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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T183000
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Needle
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Rashid Nugmanov (Kazakhstan\, 1988)\nIn the bleak filmscape of glasnost\, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period\, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream\, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism. \nA young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi\, the late rock ‘n’ roll legend from the St. Petersburg band “Kino”) returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend\, Dina (Marina Smirnova)\, becoming a drug addict and himself becoming involved in the bizarre life of the city’s underworld. In an attempt to save Dina\, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea\, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured\, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate\, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers\, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock ‘n’ roll star\, eccentric leader of the “Sound of Mu” band and the future star of  Taxi Blues  \, Pyotr Mamonov)\, when one of them stabs him in a deserted park. \nRead more: http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Hi-Ik/Igla.html#ixzz3DbZ2w63W\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-needle/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T160000
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SUMMARY:The Transition Economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Old Habits\, New Approaches
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]\nwith \nFarrukh Irnazarov\,\nVisiting Research Associate\, Johns Hopkins University \nand \nRoman Vakulchuk\,\nSenior Research Fellow\, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)\, Oslo\, Norway \nThis presentation assesses the market transition path of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by studying state–business interactions in two countries. It evaluates the role of the state and private economic actors in shaping the institutional structure of the economies and identifies the type of the emerging market-oriented economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The study to be presented is based on 375 semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives of political and economic elites in two countries in 2009–2013. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-transition-economies-of-kazakhstan-and-uzbekistan-old-habits-new-approaches/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140925T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140928T000000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
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SUMMARY:First International Conference on Uyghur Studies - History\, Culture\, and Society
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Uyghurs are one of the ten most populous stateless nations in the world. While they have a long history of cultural accomplishments and political influences\, they have remained marginal in international scholarship given their ambiguous position both in regional studies and in geopolitics. Nonetheless\, given their contribution to global and regional historical and cultural processes\, there has developed a transnational community of scholars whose research is focused on the Uyghur people’s history\, culture\, society. This conference is the first attempt to bring together a broad spectrum of this international community of scholars\, drawing from the academic communities of the Americas\, Russia\, Turkey\, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Hopefully\, it will serve as a basis for future transnational collaboration on the history\, culture\, and society of Uyghurs throughout the world.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”wpb_regularsize” href=”https://docs.google.com/a/gwmail.gwu.edu/forms/d/1zSMEKL3egeU15iy09JZH9_6cU7Ylu1-usbUoZhlRJyI/viewform”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Thursday\, September 25\, 2014\, Lindner Commons\, 6th floor\n 9:00-10:00am      Opening \n 10:00-11:00am    Session 1: The Policy Debate \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nSean R. Roberts (George Washington University)\nMichael Dillon (Independent scholar\, formerly Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham)\nGardner Bovington (Indiana University)\nHenryk Szadziewski (Uyghur Human Rights Project)\nKilic Kanat (Penn State University\, USA) \n11:00-11:30am Coffee break \n11:30-12:45pm    Session 2: Roundtable Discussion – Uyghurs in Geopolitics Over Time \nChair: Sean R. Roberts (George Washington University) \nDru Gladney (Pacific Basin Institute\, Pomona College)\nJames Millward (Georgetown University)\nValerii Barmin(Altai State Pedagogical Academy\, Russia)\nYunus Koç (Hacettepe University\, Turkey) \n12:45-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-3:30pm         Session 3: Uyghur Social Cohesion\, Identity\, and Resistance \nChair and Discussant: Dru Gladney (Pomona College) \nMichael Dillon (Independent scholar\, formerly Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham)\nReligion\, repression and traditional Uyghur culture in southern Xinjiang: Kashghar and Khotan (2010-14) \nNathan Light (Professor\, ​Department of Linguistics and Philology\, Uppsala University)\nUyghur Social Networking and Chinese Censorship: Before and After 2009 \nRemi Castets (Michel de Montaigne University\, Bordeaux\, France)\nUyghur Islam and State Control Policies in Xinjiang \nSean R. Roberts (George Washington University)\n‘Uyghurstan is Where the Home is’. “Self-Governmentality” and the Maintenance of Uyghur National Identity without a State \nRachel Harris (SOAS\, University of London\, UK)\nIntangible Cultural Heritage and Illegal Gatherings: reflections on the Uyghur Meshrep \n3:30-4:00pm Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm         Session 4: Xinjiang under Chinese Influence \nChair and discussant: Michael Dillon (Independent Scholar) \nGardner Bovington (Indiana University)\nTaking a Mulligan: New Minzu Policies in Search of Appropriate Problems \nChienyu Shih (Chienhsin University\, Taiwan)\nAnother Round of Power Struggle: Xinjiang and Beijing Current Ethnic Policy Debate \nJoanne Smith (Newcastle University\, UK)\nThe Redistribution of Wealth or Consolidation of Majority Han Power? The ‘National Partner Assistance Programme’ \nKilic Kanat (Penn State University\, USA)\n‘War on Terror’ and ‘Radicalism’ as Diversionary Strategies for PRC Regime \nKara Abramson (Independent scholar\, USA)\nUnderstanding and Promoting Human Rights in Xinjiang: Challenges and Opportunities \n7:00pm Dinner for Participants[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Friday\, September 26\, 2014\, State Room\, 7th floor \n9:00-11:00am      Session 5: The Transformation of Uyghur Language and Landscapes \nChair and Discussant: Sean R. Roberts (The George Washington University) \nStanley Toops (Miami University\, Ohio\, USA)\nThe Demography of the Uyghur: Spatial Results of the 2010 Census of Xinjiang \nArienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)\nThe Emergence of Diasporic Uyghur Language \nGiulia Cabras (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales-INALCO\, France)\nUyghur-Chinese Code Switching in Xinjiang’s Urban Areas: Interactional and Sociocultural