Event Date: November 23, 2009 - 4:30 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi

A talk by John Schoeberlein, Harvard University.

Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

John Schoeberlein is the Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus under the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. During 1998-99, he headed the United Nations’ Ferghana Valley Development Programme, working on participatory approaches to conflict resolution in the region. He was Director of the Central Asia Project of the International Crisis Group, working to diminish the possibilities of conflict in the region. His current research topics include the changing role of Islam in Central Eurasia including issues related to radical Islamism, secular and religious orientations, the politics of culture and national ideology, the impact of national state formation on identity in Central Asia, the impact of economic “reforms” on pastoralism communities, and the changing role of Russian culture in Post-Soviet contexts. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Central Asian Survey (London) and of the Board of Advisors of the Journal of Central Eurasian Studies (Tehran).