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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:20260925T152744
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160613T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160615T000000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160517T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160517T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160512T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160512T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160504T173000
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CREATED:20200930T162302Z
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SUMMARY:Cholpon Turdalieva - Landscapes of Imperial Violence: Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz through the Lens of Western Travelogues
DESCRIPTION:Russian colonial dominance in Central Asia changed the economics\, politics and culture of the conquered lands and peoples. Various sources document these changes\, including travelogues written by nineteenth and early twentieth century travelers from the U.S. and Europe\, such as Frenchman Gabriel Bonvalout; Americans Allworth Huntington and Eugene Schuyler; Lady Catherine Macartney\, Henry Lansdell\, and Ella Sykes of Britain; and Sven Hedin of Sweden. Each visited Turkestan when it was already a Russian colonial province\, which impacted their analysis of the region. Not only did they observe the local settings–natural landscape and societies–but they also conveyed and observed physical and psychological violence. This presentation explores violence as a tool in the production of imperial knowledge and Eurocentric power in the space of Russian colonialism. \nCholpon Turdalieva is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor at the American University of Central Asia. She has participated in the Central Asian Research and Training Initiative (CARTI) project\, and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle and a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cholpon-turdalieva-landscapes-of-imperial-violence-kyrgyzstan-and-the-kyrgyz-through-the-lens-of-western-travelogues/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T180000
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CREATED:20200930T162314Z
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SUMMARY:David Kemme & Kassymkhan Kapparov - The Evolution of the National Oil Fund of Kazakhstan: Inception\, Utilization and Expectations
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThe National Oil Fund of Kazakhstan (NOF) was created by Presidential Decree in 2002. Funded by direct taxes and royalties from natural resource producers\, it was intended to be a stabilization fund and a savings fund invested outside the Kazakh economy. Withdrawals from the fund are “guaranteed” transfers to the government budget and “targeted” transfers for stabilization. In 2015 the NOF assets reached 30% of GDP. Parallel to the NOF is Samruk Kazyna\, which manages assets that account for over 50% of GDP and is responsible for the management of state owned enterprises and implementation of the government’s economic development plans. Recent discussion of expanding the use of the NOF to support economic development and privatization efforts goes beyond its original intent and may threaten the long term viability of the fund. This presentation provides background on Sovereign Wealth Funds in general\, the NOF in particular and its evolving relationship with Samruk Kazyna\, and its possible involvement in the privatization of large SOEs via the mass-targeted stocks placement (the so-called “People’s Initial Public Offering program”). \nDavid Kemme is Professor and Morris Chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Memphis. He received his BA in mathematics from Miami University and Ph.D. in economics from The Ohio State University\, was a Fulbright Scholar in Poland and has received numerous grants: IREX\, Pew Charitable Trusts\, USIA and the Department of State\, inter alia\, for research on economies of Eastern Europe and the CIS. His research interests are in monetary policy\, developmental finance and financial crises\, macroeconometric modeling\, and forecasting in transition economies. Recent publications may be found in the Review of Development Economics\, International Review of Economics and Finance\, Review of International Economics\, Journal of International Finance and Money\, inter alia. \nKassymkhan Kapparov is a CAP visiting fellow. He is also a Director at Bureau for Economic Research of Kazakhstan (Almaty\, Kazakhstan). He received his MBA from Yokohama National University (Japan) under the IMF Scholarship Program and MA and BA in Economics from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan). His current research includes the National (Oil) Fund of Kazakhstan and its influence on the economic development in Kazakhstan and the issue of external debt of the state-owned enterprises in Kazakhstan. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/david-kemme-kassymkhan-kapparov-the-evolution-of-the-national-oil-fund-of-kazakhstan-inception-utilization-and-expectations/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
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SUMMARY:Michele Commercio - The Rise of Polygamy in Kyrgyzstan: A Consequence of the Country's Post-Soviet Islamic Revival?
