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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter in law
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Khodjakuli Narliev (Turkmenistan\, 1972)\nA woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family\, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband\, a heroic pilot\, might return one day. –Originally posted on IMDB[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-daughter-in-law/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140121T053000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140121T070000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17253-1390282200-1390287600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Environment\, Human Rights and Oil Development in Turkmenistan
DESCRIPTION:with Kate Watters\, Co-Founder and Executive Director\, Crude Accountability \nKate Watters will discuss the links between environmental and human rights violations and oil and gas development in Turkmenistan\, one of the world’s most opaque and authoritarian countries. She will focus on the various responses of international financial institutions\, multi-national oil companies and western governments to Turkmenistan’s official policies\, and discuss the role of civil society in highlighting and uncovering environmental and human rights abuses.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/environment-human-rights-and-oil-development-in-turkmenistan/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140108T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140207T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17359-1389139200-1391731200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Visions of Uzbekistan
DESCRIPTION:Visions of Uzbekistan\nA Visual Exploration\nJanuary 8 – February 7\, 2014\nOpening event on Thursday\, January 16 at 4:00 p.m.\nFeaturing Muzaffar Madrahimov\, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Uzbekistan and Marlene Laruelle\, Director of the Central Asia Program\, IERES \n\nUzbekistan is located in the heart of Central Asia\, neighboring world civilizations such as China\, Persia\, and India\, and connected 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 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 in 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 the culture of Uzbekistan to the United States audience.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/visions-of-uzbekistan-2/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T193000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17292-1387213200-1387222200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. The seminar will be followed by a reception.\n\nWith\n\nSardar Bagishbekov\, Central Asia Fellow (Kyrgyzstan)\nEnsuring Freedom from State Violence in the Kyrgyz Republic\nYevgeniya Pak\, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan)\nExit Visa Regime in Uzbekistan: Regime Interests versus Freedom of Individuals\n\nDiscussants:\nErica Marat\, Visiting Scholar\, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\nEric Lohr\, Director of Initiative for Russian Culture\, American University
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-second-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17344-1386876600-1386883800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: White Mountains
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Melis Ubukeev (Kyrgyzstan\, 1964)\nMukash is chased by officials\, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing\, he\, having to choose a tragic solution.-Taken from MUBI.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-white-mountains/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193924Z
UID:17205-1384792200-1384797600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:Marlene Laruelle\, George Washington University \nMargarita Assenova\, Jamestown Foundation \nAnara Ibraeva\, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law \nThe Central Asia Program will be debating Kazakhstan’s rapidly changing social landscape by discussing the relationship between social problems and civil society issues. The speakers will investigate the regional diversity\, labor disputes and social problems\, and human rights issues\, and actions taken to address these issues by the central authorities.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/debating-social-issues-and-civil-society-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
UID:17220-1384518600-1384524000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Foreign Policy Doctrine and the Actions of Uzbekistan
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Farkhod Tolipov\, Director of the Non-Governmental Education and Research Institution“Bilim Karvoni”\n\nThe Republic of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy has undergone dramatic fluctuations since gaining independence\, from a pro-American extreme to a pro-Russian one and back again. Such a “pendulum” swing of the newly independent Central Asian state reflects its two ambivalent and interrelated stances: Tashkent’s perception of the international system as an old stage of power politics – somewhat a Soviet syndrome – and an uncertain geopolitical situation that emerged in Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The operation in Afghanistan further confused the doctrinal foundation of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy\,revealing the lack of Tashkent’s strategic perspective. As a result\, Uzbekistan took rather isolationist tactics in the region instead of a long-awaited pro-active strategy.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/foreign-policy-doctrine-and-the-actions-of-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193924Z
