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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T130000
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SUMMARY:Zuhra Halimova - Foreign Aid to Eurasia: Donors’ Agendas\, Local Perceptions\, and Lost Illusions
DESCRIPTION:Various donor agencies have become active players in defining and drafting strategies of transition from communist heritages and pasts to modern democratic societies and market economies\, as well as in funding the implementation of these strategies.   However\, after a quarter century of independence\, most of Eurasia’s political elites have transformed into more autocratic regimes\, with high level of corruption effectively undermining reforms\, democracy development agendas\, media freedoms\, access to information\, the independent judiciary\, and the rule of law. In her presentation\, Zuhra Halimova will discusses donors’ agendas and local perceptions of them\, while proposing different possible reassessments of what seems to have been predominantly a failure of foreign aid in many post-Soviet countries. \nZuhra Halimova is a visiting scholar at IERES. From 1997 to 2016\, she worked as the Executive Director of the Open Society Institute in Tajikistan.  A graduate of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Tajik State University and the School of Language\, Literature and Culture Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi\, India)\, she has served as a member of the International Harm Reduction Program Advisory Board and of OSF’s International Youth Program and Education Support Program Advisory Boards for several years.  She has also been a member of the Council of the Global Fund for Women and of the Asian Women in International Affairs Initiative for many years. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/zuhra-halimova-foreign-aid-to-eurasia-donors-agendas-local-perceptions-and-lost-illusions/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162427Z
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SUMMARY:Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Security WorkshopMarch 6\, 2017\, 10:00am-4:00pm\nCentral Asia Program\, IERES\nGeorge Washington University\n1957 E Street\, NW\, Lindner Commons\, Suite 602\n10.00am. PANEL 1. CENTRAL ASIA’S DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES. CHANGING MORE THAN WE THOUGHT?\nChair: Lawrence Markowitz (Rowan University) \nAlexander Cooley (Harriman Institute\, Columbia University)\nCentral Asia’s Global Authoritarian Spaces: Politics and Contestation Outside of a Closed Region  \nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\nPresidential Transitions and the Implications for US Soft Power in Central Asia \nBruce Pannier (RFE/RL)\nUzbekistan under New Leadership: What’s Changing\, What’s Staying the Same \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\nRevisiting ‘Conservative values’. Is Illiberalism the New Mainstream for Central Asian Societies? \n12.00pm. Lunch \n12:45pm. PANEL 2. CENTRAL ASIA AND THE GREAT POWERS IN A SHIFTING INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT\nChair: Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University) \nRoger Kangas (Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies)\n‘The Art of the Deal’: A New American Approach to Engaging Central Asia? \nNadège Rolland (National Bureau of Asian Research)\nChina’s Eurasian Century: Deciphering the ‘Community of Common Destiny’ \nJeffrey Mankoff (CSIS)\nChinese and Russian Strategies for the New Uncertainty in Afghanistan and Central Asia \n2:15pm. Coffee break \n2:30pm. PANEL 3. REASSESSING WHAT ‘SECURITY’ MEANS IN CENTRAL ASIA\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nNoah Tucker (CAP Associate)\nAfter Aleppo: The Future of the Central Asian Jihadist Movement \nLawrence Markowitz (Rowan University)\nHow the Terrorism-Trafficking Nexus Has Shaped Security Apparatuses in Central Asia \n  \nErica Marat (National Defense University)\nMimicking ‘Broken Windows’ Theory in Post-Soviet Cities: What could go wrong?\n  \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-security-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194437Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Angel on the Right (Tajikistan\, 2002)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Djamshed Usmonov \n“Hamro\, an unrepentant prodigal son straight out of a Russian jail\, returns to his hometown to help his mother die with dignity. But his debts are many and long overdue\, the townspeople are tough as nails\, and he gets more than he expected from the quiet village. In this dark comedy\, his third feature\, writer-director Djamshed Usmonov casts the town’s population as its own persuasive self and his own mother and brother as the fractured yet formidable domestic couple.” – The Global Film Initiative \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-angel-on-the-right-tajikistan-2002/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194437Z
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SUMMARY:Sophie Roche - The Moscow Cathedral Mosque in the Life of Migrants from Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:In this discussion\, Sophie Roche will unfold the social life of migrants in\, around and through the main mosque in Moscow\, Prospekt Mira. This mosque is important for Putin’s politics of Islam as well as for inner-Russian Islamic sectarian tensions\, and is increasingly linked to ordinary migrants from Central Asia\, who constitute the large majority of the believers. Whereas inside the mosque migrants meet along ethno-linguistic lines and discuss religious as well as political issues\, migrants profit most from the mosque’s administrative\, social and economic services. Sophie Roche will look at these social activities\, relating them to the politics and inner-Russian Islamic sectarian discussions. She argues that with Prospekt Mira a context is offered through which migrants integrate