submission deadline extended for graduate student conference on space and identity in inner Eurasia

[Katharine Holt]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Organizations for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian  
Societies at Columbia University, New York University, and Yale  
University are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual OASIES Student  
Conference: "Places and Perceptions: Space and Identity in Inner  
Eurasia." The conference will take place Saturday, April 9, 2011 at  
Columbia University.

Our conference seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of  
disciplines who are interested in the perception of place in different  
epochs of Eurasian history and culture. We hope to examine the  
meanings that have been attached to spaces across the Eurasian steppe  
and neighboring regions from a wide range of methodological  
perspectives and to investigate the uses of spatial theory in the  
contemporary study of inner Eurasia.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
-- the role of space in the development of Eurasian states and empires
--the management of space among given communities, either settled or  
nomadic
--the textual representation of Eurasian spaces in and over time (in  
state-sponsored cultural products, the media, Western scholarship,  
travelers’ narratives, etc.
-- the role of symbolic and/or physical locales within Eurasia
--Eurasian identities (e.g. pan-Turkism) that have stretched across  
space and borders
-- Eurasian regionalisms
-- Eurasian cyberspace, public space
--urban planning and architecture in Eurasia
-- the roles of monuments and historic sites in national, local,  
imperial identities
-- networks (e.g. railroads, trade) that have connected Eurasian spaces
--the effect of missionaries, industrialization, modernity, etc. on  
the development of spatial identity
--the role of natural landscapes (the steppe, the desert, the  
mountains, etc.) in various Eurasian cultures
-- “place-making” and space as narrative of personal memories and  
collective histories
-- ideas of home/displacement and belonging (or not) in a Eurasian space
--competition among states and powers for a given territory
-- the interplay among different Eurasian linguistic groups across space
-- the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Eurasia
--“inner Eurasia,” “Central Asia,” “Mongolia,” etc. as geographical  
concepts;
-- Orientalisms, colonialisms, “imaginary geographies” in Eurasia
-- the role of social and spatial borders in Eurasia
-- the role of geopolitics, globalization, transnational movement in  
inner Eurasia
--  the methodological uses of spatial theories in the study of Eurasia.

We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students who work  
in Central Asian, Mongolian, Russian, Middle Eastern, Chinese or South  
Asian fields, whatever their home departments (Anthropology,  
Archaeology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Geography, History,  
Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Slavic languages  
and Literatures, etc.).

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

New Submission deadline: March 15, 2011

Please include the following information with all submissions:

1)      Name of presenter
2)      Academic position and institutional affiliation
3)      Title of the paper
4)      Abstract of no more than 300 words
5)      Audio-visual equipment needs
6)      Contact information (please include e-mail address and  
telephone number)

Submissions sent by email to oasiesconference2011 at gmail.com as an  
attachment (pdf or doc) by March 15, 2011, will receive a response  
within a week. Selected participants will be asked to submit their  
full papers to discussants by April 2nd.

Presentations must be kept to 15-20 minutes in length.

Unfortunately we will not be able to provide any financial aid to  
participants.

For current information regarding the event visit www.oasies.org 
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