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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T180000
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SUMMARY:Julie McBrien - The Tricky Matter of Defining Religion
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat is religion? The answer to this question is either so obvious that it needs no asking\, or so abstract and theoretical that we end up declaring it insoluble. The question therefore often gets sidelined and we operate with un-reflected upon notions of religion.  These ideas about religion\, nonetheless\, guide the research and analyses of academics\, the policy and programs of those in government and development\, and the allocation of research funds\, for example. In short\, the definitions potentially have real-world consequences. Julie McBrien will examine the varying ways religion in Kyrgyzstan has been defined over the last century as a backdrop for looking at present moments of classification. She will consider two contemporary cases in which competing understandings of religion by foreign observers\, one of whom was Dr. McBrien herself\, obfuscated rather than illuminated the lived experience of those in Kyrgyzstan. She will argue that these misreadings can create situations in which analyses and interventions (can) go awry\, with political as well as scholarly implications. This talk is based on her long-term research on religion and secularism in Kyrgyzstan\, including ongoing work on marriage\, gender\, and the state. \n\n\n\nDr. Julie McBrien is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the incoming director of the AISSR Research Program Group “Globalizing Culture.” She is senior researcher and co-coordinator of the ERC funded project “Problematizing Muslim Marriages.” McBrien has conducted research in Kyrgyzstan for nearly 15 years working on issues related to Islam\, secularism\, politics\, gender\, and marriage. Her publications can be found in Material Religion\, JRAI\, Anthropology Today\, and Critique of Anthropology. Her book From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan is forthcoming with Pittsburgh University Press. \n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” color=”warning” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fgo.gwu.edu%2F430\, \, target:%20_blank\, “][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/julie-mcbrien-the-tricky-matter-of-defining-religion/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T150000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162428Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Education and Knowledge Transmission in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nIslamic Education and Knowledge Transmission in Central Asia\nApril 10\, 2017\, 9:30am-3:00pm\nCentral Asia Program\, IERES\nGeorge Washington University\n1957 E Street\, NW\, Lindner Commons\, Suite 602\n9:30am. Session 1. State Institutions\, Muftiates and the Teaching of Islam \nSebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University)\nAt The Crossroads of the Religious and Regime Security: The Teaching Of Islam In Uzbekistan \nKamal Gasimov (CAP Fellow)\nIdeology of Islamic Education and the Struggle Over Transmission of Religious Knowledge In Azerbaijan \nGulnaz Sibgatullina (Leiden University)\nRussian vs. Ethnic Vernaculars: Languages of Islamic Education in the Post-Soviet Space \n11:00am. Coffee break \n11:30am. Session 2. Religion and Ethics at School and in the Media \nRafael Sattarov (CAP Fellow)\nState-Backed Ideological Policy and “Spirituality and Enlightenment” in Uzbekistan \nDonohon Abdugafurova (Emory University)\nIslam\, Morality and Public Education: Religious Elements of Ethics and Etiquette in the Uzbek School Curriculum \nNoah Tucker (CAP Associate)\nIdentifying Islamic Education and Indigenous Counter-Extremism Resources in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan \n1:00pm. Lunch \n1:45pm. Session 3. The Informal Transmission of Religious Knowledge \nNurbek Bekmurzaev (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)\nMediatization of Religion in Kyrgyzstan: Redistribution of Power and Changing Perceptions of Religion \nBenjamin Gatling (George Mason University)\nLearning to be a Sufi in Tajikistan \nYanti Hoelzchen (Tuebingen University)\nKyrgyzstan’s New Mosques: The Institutionalization of Islamic Education In Contemporary Kyrgyzstan \nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” color=”warning” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fgo.gwu.edu%2Fceriaworkshop\, \, target:%20_blank\, “][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islamic-education-and-knowledge-transmission-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Conferences,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162432Z
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SUMMARY:Sergey Abashin - Central Asian Migrants in Russia: Will there be a Religious Radicalization?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nReligious radicalization among Central Asian migrants to Russia have raised particular attention in connection with the active recruitment by the “Islamic State” of many people from the region\, as well as their participation in a series of terrorist attacks in Turkey. Many experts have wondered whether Central Asian migration to Russia creates fertile ground for spreading the most extreme forms of religion. The breakdown of social structures and customary practices\, social isolation\, and the negative attitude of the local community to migration feed–as several experts have asserted–the radicalization process. In this presentation\, Sergey Abashin\, using contemporary sociological and anthropological studies\, will analyze the main features of migration from Central Asia to Russia\, its structure\, dynamics\, the legal status and living conditions of migrant workers\, and their main strategies and perspectives about their future. He will address the place of religion in migrants’ identity and practices\, the types of religiosity and the potentially increasing radicalization. \nSergey Abashin is doctor in history and professor at the European University in Saint-Petersburg. He has authored two monographs\, Nationalism in Central Asia: In search of Identity (2007) and The Soviet Kishlak: Between Colonialism and Modernization (2015). \n\nThis event will be held in Russian with English translation\, and is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” color=”warning” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fgo.gwu.edu%2Fabashin\, \, target:%20_blank\, “][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/sergey-abashin-central-asian-migrants-in-russia-will-there-be-a-religious-radicalization/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T190000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162425Z
