Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Turkmenistan, 1860-1960, Amsterdam 30-9-11

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Turkmenistan, 1860-1960, Amsterdam 30-9-11

> H-ASIA
> May 3, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Conference on Turkmenistan, 1860-1960, Amsterdam
> September 30, 2011
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Conf.Turkmenistan 1860-1960
>
> Location: Netherlands
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-09-30
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-02
> Announcement ID: 184944
>
> Call for Conference: 'Turkmenistan, 1860-1960'
> International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) in cooperation with
> Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam, 30 September
> 2011
>
> The conference seeks to address what the history of Turkmenistan from the
> Russian conquest until the Khrushchev period.
>
> In the century under discussion, the Turkmens were brought under Russian
> administration and subsequently became the titular majority of the Soviet
> Socialist Republic of Turkmenia. We aim to discuss both the profound
> changes that took place in society as well as the way in which these
> changes affected the study of the Turkmens by historians and social
> scientists, including ethnographers.
>
> Topics of interest include the Russian conquest and the view of and on the
> Turkmens in the period of the 'Great Game'; the Civil War and native
> resistance in Turkmenistan; Sovietization and the creation of a Turkmen
> nation-state under the Bolsheviks, including earlier and newly emerging
> concepts of history and identity; as well as Soviet policies towards Islam
> in Turkmenistan. In all these cases, we seek to discuss the relationship
> between central and local authorities as well as between authorities and
> scholars.
>
> Through the conference, which will be hosted by the Turkmenistan Research
> and Exchange Network and the International Institute of Social History, we
> hope to establish international contacts between scholars working on
> Turkmenistan, including in Turkmenistan itself, and to link up for future
> joint research projects.
>
> We have limited funds available for supporting scholars from abroad,
> including from Turkmenistan.
>
> Please submit short paper proposals to Prof. Dr. Michael Kemper, Eastern
> European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, NL-1012VB
> Amsterdam; email: m.kemper@uva.nl. Deadline for proposals is June 15,
> 2011.
>
>
> Prof. Dr. Michael Kemper
> University of Amsterdam
> European Studies
> Spuistraat 134
> NL-1012VB Amsterdam
> Email: m.kemper@uva.nl
>
>
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