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SUMMARY:US EXIM Program on China and Transformational Exports: Boosting American Competitiveness in Central Asia and Globally
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 Asia and Globally \n\n\n\nAs per the EXIM’s historic seven-year reauthorization (P.L. 116-94)\, signed into law December 20\, 2019\, a new Program on China and Transformational Exports was established to “…support the extension of loans\, guarantees\, and insurance\, at rates and on terms and other conditions\, to the extent practicable\, that are fully competitive with rates\, terms\, and other conditions established by the People’s Republic of China or by other covered countries (as designated by the Secretary of the Treasury). The law charges EXIM with a goal of reserving not less than 20 percent of the agency’s total financing authority (i.e.\, $27 billion out of a total of $135 billion) for support made pursuant to the program.” \n\n\n\nThe discussion will review the program’s two critical aims: \n\n\n\nTo directly neutralize export subsidies for competing goods and services financed by official export credit\, tied aid\, or blended financing provided by China or by other covered countries.To advance the comparative leadership of the United States with respect to China\, or support United States innovation\, employment\, and technological standards\, through direct exports in industries of significant importance to the United States.\n\n\n\nProgram Agenda \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreetings from Partner-OrganizationsMarlene Laruelle\, Director\, Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)Director\, Central Asia Program\, The George Washington University  \n\n\n\nDusan Marinkovic\, Sr. International Trade Specialist\, U.S. Commercial Service – No. VA & Washington\, DC\, U.S. Department of Commerce\, International Trade Administration  \n\n\n\nWelcome RemarksFlin Hyre\, Government Affairs\, CNH Industrial  \n\n\n\nOfficial RemarksMatthew Edwards\, Director\, Office of Russia\, Ukraine & Eurasia\, Global Markets Unit\,U.S. Department of Commerce \n\n\n\n PresentationTravis M. Thul\, White House Fellow\, Export-Import Bank of the United States  \n\n\n\nCommentaryCharles Barnett\, Vice President\, Program on China and Transformational Exports\, Export-Import Bank of the United States \n\n\n\nAndrew Rollo\, Vice President\, Program on China and Transformational Exports\, Export-Import Bank of the United States \n\n\n\n ModeratorClaude Fontheim\, CEO of Fontheim International\, LLC\, and Chairman of civil society organizations GlobalWorks Foundation and GoodWeave International \n\n\n\n\nView Full Program
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/us-exim-program-on-china-and-transformational-exports-boosting-american-competitiveness-in-central-asia-and-globally/
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SUMMARY:The State of Civil Society in Central Asia: Kazakhstan | Состояние Гражданского Общества в Центральной Азии: Казахстан
DESCRIPTION:Feature Photo Credit: Simon Sun at Unsplash \n\n\n\n\nRegister | Регистрация\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is required for this event | Для участия в этом мероприятии требуется регистрация \n\n\n\nThe George Washington University Central Asia Program invites you to the first of four seminars in our Civil Society in Central Asia series.  These sessions will be 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. We will be joined by experts Colin Knox\, Dauren Aben and Maksym Sytnikov who will speak about the civil society landscape in Kazakhstan. The session will address broader developmental trends and civil society challenges in Kazakhstan\, recent developments and legislative changes and Kazakhstani civil society’s expectations of Western supporters. A Q&A session will follow the panelist presentations. Panelist presentations will be made in English and simultaneous translation into Russian will be available. \n\n\n\n*Simultaneous interpreting in Russian will be available for this event. To access the Russian translation\, click a globe sign in your respective toolbar once you receive a notification from the host that the interpretation is available. \n\n\n\nПрограмма Университета Джорджа Вашингтона по Центральной Азии приглашает вас на первый из четырех семинаров нашей серии «Гражданское общество в Центральной Азии». Семинары будут проводиться экспертами гражданского общества по региону с целью не только информировать аудиторию о текущих событиях в Центральной Азии\, но и провести обсуждение возможных направлений и действий для гражданского общества в данном регионе. \n\n\n\nК нам присоединятся эксперты Колин Нокс\, Даурен Абен и Максим Сытников\, которые расскажут о состоянии гражданского общества в Казахстане. На этом семинаре будут рассмотрены тенденции развития и проблемы гражданского общества в Казахстане\, последние события и законодательные изменения\, а также ожидания гражданского общества Казахстана в отношении западных сторонников. После своих презентаций\, участники ответят на вопросы аудитории. Презентации и дискуссии будут проводиться на английском языке с синхронным переводом на русский язык. \n\n\n\n*На мероприятии будет доступен синхронный перевод на русский язык. После уведомления от модератора о начале перевода\, вы можете подключиться к русскому переводу\, нажав на иконку в виде земного шара на соответствующей панели инструментов. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWELCOMING REMARKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n​Sebastien Peyrouse\, Research Professor\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington UniversitySebastien 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Coll\, President\, Eurasia Foundation Lisa Coll is president of Eurasia Foundation. Prior to this role\, she was vice president of EF’s Washington\, DC office\, where she was responsible for overseeing EF’s program portfolio and helping EF achieve its strategic goals. She has over 20 years of international development experience in the democracy and governance sector. Since 2001\, Coll has played a key role at Eurasia Foundation\, including guiding the localization of EF’s regional offices between 2004 and 2010 and spearheading the development of the Capacity Mapping Assessment tool\, an organizational assessment method custom-built for EF’s partner foundations. She sits on the board of Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia. From 1999-2001\, Coll served as EF’s Central Asia director\, based in Tashkent\, overseeing a small grants program in Tajikistan\, Turkmenistan\, and Uzbekistan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPANELISTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Knox\, Professor & Vice Dean for Academic Affairs\, Nazarbayev UniversityColin Knox is a Professor and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate School of Public Policy\, Nazarbayev University\, Kazakhstan and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Public Policy at Ulster University in the UK. His research interests include: public sector reform (local and international); local government; and\, the evaluation of public policy. He has worked on public sector reform in many