DESCRIPTION:Although there are no official statistics reflecting cases of polygamy in Kyrgyzstan\, anecdotal evidence suggests that polygamy is on the rise. This talk explores possible reasons for this and asks\, specifically\, whether it is a consequence of Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet Islamic revival. The research is based on interviews conducted with representatives of non-governmental organizations representing women\, and data from focus groups comprised of Kyrgyz ‘first wives’ and ‘second wives.’\n \n\nMichele Commercio is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian\, East European Studies at the University of Vermont. She specializes in Central Asian comparative politics. Her research interests include regime transition\, ethnic politics\, gender politics\, and Islam in post-Soviet states. Professor Commercio’s most recent research has been funded by IREX\, NCEEER\, APSA (American Political Science Association)\, and the University of Vermont. Her work appears in Political Science Quarterly\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, Nationalities Papers\, Problems of Post-Communism and Post-Soviet Affairs. Her book\, “Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The Transformative Power of Informal Networks\,” was published in 2010 with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her new project analyzes political mobilization among  women in Kyrgyzstan.\n \n\nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/michele-commercio-the-rise-of-polygamy-in-kyrgyzstan-a-consequence-of-the-countrys-post-soviet-islamic-revival/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T180000
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SUMMARY:Aurélie Biard - The Tablighi Revivalism and its Social and Political Implications in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:How are revivalist forms of Islam emanating from the Indian subcontinent\, especially the ‘preaching group’ of the Tablighi Jama’at\, impacting the construction of post-Soviet national identities and attitudes vis-à-vis society and politics? From its emergence in the early 1990s\, Tablighi proselytization gradually drew a new universe of meaning that rejects the values of contemporary Kyrgyz society\, supposedly hostile to ‘authentic’ Islam. The Tablighi strategy to establish ‘authentic’ Islam in local communities and to form new spaces of Islamization flirts with a political posture that radically questions the established social or political order.\n \nAurélie Biard is a researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) in Paris and an associated researcher at the Centre for Turkish\, Ottoman\, Balkan\, and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC\, CNRS). She is a Visiting Fellow at IERES and is currently teaching a class on “Islam and Ethnicity in Central Asia” with Professor Marlene Laruelle. She holds a Ph.D in Political Science from Sciences-Po Paris. Her research focuses on Islamic clientelist networks and power struggles between Islamic actors as well as on ethics and religion\, business and Islam in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan\, Kazakhstan) and in the Russian Federation (Tatarstan). Her main publications include “The Religious Factor in the Reifications of ‘Neo-ethnic’ Identities in Kyrgyzstan\,” in Nationalities Papers and “Power\, ‘Original Islam’\, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu\, Kyrgyzstan”\, in Central Asian Affairs.\n \nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/aurelie-biard-the-tablighi-revivalism-and-its-social-and-political-implications-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160420T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160420T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
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SUMMARY:Theodore P. Gerber - Political and Social Attitudes of Russia's Muslims: Caliphate\, Kadyrovism\, or Kasha?