UID:17342-1384457400-1384464600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Shukrat Abbasov (Uzbekistan\, 1963)\nThe film is a touching story about an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated during the World War II while their own child was at the battlefronts. The film depicts how children of different nationalities learn to live together as one family as it also brings out ‘Uzbek’ social values.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-you-are-not-an-orphan/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T153000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17263-1384419600-1384443000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Central Asia\, Iran\, and the Nuclear Landscape in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies’ Rising Powers Initiative\n\n9:00 – 9:30 AM Registration and Breakfast\n\n9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcoming Remarks by Douglas Shaw\, Associate Dean for Planning\, Research and External Relations\, GWU\n\n9:45 – 11:15 AM Panel I. Asia’s Changing Nuclear Landscape\n\nChair: Douglas Shaw\, Associate Dean for Planning\, Research andExternal Relations\, GWU\n\nJapan’s Nuclear Tremors: Domestic Debates about Energy & Security after 3/\nMike Mochizuki\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nChina’s Nuclear Priorities–Implications for Iran and Central Asia\nRobert Sutter\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nIndia’s Evolving Nuclear Discourse and Search for Policy Coherence\nDeepa Ollapally\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\n11:15 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break\n\n11:30 – 1:00PM Panel II. The Iranian Question and its Regional Environment\n\nChair: Cory Welt\, Ponars Eurasia\, IERES\, GWU\n\nIran’s Nuclear Ambitions:  US and Israeli Threat Perceptions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanne Nolan\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, GWU\n\nPartners or Rivals? Contextualizing the Russian-Iranian Nuclear Relationship\nJeff Mankoff\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)\nCentral Asia’s Viewpoint on being in Iran’s Vicinity\nMarlene Laruelle\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU\n\n1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch\n\n2:00 – 3:30 PM Panel III. Central Asia’s Nuclear Strategies and Challenges\n\nChair: Deepa Ollapally\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nManaging Radioactive Waste in Central Asia: Successes and Challenges\nDauren Aben\, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies\, Almaty\n\nKazakhstan in the Global Nuclear Order: Carving Out a Role That Matters\nTogzhan Kassenova\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\nNuclear Domestic Debates in Kazakhstan: Public Opinion and Expert Controversies\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU\n\n3:30 PM Wrap–up\n\nThe Sigur Center gratefully acknowledges the support of the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation for this conference.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-iran-and-the-nuclear-landscape-in-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17202-1383728400-1383760800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kazakh Culture: Legacies and Innovations
DESCRIPTION:9:00 AM OpeningPeter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, George Washington University\nAmbassador Kairat Umarov\, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States \n9:15-10.30 AM Keynote speaker\nAmbassador Olzhas Suleymenov\, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to UNESCO \nQ&A \n10:30-11:00 AM Coffee-break \n11:00 – 12:30 PM Legacies and Innovations in Kazakh Literature\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University) \nAn inconvenient Sage. The Legacy of Abai\nPeter Rollberg (IERES\, George Washington University) \nKazakh Literature in the 19th Century: The Case of the Zar Zaman Poets\nGabriel McGuire (Nazarbaev University) \n  \n‘Imagining Community’ in Soviet Kazakhstan. An Historical Analysis of Narrative on Nationalism in Soviet Kazakh Literature\nDiana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge University) \n12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch \n1:30 – 2:30 PM Politics and Society On the Screen\nChair: Peter Rollberg (IERES\, George Washington University) \nKazakh Cinema through the Looking Glass\nMichael Rouland (Georgetown University) \nThe Kazakh Cinema Industry. A View from the Inside\nGaukhar Noortas (Mount Helix Films Inc.) \n2:30 – 3:30 PM Performing Music and Identity\nChair: Sean Roberts (George Washington University) \nDiscussing Kazakh Musical Identity\nAlma Kunanbaeva (Stanford University) \nFriction and Flows: Transnationalism and Aesthetics of Musical Performance\nMargarethe Adams (Stony Brook University) \n3:30 – 3:45 PM Coffee-break \n3:45 – 4.45 PM The Art Scene: Plurality and Market\nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University) \nThe Contemporary Art Scene in Kazakhstan\nKendal Henry (Public Art Consultant\, CEC Artslink) \nArt of the Daily Life: The Artpologist Collective and the Influences of Kazakhstan\nDaniel Gallegos (Artist and co-founder of The Artpologist Collective) \n4:45 – 6:00 PM Reception\nDombra performance by Olzhas Bayalbayev \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW is gratefully funded by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakh-culture-legacies-and-innovations/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17318-1383220800-1383226200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
