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The Stockholm-Tsukuba International Program for Central Asian Studies is an inter-institutional research environment established for the training of future scholars in the young and still developing discipline of Central Asian Studies. Given the research agenda supporting this enterprise, the combination of cultural-historical and socio-political premises for the analysis of present-day processes in and around the Central Asian region is considered to be an especially fertile method of scientific research and the east-west perspective enabled through participating institutions a sine qua non for a profound understanding of Central Asian societies and their consolidation as sovereign political units in the post-Soviet era. Research and training will be focused not on the state level, but on the regional and local-community level. The role of language is given special prominence.
Central Asia is a vast region combining European culture and European-style policies with Asian identities and world-views, without either of which the study of the nature of Central Asian society becomes one-sided and too simplistic. The immediate strength of the Stockholm-Tsukuba program for Central Asian Studies is that it offers a united European-Asian research perspective through the exchange of students, scholars and research results.
Institutions participating in this program will mutually benefit from, on the one hand, the development and enhancement of curricula for graduate studies and, on the other, joint fieldwork in Central Asia involving not only the Stockholm and Tsukuba institutions but also partner institutions in the region.
The program is administrated and coordinated by:
Birgit Schlyter |
Birgit Schlyter
Director of the Department of South and Central Asian Studies, University of Stockholm, and Research Fellow at the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. |
Timur Dadabaev |
Timur Dadabaev
Director of Central Asian Studies at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters and the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. |
A grant for the development of long-term cooperation between the Stockholm and Tsukuba universities within the framework of this program for the promotion of Central Asian Studies has been provided by The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).
Projects
Conferences, Courses, Venues
2007December
- Central Asian Studies Conference: History, Politics and Society
Tsukuba 14-17 december
Conference program and additional information on the conference: Tsukuba.pdf
From the Conference Program: Panel on Language Policy organized by Birgit Schlyter, Stockholm
Reports and abstracts from the conference:
Newsletter part 1 part 2
2008March
October
- Joint Stockholm-Tsukuba workshop on Central Asian History - Vision and Revision, 1-2 October, at the University of Stockholm.
Program with an introduction by Birgit N. Schlyter
- Joint Stockholm-Tsukuba-Tokyo course on Islam in Central Asia at Stockholm, 3-7 October, under the supervision of Prof. Hisao Komatsu (Head of Islamic Area Studies Program, Tokyo) and co-taught by Prof. Timur Dadabaev and lecturers from Sweden.
November
- Joint Stockholm-Tsukuba course on Islam in Central Asia at the University of Stockholm, with an introductory lecture by Prof. Hsiao Komatsu (head of Islamic Area Studies Program, University of Tokyo) on 30 September 2008.
ForSCASS - the extended Central Asian Studies network
Information
| Birgit N. Schlyter |
| Program Director |
| Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Stockholm University |
| birgit.schlyter@orient.su.se |
| +46-8-16 3119 |
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| Timur Dadabaev |
| Deputy Program Director |
| Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba |
| dadabaev@chiiki.tsukuba.ac.jp |
| +81-29-853-4773 |
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| Sharofathon Nozimova |
| Assistant |
| Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Stockholm University |
| rahatlukum@gmail.com |
| +46-8-16 1784 |
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