Central Asian Studies Worldwide
The economic and political processes, as well as historical aspects of Central Asia development represent the great interest for research community all over the world. Research institutes and educational centers of foreign countries create special divisions working on the issues of Central Asia development and promoting West-East cooperation among research institutions and academic communities. In the given section you can find the information on such research and educational centers.
The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University
The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in cooperation with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Asia Center. More...
Launching the program was a response in part to the increasing importance of the former Soviet Muslim regions on the world scene following the break-up of the Soviet Union. This effort also sought to build on Harvard's strength as one of the few institutions in the West with a long-standing commitment to the study of this region. The Program was initially modest, including a seminar series, a study group, course offerings, and a publications program. The scope of the Program has greatly increased in 1995 with a major grant from the Ford Foundation aimed at developing research and graduate training in Central Asian studies at Harvard in collaboration with scholars and institutions in Central Asia. The expanded program features course offerings in area studies and languages, support for collaborative research, a visiting scholars program, and a program office to serve the needs of Central Asian Studies at Harvard University.
Central Asia and the Caucuses Institute
The Central Asia and the Caucasus Institute for Central Asian and Caucasian Studies was registered in November 1998 in the Swedish city of Lulea on the basis of the IAC "Central Asia". More...
The basic purpose and objectives of the Institute: to study and review the social and political situation in Central Asia and the Caucasus; intellectual support of the political and economic reforms in these countries, forming a positive perception of western liberal democratic values in Central Asia and the Caucasus; to encourage the formation of a civil society in the region; to create a data base and distribute information. The databases of the Institute provides access to information, periodicals, monographs, annuals, and other publications related to Central Asia.
The European Institute for Asian Studies
The European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) is a Brussels-based policy and research think-tank supported by the European Union (EU) which aims to promote understanding and cooperation between the EU and Asia. More...
It does so through working closely together with the European Union institutions in Brussels, as well as with research centers across Asia and within the Europe Union.
EIAS seeks to provide information and expertise to the European Union institutions, the academic world and business by disseminating concise, thoroughly researched and up-to-date material on EU-Asia relations and important developments in Asia. EIAS activities include undertaking research studies, organizing briefings, seminars and conferences, and in-house publishing of research through EIAS Briefing Papers and the Eurasia Bulletin. EIAS is also very active participant in Europe-Asia networks of research and analysis as well as supporting its own Internet site on EU-Asia.
The Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
Oxford based academic society specializing in the history, culture, social and political issues of Central Asia. More...
The Society's aims are to promote the study of historical and contemporary Central Asia in Oxford and to bring together visiting students and scholars from the region with their colleagues in Oxford University. TOSCCA's area of interest encompasses the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, as well as their relations with neighboring countries and regions like Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Azerbaijan and Xingjian. Since its establishment, TOSCCA has organized a variety of lectures, seminars and conferences in Oxford. In planning these events, TOSCCA strives to keep a balance between, on the one hand, the region's history, languages, literature archaeology and arts and, on the other, contemporary political, economic and social issues relevant to the region and its neighbors. Every university term TOSCCA also organizes meetings for the society's members. Membership to the Society is open to all citizens of the above- mentioned states visiting and studying in Oxford and to Oxford-based scholars and students of the region.
International Institute for Asian Studies
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More...
The main objective is to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in the field. The institute focuses on the human and social sciences and on their interaction with other sciences. The IIAS acts as an international mediator, bringing various parties together. In keeping with the Dutch tradition of transferring goods and ideas, the IIAS works as a clearinghouse of knowledge and information. This entails activities such as providing information services, constructing international networks, and setting up international cooperative projects and research programs. In this way, the IIAS functions as a window on Europe for non-European scholars and contributes to the cultural rapprochement between Asia and Europe.
The European Alliance for Asian Studies (Asia Alliance)
The European Alliance for Asian Studies is a co-operative framework of European institutes specializing in Asian Studies. More...
The aim of the Asia Alliance, established in 1997, is to contribute to bringing together the fragmented forces in Europe on Asian Studies in order to establish scholarly excellence in central areas of research and expertise on Asia, to the benefit of the institutes' national research environments and the European community at large.
The Alliance supports short-term fellowships for research in Asian Studies, academic workshops and conferences and publications. Fellowships are especially intended to promote the kind of fruitful interaction between national research cultures, which usually develops only between relatively long-term members of an intellectual community. An important part of the work of the Alliance is to encourage closer scholarly contacts within Europe and beyond by sponsoring conferences and workshops.
Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS)
NIAS (Copenhagen, Denmark) was founded as an independent Asian studies institute in 1968. More...
It is a Nordic research and service institute with an international mandate and a focus on political, economic, business, social and cultural transformations in modern Asia in their historical contexts. NIAS's activities and services comprise of basic and applied research, research support, incl. NIAS LINC - library and information services, support for education etc.
The Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Manchester
The Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies was created in 2004 to facilitate collaboration in research, teaching and postgraduate supervision between academic staff across the University of Manchester with expertise in Russia, other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern and East Central Europe. More...
The Centre holds regular research seminars and from the academic year 2005/6 will organize conferences and workshops. Current research projects of Centre members cover a broad range of topics in the modern and contemporary history of the former communist states. Many of the issues raised by the group's research are very topical. These include ethnic relations in the highly volatile areas of former Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus and the global problem of population displacement.
The University also has a Research Group on Central Asia and the Caucasus established in 1993. The Group is multidisciplinary, and it aims to provide a framework for the development of academic interest in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus and to promote links between the University of Manchester and corresponding institutions in these regions, including the development of collaborative research projects and the exchange of academics, researchers and post graduate students in various fields.
French Institute for Central Asian Studies
IFEAC, the French Institute for Central Asian Studies, was founded in 1992, under authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic. More...
TIFEAC's mission is threefold: to promote and enhance the European and French scholars' knowledge of Central Asia, to back local scholars and help them to get acquainted with new research methods in Social Sciences, to promote emulation in the region and throughout the world, at least in the circles interested in Central Asia. In different words, we are a research center, an intellectual mediator, as well as an educational operator: IFEAC plays the main role in the doctoral and post-doctoral follow-up of young researchers from France, Europe, Uzbekistan and other countries of Central Asia.
The Centre for Russian and Central and East European Studies
The Centre for Russian and Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) will consolidate existing inter-institutional networks of expertise within a unitary and coherent framework and open up new directions in the study of the region. More...
The body of new and established scholars will deliver research training (including language skills) and provide expert supervision and research output. CRCEES postgraduates will gain a deep and nuanced understanding of the region's social, cultural, economic and political development, both past and present. This will arrest the decline in development in our area and produce highly trained professionals, whose generic and specific skills will be placed at the disposal of business, policy-makers and academia, placing the UK at the forefront of knowledge of the region.
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Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies.
The AS WWW VL is edited by volunteer "virtual librarians" who are scholars, postgraduate students, or networked-information specialists employed by universities, libraries, and research institutes. Their task is to maintain accurate, comprehensive, current, and annotated catalogs of online resources selected on the strength of their reliability, authority and usefulness to inquiry and analysis regarding Asian societies, politics, economies, histories, and cultures. Together this team manages many tens of specialist information modules organized by topic, country and region. They offer access to over 10,000 Internet resources from around the globe, including archives, library catalogs, documents, bibliographies, electronic-journal registers and mailing lists.
The Asia Center Publications
The Asia Center Publications Program oversees two series: Harvard East Asian Monographs, initiated in 1956 and now totaling over 200 published titles, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series with over 50 titles. The program published fifteen new titles in the academic year 2003-2004 and, beginning in 2004, began to offer online publications on the Web site.
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