DESCRIPTION:Moderator\nMarlene Laruelle\, George Washington University\nPanelists\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University\nAzita Ranjbar\, The Pennsylvania State University\nVladimir Fedorenko\, Rethink Institute\nPresidential elections will be held in Tajikistan on November 6\, 2013. Despite large control by the authorities over the political landscape\, secular andIslamic opposition were able to unify behind a common figure from the human rights sector. Our roundtable will go beyond the strictly electoral event to discuss the main drivers of political and social changes in Tajikistan\,especially the role of Islam in the public space\, questions of social justice\, and migrations\, to offer a more accurate picture of this key Central Asian state.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/lunch-roundtable-tajik-presidential-elections/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17340-1382034600-1382041800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (Mongolia\, 2003) \nIn Mongolia’s Gobi desert\, a camel belonging to a group of nomadic shepherds gives birth to a white calf. It’s a rare occurrence\, and the shepherds watch as the unusually-colored offspring is rejected by its mother. Without its mother’s milk\, the calf will die. To save its life\, the nomads send two boys (Enkhbulgan Ikhbayar\, Uuganbaatar Ikhbayar) on a journey across the desert to find a musician in the village whose song may compel the camel to accept its calf. –Taken from IMDB.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-story-of-the-weeping-camel/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T134500
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17290-1382013000-1382017500@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Beyond Pakistan: New Delhi's Policy Toward Afghanistan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Rising Powers Initiative \nwith Jean-Luc Racine\, Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow\,School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences\, Paris\n\nDr. Jean-Luc Racine is Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow\, working at the Centre for South AsianStudies\, at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris. He is also theDirector of the Science Policy at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme\, and Vice-President of the Paris-based think tank Asia Centre (www.centreasia.eu). His research is focused onthree correlated issues: the dynamics of transformation of contemporary India; India’s foreignand security policies and its attempts at reshaping the new world order; and geopolitics of SouthAsia\, particularly its most sensitive issues: Pakistan strategic paradigm\, India-Pakistan relations andKashmir.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/beyond-pakistan-new-delhis-policy-toward-afghanistan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131016T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17250-1381941000-1381946400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Family Business: Turkmenistan Economy Starts to Look Like its Neighbors
DESCRIPTION:with Myles Smith\,  Senior Program Officer and Assistant Managing Editor for the Media\, Sustainability Index at IREX \nTurkmenistan’s business sector has evolved during the short reign of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. What was once the province of a small handful of foreignbusinessmen with close personal relationships with first president Niyazov is now aslightly more open field. The first family and new patrons are prying openopportunities for Turkmenistan-based businesses. Meanwhile\, old favorites like Itera\, MTC\, and Bouygues have struggled to maintain their positions. What are the implications for Turkmenistan’s economy and political system\, and what does this shift preface about Turkmenistan’s future development.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-family-business-turkmenistan-economy-starts-to-look-like-its-neighbors/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131007T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17234-1381159800-1381165200@centralasiaprogram.org
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:20130912T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17300-1379001600-1379007000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Looking Ahead: US-Central Eurasia Security Relations
DESCRIPTION:Join the Central Asia Program\, the Center for International Policy\, and leading Eurasia analysts for a discussion on the current status of US-Central Eurasia security relations to mark the launch of theSecurity Assistance Monitor\, an online resource of the United States’ defense and security relationships around the world.  The Security Assistance Monitor is a new\, comprehensive online resource that provides information and answers questions about the US security and defense relationships around the world.  Formerly known as Just the Facts\, a project which focused on US security assistance to Latin America\, the Security Assistance Monitor is an expanded resource of searchable statistics\, data\, upcoming events\,and related information on US security and defense priorities for Central Eurasia\, the Middle East\,and Africa. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/looking-ahead-us-central-eurasia-security-relations/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T130000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17207-1378985400-1378990800@centralasiaprogram.org
