CESS Board Nominations
CESS invites nominations for two new members of our Board of Directors and an incoming President. These positions are for three years, starting from the Annual Conference in 2023 and ending at the Annual Conference in 2026. The incoming President will serve as President-Elect from 2023/24, President from 2024/25, and Past-President from 2025/26. Please see […]
Host a CESS Conference: Requirements and Responsibilities for Proposals
The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) invites universities in Central Eurasia and North America to submit proposals to host our annual conferences, from 2024 onwards. Please see the attached document for information on the proposal and the logistics involved. CESS annual conferences unite approximately 300 delegates from across the globe in the investigation of our […]
CESS EVENT: Urban Activism in Central Eurasia
Cities worldwide are undergoing a profound transformation process under the umbrella of neoliberalism. Decentralization and deregulation of urban policy, and an increasing marketization and commercialization of public space led to an increase in social inequalities, fragmentation of urban space, and segmentation of the urban economy. Central Asia is not exempt from this global trend. Since […]
Decolonization and Central Asia through the lens of Black feminist scholar Audre Lorde
Dialogues between Blackness and Central Asia are not new but have been deemed unimportant in academia – it exposes whose and what type of work is privileged
2022 Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society at Indiana University
The 2022 annual CESS conference was held in Bloomington, IN. from October 20th to 23rd at the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC) at Indiana University “The Central Eurasian Studies Society [CESS] conference at Bloomington, Indiana, allowed me to meet new people and discover future research opportunities,” said Maral Sagynalieva, a Ph.D. student […]
CESS 2023 Annual Conference Call for Papers
The CESS 2023 proposal submissions deadline. March 1, is coming up.Central Eurasian Studies Society 23rd Annual Conference, October 19-22, 2023Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA About the Annual Conference CESS Conferences have been held at universities around North America and Central Eurasia since 2000, alongside our concurrently offering up to 70 […]
