Greetings colleagues!

We are pleased to announce that the Department of Nestorian Studies now serves as the Central Asia field-based platform of the Zentrum zur Erforschung des Christlichen Ostens (Center for Eastern Christian Studies) of the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg.

While we will continue to use the domain name “Nestorian Studies” – which in Central Asia is the widely recognized designation for the field known as “Syriac Studies in the West” – we wish to introduce the new name of Central Asian Center for Syriac Studies.

The mission of the Central Asian Center for Syriac Studies is to create and implement strategies to facilitate research and development of Syriac Studies in Central Asia, including the development of geoinformatics related to the historical and socioreligious geography of Central Asia.