Archaeology

• The University of Chicago hosted a Eurasian Archaeology Conference, Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Integrating Local and Global Visions. Click here to view the conference web page. The proceedings volume (edited by David Peterson, Laura Popova, and Adam T. Smith) is currently in preparation and will be published in Brill's Colloquia Pontica series (Gocha Tsetskhladze, general editor). A review of the conference can be read here.
  
  Additionally, you may download the conference program in .pdf format.

• Professor Adam Smith in Anthropology maintains a site with extensive information on archaeology in the Caucasus as well as his course offerings.

Courses

• For a list of Central Eurasian-related courses taught recently please click here.

Music

• The 2002 Central Eurasian Music Festival was held as part of the 17th Middle East History and Theory Conference, at the University of Chicago, May 10-11. You can view the program and related conference information by clicking here.

Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference

• The Committee on Central Eurasian Studies is an institutional member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS). CESS, in conjunction with the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, the Central Eurasian Studies Program, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Eurasia (CREECA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented the Third CESS Annual Conference October 17 - 20, 2002.
  The scope of the conference including a variety of facets of Central Eurasia studies, among them: history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies of the Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan and other peoples of the Black Sea region, the Crimea, the Caucasus, the Middle Volga region, Central and Inner Asia and Siberia, and teaching and research about these topics and areas. More information is available here: www.wisc.edu/creeca/conferences/caworkshop.html