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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141119T173000
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SUMMARY:First Turkmen Culture Club
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Turkmenistan’s rich culture is less well-known than those great empires who contributed to it\, but Turkmenistan has produced its own fascinating – though under-appreciated – art\, music\, literature\, and cinema.\nThe Turkmen Culture Club welcomes you to explore and experience the creole of deep\, desert-isolated nomadic heritage\, the ‘Lost Enlightenment’ of Islamic Central Asia\, and the influences of European and Asian civilizations and philosophies\, reflected through the creative vision of Turkmen authors and artists. \nWe will be viewing two Turkmen documentary films from Soviet Times directed by Murad Alieyv: \nThe Story of One Run (1986) \nAura (1987)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/first-turkmen-culture-club/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140520T150000
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SUMMARY:Social Media and the Online Debate in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with Navbahor Imamova\, Voice of America \nThe emergence of the Internet and the growing participation of people\, especially youth\, in social media constitute positive change for Central Asia. Uzbekistan as well as the other four countries in the region – Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – has become more connected to the world than ever before. Despite wide-ranging political restrictions and bans\, the flow of information through social media is unstoppable. While some debate whether these governments could shut down access to social media altogether to curtail politically sensitive discussion\, this author contends that by doing so\, they would be making a serious and ultimately unsuccessful gamble. What drives the audience is the quality of the content and the way it is communicated. What keeps people engaged is the sense of forward motion\, the anticipation of what will come next and having a desire to shape it. The power and promise of social media for Central Asia is that it gives an unprecedented opportunity for critical thinking and the discussion of the region’s challenging realities to a wider audience than had hitherto been possible.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/social-media-and-the-online-debate-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260921T055251
CREATED:20200930T161946Z
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SUMMARY:Revolution and Art in the Kyrgyz Republic
DESCRIPTION:with Sally Cummings\, St. Andrews University \nProfessor Sally Nikoline Cummings teaches in the School of InternationalRelations\, University of St Andrews. Her more recent publications includeUnderstanding Central Asia (2012)\, Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing theMiddle East and Central Asia (co-ed\, 2012) and Symbolism and Power in CentralAsia: Politics of the Spectacular (ed. 2010). In late 2009 she commissioned two prominent Kyrgyz artists to develop over a three-year period twelve visual art exhibits that captured the emotions surrounding the 2005 transfer of power. The resulting exhibition\, (…) Ketsin!\, premièred in London in May 2013. Professor Cummings narrates here the story of this exhibition and what it tells us about political intention and art\, the nature of the 2005 events and the artist in times of political upheaval.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/revolution-and-art-in-the-kyrgyz-republic/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140417T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260921T055251
CREATED:20200930T161955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
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SUMMARY:The Magic of Mugham
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URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-magic-of-mugham/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140312T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T180000
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CREATED:20200930T161949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:The Unique Role of the American University of Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The American University of Central Asia and the George Washington University’s Central Asia Program would like you to invite you to join us on March 12\, 2014. After the American and NATO pullout from Afghanistan\, AUCA will be one of the few remaining sustainable institutions in CentralAsia promoting free and critical thought. The purpose of the event is to raise the level of awareness about AUCA and the unique role it plays in the wider Central Asian region.   \n\nWith\nLynne Tracy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia\nAndrew Wachtel\, President\,AUCA\nAndrew Wilder\, vice president of South & Central Asia programs\, US Institute of Peace\n\n4:30 – 6:00 What Leaving Afghanistan Means for Central Asia\n\n6:00 – 7:00 Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-unique-role-of-the-american-university-of-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131007T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131007T170000
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CREATED:20200930T161951Z
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SUMMARY:Studying Central Asia: Looking at the Merits of 'Eavesdropping'