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SUMMARY:Sophie Roche - The Moscow Cathedral Mosque in the Life of Migrants from Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:In this discussion\, Sophie Roche will unfold the social life of migrants in\, around and through the main mosque in Moscow\, Prospekt Mira. This mosque is important for Putin’s politics of Islam as well as for inner-Russian Islamic sectarian tensions\, and is increasingly linked to ordinary migrants from Central Asia\, who constitute the large majority of the believers. Whereas inside the mosque migrants meet along ethno-linguistic lines and discuss religious as well as political issues\, migrants profit most from the mosque’s administrative\, social and economic services. Sophie Roche will look at these social activities\, relating them to the politics and inner-Russian Islamic sectarian discussions. She argues that with Prospekt Mira a context is offered through which migrants integrate ideologically into an administratively hostile country and a society that turns increasingly Islamophobic. The material for this presentation has been collected through ethnographic fieldwork in Moscow since 2010. \nSophie Roche is currently leading the junior research group at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and received her PhD from the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2010. She has published Domesticating Youth: Youth Bulges and their Socio-Political Implications in Tajikistan (Berghahn Books 2014) and The Faceless Terrorist. A Cultural Enquiry of Jihad (forthcoming in new open access series HeiUP). She has extensive ethnographic experiences in Tajikistan\, in Russia among migrants from Central Asia and among Muslims in Germany and Turkey. \nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/sophie-roche-the-moscow-cathedral-mosque-in-the-life-of-migrants-from-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T190000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162419Z
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SUMMARY:Galina Yemelianova - Official Islamic Leadership in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Central Asia is widely associated with Islam. However\, throughout history the role of Islam in the region has been ambiguous and it has been mitigated by the pre-Islamic civilizational heritage\, the nomadic tribal and customary norms and the Soviet legacy. An outcome of this ambiguity has been a significantly weaker political role of Islam and the official Islamic leadership (muftis)\, in particular\, compared to that in the Middle East and some other parts of the Islamic East. Discussing the implications of  Sovietization for the official Islamic leadership across the region Galina Yemelianova argues that the Sovietization had a transformative impact on its relationship with the state. It instrumentalized the existing ambiguity and introduced to the region the Russian model of state-Muslims relations\, created by Catherine the Great in the late eighteenth century. This model\, although with considerable modifications\, continues to define the state-Muslim relationship in present-day Central Asia and other Muslim-majority parts of Eurasia. Its key elements have been the ‘co-optation’ of the Islamic leadership within the assertively secular state\, its de-politicization and legal flexibility and expediency\, as well as its public rejection of other forms of Islam.\n \n\nGalina M.Yemelianova is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre of Russian\, European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). She has led and conducted over ten large externally-funded inter-disciplinary collaborative field-work-based research projects on the interaction between Islam\, national identity and statehood in Central Asia\, the Caucasus and the Volga region. Her numerous publications include Central Asia: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press 2017\, forthcoming); Many Faces of the Caucasus (Routledge\, 2014); Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union (Routledge\, 2010); Islam in post-Soviet Russia: Private and Public Faces (Routledge\, 2003) and Russia and Islam: A Historical Survey (Palgrave\, 2002).\n \n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/galina-yemelianova-official-islamic-leadership-in-central-asia-the-soviet-legacy/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161206T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Lemon - Extraterritorial Security: Governing Islam and Security Beyond Tajikistan
DESCRIPTION:Often considered Central Asia’s ‘weakest’ state\, Tajikistan has nonetheless created a relatively sophisticated network through which it monitors and targets both secular and religious opponents abroad. Since 2002\, the government of Tajikistan has targeted at least 51 of its citizens living abroad\, subjecting them to harassment\, intimidation\, attack\, detention\, kidnapping and assassination. Drawing on and extensive ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews conducted between 2013 and 2015 in Tajikistan and Russia\, this paper examines how these extraterritorial security practices relate to power dynamics inside Tajikistan. Usually conceptualised as domestic or international\, this paper challenges this dichotomy\, examining how these transnational practices shape our understanding of statehood and security in Central Asia.\n  \n\nDr. Edward Lemon is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Harriman Institute\, Columbia University. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Exeter. In his research\, he examines the governance of religion and security in Tajikistan. His research has been published in Central Asian Affairs\, Caucasus Survey and The RUSI Journal. He was author of the Tajikistan chapter in last year’s Nations in Transit report\, published by Freedom House.\n  \n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n  \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/edward-lemon-extraterritorial-security-governing-islam-and-security-beyond-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T183000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
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SUMMARY:Alexander Wolters - Islamic Finance in Central Asia: From 'Great Potentials' to Lasting Stagnation
DESCRIPTION:The rise of Islamic Banking in Central Asia has been predicted and expected by both experts and state and economic stakeholders. The financial crisis in 2008 had triggered first initiatives to launch sharia’h conforming financial businesses in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan\, yet most enterprises never managed to survive this early stage of development. The presentation discusses the circumstances of the evolution of start-ups of Islamic finance in the region as well as presents arguments to account for the following stagnation.\n  \n\nDr. Alexander Wolters is DAAD Visiting Professor at the OSCE Academy and the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. He has worked in Kyrgyzstan and the wider region of Central Asia for more than 10 years and completed his PhD in political sociology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)\, Germany\, in 2012. In his work he focuses on the evolution of the political system in Kyrgyzstan following the turbulent times in the republic after 2005. He has further conducted research on social mobilization in Central Asia\, Islam and Islamic movements\, as well as educational policies and the role of public opinion. \n  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/alexander-wolters-islamic-finance-in-central-asia-from-great-potentials-to-lasting-stagnation/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194608Z
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SUMMARY:Michele Commercio - The Rise of Polygamy in Kyrgyzstan: A Consequence of the Country's Post-Soviet Islamic Revival?
