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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150126T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150126T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
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SUMMARY:The Fourth Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6643″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]11:00am Opening Remarks\nMarlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU) and Chantal De Jonge Oudraat (Women in International Security\, WIIS) \n11:15am Natalia Zakharchenko (Kyrgyzstan)  \nQuotes on Quotas: Political Representation of Women in Kyrgyzstan \nDiscussant: Christina Fink (George Washington University) \n11:45 Marina Kayumova (Uzbekistan) \nEmigration of “Crème de la crème” in Uzbekistan. Long-term consequences from a gender perspective \nDiscussant: Daina Eglitis (George Washington University) \n12:15pm Rashid Gabdulhakov (Uzbekistan) \nTerritorial enclaves of the Ferghana Valley: Do good fences make good neighbors? \nDiscussant: David Abramson (State Department) \n12:45 Discussion \n13:30 Lunch[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nRashid Gabdulhakov (Uzbekistan) is a Political Science instructor at the International University of Central Asia in the Kyrgyz Republic. Rashid has received his BA in International Relations from Whitworth University in Spokane\, Washington state\, USA. After graduation\, he returned to Uzbekistan and worked with UN Volunteers in Tashkent.  In 2012\, Rashid went on to receive his Masters Degree in Politics and Security from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. During his studies at the OSCE Academy he continued working with various UN agencies and conducted research on geographical enclaves in post-Soviet Central Asia. \nNatalia Zakharchenko (Kyrgyzstan)  is an alumni of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan\, 2012.  She is currently working as an analyst for the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. Previously\, Natalia worked as a Junior Professional Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and completed her research fellowship at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She has several publications on migration in Kyrgyzstan and water management in Central Asia. At the moment\, Natalia is involved into the research on gender quotas and its impact on women’s political empowerment in Kyrgyzstan. During her stay in DC Natalia will work on “Globalizing the Gender Quota? Women in Power in Central Asia.” \nMarina Kayumova (Uzbekistan) has considerable international work experience\, during which she was exposed to a variety of projects within public and private sectors. Her previous assignments include work in GSM Association\, European Parliament and Patent Office. She has also worked as a strategy consultant for SMEs. Marina holds MPhil degree in Innovation\, Strategy and Organisation from the University of Cambridge and BA from the University of Westminster. She also received Masters in International Relations from the European Institute\, where she explored EU-Russia and Central Asia relations in the domain of energy cooperation. During her stay in DC Marina will work on “Brain Drain of ‘Creme de la Creme’ in Uzbekistan: Long-term consequences.” \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/seminar4″ el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-fourth-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
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:20150117T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T162050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17293-1421508600-1421514000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Eurasia's Future and the role of the United States
DESCRIPTION:Join us to honor the memory of author and scholar Alexandros Petersen (1984-2014)\, killed in Kabul on January 17.\nWith \n\nMargarita Assenova (Jamestown Foundation)\,\nStephen J.Blank (American Foreign Policy Council)\,\nSamuel Charap (International Institute for Strategic Studies)\,\nAriel Cohen (Heritage Foundation)\, and\nMatthew Rojansky (Kennan Institute)\n\nOn January 17\, 2014\, an attack on a restaurant was launched in Kabul\, murdering 21 people.Among them was Dr. Alexandros Petersen\, a specialist on the Caucasus and Central Asia.Dr. Petersen held a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and authored The WorldIsland: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West (Praeger: 2011).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/eurasias-future-and-the-role-of-the-united-states/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150115T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150115T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17144-1421350200-1421357400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Hasan Arbakesh
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Directed by Boris Kimiagarov (Tajikistan\, 1965) \nHasan is young and handsome\, he is strong and knows what he needs in life and love\, in addition to that\, inspires him. But then changes come to his life and to the lives of his nation — new power starts to dictate their rules. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-hasan-arbakesh/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150112T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17175-1421060400-1421082000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Assessing the Capabilities of Central Asian Armies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n11:00-12:30pm Panel I. Roundtable. Assessing Security Threats to Central Asia \nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, GWU) \nClark Adams (Department of Defense)\nAlexander Cooley (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\nRoger Kangas (Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies\, National Defense University)\nMarlene Laruelle (IERES\, GWU)\nScott Smith (United States Institute of Peace) \n12:30-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00pm Panel II. Assessing Military Capabilities of the Central Asian States \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, GWU) \nZhulduz Baizakova (Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar\, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies\, National Defense University)\nMilitary reform in Kazakhstan: its perspectives and current trends \nVitali Gelfgat (US Army)\nUzbekistan’s military capabilities \nErica Marat (Assistant Professor\, College of International Security Affairs\, National Defense University)\nPredatory policing in Central Asia \nSebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, GWU\, and East West Institute)\nKazakhstan’s industrial-military complex and foreign cooperation \n3:00-3:30pm Coffee break \n3:30-5:00pm Panel III. Assessing External Assistance to Central Asia \nAlexander Cooley (Barnard College\, Columbia University) \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, GWU) and Stephen Blank (American Foreign Policy Council)\nRussia’s military cooperation with Central Asia \nRichard Weitz (Hudson Institute)\nThe Security Role of the SCO\, CSTO\, and China in Central Asia \nDmitry Gorenburg (CNA Corporation/Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University)\nUS and European military assistance to Central Asia \nIn partnership with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)\, United Kingdom.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/CAAC” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/assessing-the-capabilities-of-central-asian-armies/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150108T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150208T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17239-1420675200-1423353600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:VISIONS OF UZBEKISTAN
DESCRIPTION:“Visions of Uzbekistan” is an exhibition sponsored in partnership with the Embassy of Uzbekistan which will run from January 8\, 2015 – February 7\, 2015. \nUzbekistan is located at the heart of Central Asia\, neighboring world civilizations such as China\, Persia\, and India\, and connecting to the Turkic world and to Europe via Russia. The territory  of  modern  Uzbekistan  hosted  the  prestigious  ancient  civilizations of  Bactria\, Sogdiana\, Parthia and Khorezm and was traversed by caravans carrying precious silk\, gold\, porcelain and spices along the Great Silk Road. These ancient civilizations invented sophisticated irrigation techniques\, inspired the canons of Islamic culture in the 9th-10th centuries\, and were at the center of a vast empire created by Tamerlane in the 15th century. They made major contributions to world science and literature through geniuses such as Avicenna\, Alisher Navoi\, Ulugbek\, Al-Khorezmi\, al-Beruni\, Al-Farghoni\, Imam Al-Bukhary\, and others. Present-day Uzbekistan benefits from this past\, offering the most accomplished architectural heritage within Central Asia. Since the country’s independence in 1991\, Uzbek society aims to combine modernity with the rediscovery of its past\, and to integrate its historical legacy into a larger\, globalized framework. The photo exhibition “Visions of Uzbekistan” reflects both the ancient culture and the modern life of the Uzbek people and introduces cultural aspects to the narrative about Uzbekistan in the United States.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/visions-of-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141217T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
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:20141212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17168-1418387400-1418392800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Curious Rise and Development of Central Asian Nationalisms
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Dr. Russell Zanca\, Northeastern Illinois University\nThis presentation examines scholarly notions about post-Soviet Central Asia’s future close to the the time of the Soviet dissolution. Given the rather different outcome for Central Asian states over the past quarter century\, the author claims that Central Asian states have articulated curious nationalisms that concurrently militate against regional cooperation while still maintaining a modicum of peace and stability among the regional countries among other factors. In discussing the case of nationalisms\, the argument centers on relative successes of the Soviet system that have created an enduring legacy in Central Asia till present. The author implies this is hard to apprehend without spending significant time outside of cities\, and without understanding how varied Soviet experiences have been across this area.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Zanca” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-curious-rise-and-development-of-central-asian-nationalisms/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141211T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17171-1418319000-1418324400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Days Gone By (O'tgan kunlar/Minuvshie dni)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Yuldash Azgamov (Uzbekistan\, 1969)\nIn partnership with the Uzbekistan Embassy in Washington\, DC \nCentral Asia Program and the Uzbekistan Embassy are happy to invite you to attend the screening of Days gone by (O’tgan kunlar / Minuvshie dni) by Yuldash Azgamov. Azgamov is widely regarded as one of the founders of the Uzbek film making industry. The film describes the atmosphere of Uzbek intelligentsia in the 19th century. \n5:30pm Opening \n5:45pm Presentation on Uzbek cinema \n6:30pm Screening of the film \nLight snacks will be provided by the Uzbekistan Embassy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-days-gone-by-otgan-kunlar-minuvshie-dni/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17166-1417708800-1417714200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kazakh security policy and its position as a vanguard for East-West cooperation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Dr. Marcel de Haas\, Professor\, Nazarbayev University\nThis presentation first describes the foundations of Kazakh security policy\, i.e. the key security-related documents\, especially the Law on National Security\, the Military Doctrine and the Foreign Policy Concept\, and the policy aspects derived from them. Next\, the different actors in the regional and global security arena – with whom Astana cooperates – are discussed. Subsequently\, this lecture explains the security issue of post-2014 Afghanistan. The paper concludes with the options that Kazakhstan has to enhance cooperation between East and West. \nDr. Marcel de Haas is a Professor of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University\, Astana\, Kazakhstan. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague. Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Netherlands Army (ret.) De Haas has fulfilled a career as a military officer from 1988-2012\, with foreign deployment for the UN (UNIFIL\, Lebanon)\, NATO and OSCE (arms control officer). He is a regular commentator for Dutch and international media outlets. His PhD thesis in Russian Studies was on Russia’s security policy and air power (University of Amsterdam\, 2004) and his MA thesis on Soviet policy towards Southern Africa (University of Leiden\, 1987). His research areas are defence\, security and foreign policy of Russia\, Central Asia\, the South Caucasus (CIS\, CSTO\, SCO\, Eurasian Union)\, NATO and EU.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Haas” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakh-security-policy-and-its-position-as-a-vanguard-for-east-west-cooperation/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141202T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17159-1417537800-1417543200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Enclaves in the post-Communist Central Asia: Do good fences make good neighbors?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Rashid Gabdulhakov\, Visiting Fellow\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\nThe collapse of a state as large and diverse as the USSR inevitably led to disputes over natural and industrial resources\, but also over borders. In the Ferghana Valley\, divided between Uzbekistan\, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan\, several territorial units are located in other states. They are referred to as ‘enclaves’. This presentation will provide an overview of the Ferghana Valley’s main enclaves\, and look at various factors such as: territory\, population\, resources\, legal aspects\, as well as their economic characteristics. It will discuss the ways in which political authorities manage their relationship to these enclaves and the role they play in bilateral relations and local everyday life.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Gabdulhakov” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/enclaves-in-the-post-communist-central-asia-do-good-fences-make-good-neighbors/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17174-1417449600-1417455000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Police in Afghanistan: Continuing the Mission and Defining the Future
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Major General Masood Ahmad Azizi\, MoI Deputy Minister for Strategy and Policy \n\nPolice are the long-term security solution to targeting the enablers of insurgency and criminals\nSecuring the public’s trust by the police is essential to defeating insurgents\nSecuring and retaining the public’s trust requires continued police professionalization\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/Azizi” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/police-in-afghanistan-continuing-the-mission-and-defining-the-future/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141121T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194158Z
UID:17141-1416587400-1416592800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Re-imagining “post-Soviet” Central Asia: The role of the GCC and articulating geopolitical identities through capital cities.
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With Natalie Koch\,Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs\, Syracuse University \nIn the newly independent states of Central Asia\, geopolitical practices and affinities cannot be understood in isolation from their Soviet heritage. However\, after nearly 25 years since the collapse of the USSR\, this near-automatic explanation of contemporary politics in terms of Soviet legacies is no longer sufficient for understanding Central Asia’s shifting geopolitics. In this paper\, I analyze how geopolitical identities are narrated through urban development schemes in Astana\, Baku\, and Ashgabat – and in particular how they are increasingly connected to new flows of actors\, ideas\, and finance from the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Adopting a critical geopolitics approach\, I compare and contrast elements of these capital city development schemes in Kazakhstan\, Azerbaijan\, and Turkmenistan with those in Qatar\, Bahrain\, Saudi Arabia\, and the United Arab Emirates. Through this comparative analysis\, I demonstrate how region-making and geopolitical orientations unfold not just at the level of rhetorical positioning\, but can also develop through the material practices of cross-regional networks around highly specific political tactics\, like capital city development. Also considering divergences\, I note that although the urban landscapes these tactics materialize are very similar\, there are important differences in the underlying political geographic and political economic factors that makes them possible\, as well as the political relations they sustain and produce. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/gcc” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/re-imagining-post-soviet-central-asia-the-role-of-the-gcc-and-articulating-geopolitical-identities-through-capital-cities/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141119T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17158-1416418200-1416425400@centralasiaprogram.org
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:20141118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17164-1416328200-1416333600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Between Co-operation and Insulation: Afghanistan’s Relations with the Central Asian Republics
