Panel at XIX ASIAC Annual Conference: "Archives, Fieldnotes, and Legacy: Researching Central Asia and the Caucasus through Personal and Scholarly Archives"
Short Title: ASIAC Annual Conference

Date: 15-Dec-2025 - 17-Dec-2025
Location: Venice, Italy
Contact: Vittorio S. Springfield, Emine Şahingöz
Meeting URL: https://en.asiac.net/2025/04/24/xix-asiac-annual-conference-ca-foscari-university-of-venice-15-16-17-december-2025-call-for-panels-and-individual-papers/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Typology

Submission Deadline: 05-Jun-2025

Panel at XIX ASIAC Annual Conference with the title "Archives, Fieldnotes, and Legacy: Researching Central Asia and the Caucasus through Personal and Scholarly Archives"

We invite paper proposals for a panel we are organizing as part of the XIX ASIAC Annual Conference, to be held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from 15-17 December 2025.

This panel brings together scholars working on or with archival materials related to Central Asia and the Caucasus, with a particular interest in the personal collections and fieldnotes of prominent linguists, anthropologists, travelers, and scholars. We are especially interested in contributions that explore:
- The archival legacy of influential scholars of the region
- The methodological challenges and opportunities of working with historical fieldnotes and unpublished materials such as correspondences
- The role of lesser-known collections in reconstructing linguistic or ethnographic knowledge
- The relationship between the archive, memory, and regional knowledge production
- Ethical, political, or epistemological questions tied to archival research in and about Central Asia and the Caucasus

We hope to foster an interdisciplinary conversation and welcome submissions from linguistics, anthropology, history, and related fields on or with archival materials related to Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The panel is intended to offer new perspectives on archival research as a scholarly practice and to highlight the often-fragmentary materials that nonetheless provide crucial insight into the intellectual histories of the region.

Submission Guidelines:
Please send a titled abstract of approximately 300 words (not anonymized) and a short bio (max. 100 words) in one document to [email protected] and [email protected] by June 5, 2025.
Selected participants will be contacted shortly after the deadline so that we may submit the full panel proposal to the ASIAC organizing committee.

Feel free to share this call through your networks and social media channels.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Panel Organizers:
Vittorio S. Tomelleri, University of Turin, Italy
Emine Şahingöz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany