Events
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Digital Memory and a ‘Massacre’: Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
with Sarah Kendzior, Al Jazeera English and Noah Tucker, Courage Services and Registan.net The speakers will examine the transnational effort by ethnic Uzbeks to document the June 2010 violence and mobilize international support, first for intervention to stop the conflict and then in an effort to defend minority rights and preserve evidence of alleged injustices suffered by the community in Kyrgyzstan. These efforts… Continue reading Digital Memory and a ‘Massacre’: Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
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The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
4:00 pm. Registration 4.15pm. Welcome Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Executive Director, SIPRI-North America 4:30-6:00 pm. Fellows Presentations and Discussion: Aitolkyn Kourmanova, Central Asia Fellow (Kazakhstan) Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Nurturing from the Ground Safovudin Jaborov, Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan) Radicalization of Youth in Tajikistan: Causes, Consequences, and Addressing the Challenges Discussants: Ross Wilson, Director, Dinu Patriciu… Continue reading The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
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The ATOM project exhibit and art show
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.
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Looking Ahead: US-Central Eurasia Security Relations
Join the Central Asia Program, the Center for International Policy, and leading Eurasia analysts for a discussion on the current status of US-Central Eurasia security relations to mark the launch of theSecurity Assistance Monitor, an online resource of the United States' defense and security relationships around the world. The Security Assistance Monitor is a new, comprehensive online resource… Continue reading Looking Ahead: US-Central Eurasia Security Relations
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Studying Central Asia: Looking at the Merits of ‘Eavesdropping’
with Svetlana Jacquesson, Director, Central Asian Studies Institute One of the most striking features of Central Asian Studies, as Western scholars have practiced it since the fall of the Soviet Union, is the absence of structured and meaningful debates. Publications proliferate on a given topics, but they rarely engage in a dialogue. The debate on "clan politics" waged among political scientists, anthropologists… Continue reading Studying Central Asia: Looking at the Merits of ‘Eavesdropping’
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The Family Business: Turkmenistan Economy Starts to Look Like its Neighbors
with Myles Smith, Senior Program Officer and Assistant Managing Editor for the Media, Sustainability Index at IREX Turkmenistan's business sector has evolved during the short reign of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. What was once the province of a small handful of foreignbusinessmen with close personal relationships with first president Niyazov is now aslightly more open field. The first family and new… Continue reading The Family Business: Turkmenistan Economy Starts to Look Like its Neighbors
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Beyond Pakistan: New Delhi’s Policy Toward Afghanistan and Central Asia
Co-sponsored by the Rising Powers Initiative with Jean-Luc Racine, Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow,School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris Dr. Jean-Luc Racine is Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow, working at the Centre for South AsianStudies, at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is also theDirector of the Science Policy at the Fondation Maison… Continue reading Beyond Pakistan: New Delhi’s Policy Toward Afghanistan and Central Asia
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Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (Mongolia, 2003)In Mongolia's Gobi desert, a camel belonging to a group of nomadic shepherds gives birth to a white calf. It's a rare occurrence, and the shepherds watch as the unusually-colored offspring is rejected by its mother. Without its mother's milk, the calf will die. To save its… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
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Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
ModeratorMarlene Laruelle, George Washington University Panelists Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University Azita Ranjbar, The Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Fedorenko, Rethink Institute Presidential elections will be held in Tajikistan on November 6, 2013. Despite large control by the authorities over the political landscape, secular andIslamic opposition were able to unify behind a common figure from the human rights sector.… Continue reading Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
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Kazakh Culture: Legacies and Innovations
9:00 AM OpeningPeter Rollberg, Director, IERES, George Washington University Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States 9:15-10.30 AM Keynote speaker Ambassador Olzhas Suleymenov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to UNESCO Q&A 10:30-11:00 AM Coffee-break 11:00 - 12:30 PM Legacies and Innovations in Kazakh Literature Chair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES, George Washington University) An inconvenient Sage. The Legacy… Continue reading Kazakh Culture: Legacies and Innovations
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Central Asia, Iran, and the Nuclear Landscape in Asia
Co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies’ Rising Powers Initiative 9:00 – 9:30 AM Registration and Breakfast 9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcoming Remarks by Douglas Shaw, Associate Dean for Planning, Research and External Relations, GWU 9:45 – 11:15 AM Panel I. Asia’s Changing Nuclear Landscape Chair: Douglas Shaw, Associate Dean for Planning, Research andExternal Relations, GWU Japan's Nuclear Tremors: Domestic Debates about Energy & Security after… Continue reading Central Asia, Iran, and the Nuclear Landscape in Asia
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Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
Directed by Shukrat Abbasov (Uzbekistan, 1963) The film is a touching story about an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated during the World War II while their own child was at the battlefronts. The film depicts how children of different nationalities learn to live together as one family as it also brings out ‘Uzbek’… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
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Foreign Policy Doctrine and the Actions of Uzbekistan
with Dr. Farkhod Tolipov, Director of the Non-Governmental Education and Research Institution“Bilim Karvoni” The Republic of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy has undergone dramatic fluctuations since gaining independence, from a pro-American extreme to a pro-Russian one and back again. Such a “pendulum” swing of the newly independent Central Asian state reflects its two ambivalent and interrelated stances: Tashkent’s perception of the international system as an old… Continue reading Foreign Policy Doctrine and the Actions of Uzbekistan
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Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington UniversityMargarita Assenova, Jamestown Foundation Anara Ibraeva, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law The 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,… Continue reading Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
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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 crossing, he, having to choose a tragic solution.-Taken from MUBI.
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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, Central Asia Fellow (Kyrgyzstan) Ensuring Freedom from State Violence in the Kyrgyz Republic Yevgeniya Pak, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan) Exit Visa Regime in Uzbekistan: Regime… Continue reading The Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
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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 of Uzbekistan and Marlene Laruelle, Director of the Central Asia Program, IERES Uzbekistan is located in the heart of Central Asia, neighboring world civilizations such… Continue reading Visions of Uzbekistan
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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 and authoritarian countries. She will focus on the various responses of international financial institutions, multi-national oil companies and western governments to Turkmenistan’s official policies, and discuss the role of… Continue reading Environment, Human Rights and Oil Development in Turkmenistan
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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, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day. -Originally posted on IMDB
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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 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… Continue reading Addressing Soft Security Challenges in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
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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 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… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
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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 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… Continue reading The Second Central Asia Security Workshop
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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 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… Continue reading Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing
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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 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… Continue reading The Unique Role of the American University of Central Asia
