Next conference will be organise in 2027. The venue is going to be decided in the first half of 2026, preferrably in Central Asia.
Past conferences
2025 – XVIII ESCAS Conference, Tashkent-Samarkand, convened by Tashkent State University of Economics (Tashkent and Samarkand branches)
2025 – ESCAS-CESS endorsed conference, Lisboa, convened by University of Lisboa
2023 – XVII ESCAS Conference, Almaty, convened jointly by al-Farabi University, German-Kazakh University and KIMEP University
2022 (postponed from 2021 due to COVID) – Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, convened by University of World Economy and Diplomacy
2019 – XVI ESCAS Conference – University of Exeter, UK
2017 – Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, XV ESCAS Conference, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, convened by the American University of Central Asia
2015 – XIV ESCAS Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, convened by the Centre for the Anthropological Study of Central Asia (CASCA) and the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration” (University of Konstanz) at the Dept. for Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Zurich.
2013 – XIII ESCAS Conference, Astana, convened by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University.
2011 – XII ESCAS Conference, Cambridge, convened by the Cambridge Central Asia Forum.
2009 – XI ESCAS Conference, Budapest, convened by the Asia Research Initiative at the Central European University.
2007 – X ESCAS Conference, Ankara, convened by the Center for Black Sea and Central Asia at the Middle East Technical University.
2005 – IX ESCAS Conference, Krakow, convened by Jagiellonian University, Institute of Oriental Philology.
2002 – VIII ESCAS Conference, Bordeaux, convened by the Maison des sciences de l’homme Aquitaine and Institut français d’Etudes sur l’Asie centrale (IFEAC).
2000 – VII ESCAS Conference, Vienna, convened by the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna. Conference proceedings.
1998 – VI ESCAS Conference, Venice, convened by “Universitaa Ca Foscari di Venezia” in Venice, Italy.
1995 – V ESCAS Conference, Copenhagen, convened by the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near-Oriental Studies, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS).
1991 – IV ESCAS Conference, Bamberg, convened by the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Bamberg.
1989 – III ESCAS Conference, Paris, convened by Centre de Recherches Scientifiques en Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Paris.
1987 – II ESCAS Conference, London, convened by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
1985 – I ESCAS Conference, Utrecht, convened by the Dept. of Oriental Languages and Cultures at the University of Utrecht.