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SUMMARY:Dungans in Central Asia: History\, Culture\, Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\nAmong the large and small peoples inhabiting Central Asia\, the Hui or Dungan occupy a special place. Dungans are Sunni Muslims who moved to the Semirechye region\, spanning southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan\, in the 1870s after the defeat of the anti-Qing uprising in China. Today Dungans live mostly in Kyrgyzstan\, Kazakhstan\, Uzbekistan\, and Russia\, and have kept their unique culture alive over the generations. \n\n\n\nThese events will help familiarize the American public with how Dungan culture\, at the crossroads of Central Asian and Chinese cultures\, still preserves its own unique identity. Join us to discover Dungan crafts\, painting\, and history\, and participate in a workshop on the most famous Dungan food\, the lagman! \n\n\n\nFull Program \n\n\n\nThursday\, January 19\, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nConference: “Dungans in Central Asia\,” Room #602\, Elliott School of International Affairs \n\n\n\nFriday\, January 20\, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nExhibition: “Dungans in Central Asia\,” 2nd floor\, Elliott School of International Affairs \n\n\n\nJanuary 20\, 2:00–5:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nWorkshop: Dungan arts & crafts and food & drink\, 2nd floor\, Elliott School of International Affairs \n\n\n\nThe Conference Speakers: \n\n\n\nAbubakir Vointse – Chairman of the Kazakhstan Dungan Society\, member of the Order of Kurmet\, Member of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan; he has published several academic works on Dungans and organized exhibitions of Kazakh Dungan writers and artists. \n\n\n\nIsmaeva Rakhima – Doctoral candidate in philological sciences\, Director of the Hueizu Public Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage\, Editor-in-Chief of the Dungan-language online newspaper Hueizu bo. \n\n\n\nSaule Abisheva – Professor of Philology\, Chair of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogy University; she has widely published on 20th-century Russian and Kazakh poetry. \n\n\n\nRimma Massyrova – Professor of pedagogy\, named 2007 College Instructor of the Year by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan; she has published widely on ethnopedagogy. \n\n\n\nDina Sabirova  \n\n\n\nReceived her PhD in 2016 from the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University and was awarded the jubilee medal commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan. She was the 2017 winner of the state scientific scholarship for young scientists\, and named Best University Teacher in all Kazakhstan in 2021. \n\n\n\nKazyna Bekbenbetova  \n\n\n\nDirector of the Department of Educational\, Social Work\, and Youth Policy at Kazakh National Pedagogical University\, and has over 20 years of experience in education. She is the author of four curricular guidelines on social development and youth policies in use at Abai University. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, George Washington University  and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/dungans-in-central-asia-history-culture-pedagogy/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 6th floor\, 1957 E Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T110000
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SUMMARY:Book talk with the author of Social Innovations in Post-Soviet Countries
DESCRIPTION:Author Bakhrom Radjabov posits that analyses of developments in Central Asia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eastern Europe often overlook the emergence of new social practices on the micro level. In his new book he evaluates how old\, inefficient systems may be replaced and can also disrupt social\, economic\, entrepreneurial\, and governance systems. As part of this\, he examined Social Innovation Projects (SIPs) supported by various organizations in post-Soviet countries and will present his findings\, including mapping of organizations supporting SIPs\, the evolution of the social innovation concept in the post-Soviet context\, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\, Bakhrom Radjabov \n\n\n\nAdjunct Professor at Webster University in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan\, where he teaches MA coursework in Education and Innovation. His research interests include social innovations\, political economy\, migration\, and development issues. He has been a participants in the Voices from Uzbekistan Fellowship at the Elliott School of International Affairs of GWU and is currently the Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at Hong Kong University. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, George Washington University and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-talk-with-the-author-of-social-innovations-in-post-soviet-countries/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T224500
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SUMMARY:Central Asia: A Source of Energy for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Three decades after independence\, Central Asia continues its impressive path of economic development. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves throughout the global energy markets. Today\, the EU faces a grim reality of reliance on Russian energy exports\, particularly natural gas. In the short term\, alternative suppliers of current energy\, including gas\, coal\, and nuclear\, must be found to meet Europe’s demand for affordable power and ample baseload. \n\n\n\nViable alternatives capable of quelling energy shortages exist around the world. The former Soviet Central Asian Republics — Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Turkmenistan\, and Uzbekistan — are rich in hydrocarbons\, hydro energy\, coal\, and other natural resources. Its leaders understand the potential of newfound energy opportunities for the 21st century and are willing to play their role in stabilizing global energy markets. The immediate opportunities for Central Asia won’t last forever and underscore the urgency of this analysis. \n\n\n\nThis report analyzes opportunities for Central Asia to expand its energy-exporting capabilities\, fortifying and assuaging a disrupted international energy supply chain that reels from Russian aggression. The report\, co-authored by Dr. Ariel Cohen\, Wesley A. Hill\, and Daniel Tomares\, provides four axes of analysis: 1) the potential of Central Asia to meet international energy demand\, 2) the infrastructure to realize these initiatives\, 3) the geopolitical challenges for the region\, and 4) whether proximity and ties to Russia and China pose obstacles to the development of partnerships. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nKairat Umarov is a career diplomat for the Republic of Kazakhstan. He is currently serving as the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. Prior to this appointment\, he served as the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United States between January 2017-October 2022. His career spans over two decades during which he has served as Minister-Counselor at Kazakhstan’s Washington\, DC embassy (1998-2003)\, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009-2013); Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States (2013-2016) and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Austria (2020-2022). During his long tenure in Washington\, Ambassador Umarov has continued to emphasize cooperation with the U.S. in the areas of economic development and investment. He has met with civil society groups and discussed religious freedom in Kazakhstan and has served on panels in Washington\, D.C. on Kazakhstan’s economic and political influence in the region. \n\n\n\nDr. Ariel Cohen\, Senior Fellow with the International Tax and Investment Center and Director of the Energy\, Growth and Security Program. He also serves as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Dr. Cohen is an internationally renowned expert on energy policy\, Russia/Eurasia\, Eastern and Central Europe\, and the Middle East. He is a recognized authority on political and security risk management; economic development\, investment policy; the rule of law; crime and corruption; market entry strategies; and other aspects of state/business relations. \n\n\n\nWesley Alexander Hill\, Research Analyst and International Program Manager for the Energy\, Growth\, and Security Program at the International Tax and Investment Center. Wesley is an accomplished foreign policy professional and expert on energy policy\, security studies\, grand strategy\, Chinese politics\, Sino-American relations\, Sino-African relations\, and Sino-Eurasian relations. Wesley serves as a contributor and has been published in Forbes\, New Lines\, Voice of America\, and the Nomura Research Group. Mr. Hill has also been a CLFP fellow at The National Bureau of Asian Research (2019-2020). \n\n\n\nDaniel Witt is the President of the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC)\, which he helped found in September 1993. Mr. Witt has been working to promote free markets and helping to lower the barriers to tax\, trade\, and investment in transition economies for over 30 years. Having worked with 85 countries\, he has co-developed a unique neutral table to bring together the public sector\, private sector\, and academics to advance pro-investment economic policy reforms. Prior to assuming the duties as President of ITIC\, Mr. Witt was Executive Director of the Tax Foundation\, the oldest tax and budget research organization in the United States. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation\, Mr. Witt was Vice President and Director of Membership with Citizens for a Sound Economy\, a 250\,000-member Washington-based public interest group. He also served as a consultant to President Reagan’s Commission on Privatization. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, George Washington University and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-a-source-of-energy-for-the-21st-century/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T100000
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SUMMARY:China’s Genocide Against Uyghurs
