A Russian Discussion on the History of the Caucasian War, by Stephen D. Shenfield

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Jamestown Foundation

Presents

Sochi in 2014:

Can an Olympics Take Place at the
Site of the Expulsion of the Circassians 150 Years Earlier?

Friday, June 18, 2010
10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

*A light luncheon will be served following the event*

The Jamestown Foundation
Seventh Floor
1111 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

In 2014 the Sochi Olympics will take place at the site of the mass expulsions of over a million Circassians in the 19th century.  Opposition to the Olympic Games is mounting as Circassian nationalism is on the upswing, both in the North Caucasus and among the 7 million strong Circassian Diaspora.  Circassians are now calling for the unification of all three Circassian republics in the Northwest Caucasus into a single republic.  These factors, combined with a possible security threat to the 2014 Olympic Games ...

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Please find below details of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus presentation of the project:  

 

"Circassiada 2012”  - World Circassian Olympic Games in 2012”

 

Speakers: Dr Sufian Zhemukhov*  &  Alexey Bekshokov*

 

 

Dr Sufian Zhemukhov: A Member of PONARS Eurasia Program and Former Fulbright Scholar
Alexey Bekshokov: Chairman of the Union of Abkhaz War Veterans of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, RF

 

 

Date: 14 April 2010
Venue: G51, Main Building, SOAS
Time: 17.00

 

For further information on Circassiada 2012: www.circassiada.com                                                  

Centre’s Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/

 

All are welcome but please register early as there is limited seating available.

Centres & Programmes Office Email: js64@soas.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4892 /3

or contact Zeynel A Besleney by e-mail at  zabesleney@soas.ac.uk.

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG

 

 

 

 

"Circassiada 2012” ...

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PROG. INFO.- Caucasus Studies, Online Courses

Posted by: Karina Vamling <karina.vamling@mah.se>

Application is now open to online courses on Caucasus Studies,
including the languages Georgian and Chechen.

Course modules on offer in the fall semester 2010:

Caucasus Studies I
 - Introduction to Caucasus Studies
 - A language of the Caucasus (Georgian or Chechen)
 - History of the Caucasus
 - Post-Soviet developments in the Caucasus

Caucasus Studies II will be offered in 2011.

Online application, deadline April 15.

You will find further course information and application details on
the Caucasus Studies website at Malmoe University:
http://www.mah.se/caucasusstudies/courses


Prof. Karina Vamling
Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER)
Faculty of Culture and Society
Malmoe University
20506 Malmoe
SWEDEN

Caucasus Studies at IMER - http://www.mah.se/imer/caucasusstudies

CONF./CFP- Symposium on the Problems of Stalinism, Helsinki, Sept. 3-4

Posted by: Anna Salonsalmi <anna.salonsalmi@helsinki.fi>

Call For Papers: A Symposium on the Problems of Stalinism

Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, 3.-4. September 2010

In recent times, the discussions about the nature of Stalin's rule in
the Soviet Union from the 1930's to the 1950's and the impact of
Stalinism in the international agenda have been resurfacing, no doubt
partly because the end of the Cold War and the demise of ideological
clichés connected with it, partly thanks to the opening of Soviet
archives, which makes the concrete assessment of Stalinist policy and
the amount of its victims more reliable.

The "totalitarianism theory", which a long time was, in particular
during the Cold War, the dominating explanation of the Stalinism
phenomenon, has been increasingly criticized as insufficient and
superficial, although it undoubtedly did grasp some aspects ...
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