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:20130828T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130828T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17288-1377705600-1377716400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:4:00 pm. Registration\n\n4.15pm. Welcome Chantal de Jonge Oudraat\, Executive Director\, SIPRI-North America\n \n4:30-6:00 pm. Fellows Presentations and Discussion:\n\nAitolkyn Kourmanova\, Central Asia Fellow (Kazakhstan)\nRegional Cooperation in Central Asia: Nurturing from the Ground\n\nSafovudin Jaborov\, Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan)\nRadicalization of Youth in Tajikistan: Causes\, Consequences\, and Addressing the Challenges\n\nDiscussants:\nRoss Wilson\, Director\, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center\, Atlantic Council \nSanaam Naraghi-Anderlini Co-Founder of International Civil Society Action Network(ICAN)\, and Senior Fellow\, MIT Center for International Studies\nChair: Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\n\n6:00 pm. Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-inaugural-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130605T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130605T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17223-1370444400-1370451600@centralasiaprogram.org
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:20130529T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130529T123000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17209-1369825200-1369830600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Traps of Political Succession in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with \nDosym Satpayev\, Director\, Non-governmental Consulting Organization “Risks Assessment Group” \nTolganay Umbetaliyeva\, Director General\, Public Fund “Central Asian Foundation for Democracy” \nAndrey Chebotarev\, Director\, “Alternative” Center for Topical Studies \nRasul Zhumaly\, Lecturer\, S. Demirel University \nAidos Sarym\, Vice president\, Public Fund “Abay-a)parat” \nZamir Karazhan\, Kazakh political observer \nOn the occasion of the publication of the new book The Twilight Zone: Traps of the Transition Era\, the Central Asia Program is happy to invite you for a video-discussion with the Almaty-based authors.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/traps-of-political-succession-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130513T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17249-1368460800-1368466200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Legal Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment in the Gold Mining Sector of the Kyrgyz Republic: Towards a Path to Sustainable Environmental Development
DESCRIPTION:with Begaiym Esenkulova\, American University of Central Asia\, Kyrgyzstan \nBegaiym Esenkulova is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Central Asia\,Kyrgyzstan\, an S.J.D. candidate at the Central European University\, Hungary\, and is currently aColumbia University visiting scholar. She will be discussing the legal aspects of FDI in the gold mining sector in Kyrgyzstan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/legal-aspects-of-foreign-direct-investment-in-the-gold-mining-sector-of-the-kyrgyz-republic-towards-a-path-to-sustainable-environmental-development/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130507T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
UID:17224-1367940600-1367946000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:What's Wrong in the Relationship Between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
DESCRIPTION:with Volker Jacoby\, Former Human Rights Officer\, UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia \n \nVolker Jacoby will shed light on the uneasy relationship between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and put it into the broader regional context of Central Asia. He will talk about the water/energy nexus in the region and the struggle over the Rogun Hydropower station project in Tajikistan\, the conflict over the Farhad water reservoir\, TALCO\, border delimitation\, railroad connections and other strains between the two neighbors. He will also elaborate on necessity and prospects of cooperation in the region\, with a view also towards the withdrawal of international combat forces from Afghanistan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/whats-wrong-in-the-relationship-between-tajikistan-and-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130502T050000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17264-1367416800-1367470800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Afghanistan after 2014
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Kennan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ South Asia Center.\nSpotlight on Central Eurasia Speaker Series  \nThis event explores local and regional perspectives on the future of Afghanistan against the backdrop of the planned United States withdrawal of military forces from the region. The first session focuses on local politics and governance in Afghanistan\, and the second session investigates the ways in which Afghanistan’s neighbors have been discussing and planning for the upcoming changes.                                                                                                                           \n2:00-3:15 pm       Views from Within Afghanistan \nNoah Coburn (Bennington College)\, “Elections and the Hazards of Transition: Voting and Local Governance in Afghanistan” author of Bazaar Politics: Pottery and Power in an Afghan Market Town (2011) \n3:15-3:30 pm       Coffee Break \n3:30-5:00 pm       Views from Afghanistan’s Neighbors \nSimbal Khan (Institute of Strategic Studies\, Islamabad\, Pakistan and Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow)\, “Pakistan’s Strategy on Afghanistan: Between Dodging Bullets and Moderating Outcomes” \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\, “A “regional solution” for Afghanistan? Perspectives from Afghanistan’s Northern Neighbors” \nCo-sponsors:  \nGeorge Washington University’s Central Asia Program \nWilson Center’s South Asia Program \nThe Spotlight on Central Eurasia Speaker Series\, hosted by the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute\, aims to inform Washington\, DC-based scholars and practitioners of the latest research on a range of topics and from a variety of disciplines impacting the future of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/afghanistan-after-2014/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T193000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17210-1367341200-1367350200@centralasiaprogram.org
