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Date: March 19, 2009Place: Aigine Research Center The objective of the experiment was to see how the Kyrgyz Manaschi (practiced “Manas” reciters) would react to a foreign epic tale, “The Epic of King Geser” of the Buryat people (an ethnic minority from the Mongol group, mostly located in the Buryat Repulic in the Siberian part …

The second summer session “Anthropology’s Cutting Edges”within three-year project “Building Anthropology in Eurasia”under the Regional Seminar in Excellence of TeachingHigher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute Place: Royal Beach Hotel, Chocktal, the Issyk-Kol, KyrgyzstanDates: July 21 – August 3, 2008Language: English The purpose of the project “Building Anthropology in Eurasia” is to provide an opportunity for participants …

First Regional Conference (FRC) of theCentral Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)Date: August 4-7, 2008Place: Royal Beach Hotel, Choq Tal village, Issyk-Kol, KyrgyzstanLanguages: English, Russian The purpose of CESS Regional Conference is to promote high standards of research and teaching, and to foster communication among scholars through conference activities. CESS Regional Conferences will work to facilitate interaction among senior, …

Festival: Popular Spirituality and Building Socio-Ecological Resilience(title in Kyrgyz: Rukh Köröngösü)Date and time: Wed., June 4-6, 2008Location: Nyldy Ata Sacred Gorge, Talas oblast, KyrgyzstanLanguage: Kyrgyz and Russian Participants:Cultural Practitioners & Researchers on Religion and Culture in Kyrgyzstan. The goal was to bring together cultural practitioners from different parts of Kyrgyzstan to share spiritual practices and …