DESCRIPTION:Russia’s Muslim population\, estimated at 16.4 million in 2010\, is often considered as a potential source of instability\, given perennial concerns about threat of extremist movements\, particularly in the North Caucasus\, and the efforts of ISIS and other organizations to inspire radical Islam in Russia.  However\, the combination of fiercely expressed loyalty to Putin and support for his policies\, protection of local autonomy\, social conservatism\, and endorsement of violence espoused by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov may also hold broad appeal for Russia’s Muslims. Alternatively\, a long history of integration in Russian society and political culture may have produced a Muslim population that is indistinguishable from ethnic Russians in terms of its political and social orientations. The lecture provides an empirical portrait of public opinion among Russia’s Muslims based on data from a Russian survey the authors conducted in 2015 with oversamples from four heavily Muslim regions\, with particular attention to regional and other variations in their attitudes and to comparisons with the views of the native-born ethnic Russian population.\n  \nTheodore P. Gerber is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Russia\, East Europe\, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He conducts research on social stratification\, public opinion\, social demography\, and other topics in Russia and other former Soviet countries. He is currently working on a study (with Jane Zavisca) of housing as a source of social stability or conflict in Azerbaijan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Russia\, and Ukraine.\n  \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/theodore-p-gerber-political-and-social-attitudes-of-russias-muslims-caliphate-kadyrovism-or-kasha/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162300Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club in Partnership with the Embassy of Tajikistan: "Rostam and Sohrab" (1971)
DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by H.E. Farhod Salim\, Ambassador of Tajikistan in the United States.\n  \nThis epic masterpiece by Tajik director Boris Kimyagarov is a patriotic ode to the Persian poet Ferdowsi.\nThe Legend of Rostam and Sohrab\, one of the three films Kimyagarov directed as part of a trilogy\, is part of the 10th-century Persian epic Shahnameh. It tells the tragic story of the hero Rostam and his son\, Sohrab\, who both fight on the battlefield neither knowing the true name of the opponent\, symbolizing the mythical struggle between Iran and Turan.\n  \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-in-partnership-with-the-embassy-of-tajikistan-rostam-and-sohrab-1971/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
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SUMMARY:Understanding Regime Legitimacy  in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:A round table organized by GW’s Central Asia Program and CRCEES\, University of Glasgow\n\n\n\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Cummings\n(St Andrews)\n\n\nEdward Schatz\n(University of Toronto)\n\n\nLuca Anceschi\n(Glasgow University)\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrimonial\, patronal\, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that\, if anything\, Central Asian politics are profoundly complex. The regional conformation of power does however remain relatively stable. Regime durability\, in most cases\, is supported by the intricate connection of domestic patronal networks with international alliances. Sophisticated communication machines and successful nation-building tools have also sustained local élites and hamper political protests. For all intents and purposes\, a calculated combination of softer authoritarian strategies and more repressive governance methods has allowed the Central Asian leaders to reduce internal political processes and guarantee\, so far\, regimes’ monopolies. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/understanding-regime-legitimacy-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T160000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17444-1460539800-1460563200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Inside the Pyramid: Is Central Asia Authoritarianism Stable?
DESCRIPTION:Patrimonial\, patronal\, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that\, if anything\, Central Asian politics are profoundly complex. The regional conformation of power does however remain relatively stable. Regime durability\, in most cases\, is supported by the intricate connection of domestic patronal networks with international alliances; sophisticated propaganda machines have also sustained local élites in their drive to conceal disastrous socio-economic policies. For all intents and purposes\, a calculated combination of softer authoritarian strategies and more repressive governance methods has allowed the Central Asian leaders to reduce internal political processes and mechanisms to regimes’ monopolies. \n\nIncumbency continues to dominate politics in the region\, as confirmed by the long tenures of first-generation leaders in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan\, and of Emomali Rahmon in post-conflict Tajikistan. The outcome of the Turkmen transition in 2006-2007\, on