ideologically into an administratively hostile country and a society that turns increasingly Islamophobic. The material for this presentation has been collected through ethnographic fieldwork in Moscow since 2010. \nSophie Roche is currently leading the junior research group at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and received her PhD from the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2010. She has published Domesticating Youth: Youth Bulges and their Socio-Political Implications in Tajikistan (Berghahn Books 2014) and The Faceless Terrorist. A Cultural Enquiry of Jihad (forthcoming in new open access series HeiUP). She has extensive ethnographic experiences in Tajikistan\, in Russia among migrants from Central Asia and among Muslims in Germany and Turkey. \nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/sophie-roche-the-moscow-cathedral-mosque-in-the-life-of-migrants-from-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162419Z
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SUMMARY:Galina Yemelianova - Official Islamic Leadership in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Central Asia is widely associated with Islam. However\, throughout history the role of Islam in the region has been ambiguous and it has been mitigated by the pre-Islamic civilizational heritage\, the nomadic tribal and customary norms and the Soviet legacy. An outcome of this ambiguity has been a significantly weaker political role of Islam and the official Islamic leadership (muftis)\, in particular\, compared to that in the Middle East and some other parts of the Islamic East. Discussing the implications of  Sovietization for the official Islamic leadership across the region Galina Yemelianova argues that the Sovietization had a transformative impact on its relationship with the state. It instrumentalized the existing ambiguity and introduced to the region the Russian model of state-Muslims relations\, created by Catherine the Great in the late eighteenth century. This model\, although with considerable modifications\, continues to define the state-Muslim relationship in present-day Central Asia and other Muslim-majority parts of Eurasia. Its key elements have been the ‘co-optation’ of the Islamic leadership within the assertively secular state\, its de-politicization and legal flexibility and expediency\, as well as its public rejection of other forms of Islam.\n \n\nGalina M.Yemelianova is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre of Russian\, European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). She has led and conducted over ten large externally-funded inter-disciplinary collaborative field-work-based research projects on the interaction between Islam\, national identity and statehood in Central Asia\, the Caucasus and the Volga region. Her numerous publications include Central Asia: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press 2017\, forthcoming); Many Faces of the Caucasus (Routledge\, 2014); Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union (Routledge\, 2010); Islam in post-Soviet Russia: Private and Public Faces (Routledge\, 2003) and Russia and Islam: A Historical Survey (Palgrave\, 2002).\n \n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/galina-yemelianova-official-islamic-leadership-in-central-asia-the-soviet-legacy/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162414Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Exhibition "Through the Eyes of Durdy Bayramov"
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program is proud to announce the launch of the exhibition \nThrough the Eyes of Durdy Bayramov\nTurkmen Village Life\, 1960s-1980s\nAn exhibition at the Central Asia Program February 7 – May 26\, 2017 \nWith H.E. Meret B. Orazov\, Ambassador of Turkmenistan to the United States\nThese photographs were selected from Durdy Bayramov’s personal archive. Although he took great pleasure in photography\, Bayramov used it primarily as a tool in his artistic process and never expected that others would find the photographs fascinating in their own right. The images provide a rare and intimate glimpse into the customs and material culture of Turkmen villagers during this period\, and at the same time reflect the profound human spirit shared by all communities.\n  \n\n\n\n\nMore details about the exhibition can also be found here. \n\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/opening-of-the-exhibition-through-the-eyes-of-durdy-bayramov/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194438Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter-in-Law (Kazakhstan\, 2009)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ermek Tursunov \n“Kelin\, which translates to ‘daughter-in-law’\, tells the story of a young woman living in the 2nd century A.D. in Kazakhstan\, a setting in which traditional notions of womanhood and family life at the time are explored. Directed entirely without dialogue and with very little music\, the film revolves around the young and beautiful Kelin\, who is given away in an arranged marriage despite being in love with another man. While her married life turns out to be more blissful than she anticipated\, as demonstrated by uncensored erotic scenes\, Kelin’s life changes course once again when her first lover returns to claim her. The film focuses not only on the love story but also on the relationship between Kelin and her mother-in-law\, with elements of mysticism thrown in for good measure.” – Anete Jekabsone \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-daughter-in-law-kazakhstan-2009/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
