Thursday, May 7, 2009

CONF.- 21st Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium, Univ. of Washington, May 9

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CONF.- 21st Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium, Univ. of Washington, May 9

Posted by: Ilse D Cirtautas <icirt@u.washington.edu>

University of Washington, Seattle

21st Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central/Inner Asian Studies:
"The Impact of Globalization on the Turkic and Mongolian Culture
and Society"

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Denny Hall 215A-217
9:00 am - 5:30pm
Program

9:00-9:30
Coffee, Tea and refreshments


9:30-9:35
Welcome Address: Ilse Cirtautas

9:35-10:00
"Remembering Nicholas Poppe"

Prof. Emeritus Jerry Norman, Department
of Asian Languages and Literature, University
of Washington

10:00-10:30
"Aspects of Globalization"
(tentative title)
Prof. Stephen Hanson, Vice-Provost of Global Affairs
University of Washington

10:30-10:40
Discussion

10:40- 10:50
Coffee/Tea Break

10:50-11:20
"Uzbekistan's Encounter with Globalization"

Prof. Ilse Cirtautas, Near Eastern Languages
and Civilization,
University of Washington

[After the almost complete isolation from western influences
for more than seventy years during Soviet colonialism all the
Central Asian republics experienced, since independence in 1991,
a constant flow of western ideas, attitudes and material goods.
This paper attempts to show the influence of globalization,
experienced as a process of westernization, and the reaction
to it in Uzbekistan. Similar developments can be observed also
in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

11:20-11:30
Discussion


11:30-12:00
"Chingis's Posse Or Why Mongolia Loves Hip Hop"

Simon Wickham-Smith, Russian, East European and
Central Asian Studies, Jackson School of International
Studies, University of Washington

[The music and culture of hip hop is most readily associated
with urbanized youth culture in the United States and Europe,
so how has it become the most influential and popular youth
culture in contemporary Mongolia? Where in this society, which
so celebrates its ancient culture and history, does the linguistic
subtlety of rap and the electronic beat box find its place and how
do the artists merge such influences with their own culture?
This presentation will use video to address these questions in the
light of globalization and show what of western hip hop has been
retained and what was transformed by Mongolian performers]

12:00-12:10
Discussion

12:10-1:30
Lunch (215 A Denny)

1:30-2:00
"Aspects of Globalization in Xinjiang (East Turkestan):
The Political Geography of the Uighurs"

Prof. Stanley Toops, Miami University, Ohio

[The Uighur, a Turkic ethnic group in northwest China, are the
titular ethnicity of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
After discussing their situation in Xinjiang, this paper will analyze
political components of Uighur society. What is the political
geography of the Uighurs? The paper will be looking at several
components, including the history, and demonstrate how locality
and places matter to Uighurs and their political identity. Political
power, however, is in the hands of the party and the Xinjiang
Production Construction Corps. The paper will also discuss
human rights issues in the context of global influences]


2:00-2:10
Discussion

2:10-2:40
"How to Preserve Traditions in a Global World:
The Case of the Council of Elders in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan"

David Merrell, School of Law, University of Washington

[Traditional dispute resolution councils of village elders have
existed for centuries in Central Asia. In Kyrgyzstan such
councils are known as aksakal (lit: white beard) councils. In
Afghanistan they are mostly referred to as jirga or shura. After
the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of globalization,
aksakal councils were incorporated into the Kyrgyz judicial
system as Aksakal Courts. Because the Jirga and Shura are
economically efficient, respected by the people, and seek
reconciliation rather than retribution, many in the international
community are calling for their institutionalization by the
Afghan government. Others claim that institutionalization
would change their traditional character and eliminate their
inherent qualities. This paper argues that before any decision
is made on the matter, Afghanistan should look to the experience
of integration in the Kyrgyz Republic]

2:40-2:50
Discussion

2:50-3:00
Coffee Break and Awarding of the combined Nicholas
Poppe/Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association Prize
for the best student in first-year Uzbek.


