Culture and Islam in Late Central Asia

9:00-11:00 AM, Session 1: Sovietness in Central Asia. Politics, Economy, and Society
Isaac McKean Scarborough (London School of Economics)
The Political Culture of Late Soviet Tajikistan

Riccardo Cucciola (National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Rashidov’s diplomacy: Rethinking Uzbekistan as a model for the Third World (1959-1983)

Irina Morozova (Regensburg University)
Socialist Solidarity or Market Rationality: the Debates and Politics on Economy and Resources between Moscow and Central Asian Republics, 1989-1991

Markus Göransson (Stockholm School of Economics)
Brezhnev’s generation. Tajik soldiers of the Afghan War and Political Socialisation

Coffee Break: 11:00-11:30 AM

11:30 AM-2:00 PM, Session 2: Culture and Religion in Late Soviet Central Asia

Artemy M. Kalinovsky (University of Amsterdam)
Adab, Kultura and the Limits of Friendship

Peter Rollberg (George Washington University)
The Axiological Subversion of Soviet Officialdom by Kazakh Cinema in the Early 1980s

Sonja Luehrmann (Simon Fraser University)
Preaching Islam, Preaching Culture: Brezhnev-era Sermon Texts from the Tatar ASSR

Lunch: 2:00-2:45 PM

2:45-4:15 PM, Session 3: Literature, Art, and Nation in a Timeless Perspective

Naomi Caffee (Arizona University)
Notes from the Afterlife? Uzbekistan’s Russophone Poets Then and Now

Ananda Breed (University of Lincoln)
Epic Performances in Central Asia: Negotiating between Past and Present

Diana T. Kudaibergenova (Lund University/Cambridge University)
The Limits of Late Socialist Realism: Art, Power and National Museum in Central Asia

Coffee Break: 4:15-4:30 PM

4:30-6:00 PM, Session 4: Performing and Remembering Culture and Islam

Svetlana Peshkova (University of New Hampshire)
National Traditions and Natural Landscape

Ali Igmen (California State University, Long Beach)
Selective Remembrance of ‘the Good Old Days’: the Lives of Kyrgyz Actresses According to the post-Soviet Interviewees

Christopher Baker (University of Indiana, Bloomington and American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
Ethnic Words and Soviet Things: Coming to Terms with Soviet Civilization in Esenberlin’s Kōşpendiler

This workshop is part of the CERIA Initiative, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation

Painting by Kazakhstan’s contemporary artist Saule Suleimenova