Aspects \nErkin Emet (Ankara University\, Turkey)\nThe Effect of Chinese language on Uyghur language \nJean-Paul Loubes (Ecole d’Architecture Paris-La Villette\, France; Laboratory Architecture of Paris-La Villette)\nThe Transformation of the Oasis Cities in Xinjiang: the Case of Kashgar \n11:00-11:30am Coffee break \n11:30-1:15pm    Session 6: The Forgotten Diaspora? Uyghurs in Post-Soviet Central Asia \nChair and Discussant: Remi Castets (Science PO-CERI\, Paris) \nIvan Safranchuk (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)\nGreat Game? Politics\, Business\, and Security in Central Asia \nAblet Kamalov (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Almaty)\nDiaspora and Identity: Discourse of Homeland (Watan) in the Uyghur communities of post-Soviet Central Asian Countries \nKhamit Khamraev (Independent scholar. President of Uyghur international PEN centre\, Almaty\, Kazakhstan)\nUyghur Diaspora in Kazakhstan from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization \nIlkhamzhanMusaev (Independentscholar\, Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan)\nFormation and Development of the Uyghur Ethno-Cultural Identity in Kyrgyzstan \nGuzel Maitdinova (Center for geopolitical Studies\, Russian-Tajik University\, Dushanbe)\nThe Uyghur Diaspora in Tajikistan. History\, Culture and Current Situation \n1:15-2:00pm Lunch \n2:00-3:30pm         Session 7: Uyghurs in Multinational Empires \nChair and Discussant: Nabijan Tursun (Independent Scholar\, DC) \nYuliy Drobyshev (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nSome Features of Interrelations Between the Uighur Khanate and China \nAleksandr Kadyrbaev (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nUyghurs in the Mongol empires\, 13-14th centuries \nLiudmila Chvyr (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Moscow)\nThe Uyghur model of Ethnocultural Interactions in the 19th century \nDinara Dubrovskaia (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nQing Dynasty and Uyghurs. Controversy over the Question of Reconquering Xinjiang \n3:30-4:00pm Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm         Session 8: Russian and Soviet Influences on Uyghurs’ Destiny \nChair and Discussant: James Millard (Georgetown University) \nAleksandr Vasiliev (Institute for Oriental Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nDocuments from Russian and Ottoman Archives on the Destiny of Bek-Kuli Beg\, Son of Jakub-beg \nValerii Barmin (Professor\, Head of Chair\, Altai State Pedagogical Academy)\nThe activities of the Komintern on the creation of a revolutionary party in Xinjiang in the 1920s \nSabine Trebinjac (Professor\, Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociologie (LESC)\, CNRS and Nanterre University\, France)\nAnthropological Survey in the Komintern Archives: The Announced Bankruptcy of the Soviet Annexation of Chinese Turkestan \nVladimir Boyko (Professor of Asian Studies at Altai State Pedagogical Academy; Research Associate at Altai State University\, Barnaul)\nEthnicity\, Conflict and Development of Xinjiang 1910s-2010s in Russian\, Soviet and Post-Soviet Scholarship and Analysis \nAnna Bondarenko (Independent Scholar\, formerly research fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies\, Academy of Science\, Moscow)\nState of the Research on Xinjiang in Russia in the 2000s \nNabijan Tursun (Independent Scholar)\nUyghur Ethnic-Political Orientation and the Soviet Union \n7:00pm Dinner for Participants[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Saturday\, September 27\, 2014\, Lindner Commons. 6th floor \n9:30-11:00am      Session 9: New Discoveries of Uyghur Ancient History and Culture \nChair and Discussant: Victor Mair (Pennsylvania University) \nDmitri Vasiliev (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Moscow\, Russia)\nUyghur Fortress in Tuva and new Discoveries of Turkic Runic Inscriptions \nSergey Dmitriev (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Asian and African States\, Moscow State University)\nBilingual ‘Stela of Merits of Generations’ of Iduq-quts\, Kings of Gaochang as an example of Uyghur historiography \nRisalat Karimova (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Almaty)\nUyghur Religious Places in the 14-19th centuries. The Birth a new Architectural Style \nAblet Semet (Department of Turcology and Centralasien Studies\, Georg-August-University Goettingen)\nNew Studies and Results Concerning the Old Uyghur ‘Maitrisimit nom bitig’ \n11:00-11:30am Coffee break \n11:30-1:00pm      Session 10: Uyghur Oral and Written Traditions Through the Ages \nChair and Discussant:Dmitri Vasiliev (Academy of Sciences\, Moscow\, Russia) \nDolkun Kamberi (Radio Free Asia\, Washington DC)\nBrief History of Uyghur Literature \nRian Thum (Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Loyola University New Orleans)\nText and Practice in Uyghur Islam \nMamtimin Ala (Independent scholar\, Australia)\nBetween Utopia and Dystopia: Uyghur intellectuals from 1949 to 2000 \nTatiana Anikeeva (Institute of Oriental Studies\, Academy of Sciences\, Moscow)\nOn Some Mythological Plots in the Ancient Uyghur Literature \n 1:00-2:00pm Lunch and Wrap-Up[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/first-international-conference-on-uyghur-studies-history-culture-and-society/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Uyghur Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
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SUMMARY:Regulating Religion in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]\nA Roundtable Discussion with \nCatherine Cosman\, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom \nDillorom Abdulloeva\, Human Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder and President of Tashabbus \nMirakmal Niyazmatov\, Lawyer and Co-Founder of Tashabbus \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nCentral Asian governments have incorporated their majority religions in efforts to define post-Soviet national identities. At the same time\, however\, they want to control growing levels of religious affiliation\, especially among Muslims\, that might act as potential alternative sources to state power. These dual aims are reflected in laws and policies that seek to define the legal limits of the majority religion and also to control the public expression of all religion. Common elements of Central Asian religion laws include: religious groups must undergo complex and intrusive state registration so as to gain legal status; members of unregistered religious groups face fines\, police raids and possible terms of imprisonment; official permits are required to produce\, import\, export and distribute religious materials which can only be sold in officially-approved sites. Governments also strictly limit religious education\, children’s participation in religious activities and the public wearing of religious clothing. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nCatherine Cosman will discuss Central Asian laws and policies relating to freedom of religion or belief.  Extremism laws in Central Asia\, punish alleged extremist\, terrorist\, or revolutionary activities without also requiring acts of violence or incitement to imminent violence.  Governments use concern over Islamic extremism to justify criminal penalties against individuals who are alleged to have participated in religious organizations deemed extremist by the state.  