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Středoasijská platforma

Our goal is to contribute to a better knowledge of Central Asia, defined in this context as the area from Afghanistan through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan to Western China (Xinjiang, Tibet), and Mongolia, which is a vast and historically, culturally and politically important region.
 
Our primary aim is to provide a view from the region on issues such as history, politics, religion, culture and migration on the basis of regional expertise and local sources (oral history, archives, local media, literature, statistics, etc.). The platform also focuses on specific themes, such as power and strategies associated with social and political order (foundations, representations and structures of power), cultural security, cultural diplomacy, etc.
The goal of the Central Asian Platform is also to establish cooperation between experts across the different regional and disciplinary fields of expertise. Regions of Central Asia, such as Afghanistan, the states of post-Soviet Central Asia, as well as Western China and Mongolia, are often studied separately and the conceptual and disciplinary boundaries (as well as the state-centered analysis) prevent the sharing of research results and restrict opportunities for establishing broader theoretical debates.
 
The platform organizes thematic conferences and workshops in cooperation with scholars and experts from Czech research institutes and also universities and research institutions from Europe and other parts of the world. The Central Asian Platform will be represented as well through regular scholarly seminars in Prague on themes relevant to Central Asia (the Central Asian Seminar Series), where invited experts from universities and research institutions from both abroad and the Czech Republic present their most recent research findings from the region.
 
From a long-term perspective, our goal is to contribute to a consolidation of the tradition of Central Asian studies in Czech universities and research institutions and serve as a Central Asian Platform (the center of high quality research on Central Asia). We also seek to enhance our joint capacity to network with other prestigious research institutions in Central Europe, the wider European context and the regions of Central Asia (acting as partner for experts from abroad who are interested in cooperating on research projects covering this region).
 
Activities associated with the platform will build on the long-standing commitment to collaboration that already exists between Oriental Institute members and fellows from the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (the Institute of Southern and Central Asia) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (Eurasian Studies) of Charles University, together with Humboldt University, the University of Vienna, the University of Zurich, etc.
Experts and scholars interested in establishing short-term or long-term affiliation with the platform are kindly requested to contact loy@orient.cas.cz or ptackova@orient.cas.cz for more information.
NADCHÁZEJÍCÍ UDÁLOSTI
 

  • Feb. 1, 2023 | Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem : Neighbors and Strangers, Workshop: Muslims, Jews and other Minorities in Central Asia and the Caucasus in the 19th and 20th centuries, Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East.

DŘÍVĚJŠÍ UDÁLOSTI
CENTRAL ASIAN SEMINAR SERIES
 
2022
CSACTI Lectures Winter Semester 22/23; held online in cooperation with the Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli, L’Orientale from 27 October to 14 December 2022
 
2021

“Knowledge, Education, and Social Transformation in Central Asia: Perspectives from the 20th and 21st centuries”, held online
in cooperation with the Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli, L’Orientale / CSACTI WEBINAR SERIES from 7 October to 16 December 2021.

2020

"Mongol Identity in Danger? Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Mongolia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", held at CAS (Národní 3, Prague 1, room 206) on 14 October, 2020 starting at 14:00.
 

2019

"Tibet in Contemporary Chinese Politics: Consolidation of Social and Economic Control in Tibetan areas of the PRC", held at the CAS (Národní 3, Prague 1, room 206) on 16 October, 2019.

 

2018

Government and rule: producing and engaging with authority in 19th-century and modern Central Asia.
This seminar series will bring together scholars working on various aspects of authority and governance in Central Asia since the 19th-century. In the context of this seminar series, authority is not limited only to the highest level of a state.  The participating experts will reflect about hierarchy structures on various levels of administration and engage with the practices and strategies of operationalizing power and authority in various contexts discussing how kinship, gender, household, minorities, the marginalized, the poor and others are constitutive of and actively constituting relations of authority, subordination, subjection and rule. For each seminar, series two speakers will be invited to reflect on a particular concept and discuss it in relation to their own research. Two speakers will be asked to present at each seminar session to elicit more dialogue and discussion through the comparison of divergent contextual situations.

 2017

„Spiritual Capital and Money Making: A Case Study based on Charlie Monastery of Ngawa County, Eastern Tibet.“, Prof. Yang Minghong (Sichuan University), 22.11. 2017, Jindřišská 27, Prague 1

„What factors determine carrying capacity? A case study from pastoral Tibet.“ Prof. Yonten Nyima (Sichuan University), 22.11. 2017 Jindřišská 27, Prague 1.

 

 2016
“Tibetan History Outside and Inside of China”, Prof. Elliot Sperling (Indiana University), 11.11. 2016, Celetna 20, Prague 1 – 15.00 (room 118)
Věra Exnerová (vera.exnerova@gmail.com)
Thomas Loy (loy@orient.cas.cz)
Jarmila Ptáčková (ptackova@orient.cas.cz)
Malika Bahovadinova (bahovadinova@gmail.com)
Olaf Günther (olaf.gunther@upol.cz)
Slavomír Horák (slavomir.horak@post.cz)
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