DESCRIPTION:Although there are no official statistics reflecting cases of polygamy in Kyrgyzstan\, anecdotal evidence suggests that polygamy is on the rise. This talk explores possible reasons for this and asks\, specifically\, whether it is a consequence of Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet Islamic revival. The research is based on interviews conducted with representatives of non-governmental organizations representing women\, and data from focus groups comprised of Kyrgyz ‘first wives’ and ‘second wives.’\n \n\nMichele Commercio is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian\, East European Studies at the University of Vermont. She specializes in Central Asian comparative politics. Her research interests include regime transition\, ethnic politics\, gender politics\, and Islam in post-Soviet states. Professor Commercio’s most recent research has been funded by IREX\, NCEEER\, APSA (American Political Science Association)\, and the University of Vermont. Her work appears in Political Science Quarterly\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, Nationalities Papers\, Problems of Post-Communism and Post-Soviet Affairs. Her book\, “Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The Transformative Power of Informal Networks\,” was published in 2010 with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her new project analyzes political mobilization among  women in Kyrgyzstan.\n \n\nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/michele-commercio-the-rise-of-polygamy-in-kyrgyzstan-a-consequence-of-the-countrys-post-soviet-islamic-revival/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162306Z
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SUMMARY:Aurélie Biard - The Tablighi Revivalism and its Social and Political Implications in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:How are revivalist forms of Islam emanating from the Indian subcontinent\, especially the ‘preaching group’ of the Tablighi Jama’at\, impacting the construction of post-Soviet national identities and attitudes vis-à-vis society and politics? From its emergence in the early 1990s\, Tablighi proselytization gradually drew a new universe of meaning that rejects the values of contemporary Kyrgyz society\, supposedly hostile to ‘authentic’ Islam. The Tablighi strategy to establish ‘authentic’ Islam in local communities and to form new spaces of Islamization flirts with a political posture that radically questions the established social or political order.\n \nAurélie Biard is a researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) in Paris and an associated researcher at the Centre for Turkish\, Ottoman\, Balkan\, and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC\, CNRS). She is a Visiting Fellow at IERES and is currently teaching a class on “Islam and Ethnicity in Central Asia” with Professor Marlene Laruelle. She holds a Ph.D in Political Science from Sciences-Po Paris. Her research focuses on Islamic clientelist networks and power struggles between Islamic actors as well as on ethics and religion\, business and Islam in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan\, Kazakhstan) and in the Russian Federation (Tatarstan). Her main publications include “The Religious Factor in the Reifications of ‘Neo-ethnic’ Identities in Kyrgyzstan\,” in Nationalities Papers and “Power\, ‘Original Islam’\, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu\, Kyrgyzstan”\, in Central Asian Affairs.\n \nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/aurelie-biard-the-tablighi-revivalism-and-its-social-and-political-implications-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160315T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160315T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
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SUMMARY:Adeeb Khalid - The Making of Uzbekistan: Nation Making in an Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Uzbekistan appeared on the map in 1924. Adeeb Khalid traces its emergence in the interstices between Soviet nationalities policies and the strivings of the Central Asian Muslim intelligentsia. Understanding the origins of the Uzbek national project also shed light on the relationship between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and is thus of profound contemporary relevance.\n  \n\n\nAdeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History professor of history at Carleton College in Northfield\, Minnesota. He works on the Muslim societies of Central Asia in the period after the Russian conquest of the 19th century. His latest book\, Making Uzbekistan: Nation\, Empire\, and Revolution in the Early USSR\, has just been published by Cornell University Press.\n  \n\nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n  \n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/adeeb-khalid-the-making-of-uzbekistan-nation-making-in-an-age-of-revolution/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160302T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160302T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
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SUMMARY:The Fight for Followers: Muslimness and Authenticity in Tajikistan
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon has sought new ways to reassert his Muslim identity.  These public acts of piety serve not only to sway the population toward the state muftiyat\, but also to counter opposition narratives that the ruling family is not Muslim enough. This presentation explores the growing ideological and practical divisions between the socioeconomic elite and common classes as they both seek to claim an authentic Muslim identity in Tajikistan. \nMarintha Miles is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University. Previously she studied and researched media\, migration\, and religion in Tajikistan. Her current research focuses on women as objects of both the state and  international development community policies and practices. \nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-fight-for-followers-muslimness-and-authenticity-in-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160218T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162240Z
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SUMMARY:Public and State Responses to ISIS Messaging in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:This workshop and policy discussion will mark the launch of a new series of policy papers from the CERIA initiative that examine state and public responses to ISIS and its recruiting efforts in each of the Central Asian states\, including Turkmenistan. Comparing and contrasting the perhaps surprisingly different strategies used by ISIS members recruited from each of the states to message their compatriots\, the series examines state countermessaging/security strategies\, public responses to ISIS and their own government\, and attempts by other external actors – Russia in particular – to influence this discourse for its own purposes.\n\nThe series finds that as in the past\, the threat of an external Islamist extremist group is largely being instrumentalized by multiple actors in order to tighten control over society and politics\, often creating ripple effects that have much more immediate consequences for the everyday lives of citizens than the threat represented by a foreign group largely embroiled in a far-off conflict. Although this is a familiar dynamic\, the strategies embraced by Central Asian governments are not identical (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan each have unique responses) and are also evolving in response at times to public demand and in what appears to be a genuine attempt in some cases to adopt more successful approaches to countering the influence of extremist recruiters on their citizens.