Graduate Student Workshop

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

CESS Fall 2024 Syracuse Events

Film Screening On Friday, September 13 from 18:30-20:30, the Conference will be hosting a film screening of “101 Flight” – an Uzbek biographical dramatic film about Flight 101, the Uzbekistan Airways Boeing 757 that was diverted from New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001. This event is co-sponsored by the “Vatandoshlar” Public […]

CESS Board Election 2024 – Voting

CESS Board elections are open! If you are a registered CESS member, you should’ve received a link to vote in the upcoming CESS elections.

Travel Grants Fall 2024

The application for a limited number of travel grants for the CESS Fall 2024 Conference is now open.

CESS 2024 Fall Conference

The esteemed Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, hosted the CESS Fall Conference in Syracuse, New York, from 12-15 September 2024. Submissions were invited relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship across the region. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Tibet, […]

CESS 2024 Book Award Winners

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) with the generous sponsorship of the New Uzbekistan University (NUU) in Tashkent is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the CESS Book Awards. History & Humanities Category Co-Winners Adrienne Edgar – Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia Based on interviews conducted in […]

Keynote Speakers and Cultural Program

In addition to the presentations that are happening as part of the session panels, the CESS 2024 Conference in Almaty is happy to announce two keynote speakers, Sarah Cameron and Gulnara Abikeyeva as well as an exciting cultural program. Information on the cultural program and the keynote presentations can be found in the attached document […]

Pre-Conference Workshops

We are please to announce that registration for pre-conference workshops for CESS 2024 Almaty is open! There are two workshops being offered and the description for each can be found below. Pre-conference workshops are free of charge to all registered conference delegates. Lunch will be provided. The deadline to register for the pre-conference workshops is […]