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SUMMARY:Central Asia Fellows Seminar. Social\, Cultural and Spatial Inequalities in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm. Opening\nMarlene Laruelle (Director\, Central Asia Program)\n \n\n4:45pm. Presentations\n\nSavia Hasanova (Kyrgyzstan)\nIncome Inequality in Kyrgyzstan: The Redistributive Effect of Social Benefits\n\n \nBerikbol Dukeyev (Kazakhstan)\nEthnic Return Migration in Kazakhstan: Shifting Dynamics and Changing Perceptions\n\n \n\nSerik Jaxylykov (Kazakhstan)\nMigration Policy and Patterns in Kazakhstan: When the Southern People Meet the Northern Region\n \n5:30pm. Discussion\n \n\n6:00pm. Q&A\n \n6:30pm. Reception\n \n\n\nPlease RSVP.\n \n\n\n\n\nSavia Hasanova is an economic expert at the Public Association “The Investment Round Table” in Kyrgyzstan. She is also a project manager at the Public Association “Women’s Forum Kurak.” She has worked on different research projects related to human development\, particularly of vulnerable groups. Her recent experience involves drafting the UNDP report on human development and trade in Kyrgyzstan\, including issues of sustainable economic development. She holds an MS degree in economics and management science from Humboldt University in Berlin. During her fellowship\, Savia will study the effects of different types of social benefits on income inequality in Kyrgyzstan. The research will draw attention to rising income inequality in the country\, as well as assess the effectiveness of current social policy with respect to monetary inequality reduction. \n\n\nBerikbol Dukeyev is a Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy and International Security Department at the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies (KISI) under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He obtained an M.A. in Security and Politics at OSCE Academy in Bishkek and a B.A. with honors in Political Science at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Previously Berikbol worked at the Kazakhstan Center for Humanitarian and Political Trends in Almaty. He was a research fellow at the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan Public Policy Initiative in 2014.  His research areas are security issues in Central Asia\, postcolonial theory application in Central Asia and Kazakhstan nation building. During his fellowship\, Berikbol will explore the push and pull factors of the repatriation of ethnic Kazakhs from China\, particularly issues of socio-economic integration and changing public perception towards the repatriation program.\n  \n\nSerik Jaxylykov is a sociologist and works at a private research company in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. He earned his M.A. in Sociology from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Most of his professional background lies in sociology in different areas including socio-economic\, socio-political studies (for the World Bank\, UNDP\, Oxford Policy Management\, and the European Training Foundation) and marketing research for private companies. He was a fellow at the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan Public Policy Initiative in 2015-16. During his fellowship\, Serik will research Kazakhstan’s internal migration issues\, and examine government’s policy aimed at smoothing out the difference between the overpopulated South and the shrinking population in the North.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-fellows-seminar-social-cultural-and-spatial-inequalities-in-kazakhstan-and-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170109T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170109T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
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SUMMARY:Murad Ismayilov - (Homogenising) Hybrid Intentionality and the Dialectics of Elite Attitudes to Islam: Towards a Re-Sacralisation of the Political Space in Azerbaijan
DESCRIPTION:Azerbaijan’s independence came after seven decades of militant atheism of the Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch secularism of Western modernity\, two factors that\, on a par with the country’s precarious neighbourhood\, promised a sustained indigenous effort towards a desacralization of the country’s political space and the associated exclusion of religion from politics\, a modern blueprint that the Azerbaijani state and its society have stood united to diligently follow over the cause of the country’s independent existence.  Yet the specific dynamics facing the country in the third decade of independence and the changing contours of its international engagements have gradually been working to loosen up the latter formula and lay the groundwork for a quintessentially Azerbaijani pathway of statehood to follow\, one combining the nation’s historical embeddedness in an Islamic milieu with its century-old practical experience of modern policy making.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nMurad Ismayilov is a doctoral researcher at Politics\, Psychology\, Sociology and International Studies (PPSIS) at the University of Cambridge. He holds an MSt in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and an M.A. in International Relations from Baku State University (Azerbaijan). He has been awarded fellowships and research and visiting scholar grants from Open Society Institute Europe Foundation\, Aleksanteri Institute\, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)\, Michigan State University’s Center for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES)\, and NATO Studies Centre (Bucharest\, Romania). His research interests include political and social theory\, the politics of modernity\, postcolonial theory\, sociology and political economy of post-Soviet transformation\, social movements\, sociology and political economy of power\, sociology of class\, sociology of intellectuals\, sociology and security of the Middle East\, sociology and political economy of religion\, as well as Islamic theology and Islamic political thought.\n\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/murad-ismayilov-homogenising-hybrid-intentionality-and-the-dialectics-of-elite-attitudes-to-islam-towards-a-re-sacralisation-of-the-political-space-in-azerbaijan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Kosh Ba Kosh (Tajikistan\, 1993)