the other hand\, suggested that the persistence of authoritarian governance is likely to survive eventual leadership changes. Ultimately\, it is a picture of apparent stability that informs how international observers have understood\, digested\, and framed the interconnection between power and politics in post-Soviet Central Asia. \n\nThese two workshops aim to challenge directly this characterization\, by discussing a specific set of factors\, processes\, and actors that are eroding – silently yet not insignificantly – the stability that is proverbially enshrined within Central Asia’s authoritarian governance. While the weak nature of Central Asia’s statehood has been appropriately questioned in current scholarly debate\, this workshop series intends to challenge the myth of Central Asia’s regime infrangibility. An accurately designed work of regime diagnostic does therefore sit at the analytical core of these workshops; succession prognosis does not\, except indirectly. \nView the full program.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/inside-the-pyramid-is-central-asia-authoritarianism-stable/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160405T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160405T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194608Z
UID:17412-1459873800-1459879200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Joanna J. Sienkiewicz - (Trans-)National Social Protection of Repatriates from Kazakhstan in Germany
DESCRIPTION:In the first half of the 1990s\, about one million ethnic Germans of all ages resettled in Germany. Many of those movers wanted to return to their ‘homeland’ and improve their life chances through spatial mobility. But how do the movers and stayers evaluate their migration and social protection now\, more than 25 years after their migration? Data from mixed-methods and multi-sited research on protective networks of migrants from Kazakhstan in Germany and their relatives in Kazakhstan provide multifaceted answers to this question. This presentation discusses findings concerning the role of transnationality for informal social protection. In addition\, it gives attention to aspects of symbolic social protection and formal protection in movers’ and stayers’ evaluations of life chances and social inequalities in the Kazakh-German social space.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nJoanna J. Sienkiewicz is a researcher and PhD candidate at Bielefeld University\, Germany. A member of the Centre on Migration\, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)\, she works on the project “Transnationality and the Unequal Distribution of Informal Social Protection” at the Collaborative Research Center “From Heterogeneities to Inequalities” at Bielefeld University. She studied Sociology at Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) from 2010 through 2011 and obtained a master’s degree from Bielefeld University in 2013. For her master’s thesis on the Russian NGO Memorial\, she was granted a scholarship by the Centre for German and European Studies (CGES) in Bielefeld\, Germany.\n  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/joanna-j-sienkiewicz-trans-national-social-protection-of-repatriates-from-kazakhstan-in-germany/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160330T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160330T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17403-1459351800-1459357200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Yerken Turganbayev - Regional Disparities in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:Economic development in Kazakhstan was accompanied by increasing disparities across the country’s various regions\, which has contributed to a number of social and economic problems. The urgency to find a solution to these problems has made research into the dynamics of regional inequality a hot issue for both policymakers and economists\, even more so today because of the current economic difficulties caused by the fall of oil and other raw commodities prices. This presentation will discuss regional economic development in Kazakhstan\, Astana’s regional policy\, and current economic perspectives for the various regions of the country.\n  \n\n\n\nYerken Turganbayev received a PhD in Economics at the Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen\, UK) and a PhD in Mathematics at the Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk\, Russia). His research interests lie in the application of a mathematical modeling approach to various problems in economics and environment protection. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.\n  \n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/yerken-turganbayev-regional-disparities-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160324T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160324T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17419-1458844200-1458851400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Screening: "The Builders (Stroiteli)" (2013)