DESCRIPTION:Millions of Uyghurs are suffering from unspeakable atrocities at the hands of the Chinese government\, including forced sterilization of young women\, enforced separation of families and placement of children in state orphanages\, and the mass detention of more than one million people since 2017 in detention camps and forced labor camps. Uyghurs are also being transferred to factories in China proper and used as modern-day slaves. Uyghurs in the diaspora are speaking out to be the voice of those voiceless and defenseless Uyghurs back home. Why is China trying to annihilate Uyghurs? What can we do to stop China’s genocide of the Uyghurs? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nTursunay Ziyawudun is a former Uyghur detainee from one of the concentration camps in Ghulja\, China. She was taken to there in April of 2017 and was released after a few months due to severe health problems\, but she was detained in March of 2018 for a second time. Due to her Kazakh husband’s and the Kazakhstan government’s help\, she was released from the camp in December 2018 and was allowed to go to Kazakhstan to be reunited with her husband in 2019. She is continuing her fight for justice here in the US. \n\n\n\nKalbinur Gheni is an activist who has been living in the United States since 2019. She uses social media and traditional media to advocate for her sister\, Renagul Gheni\, who is being held in a concentration and labor camp in China. Kalbinur’s sister Renagul had been sentenced to 17 years in prison for observing religious rites after the death of their father and for keeping a copy of the Qur’an in her possession. She continues her fight for justice for her sister and millions of other innocent Uyghurs who are in the camps who are still facing constant transnational repression. \n\n\n\nDilyar Seypedin was born in Ghulja\, East Turkistan. After graduating from university\, he came to the United States in 2014 for the purpose of studying abroad. Since 2017\, Dilyar has dedicated himself to participating in various human rights activities and marches to defend the human rights of Uyghurs. Since 2021\, his father was arrested and sent to a concentration camp\, Dilyar has been working hard to peacefully appeal to the Chinese government to release his detained father and other Uyghurs. He attended the hunger strike in front of the White House from September 19 to 21\, 2022 in order to raise awareness of the Uyghur Genocide.  \n\n\n\nModerator Elfidar Iltebir \n\n\n\nElfidar\, President of the Uyghur American Association (UAA)\, was born in Urumchi\, East Turkistan and grew up in Istanbul\, Turkey until immigrating to the US in 2000. She has a BA in Marketing from George Mason University and over 20 years of marketing and project management experience. As the daughter of a prominent Uyghur writer and journalist\, she is an active member of the Uyghur community and an outspoken human rights activist. She is fluent in English\, Uyghur\, and Turkish.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/chinas-genocide-against-uyghurs/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T090000
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SUMMARY:The New Russian Exile: Russian Migration to Central Asia and the South Caucasus
DESCRIPTION:Russia’s war on Ukraine has caused massive waves of outmigration of its citizens to the countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. These migration flows are highly fluid and are having a powerful impact on the receiving states\, both on their governments and societies. The sudden influx of Russian immigrants has stimulated social and political tensions among Russia’s neighbors. What is the future for these new immigrants? Will they stay\, and how are local societies in the receiving states reacting to their presence? The panel will discuss the ongoing developments around Russian migration to Central Asia and the South Caucasus\, compare the situations in Georgia\, Kazakhstan\, and Kyrgyzstan\, and share thoughts on the political\, economic\, and social implications of this new Russian exile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAlima Bissenova is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology\, anthropology of Islam\, postcolonial studies\, and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion\, State\, and Society; Europe-Asia Studies; AB Imperio; Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie; Sotsiologiya Vlasti. \n\n\n\nShota Kakabadze is a Junior Policy Analyst at the Georgian Institute of Politics. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tartu (Estonia)\, where he also obtained his Master’s degree in European Union–Russia Studies. During his doctoral studies he was a Swedish Institute Research Fellow at Uppsala University’s Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies\, as well as a Junior Researcher in International Relations at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu. \n\n\n\nYan Matusevich is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His doctoral research is on the experiences of Russian exiles who have relocated to Central Asia since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He has previously worked on transnational migrant communities linking Central Asia to Russia\, Turkey\, and South Korea. He holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and completed his undergraduate studies in political science at Bard College. \n\n\n\nMODERATORS \n\n\n\nStephen Jones is Director of the Program on Georgian Studies and Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University. \n\n\n\nNargis Kassenova is Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-new-russian-exile-russian-migration-to-central-asia-and-the-south-caucasus/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T111500
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SUMMARY:Book Launch "Uyat and the Culture of Shame in Central Asia"
DESCRIPTION:This panel proposes an interdisciplinary look at the culture of shame in Central Asia and evaluates its role in the regulation of social and political interactions in the region. Contributors will discuss how ‘uyat’ relies on patriarchal and hierarchical gender norms that negatively affect women and queer bodies through the taboo of sex education in Kazakhstani schools\, favored heteronormativity\, and the compliance of parents to give their first born to adoption to the husband’s parents. Yet\, some authors will argue that these norms are challenged by young generations. Finally\, the panel will touch upon the role of shame in Kazakhstani politics as a form of accountability in the absence of genuine political competition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarlygash Kabatova is a Researcher and Advocate for Youth Sexuality Education\, in Astana\, Kazakhstan and Washington D.C.\, USA. \n\n\n\nMoldir Kabylova is a PhD candidate in Social Policy at University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on women’s employment\, welfare state\, culture and gender. She holds masters degree from University of York. \n\n\n\nZhibek Kenzhebaeva is a Primary School and Middle School Counselor at BIS (Bishkek International School). \n\n\n\nElena Kim is a professor of Social Sciences at the American University of Central Asia\, Bishkek Kyrgyzstan. She is currently a visiting psychology professor at Bard college\, New York. Elena’s teaching and research focus is on gender and international development\, gender-based violence\, and gender politics in Central Asia. \n\n\n\nMariya Levitanus is a Lecturer at the School of Health in Social Science\, the University of Edinburgh. She received her Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the University of Edinburgh in 2020. Previous and upcoming publications have focused on the role Soviet discourses in the narratives of queer people in Kazakhstan\, queer emigration and queer activism in Kazakhstan and Russia. \n\n\n\nHélène Thibault is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Nazarbayev University and member of the Political Economy of Education Research (PEER) Network. Her research focuses on the politics of Central Asia as well as gender and religious identities. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, George Washington University and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-launch-uyat-and-the-culture-of-shame-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T150000
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SUMMARY:Escaping the Taliban\, One Year Later: Afghan Voices of Hope
DESCRIPTION:Afghan Voices of Hope is a project that seeks to strengthen Afghan diasporic civil society by building solidarity and connecting people through shared experience. As refugees of the 2021 exodus navigate life outside of Afghanistan\, Afghan Voices of Hope helps to build shared identity in the hopes that\, perhaps\, many or all of them will someday be able to return to their country or\, if not\, that they will continue to engage with each other in building Afghanistan’s democratic future. Since late August 2021\, the project has collected\, transcribed\, and cataloged more than 200 stories from displaced Afghans living in exile across the globe. Interview sites include Poland\, France\, the UK\, Canada\, and several states across the US. It is time for us to look back and reflect on these stories to amplify messages of perseverance and commit to never forget the reality of life in exile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Central Asia Program\, the Afghan Voices of Hope project\, and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies to discuss evacuation and resettlement efforts\, important advocacy tools\, and policy reform around Afghan refugees and migrants as we reflect on the past year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is required | Refreshments will be provided \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfghan Voices of Hope is a project that seeks to strengthen Afghan diasporic civil society by building solidarity and connecting people through shared experience. As refugees of the 2021 exodus navigate life outside of Afghanistan\, Afghan Voices of Hope helps to build shared identity in the hopes that\, perhaps\, many or all of them will someday be able to return to their country or\, if not\, that they will continue to engage with each other in building Afghanistan’s democratic future. Since late August 2021\, the project has collected\, transcribed\, and cataloged more than 200 stories from displaced Afghans living in exile across the globe. Interview sites include Poland\, France\, the UK\, Canada\, and several states across the US. It is time for us to look back and reflect on these stories to amplify messages of perseverance and commit to never forget the reality of life in exile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGaisu Yari\, Project Director\, Afghan Voices \n\n\n\nGaisu Yari is a former Commissioner in the Civil Service of Afghanistan and a human rights defender who holds a master’s degree in human rights from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and gender studies from the University of Virginia. Gaisu is the Director of the Afghan Voices of Hope project and travels around the world to collect the emotional narratives of fellow Afghan exiles. She is also an advocate and public speaker on gender justice. As an activist\, she speaks at conferences\, to individual organizations\, and in the media on the rights of women in Afghanistan. \n\n\n\nLyla Kohistany\, CEO\, Honor the Promise \n\n\n\nLyla is an Afghan refugee\, US Navy veteran\, and cultural intelligence strategist. She has deployed to Afghanistan three times alongside US and NATO Special Operations Forces—once as a naval intelligence officer and twice as a civilian cultural advisor. She is also the co-founder and director of two national nonprofits. PROMOTE focuses on innovation through inclusion in national security. Honor the Promise focuses on the long-term resiliency of Afghan Special Operations Forces who were evacuated