I have convened or taught on the following short courses:
⋅ ‘Muslims in a Global Context: Central Asia’ (Guest lecturer, Carnegie Mellon ad University of Pittsburgh joint short course, March 2014).
⋅‘The Anthropology of the State’ (Seminar sequence, HESP ReSET Project on Building Anthropology in Eurasia, Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, August 2009).
⋅‘Approaches to Nationhood in Western Social Thought’; ‘Ethnicity Without Groups’; ‘The Anthropology of the State’ (in Russian) (Lecture and seminar sequences, HESP ReSET Project on Nationhood and Narrative in Central Asia: History, Context, Critique; Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, July-August 2006; July-August 2007; August 2008).
⋅‘Thinking through culture: an introduction to social anthropology.’ (Lecture sequence, University of Cambridge Institute for Continuing Education short course, November 2006).
⋅‘Identity as Practice’ (in Russian) (Lecture and seminar sequence, Soros Foundation, Kyrgyzstan and Invisible College, Bishkek; Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan; July 2005).
⋅‘Introduction to Humanities’ and ‘Individual and Society’ (in Russian) (‘Training of Trainers’, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Humanities Programme in Central Asia, Bishkek and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, May-June 2005).
⋅Tradition and Modernity in Central Asian Social Science Discourse’ (in Russian) (Lecture and seminar sequence, Central Asia Research Initiative, Almaty, Kazakhstan, October 2004).
⋅‘The Politics and Practice of Research on Inter-Ethnic Relations’ (in Russian) (Lecture and seminar sequence, Soros Foundation, Kyrgyzstan and the Invisible College, Bishkek; Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, August 2004).
⋅‘Reading the Nation: Theoretical Legacies and Contemporary Debates’ (in Russian) (Lecture and seminar sequence, Central Asia Research Initiative, Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 2004).
⋅Thinking Sociologically About Transition (in Russian) (Lecture sequence, Andijan State University, Uzbekistan, April 2002).