developing countries including: Kazakhstan\, Bangladesh\, China\, Georgia\, Russia\, and Latvia. Knox is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Fellow of the Higher Teaching Academy (FHEA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n​Dauren Aben\, Senior Research Fellow\, Eurasian Research Institute\, International Kazakh-Turkish UniversityDauren Aben is an independent researcher based in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. He previously worked at the Eurasian Research Institute\, Nazarbayev University\, and the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies. A graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey\, Dauren also headed the Almaty office of the Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaksym Sytnikov\, Advocacy Officer and Analyst\, Open Dialogue FoundationMaksym Sytnikov is a political scientist and graduate of the University of Warsaw. He is a member of the human rights monitoring mission of the Italian Federation for Human Rights in Kazakhstan. Sytnikoy has worked at the Open Dialogue Foundation since 2018. Maksym Sytnikov is also one of coordinators of a global campaign #regimeservants\, which advocates for personal sanctions against perpetrators of human rights violations in Kazakhstan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-state-of-civil-society-in-central-asia-kazakhstan/
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SUMMARY:Double Book Launch - March 25\, 2021: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has initiated major economic development programs within China and beyond its borders\, including through the controversial Belt and Road Initiative which is forging worldwide connections in infrastructure\, trade\, energy\, finance\, culture and tourism. This places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. However\, despite China’s wide ambition\, its engagement abroad and the Belt and Road Initiative will be shaped and redefined as they confront the ground realities of local and regional politics outside China. Essentially\, what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century? What are the implications for U.S.-China competition and cooperation in the region? David Markey and Tim Winter will address these important questions based on two monographs they recently published. \n\n\n \nSpeakers\n \nDaniel Markey\, Author\, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia \n\nDaniel Markey\, PhD\, is a senior research professor and academic director at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Global Policy Program and a Senior Fellow with the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. His latest book\, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia\, was published by Oxford University Press in March 2020. As a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2007 to 2015 he wrote No Exit from Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad. From 2003 to 2007\, Dr. Markey served on the Policy Planning Staff at the US Department of State. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \nTim Winter\, Author\, Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century \n\nTim Winter is an Australian Research Council Professorial Future Fellow at the University of Western Australia\, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He pursues an interdisciplinary approach to understand how the past and present are mutually constituted. Tim is author of Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty First Century (University of Chicago Press 2019) and The Silk Road: geocultural pasts\, geostrategic futures (Oxford University Press\, 2022). See silkroadfutures.net\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \nRodger Baker\, Discussant \nRodger Baker is Senior Vice President for Strategic Analysis for Stratfor. He has spent more than two decades with Stratfor focused on the Indo-Pacific region\, with special attention to China and the Korean Peninsula. He addresses the strategic dynamics of an evolving world system\, looking at great power competition\, the role of middle powers\, and the impacts of technological\, environmental\, and demographic changes on geopolitical relationships. His core emphasis is the multidisciplinary approach to geopolitics and the evolution of international relations to develop mid-and long-term forecasts to assist companies\, governments\, and other globally engaged organizations make informed decisions. Mr. Baker is a Senior Fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations\, a Steering Fellow for the Mackinder Forum\, and teaches a certificate program in Geopolitical Analysis at Florida Atlantic University.\n\n\n \n\n\n​Sebastien Peyrouse\, Moderator\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. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n \nMarlene Laruelle\, Chair\n \nMarlene 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.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/double-book-launch-march-25-2021-chinese-foreign-policy-toward-central-asia-and-the-silk-roads/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: March 15 - Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin
DESCRIPTION:Pipe Dreams:Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basinwith Author Maya K. Peterson\, Discussant ​Artemy M. Kalinovsky\, and Moderator Marlene Laruelle \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPipe 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\, a process that ultimately led to the drying up of Central Asia’s Aral Sea. Maya Peterson argues that the disappearance of the Aral Sea\, considered one of the worst environmental catastrophes of the late twentieth century\, is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, a time when not only Russians and Bolsheviks\, but engineers\, scientists\, politicians and entrepreneurs around the world united in the belief that universal scientific knowledge\, together with modern technologies\, could be used to transform large areas of the planet from ‘wasteland’ into productive land. The implications of this broader understanding of the Aral Sea disaster – the transnational aspects of which have often been overlooked in narratives focused on the hubris and folly of communist gigantomania and Soviet disregard for the environment – serve as a reminder that wise water management remains one of our greatest challenges today.   \n\n\n \nSpeakers\n \nMaya Peterson\, Author\n \nMaya K. Peterson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Russian and Central Asian history\, as well as the history of the environment\, science\, technology\, and medicine. Her first monograph\, Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin\, published as part of the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Environment and History in 2019\, was a finalist for the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s 2020 Book Prize in History and the Humanities. She is currently working on a transnational history of kumys (fermented mare’s milk) as a therapeutic substance from the nineteenth century through the present.