to the US in the Fall of 2021. Lyla also serves on several nonprofit boards in both Director and Advisory roles. Lyla is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Forward Defense program focused on the future of war\, and is pursuing a Doctor of Education (EdD) through Arizona State University’s Leadership and Innovation program. \n\n\n\nMujib Mehrdad\, Poet and Writer \n\n\n\nMujib Mehrdad is a former Editor-in-Chief of Hash-e Subj Daily and the author of the poetry collections Gladiators Are Still Dying (2007\, winner of the Afghan Civil Society’s literature contest)\, The Fishes Have Fled Our Veins (2008)\, Audience (2009)\, and Soldiers(2014)\, and of the collection of essays The Rain Passed. His recent book Dolphins’ Alley has won the Ahmad Shamlo award for the best collection of the year in Iran. He has translated Ginsberg\, Plath\, Langston Hughes\, Mayakovsky\, Tagore\, and others into Dari. He is a board member of the literary organization Kashane Nawesendagan (House of Authors) and teaches Persian literature at Albironi University in Kapisa. He is also a board member of Afghanistan Pen association and in 2010 he was representing Afghanistan Pen at the 76th congress of the International Pen association. \n\n\n\nAnya McMurray\, President and COO\, Welcome.US \n\n\n\nAnya McMurray is President and COO of Welcome.US\, a national initiative to mobilize all aspects of American society to help resettle refugees at a moment of great challenge: the evacuation of Afghanistan followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Before joining Welcome.US\, Anya was the Senior Director of Strategy & Policy for Immigration at the Emerson Collective\, where she led innovative strategic initiatives to advance a more inclusive American identity through policy development\, coalition-building\, communications campaigns\, and grant-making. Previously\, Anya was Deputy General Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy while he was Chairman and later Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; a public defender in Minneapolis; and a Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law Center\, where she taught and represented indigent clients. Before law school\, Anya served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay and as a program officer at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington. She is an alumna of Wesleyan University and Yale Law School. \n\n\n\nJohn Agoglia\, Deputy Director for Partnerships\, Global Friends of Afghanistan (GFA) \n\n\n\nJohn Agoglia is the director of Trinity Planning & Investments LLC. He served as director of the Counterinsurgency Training Center-Afghanistan in Kabul from 2008–2010 and also the director of the US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. John is the Deputy Director of Global Friends and is responsible for its partnerships and outreach programs. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Benjamin D. Hopkins \n\n\n\nBenjamin D. Hopkins is Professor of History and International Affairs\, as well as Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs\, at the Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a historian of modern South Asia\, specializing in the history of Afghanistan and British imperialism on the Indian subcontinent. He has authored\, co-authored\, and co-edited numerous books on the region\, including The Making of Modern Afghanistan\, Fragments of the Afghan Frontier\, and Beyond Swat: History\, Society and Economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier. His latest book\, Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State\, which won the Association of Asian Studies Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize (2022)\, presents a global history of how the limits of today’s state-based political order were organized in the late 19th century\, with lasting effects to the present day. He is currently working on a manuscript about the American war in Afghanistan provisionally entitled\, The War that Destroyed America\, as well as A Concise History of Afghanistan\, for Cambridge University Press.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/escaping-the-taliban-one-year-later-afghan-voices-of-hope/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 6th floor\, 1957 E Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Folkloric Narrative Tradition of the Sino-Muslims in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:First migrating from northwest China to Russian Central Asia after the suppression of the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) under the Manchu-led Qing dynasty\, the Dungan people boast a rich oral tradition\, which served as an important breeding ground for the development of Dungan written literature in the Soviet period. This presentation discusses the findings of an in-depth structural and comparative analysis of Dungan folk narratives conducted in the second half of the 20th century by a team of leading Soviet scholars comprising Russian Sinologist Boris Riftin\, Dungan writer and literary scholar Makhmud Khasanov\, and Dungan historian Il’ias Iusupov. Primarily based on Dungan oral narratives recorded between 1951 and 1974 in the Soviet Socialist Republics of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan\, this large study identifies general features regarding tale typology\, origins\, narrative time\, physical landscape\, common character types\, individual motifs\, plots\, and color and number symbolism.  \n\n\n\nThe study indicates that Dungan folk narratives are deeply rooted in Chinese storytelling traditions but also exhibit substantial Middle Eastern\, East Asian\, and Central Asian influences. Detailed findings of this study and the full texts of 78 folk stories are available for the first time in an annotated English version by Kenneth J. Yin\, under the title Dungan Folktales and Legends (Peter Lang\, 2021)\, vol. 16 in the Peter Lang International Folkloristics Series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst migrating from northwest China to Russian Central Asia after the suppression of the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) under the Manchu-led Qing dynasty\, the Dungan people boast a rich oral tradition\, which served as an important breeding ground for the development of Dungan written literature in the Soviet period. This presentation discusses the findings of an in-depth structural and comparative analysis of Dungan folk narratives conducted in the second half of the 20th century by a team of leading Soviet scholars comprising Russian Sinologist Boris Riftin\, Dungan writer and literary scholar Makhmud Khasanov\, and Dungan historian Il’ias Iusupov.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrimarily based on Dungan oral narratives recorded between 1951 and 1974 in the Soviet Socialist Republics of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan\, this large study identifies general features regarding tale typology\, origins\, narrative time\, physical landscape\, common character types\, individual motifs\, plots\, and color and number symbolism. The study indicates that Dungan folk narratives are deeply rooted in Chinese storytelling traditions but also exhibit substantial Middle Eastern\, East Asian\, and Central Asian influences. Detailed findings of this study and the full texts of 78 folk stories are available for the first time in an annotated English version by Kenneth J. Yin\, under the title Dungan Folktales and Legends (Peter Lang\, 2021)\, vol. 16 in the Peter Lang International Folkloristics Series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor: Kenneth J. Yin teaches modern languages\, literatures\, and linguistics at the City University of New York (CUNY). His research interests include Dungan literature and culture\, as well as the literatures and cultures of the Tungus peoples of North Asia\, primarily the Udege and Nanai of the Russian Far East. He is the author of Dungan Folktales and Legends (Peter Lang\, 2021) and Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon (Peter Lang\, forthcoming). He has received grants and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the City University of New York\, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Soledad Jiménez-Tovar is an anthropologist specializing in Central Asian Sinophone Muslims (Dungans). She has a BA in Latin American Studies (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)\, an MA in Chinese Studies (Colegio de México)\, and a PhD in Social Anthropology (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology\, Germany). Her approach to the study of China-related Islamic identities relies heavily on sociolinguistic and historical perspectives. Her publications include the edited books El pensamiento social ruso sobre América Latina (Buenos Aires: CLACSO\, 2017) and Pertenencias múltiples\, identidades cruzadas: Nuevos enfoques sobre el Asia Central (Mexico City: Colmex\, 2017)\, as well as several articles in English\, Russian\, and Spanish on the Dungans in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Since 2017\, she has been working in the History Division of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)\, a well-known research center in Mexico City. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Rostislav Berezkin is an associate research fellow at the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010\, and candidate of sciences degree from Saint Petersburg State University in 2009. His main fields of research are religious storytelling literature (precious scrolls in particular)\, popular religion in late imperial China\, and Russo-Chinese cultural exchange in the 17th–18th centuries. His publications include two books in Russian. His English book\, Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China\, was published by the University of Washington Press in 2017. His English articles have been published in T’oung Pao\, Late Imperial China\, Asia Major\, Monumenta Serica\, The Journal of Chinese Religions\, Hanxue Yanjiu\, Religion and the Arts\, Minsu quyi\, Archiv Orientalni\, Frontiers of History in China\, Ming Studies\, BEFEO\, and CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral & Performing Literature. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, George Washington University and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/dungan-folktales-and-legends-the-folkloric-narrative-tradition-of-the-sino-muslims-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T100000