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Silver Lion Prize in the 1993 Venice Film Festival \n\n\n“The film tells a romantic love story\, happening against the background of Civil War in Tajikistan (1993-1996). Curfews\, bursts of tracer bullets piercing the night and the love story – seem like incompatible things . . . in an amazing way\, this film shows us the atmosphere of Dushanbe\, the spirit of its citizens\, which stands against this strange war in its own way.” – Harriman Institute\n  \n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-kosh-ba-kosh-tajikistan-1993/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161206T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Lemon - Extraterritorial Security: Governing Islam and Security Beyond Tajikistan
DESCRIPTION:Often considered Central Asia’s ‘weakest’ state\, Tajikistan has nonetheless created a relatively sophisticated network through which it monitors and targets both secular and religious opponents abroad. Since 2002\, the government of Tajikistan has targeted at least 51 of its citizens living abroad\, subjecting them to harassment\, intimidation\, attack\, detention\, kidnapping and assassination. Drawing on and extensive ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews conducted between 2013 and 2015 in Tajikistan and Russia\, this paper examines how these extraterritorial security practices relate to power dynamics inside Tajikistan. Usually conceptualised as domestic or international\, this paper challenges this dichotomy\, examining how these transnational practices shape our understanding of statehood and security in Central Asia.\n  \n\nDr. Edward Lemon is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Harriman Institute\, Columbia University. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Exeter. In his research\, he examines the governance of religion and security in Tajikistan. His research has been published in Central Asian Affairs\, Caucasus Survey and The RUSI Journal. He was author of the Tajikistan chapter in last year’s Nations in Transit report\, published by Freedom House.\n  \n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n  \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/edward-lemon-extraterritorial-security-governing-islam-and-security-beyond-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
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SUMMARY:David Montgomery - Becoming Muslim in an Islamic Land: Social Navigation and Religious Change in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:Central Asia is s a Muslim-majority region\, though what that means for social and political life is contested. Discussing the argument of his recent book\, Practicing Islam: Knowledge\, Experience\, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan\, Montgomery will focus on how the social context of knowledge acquisition influences religious and cultural practice. Seeing this process of “becoming” Muslim allows us an appreciation of how social navigation and religious change influence understandings of security and well-being that can be globally articulated though always remain locally contextualized.\n \n\nDavid W. Montgomery is Director of Program Development for CEDAR-Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion; a Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Associate of the Central Asia Program at George Washington University; and Visiting Scholar at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. He has conducted long-term anthropological field research in Central Asia and the Balkans\, where his work focuses on the transmission of religious and cultural knowledge; the expressions of everyday religious life; and the social aspects of religious change. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh\, Emory University\, and Boston University\, and is the author of Practicing Islam: Knowledge\, Experience\, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan; coauthor of Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World; and editor of Negotiating Well-being in Central Asia.\n\n\n\nThis event is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/david-montgomery-becoming-muslim-in-an-islamic-land-social-navigation-and-religious-change-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T223000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
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SUMMARY:Zhanna Issabayeva - Kazakh Film Festival: Nagima (2013)
DESCRIPTION:with director Zhanna Issabayeva in person \n \n“Heartrending is too mild a word to describe “Nagima\,” an unblinking look at the vulnerable social position of single women in Kazakhstan. […] Zhanna Issabayeva depicts her protags’ economic and emotional deprivations with a somberness that builds to a shocking\, stupendous finale.” – Maggie Lee\n  \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/zhanna-issabayeva-kazakh-film-festival-nagima-2013/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T223000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17488-1479326400-1479335400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Zhanna Issabayeva - Kazakh Film Festival: My Dear Children (2009)
DESCRIPTION:with director Zhanna Issabayeva in person \n\n\n\n\nIn this sharp\, socially aware comedy a Kazakh  mother tries to collect enough money from her four older children so that her youngest son can also get married.\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/zhanna-issabayeva-kazakh-film-festival-my-dear-children-2009/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T183000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17475-1478710800-1478716200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Alexander Wolters - Islamic Finance in Central Asia: From 'Great Potentials' to Lasting Stagnation