Central Asian states usually provide scant public information on religious groups or materials banned for their alleged extremism. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nDillorom Abdulloeva will discuss Uzbekistan’s headscarf/hijab ban in schools\, universities or places of employment. The law uses unclear and confusing terminology for religious attire and for what constitutes a public place. While Uzbekistan’s Committee on Religious Affairs has officially stated that there is no religious attire in Islam\, courts have sentenced women for wearing the hijab in public.  Such vague laws contribute to selective legal enforcement in Uzbekistan. Furthermore\, this ban is contrary to Uzbekistan’s Constitution\, and also contradicts the country’s international human rights obligations. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nMirakmal Niyazmatov will discuss a 2014 Uzbekistan decree on religious materials. The State Committee for Religious Affairs will give its “expert conclusion” on “religious” materials and then a “relevant government body” will decide to allow or ban them. Under this decree\, the government can inspect almost any literature produced and/or imported. Officials can also inspect any electronic device with data storage capacity.  This decree’s vague and expansive provisions can be abused by government officials and violate constitutional rights and Uzbekistan’s international human rights obligations. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/regulating-religion-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T203000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161814Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Warriors of the Steppe 
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nDirected by Akan Sataev (Kazakhstan\, 2012) \n\n\n\nA universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism\, about love\, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-warriors-of-the-steppe/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T180000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
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SUMMARY:Old' and 'New' Political Islam
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]with Emmanuel Karagiannis\, King’s College\, London[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nDr. Emmanuel Karagiannis is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Defence Studies\, King’s College London. He was educated in Great Britain (London South Bank University\, Reading University\, Hull University) and the United States (University of Pennsylvania). He has travelled extensively throughout the Caucasus\, Central Asia\, and the Middle East to conduct research. He published\, among others\, Political Islam in Central Asia. The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir (London: Routledge\, 2010). \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”grey”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]\nPolitical Islam in Central Asia has long been synonymous with clandestine groups\, such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and Hizb ut-Tahrir. However\, political Islam is a much larger movement which includes legal political parties and individual politicians. It will be argued that there is a new generation of Islamist leaders in Central Asia that ought to be studied. \nTursunbai Bakir Uulu in Kyrgyzstan\, Bekbolat Tleukhan in Kazakhstan\, and Mohiddin Kabiri in Tajikistan share a modest Islamist agenda\, while they publicly pronounce their commitment to the democratic process. As opposed to the “old” political Islam of IMU and Hizb ut-Tahrir which seek to establish an Islamic state\, the new Islamists of Central Asia seek a more public role for the Islamic faith without confronting state authorities. In effect\, they have favored a partial Islamization of their respective societies by emphasizing the important role of Islam in national culture. \nThe rise of a new political Islam in Central Asia has concurred with larger developments in the Muslim world. The success of AKP\, Ennahda\, and the Muslim Brotherhood has served as an example for those Central Asian Islamists who do not seek a radical political transformation and favour change from within.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/old-and-new-political-islam/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140709T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140709T160000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161756Z
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SUMMARY:Politics\, Religion\, and Conflict Online in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Noah Tucker (Registan.net\, and CAP associate) \nSarah Kendzior (Al Jazeera and CAP associate) \nCourtney Ranson (Media research consultant) \nThe Internet and social media are slowly beginning to revolutionize the Islamic marketplace of ideas for Central Asians. Similar to processes identified by scholars like Peter Mandaville in other contexts\, Central Asia’s access to digital Islam has been delayed by low Internet penetration\, authoritarian controls on media and communication\, and\, in part\, by Central Asia’s peripheral status in the Muslim world. Advances in communications technology and large-scale migration are rapidly eroding these obstacles\, however\, allowing Central Asians to increasingly participate in trans-national Islamic discourses through digital media. \nAs Central Asians engage with the global Muslim community\, debates from other social and political contexts seep into local discourse. Religious quarrels between Saudi Salafi scholars and competing styles of Islamically-inspired women’s fashion from Turkey or Egypt more often inform debates about how to be a good Muslim among young Uzbeks and Kazakhs who have no personal connection to the Middle East. While most of the content in the marketplace centers around personal piety\, others topics come with new political baggage\, including calls to choose sides among fratricidal jihadist factions in Syria or al Qaida influenced hate rhetoric against other Muslims groups many Central Asians have never before encountered. The process of engaging in this global marketplace remains slow and affects only a minority of the population\, but it is growing at a rapid pace and remains mostly undocumented and unmonitored by both academic and government analysts. \nThis workshop will examine some of the many ways digital media permit people\, groups and ideas previously isolated or excluded from religious and political debates in the region to circle back and re-engage networks in their countries of origin. Uzbeks forced to flee theirhomeland after the Andijon events\, for example\, worked together to build Uzbek language internet resources to document their experiences\, to tell their own version of the Andijon tragedy that starkly contrasted official versions\, and organize activists inside the country and scattered around the world seeking justice for this and countless other injustices. \nUzbeks or Tajiks living abroad for long periods as part of growing diaspora communities build on these same technologies and networks to preserve and distribute indigenous religious work banned in their home countries\, like dozens of videos of sermons by Andijon imam Abduvali Qori Mirzoev\, who disappeared from the Tashkent airport in 1995 and is presumed to have been killed in the custody of Uzbekistani security services. But they also acquire new