdf

5. HIV/AIDS: Security Threat in Central Asia?
Svetlana Ancker
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Ancker.pdf

6. The Taliban and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
Magnus Norell
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Norell.pdf

7. Energy Cooperation in the SCO: Club or Gathering?
Artyom Matusov
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Matusov.pdf

8. Central Asian Labor Migrants in Russia: The "Diasporization" of the
Central Asian States?
Marlène Laruelle
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2007/Laruelle.pdf

The next issue will be out in November 2007 (deadline November 1).
Authors are encouraged to submit interesting and thought-provoking
articles for review to nswanstrom@silkroadstudies.org.

The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly will from the November 2007
issue charge for the hard copies of the journal. The annual cost will
be $120 for individuals and $200 for institutions (4 issues, including
air postage). To place your order, please contact Nicklas Norling at
nnorling@silkroadstudies.org or write to:

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036
USA

or

The Institute for Security and Development Policy
Västra Finnbodavägen 2-4
131 71 Nacka
Sweden

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EVENT- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World, Kyrgyzstan

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EVENT- Int'l Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World, Kyrgyzstan

Posted by: Janyl Jusubjan <janyl_j@hotmail.com>

Bishkek, Osh, Jalalabat, Sept. 27-29, 2007

International Human Rights Documentary Films Festival "Bir diujnio"
(One World) will take place in Bishkek, Osh and Jalalabat. Some 10
films by Central Asian and award-winning international filmmakers as
"Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea" (Saodat Ismilova, Carlos Casas,
Spain), "On a Tightrope" (Peter Lom, Canada), "Justice a Agadez"
(Christian Lelong, France) will be screened in original languages
(Urdu, Ujgur, Tuareg, Karakalpak, Russian etc.) with mostly parallel
English and Kyrgyz subtitles. The issues center on women, Islam and
children. Most of the screenings will be followed by discussions in
English, French, Russian and Kyrgyz as needed. Students, religious,
civic and minority leaders as well as wider public is invited.

As part of the festival, Christian Lelong will conduct workshops on
the role of documentary and video in a human rights activism (Osh, Bishkek).

The organizer of the One World Kyrgyzstan is a leading human rights
organization "Citizens against Corruption" with headquarters in
Bishkek. It builds on the film screenings in Bishkek, Naryn and Osh in
spring 2007.

The festival is a part of the international network of the One
World/Jeden Svet International Festival of Human Rights Documentary
Films, Prague.

The project was made possible by support of the Open Society
Institute's Culture and Art Program, Aga Khan's Music Initiative in
Central Asia, French Embassy in Bishkek and Central Asian Diaspora
organization kultur-multur.org in Prague.

The media partners are Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague and the
National Radio-TV Corporation of Kyrgyzstan.

The festival will be held under the auspice of the Commission on Human
Rights under the President of Kyrgyzstan.

For more information, please contact:

Diana Makenbaeva: dian_@mail.ru
Janyl Jusubjan: janyl@hotmail.com

Dates and places:

September 27, Bishkek, Dom Kino, ul. Logvinenko 13
>From 10:30 till 19:00. The screenings will be followed by a concert of
Ustatshakirt traditional music group.

September 28, Osh, Babur Theatre

September 29, Jalalabat, Barpy Theatre

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PUBL.- Muhib: Kulliyot - The Complete Works of Mordekhay ben Hiyo Bachayev

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PUBL.- Muhib: Kulliyot - The Complete Works of Mordekhay ben Hiyo Bachayev

Posted by: Thomas Loy <t.loy@web.de>

Muhib: Kulliyot (Complete works in 7 vols.) Jerusalem 2006 (Vol. I-IV)
2007 (Vol. V-VII), containing all the works of the Bukharan Jewish
author in Judeo-Tajik (in Cyrillic script) and a few in Russian.

Muhib: Kulliyot ­ The Complete Works of the Bukharan Jewish writer,
poet and intellectual Mordakhay H. Bachayev (penname Muhib) is both a
great example of and a unique introduction to the culture and
literature of the Bukharan Jews (the term is used for all
Persian-speaking Jews of Central Asia) of the 20th century. Iranist
Jiri Becka once called Muhib the most prominent representative and
continuator of Judeo-Persian literary tradition. Nevertheless, even
in scholarly circles Muhib's oeuvre is scarcely known, since the rich
cultural and literary heritage of this community is only to be found
in Russian and Central Asian archives (The huge amount of publications
of the 1920s and 1930s) or published privately in very small editions
and basically circulates only amongst the big Bukharan-Jewish
communities in Israel and the United States.

The Complete Works of Muhib for the first time provides the
opportunity to for a broader access to history, language, culture, and
literature of this extraordinary Jewish community.