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Dr. Christian Bleuer\, Afghanistan Analysts Network \nChristian Bleuer will give a presentation based on recent field research and his Afghanistan Analysts Network report “Between Co-operation and Insulation: Afghanistan’s Relations with the Central Asian Republics.” The main focus will be on the real and imagined trans-national security threats in this region that cross the Afghan border in both directions. He will analyse the past and present cross-border relations\, including trade\, refugees\, insurgency\, terrorism and cultural ties with an emphasis on how these phenomena affect stability in the region. \nDr. Christian Bleuer is a 2012 PhD graduate of the Australian National University. He has spent the last three years in Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan and Afghanistan researching security and governance with a focus on the connections between Afghanistan and the Central Asian states. Most recently he was worked for the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia in Dushanbe. Currently he works at the Afghanistan Analysts Network\, based in Kabul. His full list of publications can be downloaded at ChristianBleuer.com. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/between-co-operation-and-insulation-afghanistans-relations-with-the-central-asian-republics/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17156-1415903400-1415910600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Pure Coolness
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan\, 2007)\nAsema gets engaged to Murat and the two go to Murat’s hometown\, where the traditional Kyrgyzstani culture remains. One day\, Asema learns of a plan to kidnap his bride for a shepherd called Sagyn. The film comically depicts the “marriage by abduction” that continues to happen in the countryside of Kyrgyzstan. The film also poses questions about marriage and love.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-pure-coolness/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141103T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
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:20141028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T150000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17161-1414494000-1414508400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Prospects for Regional Integration in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]12:00-12:30pm Lunch\n12:30pm Opening remarks.\nDCM Yerkin Akhinzhanov\, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States \nFatema Z. Sumar\, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State \n1:00-2:30pm. Session I. Regional Integration Projects\, Divergences and Challenges \nModerator: Margarita Assenova (Jamestown Foundation) \nSumona Guha (Policy Planning Staff\, U.S. Department of State)\nU.S. perspectives on Central Asia’s regional integration \nAndrew Kuchins (Senior Fellow and Director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program)\nCompeting and Collaborative Visions of Eurasian Integration \nFarrukh Irnazarov (Country Directory and Researcher\, Central Asian Development Institute (CADI)\, Tashkent\, Uzbekistan\, and Visiting Fellow at the Central Asia and Caucasus Institute\, SAIS)\nRegional Cooperation in Central Asia: Evidence from the Field \nGalymzhan Kirbassov (Columbia University)\nAn Integrated Approach to Combating International Terrorism in Central Asia \n2:30-2:45pm Coffee-break \n2:45-4:00pm. Session 2. Regional Integration\, a View from Kazakhstan \nModerator: Sergey Gretsky (Catholic University) \nMartha Brill Olcott (Visiting Professor\, Michigan State University)\n2014: The Impact on Kazakh Foreign Policy and Regional Cooperation \nAnuar Ayazbekov (Rumsfeld Fellow)\nConstructors of the Silk Road Narrative: Kazakhstan’s Voice \nMarlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program\, George Washington University)\nKazakhstan’s Dilemmas: Eurasian integration\, Central Asian integration\, or a ‘Kazakh Eli’ path? \n  \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW\nGratefully funded by the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington D.C.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Akhinzhanov” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/prospects-for-regional-integration-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141020T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193415Z
UID:17151-1413810000-1413826200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Hydrocarbons\, Governance and Social Accountability in Russia and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n1:00-2:00pm Keynote Speaker \nMarc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos (French Institute of Geopolitics\, University Paris 8\, France)\nOil and Social Accountability in Russia \n2:00-3:30pm Session 1. Hydrocarbons and Governance in Eurasia \nSergei Gretsky (Foreign Service Institute)\nKazakhstan Seeks to Avoid Resource Curse \nPeter Rutland (Wesleyan University)\nCan Russia Escape The Oil Curse? \n3:30-4:00pm Coffee break \n4:00-5:30pm Session 2. Oil\, Environment and Social Accountability \nRobert Orttung (George Washington University)\nOil and Social Accountability in Russia \nKate Watters (Crude Accountability)\nHydrocarbons\, Human Rights and the Environment in Turkmenistan \nSebastien Peyrouse (GWU/East West Center)\nOil and Social Violence in 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/oil”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/hydrocarbons-governance-and-social-accountability-in-russia-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17149-1413484200-1413491400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Needle
