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Central Asia and the Caucasus: History, society and religions

Contact: Stéphane DUDOIGNON and Alexandre PAPAS

Central-Asian and Caucasian studies constitute both a well-established and a relatively novel field of research within the CETOBaC:

—- They were already present during the creation of the Center of Ottoman and Turkish Studies in 1990;

— They rapidly developed after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the relative opening of the Xinjiang region;

—- They fully took part in the subsequent unprecedented outbreak of research on the region

—- And in the development of the French Institute of Central Asian studies;

—- They gained more autonomy following the creation of the CETOBaC in 2010;

— And multiplied collaborations with the CERCEC (Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies), founded the same year, through:

Special issues of the Cahiers du monde russe on Central Asia
A cycle of joint conferences on Central Asia at the EHESS since 2008
Contributions to collective projects, such as Tribes & Scribes since 2017

Researchers of the CETOBaC who work on the region are mostly historians and philologists:

—- They make use of primary sources in vernacular languages, written or oral;

— Beyond critical reading, they question these sources in the light of major historiographic debates;

— They employ often-neglected research conducted in Central Asia itself

— And thus, open up a reflection on the legacy of Soviet Orientalism.

Furthermore, our researchers attempt to push back the border of their area of study by connecting it with:

— The Indian, Iranian, Ottoman, Turkish, Russian, Mongol and Chinese worlds;

—- Particularly concerning the history and sociology of Islamic transnational connections;

—- The research field ‘Central Asia and the Caucasus’ expresses a keen interest for the technological tools of the social sciences;

— Through online publications and a project for a digital portal on Central Asian studies

Key research points

— Medieval and early modern history of Central Asia

Through a socio-economic history of the early Middle Ages
History of literature and society in medieval and early modern Central Asia
Digitalization and use of private and public archival resources

— War, violence and memory:

Uprisings and conflicts in 20th-century Central Asia
Gender and violence in Central Asian societies

— Demography and political reconstruction, 20th to 21st centuries:

modernization and political identities in Soviet Central Asia
Literature, cinema and societies in contemporary Central Asia

— Islam: new objects and inquiries:

History and anthropology of Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Ethno-confessional minorities, empires and nation-states
History and critique of Orientalism and Islamic studies in the USSR

Seminars

Séminaire d'itinéraires et de débats en études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques [Seminar of research itineraries and debates in Turkish, Balkan and Central Asian studies]
https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/86//
La première fin du monde global : l'Asie centrale au IX^e siècle [The first end of the global world: Central Asia in the 9^th century]
https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/2646//
Migration et démographie en Asie centrale (IV^e-XI^e siècle) [Migration and demographics in Central Asia (4^th-11^th centuries)]
https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/2649//
Histoire du discours sur soi et des formes de représentations identitaires collectives en Asie centrale (XVI^e-XX^esiècle) [History of discourses on the self and of representations of collective identity in Central Asia]
https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/2939//
L’Asie dans tous ses États: questions et méthodes [Asia in all its states: questions and methods]
https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/2727/
Politique et autorité dans le soufisme contemporain [Politics and authority in contemporary sufism]
https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/2728//
Lecture de sources de l’aire turcopersane : introduction au turc tchaghatay (INaLCO) [Reading sources of the Turkopersian region: introduction to Tchaghatay Turkish (at the INaLCO)].

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