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Central Asia in Modern Times: Architecture, Women, and Freedom. An Interview with Edda Schlager

  • November 4, 2022
Edda Schlager, a journalist, photographer, and “natural feminist,” has spent the last 17 years researching and capturing key moments in Central Asia’s modern history: the demolition of old buildings and…
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  • 6 min
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The Lives and Work of Soviet Kazakh Women in Photos. From the Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents, and Sound Recording of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan

  • August 9, 2022
The lives of women in Central Asia before Russian colonization are often portrayed in a miserable light. European travelers did not leave much visual evidence about local women. Women in…
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  • 9 min
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Archival Treasures of Kazakhstan Offer New Images and Voices of Its History

  • August 8, 2022
The Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents, and Sound Recording of the Republic of Kazakhstan– http://kfdz.kz/was set up almost 80 years ago but has recently expanded to include new collections…
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  • 11 min
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Jewelry of Central Asia: Past and Present of the Art Tradition

  • January 24, 2022
While working in the archives of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, I came across an interesting document. It was a list of the…
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  • 7 min
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A Past That Is Neither Remembered nor Forgotten. A Tale of Two Lenin Statues in Tajikistan

  • October 1, 2021
In Soviet times, statues of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and the first head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, were powerful political symbols. For most of the…
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Along the Route of Samuil Dudin’s Expedition: Clothing, Yurt and Decorative-Applied Art of the Kazakhs of the late 19th Century

  • February 3, 2021
A talented ethnographer, photographer, traveler, collector, artist, and researcher of the history and culture of Central Asia, Samuil Dudin (1863-1929) made his first expedition in 1891. Dudin was a participant…
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Central Asia is Slowly Reopening After a Tight Lockdown. Street Photos from Four Cities

  • June 2, 2020
These days streets are not so busy and crowded in the Central Asia’s largest cities: Tashkent, Almaty, Bishkek and Dushanbe. Yet, they are slowly returning to the previous life even…
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  • 8 min
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ALZHIR – A Place of Remembrance

  • January 31, 2020
Situated in the center of Kazakhstan, ALZHIR (Акмолинский лагерь жен изменников родины, “the Akmola camp of wives of traitors to the homeland”) was a notorious prison for thousands of women…
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  • 12 min
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Destructing Soviet Architecture in Central Asia

  • December 13, 2019
Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central Asian culture that remains remarkable to this day. Persian and Islamic motifs…
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Deciphering the Saukele: The Traditional Headdress of Kazakh Brides

  • November 21, 2019
English transcript of the video presentation belowToday I am going to talk about one particular type of traditional Kazakh clothing: the headdress of a bride, called a saukele.Voronina-Utkina A.A. Watercolor.…
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    • 23.09.22
    • 10 min
  • Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women
    • 19.10.22
    • 32 min
  • Central Asia in Modern Times: Architecture, Women, and Freedom. An Interview with Edda Schlager
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Between Hope and Fear: Stories of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslim Minorities in the Xinjiang Province

  • October 30, 2019
An estimated one million people, mostly Muslim minorities, are being held in detention centers across the Xinjiang region in China.Common reasons for detention include studying Islam and praying or having…
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The Researcher and His/Her Fieldwork in Central Eurasia (photos)

  • September 19, 2019
In a world where the visual is becoming an integral part of knowledge, visuals can also express scholarly knowledge.As such, for the 2019 conference, the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)…
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Dinmukhamed Kunaev’s House Museum

  • July 26, 2019
Dinmukhamed Kunaev was a leader of Soviet Kazakhstan. As the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan he was in office from 7 December 1964, to 16 December 1986.…
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