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Islam in Eurasia
3 November, 2014 @ 12:00 AM - 5 November, 2014 @ 12:00 AM
Eurasia is often a forgotten space on the radar of the public opinion and the policy community looking at the Islamic world. However, Eurasia offers diversity of Islamic traditions, including both Sunni and Shiite. Islam in Eurasia has been at the crossroads of many influences, interacting with Christianity, European secularism and Soviet atheism, as well as with Islamic revivalist movements from the Middle-East and South Asia.
This conference gives the floor to a generation of scholars who have been working on the ground to renew our knowledge of Eurasian Islam in its plurality, going beyond the media hype of Islamist radicalization and terrorism. The first two panels will look at the relationship between state and religion in the region and at the place of Islam in everyday life. The second day will explore Eurasian Islamic actors as they interact with the globalized world: they discover other Islamic traditions, enjoy the rise of digital media as a new platform to discuss religion, and a minority engage in internationalized insurgency theaters.
Monday, November 3, 2014
9:30 am Introduction
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
9:45-11:00am Keynote Speaker
Pauline Jones Luong (Michigan University, USA)
Reassessing Central Asia’s Islamic Revival
11:00-1:00pm Session I. State and Religion in Eurasia
Chair: David Abramson (State Department, USA)
Sergey Markedonov (Russian State University for the Humanities)
Russian State and Multi-Faced Political Islam
Sufian Zhemukhov (IERES, George Washington University)
Security, Religion, and the State in the North Caucasus
Bayram Balci (CERI Science Po, France)
Between Sunni and Shia Revival: State and Religion in Azerbaijan
Sebastien Peyrouse (IERES, George Washington University, USA)
Authoritarian Secularism: State Management of Religion in Central Asia
Discussion
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-4:00pm Session II. Islam and Everyday Life in Central Asia
Chair: Pauline Jones Luong (Michigan University, USA)
David Montgomery (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Islam in Everyday Life and Everyday Life in Islam: Religion and Secularism as Lived Categories in Central Asia
Shahnoza Nozimova (George Mason University, USA)
Female Islamic Lifeworld in Tajikistan: Competing Discourses and Limited Public Spheres
Elyor Karimov (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Female Ordinances of Sacred Sites at Modern Central Asia: Traditions and Innovations
Aurelie Biard (Sciences Po, France)
Islam, Individuation and Neo-Community in Kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
11:00-12:30pm Session III. Interacting with the World. Travelers, Migrants and Proselytes
Chair: Sean Robert (George Washington University, USA)
David Abramson (State Department, USA)
The Politicization of Islamic Education at Home and Abroad
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University, USA)
The Role of Islam among Central Asian Migrants
Emil Nasridtinov (American University in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan)
Kyrgyz Dawatchis: Travel, Dawah and Glocal Narrative
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Session IV. Roundtable: Digital Islam. A New Marketplace for Religion
Chair: Noah Tucker (Independent scholar, CAP associate, USA)
Sarah Kendzior (Al-Jazeera English, CAP associate, USA),
Behzod Mamadiev (VoA, Washington DC, USA), and
Wendell Schwab (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
3:00-3:30pm Coffee-break
3:30-5:00pm Session V. From Pakistan to Syria. Trajectories of Eurasian Insurgents
Chair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES, George Washington University)
Jean-Francois Ratelle (IERES, George Washington University, USA)
Comparative Analysis of the Caucasus Emirate Islamic Ideology inside the Global-Salafi Jihad
Noah Tucker (Independent scholar, CAP associate, USA)
The Syrian Conflict and the Transformation of the Uzbek Jihad
Erlan Karin (Director, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies)
Natives of Kazakhstan in Syria: Routes, Factors, Portraits