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \nArtemy Kalinovsky\, Discussant\n \nArtemy M. Kalinovsky is Professor of Russian\, Soviet\, and Post-Soviet Studies at Temple University and the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project Building a Better Tomorrow: Development Knowledge and Practice in Central Asia and Beyond\, based at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press\, 2018) and A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press\, 2011). He has co-edited a number of volumes on Soviet and Cold War history\, including The End of the Cold War and the Third World (London: Routledge\, 2011)\, with Sergey Radchenko\, and\, most recently\, Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Post-Colonial World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press\, 2020)\, with James Mark and Steffi Marung.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \nMarlene Laruelle\, Moderator\n \nMarlene 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.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-launch-march-15-pipe-dreams-water-and-empire-in-central-asias-aral-sea-basin/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: March 10\, 2021 - Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm
DESCRIPTION:Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realmwith Author Diana T. Kudaibergenova\, Discussants ​Asel Doolotkeldieva and Maryia Rohava\, and Moderator Marlene Laruelle \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 comparative study\, Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991\, Latvia and Kazakhstan\, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy. What explains this difference in approaching nation-building after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What can a study of two very different trajectories of development tell us about the nature of power\, state and nationalizing regimes of the ‘new’ states of Eurasia? Toward Nationalizing Regimes finds surprising similarities in two such apparently different countries—one “western” and democratic\, the other “eastern” and dictatorial. \n\n\n  \nSpeakers\n\n  \nDiana T. Kudaibergenova\, Author\n  \n \nDiana T. Kudaibergenova is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that\, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the GRCF COMPASS project at the Centre of Development Studies (Department of Politics and International Studies) also at the University of Cambridge. She studies different intersections of power\, regimes\, state-building and nationalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAsel Doolotkeldieva\, Discussant\n \nAsel Doolotkeldieva is a Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. She earned her PhD from the University of Exeter (UK) in Politics and her Masters’ degree from Sciences Po Paris. Previously\, she was a Visiting Fellow at College Mondial\, FMSH (Paris\, France). Her academic interests include social mobilizations\, regime transition and democratization\, postsocialism\, and political economy of resource extraction in Central Asia. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nMaryia Rohava\, Discussant\n \nMaryia Rohava is a researcher at the University of Oslo in the field of East European and Russian area studies. She was a visiting research fellow at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin. She was awarded a ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius grant “Trajectories of Change” and a Civil Society Award for her fieldwork in Belarus from the Open Society Foundations. Her research interests include identity politics in post-Soviet countries and comparative studies on authoritarian regimes. She published her research in East European Politics and Society and Nations and Nationalism.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n  \nMarlene Laruelle\, Moderator\n \nMarlene 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.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-launch-march-10-2021-toward-nationalizing-regimes-conceptualizing-power-and-identity-in-the-post-soviet-realm/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: March 5 - Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Slow Anti-Americanism:The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asiawith author Edward Schatz\, discussant ​Emil Nasritdinov\, and moderator Marlene Laruelle \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\nNegative views of the United States abound\, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia\, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather\, “America” is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework\, Schatz considers how Islamist movements\, human rights activists\, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact\, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics\, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving\, partially occluded\, and socially embedded processes that ground how “America” becomes political.  \n\n\n\nIn turn\, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. By highlighting the role played by symbols\, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways\, considering how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination\, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America\, Schatz shows us\, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond. \n\n\n \nSpeakers\nEdward Schatz\, Author \nEdward Schatz is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He recently published Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia with Stanford University Press. His previous books include Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017) and Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (2009). Professor Schatz is currently working with Professor Rachel Silvey on a SSHRC-funded project about the downstream effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n \n\nEmil Nasritdinov\, Discussant \nEmil Nasritdinov is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator with the Anthropology\, Urbanism and International Development program at the American University of Central Asia\, Kyrgyzstan. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne\, Australia. His main research and teaching expertise areas include migration\, religion and urbanism.  \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMarlene Laruelle\, Moderator \nMarlene 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