DESCRIPTION:Three siblings – two teenage brothers and their little sister – are evicted from their apartment. The youngsters’ last hope rests on a plot of land outside of the city\, to which they have a legitimate claim. But soon officials arrive in a jeep to tell them that\, unless they build a foundation within the next two weeks\, the land will be confiscated.\n\n\nA sober film by Kazakh film director Adilkhan Erzhanov about the everyday challenges of life in contemporary Kazakhstan.\n\nPlease RSVP. \n\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-screening-the-builders-stroiteli-2013/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160324T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160324T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17413-1458837000-1458842400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Jesse Driscoll - Beyond Hobbesian Legitimacy:  Thinking A Way Out Of Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Despite Tajikistan’s impassable mountains\, hostile neighborhood\, and overall bleak structural inheritance\, its civil war was resolved with unusual speed.  The Tajik Civil War was settled through the selective co-optation of many different field commanders\, many of whom were allowed to retain functional control of men and weapons and disappear into the state security apparatus.  In the 1990s\, “the state” was a semi-permeable membrane\, as various violence entrepreneurs weighed their life opportunities as social bandits against their life opportunities as agents of an internationally recognized sovereign.  Many opted for the latter\, and elevated their head of state to a position that is completely insulated from regular checks and balances.  And so though Tajikistan is still a weak state compared to many of its neighbors\, there is an awesome amount of power is centralized in a single human being – Rakhmon.  His social legitimacy is built atop what would have been termed “the king’s peace” in a previous era: There is no war today\, and likely there will be no war tomorrow\, because of a process of coalition formation that he personally oversaw.  The talk will conclude with a speculative assessment of a set of normative and policy questions that are most urgent to young citizens in Central Asia: Whether and how how a more accountable and constrained state apparatus might emerge non-violently over the next generation.\n  \n\nJesse Driscoll is an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California\, San Diego.  His book\, Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States\, is available through Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Comparative Politics series.  His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.\n\n  \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/jesse-driscoll-beyond-hobbesian-legitimacy-thinking-a-way-out-of-neopatrimonialism-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
UID:17417-1458664200-1458669600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Selbi Jumayeva - Feminist Organizing in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:During this discussion\, Selbi Jumayeva will share her experiences in the women’s rights activism\, feminist organizing and anti-violence campaigning in Kyrgyzstan and discuss gender and sexuality issues in Central Asia\, particularly in times of backlash and conservative reactionary politics.\n  \n\nSelbi Jumayeva is a visiting research fellow (WEF) at the International Gender Studies Centre at LMH\, University of Oxford. She is co-founder of Bishkek Feminists initiatives and member of LGBTIQA Organization Labrys in Kyrgyzstan. Selbi is also involved in Young Feminist Fund FRIDA and Global Fund for Women as an advisor\, and participates in Civil Society Advisory Group of UN Women ECARO. \nThis event is organized with the support of the Global Dialogues & Women’s Empowerment in Eurasian Contexts Fellowship Program(WEF) funded by Open Society Foundations and hosted by the International Gender Studies Centre at LMH\, University of Oxford. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/selbi-jumayeva-feminist-organizing-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17410-1458232200-1458237600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Daniil Kislov - The State of Media in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Daniil Kislov is chief editor of Fergana.ru/Fergananews.com web edition. He was born in 1965 in the city of Ferghana\, Uzbekistan\, but was banned from visiting Uzbekistan in 2005.  Fergana.ru information agency is based in Moscow\, Russia\, where it was established in the fall of 1998. It is one of the most popular web resources dealing with post-Soviet Central Asian countries. With correspondents in every major city of the region\, Ferghana.ru news agency provides information about politics\, the economy\, and social life in Central Asia\, as well as the history and culture of Uzbekistan and the greater region.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniil Kislov will discuss his journalism mission\, job\, and activities\, and share his view on the current events in Central Asia and the region’s future.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/daniil-kislov-the-state-of-media-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160315T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160315T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17415-1458059400-1458064800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Adeeb Khalid - The Making of Uzbekistan: Nation Making in an Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Uzbekistan appeared on the map in 1924. Adeeb Khalid traces its emergence in the interstices between Soviet nationalities policies and the strivings of the Central Asian Muslim intelligentsia. Understanding the origins of the Uzbek national project also shed light on the relationship between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and is thus of profound contemporary relevance.