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SUMMARY:Addressing Soft Security Challenges in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Kazakhstan has already taken the regional leadership on soft security issues in the whole Central Asian region. This conference will discuss the region’s main soft security issues: water management\, regulating migrations and refugees flows\, developing disaster preparedness and reaction to climate change. It will bring together scholars and experts to offer a full panorama of the soft security situation and the way Kazakhstan can address these challenges. \n9:00 AM Opening\, Yerkin Akhinzhanov\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Kazakhstan \n9:15-10:15 AM Keynote speaker: Johannes Linn (Brookings Institution)\nQ&A \n10:15 – 11:15 AM The Water/Energy Nexus and its Regional Dimension\nChair: Kamiljon Akramov (International Food Policy Research Institute) \nKathleen Kuehnast (US Institute of Peace)\nWhose rules rule? Water and Energy in Central Asia \nKai Wegerich (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)\nWater security in the Syr Darya \n11:15 – 11:30 PM Coffee-break\n\n11:30 – 12:30 PM Natural Disaster and Climate Change Preparedness \nChair: Kai Wegerich (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) \nWilliam Brown (Brookings Institution)\nImplications of Climate Change for Kazakhstan \nReinhard Bodemeyer (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit GIZ)\nLocal coping strategies – the neglected option in tackling climate change in Central Asia \n12:30 – 1:15 PM Lunch  \n1:15 – 2:15 PM Strategies and Challenges of ensuring Food Security in Central Asia \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU) \nKamiljon Akramov (International Food Policy Research Institute)\nAgricultural transformation and food security challenges in Central Asia \nSebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University)\nFood policy in Kazakhstan: domestic stakes\, regional consequences \n2:15 – 2:30 PM Coffee-break \n2:30 – 3:30 PM Kazakhstan as a Eurasian Crossroads. Managing MigrationChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (GWU) \nDejan Kedserovic (International Organization for Migration)\nMigration and Development Nexus Case in Kazakhstan \nMarlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University)\nKazakhstan as a Migration Pole: Regional Opportunities\, Domestic Challenges \n3:30 – 4:30 PM Reception \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW gratefully funded by the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington D.C.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/addressing-soft-security-challenges-in-kazakhstan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260923T052305
CREATED:20200930T161913Z
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SUMMARY:Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:Marlene Laruelle\, George Washington University \nMargarita Assenova\, Jamestown Foundation \nAnara Ibraeva\, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law \nThe Central Asia Program will be debating Kazakhstan’s rapidly changing social landscape by discussing the relationship between social problems and civil society issues. The speakers will investigate the regional diversity\, labor disputes and social problems\, and human rights issues\, and actions taken to address these issues by the central authorities.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/debating-social-issues-and-civil-society-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260923T052305
CREATED:20200930T161906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
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SUMMARY:Kazakh Culture: Legacies and Innovations
DESCRIPTION:9:00 AM OpeningPeter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, George Washington University\nAmbassador Kairat Umarov\, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States \n9:15-10.30 AM Keynote speaker\nAmbassador Olzhas Suleymenov\, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to UNESCO \nQ&A \n10:30-11:00 AM Coffee-break \n11:00 – 12:30 PM Legacies and Innovations in Kazakh Literature\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University) \nAn inconvenient Sage. The Legacy of Abai\nPeter Rollberg (IERES\, George Washington University) \nKazakh Literature in the 19th Century: The Case of the Zar Zaman Poets\nGabriel McGuire (Nazarbaev University) \n  \n‘Imagining Community’ in Soviet Kazakhstan. An Historical Analysis of Narrative on Nationalism in Soviet Kazakh Literature\nDiana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge University) \n12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch \n1:30 – 2:30 PM Politics and Society On the Screen\nChair: Peter Rollberg (IERES\, George Washington University) \nKazakh Cinema through the Looking Glass\nMichael Rouland (Georgetown University) \nThe Kazakh Cinema Industry. A View from the Inside\nGaukhar Noortas (Mount Helix Films Inc.) \n2:30 – 3:30 PM Performing Music and Identity\nChair: Sean Roberts (George Washington University) \nDiscussing Kazakh Musical Identity\nAlma Kunanbaeva (Stanford University) \nFriction and Flows: Transnationalism and Aesthetics of Musical Performance\nMargarethe Adams (Stony Brook University) \n3:30 – 3:45 PM Coffee-break \n3:45 – 4.45 PM The Art Scene: Plurality and Market\nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University) \nThe Contemporary Art Scene in Kazakhstan\nKendal Henry (Public Art Consultant\, CEC Artslink) \nArt of the Daily Life: The Artpologist Collective and the Influences of Kazakhstan\nDaniel Gallegos (Artist and co-founder of The Artpologist Collective) \n4:45 – 6:00 PM Reception\nDombra performance by Olzhas Bayalbayev \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW is gratefully funded by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakh-culture-legacies-and-innovations/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T130000
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CREATED:20200930T161918Z
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SUMMARY:The ATOM project exhibit and art show
DESCRIPTION:To Mark the International Day Against Nuclear Tests Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Kairat Umarov and GW’s Central Asia Program have the honor to invite you to attend The ATOM project exhibit and art show.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-atom-project-exhibit-and-art-show/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130529T110000
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CREATED:20200930T161920Z
