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Conference on Central Asia, Turkey and the Caucasus

Published 2009-09-16

STINT cordially invites you to attend the international conference "Creating a knowledge platform on Central Asia, Turkey and the Caucasus".

The conference will reflect current research on these regions. Emphasis will be placed on extending knowledge about the region, as well as the possibility of building contacts and expertise. How can we build and strengthen Swedish research environments? How can we create new cooperations and networks between Swedish and international researchers?

The conference is part of STINT’s ongoing work to encourage increased knowledge and research about Central Asia, Turkey and the Caucasus.

The program will center on two broad themes:

Societies in Transition – history, language and identity

Geopolitics and Economy – policy, strategy and development

The idea is that we will raise issues that concern democracy, human rights, democratization, strategies for modernization, minorities, history, religion, ethnicity, identity, language and other related fields.

A host of international experts will be in attendance to give keynotes, and act as commentators. These include:

Professor Frederick Starr, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Professor Richard Pomfret, University of Adelaide, Australia

Dr Matteo Fumagalli, Central European University, Hungary

Dr Siddharth Saxena, Cambridge Central Asia Forum, UK

Dr Timur Dadabaev, University of Tsukuba, Japan

A more detailed program is available here.

Time: Friday, November 6 2009, 9:30 – 17:00
Place: City Conference Centre, Norra Latin, Stockholm

To attend, please email STINT no later than September 30, 2009, at centralasia@stint.se. Please note: Registration is binding.

Participation in the conference is free. Lunch is included. Delegates are responsible for their own travel costs.

Contact persons at STINT:
Mari-Anne Roslund, +46-(0)8-671 19 91, mari-anne.roslund@stint.se
Katarina Wiberg, +46-(0)8-671 19 90, katarina.wiberg@stint.se

You can also download the invitation here.
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The Bell Tower and Beyond

Dr Birgitte Malm, Associate Professor at Malmö University spent the Fall term 2009 at Furman University, USA on the STINT Excellence in Teaching Programme. STINT has since some years established co-operation with American higher education institutions, dedicated to Liberal Education.

Frizzled signalling

Gunnar Schulte at Karolinska Institutet was awarded an Institutional Grant for Younger Researchers in 2008 for the international collaboration project "Frizzled signalling - protein-protein interactions and intracellular scaffolding as a means of signal transduction".

Online games - the rise of creative industries in Asia

With a travel grant from the STINT funded SSAAPS project Patrik Ström and Mirko Ernkvist studied online games in South East Asia. The service industry has become the most important part of GDP in all of the world’s most advanced economies.

A triggered lightning

In the beginning of 2001 a lightning research group at Uppsala started a research program on NOx production from lightning flashes. During one of the international conference gatherings Professor Vernon Cooray had a discussion with Professor Vlad Rakov from University of Florida on the possibility of a joint cooperation. These discussions led to a submission of an application to STINT for funding for an international collaboration between Uppsala University and University of Florida. The application was granted and the collaboration was initiated in 2005.