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July 2021
CESSI Lecture: The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Sarah Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland This lecture will be given over Zoom. Register here. The Kazakh famine of the 1930s was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime. More…
Find out more »CESSI Lecture Series: The Women Transnational Feminism Forgot: Mapping Intersectionality in Kyrgyzstan
Alexa Kurmanov, PhD Student, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley This event will be held over Zoom. Register here. What does intersectionality as praxis look like in Kyrgyzstan? Grassroots feminist, LGBTQ and transfeminist groups…
Find out more »2021 Less Commonly Taught Languages Career Fair
The Less Commonly Taught Languages Career Fair connects speakers of less commonly taught languages with professional development and career opportunities in the public and private sectors. Read more on the WISLI website.
Find out more »CESSI Lecture: Perspectives on Diplomacy and Languages in Central Asia
Darren Thies, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Embassy Dushanbe This lecture will be given over Zoom. Register here. Darren Thies will share perspectives and advice on the career of a diplomat, learning foreign languages (particularly Persian…
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Lecture with Dr. Juldyz Smagulova: When Language Policy is Not Enough
Register for the lecture here. Juldyz Smagulova is Associate Professor and Dean of College of Humanities and Education, KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Her research interests include language ideology, language education, and language policy. She co-edited…
Find out more »Lecture with Dr. Togzhan Kassenova: The Untold Nuclear History of Kazakhstan
Dr. Togzhan Kassenova is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany and a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an…
Find out more »Lecture with Dr. Amanda Wooden and Henry Misa: Amber, Pollen, Ice and Gold: A Multi-disciplinary Panel on Central Eurasian Climate, Environment and Society from Late Antiquity to the Present
Amanda E. Wooden is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Wooden received a PhD in International Relations and Public Policy from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Russian…
Find out more »Lecture with Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon: Black Like Us: African-American Travelers in Soviet Central Asia
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Pennsylvania and a Penn Presidential Ph.D. Fellow. Her work examines how the presence of people of color shaped ideas and understandings of race, ethnicity, and nationality…
Find out more »August 2022
Documentary Screening: In Search of My Sister
CESSI will be hosting a film screening of “In Search of My Sister”. After the screening, the film’s creators will lead a discussion about the documentary. The screening begins at 5:00 p.m. in Room 206…
Find out more »CANCELED: Lecture with U.S. Ambassador (ret.) Pamela Spratlen: Keys to Sovereignty and Independence in the Future of Central Asia
**This event has been canceled** A career member of the Foreign Service, Pamela L. Spratlen has 30 years of policy and leadership accomplishment across a variety of assignments. Most recently, she was the Senior Advisor…
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