Annual Conferences on the Caucasus and Central Asia
Symposium for AY 2006-2007:
Cultural Exchanges Along the Silk Road
Saturday, March 17, 2007
At Hertz Hall, 2 p.m.
Free and open to the public
The symposium will be introduced by Sanjyot Mehendale, CCAspP / Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. Academic presentations will be followed by a round table discussion moderated by Patricia Berger, Chair of UC Berkeley's History of Art Department.
Presentations
- "Through Space and Time: The Saga of a Lute-type Instrument" by Bonnie Wade, Department of Music, UC Berkeley
- "Chasing the Tale of the Horse-head Fiddle: Exploring the Origins of Mongolian Fiddles in an Asian Context" by Peter K. Marsh, Conservatory of Music, Lawrence University
- "The iPod Caravan of Silk Road Music, or Defining Eurasia Musically" by Izaly Zemtsovsky, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
- "Women’s Voices of Central Asia" by Alma Kunanbaeva, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
- "Sounds of the Silk Road: Traveling at 78 rpm with a Collector of Early Recordings" by Martin Schwartz, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
- "The Bodhisattva’s Journey Along the Silk Road" by Mary-Ann Milford, Provost and Dean, History of Art, Mills College
Sponsored by ISEEES, CCAsP, Cal Performances, the Department of Music, and the Silk Road Working Group of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
This symposium coordinates with the March 15-17, 2007 performances by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Cal Performances (sold out). More information about the Silk Road Project with Yo-Yo Ma can be found at http://www.calperformances.net/.
For information on traveling to UC Berkeley, please consult:
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Past Caucasus/Central Asia Conferences
Annual CCAsP Conferences
September 24-25, 2005
Modes of Contemporary Central Asian Culture
March 13, 2004
Xinjiang: Central Asia or China?
March 14-15, 2003
Rocks and Hard Places: Society and the Environment In Central Asia
March 16-17, 2002
Currents, Cross-Currents, and Conflict: Transnationalism and Diaspora in Central Asia and the Caucasus
April 21–22, 2001
Central Asia Palimpsest: (Re) Emerging Identities and New Global Imprints
Annual Caucasus Conferences, 1996–1999
The Graduate Training and Research Program on the Contemporary Caucasus—the predecessor to CCAsP—held four annual conferences. ISEEES's Title VI grant provided funding for teaching materials to those who attended.
For more information on our outreach activities, go to the ISEEES Outreach page.
Conference schedules and reference materials are presented here in PDF format; you must have Acrobat Reader (free software from Adobe) in order to view these files.
April 30, 1999
State Building and the Reconstruction of Shattered Societies
- Conference Schedule [1999_cauc-sched.pdf] 2 pages, 8 KB
- Suggested Readings [1999_cauc-read.pdf] 5 pages, 18 KB
- Working Paper: State Building and the Reconstruction of Shattered Societies. 1999 Caucasus Conference Report. [2000_02-conf.pdf] 49 pages, 1,018 KB
May 16, 1998
The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea Basin
- Conference Schedule [1998_cauc-sched.pdf] 2 pages, 9 KB
- Suggested Readings [1998_cauc-read.pdf] 2 pages, 7 KB
- Working Paper: The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Basin. 1998 Caucasus Conference Report. [1998_02-conf.pdf] 102 pages, 1,381 KB
May 3, 1997
Institutions, Identities, and Ethnic Conflict in the Caucasus
- Conference Schedule [1997_cauc-sched.pdf] 2 pages, 8 KB
- Selected Readings [1997_cauc-read.pdf] 5 pages, 18 KB
- Working Paper: Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus. 1997 Caucasus Conference Report. [1997_01-conf.pdf] 102 pages, 1010 KB
May 17, 1996
The Past as Prelude: Cultural, Historical, and Political Roots of Identity in the Caucasus
- Conference Schedule [1996_cauc-sched.pdf] 2 pages, 8 KB
- Suggested Readings [1996_cauc-read.pdf] 1 page, 6 KB
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