language skills and specialized education that enable them to translate Islamic media produced in Arabic\, Turkish or even English into their home languages\, introducing popular and sometimes proscribed texts into regional languages\, from works by Said Qutb and Maulana Maududi to popular reformist televangelists. \nThese émigrés act as bridges between information environments\, often creating branded digital media studios dedicated to bringing audiovisual content they believe is religiously or politically meaningful into their home language networks where it can be quickly shared by Bluetooth between cellphones even without an internet connection. Viral videos by popular Saudi clerics like Muhammad al Arifi calling on Muslims to rage over injustice in Syria cross into Central Asian language networks quickly by multiple vectors. Interviews by out-offavor members of the Karimov family with foreign news networks or footage from Ukrainian television that challenge narratives about the violence there this year Russian state-owned television network propaganda dramatically expands the range of narratives and perspectives available to internet users beyond what they receive in heavily censored state-approved media. \nTies between global communities of Central Asians with better access to information sometimes pushes the state to allow the debates to expand\, creating new space for those in the region to discuss issues that affect them. Compatriots abroad also at times introduce new material with the goal of drawing Central Asians out–to leverage a sense of global solidarity they build into mobilization for external causes\, for foreign civil wars\, to offer readers what they claim is a chance to create meaning for their lives by dying for a greater cause. This workshop will examine the way politics\, religion\, and conflict intersect online for Central Asians and discuss the way global engagement on these issues through the internet and social media might shape domestic discourse and ultimately the future of the region. \nThe CERIA Initiative is generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/politics-religion-and-conflict-online-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:CERIA,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140624T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140624T190000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17363-1403627400-1403636400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Reassessing the Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia\nThe Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar\n\nJune 24\, 2014\, 4:30-7pm\nLindner Commons\, 6th Floor\nGeorge Washington University\n1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington DC\n\nThe Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. \n4:30 pm. Welcome\n– Chantal de Jonge Oudraat\, Executive Director\, SIPRI-North America \n4.40 pm. Introductory remarks\nThe Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia Do we ask the right questions?\n– Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program\, GWU \n4.50 pm. Speakers:\nShifting from Regional Water Approach to National Solutions. The Case of Uzbekistan\n– Nariya Khasanova\, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan)\nHow Local Rural Governments can respond to Energy Shortages in Tajikistan\n– Said Yakhyoev Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan) \nDiscussion \n6:00 pm. Reception \nCentral Asia Fellows\n \nSaid Yakhyoev holds master’s degrees in Political Science from OSCE Academy and in International Peacebuilding from the University of Notre Dame. Said’s interest and experience are in good governance in the extractive industries and its linkages to conflict. He has worked at a non-profit Bank Information Center in Washington\, D.C. where he promoted transparency and sustainable policies of the international financial institutions investing in extractive industries. He works at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan promoting development policies and cross-border trade. During his fellowship he studied the ways Tajik rural administrations could answer their energy needs based on the example of the Rasht Valley. \n \nNariya Khasanova graduated from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent\, where she studied International Economic Relations. She has undergone two internships at the UN (UNDP Office in Uzbekistan; UNDP Bratislava Regional Center). She has also been working on an Asian Development Bank Project in Uzbekistan. Her interest in development\, peace\, and conflict studies led her to the UN Mandated University for Peace\, where she obtained her master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Governance and Peace. During her fellowship she studied deconstructed the Rogun issue by demonstrating the need to shift to national solutions in terms of water use. \nThe Central Asia Fellowship Program\nCentral Asia has a chronic and acute lack of public policy experts and the opportunities for young professionals to hone their analytical skills are few and far between. The lack of a robust pool of public policy experts\, compounded by the entrenched ideological divide existing between civil society and academia\, has had a detrimental effect on the transparency and vigor of policy debate in Central Asia. \nThe CAP-SIPRI North America Central Asia Fellowship Program is intended for young professionals—scholars\, government officials\, policy experts\, human rights and democracy activists—who want to enhance their research and analytical skills and seek to become public policy leaders in their respective countries. More generally\, the fellowship program seeks to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and build lasting intellectual networks between the Central Asian and the US scholarly and policy communities.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-third-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140613T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17365-1402653600-1402765200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kazakhstan Beyond Economic Success - Exploring Social and Cultural Changes in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Organized by The George Washington University’s Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)\nFunded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) Uppsala University\, Sweden \nJune 13-14\, 2014 \nKazakhstan Beyond Economic Success – Exploring Social and Cultural Changes in Eurasia
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstan-beyond-economic-success-exploring-social-and-cultural-changes-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T163000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17294-1401462000-1401467400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model: Changing notions of marginality in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:with Anita Sengupta\, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies\, Kolkata\, India  \nThe Turkish Model or the Turkish Developmental Alternative was promoted in the Central Asian Republics immediately following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Model emphasised the ideal of a ”secular\, democratic\, liberal society”as a model for the post- Soviet Turkic world and in the process encouraged a”Turkic” rhetoric that emphasized connection between the two regions based on acommon ancestry. While Turkey was presented as ‘’the’’ model of development fora vast region there was also the emergence of a critique of this ‘’modern’’ model from within the state itself particularly in terms of how the Turkish state continued to exclude certain groups from its definition of who constitutes its “relevant’’citizen. Gezi Park and subsequent events within Turkey have brought into questionthe democratic credentials of the state. This presentation questions the myth andrhetoric of a model that emerges in the face of transitions and recedes asalternatives emerge from within.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/myth-and-rhetoric-of-the-turkish-model-changing-notions-of-marginality-in-turkey/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140520T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140520T170000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194110Z
