14 Apr 2008

Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES)
www.oasies.org, New York, NY, US
Self-description: "The Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) is a community of Columbia University graduate students from varied disciplines and area studies perspectives. Our goal is to foster dialogue and partnership across the academic spaces bounded by the East Asian, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Russian area studies paradigms as we investigate Inner Eurasia. Since the disbandment of the Center for the Study of Central Asia (CSCA) at Columbia University in 1996, there has been little institutional support for students interested in studying the vast Inner Eurasian space between East Asia, Russia, the Middle East, and South Asia. Up until the disappearance of CSCA, Columbia was widely regarded as a university dedicated to the study of Inner Eurasia. We would like to help restore Columbia to preeminence in this field by drawing on support from the four major area studies institutions whose scholarship contain and inform, but are not fundamental to, the study of Inner Eurasia. Clearly, such an endeavor would require taking stock of what has come before and assessing the lacunae that may have developed as a result of the area-studies paradigm."
Site contents: * Contact; * News & Events; * Conferences; * Resources [under construction].
[A brand-new organisation (est. early 2008), with a brand-new (= sparsely populated) web site - ed.]
URL http://www.oasies.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: Gulnar Kendirbai (gk2020--at--columbia.edu), forwarded by Central-Eurasia-L mailing list (central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30