Central Eurasia in Focus:
Advancing Research, Building Community
CESS News

Graduate Student Workshop
April 9, 2025
The CfP for the CESS Graduate Student Workshop at Ohio State University is open! Deadline is May 31.

2025 Book Award Nominations
April 2, 2025
The nominations for the 2025 CESS Book Award are open! Deadline is May 2, 2025.

Graduate Student Paper Award
August 26, 2024
This year’s winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award is Olzhas Zhorayev. Congratulations, Olzhas!
The mission of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) is to:
- facilitate communication and interaction among scholars of the Central Eurasia region, and in doing so promote high standards of scholarship and instruction about the Central Eurasia region;
- promote cooperation among people and organizations concerned with the scholarly study of Central Eurasia;
- promote general knowledge of and public interest in Central Eurasia.
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