The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) is pleased to announce that we will be holding our 2017 Biennial Conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, hosted by the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI) at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA).

 

The conference will be held 29 June to 1 July 2017. Please mark your calendars and save the date.  

ESCAS holds its conference every other year in cooperation with one of the leading universities of Central Asia or Europe, beginning with its first conference at the University of Utrecht in 1985.  Recent conferences were held at:

 

 - University of Zurich (Switzerland), 2015

 - Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan), 2013

 - University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 2011

 - Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), 2009

 

The Call for Papers will be issued soon.  The CFP and conference details will be available at the ESCAS website: ESCAS.org.