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SUMMARY:Gender as Intersections: A Different Way of Seeing Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Gender-based violence\, (geo)politics\, and Islam continue to dominate the production of knowledge about Central Asia. While using a gender lens\, this Special Issue offers a different perspective on the region. The authors link historical analyses of imperial and Soviet gendered modernities to contemporary Central Asians’ daily lives and local nationalisms to shed light on often overlooked areas in the literature\, such as a systematic screening out of historical and contemporary gender diversity\, sex work\, virginity tests\, in-bodiment\, queer activism\, and the use and abuse of discourse on traditions. As a platform for a conversation about negotiating gender in Central Asia and indigenizing gender theory from within other than Euro-American contexts\, this roundtable presents an example of knowledge production by and with Central Asians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Donohon Abdugafurova is a scholar of Central Asian Islamic Studies focusing on women and their literary works. She works at Wake Forest University\, and has published on the topics of gender\, eldercare\, and women’s writing. \n\n\n\nVica Kravtsova is a feminist researcher and cultural worker from Smolensk\, Russia. Their research interests include decolonization and antiracism in the former USSR. \n\n\n\nSvetLana Peshkova is a mother and public educator. She is a socio-cultural anthropologist at UNH\, a core member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and Native American and Indigenous Studies Program.  \n\n\n\nHélène Thibault is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Nazarbayev University and member of the Political Economy of Education Research (PEER) Network. Her research focuses on gender and religious identities. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nResearch Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, George Washington University and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/gender-as-intersections-a-different-way-of-seeing-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220722T093000
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SUMMARY:Reform Crisis in Uzbekistan and the Karakalpak Protests
DESCRIPTION:President Shavkat Mirziyoev initiated several constitutional amendments in Uzbekistan at the end of June which have reminded the world about the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan\, bordering the dying Aral Sea. Efforts to diminish the Republic’s autonomy resulted in mass protests that unfortunately turned deadly. Join us to explore the reasons that prompted Mirziyoev’s constitutional amendments\, Tashkent’s difficulties in encouraging further reforms\, and the future of Karakalpak people’s autonomy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNavbahor Imamova\, Anchor\, Editor and Producer\, Uzbek Service\, South and Central Asia Division\, Voice of America\, President\, VOA Women’s Caucus; \n\n\n\nTemur Umarov is a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the OSCE Academy (Bishkek); \n\n\n\nDr. Akram Umarov is Director of the Afghanistan Research Group and Associate Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy; \n\n\n\nYuriy Sarukhanian\, International Relations specialist. Author of analytical Telegram channel Seriya Penalti; \n\n\n\nModerator: Marlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, Director of the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/reform-crisis-in-uzbekistan-and-the-karakalpak-protests/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220722T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220722T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: There Is No Rain in Hell
DESCRIPTION:*COVID-19 Protocols for Visitors: GW requires that all visitors aged 5 and older be up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccines\, (i.e. fully vaccinated and boosted\, if eligible). To help streamline the verification process\, GW has partnered with CLEAR Health Pass to provide an easy and secure way to demonstrate proof of vaccination. The masks are required.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A world in which peace is a fragment between two burials”  \n\n\n\nThe city stands in the apocalypse era: no location\, no time. When a brutal war starts\, all hell breaks loose. The only 8 people to survive are captives themselves in the old candle factory. They stare death in the eye and stand against it\, not surrendering. Every single one of them protects something which represents a strand of life in a place where there is no sign of existence.                                 \n\n\n\nFilm Director Statement  \n\n\n\nCinema offers the possibility to express what an innumerable number of words cannot.My desire with filmmaking is to address humanity—a truly timeless piece that speaks toanyone\, regardless of where they are from. I want it to be relatable and comprehensible\,independent from the race and belief system of the viewer. Borders separate humankind and bring all forms of judgement. In There Is No Rain in Hell you won’t find the film operating within distinct borders—rather\, solely humans opposing each other during war and in particular from the point of view of innocent civilians. I never understood how humans want to rescue humanity by killing each other. We deceive ourselves when aiming to achieve peace with war\, that’s why we always won in war but lost the peace. Given the current situation in Ukraine and other places around the world\, I would like to give everyone a glimpse of the tragedy and the tremendous pain fellow humans must encounter from injustice and war. The movie is meant to create empathy and support relief measures. We all understand an injustice and should not remain silent when others are in pain. \n\n\n\nThe film will be followed by a Q&A session with the director. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFilm Director\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nZahra Shahhatami was born in 1987 in Tehran\, Iran. She started her career as a writer from a very young age. When she was just 11 years old she wrote her first short film script and at age 15 her first feature-length film. Zahra worked with her father Ali Shahhatami\, a well-known Iranian director\, who produced her second feature screenplay\, Flight of Ducks\, when she was 18. In 2014\, she decided to become a director and created her first 100-second film “Libertad.” Since moving to the USA in 2017\, she has written\, directed\, and produced three additional short films (“Disenthralled\,” “Umbra\,” and “Saorsa”)\, all about the topic of women’s rights. In 2021\, she completed her debut feature film\, which was produced in collaboration with her father. There Is No Rain in Hell tells the story of war from an innocent civilian’s point of view. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe team dedicates this film to all people around the world who are victims of war\, especially to the Ukrainian people. Let’s watch the film together and stand in the shoes of innocent civilians and see through their eyes: that’s how peace begins. At the screening you will be able to make donations to save lives.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/film-screening-there-is-no-rain-in-hell/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
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SUMMARY:Silk Road Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday to enjoy Central Asian art\, culture\, and food at our Silk Road Festival and discover local vendors\, artists\, cooks\, and performers. \n\n\n\nFull Program  \n\n\n\n“News From Central Asia” ExhibitMusical ProgramArts and CraftsTraditional Food and DrinksCentral Asian EmbassiesFilm Screening \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsors
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/silk-road-festival/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 6th floor\, 1957 E Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000
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SUMMARY:Film Screenings (News from Central Asia)
DESCRIPTION:Rhythms Of Lost Time Trailer  \n\n\n\nDIRECTOR: Anisa Sabiri\, Tajikistan \n\n\n\nA journey through the most remote parts of Tajikistan -a young and little-known country which cradles the last embers of an ancient culture. \n\n\n\nThe film features British musician Leo Abrahams who has travelled to Tajikistan in search of maddoh – a form of transcendental funeral music which he has been interested in for many years but never witnessed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crying TanburTrailer \n\n\n\nDIRECTOR: Anisa Sabiri\, Tajikistan \n\n\n\nA true story\, based on the tragedy of the family of the died military journalist in Post-Soviet Tajikistan in 1993. This film is a debut film of young Tajik art activist\, a novice filmmaker Anisa Sabiri. Native to rural Tajikistan\, she hopes to use her art to shine a light on the history and horrors of the civil war and conflicts that have affected so many in her homeland\, but are often forgotten by the rest of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCotton100%Trailer \n\n\n\nDIRECTOR: Michael Borodin\, Uzbekistan \n\n\n\nYelena is an activist fighting for the rights of cotton harvesters. Muhabata is a farmer who is struggling with the hardships of rural life. This is the story of two strong women in a society where forced labour is considered the norm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunflower Trailer  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDIRECTOR: Chyngyz Sulumbekov\, Kyrgyzstan \n\n\n\nHow do you find love as an elderly Kyrgyz man? Through the internet! A humorous short film about expectations\, dissappointments and true love. \n\n\n\n\n\nSea TomorrowTrailer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDIRECTOR: Katerina Suvorova\, Kazakhstan \n\n\n\nSet on the arid seabed of the former Aral Sea\, the documentary film “Sea Tomorrow” takes us on a journey into the world after the apocalypse.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsors
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/film-screenings-news-from-central-asia/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 6th floor\, 1957 E Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T170000
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SUMMARY:"News from Central Asia" Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:News from Central Asia brings together Central Asian artists\, artisans\, and designers whose inspirational works reflect political protests\, environmental issues\, collective memory restoration\, the role of women\, objects as reminders of historical events\, and the transformation caused by modernization. \n\n\n\nCurator Aida Sulova invited artists and designers from Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan\, Turkmenistan\, and Uzbekistan to share the news from their home countries in the form of an object. “For many artists in Central Asia\, making art is the only way to respond and talk about the events taking place today. Although the concept of this exhibition has a geographical representation\, the themes of the news are relevant to what we are witnessing in the world.” \n\n\n\nCentral Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to the borderlands with China and Mongolia in the east. Since gaining their independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union\, Central Asian countries have been undergoing a number of major political\, social\, and cultural transformations. \n\n\n\nParticipants: \n\n\n\nAltynai Osmoeva\, Kyrgyzstan @altynarty \n\n\n\nChinara Niyazova\, Kyrgyzstan @niyazovachinara \n\n\n\nDiana Rahmanova\, Tajikistan @diana_rahmanova \n\n\n\nDilyara Kayipova\, Uzbekistan @crazy_for_ikat \n\n\n\nGalina & Evgeny Boikov\, Kyrgyzstan @evgenyboikov \n\n\n\nGuzel Zakir\, Judy Ai\, Kazakhstan @guzelzakirart \n\n\n\nHumairo Muhammad @humairojewelry \n\n\n\nJakshylyk Chentemirov\, Kyrgyzstan @chentemirovzhakshylyk \n\n\n\nJennet\, Turkmenistan @jennet_sanatullina \n\n\n\nJol Jol\, Kazakhstan @joljoljwlry \n\n\n\nSaule Dyussenbina\, Kazakhstan @saule_dyuss \n\n\n\nShailoo Djekshenbaev\, Kyrgyzstan @shailo_djekshenbaev \n\n\n\nTimur Karpov\, Uzbekistan @timur_karpov \n\n\n\nZalkar Askaraliev\, Kyrgyzstan @zalkaraskaraliev05 \n\n\n\nAida Sulova\, Kyrgyzstan @aidasulova
