CFP: 4th Annual OASIES Graduate Student Confere nce: “PLACES AND PERCEPTIONS: SPACE AND IDEN TIY IN IN =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?NER_EURASIA=2C=94_?=Saturday, April 9, 20 11 at Columbia University in New York City.

[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”

Saturday, April 9, 2011 at Columbia University in New York City



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 between 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



Submission deadline: March 1, 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 1, 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 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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