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:20130416T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130416T183000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17323-1366125300-1366137000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:American and European Policies in Central Asia: Similarities and Divergence
DESCRIPTION:Panel 1: Debating Similarities and Divergences in European and American Policies Toward Central Asia (3:15-4:45)\nJos Boonstra\, Senior Researcher\, Head of EUCAM programme\, FRIDE\, Brussels\nAlexander Cooley\, Tow Professor\, Barnard College\, New York \nJeff Goldstein\, Senior policy analyst for Eurasia\, Open Society Foundations\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Research Professor\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\n \nPanel 2: European and American Policy Priorities in Central Asia(5:00-6:30)\nPatricia Flor\, EU Special Representative for Central Asia\, European External Action Service\nLynne Tracy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs\n\nThe seminar aims to build on the existing dialogue among experts and policy-makers from the two sides of the Atlantic\, with the goal of finding pragmatic policy solutions and converging the objectives of the two actors in the region. While there is a general consensus that the objectives ofEurope and the U.S in Central Asia are similar\, the methodologies in perusing those objectives differ. What are the priorities of the two actors in the run up to 2014 and beyond in the view of the value-based approach versus security constraints linked to the 2014 draw-down from Afghanistan. More information can be found at http://go.gwu.edu/EUUS.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/american-and-european-policies-in-central-asia-similarities-and-divergence/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130402T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17246-1364918400-1364923800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Globalizing Central Asia-Geopolitics and Challenges of Economic Development
DESCRIPTION:Part of IERES’s Book Launch Series \nMarlene Laruelle\, Research Professor of International Affairs\, GWU\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Research Professor of International Affairs\, GWU\nand\nDiscussant: Johannes Linn\nFormer World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia\n\nCentral Asia\, as it emerges from a political and economic system that was closed until the end of the twentieth century\, is a textbook case for globalization. The book Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and Challenges of Economic Development traces the region’s entry into the highly competitive global arena\, not only through state interaction with numerous external players\, but also in geo-economic terms. The region’s natural resources compel the attention of rivalrous great powers and ambitious internal factions. Russia and China dominate the horizon\, with other global players close behind.The local regimes are caught between the need for international collaborations to valorize their resources and the need to maintain control over them in the interest of state sovereignty. Local patterns of development thus become a key driver of external actors’ involvement and shape the mechanisms by which the Central Asian states are forging a place for themselves in the globalized world.   
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-launch-globalizing-central-asia-geopolitics-and-challenges-of-economic-development/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130325T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130326T120000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17324-1364201100-1364299200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:NATO members are exiting from Afghanistan at different speeds\, dictated by pressures from their domestic public opinions. This withdrawal has re-launched debates on the security of the Central Asian region. In the years to come\, the post-2014 changes in the regional landscape will intersect with domestic evolutions including changes in political leadership\, in demographics\, and the end of the Soviet legacy. GW’s Central Asia Program seeks to participate in the policy debate on Central Asia by providing current research on the different sources of potential insecurity in the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, MARCH 25\, 2013 (8.45 am – 4 pm)\n8.45 am. Registration9 am. Opening Remarks\n9.15-11 am. CENTRAL ASIA IN THE AFGHAN NEIGHBORHOOD: DO WE GET IT RIGHT?\n\nChair: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (SIPRI-North America) and Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\nDeconstructing the ‘Spillover’ Narrative\nScott Radnitz (University of Washington)\nAfghan Spillover Oversell: The Greater Danger of Self-Inflicted Harm in Central Asia\nGeorges Gavrilis (Hollings Center for International Dialogue)\nThe Closing of Central Asia’s Borders\nSebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University)\nDrug-Trafficking: Identifying the Real Challenges\n11-11.30 am. Coffee break\n\n11.30-1.15 pm. INTERNATIONAL LAW\, GOVERNANCE\, AND REGULATORY DILEMMAS\n\nChair: Scott Radnitz (University of Washington) and Sean Roberts (George Washington University)\nDilemmas of Democratization: The Problems of Transitioning from Authoritarian Rule in Kyrgyzstan andImplications for other Countries in the Region\nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\nMy Property\, your Courts: The International Litigation of Contested Central Asian Assets\nErica Marat (American University)\nRegulating Private Security Companies in Central Asia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Harfst (UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS)\nEffective resolution of water related issues as a crucial factor for security in Central Asia\n\n1.15-2.15 pm. Lunch\n\n2.15-4 pm. THE CURSE OF STABILITY IN CENTRAL ASIA?