Deadline Call for Papers 30 July 2022

The fifth workshop of the Heritage Alliance of the New Silk Road (HANSR), will take place on 4th-6th November 2022, hosted by Nazarbayev University’s School of Sciences and Humanities.

This will be a hybrid event with in-person meetings hosted on our university campus in Nursultan, Kazakhstan. We are looking forward to the opportunity to (re)connect face-to-face with colleagues after two years of reduced mobility and scholarly exchange.

The 2022 session “Heritage: Mobility and migration, past and present” will focus on the tensions that exist in historical perspective between population movement and stasis for building and maintaining tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
While the Silk Roads of the past and present symbolize a deep history of interconnectivity, movement, and cross-cultural interaction throughout Eurasia, the COVID pandemic has brought unforeseen impediments to mobility, physical investments in place-making and community building in this region. Simultaneously, the need for rapid evacuation and relocation of millions of people into new and unfamiliar territories have arisen due to political conflict and war (e.g., such as in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Armenia, Russia, and Kashmir). The 2022 HANSR conference will examine the various challenges, solutions, and traditions fostered around the inextricably linked factors of heritage and mobility.

The conference is open to scholars from all career stages who conduct work in Eurasia. We welcome papers from the perspective of contemporary area studies, history and/or archaeology that address any related themes including the following:

• Materiality and place
• Biomolecular research and identity
• Climate change impacts on heritage and place making
• Empires, states and migration
• Religion and mobility
• Diaspora and/or imagined communities

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Titles and Abstracts (150-200 words) are due by July 30, 2022.
Please submit Title/Abstract as an email attachment (Word or PDF) to the following address: hansr@nu.edu.kz
Please title your email as HANSR 2022 Abstract SURNAME

Include in your Title/Abstract document:

• Your full name,
• Professional affiliation and position,
• Department/School,
• Contact (email).

CONTACTS & ORGANIZERS
For more information about the conference, hotel accommodation, and things to do and see in Nursultan please visit the website hansr.nu.edu.kz
General Enquiries can also be made to the following email address hansr@nu.edu.kz
Once of the conference organizers will be able to assist you:

• Paula Dupuy (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
• Michael Bechtel (Instructor of History)
• Daniel Scarborough (Assistant Professor of History)
• Loretta O’Donnell (Vice Provost of Academic Affairs)

Cover Image Credit: Rozaliya Garipova, Nazarbayev University