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/news-from-central-asia-exhibit/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 6th floor\, 1957 E Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T124500
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SUMMARY:The Mobilizing Potential of Communication Networks in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:What is the mobilizing and meaning-making potential of information and communication technologies (ICT s) in non-democratic regimes? This question has been studied globally\, with the Arab Spring heightening the urgency and the stakes for social science theories of digital mobilization. In the semi-authoritarian regimes of Central Asia\, where access to the Internet has risen dramatically in the last decade\, various online platforms have served as stages for state-sponsored identity construction and grassroots debates about memory and belonging. This roundtable brings together early-career female scholars who seeks to advance the region-specific debate about the mobilizing potential of ICTs in Central Asia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jasmin Dall’Agnola holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from Oxford Brookes University. She is an Associated Research Fellow at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. \n\n\n\nDr. Rano Turaeva is a habilitating candidate at the Ludwig Maximillian University and an associated researcher at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle Saale inGermany. \n\n\n\nDr. Marina Zhir-Lebed has recently defended her PhD in Internet sociology at the University of Bamberg. She obtained her BA in political science at Kazakh-German University\, Almaty\, Kazakhstan and MA in sociology at University of Bamberg\, Germany. \n\n\n\nColleen Wood is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. \n\n\n\nCordelia Buchanan Ponczek is a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford\, where she is studying for her DPhil on the political economy of natural resource investment in Central Asia. \n\n\n\nModerator: Sebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies\, George Washington University.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-mobilizing-potential-of-communication-networks-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T100000
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SUMMARY:Kazakhstan’s Political Reforms Amidst Geopolitical Shifts
DESCRIPTION:For Kazakhstan\, the year started with the unprecedented January riots\, a stress test for the country and the government. President Tokayev announced significant political reforms and the decision to accelerate systemic transformations. However\, in light of the sweeping geopolitical changes in Eurasia related to Russia’s war in Ukraine\, it remains to be seen whether Kazakhstan’s push for democratization and economic liberalization can be effective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nYerkin Tukumov\, Director\, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies \n\n\n\nGavin Helf\, Senior Expert on Central Asia\, the U.S. Institute of Peace \n\n\n\nMaureen Haggard\, DRL/SCA Office Director Bureau of Democracy\, Human Rights\, and Labor\, U.S. Department of State \n\n\n\nModerator: Marlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, Director of the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstans-political-reforms-amidst-geopolitical-shifts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T110000
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SUMMARY:Risks and Opportunities for Central Asia in a New Geopolitical Context
DESCRIPTION:How are Central Asian countries impacted by the war in Ukraine? What is the future of the Eurasian Economic Union? How can Central Asian countries avoid being the collateral victims of the Western sanctions against Russia? After the January riots in Kazakhstan\, what is the room of maneuver for President Tokayev’s “new course”?The two hour discussion will be followed by lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariya Y. Omelicheva\, PhD\, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science\, University of KansasProfessor of Strategy\, National War College\, National Defense University \n\n\n\nRoger Kangas\, Adjunct Professor – Center for Eurasian\, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) \n\n\n\nIrfan Shahzad Takalvi\, Founding President of Eurasian Century Institute (ECI)\, Islamabad\, Pakistan \n\n\n\nGreg Mitchell\, Co-Chairmen\, International Religious Freedom \n\n\n\nSergei Gretsky\, Academic Director\, Foreign Academy\, Georgetown University \n\n\n\nModerator: Marlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, Director of the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/risks-and-opportunities-for-central-asia-in-a-new-geopolitical-context/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T113000
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SUMMARY:What is the Current State of Religious Freedom in Uzbekistan?
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Uzbek-language edition of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s Report on Religious Prisoners \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Central Asia Program (CAP) invites you to a timely discussion with leading officials and experts on the state of religious freedom in Uzbekistan and the publication in the Uzbek language of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF’s) seminal report\, “Uzbekistan’s Religious and Political Prisoners.” Six months following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and several years into an opening up of the space for the free exercise of religious belief under President Mirziyoyev\, Uzbekistan continues to experience dynamic changes in the sphere of religious freedom. The USCIRF report\, authored by Steve Swerdlow\, is based on more than a year-long investigation and presents research findings regarding the government’s continued imprisonment of peaceful religious believers and recommends further reform of Uzbekistan’s laws on extremism. In a hopeful sign\, since the initial publication\, several religious prisoners whose cases are highlighted in the report have been released. This roundtable discussion will also take place following a visit to Uzbekistan by USCIRF Commissioners and staff. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNadine Maenza\, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom\, President of Patriot Voices\, Board of Directors for the Institute for Global Engagement\, the Sinjar Academy\, and the Freedom Research Foundation \n\n\n\nSteve Swerdlow\, Esq.\, Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles\, California \n\n\n\nProfessor Ahmed Shaheed\, United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief \n\n\n\nAmbassador Javlon Vakhabov\, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States and Canada \n\n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Clark\, Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University \n\n\n\nModerator: Sebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies\, George Washington University
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/what-is-the-current-state-of-religious-freedom-in-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T110000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
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SUMMARY:EU Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism (PVE) by Engaging Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan: Evidence from the Ground
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Azattyk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlthough a number of previous studies have investigated violent extremism in Central Asia\, rigorous research concerning the international efforts in preventing this phenomenon in the region is still limited. The research sheds light on the EU’s engagement in preventing violent extremism (PVE) through the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Kyrgyzstan.The research offers insights into the agency of such organizations by focusing on concrete activities implemented under the EU Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP)\, and its programme Strengthening Resilience to Violence and Extremism (STRIVE). During the seminar\, processes of adaptation\, reinterpretation and contestation through which EU-funded organizations exercise ownership while engaging in PVE will be presented and discussed.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChiara Pierobon\, PhD is currently Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). She received her binational Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and the University of Trento (Italy). Her main areas of expertise are EU’s support to civil society in Central Asia\, prevention of violent extremism (PVE)\, sustainable development and local ownership\, social capital and resilience. Her studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals\, such as the Central Asian Affairs\, Central Asian Survey\, Development Policy Review\, Evaluation and she has been author and/or contributor of edited volumes from Nomos\, Palgrave Macmillan\, Routledge\, Sage and Springer. In the past years\, Dr. Pierobon served as manager of education and research exchange programmes in Europe and Russia funded by the European Commission and the DAAD\, and of collaborative research projects in Central Asia funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. In addition to her academic activities\, she has been active as consultant and trainer for organizations such as DVV International / Regional Office for Central Asia and the UNESCO Cluster Office for Central Asia. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Moderator \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University). His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia. He authored and co-authored several books on Central Asia\, including Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power\, Dilemmas of Development (Routledge\, 2012).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/eu-efforts-to-prevent-violent-extremism-pve-by-engaging-civil-society-in-kyrgyzstan-evidence-from-the-ground/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T110000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
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SUMMARY:Dynastic Succession in Turkmenistan: Will it Make Any Difference?