DESCRIPTION:with Svetlana Jacquesson\, Director\, Central Asian Studies Institute \nOne of the most striking features of Central Asian Studies\, as Western scholars have practiced it since the fall of the Soviet Union\, is the absence of structured and meaningful debates. Publications proliferate on a given topics\, but they rarely engage in a dialogue. The debate on “clan politics” waged among political scientists\, anthropologists and historians between 2005 and 2010\, is the exception that proves the rule. In this talk\, Svetlana Jacquesson will use the “clan politics” debate in order to show that Central Asia\, as marginal as it might appear in mainstream social sciences debates\, is not that easy to crack and that we have to be patient eavesdroppers instead of agenda-driven scholars. She will then relate clan assemblies to the “clan politics” debate in order to highlight some paradoxes of knowledge production on Central Asia. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/studying-central-asia-looking-at-the-merits-of-eavesdropping/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T130000
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SUMMARY:The ATOM project exhibit and art show
DESCRIPTION:To Mark the International Day Against Nuclear Tests Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Kairat Umarov and GW’s Central Asia Program have the honor to invite you to attend The ATOM project exhibit and art show.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-atom-project-exhibit-and-art-show/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130605T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130605T170000
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CREATED:20200930T161939Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Memory and a 'Massacre': Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:with Sarah Kendzior\, Al Jazeera English and Noah Tucker\, Courage Services and Registan.net\n\nThe speakers will examine the transnational effort by ethnic Uzbeks to document the June 2010 violence and mobilize international support\, first for intervention to stop the conflict and then in an effort to defend minority rights and preserve evidence of alleged injustices suffered by the community in Kyrgyzstan. These efforts were made possible primarily by new forms of digitalcommunication and social media. Instant\, global communication made the plight of Uzbeks in Southern Kyrgyzstan an issue of broad resonance for the wider ethnic community in a way that similar outbreaks of civil or state violence had never been in the past and facilitated the re-imagining of other late- and post-Soviet historical conflicts to fit new ethnic narratives. Combining analysis of digital media\, art\, and documentation with recent ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Kyrgyzstan\,they will address questions about how permanent “digital memory” of violence shapes the process of conflict resolution and re-adapting to post-conflict everyday life\, and how narratives produced by the global community-most of whom did not experience the conflict itself-shape\, and sometimes conflict with\, collective memory and understanding of the conflict for those who actually experienced it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 / 1
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/digital-memory-and-a-massacre-post-soviet-uzbek-identity-in-the-age-of-social-media/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T193000
DTSTAMP:20260921T055251
CREATED:20200930T161922Z
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SUMMARY:Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
DESCRIPTION:Discussion on Kazakh Cinema \nIntroduction: Peter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, GWU \nKazakh Cinema in an Historical Perspective: from Perestroika to Post-Borat Time\nJean Radvanyi\, Professor\, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures\, Paris\, France \nPolitics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film\nMichael Rouland\, co-editor of Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories (I.B.Tauris\, 2013) \nFilm Screening (7:00-8:30 pm)- Killer (1998)\, by Darezhan Omirbaev\nWinner of the ‘Un Certain Regard Award’ at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival \nSince the fall of the Soviet Union\, Kazakhstan’s film industry has experienced major changes along with the rest of a Kazakh society. Through movies\, Kazakh film-makers have been able to explore the new dimensions of their society and begin to create a new cultural history. This event will be a discussion on Kazakh cinema and its role in Kazakh society as it reexamines past events and their narratives. We will then be showing Killer\, Darzehan Omirbaev’s award winning film.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/politics-and-cinema-divergence-in-post-soviet-central-asian-film/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T170000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Life Styles and Narratives in Kazakhstan: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:A workshop held in conjunction with the exhibition “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan” currently at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution until December 2\, 2012. \nNomadism has been a key aspect of culture in the Eurasian space\, especially on the Kazakh steppes\, throughout the centuries. The Russian colonization and the Soviet Union drastically transformed the Kazakh society in the 19th and 20th century. Since independence in 1991\, the legacy of nomadism has been rehabilitated by the political authorities in their nation building schemes. \nThe society has also participated in reconstructing symbols of the nomadic past: they have become objects of memory and research\, but also objects of artistic inspiration\, and commercial branding. This workshop invites a team of experts to discuss the contemporary use of the concept of nomadism from various angles.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/nomadic-life-styles-and-narratives-in-kazakhstan-then-and-now/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260921T055251