\n\nFinally\, the series attempts to identify policy responses to the real threat of extremist social media recruiting and examines the ways in which social media in the region has increasingly become a tool for organized actors to either mobilize violence or reinforce authoritarian social controls instead of producing the democratizing effects for which many had hoped.\n\nNoah Tucker is a CAP associate and Managing Editor at Registan.net. He has worked as a researcher and consultant for non-government\, academic\, and government clients on Central Asian society and culture for the past ten years. Noah received an MA from Harvard\, where he studied Central Asian religious issues\, and has lived and worked in Uzbekistan\, Russia and Kyrgyzstan and extensively traveled throughout Central Asia and the former Soviet Union.\n\nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/public-and-state-responses-to-isis-messaging-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160126T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160126T160000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194652Z
UID:17388-1453802400-1453824000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Religion-Branding? Central Asia’s Integration into the International Scene through Religion
DESCRIPTION:10:00am-12:00pm. Session 1. Central Asian States and the Gulf Countries. In Search of New Models of Development\nLuca Anceschi (Glasgow University\, UK)\, Natalie Koch (Syracuse University)\, Bruno de Cordier (Gent University\, Belgium)\, Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University) \n12:45-2:15pm. Session 2. Internationalizing Trends in Central Asia’s Islam: Copying\, Borrowing\, Adapting \nAlima Bissenova (Nazarbayev University\, Kazakhstan)\, Ashirbek Muminov (L.N. Gumilev Eurasian National University)\, Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt University\, Germany) \n2:45- 4:15pm. Session 3. Plural Societies and Multifaceted Social Practices of Religion \nAisalkyn Botoeva (Brown University)\, Azamat Junisbai (Nazarbayev University\, Kazakhstan)\, Noor O’Neill Borbieva (Indiana University) \nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \nPlease RSVP \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/religion-branding-central-asias-integration-into-the-international-scene-through-religion/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194653Z
UID:17386-1449676800-1449682200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Discussion with Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen\, Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen was born in 1971 in Jerusalem\, Israel. In 1993\, he became assistant to the rabbi of the Grand Choral synagogue in St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and since 1994 he has been the Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Chief Emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Kazakhstan. Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen is a member of the National Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan\, chairman of the Eurasian Rabbinical Conference\, and member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy\, Washington\, D.C. He is fluent in Hebrew\, Yiddish\, Russian\, and English. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/discussion-with-rabbi-yeshaya-cohen-chief-rabbi-of-the-republic-of-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T183000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194653Z
UID:17375-1445963400-1445970600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Private Life in Public Spaces: Discourse\, Ummah\, and (Muslim) Piety in Tatarstan
DESCRIPTION:In this new project\, Dr. Karimova explores the relationship between public and private space\, discourse\, Muslim piety\, and the notion of Ummah in present-day Tatarstan. She illustrates how physical space produces a variety of discourses that both reflect and shape the local Ummah in multiple\, sometimes unexpected\, ways. In one such instance\, a newly built mosque stays empty and struggles to survive while a tiny Muslim clothing store becomes the locus of (Muslim) practice and spirituality. This project is based on recent (summer 2015) ethnographic observations and interviews with local Muslim officials and practicing Muslims in and around the city of Kazan\, Russia.\n\nLiliya Karimova recently received her Ph.D. in Communication from UMASS-Amherst. She is currently an independent researcher and a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication at the George Washington University\, Washington\, DC. She has published in Nova Religio: the Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions; The Journal of Intercultural Communication Research; Central Asian Survey; Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia. Her research focuses on women\, identity\, piety\, Islam\, space\, and discourse in Tatarstan\, Russia.\n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/private-life-in-public-spaces-discourse-ummah-and-muslim-piety-in-tatarstan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150505T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150505T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17330-1430841600-1430847000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Islam as a Power Resource: Instrumentalization of Religion in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Mariya Y. Omelicheva\, University of Kansas \nHow can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace\, and a marker of identity differences and national unity? This presentation will explore an argument that religion\, as a system of beliefs\, manifests itself through discourses\, which serve to convey religious meanings but also project interests and identities of governments\, Muslim communities\, and religious organizations. Religion\, in other words\, can be instrumentalized by stakeholders interested in accomplishing distinctive political aims. The study offers an empirical analysis of instrumentalisation of Islam by governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and uses this evidence for developing a framework linking various discursive representations of religion to their political uses. \nMariya Y. Omelicheva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. She holds PhD (2007) in Political Science from Purdue University and JD in International Law (2000) from Moscow National Law Academy. Dr. Omelicheva’s research and teaching interests include international and Eurasian security\, counterterrorism and human rights\, democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory\, Russia’s foreign and security policy\, and terrorism/crime nexus in Eurasia. She has published on these subjects in Terrorism and Political Violence\, Europe-Asia Studies\, International Journal of Human Rights\, Central Asia Survey\, Cambridge Review of International Relations\, and other journals. She is the author of Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia (Routledge 2011)\, which received an Outstanding Academic Title award by Choice\, and Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternate Strategies (University Press of Kentucky 2015)\, and editor of Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia: Dimensions\, Dynamics\, and