DESCRIPTION:The rise of Islamic Banking in Central Asia has been predicted and expected by both experts and state and economic stakeholders. The financial crisis in 2008 had triggered first initiatives to launch sharia’h conforming financial businesses in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan\, yet most enterprises never managed to survive this early stage of development. The presentation discusses the circumstances of the evolution of start-ups of Islamic finance in the region as well as presents arguments to account for the following stagnation.\n  \n\nDr. Alexander Wolters is DAAD Visiting Professor at the OSCE Academy and the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. He has worked in Kyrgyzstan and the wider region of Central Asia for more than 10 years and completed his PhD in political sociology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)\, Germany\, in 2012. In his work he focuses on the evolution of the political system in Kyrgyzstan following the turbulent times in the republic after 2005. He has further conducted research on social mobilization in Central Asia\, Islam and Islamic movements\, as well as educational policies and the role of public opinion. \n  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/alexander-wolters-islamic-finance-in-central-asia-from-great-potentials-to-lasting-stagnation/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17474-1478187000-1478192400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Michael Clarke - Beijing’s “March West”: One Belt\, One Road and China’s Quest for Great Power Status
DESCRIPTION:With Michael Clarke\, National Security College\, Australian National University \n\nMuch ink has been spilt over the past two decades debating the impact of the ‘rise’ of China on the international relations and strategic environment of Asia. Geographically\, the dominant focus within these debates has been on the Asia-Pacific geopolitical space. China’s increasing material power\, and consequently its growing strategic and economic footprint\, has however also been felt along its extensive Eurasian continental frontier. In fact China’s Eurasian frontiers have emerged as a major factor in Beijing’s foreign policy through President Xi Jinping’sOne Belt\, One Road (OBOR) strategy.\n \nThis paper argues that the OBOR is ultimately based on two core factors. First\, the OBOR can in part be seen as China’s response to the “pivot” or “rebalance” to Asia under U.S. President Barack Obama and to Russia’s relative decline in Central Asia. Second\, the OBOR is as much about Beijing’s domestic concerns as it is about its grand strategy priorities. Of major concern here is China’s hold on its major and often restive Eurasian frontier regions\, such as Xinjiang. While the relative decline of U.S. and Russian influence in Central Asia has provided Beijing with strategic opportunities to expand its reach\, the intensification of Uyghur opposition to ongoing Chinese rule since 2008 has underlined for Beijing the need to accelerate the economic development/modernization of these regions as the primary means of achieving their integration into the modern Chinese state. Geopolitics and domestic state-building imperatives are thus interwoven in Beijing’s Eurasian pivot.\n\n \nDr. Michael Clarke is Associate Professor and Graduate Convenor at the National Security College\, Crawford School of Public Policy\, ANU. He has written extensively on the history and politics of Xinjiang\, Uyghur separatism and terrorism\, and Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia in a variety of academic publications\, while his journalistic writing on these topics has been published by the Wall Street Journal\, CNN\, The National Interest and The Diplomat. He is also the author of Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia – A History (Routledge 2011)\, co-editor (with Anna Hayes) of Inside Xinjiang: Space\, Place and Power in China’s Muslim Far North-West (Routledge 2016)\, and co-editor (with Douglas Smith) of China’s Frontier Regions: Ethnicity\, Economic Integration and Foreign Relations (I. B. Tauris 2016). \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/michael-clarke-beijings-march-west-one-belt-one-road-and-chinas-quest-for-great-power-status/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17478-1477917000-1477922400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Richard Weitz - Enhancing the Georgia-US Security Partnership
DESCRIPTION:For several decades\, Georgia has been one of the most important economic and security partners of the United States. The US is the largest bilateral aid donor to Georgia\, having provided several billion dollars since 1991. This support has always enjoyed bipartisan backing.  Since 2009\, Georgia and the United States have had a Strategic Partnership through which both parties pledge to further Georgia’s democratization\, economic development\, sovereignty\, and territorial integrity. Georgia is the highest per capita contributor to the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan. Despite Washington’s efforts\, however\, Georgia has not yet received membership in NATO and finds itself in a challenging neighborhood. The next U.S. presidential administration will need to move decisively to strengthen this critical partnership.\n\n  \nRichard Weitz is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute. His current research includes regional security developments relating to  Europe\,  Eurasia\, and East Asia as well as U.S. foreign and defense policies. Dr. Weitz is also an Expert at Wikistrat and a non-resident Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).\n  \nLight lunch to be served.  \n\nPlease RSVP.\n  \n\nIn partnership with\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/richard-weitz-enhancing-the-georgia-us-security-partnership/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
UID:17479-1477577700-1477589400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:What Changes in a Post-Karimov Uzbekistan?