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SUMMARY:Traps of Political Succession in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with \nDosym Satpayev\, Director\, Non-governmental Consulting Organization “Risks Assessment Group” \nTolganay Umbetaliyeva\, Director General\, Public Fund “Central Asian Foundation for Democracy” \nAndrey Chebotarev\, Director\, “Alternative” Center for Topical Studies \nRasul Zhumaly\, Lecturer\, S. Demirel University \nAidos Sarym\, Vice president\, Public Fund “Abay-a)parat” \nZamir Karazhan\, Kazakh political observer \nOn the occasion of the publication of the new book The Twilight Zone: Traps of the Transition Era\, the Central Asia Program is happy to invite you for a video-discussion with the Almaty-based authors.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/traps-of-political-succession-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T193000
DTSTAMP:20260923T052305
CREATED:20200930T161922Z
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SUMMARY:Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
DESCRIPTION:Discussion on Kazakh Cinema \nIntroduction: Peter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, GWU \nKazakh Cinema in an Historical Perspective: from Perestroika to Post-Borat Time\nJean Radvanyi\, Professor\, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures\, Paris\, France \nPolitics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film\nMichael Rouland\, co-editor of Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories (I.B.Tauris\, 2013) \nFilm Screening (7:00-8:30 pm)- Killer (1998)\, by Darezhan Omirbaev\nWinner of the ‘Un Certain Regard Award’ at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival \nSince the fall of the Soviet Union\, Kazakhstan’s film industry has experienced major changes along with the rest of a Kazakh society. Through movies\, Kazakh film-makers have been able to explore the new dimensions of their society and begin to create a new cultural history. This event will be a discussion on Kazakh cinema and its role in Kazakh society as it reexamines past events and their narratives. We will then be showing Killer\, Darzehan Omirbaev’s award winning film.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/politics-and-cinema-divergence-in-post-soviet-central-asian-film/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130108T173000
DTSTAMP:20260923T052305
CREATED:20200930T161927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193414Z
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SUMMARY:Diversification of an Energy-Producing Economy Agricultural Policy in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with Richard Pomfret\, Professor of Economics\, University of Adelaide\, Australia \nKazakhstan has used energy revenues to save for the future\, invest in human capital\, and diversify the structure of production with the goal of becoming one of the “fifty most competitive\, dynamically developing countries in the world”. Agriculture has been a key part of the diversification strategy ever since the government committed a billion dollars to the 2003-5 Agriculture and Food Program. Since then agricultural policy has passed through several phases\, mirroring evolving attitudes in Kazakhstan towards the role of government and of the market in economic development. This seminar analyses the content and consequences of agricultural policy\, and agriculture’s role in Kazakhstan’s economic transformation. \nRichard Pomfret\, Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide\, Australia\, and adviser to the Australian government and to international organizations such as the World Bank\, Asian Development Bank\, United Nations Development Programme\, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/diversification-of-an-energy-producing-economy-agricultural-policy-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T170000
DTSTAMP:20260923T052305
CREATED:20200930T161930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Life Styles and Narratives in Kazakhstan: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:A workshop held in conjunction with the exhibition “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan” currently at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution until December 2\, 2012. \nNomadism has been a key aspect of culture in the Eurasian space\, especially on the Kazakh steppes\, throughout the centuries. The Russian colonization and the Soviet Union drastically transformed the Kazakh society in the 19th and 20th century. Since independence in 1991\, the legacy of nomadism has been rehabilitated by the political authorities in their nation building schemes. \nThe society has also participated in reconstructing symbols of the nomadic past: they have become objects of memory and research\, but also objects of artistic inspiration\, and commercial branding. This workshop invites a team of experts to discuss the contemporary use of the concept of nomadism from various angles.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/nomadic-life-styles-and-narratives-in-kazakhstan-then-and-now/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120516T173000
DTSTAMP:20260923T052305
CREATED:20200930T161933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
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SUMMARY:Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with Sean Roberts\, Associate Professor and Director\, International Development Studies Program\, GWU \nWith the fall of the Soviet Union\, the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan\, like many others in the former USSR\, began to resurrect and re-invent traditional cultural practices that had been repressed during the Soviet period as either contrary to socialist atheism or as remnants of a “feudal past.” These traditions included daily practices and rituals based in local communities as well as the informal structure of neighborhood governance that regulates such practices. Since the 1990s\, the importance of these neighborhood structures and practices to Uyghur daily life in Kazakhstan have gradually increased\, and most recently the informal structure of neighborhood governance has even been scaled up to create a Republic-wide organization that represents Uyghur interests to the government of Kazakhstan. This lecture will discuss the evolution of local Uyghur neighborhoods in Kazakhstan over the last twenty years\, focusing on these communities’ roles in both cultural resurrection and political mobilization. \nSean R. Roberts\, PhD is a professor at the Elliott school and the Director of the International Development Studies program. He is a cultural anthropologist who has done extensive fieldwork among the Uyghur people of Central Asia and China\, and worked for USAID in Central Asia on democracy programs. In 1996 he produced a documentary film on the Uyghur people titled\, Waiting for Uighurstan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/uyghur-neighborhoods-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan,Uyghur Studies
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