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Rashid Nugmanov (Kazakhstan\, 1988)\nIn the bleak filmscape of glasnost\, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period\, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream\, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism. \nA young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi\, the late rock ‘n’ roll legend from the St. Petersburg band “Kino”) returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend\, Dina (Marina Smirnova)\, becoming a drug addict and himself becoming involved in the bizarre life of the city’s underworld. In an attempt to save Dina\, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea\, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured\, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate\, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers\, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock ‘n’ roll star\, eccentric leader of the “Sound of Mu” band and the future star of  Taxi Blues  \, Pyotr Mamonov)\, when one of them stabs him in a deserted park. \nRead more: http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Hi-Ik/Igla.html#ixzz3DbZ2w63W\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-needle/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193415Z
UID:17148-1412265600-1412271000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Transition Economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Old Habits\, New Approaches
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]\nwith \nFarrukh Irnazarov\,\nVisiting Research Associate\, Johns Hopkins University \nand \nRoman Vakulchuk\,\nSenior Research Fellow\, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)\, Oslo\, Norway \nThis presentation assesses the market transition path of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by studying state–business interactions in two countries. It evaluates the role of the state and private economic actors in shaping the institutional structure of the economies and identifies the type of the emerging market-oriented economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The study to be presented is based on 375 semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives of political and economic elites in two countries in 2009–2013. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-transition-economies-of-kazakhstan-and-uzbekistan-old-habits-new-approaches/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140925T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140928T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17137-1411603200-1411862400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:First International Conference on Uyghur Studies - History\, Culture\, and Society
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Uyghurs are one of the ten most populous stateless nations in the world. While they have a long history of cultural accomplishments and political influences\, they have remained marginal in international scholarship given their ambiguous position both in regional studies and in geopolitics. Nonetheless\, given their contribution to global and regional historical and cultural processes\, there has developed a transnational community of scholars whose research is focused on the Uyghur people’s history\, culture\, society. This conference is the first attempt to bring together a broad spectrum of this international community of scholars\, drawing from the academic communities of the Americas\, Russia\, Turkey\, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Hopefully\, it will serve as a basis for future transnational collaboration on the history\, culture\, and society of Uyghurs throughout the world.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”wpb_regularsize” href=”https://docs.google.com/a/gwmail.gwu.edu/forms/d/1zSMEKL3egeU15iy09JZH9_6cU7Ylu1-usbUoZhlRJyI/viewform”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Thursday\, September 25\, 2014\, Lindner Commons\, 6th floor\n 9:00-10:00am      Opening \n 10:00-11:00am    Session 1: The Policy Debate \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nSean R. Roberts (George Washington University)\nMichael Dillon (Independent scholar\, formerly Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham)\nGardner Bovington (Indiana University)\nHenryk Szadziewski (Uyghur Human Rights Project)\nKilic Kanat (Penn State University\, USA) \n11:00-11:30am Coffee break \n11:30-12:45pm    Session 2: Roundtable Discussion – Uyghurs in Geopolitics Over Time \nChair: Sean R. Roberts (George Washington University) \nDru Gladney (Pacific Basin Institute\, Pomona College)\nJames Millward (Georgetown University)\nValerii Barmin(Altai State Pedagogical Academy\, Russia)\nYunus Koç (Hacettepe University\, Turkey) \n12:45-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-3:30pm         Session 3: Uyghur Social Cohesion\, Identity\, and Resistance \nChair and Discussant: Dru Gladney (Pomona College) \nMichael Dillon (Independent scholar\, formerly Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham)\nReligion\, repression and traditional Uyghur culture in southern Xinjiang: Kashghar and Khotan (2010-14) \nNathan Light (Professor\, ​Department of Linguistics and Philology\, Uppsala University)\nUyghur Social Networking and Chinese Censorship: Before and After 2009 \nRemi Castets (Michel de Montaigne University\, Bordeaux\, France)\nUyghur Islam and State Control Policies in Xinjiang \nSean R. Roberts (George Washington University)\n‘Uyghurstan is Where the Home is’. “Self-Governmentality” and the Maintenance of Uyghur National Identity without a State \nRachel Harris (SOAS\, University of London\, UK)\nIntangible Cultural Heritage and Illegal Gatherings: reflections on the Uyghur Meshrep \n3:30-4:00pm Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm         Session 4: Xinjiang under Chinese Influence \nChair and discussant: Michael Dillon (Independent Scholar) \nGardner Bovington (Indiana University)\nTaking a Mulligan: New Minzu Policies in Search of Appropriate Problems \nChienyu Shih (Chienhsin University\, Taiwan)\nAnother Round of Power Struggle: Xinjiang and Beijing Current Ethnic Policy Debate \nJoanne Smith (Newcastle University\, UK)\nThe Redistribution of Wealth or Consolidation of Majority Han Power? The ‘National Partner Assistance Programme’ \nKilic Kanat (Penn State University\, USA)\n‘War on Terror’ and ‘Radicalism’ as