Directions (Lexington 2014). \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Omelicheva” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islam-as-a-power-resource-instrumentalization-of-religion-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17334-1429804800-1429810200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Desecularization Post-Soviet Style: Delimitations of New Religious Public Space in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nwith John Schoeberlein\, Nazarbayev University \nModernization theory has run into some snags regarding religion in Central Asia. The Post-Reformation modernity in Europe brought convictions and institutions aimed at ensuring religious life free of state intervention and withdrawal of religion from public space. Post-Soviet modernity in Central Asia has seen the opposite trend — convictions and institutions premised on the idea that religion should play an increasing public role while the state should intervene robustly to influence the direction of religious development. What has been called desecularization in other parts of the world — a reversal in the trend towards privatization of religion — in Central Asia today is called secularism. This talk takes an anthropological perspective on the nationalization of religion in Central Asia\, focusing on popular attitudes that largely endorse the state control of religion\, whether it be the Islam that is seen as the key to spiritual and moral well-being\, or the proselytizing Christianity that is seen as a threat to social stability. \nJohn Schoeberlein is a social anthropologist with nearly three decades of experience researching Central Asia\, the Caucasus\, and Muslim societies of Eurasia generally. Prior to moving to Nazarbayev University in 2012\, he established and directed the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University (Cambridge\, USA) for nearly two decades\, and he also served as Visiting Professor at the Eurasian National University (Astana)\, and at the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek)\, among many other roles. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 1994. His research focuses on identity\, ethnicity\, nationality\, religion\, gender\, and community organization. He has conducted a total of over six years of anthropological field research in post-Soviet countries\, mainly in Uzbekistan\, Tajikistan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Kazakhstan\, Georgia and Russia. Themes of his current research include: the changing role of Islam in former-Soviet societies\, the development of new cultural orientations including revival of traditions and global cultural influences in Eurasia\, discourses and practices of morality in everyday life\, Soviet cultural and social legacies\, and the interaction between culture and politics in post-Soviet Eurasia. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/schoeberlein2″ el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/desecularization-post-soviet-style-delimitations-of-new-religious-public-space-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150421T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150421T110000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17277-1429606800-1429614000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Islam\, Secularism and Security in Central Asia and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nIn partnership with the British Council’s Bridging Voices Project 2014/15\nThe purpose of the dialogue is to undertake a debate about the relationship between Islam and secularism with respect to security in Muslim-majority regions. \n\nHow do the relations between political Islam and more privatized variants of Islam get negotiated by civil society organizations which may or may not situate themselves in the categories set forth by state authority or individual responsibility?In particular\, what are the challenges faced by secularised Islamic political parties in environments of contention between secular governments and Islamist groups?\nHow are these differences negotiated in everyday life?How far is political Islam identified as a threat in popular discourse and practice? And how do the security responses of the state to perceived threats impact secularised Muslims?\n\nWe will consider how these questions are being addressed in the foreign policies and security analysis of Western states\, including the United States. \n9:00am Arrival & Coffee \n9:15am Roundtable on The Myth of Post-Soviet Muslim Radicalization in the Central Asian Republics \nCHAIR: David Lewis\, University of Exeter \nPRESENTERS: \nDavid Montgomery\, CEDAR \nJohn Heathershaw\, University of Exeter \nRESPONDENTS: \nMarlene Laruelle\, GWU \nNoah Tucker\, Registan.net/GWU \nMichael Hall\, Open Society Foundation \n11:00am Coffee & Close[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/bcouncil”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islam-secularism-and-security-in-central-asia-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17280-1429027200-1429034400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Religion and Identity in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will explore how religion articulates itself both through localized identities\, based on community belonging\, ethnic or national references\, and with globalized identities (the Ummah\, some transnational brotherhoods\, proselytizing groups). At both the individual and collective levels\, the traditional ways of expressing religion are anchored in local processes and understood as code of social conduct. It will investigate how Islam can be used as a tool to express societal transformations and therefore open new political spaces for mediating them.\n4:00pm Presentations \nLiliya Karimova (George Washington University)\nMuslim Identity in Russia through an Ethnographic Lens: The Case of Muslim Tatar Women in Tatarstan \nRuslan Baramidze (Niko Berdzenishvili Institute of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)\nThe Muslim Community and Political processes in Georgia \nTimothy Grose\, (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)\n(Re)Embracing Islam in Neidi: the ‘Xinjiang Class’ and the Dynamics of Uyghur Ethno-national Identity.” \n5:15pm Moderated Discussion
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/religion-and-identity-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150407T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17273-1428422400-1428427800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Islam and the Dynamics of Ethno-confessional Regimes in Russia\, 1990-2012