3:00-3:30
"A Look at the Past: Reflections of Social Changes in Osmanaly
Sydykov's Tarikh-i Shadmaniya (1914)"

Jipar Duishembieva, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary
Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Washington

[Central Asia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the twentieth
century was a fast changing place where traditional ways of life were
challenged by Russian and later Soviet colonialism. The mostly enforced
social changes on the territory of Central Asia produced local intellectuals
with a distinct position and with different responses to the events around
them. The paper explores how these changes are reflected in a historical
work written by a Kyrgyz intellectual who comes from the nomadic
culture: Osmonaly Sydykov's Tarikh Qyrgyz Shadmaniya published
in 1914 in Ufa. After a brief discussion of Sydykov's life, the paper
explores Sydikov's treatment in the Tarikh of the concepts of history,
education, progress. and technology, concepts so closely related to
current issues of globalization]

3:30-3:40
Discussion

3:40-4:10
"Globalization, Oil and the Environment in the Caspian
Sea Region of Kazakhstan"

Arman Ikhsanov, Exchange Graduate Student from Atyrau
University, Atyrau, Kazakhstan

[The paper will discuss the ecological and environmental
impact of oil and gas pumping by foreign companies in the
Caspian Sea region, particularly in the vicinity of Atyrau. The
discussion will also include the pollution caused by refineries
and other factories built and maintained by foreign companies
and their frequent clash with Kazakh environmental laws]

4:10- 4:20
Discussion

4:20-5:00
"Globalization and its Challenges for the Youth in
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: A Forum
of students from Central Asia currently studying at the
University of Washington:"
Saodat Khakhimova (Uzbekistan),
Shyngys Nurlanov (Kazakhstan) Arman Ikhsanov (Kazakhstan),
Iskender Suleimenov (Kyrgyzstan)

5:00-5:10
Discussion

5:10-5:20
Summary and Closing Remarks


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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

PUBL.- Les Cahiers d'Asie Centrale, Available Online

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PUBL.- Les Cahiers d'Asie Centrale, Available Online

Posted by: IFEAC <ifeacadm@ifeac.com.uz>

Dear Colleagues:

We are happy to announce that Les Cahiers d'Asie centrale, review of
the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) is online now,
at the portal http://www.revues.org, and the address is the following
http://asiecentrale.revues.org/

The issues 13-14 (Gestion de l'indépendance et legs soviétique en Asie
centrale [Managemen of independence and soviet heritage in Central
Asia] directed by S.Peyrouse) and 15-16 (Les islamistes d'Asie
centrale : un défi aux États indépendants ? [Islamists of Central
Asia: a challenge to the independent States] directed by H.Fathi) are
already available on the abovementioned website.

Earlier issues will be added progressively.

Also, two new issues will be published in 2009 at editing house "Complexe":

No. 17-18. Le Turkestan russe. Une colonie pas comme les autres ? [The
Russian Turkestan. A colony unlike the others?] directed by Svetlana
Gorshenina and Sergey Abashin.

No. 19-20 Asie centrale : La définition des identités [Central Asia:
Definition of identities], directed by Carole Ferret and Arnaud Ruffier.

Your remarks are the most welcome.

Wishing you a pleasant reading,

Carole Ferret, Chief Editor
Bayram Balci, Director of Publication


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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

IAAS LECTURE- Johan Elverskog, Portraits of Muhammad from Ghazan Khan to Kurt Westergaard, May 6

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IAAS LECTURE- Johan Elverskog, Portraits of Muhammad, May 6

Posted by: Inner Asian and Altaic Studies <iaas@fas.harvard.edu>

The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
invites you to a Lunchtime Lecture

Johan Elverskog
Southern Methodist University

will speak on

Portraits of Muhammad from
Ghazan Khan to Kurt Westergaard

at

The CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
On the Concourse Level, in Seminar Room S050

on

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

You may bring your own lunch to the Seminar Room.
Snacks will be provided.
Room opens at 12:30, Presentation begins at 1 p.m.

