Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan

Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan: Performance and Belief

Third Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Music of the Turkic
Speaking World, 1-2 December, 2012, Cambridge, UK

Programme

Friday, 30th November

6 pm - Reception at Jesus College, University of Cambridge
7 pm - Opening Ceremony and Concert at Chapel, Jesus College

Saturday, 1st December

8:30-9 am - Registration

9-10:30 am - Keynote address: Professor Nicholas Cook (Faculty of
   music, University of Cambridge)
"Western music as world music"

10:30-11 am - Tea & Coffee

11-12:30 pm - Session A1: Music in Afghanistan: Tradition and Modernity

Bernard Dupaigne, SNRS, Paris, France
Popular Music and Religion in Northern Afghanistan, in the 1966- 1976 Period

Will Summits, University of Central Asia, Tajikistan
The Tawarikh-i Musiqiyun: the post-humus popularization of musicians
   from Afghanistan in a 19th century Chaghatai treatise

Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Music, Religion and Culture: a study of Traditional Turkic Music in Afghanistan

11-12:30 pm - Session A2: From Ritualistic practices to traditional
   performances

János Sipos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
>From the Spiritual to the Profane and Back: the Relation of Folk
   Religion and Folk Songs of Some Turkic People

Éva Csáki, Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary
The Role of Music Performance of Bektashis Rituals in Thrace

Violetta Yunusova, Moscow State Conservatory, Russia
Popular Music Forms of Turkic Speaking Peoples in Russian Federation

12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch

1:30-3:30 pm - Session B1: From Ritualistic practices to traditional
   performances

Fattakh Khalig-zade, National Academy of Music, Baku, Azerbaijan
Islam and Music in Modern Azerbaijan

Janyl Jusupjan Chytyrbaeva, Radio Ozodlik, Prague, Czech Republic
New Religious Music in Kyrgyzstan

Ersen Varli, Karadeniz State Conservatory, Turkey
The Process of Popularity of Religious Musical Examples with the
   Aspect of Performance Theory Among Women and Men: Music of Sunni and
   Alevi Sects in Turkey (1)

Özlem Dogus Varli, Karadeniz State Conservatory, Turkey
The Mediums of Mysticism during the Process of Popularity in Sunni
   Sect, Turkey (2)

1:30-3:30 pm - Session B2: From Ritualistic practices to traditional
   performance

Yusuf Azmun, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Musical and Religious Aspects of Turkmen Carpets

Gennadiy Makarov, Kazan' State Conservatory, Tatarstan
Muslim spiritual poems as Tatar cultural phenomenon

Mahmud Aga Rahim Ogly Salah, Baku State conservatory, Azerbaijan
Daf-Qaval in Holy Books and Religious Ceremony

Zilya Imamutdinova, State Arts Study Institute, Moscow, Russia
The Transformation of Muslim Religious Musical Genres at the Beginning
   of the 21st Century: Maulid in Culture of the Ural-Volga Tatars and Bashkirs

3:30-4 pm - Tea & Coffee

4-6 pm - Session C1: From Ritualistic practices to traditional performances

Saida Yelemanova, Kazakh National University of Arts
The Study of Kazakh music in its sacred and spiritual dimensions

Valentina Suzuki, Tuva Institute of Arts and Humanities
The Traditional and Popular music in Tuva

Alla Bairamova, The Azerbaijani State Museum of Musical Culture, Azerbaijan
Traditional Azerbaijani Music: Some Peculiarities of Modern Interpretation

Parmis Mozafari, University of Cambridge, UK
The Ritual Music of Turkmen of Iran

4-6 pm - Session C2: Diaspora and Minorities

Karina Firkaviciute, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Lithuania
Popular music in Lithuanian Karaim society - a different case

Abdullah Akat, Karadeniz State Conservatory, Turkey
The Influences and Changes of the Crimean Tatars Music in the Process

Shakhym Gullyev, Kysyl Orda, Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan
Turkmen traditional music at home and abroad

Dorit M Klebe, Berlin, Germany
The Role of Music among the Cultures of Turkic-Speaking Communities
   (Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Tatars) in the Berlin Diaspora), 2006-2012

