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n 16 July 2020 COMPASS held a Work-in-progress seminar ‘Hamsoya – united in shadows: the making of resilient communities in Wider Eurasia’, following two workshops on 23-24 April and 18 June. In the first presentation, Professor David Chandler (University of Westminster) discussed his paper ‘Becoming Resilient: The ‘Right to Opacity’ as the Foundation of ‘Relations of Community’. The presentation outlined different conceptualisations of resilience and suggested an alternative understanding, drawing on the perspectives of the Anthropocene and poetics. The second presentation by Professor Nargis Nurulla-Khodzhaeva (Moscow State University) ‘Bouncing Back: the Value of Glocal Resilience and Sufi-Hamsoya’ explored the philosophical underpinnings of Sufism and pinpointed the principles of good neighbourliness as the background for resilience of Central Asian communities. Both presentations and the in-depth discussion contributed to the elaboration of an innovative understanding of resilience.