If you have any questions you may contact us at
iaas@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-3777


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CONF.- Central Asian Visions of the Other: Views from Inside and Out, Leeds, June 8

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CONF.- Central Asian Visions of the Other: Views from Inside & Out, Leeds, 6/8

Posted by: Geoffrey Humble <G.F.Humble@leeds.ac.uk>

All interested parties are invited to:

Central Asian Visions of the Other: Views from Inside and Out

A one-day postgraduate symposium at the Leeds Humanities Research
Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Monday 8th June 2009

We are very fortunate to have Dr Nick Megoran (Newcastle University)
as our keynote speaker.

Other speakers include

David Tobin (Manchester University)
Baktygul Tulebaeva (University of Edinburgh)
Mohira Suyarkulova (University of St. Andrews)
Dr. Zekiye Çagimlar, Dr Oya Sen (Cukurova University, Turkey)
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (University of St. Andrews)
Adrian Zenz (MIASU, University of Cambridge)
Rebecca Reynolds (University of Glasgow)
Franck Billé (MIASU, University of Cambridge)

For further details, see http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~lifgfh/

This symposium is supported by the Department of East Asian Studies,
the Lifelong Learning Centre, and the Leeds Humanities Research
Institute at the University of Leeds

To register (free) please contact Geoff Humble g.f.humble@leeds.ac.uk
- I'd really appreciate it if you could fill in this form and return
it, so I can get an idea of numbers:

Name

Institution

Email address

Research interests (a short summary ­ for networking purposes)

I am happy for these details to be:
Circulated at the symposium (in printed form) Yes/No

Included on the website http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~lifgfh/ Yes/No

Also, if you have any ideas, useful links, or other things you'd like
to share, let me know.

Geoff Humble


Geoffrey Humble
Programme Clerk
Lifelong Learning Centre
Leeds University
Leeds LS2 9JT
tel: 0113 343 4851
email: g.f.humble@leeds.ac.uk

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lifelonglearningcentre

The Lifelong Learning Centre has moved to the Marjorie and Arnold Ziff
Building. All staff contact details remain the same.


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PUBL.- Ab Imperio 1-2009: Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire

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PUBL.- Ab Imperio 1-09: Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for Empire

Posted by: Sergey Glebov <sglebov@smith.edu>

Dear colleagues,

The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the new
thematic issue of the journal. Ab Imperio 1-2009 focuses on writing
and understanding biographies in the culturally divided and
heterogeneous space of empire. Ab Imperio will continue to explore the
biographic, emotional, and cultural turn in the history of the Russian
Empire for the whole year of 2009.

Information about manuscript submission, annual subscriptions,
purchase of individual issues or articles can be found at http://abimperio.net
You can also direct your inquiries to the journal editors at
office@abimperio.net

Sergey Glebov

Ab Imperio 1/2009: Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire

I. Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors Homo Imperii Revisits the "Biographic Turn" Rus/Eng

Yaroslav Hrystak Nationalizing a Multiethnic Space: The Case(s) of
Ivan Franko and Galicia (Rus)

Ronald Grigor Suny Making Sense of Stalin (Rus)

II. History

Olga Minkina Jews in the "Greater Political Space." Jewish Deputies in
the Late 18th-early 19th c. Russian Empire (Rus)

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Moshko the Imperial (Rus)

Michael Khodarkovsky The Return of Lieutenant Atarshchikov: Empire and
Identity in Asiatic Russia (Eng)

Scott C. Matsushita Bailey A Biography in Motion: Chokan Valikhanov
and His Travels in Central Eurasia (Eng)

Pavel Tereshkovich Borderland as Destiny: Identity Metamorphoses in
the Borderlands of Eastern Europe (Rus)

Boris Kornienko Ataman F. F. Taube: An Icon of Cossack Nationalism (Rus)

III. Archive

Sergei Kan An Evolutionist-Ethnologist Confronts Post-Revolutionary
Russia: Lev Shternberg's "Anthropological Suggestions and Perspectives
during the Revolutionary Years in Russia" (Eng)
Lev Shternberg Anthropological Suggestions and Perspectives during the
Revolutionary Years in Russia (Rus)