6-7 pm - Dinner

7 pm - Concert: Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan

Sunday, 2nd December

9-10:30 am - Keynote Address: Dr Alexander Djumaev
   (University of Central Asia)
"Popular culture and music: in search of spiritual roots in changeable
   Central Asia"

10:30-11 am - Tea & Coffee

11-12:30 pm - Session D1: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape

Tom Solomon, University of Bergen, Norway & Inna Naroditskyaya,
   Northwestern University, USA
Azeri Rap Music and Oral Poetry between Tradition and Modernity

Megan Rancier, Bowling Green State University, USA
"The Sound of Modern Kazakh Nomads": Discourses of Ancientness and
   Nationhood in the Music of Contemporary Kazakh Qyl-qobyz Performers

Angelika Jung, Galerie Mani, Weimar, Germany
Sufi ideas in the Music of Bukharan Shashmaqam

11-12:30 pm - Session D2: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape

Kerstin Klenke, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany
The Hajj Does not Go Pop: Uzbek estrada and Islam

Giovanni De Zorzi, University 'Ca' Foscari' of Venice, Italy
Jâhri zikr used as therapy for teenagers

Feza Tansug, Yeditepe University, Turkey
American Popular Music in Central Asia

12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch

1:30-3:30 pm - Session E1: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape

Ivanka Vlaeva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Music Images of Istanbul: From Fatih Akin's Films to Stage and Street
   Performances

Fikri Soysal, Dicle University State Conservatory Diyarbak?r, Turkey
Music Culture of Islam Civilization and Popular Culture in the 21st
   Century in Turkey

Gulnar Abdirakhman, Kazakh National University of Arts
New images of Kazakh traditional songs

Valeriya Nedlina, Kazakh State Conservatory, Kazakhstan
Folklorismus in Popular Music of Kazakhstan: Returning to Spiritual Roots

1:30-3:30 pm - Session E2: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape

Liesbet Nyssen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Khuday, Khay, and Khuray: Connections to Religion in Khakas Popular Music

Aziza Sadikova, Berlin, Germany
New music technique and Koran recitation: "Untitled", the piece for
   amplified violoncello and tape

Vladimir Manyakin, Kazakh National University of Arts
Kazakh Folk Songs: From Preservation to Transformation and Development

Gulya Kuzbakova, Kazakh National University of Arts
Kazakh Popular Music in 1990-2010: Metamorphosis of Development

3:30-4 pm - Tea & Coffee

4-6 pm - Session F: Film Screening

John Baily, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Return of the Nightingales: The Afghanistan National Institute of Music

Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge, UK
The Music of minorities in Northern Afghanistan

Keith Howard and Misha Maltsev, London, UK
Siberia at the Centre of the World: Music, Dance and Ritual in Sakha-Yakutia

Book Presentations

There will be recently published book presentations during the
conference's Tea breaks by the following scholars: John Baily, Keith
Howard, Fattah Khalyk-Zade, Janos Sipos/Eva Csaki, Tom Solomon, Inna
Naroditskaya, Razia Sultanova, Valentina Suzuki, Galina Sythenko,
Saida Yelemanova, Giovanni De Zorzi

Visual art Exhibition

"Musical instruments of the Turkic speaking world"
by Elena Tchibor (Oxford University)

Convener of the Symposium: Dr Razia Sultanova r588@cam.ac.uk
Symposium Assistant: Dr Parmis Mozafari: parmis_m@hotmail.com

London Eurasia Workshop Nov 2012

Call for Abstracts

The Eurasia Studies Society (TESS GB & Europe)

with Royal Holloway, University of London

Multi-Disciplinary Doctoral Workshop

Building Theories and Methodologies in the Third Decade

24 November 2012 (from 14.00-18.00)

11 Bedford Square,

London WC1B 3RF

(Behind the British Museum)

Nearest Underground Station: Tottenham Court Road, or Goodge Street

Convenor: Dr Gul Berna Ozcan, Royal Holloway, University of London

This workshop will provide a forum for young researchers to present their work, get a feedback from an expert academic, and exchange ideas with other scholars in an open and friendly fashion. The event is open to all doctoral and post-doctoral researchers studying Central Asia and its neighbouring regions with only 30 participants. The theme of the workshop is ‘Building Theories and Methodologies in the Third Decade’.

