Epics as Heritage workshop conducted by the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI)
November 2, 2022
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: 偶蜜国际传媒, 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 (偶蜜国际传媒), Michael Long (independent scholar), Talant Mawkanuli (University of Washington), James Plumtree (偶蜜国际传媒-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