IV. Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science

Victor Shnirelman Presidents and Archeology, or What Do Politicians
Seek in Ancient Times: Distant Past and Its Political Role in the USSR
and during the Post-Soviet Period (Rus)

V. ABC: Empire and Nationalism Studies

In Memory of Marc Raeff
>From the Editors Marc Raeff. 1923-2008 (Eng/Rus)
Richard Wortman Marc Raeff (Eng)
Samuel C. Ramer Remarks at the Memorial for Marc Raeff (Eng)

Wladimir Berelowitch Marc Raeff: Russia in European Historical Studies (Rus)
Catherine Raeff Memorial Speech, February 7, 2009 (Eng)
Anne Raeff Excerpt from Winter Kept Us Warm (Eng)

VI. Newest Mythologies

Polina Barskova The Corpse, the Corpulent, and the Other: A Study in
the Tropology of Siege Body Representation (Eng)

VII. Book Reviews

Nasledie imperii i budushchee Rossii / Pod red. A. I. Millera. Moscow:
Fond "Liberal'naia missiia", Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2008. 528
s. ISBN: 978-5-86793-631-0.
Andrei Portnov

Mark von Hagen, War in a European Borderland: Occupations and
Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918 (Seattle: The
Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central
Asian Studies, University of Washington, 2007). xii+122 pp. (Donald W.
Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia). ISBN:
978-029-598-753-8.
Serhy Yekelchyk

Jörg Gebhard, Lublin: Eine polnische Stadt im Hinterhof der Moderne
(1815-1914) (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2006). 394 S. ISBN: 978-341-207-606-1.
Malte Rolf

S. V. Liubichankovskii. Gubernskaia administratsiia I problema krizisa
vlasti v pozdneimperskoi Rossii (na materialakh Urala, 1892-1914 gg.)
Samara-Orenburg: IPK GOU OGU, 2007. 750 s. Prilozheniia. Ukazatel'
imen. ISBN: 978-5-7410-0749-5.
Mikhail Rodnov

Robert Romanchuk, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian
North. Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery,
1397-1501 (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press,
2007). xv+452 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9063-8.
Vitalii Ananiev

Elena V. Aniskina, Galina A. Kouznetsova, Oganes V. Marinine,
Vsevolode Gousseff (Dir.), Retours d'URSS: Les prisonniers de guerre
et les internés français dans les archives soviétiques 1945-1951 /
Coordonné par Catherine Klein-Gousseff (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001).
428 pp. (= Mondes Russes. Etats, Sociétés, Nations. No 1).
Bibliographie, Index des noms. ISBN: 2-271-05884-8.
Dmitrii Ursu

Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger (Eds.), Picturing Russia:
Explorations in Visual Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008). xv+284 pp., ill., maps. ISBN: 978-0300-119-619.
Galina Iankovskaia

Valerie A. Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its
Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 2006). xiv+263 pp., ill., maps. ISBN: 978-080-144-409-8.
Viktor Borisov

Marlies Bilz, Tatarstan in der Transformation: Nationaler Diskurs und
Politische Praxis 1988-1994 (Stuttgart: "Ibidem-Verlag", 2005). 456 S.
Index. ISBN: 978-3-89821-722-4.
Andrei Makarychev

Charles King, The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). xviii + 320 pp., ills.
ISBN: 978-019-517-775-6.
Michael Kemper

A. A. Safonov. Svoboda sovesti I modernizatsiia veroispovednogo
zakonodatel'stva Rossiiskoi imperii v nachale XX v. Tambov:
Izdatel'stvo Pershina R. V., 2007. 367 s. Ukazatel' imen. Ukazatel'
religioznykh veroispovedanii i sekt. ISBN: 978-5-91253-077-7.
Nadieszda Kizenko