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SUMMARY:30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Central Asia Program and the Embassy of Kazakhstan invite you to a virtual discussion to mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the US and Kazakhstan.On December 16\, 2021\, Kazakhstan will celebrate 30 years of independence. Back in the 1990s\, the country voluntarily renounced the fourth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and closed the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing site. Over the years\, Kazakhstan’s partnership with the United States has created solid foundations for the development of trade and economic relations as well as for cooperation in the political and security spheres. The Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the United States have invited speakers who have been personally involved in strengthening U.S.-Kazakhstan ties to share their memories of the not-so-distant past and to draw out lessons from their experiences for the next generation of diplomats\, experts\, and students.Please join us for a discussion moderated by Ambassador John Herbst\, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Speakers include the Honorable Andrew “Andy” Weber\, President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear\, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs; Ambassador Bolat Nurgaliyev\, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States between 1996 and 2000; and Ambassador John Ordway\, U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan between 2004 and 2008. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Overview (EST)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:00 AM – Introductory Remarks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelinda Haring is the deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Previously\, she was the editor of the Atlantic Council’s most popular publication\, the UkraineAlert blog. She is the author of the report Reforming the Democracy Bureaucracy\, coauthor of Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Persons Hold a Key to Peace (Atlantic Council\, 2017)\, and a contributor to Does Democracy Matter? (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2017). Haring has worked for Eurasia Foundation\, Freedom House\, and the National Democratic Institute\, where she managed democracy assistance programs in Azerbaijan\, Georgia\, and Russia. A graduate of Georgetown University\, she holds an MA in Government with a certificate in Russian\, Eurasian\, and East European Studies. Haring is the vice-chair of the board of East Europe Foundation in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, a member of the supervisory board of Right to Protection in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmbassador John Herbst served for thirty-one years as a foreign service officer in the US Department of State\, retiring at the rank of career-minister. He was US Ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006\, prior to that\, he was Ambassador to Uzbekistan (2000-2003). In his last four years at the State Department\, he served as the Coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization\, leading the US government’s civilian capacity in societies in transition from conflict or civil strife\, and to provide support to countries at risk of instability. Ambassador Herbst previously served as US consul general in Jerusalem; principal deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for the Newly Independent States; the director of the office of independent states and commonwealth affairs; director of regional affairs in the Near East Bureau; and at the embassies in Tel Aviv\, Moscow\, and Saudi Arabia. He most recently served as director of the center for complex operations at National Defense University. He has received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award\, the Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Award\, and the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. Currently\, Ambassador Herbst is Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:10 AM – Welcoming Remarks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmbassador Erzhan Kazykhanov is one of Kazakhstan’s most experienced diplomats. Born in 1964\, in Almaty\, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Oriental studies from the Saint Petersburg State University in 1987. Ambassador Kazykhanov holds PhD in History from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Prior to his appointment as the Ambassador to the U.S.\, Mr. Erzhan Kazykhanov has served as Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Before becoming Ambassador to the UK\, he held the position of Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. He previously served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan\, as well as the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Austria\, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the International Organizations in Vienna and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. He is the author of numerous articles on Kazakhstan’s foreign policy\, economic diplomacy\, multilateralism\, and the role of the United Nations. He speaks Russian\, English and Arabic\, and is the recipient of several State awards and recognitions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:15 AM – Keynote Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmbassador John Ordway was born in 1950\, in California. He completed 33 years of public service in the Foreign Service as U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan (from August 30\, 2004 to October 7\, 2008). Mr. Ordway’s distinguished career with the Foreign Service began in 1975. He has an extensive background in Soviet and Russian affairs\, as well as experience in European security affairs\, conflict resolution\, and peacekeeping operations. Prior to becoming a Senior Foreign Service officer\, Mr. Ordway served abroad at the U.S. Embassies in Prague (1978–1981)\, Moscow (1985–87)\, and in Brussels at the U.S. Mission to NATO (1993–1995). He was in Moscow from 1996 to 2001\, serving the last two years as Deputy Chief of Mission. Was also Ambassador to Armenia (from November 2001 to August 2004). During his career Mr. Ordway oversaw complex and diverse policymaking and operational teams at large\, medium and small embassies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmbassador Bolat Nurgaliyev was born in 1951 in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. In 1980 he was hired by the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then he was posted to the Soviet Embassies in Pakistan (1981–1985) and India (1990–1992). In 1992\, Mr.Nurgaliyev joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan\, held the positions of Head of the Department of International Security and Arms Control\, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Nurgaliyev was Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States (1996-2000)\, concurrently in Canada and Mexico; to the Republic of Korea (2001-2003); Japan (2004-2006); the State of Israel (2012-20014) with concurrence to the Republic of Cyprus. From 2007 to 2009\, he was Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In 2010\, during the chairmanship of Kazakhstan in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)\, he was Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on protracted conflicts. From 2015 to 2018\, he worked as an adviser to the Chairman of the Board of JSC “National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy”. Since December 2019 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Honorable Andrew “Andy” Weber has dedicated his professional life to countering nuclear\, chemical\, and biological threats and to strengthening global health security. Mr. Weber’s 30 years of US government service included 5\,5 years as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear\, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. He was a driving force behind Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction efforts to remove weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan and Georgia and nuclear-capable MiG-29 aircraft from Moldova\, to reduce biological weapons threats\, and to destroy Libyan and Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles. In addition\, he coordinated US leadership of the international Ebola response for the Department of State. Prior to joining the Pentagon as Advisor for Threat Reduction Policy in December 1996\, Mr. Weber was posted abroad as a US Foreign Service Officer in Saudi Arabia\, Germany\, Kazakhstan\, and Hong Kong. He serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association and the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies International Advisory Council. He taught a course on Force and Diplomacy at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service for 7 years\, and was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Mr. Weber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Senior Fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:45 AM – Q&A