UID:17228-1400598000-1400605200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Social Media and the Online Debate in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with Navbahor Imamova\, Voice of America \nThe emergence of the Internet and the growing participation of people\, especially youth\, in social media constitute positive change for Central Asia. Uzbekistan as well as the other four countries in the region – Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – has become more connected to the world than ever before. Despite wide-ranging political restrictions and bans\, the flow of information through social media is unstoppable. While some debate whether these governments could shut down access to social media altogether to curtail politically sensitive discussion\, this author contends that by doing so\, they would be making a serious and ultimately unsuccessful gamble. What drives the audience is the quality of the content and the way it is communicated. What keeps people engaged is the sense of forward motion\, the anticipation of what will come next and having a desire to shape it. The power and promise of social media for Central Asia is that it gives an unprecedented opportunity for critical thinking and the discussion of the region’s challenging realities to a wider audience than had hitherto been possible.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/social-media-and-the-online-debate-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194110Z
UID:17354-1400178600-1400185800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Light Thief
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyzstan\, 2010) \nThe main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge energetic system and he becomes the binding bridge between the geopolitical problems of post-soviet space and the common people. The economic devastation of the country had an enormous impact on the industrial workers and yet despite the upheaval\, these people did not seize to love and suffer\, to have and be friends and to enjoy their lives. In particular our resilient electrician\, who possesses a wonderful and open heart. He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city\, but he also spreads the light of love\, loyalty\, life and mainly laughter.- Written by Anonymous on IMDB \n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-light-thief/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194110Z
UID:17230-1398956400-1398963600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Revolution and Art in the Kyrgyz Republic
DESCRIPTION:with Sally Cummings\, St. Andrews University \nProfessor Sally Nikoline Cummings teaches in the School of InternationalRelations\, University of St Andrews. Her more recent publications includeUnderstanding Central Asia (2012)\, Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing theMiddle East and Central Asia (co-ed\, 2012) and Symbolism and Power in CentralAsia: Politics of the Spectacular (ed. 2010). In late 2009 she commissioned two prominent Kyrgyz artists to develop over a three-year period twelve visual art exhibits that captured the emotions surrounding the 2005 transfer of power. The resulting exhibition\, (…) Ketsin!\, premièred in London in May 2013. Professor Cummings narrates here the story of this exhibition and what it tells us about political intention and art\, the nature of the 2005 events and the artist in times of political upheaval.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/revolution-and-art-in-the-kyrgyz-republic/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194110Z
UID:17304-1398438000-1398443400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Post-2014 Afghanistan: The US Military Exit and Political Stability
DESCRIPTION:With Dr. Timor Sharan  \nThis talk will provide an Afghan perspective of what U.S. military withdrawal will mean for political stability and state survival post-2014. The 2001 international intervention\, created a ‘network state’ whereby state and political networks became partners in state building. This has produced a state that is underpinned by informal power structures. A successful international military exit from Afghanistan will depend on the stability of these informal networks in addition to the strength of Afghan National Security Forces and reconciliation with the Taliban. This talk will also address the recent presidential election in Afghanistan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/post-2014-afghanistan-the-us-military-exit-and-political-stability/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140424T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17351-1398364200-1398371400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Tulpan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Sergei Dvortsovoi (Kazakhstan\, 2009) \nOn the steppes of Kazakhstan\, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal\, her husband Ondas\, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman\, tough and strong. It’s dry\, dusty\, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop\, Asa\, a dreamer who’s slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy\, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He\, his friend Boni\, and Ondas call on Tulpan\, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa’s later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa’s dreams? What about the other lambs. – Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com> \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-tulpan/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140423T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17322-1398268800-1398274200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Turkmenistan: Evolutions and Permanence
DESCRIPTION:with \nLuca  Anceschi\, University of Glasgow\nMyles Smyth\, IREX\nSebastien Peyrouse\, The George Washington University\n\nThis roundtable explores the evolution of Berdymukhamedov’s Turkmenistan. The second president reoriented few aspects of the country’s previous policy\, and the long-awaited shifts in domestic and foreign policy have remained limited.Today\, Turkmenistan faces steep challenges\, among them rebuilding the education and health systems\, and managing public expectations of standard of living. To what extent does today’s regime differ from the preceding dictatorship in terms of domestic policy? Has the country’s selective ‘neutrality’ brought Turkmenistan an efficient way to deal with its regional environment? How are the post-Niayzovelites sharing resources and redistributing them?