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Bulat Akhmetkarimov\, SAIS\, Johns Hopkins University \nWhy would a secular state change its policies toward religion? Research on secularism and state policies toward religion suggests several models of interaction. However\, these models are often better at describing static relationships than they are at explaining change. This study advances a framework for the conditions that presage the transformation of state-religion relations by examining significant differences between Russian state attitudes toward Islam in the early 1990s and the 2000s. In particular\, it focuses on notable changes in the licensing of Imams\, the building permissions granted for mosques\, and registration requirements for religious organizations. The study largely explains the dynamics of Russian state attitudes toward the largest minority religion in the country during the first two decades after the collapse of the Soviet state and offers predictive insights on the dynamic nature of state-Islam relations in other secular states with considerable Muslim population \nBulat Akhmetkarimov is a Ph.D. candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His publications appeared in Religion\, State & Society\, SAISPHERE\, Rivista\, and Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations. His research interests include ethnic conflict\, federalism\, and secularism in Russia. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/akhmetkarimov” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islam-and-the-dynamics-of-ethno-confessional-regimes-in-russia-1990-2012/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150317T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150317T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T162028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17269-1426608000-1426613400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Negotiating Identity in Kyrgyzstan: Nationality\, Islam\, and the Meaning of Tradition
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Vincent Artman\, University of Kansas \nSince independence\, Kyrgyzstan\, like the other Central Asian states\, has been confronted with the challenge of articulating a viable national identity.Drawing upon five months of fieldwork\, this presentation examines some of the ways in which Kyrgyz people make sense of the complex relationship between their religious heritage and their national identity. \nVincent M. Artman is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research interests include role of religion in the modern public sphere\, and his current research focuses on the intersection of Islam\, national identity and collective memory in contemporary Kyrgyzstan. In addition to his work on Central Asia\, Artman has published on the territorial and biopolitical aspects of passportization in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the journal Geopolitics. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Artman” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/negotiating-identity-in-kyrgyzstan-nationality-islam-and-the-meaning-of-tradition/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150310T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150310T163000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17195-1425987000-1426005000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Tracking Factors of Change in Tajikistan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]12:30 Light Lunch\n12:45-1:30pm Keynote Speaker \nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\nUsing a Wide Lens to Assess the Narrow Risk of Radical Islam in Tajikistan \n1:30-3:30pm Panel I. Tajikistan Today: Security\, Economy and Media \nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (CAP\, GWU) \nMuzaffar Olimov (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan)\nAfghan factor and the Threat of Islamic Radicalization: fear of a Tajik ‘Islamic Spring’? \nBrent Hierman (Virginia Military Institute)\nNational Policy\, Local Politics: Patterns of Land Reform in Tajikistan \nAbdulfattoh Shafiev (Fulbright Scholar\, GWU)\nOn/off\, on/off. Blocking Social Media in Tajikistan \nKirgizbek Kanunov (Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society in Tajikistan)\nDiscussing the political system of Tajikistan \nDiscussion \n3:30-4:00pm Coffee break \n4:00-5:30pm Panel II. Islam and its transforming role in Tajik society \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (CAP\, GWU) \nUmed Babakhanov (Asia Plus)\nThe Evolution of Political Islam in Tajikistan: From the Trenches to the Parliament…and Back? \nSaodat Olimova (Sharq Analytical Center)\nSharia and Tajikistan’s Law in the Mirror of Public Opinion \nKhashayar Beigi (University of California\, Berkeley)\nTheological Geography and Tajik Migrant Mosques in Russia \nDiscussion[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/tajikistan” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/tracking-factors-of-change-in-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150223T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150223T170000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194156Z
UID:17189-1424703600-1424710800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Syria Calling: Migration\, Mobilization and the Transformation of the Central Asian Jihad
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Eileen O’Connor\, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs\nand Noah Tucker\, Registan.net \nKey points:\n• Perhaps surprisingly\, ISIS appears to be weak in its resources for online recruit-ing in Central Asian languages\, but benefits disproportionately and in some un-intended ways from this resentment because of the ubiquity of its brand. Theevidence available through social media research conducted by this projectwould support and argument that there are several hundred Uzbek militantsparticipating in ISIS\, but not larger numbers recently suggested by other report-\ning and Central Asian security services.\n\n• Central Asians who support or are interested in ISIL appear to mostly be youngmigrant laborers who have little or no background in Islam as a religion butembrace Islam as an identity that offers solidarity\, a sense of belonging and anexplanation for economic hardship and discrimination that they experience.\n\n• Much of the discourse inside especially ISIS sympathizer circles among migrantlaborers in Russia builds not on religion\, but resentment – and a resentmentstoked by the uniquely toxic media environment that has developed on Russia-based social networks filled with false information. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n\nThis discussion is off the record.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Project on Middle East Political Science  (POMEPS) at the George Washington University. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Syria” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/syria-calling-migration-mobilization-and-the-transformation-of-the-central-asian-jihad/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17188-1424361600-1424368800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Religion\, Sta​te and Secularism in Eurasia… and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis seminar will explore state-sponsored secularism in the Eurasian continent\, and how the authorities use the concept of the separation of state and religion to consolidate authoritarian policies. It looks at Russia\, Central Asia and China\, comparing them with the Middle-East. In the name of state secularism\, Islamic communities are prohibited from interfering in politics\, while the state strictly monitors religious activities\, and interactions with the rest of the Ummah are looked upon with suspicion. \n4:00pm Presentations \nAlexsey Malashenko (Carnegie Moscow) \nSean Roberts (GWU) \nNader Hashemi (University of Denver) \n5:15pm Discussion[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/religion” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/religion-state-and-secularism-in-eurasia-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150203T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17181-1422979200-1422984600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Shrine\, State and Sacred Lineage in Modern Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Ulan Bigozhin\, Indiana University \nMany scholars have argued that shrine veneration and respect for sacred lineages are essential parts of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia because of their long history in the region; in other words\, shrines and sacred lineages are important now because they were important in the past. In contrast Ulan’s research reveals contemporary influences. He argues that patron-client relationships and state ideologies shape contemporary shrine practices and sacred identity in important way. Ulan will discuss the relationships among the state\, society\, and religion\, and how sacred lineages have been preserved and changed in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. \nUlan Bigozhin was born in 1980 in Astana\, Kazakhstan. He graduated from al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazGU) in 2002 with a BA in History and Ethnography. In 2008\, Ulan was awarded an MA by the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His thesis examined nineteenth century Islam in the Kazakh steppe\, as recorded in Russian-Kazakh colonial newspapers. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies in Sociocultural Anthropology at Indiana University in 2012\, Ulan worked as a manager in the School of Social Science and Humanities at Nazarbayev University\, in Astana. Currently ABD\, Ulan completed his fieldwork in 2013\, and is actively writing his dissertation\, tentatively titled “State\, Shrine\, and Sacred Lineage in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan.” \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/bigozhin”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/shrine-state-and-sacred-lineage-in-modern-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17177-1421769600-1421775000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Regulation of Blogger’s Activity in Uzbekistan: Implications for Freedom of Religion and Belief
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Mirakmal Niyazmatov\, Lawyer and Co-Founder of Tashabbus \nIn September 2014\, Uzbek government introduced amendments to the Law “On Informatization.” The amendments imposed vague restrictions on blogging. Uzbek bloggers are now prohibited from disseminating information inciting national\, racial\, ethnic or religious hatred\, as well as denigrating the honor and dignity of citizens. Furthermore\, the amendments oblige bloggers to verify the truthfulness of the information posted on their blogs. The Amendments are an extension to the 2007 Media Law\, which defines websites as mass media and imposes onerous obligations on their owners. \nAlthough the number of internet users is growing rapidly in Uzbekistan\, it is unlikely that the citizens will engage in open discussion of such taboo topics like politics and religion. This is largely due to the Uzbek government’s deployment of new ways to strengthen state monitoring and censorship on the internet. The presentation will discuss the most problematic provisions of the recent Amendments and their impact on the right of Uzbeks to discuss sensitive issues related to religion and religious practice on the internet. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nMirakmal Niyazmatov is a lawyer and co-founder of Tashabbus. He holds an LL.B. from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and an LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Notre Dame Law School.  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Niyazmatov” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/regulation-of-bloggers-activity-in-uzbekistan-implications-for-freedom-of-religion-and-belief/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141217T173000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17170-1418832000-1418837400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:From Empires of Faith to Nationalizations of Islam & the Globalization of Jihad in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Nazif Shahrani\, Indiana University\nThis seminar will discuss the versatility\, uses and abuses of Islam as religion by the faithful and its various deployments by the political elites for establishing empires of faith\, resisting colonialism\, attempting to build nation-states and waging global jihad in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Central Asia. More specifically it will focus on the consequences of nationalization and demonization of Islam by the rulers\, an inadequate knowledge of Islam by its practitioners and entitlement demands by the jihadists\, especially in Afghanistan. \nM. Nazif Shahrani is Professor of Anthropology\, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington and has served two terms as Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at IU. Shahrani is an Afghan ­American anthropologist with extensive field research in Afghanistan\, and has studied Afghan refugee communities in Pakistan & Turkey. Since 1992 he \nhas also conducted field research in post-­Soviet Muslim republics of Uzbekistan\, Kazakhstan\, and Kyrgyzstan. He is interested in the impact of Islam on social life and political culture of Muslims\, problems of state­ failure the role of nationalism in social fragmentation in multi­-ethnic nation states\, and the political economy of international assistance to post-colonial failing states and its consequences.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Shahrani” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/from-empires-of-faith-to-nationalizations-of-islam-the-globalization-of-jihad-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141103T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17154-1414972800-1415145600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Islam in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n\nEurasia 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. \nThis 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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/ceria1″][vc_column_text]\nMonday\, November 3\, 2014 \n9:30 am Introduction \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \n9:45-11:00am Keynote Speaker \nPauline Jones Luong (Michigan University\, USA)\nReassessing Central Asia’s Islamic Revival \n11:00-1:00pm Session I. State and Religion in Eurasia \nChair: David Abramson (State Department\, USA) \nSergey Markedonov (Russian State University for the Humanities)\nRussian State and Multi-Faced Political Islam \nSufian Zhemukhov (IERES\, George Washington University)\nSecurity\, Religion\, and the State in the North Caucasus \nBayram Balci (CERI Science Po\, France)\nBetween Sunni and Shia Revival: State and Religion in Azerbaijan \nSebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University\, USA)\nAuthoritarian Secularism:  State Management of Religion in Central Asia \nDiscussion \n1:00-2:00pm Lunch \n2:00-4:00pm Session II. Islam and Everyday Life in Central Asia \nChair: Pauline Jones Luong (Michigan University\, USA) \nDavid Montgomery (University of Pittsburgh\, USA)\nIslam in Everyday Life and Everyday Life in Islam: Religion and Secularism as Lived Categories in Central Asia \nShahnoza Nozimova (George Mason University\, USA)\nFemale Islamic Lifeworld in Tajikistan: Competing Discourses and Limited Public Spheres \nElyor Karimov (Institute of History\, Academy of Sciences\, Tashkent\, Uzbekistan)\nFemale Ordinances of Sacred Sites at Modern Central Asia: Traditions and Innovations \nAurelie Biard (Sciences Po\, France)\nIslam\, Individuation and Neo-Community in Kyrgyzstan \nTuesday\, November 4\, 2014 \n11:00-12:30pm Session III. Interacting with the World. Travelers\, Migrants and Proselytes \nChair: Sean Robert (George