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program invites you to an online discussion about the implications of the March 12 snap presidential elections in Turkmenistan\, which are expected to see power pass from President Gurbangully Berdymukhamedow\, who has ruled since 2006\, to his son Serdar Berdymukhamedow. Former U.S. Ambassadors to Turkmenistan Laura Kennedy and Allan Mustard\, the executive director of the NGO Saglyk Aynabat Yaylymova and IERES Research Professor Sebastien Peyrouse will address how the elections could affect the situation in the country; what we know about Serdar Berdymukhamedow\, who has been nominated as the candidate of the ruling party; and whether any reforms or increased openness could be expected in the context of an increasingly difficult economic and social situation. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA former career diplomat\, Laura Kennedy served as Ambassador to Turkmenistan (2001-3) and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2010-13). She was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and Deputy Commandant of the National War College. She currently serves on a number of boards dealing with foreign affairs\, disarmament and nonproliferation. \n\n\n\nAllan Mustard was U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan from January 2015 to June 2019. A career Foreign Service Officer with the Foreign Agricultural Service\, Ambassador Mustard previously served as chief of the agriculture section at the U.S. embassies in New Delhi\, Mexico City\, Moscow\, and Vienna\, and at the U.S. consulate general in Istanbul; and as assistant agricultural attache in Moscow\, USSR. Ambassador Mustard is a graduate of Grays Harbor College and the University of Washington\, holds an M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a certificate in Russian from Leningrad State University. He speaks Russian\, German and basic Spanish. \n\n\n\nAynabat Yaylymova is a citizen of Turkmenistan and has worked with a number of civil society organizations in Turkmenistan and the United States over her career. She is Founder and Executive Director of Saglyk and Progres Foundation. Saglyk.org has been working to improve public health literacy in Turkmenistan over the last 11 years\, including becoming a leading source of COVID-19 information in the Turkmen language. Progres.online is an online analytical journal that promotes better\, nuanced understanding of the societal trends in Turkmenistan by providing quality research and policy analysis. Progres Foundation works to support various progressive initiatives that benefit the public in Turkmenistan. \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University). His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia. He authored and co-authored several books on Central Asia\, including Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power\, Dilemmas of Development (Routledge\, 2012). \n\n\n\nSlavomír Horák\, Moderator \n\n\n\nSlavomír Horák is an Associate Professor at the Department of Russian and East European Studies\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Charles University in Prague. His research covers political\, social and economic issues in the former USSR\, with a focus on Central Asia. He conducts a systematic research on Turkmenistan’s domestic issues\, especially informal politics and state- and nation-building.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/dynastic-succession-in-turkmenistan-will-it-make-any-difference/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T110000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
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SUMMARY:Kazakhstan after “Bloody January:” Dreams and Pains of Renewal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event co-sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs \n\n\n\nKazakhstan has been shaken by a rapidly unfolding series of dramatic and tragic events since protests began in early January. While it is still not clear what happened and who is to blame for the violence\, death\, and destruction\, new realities—political\, economic\, and social—are taking shape. President Tokayev is promising to build a “New Kazakhstan\,” cleansed of systemic corruption and based on a new social contract. The people of the country are responding with a mix of hope\, suspicion\, and skepticism. This roundtable will discuss ongoing developments in the areas of human rights and rule of law\, changes in the political scene\, and the outline and prospects of socio-economic reforms. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nEldar Abdrazakov\, Chief Executive\, Centras Capital;Sergei Gretsky\, Academic Director\, Foreign Policy Academy\, Georgetown University/Lecturer\, Department of Politics\, The Catholic University of America;Aida Dossayeva\, Director of Tan Consulting\, Strategic Communications Agency;Yevgeniy Zhovtis\, Lawyer and Director\, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law;Moderator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstan-after-bloody-january-dreams-and-pains-of-renewal/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T110000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
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SUMMARY:Modernity\, Development and Decolonization of Knowledge in Central Asia: Kazakhstan as a Foreign Aid Donor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online book launch with the author Nafissa Insebayeva\, discussants Syinat Sultanalieva and Sofya du Boulay.  \n\n\n\nThis book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from a recipient country to a development aid provider. Drawing on fieldwork in Nur-Sultan and Almaty (Kazakhstan) between 2016 and 2019\, this research evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan’s chosen development aid model and explains the factors that account for the construction of aid patterns of Kazakh donorship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNafissa Insebayeva\, Author \n\n\n\nNafissa Insebayeva specializes in Kazakhstan’s foreign policy\, international development politics\, foreign aid\, and South-South cooperation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) as a MEXT scholar\, and currently serves as a Researcher at the Nippon Foundation Central Asia-Japan Human Resource Development Project (NipCA). Nafissa has previously held the position of a Central Asia-Azerbaijan Fellow at the Central Asia Program (CAP). Her studies have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals\, such as the Journal of Eurasian Studies and Europe-Asia Studies. \n\n\n\nSyinat Sultanalieva\, Discussant \n\n\n\nDr. Syinat Sultanalieva is a researcher at Human Rights Watch\, focusing on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. She received her PhD from the Special Program in Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsukuba\, Japan. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of gender studies and critical postcolonial theories. Previously Syinat has worked extensively on LGBTI and women’s rights in Central Asia\, helping in the establishment of several initiatives in the region. \n\n\n\nSofya du Boulay\, Discussant \n\n\n\nSofya du Boulay is a Marie Curie Fellow and PhD candidate in Political Science at Oxford Brookes University. Her main research interests are related to the study of authoritarian regimes\, including their political stability and legitimation in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her research has been published in Problems of Post-Communism and Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State\, Ideology and Power (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Moderator \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/modernity-development-and-decolonization-of-knowledge-in-central-asia-kazakhstan-as-a-foreign-aid-donor/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T110000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
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SUMMARY:Central Asia as a Pivot in China’s BRI
DESCRIPTION:with the author Zenel Garcia \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Central Asia Program invites you to an online event based on Zenel Garcia’s recent book China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia.  \n\n\n\nWith the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, a project that aims to integrate China’s frontier spaces more effectively to its center while simultaneously opening them to Eurasian markets and supply chains\, Central Asia has gone from being a peripheral region in Beijing’s foreign policy to a pivotal one. This change has come about as a result of Beijing’s growing recognition that the stability and sustainable development of its interior provinces is contingent on the development and stability of the CARs. From Beijing’s perspective\, stability and sustainable development in Central Asia mitigates the possibility of ethnic unrest along its western frontier\, provides the foundation for emergent Eurasian supply chains\, and serves as a market for Chinese goods in its own right. In this context\, the BRI becomes the policy vessel for reinforcing the increasingly symbiotic Sino-Central Asian relationship. \n\n\n\nZenel Garcia is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations theory\, security\, and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia. He is the author of China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia: The Politics of State and Region-Building (New York: Routledge\, 2021) and China’s Military Modernization\, Japan’s Normalization and the South China Sea Territorial Disputes (Gewerbestrasse: Palgrave MacMillan\, 2019).Sebastien Peyrouse\, ModeratorSebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-as-a-pivot-in-chinas-bri/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T103000
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SUMMARY:Kazakhstan: What Next? Understanding the Protests and the Post-Protest Political Context