Diversionary Strategies for PRC Regime \nKara Abramson (Independent scholar\, USA)\nUnderstanding and Promoting Human Rights in Xinjiang: Challenges and Opportunities \n7:00pm Dinner for Participants[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Friday\, September 26\, 2014\, State Room\, 7th floor \n9:00-11:00am      Session 5: The Transformation of Uyghur Language and Landscapes \nChair and Discussant: Sean R. Roberts (The George Washington University) \nStanley Toops (Miami University\, Ohio\, USA)\nThe Demography of the Uyghur: Spatial Results of the 2010 Census of Xinjiang \nArienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)\nThe Emergence of Diasporic Uyghur Language \nGiulia Cabras (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales-INALCO\, France)\nUyghur-Chinese Code Switching in Xinjiang’s Urban Areas: Interactional and Sociocultural Aspects \nErkin Emet (Ankara University\, Turkey)\nThe Effect of Chinese language on Uyghur language \nJean-Paul Loubes (Ecole d’Architecture Paris-La Villette\, France; Laboratory Architecture of Paris-La Villette)\nThe Transformation of the Oasis Cities in Xinjiang: the Case of Kashgar \n11:00-11:30am Coffee break \n11:30-1:15pm    Session 6: The Forgotten Diaspora? Uyghurs in Post-Soviet Central Asia \nChair and Discussant: Remi Castets (Science PO-CERI\, Paris) \nIvan Safranchuk (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)\nGreat Game? Politics\, Business\, and Security in Central Asia \nAblet Kamalov (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Almaty)\nDiaspora and Identity: Discourse of Homeland (Watan) in the Uyghur communities of post-Soviet Central Asian Countries \nKhamit Khamraev (Independent scholar. President of Uyghur international PEN centre\, Almaty\, Kazakhstan)\nUyghur Diaspora in Kazakhstan from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization \nIlkhamzhanMusaev (Independentscholar\, Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan)\nFormation and Development of the Uyghur Ethno-Cultural Identity in Kyrgyzstan \nGuzel Maitdinova (Center for geopolitical Studies\, Russian-Tajik University\, Dushanbe)\nThe Uyghur Diaspora in Tajikistan. History\, Culture and Current Situation \n1:15-2:00pm Lunch \n2:00-3:30pm         Session 7: Uyghurs in Multinational Empires \nChair and Discussant: Nabijan Tursun (Independent Scholar\, DC) \nYuliy Drobyshev (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nSome Features of Interrelations Between the Uighur Khanate and China \nAleksandr Kadyrbaev (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nUyghurs in the Mongol empires\, 13-14th centuries \nLiudmila Chvyr (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Moscow)\nThe Uyghur model of Ethnocultural Interactions in the 19th century \nDinara Dubrovskaia (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nQing Dynasty and Uyghurs. Controversy over the Question of Reconquering Xinjiang \n3:30-4:00pm Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm         Session 8: Russian and Soviet Influences on Uyghurs’ Destiny \nChair and Discussant: James Millard (Georgetown University) \nAleksandr Vasiliev (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nDocuments from Russian and Ottoman Archives on the Destiny of Bek-Kuli Beg\, Son of Jakub-beg \nValerii Barmin (Professor\, Head of Chair\, Altai State Pedagogical Academy)\nThe activities of the Komintern on the creation of a revolutionary party in Xinjiang in the 1920s \nSabine Trebinjac (Professor\, Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociologie (LESC)\, CNRS and Nanterre University\, France)\nAnthropological Survey in the Komintern Archives: The Announced Bankruptcy of the Soviet Annexation of Chinese Turkestan \nVladimir Boyko (Professor of Asian Studies at Altai State Pedagogical Academy; Research Associate at Altai State University\, Barnaul)\nEthnicity\, Conflict and Development of Xinjiang 1910s-2010s in Russian\, Soviet and Post-Soviet Scholarship and Analysis \nAnna Bondarenko (Independent Scholar\, formerly research fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nState of the Research on Xinjiang in Russia in the 2000s \nNabijan Tursun (Independent Scholar)\nUyghur Ethnic-Political Orientation and the Soviet Union \n7:00pm Dinner for Participants[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Saturday\, September 27\, 2014\, Lindner Commons. 6th floor \n9:30-11:00am      Session 9: New Discoveries of Uyghur Ancient History and Culture \nChair and Discussant: Victor Mair (Pennsylvania University) \nDmitri Vasiliev (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Moscow\, Russia)\nUyghur Fortress in Tuva and new Discoveries of Turkic Runic Inscriptions \nSergey Dmitriev (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Asian and African States\, Moscow State University)\nBilingual ‘Stela of Merits of Generations’ of Iduq-quts\, Kings of Gaochang as an example of Uyghur historiography \nRisalat Karimova (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Almaty)\nUyghur Religious Places in the 14-19th centuries. The Birth a new Architectural Style \nAblet Semet (Department of Turcology and Centralasien Studies\, Georg-August-University Goettingen)\nNew Studies and Results Concerning the Old Uyghur ‘Maitrisimit nom bitig’ \n11:00-11:30am Coffee break \n11:30-1:00pm      Session 10: Uyghur Oral and Written Traditions Through the Ages \nChair and Discussant:Dmitri Vasiliev (Academy of Sciences\, Moscow\, Russia) \nDolkun Kamberi (Radio Free Asia\, Washington DC)\nBrief History of Uyghur Literature \nRian Thum (Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Loyola University New Orleans)\nText and Practice in Uyghur Islam \nMamtimin Ala (Independent scholar\, Australia)\nBetween Utopia and Dystopia: Uyghur intellectuals from 1949 to 2000 \nTatiana Anikeeva (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Moscow)\nOn Some Mythological Plots in the Ancient Uyghur Literature \n 1:00-2:00pm Lunch and Wrap-Up[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/first-international-conference-on-uyghur-studies-history-culture-and-society/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Uyghur Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