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/30th-anniversary-of-us-kazakh-diplomatic-relations/
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SUMMARY:Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore than a million — some say 3 million — Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been arbitrarily detained and imprisoned in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2016. China has justified its crackdown by claiming it is part of a counter-terrorism campaign aimed at rooting out “extremism.” However\, human rights groups and international observers refer to these detention centers as concentration camps with plenty of evidence of systemic torture and human rights violations. While outlets like Radio Free Asia (RFA) have played a pivotal role in exposing Beijing’s sweeping detentions and the creation of a high-tech surveillance state in the Uyghur homeland\, documenting the process by which Chinese authorities target\, interrogate\, and detain Uyghurs and other minorities has been murky. Recently\, RFA’s research department carried out a series of in-depth interviews with survivors from these camps who were caught in the gears of China’s criminal system. These rich firsthand accounts from the inside provide not just a detailed scene of the brutal en masse interrogations\, incarcerations\, classifications\, and means of torture\, but heartwrenchingly vivid pictures of the human beings caught in its gears.Please join George Washington University on Tuesday\, February 2\, 2021 at 10 am US ET as Dr. Sean Roberts\, Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies Program at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs\, in collaboration with the Central Asian Program (CAP)\, hosts a discussion with Radio Free Asia about its forthcoming report. Speakers will include Betsy Henderson\, Chief Strategy Officer and head of RFA’s audience research program; Alim Seytoff\, Director of RFA’s Uyghur Service; and Human Rights Watch’s Maya Wang\, China Senior Researcher. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSean Roberts is an anthropologist with regional expertise in Central Asia\, where he also has also done extensive applied development work on issues related to civil society\, governance\, and human rights. Much of his academic work has focused on the Uyghur people in the People’s Republic of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region\, as well as in Central Asia and Turkey. His first book\, The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press\, September 2020) draws on his field research and in-depth interviews with Uyghurs. Roberts also writes on issues related to politics and development in the broader Central Asian region. He frequently comments for media outlets on current events both in Central Asia and in the Uyghur region of China. Roberts earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. @RobertsReport \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetsy Henderson is Radio Free Asia’s Chief Strategy Officer. Henderson was RFA’s founding Director of Audience Research\, establishing RFA’s capacity to monitor its impact and gather audience feedback in Asia’s most repressive societies. In addition to conducting representative surveys and qualitative studies\, Ms. Henderson developed unprecedented research programs for North Korea and China’s Tibetan and Uyghur regions. Since 2003\, Henderson has overseen RFA’s journalism training and program evaluation\, and now also is responsible for digital analytics\, internal goal setting\, impact reporting\, and performance tracking. A former Associated Press reporter\, Ms. Henderson lived and worked in southern China and in Taiwan and speaks Mandarin fluently. Her graduate studies at Columbia and University of Michigan focused on journalism\, Chinese politics\, and research methodology.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlim Seytoff is the Director of Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service. During his tenure\, which began in early 2017\, RFA Uyghur broke the story of the mass arbitrary detentions of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region — and has remained on the forefront of covering this human rights crisis since. Prior to RFA\, Alim served as the Executive Director for the Uyghur Human Rights Project and was President of the Uyghur American Association. He has appeared on BBC\, CNN and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times\, speaking about Uyghur related issues. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and has briefed U.S officials on the subject. Alim holds a BA in Chinese Studies from Xinjiang University and a BA in Broadcast Journalism from Southern Adventist University. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. Alim received his Juris Doctor degree from Regent University School of Law in 2006. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya Wang is the senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. Wang has researched and written extensively on the use of torture\, arbitrary detention\, human rights defenders\, civil society\, disability rights\, and women’s rights in China. She is also an expert on human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. In recent years\, her original research on China’s use of technology for mass surveillance\, including the use of biometrics\, artificial intelligence and big data\, has helped galvanize international attention on these developments in China and globally. Wang has published on major international media outlets\, including the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, ChinaFile\, the Diplomat\, the Guardian\, and has been frequently quoted by international media including the New York Times\, Reuters\, Bloomberg News\, and the Associated Press.  \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Human Rights Watch\, Wang worked for a non-governmental organization focused on human rights defenders in China. Wang is also a member of Digital Freedom Forum organized by the US-based think tank\, Center for a New American Security\, and recognized as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ by strategic research advisory firm Lighthouse3. \n\n\n\nMain Photo: Illustrated by Yette Su.
