Book Launch: March 10, 2021 – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm
The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this…
Book Launch: March 15 – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
Pipe Dreams explores the ways in which both the tsarist and Soviet regimes used fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legitimacy in Central Asia,…
Double Book Launch – March 25, 2021: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads
Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roadswith Authors Daniel S. Markey & Tim Winter, Discussant Rodger Baker, Moderator Sebastien Peyrouse, and Chair Marlene Laruelle President Xi Jinping…
The State of Civil Society in Central Asia: Kazakhstan | Состояние Гражданского Общества в Центральной Азии: Казахстан
Feature Photo Credit: Simon Sun at Unsplash Registration is required for this event | Для участия в этом мероприятии требуется регистрация The George Washington University Central Asia Program invites you…
US EXIM Program on China and Transformational Exports: Boosting American Competitiveness in Central Asia and Globally
The American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce (AUCC) and the Central Asia Program invite you for a virtual discussion ofUS EXIM Program on China and Transformational Exports: Boosting American Competitiveness in Central…
The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution
The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment…
Память из пламени Афганистана
Память из пламени Афганистана с Ботагоз Ракишевой, Эльмирой Ногойбаевой и Марлен Ларуэль Проект «Память из пламени Афганистана» был инициирован Марлен Ларуэль (директор Института исследований Европы, России и Евразии (IERES), директор…
The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th – Century Central Asia
The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th - Century Central Asia with author Scott Levi, Professor Christopher P. Atwood, and moderator Marlene Laruelle In the first half of the eighteenth century,…
Representing Cultural Diversity in Russia. The Eurovision contest and Manizha’s “Russian Woman” Performance
Photo: MANIZHA on Instagram The nomination of Manizha Sangin, a Russian singer of Tajik origin, for the EurovisionSong Contest seems to have come as a surprise to everyone. On the…
Trends and Challenges in Addressing Human Trafficking in Central Asia: Civil Society and Survivor Perspectives
Central Asia is a source, and to a lesser extent a transit and destination point, of victims trafficked for the purposes of both sexual and labor exploitation. Cases of victims forced…
Remembering Kazakhstan’s Great Famine of the 1930s
May 31 marks the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Political Repression and Famine in Kazakhstan. The great famine of 1931–1933, also known as Asharshylyk, resulted from forced collectivization and sedentarization undertaken…
China’s Vaccine Diplomacy In Central Asia: What Next?
As COVID-19 continues to rage throughout Central Asia, China has been sending millions of doses of vaccines, mostly free of cost, to the region, thus expanding its ever-growing footprint there. Alongside…
Rising Civic Engagement in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
The Central Asia Program is proud to announce our Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows’ Final Research Presentation. Join us for a brief seminar featuring our scholars from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan…
Marriage Quandaries in Central Asia
The reality of marriage across Central Asia is complicated. Not only does the term “marriage” cover a wide range of practices and achievements, but many non-marital relationships co-exist too. This…
Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Resurgence of the Taliban
As Talibans are progressing in retaking control of Afghanistan, Central Asian states and border communities found themselves in a situation of neighboring Taliban-government regions, with potential implications for their own…
Ground Truth: Local Views About The Taliban’s Return
An online discussion with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Central Asia Program In the span of just a few days, the Taliban has reached the borders of Central Asia, having…
Book Launch – The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925-1991: An Uneasy Legacy
The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925-1991: An Uneasy Legacy Featuring Peter Rollberg, Professor of Slavic Languages, Film Studies and International Affairs Join us on a journey through the history of Kazakh…
Book Launch – Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia
The Central Asia Program Invites you to the Book Launch Event: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia Speakers: Edward Lemon, Dina Sharipova, Johan Engvall, and Galym Zhussipbek Moderated by: Editors…
Looking Back on Central Asia’s Perestroika: Political Narratives and Political Mobilization | Оглядываясь на перестройку в Ц
*English and Russian interpretation will be provided. Перевод на английский и русский язык будет обеспечен. Life in the USSR was effectively turned upside down by the package of reforms known…
Book Launch – Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia
Book Launch Discussion Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia with Author Marlene Laruelle and discussants Diana Kudaibergenova, Sabina Insebayeva, and Berikbol Dukeyev. Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism…
Questioning Sovietness in Post-Soviet Nationbuilding
In this roundtable, we aim to provide a conceptual intervention in the ongoing debates on the nature of Soviet-ness in nation-building strategies of Central Asian states and regimes. Through our…
Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction
Since the breakup of the Eastern bloc, Central Asia has been analyzed primarily through the prism of hard power and the great powers’ geopolitical and geostrategic games in the region.…
Book Launch – Rentier Capitalism and its Discontents: Power, Morality, and Resistance in Central Asia
Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia Speakers: Balihar Sanghera, Elmira Satybaldieva, David Montgomery, and Assel Tutumlu This book explains and evaluates today's economic, political,…
President Mirziyoyev’s Second Term In Office: What Next For Uzbekistan?
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…