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:20140911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Warriors of the Steppe 
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nDirected by Akan Sataev (Kazakhstan\, 2012) \n\n\n\nA universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism\, about love\, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-warriors-of-the-steppe/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140709T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140709T160000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17134-1404921600-1404921600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Politics\, Religion\, and Conflict Online in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Noah Tucker (Registan.net\, and CAP associate) \nSarah Kendzior (Al Jazeera and CAP associate) \nCourtney Ranson (Media research consultant) \nThe Internet and social media are slowly beginning to revolutionize the Islamic marketplace of ideas for Central Asians. Similar to processes identified by scholars like Peter Mandaville in other contexts\, Central Asia’s access to digital Islam has been delayed by low Internet penetration\, authoritarian controls on media and communication\, and\, in part\, by Central Asia’s peripheral status in the Muslim world. Advances in communications technology and large-scale migration are rapidly eroding these obstacles\, however\, allowing Central Asians to increasingly participate in trans-national Islamic discourses through digital media. \nAs Central Asians engage with the global Muslim community\, debates from other social and political contexts seep into local discourse. Religious quarrels between Saudi Salafi scholars and competing styles of Islamically-inspired women’s fashion from Turkey or Egypt more often inform debates about how to be a good Muslim among young Uzbeks and Kazakhs who have no personal connection to the Middle East. While most of the content in the marketplace centers around personal piety\, others topics come with new political baggage\, including calls to choose sides among fratricidal jihadist factions in Syria or al Qaida influenced hate rhetoric against other Muslims groups many Central Asians have never before encountered. The process of engaging in this global marketplace remains slow and affects only a minority of the population\, but it is growing at a rapid pace and remains mostly undocumented and unmonitored by both academic and government analysts. \nThis workshop will examine some of the many ways digital media permit people\, groups and ideas previously isolated or excluded from religious and political debates in the region to circle back and re-engage networks in their countries of origin. Uzbeks forced to flee theirhomeland after the Andijon events\, for example\, worked together to build Uzbek language internet resources to document their experiences\, to tell their own version of the Andijon tragedy that starkly contrasted official versions\, and organize activists inside the country and scattered around the world seeking justice for this and countless other injustices. \nUzbeks or Tajiks living abroad for long periods as part of growing diaspora communities build on these same technologies and networks to preserve and distribute indigenous religious work banned in their home countries\, like dozens of videos of sermons by Andijon imam Abduvali Qori Mirzoev\, who disappeared from the Tashkent airport in 1995 and is presumed to have been killed in the custody of Uzbekistani security services. But they also acquire new language skills and specialized education that enable them to translate Islamic media produced in Arabic\, Turkish or even English into their home languages\, introducing popular and sometimes proscribed texts into regional languages\, from works by Said Qutb and Maulana Maududi to popular reformist televangelists. \nThese émigrés act as bridges between information environments\, often creating branded digital media studios dedicated to bringing audiovisual content they believe is religiously or politically meaningful into their home language networks where it can be quickly shared by Bluetooth between cellphones even without an internet connection. Viral videos by popular Saudi clerics like Muhammad al Arifi calling on Muslims to rage over injustice in Syria cross into Central Asian language networks quickly by multiple vectors. Interviews by out-offavor members of the Karimov family with foreign news networks or footage from Ukrainian television that challenge narratives about the violence there this year Russian state-owned television network propaganda dramatically expands the range of narratives and perspectives available to internet users beyond what they receive in heavily censored state-approved media. \nTies between global communities of Central Asians with better access to information sometimes pushes the state to allow the debates to expand\, creating new space for those in the region to discuss issues that affect them. Compatriots abroad also at times introduce new material with the goal of drawing Central Asians out–to leverage a sense of global solidarity they build into mobilization for external causes\, for foreign civil wars\, to offer readers what they claim is a chance to create meaning for their lives by dying for a greater cause. This workshop will examine the way politics\, religion\, and conflict intersect online for Central Asians and discuss the way global engagement on these issues through the internet and social media might shape domestic discourse and ultimately the future of the region. \nThe CERIA Initiative is generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/politics-religion-and-conflict-online-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140624T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140624T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T162159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17363-1403627400-1403636400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Reassessing the Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia\nThe Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar\n\nJune 24\, 2014\, 4:30-7pm\nLindner Commons\, 6th Floor\nGeorge Washington University\n1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington DC\n\nThe Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. \n4:30 pm. Welcome\n– Chantal de Jonge Oudraat\, Executive Director\, SIPRI-North America \n4.40 pm. Introductory remarks\nThe Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia Do we ask the right questions?