DESCRIPTION:2:15-3:45pmSession 1. Changes in the Uzbek domestic landscape\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU)\nBruce Pannier (RFE/RL)\nSofter on the Outside but Still Hard at the Core\nDillorom Abdulloeva (Tashabbus)\nWhat Changes are Needed and Expected in the Field of Human Rights and the Legal Sphere?\nRoger Kangas (NESA Center\, NDU)\nUzbek Foreign Policy After Karimov: Change or Continuity? \n3:45-4:00pm\nC0ffee break \n4:00-5:30pm\nSession 2. An evolving economic policy?\nChair: David Abramson (US Department of State)\nLawrence Markowitz (Rowan University)\nStructural Impediments to Economic Reform in Post-Karimov Uzbekistan\nAziz Khasanov (Eurasia Analytics)\nThe Uzbek Succession: Is Economic Transformation Possible?\nMurad Akhmedoff (Independent Scholar)\nUzbekistan’s Long-Awaited Economic Liberalization \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/what-changes-in-a-post-karimov-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate,Uzbekistan
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17460-1477180800-1477526400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:MOSCOW - Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History\, Culture\, Society
DESCRIPTION:View the full program. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/moscow-third-international-conference-on-uyghur-studies-history-culture-society/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive,Uyghur Studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17469-1476988200-1476995400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Rhythm (Uzbekistan\, 2014)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Nozim Tulahodjaev \n\nThis featured film tells the fate of a talented Uzbek musician who plays ‘doira’ (a musical instrument). As his life runs its course\, Sharif-aka is exposed to a bitter truth about the betrayal of his beloved wife\, his friends\, and his colleagues. Through this despair\, his salvation comes from an unexpected bond with his young student\, a talented disabled child.\n \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-rhythm-uzbekistan-2014/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17471-1475856000-1475863200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Farideh Heyat - Post-Soviet Women in Transition: Azerbaijan\, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in Comparison
DESCRIPTION:There are many common paradoxes and anomalies regarding the position of women in the formerly Soviet Muslim republics of Azerbaijan\, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. These arise from the Soviet legacy of gender equality on the one hand\, and patriarchal traditions on the other. The resurgence of Islam as an identity marker in the new independent era is another. However\, there are also significant differences. Whereas radical Islam has established a foothold in southern Kyrgyzstan\, the governments of both Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have taken robust actions to stamp it out. There are also marked differences between Azerbaijan and the other two republics. \n  \nFarideh Heyat is an anthropologist based in London\, born in Iran. She is the author of numerous articles on women in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan and the book\, Azeri Women in Transition. Her current book\, Land of Forty Tribes is based on her observations and experience of working and travelling in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan\, and her research on the history of Central Asia.\n  \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/farideh-heyat-post-soviet-women-in-transition-azerbaijan-kyrgyzstan-and-uzbekistan-in-comparison/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160919T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160919T103000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17466-1474275600-1474281000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Yerlan Karin - Central Asian Fighters in Syria: Classification\, Factors\, Scale Assessment
DESCRIPTION:The war in Syria\, like a magnet\, pulled radicals from around the world\, including Central Asian fighters. There are different figures on the number of Central Asian militants in Syria. Separate research was conducted in Kazakhstan under the leadership of Dr. Yerlan Karin to estimate and organize all the data\, as well as determine the main factors of radicalization attracting young people from Central Asia to Syria. The research is comprised of several surveys of former combatants and is the first such study in the region.\n  \nYerlan Karin is Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan. He has been leading various analytical structures in Kazakhstan since 1998\, was a Director of the Center for Anti-Terror Programs in 2004-2006\, head of the Internal Policy Department in the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan in 2008; Secretary on Strategic Development in Nur Otan National Democratic Party from 2008 to 2013; and Visiting Professor at American University in Washington\, DC (USA)\, 2013-2014. He was appointed as Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan in October 2014. Yerlan Karin is a leading expert in Kazakhstan on security and terrorism and is the author of more than 100 publications in Kazakhstan and abroad on issues of terrorism\, national and regional security\, and history of Kazakhstan.\n  \nPlease RSVP.\nBreakfast to be served.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/yerlan-karin-central-asian-fighters-in-syria-classification-factors-scale-assessment/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160909T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160909T124500
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17459-1473411600-1473425100@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:25th Anniversary of the Kyrgyz Republic's Independence Day