\n  \n\n\nAdeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History professor of history at Carleton College in Northfield\, Minnesota. He works on the Muslim societies of Central Asia in the period after the Russian conquest of the 19th century. His latest book\, Making Uzbekistan: Nation\, Empire\, and Revolution in the Early USSR\, has just been published by Cornell University Press.\n  \n\nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n  \n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/adeeb-khalid-the-making-of-uzbekistan-nation-making-in-an-age-of-revolution/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160308T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160308T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17408-1457427600-1457456400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:9:00am. Registration and Breakfast\n9:30-11:00am. Session 1. The Chinese ‘One Belt One Road’ Strategy \nChair: Robert Sutter (George Washington University) \nAlexander Cooley (Harriman Institute\, Columbia University) \nOne Road\, One Belt\, Many Headaches: the Economic\, Political and Social Challenges of OBOR in Central Asia \nRafaello Pantucci and Sarah Lain (RUSI\, London) \nChina and Russia in Central Asia: Cooperation and Conflict \nNadège Rolland (National Bureau of Asian Research) \nUnwrapping the Belt and Road: Chinese Perspectives \n11:00am-11:30pm. Coffee break \n11:30-1:00pm. Session 2. Russia’s Influence in Central Asia. Hard and Soft Power \nChair: Cory Welt (George Washington University) \nJeffrey Mankoff (CSIS) \nMultilateralism a la Russe: How the EEU and CSTO are Performing \nRichard Weitz (Hudson Institute) \nAssessing Russia’s Military Buildup in Central Asia: Dynamics and Implications \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nCapturing Russian Media Influence in Central Asia \n1:00-1:45. Lunch \n1:45-3:15pm. Session 3. Afghanistan\, Regional Security and the United States  \nChair: Sean Roberts (George Washington University) \nScott Smith (US Institute of Peace) \nSpeed Bumps on the New Silk Road \nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\nInternational Financial Institutions and the Projection of US Power in Central Asia \nRoger Kangas (Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies) \nNew Dynamics of Security Cooperation in Central Asia in the Post-ISAF Era \n3:15-3:30pm. Coffee break \n3:30-5:00pm. Session 4. Exporting Radicalism. New Trends among Eurasian Fighters in Syria \nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (CAP\, George Washington University) \nNoah Tucker (Associate researcher\, CAP) \nFear and Loathing in Central Asia: Social Media’s Role in Generating Hate and Mobilizing Violence \nJean-François Ratelle (Carleton University\, Canada) \nCaucasian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Motivations\, Roles and the Threat of Returnees \nRémi Castets (Montaigne University\, Bordeaux\, France) \nFrom Xinjiang Madrasas to Global Jihadism War Fields: Political and Ideological Transformations of Uyghur Salafi Networks \n  \nThis event is part of the Central Asia Policy Assessment series\, funded by GW’s CIFF fund \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-central-asia-security-workshop-2/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160302T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160302T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
UID:17405-1456936200-1456941600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Fight for Followers: Muslimness and Authenticity in Tajikistan
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon has sought new ways to reassert his Muslim identity.  These public acts of piety serve not only to sway the population toward the state muftiyat\, but also to counter opposition narratives that the ruling family is not Muslim enough. This presentation explores the growing ideological and practical divisions between the socioeconomic elite and common classes as they both seek to claim an authentic Muslim identity in Tajikistan. \nMarintha Miles is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University. Previously she studied and researched media\, migration\, and religion in Tajikistan. Her current research focuses on women as objects of both the state and  international development community policies and practices. \nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-fight-for-followers-muslimness-and-authenticity-in-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Tahir and Zuhra
DESCRIPTION:A 15th-century Uzbek ‘Romeo and Juliet’\, this film\, by Nabi Ganiev\, quickly became one of the canons of Soviet cinema.\n \n\n“Takhir and Zukhra are childhood sweethearts brought up together at the royal court\, only to be torn apart as teenagers when Takhir is banished from the kingdom. Shot in shimmering black-and-white by Daniil Demutsky\, the great cinematographer who shot Dovzhenko’s Arsenal and Earth\, with eye-filling sets and costumes\, Takhir and Zukhra is a feast for the eyes and ears\, with the magically beautiful Gulyam Aglayev and Yuldus Rysayeva as the enchanted lovers.”\n[http://zohrasaed.com/2008/12/12/tahir-i-zuhra-dir-nabi-ganiev-1946/]\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-tahir-and-zuhra/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160218T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194609Z