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SUMMARY:Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism in Central Asia - Reflections on Challenges and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe multifaceted nature of violent extremism and terrorism in all its forms suggests that conditions conducive to violent extremism and terrorism are similarly diverse. Some of the cardinal root causes tend to be ideological\, political\, economic\, or religious in nature; but also coupled with confounding causes linked to issues like mental health or education\, to mention just a few.Several thousand citizens from Central Asia are known to have joined the self-proclaimed “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/Daesh)” as Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs). Many of them and their families have been repatriated to their countries of origin by their respective Governments as part of Government-led repatriation programs\, a move widely praised in the region but also in the international arena. This opens up questions about the degree of multiagency preparedness among state and non-state actors with regard to reintegration and rehabilitation aspects\, as well as the potential prosecution of FTFs in line with the international human rights law\, including international humanitarian law and refugee law as prerequisites for the protection of the lives\, health and dignity of persons.Please join the Central Asia Program for an opportunity for a frank exchange of ideas on the theme of prevention and countering violent extremism in Central Asia\, including on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for domestic actors but also the international community as a key partner in the region with Fejzo Numanaj. \n\n\n\nFeatured image by Mr. Rustam Vagapov. The Madrasa of Sher-Dor in Samarkand. Courtesy of History of Central Asia and Khorasan\, Twitter @BiruniKhorasan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFejzo Numanaj\, a former practitioner with multilateral organizations in the region. \n\n\n\nFejzo Numanaj currently works in Vienna\, Austria\, at the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as the Deputy Head of the Action against Terrorism Unit\, Transnational Threats Department. He has held several senior functions with the OSCE in Central Asia\, Eastern and South-eastern Europe\, delivering in the areas of democratization\, preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization to violence and terrorism\, arms control\, and border management and security.  \n\n\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. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/preventing-and-countering-violent-extremism-and-radicalization-that-lead-to-terrorism-in-central-asia-reflections-on-challenges-and-opportunities/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: January 26 - Land of Strangers - The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Land of Strangers:The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asiawith author Eric Schluessel\, discussant ​Rian Thum\, and moderator Marlene Laruelle \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the close of the nineteenth century\, near the end of the Qing empire\, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang\, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians\, seeking to bind this population and their homeland to the Chinese cultural and political realm. Instead of assimilation\, divisions between communities only deepened\, resulting in a profound estrangement that continues to this day.In Land of Strangers\, Eric Schluessel explores this encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He follows the stories of families divided by war\, women desperate to survive\, children unsure where they belong\, and many others to reveal the human consequences of a bloody conflict and the more insidious violence of reconstruction. Schluessel traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity\, showing how religious and linguistic differences converged into ethnic labels. Reading across local archives and manuscript accounts in the Chinese and Chaghatay languages\, he recasts the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism. At a time when understanding the roots of the modern relationship between Uyghurs and China has taken on new urgency\, Land of Strangers illuminates a crucial moment of social and cultural change in this dark period of Xinjiang’s past.As part of the Sigur Center’s New Books in Asian Studies series\, which supports authors and local DC bookstores with a monthly giveaway: Follow these steps to be eligible to win a hardcover copy ($140 value!) of Land of Strangers. 1. Attend with the name you registered as 2. Subscribe to the Sigur Center’s General Interest newsletter and follow the Sigur Center on Facebook. 3. Subscribe to the Central Asia Program’s newsletter and follow CAP on Facebook. The Sigur Center will randomly select a winner during the event\, purchase the book from a local DC bookstore\, and pay for shipping. The contest is only open to those with a U.S. mailing address.Click here to learn more about ESIA Book Launch Series and subscribe to their mailing list to receive updates on future book launches. \n\n\n  \nSpeakers\nEric Schluessel\, Author\n  \nEric Schluessel\, PhD.\, is an Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University. He is a social historian of China and Central Asia\, and his work focuses on Xinjiang (East Turkestan) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Schluessel’s current project\, Exiled Gods\, delves into Han Chinese settler culture and religion to illuminate the history of a diasporic community of demobilized soldiers and their descendants that spanned the Qing empire. Thanks to grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies\, Schluessel is also completing a translation and critical edition of the Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī\, which is an important Chaghatay-language chronicle of nineteenth-century Xinjiang. Ongoing research builds off of this and other manuscript\, documentary\, and memoir sources to reconstruct an economic history of Xinjiang from below. Schluessel previously taught at the University of Montana in Missoula and spent the 2018–2019 academic year as a Mellow Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, NJ. \n\n\n\n\n \n\nRian Thum\, Discussant\n  \nRian Thum\, PhD.\, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. His research and teaching are generally concerned with the overlap of China and the Muslim World. His current book project\, Islamic China\, is a re-examination of Chinese Islam that takes full account of the numerous Persian and Arabic sources that Chinese Muslims have used and written. It re-evaluates Chinese-language Islamic traditions in light of their multilingual contexts and uncovers the role of Persianate Islamic networks in binding China and India together over the last 400 years. More generally\, his research interests include historical anthropology\, mobility\, orality and writing\, historiography\, the history of money\, and the place of non-Han peoples in China. \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMarlene Laruelle\, Moderator\n  \nMarlene 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-launch-january-26-land-of-strangers-the-civilizing-project-in-qing-central-asia/
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SUMMARY:Kazakhstan's Parliamentary Elections: What Next?