DESCRIPTION:It’s been over a week since the massive protests that took the lives of at least 225 people. How can we begin to understand the diversity of reasons for the public dissent that emerged from various regions of the country? What should we think of the official narrative concerning Islamist involvement? What will be the government’s next steps in terms of repressing activism? How can President Tokayev make good on the promises of reform that he has made and who are the ultimate winners and losers in this situation among the political elites? \n\n\n\nJoin us for a special event co-sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs\, and RFE/RL. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDosym Satpayev\, Director of Kazakhstan Risk Assessment Group and a member of the presidium of the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations; \n\n\n\nDiana T. Kudaibergenova\, Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge; \n\n\n\nAzamat K. Junisbai\, Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont\, California;Dinissa Duvanova\, Associate Professor\, International Relations\, Lehigh University; \n\n\n\nBruce Pannier\, Journalist and Correspondent covering Central Asia\, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; \n\n\n\nModerator: Marlene Laruelle\, Director and Research Professor\, the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)\, The George Washington University.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstan-what-next-understanding-the-protests-and-the-post-protest-political-context/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220110T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220110T113000
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SUMMARY:What is Happening in Kazakhstan?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event co-sponsored with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs\, and RFE/RL. \n\n\n\nThe riots that erupted on January 5\, 2021 in Almaty and then spread to Kazakhstan’s other cities have taken the government by surprise\, but signals of unrest were present since Nazarbayev left the presidency in 2019. The dismissal of the Cabinet\, the removal of Nazarbayev from the Security Council presidency\, the storm of the Parliament and the Almaty airport\, as well as police violence will\, without a doubt\, mark a turning point in the history of Kazakhstan. At a more geopolitical level\, the impact will be decisive too\, as the CSTO has\, for the first time in its history\, sent peacekeeping troops at President Tokayev’s request.  \n\n\n\nWho are the protesters? What do they want? What are the genuine grassroots aspects and the instrumentalization of popular resentment by some elites for internal struggles? How can the regime survive such clashes? What will be the regional impact of the crisis in what was until then the most stable and prosperous country of Central Asia? \n\n\n\nIn this event\, locally-based journalists and experts will share their views on the current crisis. The names of our guest speakers will be announced soon\, depending on the situation with Internet in the country.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/what-is-happening-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T110000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
CREATED:20211210T141953Z
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SUMMARY:The State of Civil Society in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:People attend a rally to demand the resignation of President Sooronbai Jeenbekov in Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan October 14\, 2020. REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe George Washington University Central Asia Program invites you to the second seminar in our Civil Society in Central Asia series. These sessions are led by Central Asia civil society experts with a goal of not only informing their audiences of current developments in Central Asia\, but also hosting a discussion about potential courses of action for Central Asian civil society. \n\n\n\nThis seminar is co-organized by The Europe-Central Asia Monitoring (EUCAM) programme of the Centre of European Security Studies in the Netherlands. EUCAM was established in 2008 to monitor the implementation of the EU-Central Asia strategy. Over the years\, EUCAM has developed into a knowledge hub on Europe-Central Asia that is active in training\, monitoring\, research\, debate\, and networking. EUCAM’s latest working paper\, “Between praise and persecution: Civil society in Kyrgyzstan”\, discusses important developments in Kyrgyz civil society. \n\n\n\nWe will be joined by experts Erica Marat\, Begimai Bekbolotova\, Jos Boonstra who will speak about the civil society landscape in Kyrgyzstan. The session will address broader developmental trends and civil society challenges\, recent developments under the rule of president Sadyr Zhaparov and Kyrgyzstani civil society’s expectations of Western supporters. A Q&A session will follow the panelist presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErica Marat is an Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs\, National Defense University. Her research focuses on violence\, mobilization and security institutions in Eurasia\, India\, and Mexico. Before joining NDU\, Dr. Marat was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Dr. Marat latest book titled The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (Routledge 2021). \n\n\n\nBegimai Bekbolotova is from Osh and has worked in the non-profit sector of Kyrgyzstan for more than 8 years. She has a background in journalism\, public relations\, and project management and devotes much of her time to fighting gender-based violence and inequality in Kyrgyzstan. Begimai recently worked as a consultant for the Centre for European Security Studies (CESS) and is a EUCAM research fellow alumna. \n\n\n\nJos Boonstra is senior researcher and EUCAM coordinator at the Centre for European Security Studies (CESS) in The Netherlands. Before joining CESS in 2016\, Jos Boonstra worked as head of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia program at FRIDE\, a think tank with offices in Madrid and Brussels. At CESS\, his research focuses on democratization\, security and development policies in Eastern Europe\, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-state-of-civil-society-in-central-asia-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kyrgyzstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T113000
DTSTAMP:20260923T070040
CREATED:20211130T141121Z
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SUMMARY:Editors on Central Asia: New Handbooks for a Maturing Field
DESCRIPTION:Four new handbooks on Central Asia appeared in rapid succession by late 2021 or are coming soon in 2022:  \n\n\n\n\nThe Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Central Asia\, edited by Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat \n\n\n\nThe European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History\, Politics\, and Societies\, edited by Jeroen Van den Bosch\, Adrien Fauve and Bruno De Cordier\n\n\n\nCentral Asia: Contexts for Understanding\, edited by David W. Montgomery\n\n\n\nThe Central Asian World\, edited by Jeanne Féaux de la Croix and Madeleine Reeves (in the Routledge world series)\n\n\n\n\nIn this panel hosted by GWU\, Four of the editors sit together and present the rationale behind each book project\, the challenges they faced when framing the region (Central Asia or Central Eurasia)\, selecting topics and timeframes\, recruiting authors and how they provide value to their target audiences. Moreover\, the editors will discuss their take on the state of the discipline and what under-explored topics and new pathways lie ahead. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErica Marat is an Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs\, National Defense University. Her research focuses on violence\, mobilization and security institutions in Eurasia\, India\, and Mexico. Before joining NDU\, Dr. Marat was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Dr. Marat latest book titled The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (Routledge 2021). \n\n\n\nJeroen van den Bosch (PhD) studied Area Studies (Slavonic Studies) and Political Science (International Relations) at the Catholic University in Leuven (Belgium) before obtaining his PhD at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU) on the topic of personalist rule in Sub Saharan Africa\, recently revised and turned into a book (Routledge\, 2021). He continues to study authoritarian eco-systems as an independent scholar and works at AMU as a project coordinator. Currently\, he (co-)coordinates several Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships (www.eiscas.eu\, www.eisips.eu). His research fields encompass theories of dictatorships\, their classification\, autocratic cooperation\, democratization\, political regimes theories\, bridging IR and Dictatorship research. With his background on Sub Saharan Africa and Central Asia he is currently branching out to make comparisons to other world regions. He is one of the editors of the recent European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History\, Politics\, and Societies. \n\n\n\nDavid W. Montgomery is a research professor in the Department of Government and Politics and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, and the director of program development for CEDAR–Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion. His books include Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding\, Practicing Islam: Knowledge\, Experience\, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan\, Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World\, and Everyday Life in the Balkans. \n\n\n\nMadeleine Reeves is a social anthropologist with a background in the study of social and political thought and Russian and Soviet history. She received my MA from the University of Chicago and my BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. She joined the University of Manchester in 2007\, initially as an RCUK Research Fellow in Conflict\, Cohesion and Change in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)\, and subsequently as a lecturer in the Social Anthropology discipline area. Since 1999 she has conducted ethnographic research in Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan\, Uzbekistan and Russia\, on issues of borders\, citizenship\, place and the politics of mobility. \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, PhD\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/editors-on-central-asia-new-handbooks-for-a-maturing-field/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:What Next In China's Growing Security Footprint In Tajikistan?