\n\nChair: David Abramson (State Department)Sarah Kendzior (Al Jazeera English)\nThe Crisis of Consistency in Uzbekistan\nGael Raballand (Institute Choiseul\, Paris)\nRedistribution of oil revenues in Kazakhstan: excessive expectations from the population?\nNate Schenkkan (Freedom House)\nKyrgyzstan: When Consolidation Fails\nZohra Ismail Beben (College of William and Mary)\nStatecraft in Tajikistan: A blunt instrument for a fine task?\n\nTUESDAY\, MARCH 26\, 2013 (9.30-11.30 am)\n9.30-11.30 am. ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA: RELIGION\, POLITICS\, MILITANCY AND NEW MEDIA\n\nNoah Tucker (Registan.net)  \nIslamic “revival” in Central Asia: Social trend or political threat?  \nNathan Barrick (Strategic consultant\, CLI Solutions)\nGeostrategic factors in the Islamist militant threat to central Asia\nAzizullah Ghazi (Independent Scholar)\nActivities of Central Asian Islamic militant organizations on the internet and social media\n\n11.30-12 pm. Wrap up
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-central-asia-security-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17236-1362486600-1362492000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Understanding Conflict and Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:with Neil Melvin\, Director of Program Armed Conflict and Conflict Management\, SIPRI \nOver the last two decades\, Kyrgyzstan has experienced two major outbreaks of violence involving the main ethnic communities in the country: the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks. These violent incidentshave generally been viewed as ethnic conflicts and much of the response to the violence from thegovernment\, local communities\, and the international community has been framed within thisunderstanding. At the same time\, Kyrgyzstan has also experienced other\, less significant violent events and political crises that have often been linked temporally to the “ethnic conflicts”. This suggests that a full understanding of the nature of armed conflict in Kyrgyzstan and the involvement of ethnic communities in violence at a minimum requires a broader examination of the context of the violence. Neil Melvin is director of Program Armed Conflict and Conflict Management at the StockholmInternational Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)\, and has also worked at a variety of leading policy institutes in Europe. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/understanding-conflict-and-ethnic-violence-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T162124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17326-1361268000-1361282400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:European and U.S. policies in Central Asia: Will transatlantic cooperation work in Central Asia towards and beyond 2014?
DESCRIPTION:The seminar aims to bring together experts and policy-makers from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the connecting points and divergences of policies of the European Union and the U.S. in Central Asia. Both have similar – though not identical – interests and objectives inCentral Asia but their policy-approaches differ substantially. What can be done in terms of cooperation and coordination in the light of the NATO draw-down from Afghanistan and how can both partners cooperate in Central Asia post-2014?\n\nDuring the seminar EUCAM will also present its latest Working Paper: The Afghanistan-Central Asia relationship: what role for the EU? \n\nEuropean and U.S. policies in Central Asia: Will transatlantic cooperation work in Central Asia towards and beyond 2014?
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/european-and-u-s-policies-in-central-asia-will-transatlantic-cooperation-work-in-central-asia-towards-and-beyond-2014/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130108T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T221010
CREATED:20200930T161927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193414Z
UID:17213-1357660800-1357666200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Diversification of an Energy-Producing Economy Agricultural Policy in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with Richard Pomfret\, Professor of Economics\, University of Adelaide\, Australia \nKazakhstan has used energy revenues to save for the future\, invest in human capital\, and diversify the structure of production with the goal of becoming one of the “fifty most competitive\, dynamically developing countries in the world”. Agriculture has been a key part of the diversification strategy ever since the government committed a billion dollars to the 2003-5 Agriculture and Food Program. Since then agricultural policy has passed through several phases\, mirroring evolving attitudes in Kazakhstan towards the role of government and of the market in economic development. This seminar analyses the content and consequences of agricultural policy\, and agriculture’s role in Kazakhstan’s economic transformation. \nRichard Pomfret\, Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide\, Australia\, and adviser to the Australian government and to international organizations such as the World Bank\, Asian Development Bank\, United Nations Development Programme\, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/diversification-of-an-energy-producing-economy-agricultural-policy-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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