Dan Khili. Gomoseksual'noe vlechenie v revoliutsionnoi Rossii:
regulirovanie seksual'no-gendernogo dissidentstva/Podgot. L. V.
Bessmertnykh. Moskva: Ladomir, 2008. 714 s., il. ISBN: 978-5-86218-470-9.
Marianna Muravieva

Anna Shternshis, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the
Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).
xxi+252 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-025-334-726-8.
Olga Gershenson

Yael Chaver, What Must Be Forgotten. The Survival of Yiddish in
Zionist Palestine (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004).
xxiv+238 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-815-630-50-6
(hardcover edition).
Aleksandr Lokshin

Leonid Smilovitskii. Evrei v Turove: Istoriia mestechka Mozyrskogo
Poles'ia. Ierusalim: Tsurot, 2008. 846 s., ill. ISBN: 978-965-555-352-9.
Al'bert Kaganovich

Andrzej Poppe, Christian Russia in the Making (London: Ashgate
Publishing, 2007). xiv+362 pp. (=Variorum Collected Studies Series).
ISBN: 978-075-465-911-2 (hardcover edition).
Aleksandr Maiorov, Vitalii Ananiev, Nikolai Miliutenko

Henryk Jankowski, A Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Russian
Habitation Names of the Crimea (Leiden; Boston: "Brill," 2006).
vi+1298 pp., 60 ills. ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15433-9. ISBN-10: 90-04-15433-7).
Nikita Khrapunov

Nauchnye tetradi Instituta Vostochnoi Evropy. Vyp. I. Nepriznannye
gosudarstva. / Pod red. A. L. Podgorel'skogo. Moskva: Territoriia
budushchego, 2006. 192 s., ill. ISBN: 5-91129-017-0.
Kimitaka Matsuzato


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PROG. INFO.- American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC), Baku Center Now Open

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PROG. INFO.- American Research Inst. of the South Caucasus (ARISC), Baku Center

Posted by: Talin Lindsay <talinlindsay@yahoo.com>

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) is an
American Overseas Research Center being established in Armenia,
Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Initial funding through the Council of
American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC -- see www.caorc.org)
supports an ARISC representative in Baku, Leyla Rustamli, who will be
available to meet and greet US scholars as of May 4, 2009
(ARISCbaku@yahoo.com). For more information about ARISC, visit our
website www..arisc.org or send e-mail to info@arisc.org.


Talin Lindsay
Executive Director, ARISC


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JOB- IWMI Researcher/Senior Researcher and Head of Office, Central Asia

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JOB- IWMI Researcher/Senior Researcher and Head of Office, Central Asia

Posted by: Ulugbek Akhmedov <u.akhmedov@cgiar.org>

Position Announcement

Researcher/Senior Researcher and Head of Office, Central Asia

We are seeking a highly competent, motivated and dynamic individual
for the position of Researcher/Senior Researcher and Head of Office,
Central Asia to actively lead and contribute to IWMI's research in the
Central Asia. The successful candidate will be based at IWMI Central
Asia Office in Tashkent and will report to the Regional Director,
Southeast and Central Asia.

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit,
scientific organization engaged in research and capacity building
activities for developing countries. Our mission is to overcome
poverty through the better management of land and water resources.
Working with diverse partners and supported by the Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), IWMI seeks to
translate its research findings into actionable recommendations for
policymakers, resource managers and poor rural communities. IWMI is
based in Colombo, Sri Lanka and has regional offices located in 12
countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Job Purpose:

The main purpose of the job is to lead and undertake research to
achieve IWMI's goals. In addition, the Head will ensure the smooth
running of the office including human resources, financial and other
administrative and technical support functions and, when appropriate,
act as IWMI's local representative in the Central Asian region.