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/turkmenistan-evolutions-and-permanence/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140421T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140421T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17198-1398067200-1398101400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Youth in Kazakhstan: Societal Changes\, Challenges and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:9:00am Registration and Breakfast\n\n9:15am Opening\n\nPeter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, The George Washington University\nAmbassador Kairat Umarov\, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States\n\n9:30­‐10:00am Keynote speaker\n\nAmbassador Richard Hoagland\, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary\, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs\, US Department of State\n\n10:00­‐11:45am Session 1: Youth Identities. National Trends and the Globalization Process\n\nChair: Marlene Laruelle\, The George Washington University\n\nDouglas Blum\, Providence University\nThe Social Process of Globalization: A Case Study from Kazakhstan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStefan B. Kirmse\, Humboldt University\, Berlin\nSimilarities and Differences Between Young People’s lives in Central Asia\n\nAzamat Junisbai\, Pitzer College\nAre the Young truly Different? Youth Opinion about Selected Social and Political Issues in Kazakhstan\n\nSerik Beysembayev\, Sociological Center Strategy\, Almaty\nPolitical and Ideological Trends among Kazakhstani Youth\n\n11:45­‐12:00am Coffee Break \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00­‐1:30pm Session 2: Youth Subcultures. Questioning Social Norms \n\nChair: Douglas Blum\, Providence University\n\nMegan Rancier\, Bowling Green State University\nThe ‘Spirit of Tengri’: Spirituality\, Nationalism\, and Emerging Trends in Kazakh Ethno­‐Pop\n\nErik Aasland\, Biola University\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetwixt and Between: Kazakhstani Youth Language Ideologies in a Globalized World\n\nOlena Nikolayenko\, Fordham University\nMedia Consumption and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity among Youth in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan\n\n1:30­‐2:15pm Lunch\n\n2:15‐3:45pm Session 3: Youth Empowerment Strategies\n\nChair: Sean Roberts\, The George Washington University\n\nSayasat Nurbek\, Director of the Nur Otan Institute of Public Policy\nThe Bolashak Scholarship Program: Ripple Effect and Non­-Monetary Advantages\n\nPavel Koktyshev\, Kazakhstan’s Young Entrepreneurs Club\nInitiatives and Limits of Youth Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan\n\nErlan Karin\, Visiting Professor\, American University\nA Sociological Portrait of Youth Radical Religious Groups \n\n3:45‐4:00pm Coffee Break \n\n4:00­‐5:30pm Session 4: Media as the Sounding Board of Youth\n\nChair: Peter Rollberg\, The George Washington University\n\nAibek Aldabergenov\, Alash Media Group Holding\, Tengri News\nThe Development of Internet Media in Kazakhstan\n\nRauan Kenzhekhanuly\, Chairman\, WikiBilim Foundation\nKazakh­-speaking Internet and the National Identity Issue\n\nOleg Katsiev\, Internews\, Almaty Internews TV and Social Media Projects\n\n5:30-6:30pm Reception\n\nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW is gratefully funded by the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington D.C. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/youth-in-kazakhstan-societal-changes-challenges-and-opportunities/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140417T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17240-1397732400-1397739600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Magic of Mugham
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-magic-of-mugham/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140416T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17303-1397664000-1397669400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Security Challenges and Scenarios for Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with Erlan Karin\, Visiting Professor\, American University\n\nErlan Karin will discuss the diverse security challenges\, both external and internal\, that the Central Asian countries currently face. He will explore the presidential successions\, possible scenarios\, and present four different prospects for Central Asia\, its stability and its interaction within the wider region.Dr. Erlan Karin leads the Council of Direction for the Center for Security Program in Kazakhstan. Prior to that he was Chair of the Presidential Administration’s Department ofInternal Policy (2008)\, and Secretary of the Nur-Otan Party (2013). He has directed several analytical centers such as the Central Asian Agency for Political Research and theInternational Institute of Contemporary Policies. He works on security issues\, terrorism\, the\nrole of security services and questions of political succession.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/security-challenges-and-scenarios-for-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140402T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17254-1396454400-1396459800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Diversified Development: Making the Most of Natural Resources in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:with\, Ivailo Izvorski\, The World Bank\n\nEconomic development discussions in Eurasia often become debates about diversification. For aregion that is resource-rich\, this is to be expected. Eurasian economies have in many ways become less diversified during the last two decades. At the same time\, people are much better off today thanthey were in the 1990s: poverty has been cut in half\, incomes have increased fivefold; and educationand health have improved. Eurasia’s economies have also become more integrated with the globaleconomy and more productive at home. And the region has also become better at efficientlyconverting natural wealth into productive capital: since the mid-2000s it has built more in assets thanthe mineral wealth it has used up.  But most countries in Eurasia have yet to learn the main lessonfrom the experience of resource rich countries in other parts of the world. In brief\, what distinguishessuccess from failure are the institutions used to manage economic volatility\, ensure high qualityeducation\, and provide a competition regime that levels the playing field for enterprise. Developmentsuccess in resource-rich economies comes from more diversified asset portfolios–a better balancebetween natural resources\, built capital\, and economic institutions. “DiversifiedDevelopment” elaborates on these lessons and provides practical recommendations for twelve countries in the former Soviet Union.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/diversified-development-making-the-most-of-natural-resources-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140325T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17301-1395763200-1395768600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Are US strategic interests in Azerbaijan at risk?