Washington University\, USA) \nDavid Abramson (State Department\, USA)\nThe Politicization of Islamic Education at Home and Abroad \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University\, USA)\nThe Role of Islam among Central Asian Migrants \nEmil Nasridtinov (American University in Central Asia\, Kyrgyzstan)\nKyrgyz Dawatchis: Travel\, Dawah and Glocal Narrative  \n12:30-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00pm Session IV. Roundtable: Digital Islam. A New Marketplace for Religion \nChair: Noah Tucker (Independent scholar\, CAP associate\, USA) \nSarah Kendzior (Al-Jazeera English\, CAP associate\, USA)\, \nBehzod Mamadiev (VoA\, Washington DC\, USA)\, and \nWendell Schwab (Pennsylvania State University\, USA) \n3:00-3:30pm Coffee-break \n3:30-5:00pm Session V. From Pakistan to Syria. Trajectories of Eurasian Insurgents \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University) \nJean-Francois Ratelle (IERES\, George Washington University\, USA)\nComparative Analysis of the Caucasus Emirate Islamic Ideology inside the Global-Salafi Jihad \nNoah Tucker (Independent scholar\, CAP associate\, USA)\nThe Syrian Conflict and the Transformation of the Uzbek Jihad \nErlan Karin (Director\, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies)\nNatives of Kazakhstan in Syria: Routes\, Factors\, Portraits \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islam-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Conferences,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17139-1410883200-1410890400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Regulating Religion in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]\nA Roundtable Discussion with \nCatherine Cosman\, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom \nDillorom Abdulloeva\, Human Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder and President of Tashabbus \nMirakmal Niyazmatov\, Lawyer and Co-Founder of Tashabbus \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nCentral Asian governments have incorporated their majority religions in efforts to define post-Soviet national identities. At the same time\, however\, they want to control growing levels of religious affiliation\, especially among Muslims\, that might act as potential alternative sources to state power. These dual aims are reflected in laws and policies that seek to define the legal limits of the majority religion and also to control the public expression of all religion. Common elements of Central Asian religion laws include: religious groups must undergo complex and intrusive state registration so as to gain legal status; members of unregistered religious groups face fines\, police raids and possible terms of imprisonment; official permits are required to produce\, import\, export and distribute religious materials which can only be sold in officially-approved sites. Governments also strictly limit religious education\, children’s participation in religious activities and the public wearing of religious clothing. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nCatherine Cosman will discuss Central Asian laws and policies relating to freedom of religion or belief.  Extremism laws in Central Asia\, punish alleged extremist\, terrorist\, or revolutionary activities without also requiring acts of violence or incitement to imminent violence.  Governments use concern over Islamic extremism to justify criminal penalties against individuals who are alleged to have participated in religious organizations deemed extremist by the state.  Central Asian states usually provide scant public information on religious groups or materials banned for their alleged extremism. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nDillorom Abdulloeva will discuss Uzbekistan’s headscarf/hijab ban in schools\, universities or places of employment. The law uses unclear and confusing terminology for religious attire and for what constitutes a public place. While Uzbekistan’s Committee on Religious Affairs has officially stated that there is no religious attire in Islam\, courts have sentenced women for wearing the hijab in public.  Such vague laws contribute to selective legal enforcement in Uzbekistan. Furthermore\, this ban is contrary to Uzbekistan’s Constitution\, and also contradicts the country’s international human rights obligations. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nMirakmal Niyazmatov will discuss a 2014 Uzbekistan decree on religious materials. The State Committee for Religious Affairs will give its “expert conclusion” on “religious” materials and then a “relevant government body” will decide to allow or ban them. Under this decree\, the government can inspect almost any literature produced and/or imported. Officials can also inspect any electronic device with data storage capacity.  This decree’s vague and expansive provisions can be abused by government officials and violate constitutional rights and Uzbekistan’s international human rights obligations. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/regulating-religion-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T044959
CREATED:20200930T161758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17135-1409243400-1409248800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Old' and 'New' Political Islam
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]with Emmanuel Karagiannis\, King’s College\, London[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nDr. Emmanuel Karagiannis is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Defence Studies\, King’s College London. He was educated in Great Britain (London South Bank University\, Reading University\, Hull University) and the United States (University of Pennsylvania). He has travelled extensively throughout the Caucasus\, Central Asia\, and the Middle East to conduct research. He published\, among others\, Political Islam in Central Asia. The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir (London: Routledge\, 2010). \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”grey”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]\nPolitical Islam in Central Asia has long been synonymous with clandestine groups\, such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and Hizb ut-Tahrir. However\, political Islam is a much larger movement which includes legal political parties and individual politicians. It will be argued that there is a new generation of Islamist leaders in Central Asia that ought to be studied. \nTursunbai Bakir Uulu in Kyrgyzstan\, Bekbolat Tleukhan in Kazakhstan\, and Mohiddin Kabiri in Tajikistan share a modest Islamist agenda\, while they publicly pronounce their commitment to the democratic process. As opposed to the “old” political Islam of IMU and Hizb ut-Tahrir which seek to establish an Islamic state\, the new Islamists of Central Asia seek a more public role for the Islamic faith without confronting state authorities. In effect\, they have favored a partial Islamization of their respective societies by emphasizing the important role of Islam in national culture. \nThe rise of a new political Islam in Central Asia has concurred with larger developments in the Muslim world. The success of AKP\, Ennahda\, and the Muslim Brotherhood has served as an example for those Central Asian Islamists who do not seek a radical political transformation and favour change from within.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/old-and-new-political-islam/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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