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic to the USA & Canada\, Friends of Kyrgyzstan\, and US Peace Corps \n\n\n9:00. Opening by H.E. Kadyr Toktogulov\, Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States\n  \n9.15-10.15. Panel I. A Policy Perspective\nChair: Fiona Hill (Brookings)\nNisha Bishwal (Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs)\nJohn O’Keefe (Former Ambassador of the United States to the Kyrgyz Republic)\nAlexander Cooley (Columbia University)\n  \n10:30-11:30. Panel II. An Academic Perspective\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU)\nEric Rudenshiold (USAID\, GWU)\nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\nSean Roberts (GWU)\n  \n11:45-12:45. Panel III. A Peace Corps Perspective\n\nReturned Peace Corps volunteers and Peace Corps director Carrie Hessler-Radelet discuss the partnership between Peace Corps volunteers and Kyrgyzstan since independence.\n  \n\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/25th-anniversary-of-the-kyrgyz-republics-independence-day/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160907T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160907T143000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
UID:17467-1473253200-1473258600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Regime Succession in Uzbekistan: Update and Discussion - Co-Organized with CSIS
DESCRIPTION:With rumors circulating that Uzbek President Islam Karimov has died\, the academic question of regime succession had become very immediate. What’s next for Uzbekistan\, and what does that mean for the region and for the world? Will we simply see another strongman take power? Should we worry about unrest?  With events continuing to unfold\, the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program and the Central Asia Program at the George Washington University are pleased to host a panel discussion with several top specialists on the region\, kicked off with a video-teleconference with RFE/RL specialists in Prague who are closely following events on the ground in Tashkent.\n \nFEATURING\n \nEric McGlinchey\nAssociate Professor\, George Mason University\nBruce Pannier (via video teleconference)\nSenior Correspondent\, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty\nSebastien Peyrouse\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES (GWU)\nAlisher Sidikov (via video teleconference)\nService Director\, Radio Ozodlik (Uzbek Service)\, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty\n \nCSIS EXPERTS\n \nOlga Oliker\nSenior Adviser and Director\, Russia and Eurasia Program\n\n\n\nPlease register.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/regime-succession-in-uzbekistan-update-and-discussion-co-organized-with-csis/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160902T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160902T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17465-1472832000-1472839200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Safarbek Soliev - Film Screening: "Komil"
DESCRIPTION:A documentary film about the founder of Tajik and Uzbek cinematography\, Komil Yormatov\, with introductory remarks by director Safarbek Soliev. \n\nPlease RSVP.\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with Asia-Plus.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/safarbek-soliev-film-screening-komil/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160901T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160901T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17462-1472747400-1472752800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh - Book Launch for "A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity"
DESCRIPTION:By Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh\n  \n\n\nWhat drives neighboring states to intervene in the Afghan conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place Afghanistan at the center – the so-called ‘heart’ – of a large pan- Asian region whose fate is predicated on Afghan stability. Instead Harpviken and Tadjbakhsh situate Afghanistan on the margins of three regional security complexes – those of South Asia\, Central Asia\, and the Persian Gulf – each characterized by deep security rivalries\, which\, in turn\, informs their engagement in Afghanistan. Within Central Asia\, security cooperation is hampered by competition for regional supremacy and great power support\, a dynamic reflected in these states’ half-hearted role in Afghanistan. In the Persian Gulf\, Iran and Saudi Arabia fight for economic and political influence\, mirrored in their Afghan engagements; while long-standing Indo-Pakistani rivalries are perennially played out in Afghanistan. Based on a careful reading of the recent political and economic history of the region\, and of Great Power rivalry beyond it\, the authors explain why efforts to build a comprehensive Afghanistan-centric regional security order have failed\, and what might be done to reset inter-state relations.\n  \nShahrbanou Tadjbakhsh teaches at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)\, Paris\, and is Associate Researcher at PRIO. Order the book here.\n  \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/shahrbanou-tadjbakhsh-book-launch-for-a-rock-between-hard-places-afghanistan-as-an-arena-of-regional-insecurity/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160613T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160615T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17456-1465776000-1465948800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:STOCKHOLM - Tajikistan. Approaches\, fieldworks and topics
DESCRIPTION:A Conference organized by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and The George Washington University’s Central Asia Program (CAP)\nStockholm\, June 13-14\, 2016 \nJune 13\, 2016 \n9.45-10.00 Welcoming Remarks and Coffee \n10.00- 11.00 Panel 1. Tajikistan at the Interplay of Foreign and Domestic Policies \nDavid Abramson (US State Department)\nInterwoven Affairs: Foreign and Domestic Politics in Rahmon’s Governing Style \nKirill Nourzhanov (Australian National University)\nTajikistan’s Foreign Policy in 2015 and after: the Pros and Cons of President Rahmon’s multi-vector Diplomacy \n11.00-13.00 Panel 2. Tajikistan’s Contested Political Legitimacy \nJessie Driscoll (Stanford University)\nBeyond Hobbesian Legitimacy: Thinking A Way Out Of Neopatrimonialism in Tajikistan \nJohn Heathershaw & Alexander Sodiqov (Exeter University and Toronto University)\nRebels without a Cause? Authoritarian Conflict Management as State Formation in Tajikistan \nSuzanne Levi Sanchez (Rutgers\, The State University of New Jersey)\nPolitics at the Periphery of Tajikistan \nBrent Hierman (Virginia Military