\n– Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program\, GWU \n4.50 pm. Speakers:\nShifting from Regional Water Approach to National Solutions. The Case of Uzbekistan\n– Nariya Khasanova\, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan)\nHow Local Rural Governments can respond to Energy Shortages in Tajikistan\n– Said Yakhyoev Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan) \nDiscussion \n6:00 pm. Reception \nCentral Asia Fellows\n \nSaid Yakhyoev holds master’s degrees in Political Science from OSCE Academy and in International Peacebuilding from the University of Notre Dame. Said’s interest and experience are in good governance in the extractive industries and its linkages to conflict. He has worked at a non-profit Bank Information Center in Washington\, D.C. where he promoted transparency and sustainable policies of the international financial institutions investing in extractive industries. He works at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan promoting development policies and cross-border trade. During his fellowship he studied the ways Tajik rural administrations could answer their energy needs based on the example of the Rasht Valley. \n \nNariya Khasanova graduated from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent\, where she studied International Economic Relations. She has undergone two internships at the UN (UNDP Office in Uzbekistan; UNDP Bratislava Regional Center). She has also been working on an Asian Development Bank Project in Uzbekistan. Her interest in development\, peace\, and conflict studies led her to the UN Mandated University for Peace\, where she obtained her master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Governance and Peace. During her fellowship she studied deconstructed the Rogun issue by demonstrating the need to shift to national solutions in terms of water use. \nThe Central Asia Fellowship Program\nCentral Asia has a chronic and acute lack of public policy experts and the opportunities for young professionals to hone their analytical skills are few and far between. The lack of a robust pool of public policy experts\, compounded by the entrenched ideological divide existing between civil society and academia\, has had a detrimental effect on the transparency and vigor of policy debate in Central Asia. \nThe CAP-SIPRI North America Central Asia Fellowship Program is intended for young professionals—scholars\, government officials\, policy experts\, human rights and democracy activists—who want to enhance their research and analytical skills and seek to become public policy leaders in their respective countries. More generally\, the fellowship program seeks to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and build lasting intellectual networks between the Central Asian and the US scholarly and policy communities.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-third-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140613T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T162201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17365-1402653600-1402765200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kazakhstan Beyond Economic Success - Exploring Social and Cultural Changes in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Organized by The George Washington University’s Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)\nFunded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) Uppsala University\, Sweden \nJune 13-14\, 2014 \nKazakhstan Beyond Economic Success – Exploring Social and Cultural Changes in Eurasia
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstan-beyond-economic-success-exploring-social-and-cultural-changes-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T163000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T162051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17294-1401462000-1401467400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model: Changing notions of marginality in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:with Anita Sengupta\, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies\, Kolkata\, India  \nThe Turkish Model or the Turkish Developmental Alternative was promoted in the Central Asian Republics immediately following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Model emphasised the ideal of a ”secular\, democratic\, liberal society”as a model for the post- Soviet Turkic world and in the process encouraged a”Turkic” rhetoric that emphasized connection between the two regions based on acommon ancestry. While Turkey was presented as ‘’the’’ model of development fora vast region there was also the emergence of a critique of this ‘’modern’’ model from within the state itself particularly in terms of how the Turkish state continued to exclude certain groups from its definition of who constitutes its “relevant’’citizen. Gezi Park and subsequent events within Turkey have brought into questionthe democratic credentials of the state. This presentation questions the myth andrhetoric of a model that emerges in the face of transitions and recedes asalternatives emerge from within.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/myth-and-rhetoric-of-the-turkish-model-changing-notions-of-marginality-in-turkey/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140520T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140520T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T191107
CREATED:20200930T161945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194110Z
UID:17228-1400598000-1400605200@centralasiaprogram.org
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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