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Farhad Aliyev\, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute \nThe current US policy of disengagement from Southern Eurasia may have  a negative impact upon the US strategic interests in the region in the long-run\, with Azerbaijan becoming more vulnerable to falling under Russia’s influence and having to manage a difficult relationship to Iran. Moreover\, domestic evolutions are on their way: roll back in democratization and the influence of changes in values among the youth\, especially under the influence of Turkey’s internal changes\, may make the US position in the country more difficult.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/are-us-strategic-interests-in-azerbaijan-at-risk/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140321T110000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17296-1395392400-1395399600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:International Water Day
DESCRIPTION:With\n\n Marlene Laruelle\, Central Asia Program\, George Washington University\n\nJulia Collins\, Women and Water Project\n\nMarcus King\, George Washington University\n\nBarbara Miller\, Global Gender Program\, George Washington University\n\nAmanda Klasing\, Human Rights Watch\n\nRebecca Fishman\, WASH Advocates\n\nKara Gerson\, Voss Foundation\n\nIn 1993\, the United Nations declared March 22nd as the official “World Day for Water”\,with the aim to raise awareness and focus attention on sustainably managing thisimportant resource. This year World Water Day focuses on the interplay of Energy andWater. In honor of this day\, the State Department-funded Women and Water Project atGW’s Elliott School\, along with WASH Advocates\, invite you to a roundtable breakfastevent to discuss energy and water challenges and share knowledge on improvingmanagement and governance through enhanced participation of women and socialinclusion.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/international-water-day/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T203000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17350-1395340200-1395347400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Orator
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Yusuf Razykov (Uzbekistan\, 1999) \nA historical drama. The meetings and marches of the Red Revolution change the life of the poor Iskander. Because he knows Russian\, he becomes an interpreter for the new government at first\, and then an active orator popularizing the new regime. His fame and popularity grow and he enjoys being in the spotlight. Later\, he understands that the new system entered his home and changed his personal life as well. He has three wives\, harmoniously co-existing in his home\, and now he finds a fourth — Mariam Fazilovna\, head of the Revolutionary Committee. The epic story ends with the birth of Mariam and Iskander’s son\, the death of Mariam in a jail and Iskander’s renunciation of his wives and son. The story takes place during the 1930s\, the period of khudzhum – the Bolshevik’s forced liberation of Central Asian women and the symbolical burnings of their traditional veils. – Kino Kultura \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-orator/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T140000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17320-1395318600-1395324000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:with John Schoeberlein\, Nazarbayev University \nThe resurgence of religion in the post-Soviet space has been accompanied by heightened appeals to secularism as a social and political order.  Most research on secularism in Eurasian contexts —and indeed\, in general — has focused on the top-down institutional construction of the secular order. Furthermore\, scholarship on post-Soviet societies tends often to present social construction as a largely top-down process; this being a legacy of the Soviet context where a state with high ambitions for penetrating and transforming society was at the center of most analysis of social process. John Schoeberlein will explore the ways in which bottom-up processes shape the formation of secularism in post-communist states. Drawing on an ethnographic perspective from field research in Central Asia and the Caucasus\, he will make an argument that what might be called “secular sensibilities” of people who inhabit all levels of the social process are a crucial factor in shaping the ways that religion has assumed a new role in social and political processes.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/bottom-up-secularism-in-the-top-down-states-of-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140312T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T180000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17233-1394638200-1394733600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Unique Role of the American University of Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The American University of Central Asia and the George Washington University’s Central Asia Program would like you to invite you to join us on March 12\, 2014. After the American and NATO pullout from Afghanistan\, AUCA will be one of the few remaining sustainable institutions in CentralAsia promoting free and critical thought. The purpose of the event is to raise the level of awareness about AUCA and the unique role it plays in the wider Central Asian region.   \n\nWith\nLynne Tracy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia\nAndrew Wachtel\, President\,AUCA\nAndrew Wilder\, vice president of South & Central Asia programs\, US Institute of Peace\n\n4:30 – 6:00 What Leaving Afghanistan Means for Central Asia\n\n6:00 – 7:00 Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-unique-role-of-the-american-university-of-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17204-1393417800-1393423200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing
DESCRIPTION:with Karipbek Kuyukov\, ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador and Artist\, and Roman Vassilenko\, Ambassador-at-Large\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan \nThe ATOM Project (Abolish Testing Our Mission) is an international campaign designed to do more than create awareness surrounding the human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons testing. The ATOM Project hopes to affect real and lasting change by engaging millions of global citizens to permanently stop nuclear weapons testing by joining together to show the world’s leaders that the world’s citizens deserve and demand a world without nuclear weapons testing. Karipbek Kuyukov is the Honorary Ambassador of the ATOM Project and a 2nd generation victim of Soviet nuclear tests\, acclaimed armless artist. Ambassador-at-Large Roman Vassilenko is a career diplomat\, who joined the foreign service in 1996. Prior to this\, he served as Deputy Director of the Nazarbayev Center\, a multifunctional state institution in 2012-2013\, and Chairman of the Committee for International Information\, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009-2012. His overseas assignments include the U.K. and the U.S. \nThe George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs is one of the world’s leading schools of international affairs and the largest school of international affairs in the United States. Located in the heart of Washington\, D.C.\, its mission is to educate the next generation of international leaders\, conduct research that advances understanding of important global issues\, and engage the policy community in the United States and around the world. In the January/February 2012 issue of Foreign Policy\, the Elliott School of International Affairs’ undergraduate and master’s programs were ranked among the top ten international affairs programs in the United States by the Teaching\, Research\, and International Policy (TRIP) survey.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/towards-a-world-without-nuclear-weapons-testing/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140224T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140225T000000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17260-1393200000-1393286400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Second Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Security Workshop to celebrate the two year anniversary of the CentralAsia Program. We will discuss the current state of affairs in Central Asia and offer a fresh look at the main policy issues\, including the future of the US Silk Road Strategy in the wake of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the stakes of forthcoming presidential successions in Uzbekistan andKazakhstan. The Workshop will also explore what the Program considers as key societal and political issues that will shape the future of Central Asia\, i.e. the small and medium business circles. For its anniversary the Program is launching a new web initiative\, the Uzbekistan Initiative\,which will be presented first at this Workshop. The country’s history and culture\, its geographic allocation at the heart of Central Asia\, and its booming demography and economic potential shape the overall picture of the region and its strategic weight. However\, Uzbekistan has increasingly become a kind of ‘black hole’ in terms of scholarly and policy-oriented analysis. The goal of this Initiative is to create an apolitical platform of discussion for knowledge exchanges that promote Uzbekistan beyond the divergences in assessing its current course.\n—\n\n8:30               Breakfast and Registration \n9:00               Introductory Remarks by Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program \n9:15-10:45   Session I. Lessons Learned and Unlearned for the US Silk Road Strategy \nChair and Moderator: Peter Rollberg (George Washington University) \nAlexander Diener (The University of Kansas) \nMobilities and Immobilities in Central Eurasia: A Geographical Perspective on the New Silk Road \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \n“Silk Road”: Historical Metaphor\, Ideology\, Wishful Thinking? \nGael Raballand (Choiseul Institute) and Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University) \nAn Economic Assessment of the Potentialities of the US Silk Road \n10:45-11:15 Coffee-break \n11:15-12:45 Session II. Presidential successions. Real and False Stakes \nChair and Moderator: Cory Welt (George Washington University) \nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University) \nGoodbye Karimov\, Hello Status Quo \nSean Roberts (George Washington University) \nNur-Otan as a Vehicle for Presidential Succession: Turkey’s CHP or Russia’s Yedinaya Rossiya?” \nMyles Smith (Media Sustainability Index at IREX) \nThe Stakes of Successions: Turkmenistan and Elite Redistribution \n12.45-1:30   Lunch \n1:30-3:00     Session III. Peeking behind the Iron Curtain: Uzbekistan in 2014 and Beyond \nChair and Moderator: David Abramson (State Department) \nRoundtable Discussion: \nLaura Adams (Harvard University)\, Sarah Kendzior (Al-Jazeera English services)\, Lawrence Markowitz (Rowan University)\, and Noah Tucker (Managing Editor\, Registan.net) \n3:15-3:45     Coffee-break \n3:45-5:15     Session IV. The Missing Piece: Small and Medium Business Circles \nChair and Moderator: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nGul Berna Özcan (University of London) \nThe Political and Moral Economy of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Central Asia \nRegine Spector (University of Massachusetts) \nMade in Kyrgyzstan: The Reassembling of Apparel Manufacturing in a    Peripheral State \nAlexander Libman (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) \nThe Small and Medium-sized Enterprises world in Kazakhstan and the Implications of the Customs Union \n\n—\n\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-second-central-asia-security-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T213000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17347-1392924600-1392931800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Bakhtiyar Khudhoinazarov (Tajikistan\, 1999)\nThe unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17\, beautiful and vivacious\, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe\, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise\, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort\, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer\, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures. – Written by Steve Shelokhonov[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-luna-papa/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T161905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17199-1391502600-1391531400@centralasiaprogram.org
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:20140123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260926T033804
CREATED:20200930T162142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17346-1390505400-1390512600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter in law
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Khodjakuli Narliev (Turkmenistan\, 1972)\nA woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family\, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband\, a heroic pilot\, might return one day. –Originally posted on IMDB[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-daughter-in-law/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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