The seven volumes of this extraordinary edition are unique and
amazing, as is the life-history of its author. On more than 3000
pages the reader gets the full variety of Central Asian literature,
culture and history and all this from a specific Bukharan Jewish point
of view. Bachayev's memoirs Dar juvol-i sangin (In a stony sack), his
opus magnum in prose, is split into two volumes (vol. III and vol.
IV). On 1000 pages it covers the first 30 years of Bachayev's life.
The memoirs start in 1918 and end in 1944 when Bachayev, for the first
time after his arrest in 1938, returned from an Ural labor camp to see
his family back home in Tashkent. Bachayev's memoirs are much more
than just a portrait of a Bukharan Jewish intellectual's life in the
Soviet Union. On the whole the author falls back on personal
experiences and those of his family members and close friends.
Flashbacks and the use of oral traditions of the Bukharan Jews
(anecdotic narratives, fairy-tales, poems, proverbs, etc.) enable
Muhib to break the linear mode of narration. Occasionally he throws
light on the cultural memory of the Jews of Central Asia, their daily
life, customs, mourning-rites, etc. Bachayev's memoirs are a major
contribution to the genre of Tajik autobiographical writing and can be
seen in line with Sadriddin Ayni's "Yoddoshtho". The work is supposed
to represent a unique piece of indigenous discussion of early Soviet
times in Central Asia.

The volumes:

Bd. I: "Guldasta" (Bouquet) poetry ­ with an introduction by Prof.
Mikhael Zand - (517 pages)
Bd. II: "Dostonho" (Poems) ­ variations of stories from Tanakh (Old
Testament) and the three books of Podshoh Shlomo (King Salomon) ­
(482 pages)
Bd. III: "Dar juvol-i sangin" ­ Yoddoshtho (Kitob 1) In a sack of
stones ­ Memoirs (book 1) ­ from 1911 to his arrest in 1938 ­ (519 pages,
several pictures)
Bd. IV: "Dar juvol-i sangin" ­ Yoddoshtho (Kitob 2) In a sack of
stones ­ Memoirs (book 2) ­ from 1938 to 1944: imprisonment and
concentration camp ­ (530 pages)
Bd. V: "Vatanv (motherland) ­ features the poem of the same name as
well as fragments from the notebook "folklore", poetry, proverbs, and
fairytales. The second part is a collection of prose works composed in
Russian language. ­ (511 pages)
Bd. VI: "Qadamho-i avvalin" (first steps) Early partly unpublished
poetry, prose, translations and letters from the 1920s and 30s (up to
his arrest). The second part contains essays and reviews from the
1960s and from Israel as well as interviews with Muhib and selected
correspondence in Tajik. ­ (551 pages)
Bd. VII: Tafsir-i kalima va iboraho (dictionary) consisting of a
dictionary compiled by Bachayev (7000 entries in
Judeo-Tajik/Bukhori and Tajik) and the author's correspondence in
Russian. ­ (538 pages)

Short Biography of Muhib (Mordakhay ben Hiyo Bachayev); born 1911 in
Marv (in today's Turkmenistan); Bukharan-Jewish writer, poet,
publicist and translator; 1929-1938 editor of the Samarqand (later
Tashkent) magazines "Rushnoi" and "Bayroq-i mehnat"; first publication
1929; 1938 arrested for "Jewish bourgeois nationalisms" and
"anti-soviet agitation"; 1939-1945 Soviet concentration camp and
forced labor in northern Ural; 1945-1954 banned from Tashkent and
Samarqand, administrative job in a mine near Angren/Uzbek SSR; 1957
complete rehabilitation; 1955-1972 translator (Russian-Tajik) and
editor at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism in Dushanbe (Tajik SSR);
1973 M. H. Bachayev left the Soviet Union and immigrated into Israel.
He died on 9 March 2007 in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.

Muhib: The Complete works - are available now (September 2007).
Price: 350 Euro (shipment included)

For orders or more information please contact: info@tibetbook.net

or visit our site on

www.tibetbook.net

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PUBL./CFP- Asian Affairs: An American Review

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PUBL./CFP- Asian Affairs: An American Review

Posted by: Jen Maceyko <jmaceyko@heldref.org>

Asian Affairs: An American Review

Call for Papers

Asian Affairs: An American Review, a quarterly journal focusing on
U.S. policy in Asia and the contemporary politics, economics,
security, and international relations of the region, invites
submissions of original research papers of between 5,000 to 7,000
words. The deadline for Winter 2008 submissions is Monday, October 1, 2007.

Asian Affairs seeks to present in-depth, well-argued theses relevant
for policymakers in both the United States and the greater Asian
region. Articles should contribute to an ongoing debate or bring to
light new questions and responses to contemporary issues pertaining to
the East, Southeast, South, and Central Asian regions. All
perspectives are of interest. Submissions will be double-blind peer
reviewed. The journal has no op-ed section and does not publish
opinion essays.

Please submit all papers by email to aa@heldref.org, including a cover
letter stating that the manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere.

Documentation should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th
edition. Asian Affairs uses endnotes, not footnotes. All Web site
citations should include complete URLs and dates of access. The
editors reserve the right to make editorial changes necessary for
space requirements and journal standards.

For more information about Asian Affairs and Heldref Publications,
please visit www.heldref.org.

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