Responsibilities and Duties:

The key responsibility will include the following:
* Take overall responsibility for the management of the Tashkent
office and the professional and support staff;
* Manage project implementation i.e. developing annual plans of
operations, hiring consultants and field executors, organization of
field activities, field activity planning, monitoring and guidance,
regular progress reviews with partners and field visits;
* Provide research leadership and guidance in areas of expertise;
provide strategic thinking to guide the direction of the Central Asia
portfolio whilst contributing to research oversight and quality control;
* Develop and sustain relationship with project partners (current and
potential), other water related organizations, universities, research
organizations, local and international NGOs and water ministries and
liaise on IWMI research initiatives, projects and/or themes within
IWMI with partner institutes, governments and donors;
* Represent IWMI in the region, maintaining strong working
relationships with research partners, donors, protocol authorities (in
conjunction with the Regional Director and Director General) and other
stakeholders;
* Contribute to IWMI's fund-raising efforts by providing intellectual
inputs to the preparation of proposals, and through direct donor contact;
* Prepare journal articles and other scientific manuscripts and
presentations to disseminate research results. In addition contribute
to the formulation of general information for the public e.g. news
papers radio; TV; web based, etc;
* Work within a multi-disciplinary teams, develop a personal research
agenda resulting in significant publishable output;
* Contribute to capacity building efforts; mentoring, guidance to
staff, assist in their professional development and welfare;
* Recruitment and management of office support staff (as per ICARDA
and IWMI requirements), lead the planning of budget and financial
resources and manage the same for the sub-regional office; staff welfare.
* Attend local/regional meetings, make presentations and other
intellectual contributions; manage requests for financial and other
resource input requests, etc;
* Review project reports, training materials, and all other project
publications of IWMI staff.

Selection Criteria:

The following outlines the attributes required and the criteria
against which applications will be assessed.

Qualifications:

Essential

* A PhD or equivalent experience in an area relevant to the research
program (e.g. hydrology, irrigation, environmental science, social
science/economics).
* Management experience relevant to being part of the IWMI team.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

* At least 5 years experience working with research institutions and
key stakeholders
* Track record of representing an organization at a senior level, and
working closely with senior colleagues
* Experience of managing teams of people that have delivered high
quality outputs on time and budget.
* Ability to design and conduct research projects related to water
and poverty in Central Asia
* Demonstrated understanding of the role of research for development
and how to achieve impact
* Ability to grasp key issues of importance to IWMI.
* A solid record of publications.

Desirable

* Experience in managing finances and planning work from both
scientific and financial/human resources perspectives.
* Experience in working and living in developing countries.

Skills and Abilities:

Essential

* Strong verbal communication skills, both written and oral,
including the capacity to write proposals, reports, and academic
papers and to communicate research results to stakeholders at
different management levels in multiple countries;
* Ability to manage a small office, work as a member of a team and
work closely with researchers of other disciplines
* Evidence of strategic planning skills and conceptual thinking.
* Ability to form partnerships with local institutions and
stakeholders to facilitate delivery of outcomes.
* Ability to be a strong advocate for the area of responsibility via
written and oral presentations.
* Ability to liaise with key donor agencies.

Desirable

* Ability to operate in Russian and/or other local languages

Salary and Benefits:

This is an Internationally Recruited Staff position with a competitive
salary and benefits package. This includes a housing allowance,
transport, education, shipping assistance, annual home leave,
retirement, and health insurance package. IWMI's policy is to appoint
staff initially on two year contracts which are subject to renewal,
depending on performance and institute's needs.


How to Apply:

To apply for this post:
* Complete application form http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/About_IWMI/Vacancies/
* Attach your résumé.
* Attach a letter of application, which specifically addresses the
selection criteria outlined previously; include the names and
addresses of 3 referees who may be contacted if you are shortlisted.
* Submit online.

If you do not receive an automatic acknowledgement email within 24
hours of sending your application, then contact: The Human Resources
Office, IWMI, P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Email: work-at-iwmi@cgiar.org

Application deadline: 15 May 2009 - or until the position is filled.

Schedule for Selection Process:
There may be telephone interviews for short-listed candidates during
the week beginning 25 May 2009 and selection interviews in Colombo,
Sri Lanka in the week of 15 June 2009. Although these dates may be
subject to change, it would be useful if candidates could be available
around these dates.

For further information visit IWMI - http://www.iwmi.org

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