This podcast highlights the research of the Central European University students on historical, cultural, socio-political issues related to Central Asia. The project is based on two perspectives that stem from the backgrounds of two hosts: Elmira from Kazakhstan and Grace from the US. This ‘inside/out’ perspective will shed light on persistent assumptions about this region. Episodes will investigate different research approaches from the perspectives of local and external scholars, traditions, and theories.
Season 1 was recorded during the spring of the academic year 2020-2021
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This podcast highlights the research of the Central European University students on historical, cultural, socio-political issues related to Central Asia. The project is based on two perspectives that stem from the backgrounds of two hosts: Elmira from Kazakhstan and Grace from the US. This ‘inside/out’ perspective will shed light on persistent assumptions about this region. Episodes will investigate different research approaches from the perspectives of local and external scholars, traditions, and theories.
Season 1 was recorded during the spring of the academic year 2020-2021
Music credits: Raindrops from MusicFox https://www.musicfox.com/en/info/free-music.php
Episode Two. Zohra Saed on Langston Hughs’s visit to Soviet Turkestan in 1932-1933
Central Asia Inside/Out
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Episode Two. Zohra Saed on Langston Hughs’s visit to Soviet Turkestan in 1932-1933
Langston Hughes, the American poet, and leader of the ‘black renaissance’ visited newly emerged Soviet Uzbekistan in the early thirties but not much of his written work has been left public for the international audience. Zohra Saed, an American researcher with a complex family history from Turkestan talks about her dissertation based on Langstone Hughes’ archival notebooks, poems, and photos from that trip. The episode highlights the personal story of Zohra as an inside-out researcher and her positioned investigation of Hughes' legacy.Recommended literature:Hughes, Langston. 1934. A Negro looks at Soviet Central Asia. Moscow: Co-operative Pub. Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R.Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos & Notebooks from Turkestanhttps://www.centerforthehumanities.org/lost-and-found/publications/langston-hughes-poems-photos-notebooks-from-turkestan?fbclid=IwAR0ebaXSmPZW4aYaFU8hAFSLrQ8S-jTFZnHhUQv6T1Ef-E4AV4iCWZL4sLo
Central Asia Inside/Out
This podcast highlights the research of the Central European University students on historical, cultural, socio-political issues related to Central Asia. The project is based on two perspectives that stem from the backgrounds of two hosts: Elmira from Kazakhstan and Grace from the US. This ‘inside/out’ perspective will shed light on persistent assumptions about this region. Episodes will investigate different research approaches from the perspectives of local and external scholars, traditions, and theories.
Season 1 was recorded during the spring of the academic year 2020-2021
Music credits: Raindrops from MusicFox https://www.musicfox.com/en/info/free-music.php
