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Epics as Heritage workshop conducted by the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI)

November 2, 2022

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Central Asian Studies Department invites you to the Epics as Heritage workshop conducted by the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI).

Date: November 5-6
Place: AUCA, T16

Broader Central Asia 鈥� or central Eurasia 鈥� is the homeland of rich Turkic and Mongolian epic traditions that have been documented, 鈥減reserved鈥� and published under the auspices of either the Soviet Union or socialist China.

Nowadays this 鈥渆pic heritage鈥� is enthusiastically promoted, hotly disputed, and fervently branded at UNESCO, with few if any attempts to problematize the literary representations of orality, or the creation of 鈥渘ational epics.鈥� This workshop aims to open a discussion on these issues and to ground these discussions of epics as literature or epics as heritage in a broad comparative context.

Workshop participants: George Fitzherbert (University of Oxford), Svetlana Jacquesson (AUCA), Michael Long (independent scholar), Talant Mawkanuli (University of Washington), James Plumtree (AUCA-CEU), and Jonathan Ratcliffe (ANU).

If you want to join us during the workshop, please contact in advance at
casi@auca.kg or jacquesson_s@auca.kg

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