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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)].

Actualités

Autour de l’archive : productions, parcours et pratiques sociales. Balkans, Moyen-Orient, Asie centrale

Journée(s) d'étude - Mardi 29 novembre 2022 - 09:00Comme chaque année, des doctorant.es et masterant.es du CETOBaC organisent une journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire sur des aires géographiques allant des Balkans jusqu’à l’Asie Centrale en passant par les anciens territoires de l’Empire ottoman. (...)(...)

Le soulèvement en Iran : état des lieux

Table ronde - Vendredi 18 novembre 2022 - 14:00Table ronde du CETOBaCLe soulèvement en Iran : état des lieux18 novembre de 14h à 16hBâtiment de l'EHESS - Salle 50 2 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers Depuis le 16 septembre 2022, les rues des villes iraniennes sont une nouvelle fois le théâ (...)(...)

Mobilisation en Iran : éclairages de sciences sociales

Conférence - Vendredi 14 octobre 2022 - 12:00L’EHESS rassemble plusieurs spécialistes de l’Iran pour analyser sous le prisme des sciences sociales la mobilisation iranienne qui se joue actuellement, lors d'une visioconférence animée par Emmanuel Laurentin (France Culture), le vendredi 14 octobre (...)(...)

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