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CASI Conference

CASI Conference

September 9, 2016

Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI) Fifth Annual Conference

Contesting Nature in Central Asia

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September 16-17, 2016

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

The relationship between humans and their environments is central to both natural and social sciences, yet the fundamental distinction between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is a majorÌýreason behind segregating these bodies of knowledge into two distinctÌýfields. ‘Nature’ is often utilized as a shorthand for the unchanging laws of existence, the inexorable materiality of being, for inevitability, determinism and teleology.Ìý As such, the notion of ‘nature’ has been challenged by many scholars as a ‘social construction’, whereby neither humans nor their environments are ever fully ‘natural’ or ‘cultural’, but rather are mutually constituted through a network of complex interactions.

The working languages of the conference are English and Russian.

Conference Program

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