OASIES Call For Papers Extension Feb 15

[Brittany Pheiffer]

CFP: 6th Annual OASIES Graduate Student Conference         Deadline: February 15, 2013

		**Deadline Extended until February 15, 2013**

The Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University, Princeton University, and New York University is pleased to announce its 6th Annual OASIES Conference

To be held:
Friday, April 5, 2013 
Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
New York University

Co-sponsors of this conference include:
The Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University
The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University
The Department of Anthropology at New York University

Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out: Representation, Authority, and Inequity

Representations are always stratified: they come from different positions; they hold different valences of authority. Representations often (re)produce inequality, whether they come from the outside looking in or the inside looking out. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in the representation of authority and the authority to represent. 

The scope of the conference takes in Eurasia past and present, spanning from the Black Sea to Mongolia, from Siberia to South Asia. Stressing multidisciplinarity, submissions are welcome from a variety of departments (anthropology, archeology, art history, Central Asian Studies, East Asian languages and cultures, history, Middle Eastern Studies, Mongolian Studies, political science, religion, sociology, Slavic languages and literature, and South Asian studies).

Possible approaches may include, but are not limited to:
- texts: literary, musical, visual, oral
- stratification
- centers and peripheries 
- elites: intellectual, political, economic, religious
- diaspora: coming and going
- governance and citizenship
- negotiating belonging
- gender and ethnicity

Keynote: Madeleine Reeves, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, "What contrasts, virtually immeasurable!" Difference, delimitation, and representations that matter in the Ferghana valley, 

Closing Remarks: Alan H. Timberlake, Director of the Institute of East Central Europe; Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University

Submission Instructions
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)

Send submissions to oasiesconference at gmail.com no later than February 15, 2013 [as an attachment in pdf or doc format].

Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes in length.
Unfortunately, financial support is not available for participants.

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