Institute)\nDushanbe is quite far away: Deconcentrated Agrarian Reform in Rural Tajikistan \n13.00-14.00 Lunch  \n14.00-15.30 Panel 3. Memory and Identities \nTim Epkenhans (Freiburg University)\nRemembering the Civil War in Tajikistan \nSophie Roche (Heidelberg University)\nCulture as Fact \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\nTajikistan’s Quest for a National Storytelling. Ambivalences\, Blank Spaces\, and Discontinuities \n  \nJune 14\, 2016 \n10.00-12.30 Panel 4. Plural Islams  \nSultonbek Aksakolov (Independent Researcher)\nBetween State and Religion: Officials and Religious Figures in Soviet Tajikistan  \nEdward Lemon (Exeter University)\nGoverning (in)Security: Security Governance and Muslim Migrants in Russia and Tajikistan \nMichelle Commercio (University of Vermont)\n“A Woman without a Man is a Kazan without a Lid”. Polygyny in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan \nShahnoza Nozimova (George Mason University)\nHijab Ban in Tajikistan: Unveiling the Fault Lines \nSaodat Olimova (Sharq Analytical Center)\nIslam and Migration: the Role of Religion and Religious Institutions in the Life of Tajik Migrants \n12.30-13.30 Lunch \n13.30-14.o0 Discussion on publication
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/stockholm-tajikistan-approaches-fieldworks-and-topics/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17455-1464102000-1464116400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Nargis Kassenova & CAAFP Fellows - New Challenges in Central Asia. Changing Societies in a Time of Economic Crisis
DESCRIPTION:With Nargis Kassenova (KIMEP) \n \nand the Central Asia – Azerbaijan Program Fellows \n \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, GW) \n3:00pm. Nargis Kassenova (KIMEP)\nKazakhstan 2016: The Politics of Crisis \nDiscussion \n4:00pm  \nKassymkhan Kapparov (Kazakhstan)\nInvisible Public Debt: The Case of Kazakhstan \nSabina Insebayeva (Kazakhstan)\nA Quest For Status\, Legitimacy And Ontological Security: The Image-Conscious Kazakhstan \nDiscussion \n5:00pm.  \nArzu Geybullayeva (Azerbaijan)\nAzerbaijan’s Suspended Democracy – Time for International Reassessment \nGulzhigit Ermatov (Kyrgyzstan)\nUnderstanding Illiberal Sentiments among Youth in Kyrgyzstan \nDursunjemal Halimova (Turkmenistan)\nEconomic Smart Power: Utilizing the Untapped Asset of Turkmen Youth \nDiscussion \n6:30pm. Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/nargis-kassenova-caafp-fellows-new-challenges-in-central-asia-changing-societies-in-a-time-of-economic-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160517T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160517T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152716
CREATED:20200930T162318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194523Z
UID:17446-1463502600-1463508000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Mirzokhid Rakhimov - Contemporary History of Uzbekistan: Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Approach
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary history is a relatively new discipline for the social sciences and the humanities. Studying the recent history of Uzbekistan is still not an established trend\, even in Uzbekistan\, and doesn’t have its own methodology\, research know-how\, training or methodological support. Thematic field studies are still narrow\, with limited critical approaches and interdisciplinary studies. However\, being able to develop a comprehensive study of contemporary history is an important theoretical and practical issue that requires interdisciplinary approaches. Domestic politics need to be understood in broad perspective\, including taking into account historical legacies\, the interconnectivity of internal and external politics\, as well as local\, regional and global processes. This research is based on research on and academic visits in Uzbekistan\, other Central Asian republics\, the US\, China\, the EU\, Russia\, Republic of Korea\, India\, Japan and others.\n\nDr. Mirzokhid Rakhimov is a Visiting Fulbright scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute\, SAIS\, Johns Hopkins University. He is the head of the department of Contemporary history and international relations at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent. His scholarly interests cover contemporary history and regional and international relations in post-Soviet Central Asia. He holds a PhD and an Habilitation in History and International relations from the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbe­kistan.\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/mirzokhid-rakhimov-contemporary-history-of-uzbekistan-challenges-of-an-interdisciplinary-approach/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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SUMMARY:Nick Megoran - What happens when new international boundaries appear? The example of Central Asia's Ferghana Valley
DESCRIPTION:Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley has historically been a mosaic of social groups and identities. The emergence of international boundaries with the break-up of the Soviet Union imposed a new political geographical logic on the social fabric of the Valley. This talk explores the tensions between these two logics of ordering territory\, and the effects on inter-ethnic relations. Focussing on ethnically-mixed rural villages along the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary\, it traces the fate of communities whose existence challenged both the new ideologies of nationalism and the analytical narratives of inter-communal tension.\n\nNick Megoran is a political geography lecturer at Newcastle University. His research includes the political geographies and geopolitics of post-Cold War inter-state relations\, focusing on the building of nation-states in modern Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan\, with particular attention paid to border regions\, boundary disputes and geopolitics\, and the place of religion and the church in war and peace.\n  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/nick-megoran-what-happens-when-new-international-boundaries-appear-the-example-of-central-asias-ferghana-valley/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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