Author Archives: Michael Spies

4th CASNiG Annual Conference 23-24 November 2023 at the IfL, Leipzig, Germany The fourth annual CASNiG conference, organised by the CoMoDe research group and the Central Asian Studies Network, will take place in Leipzig, featuring a bright focus on the wide and multifaceted field of mobilities and the emerging global interconnectedness. See Call for Papers (deadline extendedContinue reading “Call for Abstracts Multilayered/Multiscalar: Central Asian Mobilities”

Knowledge Production in/on Central Asia: Forms, Purposes, Practices. From August 25th-26th, 2022, the Human Geography Group of University of Fribourg hosted a wonderful conference on knowledge production in Central Asia in collaboration with CASNiG. The organizers felt honored to meet and share with all of the participants both in person and online. The keynote speakers,Continue reading “Fribourg Conference 2022”

Registration now open The registration for the international conference, Knowledge Production IN/ON Central Asia, is now open. Please click here for further information and registration: https://agenda.unifr.ch/e/fr/11724/

Double Panel on “The ideological legacies through which we think Central Asia” hosted by CASNiG At the long-awaited summer conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society in Tashkent, June 23-26, 2022, we organised a double panel, based on an idea born at the first CASNiG meeting in Augsburg. Six papers contributed to deconstruct the academicContinue reading “CASNiG at CESS Summer conference Tashkent 2022”

Unversity of Fribourg (CH)/CASNiG Conference, 25-26 August 2022 What does it mean, to produce knowledge about a region? Who is generating this knowledge, where, and to what ends? What are the implications and the effects of these practices? The Fribourg 2022 conference, in collaboration with the Central Asian Studies Network in Germany (CASNiG), aims toContinue reading “Call for Papers – Knowledge Production in/on Central Asia: Forms, Purposes and Practices”

M. Schmidt, R. Steenberg, M. Spies & H. Alff (eds.) (2021): Beyond Post-Soviet: Layered Legacies and Transformations in Central Asia. (Geographica Augustana 33). Institut für Geographie, Universität Augsburg. https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/89035/file/Beyond_Soviet_pdf_a.pdf Thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian republics are still often granted the epithet ‘post-Soviet’. While this is technically true, theContinue reading “New CASNiG Publication “Beyond Post-Soviet: Layered Legacies and Transformations in Central Asia””

The second annual CASNiG workshop entitled “Beyond post-Soviet: Path dependencies and new trajectories of change in Central Asia” was held as a web conference hosted by Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development.The event was organized by Martin Welp (Chair of Socioeconomics and Communication), Michael Spies and Henryk Alff (research group TRANSECT), and other colleagues. In fiveContinue reading “2nd CASNiG workshop held virtually in Eberswalde on March 4-5, 2021”