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CESSI is now accepting language instructor applications for summer 2023! The deadline to apply is January 9, 2023. The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) is an eight-week intensive language institute that offers courses in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek languages annually from mid-June through mid-August. You can find the Position Vacancy Listing here.

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Study, Research, and Custom Programs Abroad (SRAS) founder and director Renee Stillings Huhs will be present on campus to discuss study and research opportunities in Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan:

WHEN: November 10th from 11:30-12:30

WHERE: Foster 103

Lunch and refreshments will be served. 

 

 

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Hamid Ismailov
Gaia, Queen of Ants (Syracuse University Press, 2020)

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations and mythologies as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife in the Uzbekistan of his childhood. His Irish girlfriend Emer struggles with her own adolescent trauma from growing up in war-torn Bosnia. Domrul is the caretaker for Gaia, the eighty-year-old, powerful wife of a Soviet party boss with a mysterious past. All three are connected to Kuyuk, a traditional Central Asian bard.

One of Ismailov's few novels written in Uzbek, Gaia, Queen of Ants offers a rare portrait of a complex and little-known part of the world. A plot centered on political corruption and ethnic conflict is punctuated with Sufi philosophy and religious gullibility. As Ismailov's characters grapple with questions of faith, power, sex, and family, Gaia, Queen of Ants presents a moving tale of universal themes set against a Central Asian backdrop in the twenty-first century. 

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The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships offer a stipend of $2,500 and tuition of up to $5,000 to undergraduate students concentrating in a modern foreign language and a program that includes international or area studies. Fellowships may be used for domestic or overseas intensive programs at the intermediate or advanced level of language study. Programs must last a minimum of six weeks. Eligible languages include Armenian, Bosnian, Croatian, Kazakh, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Uzbek, and Yiddish. FLAS applications are ranked based on applicants' academic performance, letters of recommendation, application materials, and financial need. Applications due April 18, 2022. 

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The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literatures (LLL) of the School of Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at Nazarbayev University is considering applications for a full-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The ideal candidate would have a strong research specialization in one of the literary traditions of Central Asia, including but not limited to Turkic or Persian language literatures. For fullest consideration, please, apply by February 28, 2022.

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