Cinema Club Film Screening: White Mountains
Directed by Melis Ubukeev (Kyrgyzstan, 1964) Mukash is chased by officials, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river…
The Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
The Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. The seminar will be followed by a reception. With Sardar Bagishbekov,…
Visions of Uzbekistan
Visions of UzbekistanA Visual Exploration January 8 – February 7, 2014 Opening event on Thursday, January 16 at 4:00 p.m. Featuring Muzaffar Madrahimov, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy…
Environment, Human Rights and Oil Development in Turkmenistan
with Kate Watters, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Crude AccountabilityKate Watters will discuss the links between environmental and human rights violations and oil and gas development in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most opaque…
Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter in law
Directed by Khodjakuli Narliev (Turkmenistan, 1972) A 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,…
Addressing Soft Security Challenges in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
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…
Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
Directed by Bakhtiyar Khudhoinazarov (Tajikistan, 1999) The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She…
The Second Central Asia Security Workshop
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…
Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing
with Karipbek Kuyukov, ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador and Artist, and Roman Vassilenko, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of KazakhstanThe ATOM Project (Abolish Testing Our Mission) is an international campaign designed to…
The Unique Role of the American University of Central Asia
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…
Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
with John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University The 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…
Cinema Club Film Screening: The Orator
Directed by Yusuf Razykov (Uzbekistan, 1999)A 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…
International Water Day
With Marlene Laruelle, Central Asia Program, George Washington University Julia Collins, Women and Water Project Marcus King, George Washington University Barbara Miller, Global Gender Program, George Washington University Amanda Klasing,…
Are US strategic interests in Azerbaijan at risk?
with Dr. Farhad Aliyev, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute The 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…
Diversified Development: Making the Most of Natural Resources in Eurasia
with, Ivailo Izvorski, The World Bank Economic 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…
Security Challenges and Scenarios for Central Asia
with Erlan Karin, Visiting Professor, American University Erlan 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,…
Youth in Kazakhstan: Societal Changes, Challenges and Opportunities
9:00am Registration and Breakfast 9:15am Opening Peter Rollberg, Director, IERES, The George Washington University Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States 9:30‐10:00am Keynote speaker Ambassador Richard Hoagland, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South…
Turkmenistan: Evolutions and Permanence
with Luca Anceschi, University of Glasgow Myles Smyth, IREX Sebastien Peyrouse, The George Washington University This roundtable explores the evolution of Berdymukhamedov's Turkmenistan. The second president reoriented few aspects of the country's previous policy, and the long-awaited…
Cinema Club Film Screening: Tulpan
Directed by Sergei Dvortsovoi (Kazakhstan, 2009)On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman,…
Post-2014 Afghanistan: The US Military Exit and Political Stability
With Dr. Timor Sharan This 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’…
Revolution and Art in the Kyrgyz Republic
with Sally Cummings, St. Andrews University Professor 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…
Cinema Club Film Screening: The Light Thief
Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyzstan, 2010)The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He…
Social Media and the Online Debate in Central Asia
with Navbahor Imamova, Voice of America The 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…