Abstracts should clearly state the research title, authors’ details, and theoretical and methodological scope of the study in no longer than 500 words.

Submissions should be sent to:  


Dr Sevket Hylton Akyildiz


(School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

eurasiasocietyuk@gmail.com

Deadline for submission: 26 October 2012

Cambridge Central Asia Forum Seminar Series for Easter Term 2012

Cambridge Central Asia Forum Seminar Series for Easter Term 2012

Cambridge Central Asia Forum in collaboration with the Faculty of
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Centre for Development
Studies, University of Cambridge, 

Cambridge Kazakhstan Centre
And, Cambridge University Kazakhstan Society and Cambridge University
Uzbekistan Society

Are delighted to announce the Seminar Series for Easter Term 2012

Venue: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA

Time: 4:30-6:30pm

9 May 2012 Jamila Haider, MPhil Candidate, Geography Department,
University of Cambridge, “A Study of Forest Management in a Post-Soviet
Context: The Case of Tajikistan”
Room L1 (Basement)

16 May 2012 Timur Alexanderov, PhD student, HSPS (Department of
Sociology), University of Cambridge, “Sociological Perspectives on Civil
Society: the Central Asian Post-Socialist Model”
Room L1 (Basement)

23 May 2012 Beibit Shangirbayeva, PhD candidate of Sant’Anna School of
Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy), “National provisions for International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights implementation”
Common Room

6 June 2012 Dr. Gül Berna Özcan, Reader in International Business and
Strategy, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London,
“Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia”
Common Room

Please contact Diana Kudaibergenova, dk406@cam.ac.uk for more
information.

www.cambridge-centralasia.org

Photographs TESS London Conference 18 Feb'12

TESS Conference at SOAS, London, 18 February 2012.
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LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies organizes acompetition for doctoral dissertations completed on contemporary Turkey during the calendar years 2010 and 2011. Dissertations must have been written in English and the candidate must have obtained the PhD degree from a social sciences or humanities department/programme of a university in the UK or any other European country during the calendar years 2010 and 2011. Dissertations submitted to a university in Turkey are not eligible.

The dissertation can deal with any aspect (politics, economy, society, international relations, culture, etc.) of contemporary Turkey defined as Turkey since the end of World War II.  Part of the dissertation can deal with the earlier period.

Comparative doctoral dissertations which include contemporary Turkey as part of a two or three- country study are also eligible.

A jury of three academic experts including Professor Sevket Pamuk will evaluate the dissertations.

To apply, please send by e-mail a PDF copyyour doctoral dissertation and a scanned copy of the official university document indicating the receipt of the PhD degree between the dates 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2011 to Umit Sonmez at the e-mail address below. Submissions without this degree document cannot be considered.

The deadline for applications is 31 March, 2012.

Results will be announced at the LSE Turkish Chair website and e-mailed to all the applicants on or before 10 May, 2012.

The award winning dissertation(s) will be invited to LSE for a presentation and the ceremony in June 2012.

Please feel free to circulate this announcement and the attached advert to anyone who might be interested.

With many thanks,

Umit SonmezResearch Officer: Turkey and European Union
Contemporary Turkish Studies
European Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street WC2A 2AE
London, United Kingdom

E-mail: u.sonmez@lse.ac.uk

LSE, London 5th Dec Dr. Gul Berna Ozcan talk

You are warmly invited to the public seminar organized by LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies on Monday, 5th December 2011, in which Dr. Gul Berna Ozcan, will give a talk on “Economic Liberalisation, Class Dynamics and New Business Groups in Turkey”. 

This event will take place from 6pm to 7:45pm at the room COW1.11, Canada Blanch Room, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE. 