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SUMMARY:Public and State Responses to ISIS Messaging in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:This workshop and policy discussion will mark the launch of a new series of policy papers from the CERIA initiative that examine state and public responses to ISIS and its recruiting efforts in each of the Central Asian states\, including Turkmenistan. Comparing and contrasting the perhaps surprisingly different strategies used by ISIS members recruited from each of the states to message their compatriots\, the series examines state countermessaging/security strategies\, public responses to ISIS and their own government\, and attempts by other external actors – Russia in particular – to influence this discourse for its own purposes.\n\nThe series finds that as in the past\, the threat of an external Islamist extremist group is largely being instrumentalized by multiple actors in order to tighten control over society and politics\, often creating ripple effects that have much more immediate consequences for the everyday lives of citizens than the threat represented by a foreign group largely embroiled in a far-off conflict. Although this is a familiar dynamic\, the strategies embraced by Central Asian governments are not identical (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan each have unique responses) and are also evolving in response at times to public demand and in what appears to be a genuine attempt in some cases to adopt more successful approaches to countering the influence of extremist recruiters on their citizens.\n\nFinally\, the series attempts to identify policy responses to the real threat of extremist social media recruiting and examines the ways in which social media in the region has increasingly become a tool for organized actors to either mobilize violence or reinforce authoritarian social controls instead of producing the democratizing effects for which many had hoped.\n\nNoah Tucker is a CAP associate and Managing Editor at Registan.net. He has worked as a researcher and consultant for non-government\, academic\, and government clients on Central Asian society and culture for the past ten years. Noah received an MA from Harvard\, where he studied Central Asian religious issues\, and has lived and worked in Uzbekistan\, Russia and Kyrgyzstan and extensively traveled throughout Central Asia and the former Soviet Union.\n\nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/public-and-state-responses-to-isis-messaging-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160126T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160126T160000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194652Z
UID:17388-1453802400-1453824000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Religion-Branding? Central Asia’s Integration into the International Scene through Religion
DESCRIPTION:10:00am-12:00pm. Session 1. Central Asian States and the Gulf Countries. In Search of New Models of Development\nLuca Anceschi (Glasgow University\, UK)\, Natalie Koch (Syracuse University)\, Bruno de Cordier (Gent University\, Belgium)\, Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University) \n12:45-2:15pm. Session 2. Internationalizing Trends in Central Asia’s Islam: Copying\, Borrowing\, Adapting \nAlima Bissenova (Nazarbayev University\, Kazakhstan)\, Ashirbek Muminov (L.N. Gumilev Eurasian National University)\, Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt University\, Germany) \n2:45- 4:15pm. Session 3. Plural Societies and Multifaceted Social Practices of Religion \nAisalkyn Botoeva (Brown University)\, Azamat Junisbai (Nazarbayev University\, Kazakhstan)\, Noor O’Neill Borbieva (Indiana University) \nThis event is part of the Central Eurasia-Religion in International Affairs (CERIA)\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. \nPlease RSVP \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/religion-branding-central-asias-integration-into-the-international-scene-through-religion/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194652Z
UID:17393-1453401000-1453408200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Kyrgyzland
DESCRIPTION:By Elunura Osmonalieva (2014)\n\nThis movie is about a small mountainous country with big problems and huge potential. Young heroes let viewers into their lives\, lifting a curtain into multi-layered and contradictory life in Kyrgyzstan. These seven stories of love\, decisiveness\, courage\, and virtue leave you feeling that you have made new friends and shared a warm handshake. \nElnura Osmonalieva is a promising independent filmmaker and producer. She came to AUCA in 1998 after a student exchange year in the USA as a FLEX program participant. Elnura won the International Almaty Film Festival “Shaken Zhulyzdary” with her documentary Almaz\, and was the Main Award Winner at the Second Auteur Film Festival for young filmmakers of Central Asia. \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-kyrgyzland/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194652Z