DESCRIPTION:China is expanding its security footprint in Central Asia through strategic military bases located in the remote eastern corner of Tajikistan. A recent report by RFE/RL shed new light on the base populated by Chinese security personnel and a separate military base that the Tajik government has recently allowed Beijing to finance. It’s Beijing’s first military presence in Central Asia and is apparently reflects a broader response from China to the newly emerging security situation following the Taliban’s takeover of neighboring Afghanistan and the U.S. military’s withdrawal from that country. Meanwhile\, there are also suggestions\, whether it is a sign of creeping Chinese penetration into Central Asia. Please join us for a discussion on China’s growing security interests in Tajikistan and its implications of the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReid Standish is a correspondent in RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom in Prague and the author of the China In Eurasia briefing\, a monthly newsletter tracking China’s growing footprint from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Prior to joining RFE/RL\, Reid worked as an editor at Foreign Policy magazine in Washington and as the magazine’s correspondent in Moscow. Reid has worked as a journalist across Europe and Central Asia and conducted exclusive interviews with leaders\, officials\, and policymakers. He focuses on Chinese influence and foreign policy and has reported on major China stories\, such as the Belt and Road Initiative projects and the internment camps in Xinjiang\, on the ground.  \n\n\n\nSalimjon Aioubov is the Director of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service. Previously\, he was a senior broadcaster with RFE/RL’s Tajik Service\, and also Project Director for RFE/RL’s Central Asian Newswire\, a platform that aggregates original RFE/RL reporting and other information for Central Asian media seeking independent news. Aioubov has worked for numerous Tajik print\, radio\, and television outlets over the course of two decades\, covering wide range of issues involving his native country\, Tajikistan. He has produced two short documentaries on Tajik issues\, “Mi\, Pereselentsi” (1986) and “Perpetual Returning” (1989)\, and published several books\, most recently\, “A Hundred Colors: Tajiks in the 20th Century” (Amsterdam\, 2004).  \n\n\n\nErica Marat is an Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defence University. Dr.Marat’s research focuses on violence\, mobilization and security institutions in Eurasia\, India\, and Mexico. Her recent book\, The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018)\, explores conditions in which police reform projects succeed and why they fail in countries with a recent authoritarian past.    \n\n\n\nParviz Mullojonov\, Ph.D.\, is a Political Analyst\, Orientalist and freelance researcher from Tajikistan. He has earned doctoral degree in Islamic studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland). A graduate of the department of Oriental studies of TGNU\, Arabic department. He is a member of inter-Tajik dialogue – an international peace-making initiative during the civil war in Tajikistan\, a member of the research group of EUCAM (EU-Central Asia monitoring project). He has worked with various international organisations and agencies such as Human Rights Watch/Helsinki\, UNCHR\, UNDP and ADB. He is the author of over 40 research articles and publications. \n\n\n\nModeratorMarlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, is Director\, Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies; Director\, Central Asia Program; Co-Director\, PONARS-Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. She works on political\, social and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene’s research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia\, nationhood construction in Central Asia\, as well as the development of Russia’s Arctic regions.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/what-next-in-chinas-growing-security-footprint-in-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program invites you to a Nuclear Policy Talk presented by the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAtomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb \n\n\n\nFeaturing author: Dr. Togzhan Kassenova\, Project on International Security\, Commerce\, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research\, SUNY-Albany \n\n\n\nModerated by: Professor Sharon Squassoni\, Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at the Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington University  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis will be an in-person event. \n\n\n\nLindner Commons (Room 602) | 1957 E ST NW | Washington\, DC 20052 \n\n\n\n*Please see the end of this message for information on COVID-19 protocols.* \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAtomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union\, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world’s fourth-largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons—or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? \n\n\n\nThis book takes us inside Kazakhstan’s extraordinary and little-known nuclear history from the Soviet period to the present. For Soviet officials\, Kazakhstan’s steppe was not an ecological marvel or beloved homeland\, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for nuclear testing. Two-headed lambs were just the beginning of the resulting public health disaster for Kazakhstan—compounded\, when the Soviet Union collapsed\, by the daunting burden of becoming an overnight nuclear power. \n\n\n\nEquipped with intimate personal perspective and untapped archival resources\, Togzhan Kassenova introduces us to the engineers turned diplomats\, villagers turned activists\, and scientists turned pacifists who worked toward disarmament. With thousands of nuclear weapons still present around the world\, the story of how Kazakhs gave up their nuclear inheritance holds urgent lessons for global security. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Togzhan Kassenova is a senior fellow with the Project on International Security\, Commerce\, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research\, SUNY-Albany. She is an expert on nuclear politics\, WMD nonproliferation\, strategic trade controls\, sanctions implementation\, and financial crime prevention. She currently works on issues related to proliferation financing controls\, exploring ways to minimize access of proliferators to the global financial system. Kassenova holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Leeds and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). She recently completed an executive MA degree in Financial Integrity from the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University. Kassenova is a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2011 to 2015 Kassenova served on the UN secretary general’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*GW requires that all visitors attest that they are vaccinated\, or if they are unvaccinated\, attest that they have received a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of their visit to campus. Please follow these instructions to comply with GW visitor protocols.*
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/atomic-steppe-how-kazakhstan-gave-up-the-bomb/
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SUMMARY:President Mirziyoyev's Second Term In Office: What Next For Uzbekistan?
DESCRIPTION:As Shavkat Mirziyoev starts his second term as the President of Uzbekistan\, all eyes are on what comes next and what his second term may mean for the country. He was declared winner in a vote that featured no genuine opposition and that Western observers called “not truly competitive.” Similarly\, election eve was marred by registration denials for genuine opposition candidates and the harassment and intimidation of activists and independent journalists. Meanwhile\, his first term in office has been marked with ups and downs\, clear progress in some areas\, but continuity in other sectors. What does his first term tell us about what may be in store for Uzbekistan under his second term in office? What are some signposts to keep our eyes on to determine where he might take the country? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlisher Siddique is the Director of RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service. Under his leadership\, the service has become a pioneer in using the latest digital platforms to break the information blockade in one of the world’s most closed societies. Sidikov reported on the Andijon massacre in Uzbekistan in 2005\, and earlier worked for the BBC’s Uzbek service in Tashkent and London. He was named “Journalist of the Year” by Reporters Without Borders-Stockholm in 2005. He holds an M.A. and B.A. in Middle East Politics and Arabic Studies from the University of Oriental Studies in Tashkent. \n\n\n\nDilfuza Kurolova is a Human Rights Lawyer from Uzbekistan and professional mediator on family and labour issues. She is a legal and social development consultant at different organizations\, such as the World Bank\, the ADB\, PeaceNexus Foundation and the International Commission of Jurists\, and was an adjunct professor at Webster University in Tashkent. Dilfuza provides free legal consultations to people since 2019\, is a founder of the Global Shapers Tashkent Hub (2020)\, the youth initiative of the World Economic Forum\, and was admitted as top-10 women in Uzbekistan changing the country in 2021. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from Tashkent state university of law (criminal law\, international public law) and MA degree from the OSCE Academy (politics and security in Central Asia). \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Ph.D.\, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India and South Asia. \n\n\n\nModerator\, Marlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, is Director\, Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies; Director\, Central Asia Program; Co-Director\, PONARS-Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. She works on political\, social and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene’s research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia\, nationhood construction in Central Asia\, as well as the development of Russia’s Arctic regions. She has been the Principal Investigator of several grants on Russian nationalism\, on Russia’s strategies in the Arctic\, and on Central Asia’s domestic and foreign policies from the US State Department\, the Defense Department\, the National Science Foundation\, Open Society Foundations\, Carnegie Corporation of New York\, the Henry Luce Foundation\, etc.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/president-mirziyoyevs-second-term-in-office-what-next-for-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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