CREATED:20200930T161958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193835Z
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SUMMARY:Discovering Azerbaijani Musical Traditions
DESCRIPTION:with Jeffery Werbock\, Chairman of the Mugham Society of America \nJeffrey Werbock will present a program of instrumental solo improvisations based on traditional Azerbaijani mugham\, played on oud – fretless wood face short neck lute; tar fretted skin face long neck lute; and kamancha- skin face spike fiddle.Mr. Werbock has been giving presentations for over three decades and has performed often at LincolnCenter\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the American Museum of Natural History\, World Music Institute\,and presents lecture demonstrations at universities all over the English speaking world.  He has been awarded an honorary degree by the National Music Conservatory of Azerbaijan\, in Baku\, and was recently sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan to perform a solo concert.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/discovering-azerbaijani-musical-traditions/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121004T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121004T163000
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SUMMARY:Is there a place for Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic? Lessons from Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Societal Renewal in Osh
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\nwith Morgan Y. Liu\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, The Ohio State University\nEthnic Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) attempted to create a place for themselves in the Kyrgyz-dominated nation-state since its independence in 1991.  For a while\, there were reasons to be optimistic about this minority community.  Even though they felt ethnic discrimination\, local Uzbek leaders labored through the 1990’s and 2000’s to build institutions that serve the Uzbek communities within the framework of their Kyrgyzstani citizenship.  That model of ethnic community-building now lies in tatters after the massive conflict between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in June 2010.  What now for Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic?  This talk evaluates their prospects in light of sixteen years of detailed ethnographic work among Osh Uzbeks.\n  \nHis 2012 book\, Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, concerns how ethnic Uzbeks in the ancient Silk Road city of Osh\, Kyrgyzstan think about political authority and post-Soviet transformations\, based on research using vernacular language interviews and ethnographic fieldwork of urban social life from 1993 to 2011.\n \nMorgan Y. Liu is a cultural anthropologist studying Islamic revival\, post-socialist states\, and social justice movements.  An Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, The Ohio State University\, he teaches about the Middle East\, Central Asia\, Islamic revival and social justice\, and cultural theory.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows\, Harvard University.  His Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan in Anthropology  
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/is-there-a-place-for-uzbeks-in-the-kyrgyz-republic-lessons-from-under-solomons-throne-uzbek-visions-of-societal-renewal-in-osh/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120516T173000
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SUMMARY:Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with Sean Roberts\, Associate Professor and Director\, International Development Studies Program\, GWU \nWith the fall of the Soviet Union\, the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan\, like many others in the former USSR\, began to resurrect and re-invent traditional cultural practices that had been repressed during the Soviet period as either contrary to socialist atheism or as remnants of a “feudal past.” These traditions included daily practices and rituals based in local communities as well as the informal structure of neighborhood governance that regulates such practices. Since the 1990s\, the importance of these neighborhood structures and practices to Uyghur daily life in Kazakhstan have gradually increased\, and most recently the informal structure of neighborhood governance has even been scaled up to create a Republic-wide organization that represents Uyghur interests to the government of Kazakhstan. This lecture will discuss the evolution of local Uyghur neighborhoods in Kazakhstan over the last twenty years\, focusing on these communities’ roles in both cultural resurrection and political mobilization. \nSean R. Roberts\, PhD is a professor at the Elliott school and the Director of the International Development Studies program. He is a cultural anthropologist who has done extensive fieldwork among the Uyghur people of Central Asia and China\, and worked for USAID in Central Asia on democracy programs. In 1996 he produced a documentary film on the Uyghur people titled\, Waiting for Uighurstan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/uyghur-neighborhoods-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan,Uyghur Studies
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