Gul Berna Ozcan is Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship at the School of Management Royal Holloway, University of London. She earned her PhD in Economic Geography from LSE.  She has also been teaching for the Gurukul Global Leadership Programme at LSE (since 2005).  Dr. Ozcan is the author of several books and numerous articles on enterprise development in post-Soviet Central Asia, the political economy of Turkey, local economic development and small and medium-sized enterprises, capital formations, entrepreneurship, and morality and business. 

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Those who might be interested are all welcome. Please find below a short abstract of the talk and also attached a detailed advert of the event as a PDF document.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
With many thanks,
Umit Sonmez
Research Officer: Turkey and European Union
Contemporary Turkish Studies
European Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street WC2A 2AE
London, United Kingdom
E-mail: u.sonmez@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 6067
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7955 7546
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LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Research SeminarMONDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2011
18.00-19:45

Venue: COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE

“Economic Liberalisation, Class Dynamics and New Business Groups in Turkey”

Speaker: Dr. Gul Berna Ozcan                        Chair: Professor Sevket Pamuk

The growth of new capitalist classes transformed social stratification, multi-party politics and the international political orientation of Turkey since the 1980s.  New business groups energized by Islam have facilitated much needed class mobility. In this process, there also emerged a confrontational split in middle class positions between Islamic versus secular political outlooks. These new middle classes are engaged in promoting Islam as a strategic resource in the class politics and seek protection from the negative effects of market capitalism. More dramatically, these groups redefined the allocation of markets and the distribution of assets while they expanded opportunities for their affiliated groups at home and in foreign markets.  However, the paradox between modernity and authenticity remains unresolved for Turkey’s old middle classes and the new pious elite alike.  Turkey’s changing domestic and international standing is moving towards multiple identity formations.  Although new Islamic leaning business groups have become the winners of the new regime, they have increasingly lost their cutting edge idealism and originality. They are being “normalized” as the new establishment.

Call for Papers 18th Feb 2012 SOAS, London

2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Eurasia Research Conference (London)

CALL FOR PAPERS

New Research on Central Asia and Caucasus (NRCAC) and The Eurasia Studies Society (TESS).

Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London. Saturday 18^th February 2012.

Convenors: Gaigysyz Jorayev or Sevket Akyildiz: eurasiasocietyuk@gmail.com (Submission deadline is 30th December 2011).

The first graduate Eurasia research conference in February 2010 at SOAS (London) was attended by graduate students and academics from the UK and Europe. The event covered the following fields: culture, society, economics and natural resources. Upon this success we formed The Eurasian Studies Society (http://eurasiasociety.wordpress.com ) and plan to hold a series of annual conferences to enable students and scholars to share their research interests and network. The event is jointly organised by two new societies New Research on Central Asia and Caucasus (NRCAC) based at UCL, London and The Eurasia Studies Society (TESS), University of London. There will be three broad themes: i) culture and society, ii) economics and politics, iii) environment and resource management. We welcome papers from postgraduate students, post-doctorate researchers, independent researchers and journalists. Each presentation will be for 20 minutes in any one of the themes listed below. Pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet themes are all welcome.

Culture and Society: Ethnic minorities, human rights, citizenship, women's issues, identity & nationhood; the modern media, literature, music, sport (folk and modern), & folk culture; historical, anthropological, & Islamic studies; medieval & modern history; architecture.

Economic & Politics: Business and market developments; economic transition; International politics and Eurasia.

Environment and Resource Management: Environmental problems, climate change & water issues; natural resources and energy issues; international interests in the region's resources.

Submission details: Papers considered for selection will need to include: (1) Name of the presenter (2) Academic position and institutional affiliation (3) Title of the paper (4) Abstract of no more than 300 words (5) Audio-visual equipment needs. Unfortunately we will not be able to provide any financial aid to participants this year. A fee of £10 Sterling will be charged for registration and to cover costs and refreshments. Any questions can be forwarded to either Gaigysyz Jorayev or Sevket Akyildiz: eurasiasocietyuk@gmail.com (Submission deadline is 30th December 2011).

We will also accept one submission 20 minute (max) pre-recorded video presentation (in MPEG, Windows Player, etc format) from a student or researcher resident within the Caucasus or Central Asia region. If they wish, members of the audience can then contact the presenter through email and ask relevant questions and make observations after the conference.