UID:17390-1452783600-1452794400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kazakhstan Nationbuilding and Kazakh Nationalism: A Debate
DESCRIPTION:A new social activism has emerged in Kazakhstan\, organized by different small groups self-defining as Kazakh nationalists. Who are they? What is their audience? What political and national projects do they advance? How do they position themselves toward the current authorities\, the relationship to Russia\, to the Islamic world\, and to their Central Asian neighbors?\nJoin us for a discussion with activists representative of this new trend and a roundtable with DC-based experts: \nAidos Sarym\, Altynbek Sarsenbayuly Foundation \nValikhan Tuleshov\, Almaty Management University \nSerik Beissembayev\, Central Asia Program Visiting Fellow and Center of Social and Political Studies ‘Strategy’ in Almaty \nMarat Raimkhanov\, Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland \nThis event is part of the CAP series “Central Asia Policy Assessment”\, generously funded by GW’s CIFF funds. \nPlease RSVP. \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstan-nationbuilding-and-kazakh-nationalism-a-debate/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160112T190000
DTSTAMP:20260925T152744
CREATED:20200930T162225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193157Z
UID:17391-1452614400-1452625200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Studying Social Marginalization in Central Asia: Sixth Central Asia Fellows’ Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Opening Remarks\, Marlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU)\nAspects of Social Marginalization in Central Asia. Some Introductory Data \nSerik Bessembayev (Kazakhstan) \nViolent Extremism in Kazakhstan: The Fertile Soil of Gang Culture \nMalika Tukmadieva (Kazakhstan) \nThe Registration System (propiska) as a Tool for Discrimination \nXeniya Mironova (Tajikistan) \nThe Dysfunctionalities of the Housing Market in Dushanbe \nDilorom Bokikhodjaeva (Tajikistan) \nThe Marginalization of Rural Entrepreneur Women in Tajikistan \nPlease RSVP \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/studying-social-marginalization-in-central-asia-sixth-central-asia-fellows-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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SUMMARY:GLASGOW - Inside the Pyramid: Is Central Asia authoritarianism stable?
DESCRIPTION:A Workshop Series organized byCRCEES [University of Glasgow] & CAP [George Washington University] \nView the full program here. \nPatrimonial\, patronal\, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that\, if anything\, Central Asian politics is profoundly complex. The regional conformation of power does however remain relatively stable. Regime durability\, in most cases\, is supported by the intricate connexion of domestic patronal networks with international alliances; sophisticated propaganda machines have also sustained local élites in their drive to conceal disastrous socio-economic policies. To all intents and purposes\, a calculated combination of softer authoritarian strategies and more repressive governance methods has allowed the Central Asian leaders to reduce internal political processes and mechanisms to regimes’ monopolies.\n\nIncumbency continues to dominate politics in the region\, as confirmed by the long tenures of first-generation leaders in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan\, and of Emomali Rahmon in post-conflict Tajikistan. The outcome of the Turkmen transition in 2006-2007\, on the other hand\, suggested that the persistence of authoritarian governance is likely to survive eventual leadership changes. Ultimately\, it is a picture of apparent stability that informs how international observers have understood\, digested\, and framed the interconnection between power and politics in post-Soviet Central Asia.\n\nThese two workshops aim to challenge directly this characterisation\, by discussing a specific set of factors\, processes\, and actors that are eroding – silently yet not insignificantly – the stability that is proverbially enshrined within Central Asia’s authoritarian governance. While the weak nature of Central Asia’s statehood has been appropriately questioned in the current scholarly debate\, this workshop series intends to challenge the myth of Central Asia’s regime infrangibility.  An accurately designed work of regime diagnostic does therefore sit at the analytical core of these workshops; succession prognosis is not\, except indirectly.\n\nFour specific issues have been selected by the organisers to identify and discuss the key elements underpinning the stability of the regimes that rule Central Asia 25 years after the achievement of independence. Specifically:\n• The International Environment\n• Economics\n• Nation-building\n• Élite fragmentation\n\nThe first two facets will be discussed at the Glasgow workshop (December 2015)\, while the Washington DC seminar (April 2016) will in turn focus on the latter set of factors.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/glasgow-inside-the-pyramid-is-central-asia-authoritarianism-stable/
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