DESCRIPTION:Kazakhstan will hold parliamentary and local elections on the 10th January. There is little intrigue as to the results given that opposition parties were not allowed to participate. New regulations that restrict election observers have further enhanced state control over the voting process. These developments disappointed many Kazakhstani citizens\, who previously had hoped President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s promises of political reform would prove more forthcoming.  Please join the Central Asia Program\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, the Davis Center at Harvard University\, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs for a discussion on the elections\, immediate reactions inside and outside the country on the results\, and also the implications for the immediate and future development of Kazakhstan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNargis Kassenova is a Senior Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies of Harvard University\, and Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies of KIMEP University. Her areas of research include Central Asian politics and security\, Eurasian geopolitics\, Kazakhstan’s foreign policy\, religion and politics in Central Asia\, and history of state-building in Central Asia.\n\n\n\n\n\nYevgeniy Zhovtis is a prominent human rights lawyer and the current director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law\, as well as a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and the board of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute. Zhovtis has been the recipient of numerous human rights awards\, including the EU and U.S. Democracy and Civil Society Award in 1999\, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Human Rights Award in 2007\, and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee Andrey Sakharov Freedom Award in 2010. \n\n\n\n\n\nTorokul Doorov has been the Director of RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service since July 2014. He started his career with RFE/RL as a Moscow-based correspondent in 2002. Later he worked as the Kyrgyz Service’s Azattyk Plus youth program editor for several years in Bishkek. Born in the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan\, he graduated from the Journalism Faculty of Moscow State University.\n \n\n\n\n\n\nMarlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)\, GW. Dr. Laruelle is also a Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia) and Director of GW’s Central Asia Program. Her research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia and nationhood construction in Central Asia\, as well as the development of Russia’s Arctic regions. Two of her books will be out in late 2020: Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West (Cornell University Press) and Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War. Red versus Whites (Bloomsbury). \n \n\n\n\n\nRSVP
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SUMMARY:Late Soviet Central Asia: Colonialism vs Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Мероприятие пройдет на русском\, с вопросами на русском и английском языках.This event will be held in Russian with questions in English. Как колониальное и национальное проявляется и сосуществует в нарративах таджикской интеллигенции\, казахской оперы и туркменских коврах? Эти вопросы обсуждаются на семинаре с участием Артемия Калиновского\, Нари Шелекпаева Модераторы дискуссии: Марлен Ларуэль и Сергей Абашин.  \n\n\n\nHow does colonialism and nationalism coexist and are expressed in the narratives of Tajik intelligentsia\, Kazakh opera and Turkmen carpets? These questions are discussed at a seminar with Artemy Kalinovsky\, Nari Shelekpaev Moderators of the discussion: Marlene Laruelle and Sergey Abashin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTopics and Speakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nАртемий КалиновскийПризывники социализма: таджикская интеллигенция и деколонизация по-советскиЭто исследование рассматривает траектории представителей интеллигенции центральной Азии\, которые получили высшее образование в 1960-х и 1970-х годах. Опираясь на мемуары\, архивные источники и устную историю\, автор рассматривает их реакцию и участие в советской антиколониальной политике и то\, как это участие повлияло на их отношение к самому Советскому Союзу. в статье раскрывается потенциал постколониальной теории в попытке осмыслить отношение этой интеллигенции к понятию «нация» в советскую и постсоветскую эпохи. \n\n\n\nArtemy Kalinovsky Conscripts of Socialism? The Tajik Intelligentsia and Soviet-Style DecolonizationThis research examines the trajectories of Central Asian intellectuals who were educated in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on memoirs\, archival sources\, and oral history\, it considers their response to and involvement in Soviet anti-colonial politics\, and how this involvement may have shaped their attitude towards the Soviet project itself. Finally\, the article considers some of the ways that postcolonial theory helps make sense of these intellectuals’ attitudes towards the nation in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. \n\n\n\n \n\n\nArtemy Kalinovsky\, Professor (Professor of Integrative Knowledge – PIK) at the College of Liberal Arts. Dr Kalinovsky latest book\, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan\, focused on the politics and practices of development in Soviet Central Asia and places the Soviet experiment in a global context. The book won the 2019 Davis Center Prize for a monograph in anthropology\, sociology\, political science\, or geography of Russia or the post-Soviet space\, and the Hewett prize for for a monograph on the political economy of Russia or the former USSR. Artemy is also the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press\, 2011)\, and co-editor with Sergey Radchenko\, of The End of the Cold War and the Third World (Routledge: 2011)\, as well as the Routledge Handbook of Cold War Studies with Craig Daigle (2014). More recently\, he co-edited\, with Michael Kemper\, Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era (2015) and Reconsidering Stagnation: Ideology and Exchange in the Brezhnev Era (Lexington\, 2016)\, with Dina Fainberg. Artemy’s academic work has appeared in Cahiers du Monde Russe\, Ab Imperio\, Kritika\, Contemporary European History\, Humanity\, the Journal of Cold War Studies\, Cold War History\, and a number of edited collections. His writing has also been published in Foreign Policy\, National Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, and the Washington Post. Artemy has a PhD and an MA from the LSE in International History and a BA from the George Washington University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nНари ШелекпаевЗаимствованные традиции\, завуалированные связи и карго-культы: опера и столичные города (на примере Алматы и Астаны) Это исследование представляет собой обзор\, охватывающий период более четырех веков\, исторической ко-конструкции между оперой и городами столицами\, а также процесса легитимации\, которой опера наделяет столицы как их давний и устойчивый атрибут. Это исследование сначала предлагает взглянуть на то\, как ранняя опера возникла в европейских столицах в 17 веке\, затем на то\, как опера и столицы развивались в 18 и 19 веках\, и\, наконец\, на появление оперы в неевропейских столицах с середины 19 века. Далее\, я разбираю подробно историю создания оперы в бывшей и нынешней столицах Казахстана. Это исследование\, учитывая его временной охват\, не ставит своей целью дать исчерпывающий обзор истории опер и оперных театров во всех столицах прошлого или настоящего. Скорее\, он направлен на то\, чтобы выделить и подвергнуть сомнению практики и намерения тех акторов\, которые апроприировали оперу – изначально итальянскую форму искусства – особенно в незападном контексте.  \n\n\n\nNari ShelekpaevBorrowed Traditions\, Veiled Connections\, and Cargo Cults: Opera and Capital Cities (case studies of Almaty & Astana)This research provides an overview\, spanning over four centuries\, of the historical co-construction between opera and capital cities as well as the legitimation\, which the former arguably provides to the latter as its long-standing and persistent attribute. For doing so\, this research first suggests to look on the way the early opera emerged in the European capitals in the 17th century\, then the way the two codeveloped in the 18th and 19th centuries\, and finally the arrival of opera to non-European capital cities\, a trend that emerged in the mid-19th century and continues until today. It also analyses\, in a more detailed manner\, the operatic history of Kazakhstan’s former and current capital cities to buttress the claims on an entangled connection between the history opera and that of contemporary capital cities. This research\, given its timespan\, did not aim to provide an exhaustive overview of the operatic history of past or present capital cities. Rather\, it aims to highlight and question the practices and intentions of those who appropriated opera – originally an Italian form of art – for political and other reasons\, especially in the non-western context. \n\n\nDr. Nari Shelekpaev\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, European University at St. Petersburg. Dr Shelekpayev specializes in the intellectual history\, comparative history of empires in the 19th and 20th centuries\, as well as Soviet and post-Soviet history. He was the 2018 Albert Einstein Fellow and scholar-in-residence of the Einstein Summer House at the Einstein Forum and Daimler & Benz Foundation in Potsdam\, Germany. Previously\, he was Visiting Research Fellow at Free University in Berlin (2016-2017)\, Scholar-in-Residence at the Canadian Center for Architecture (2015)\, and Associate Doctoral Fellow at the IRTG ‘Diversity\,’ formed by Université de Montréal in Canada and Universities of Trier and Saarbrucken in Germany (2016-2019). Nari has taught at Université de Montréal (2016)\, Università di Roma La Sapienza (2018)\, and Eurasian University in Astana (2015-2016).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarlene Laurelle\, Director\, Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies; Director\, Central Asia Program; Co-Director\, PONARS-Eurasia; Research Professor of International Affairs.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nSergey Abashin\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology at the European University at St. Petersburg\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/late-soviet-central-asia-colonialism-vs-nationalism/
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SUMMARY:The Other Side of Oil
DESCRIPTION:George Washington University’s Central Asia Program and Crude Accountability present\, “The Other Side of Oil\,” a documentary film\, which raises important issues of environmental degradation\, social justice\, and poverty. Through striking images of the landscape of Kazakhstan and depictions of the lives of ordinary villagers\, the film includes extensive interviews with people who live in the shadow of the richest oil reserves in the country. \nFor local residents\, close proximity to oil sites cause a multitude of health problems\, diseases among livestock\, deaths of livestock\, a loss of livelihood\, water pollution\, and many other examples of environmental degradation. \nPlease join director Lukpan Akhmedyarov and videographer Raul Uporov of Uralsk Weekly newspaper\, and Sergey Solyanik\, consultant to Crude Accountability\, for a viewing and discussion of the film on Wednesday\, December 2 at 10AM Eastern Time. \nThe film crew visited three regions of Western Kazakhstan – Aktyubinsk\, Mangystau\, and Atyrau regions. Each of these territories is rich in oil reserves and\, therefore\, attractive to foreign investors. Most of the oil sites mentioned in the documentary have been developed by the subsidiaries of China National Petroleum Corporation(CNPC) and Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC). \nThe Other Side of Oil \n\n\nSpeakers\n\n \nKate Watters\, Executive Director\, Crude Accountability.\n \nKate Watters is co-founder of Crude Accountability and has served as the executive director since its founding in 2003. Kate oversees the management and development of the organization\, working with staff and board to build sustainable and effective programs and campaigns. She works closely with activists in affected communities to develop strategies and actions to protect environmental and human rights on the local\, national\, and international levels. She has worked with human rights and environmental defenders in Central Asia\, the Caucasus\, and Russia since the early 1990s\, has lived in and traveled extensively throughout the region\, and speaks fluent Russian. She is the author of numerous reports and articles on civil society in Central Asia and the Caspian region and has been interviewed for print media\, radio\, and television about the environment\, oil and gas\, and human rights in the region. Kate holds an MA in Russian Area Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in Russian literature from UMASS-Amherst.\n \n\n\nLukpan Akhmedyarov\, Editor in Chief\, Uralsk Weekly \nLukpan has been a journalist for the past 18 years\, and has reported extensively on oil and gas\, corruption\, and other issues in Western Kazakhstan. He is a graduated of the School of Multi-media journalism IMedia 2017\, supported by the Soros-Kazakhstan Fund\, and has a degree in Geography and Biology. Lukpan was the recipient of the 2012 Peter Mackler Award for Journalists from Reporters without Borders. He is the director of “The Other Side of Oil\,” and a member of Crude Accountability’s board of directors. \n\n\n\nRaul Uporov\, Editor of Uralsk Weekly \nRaul is a documentary photographer and photojournalist\, and has worked at Uralsk Weekly since 2007. Raul is a 2016 finalist in the international competition of human rights photography and is a 2017 graduate of the School of Multi-media journalism IMedia\, supporte by the Soros-Kazakhstan Fund. Raul is the author of three documentary films: Samozanyatia\, Pustoi zvon medalei\, and The Other Side of Oil.  \n\nSergey Solyanik\, Consultant to Crude Accountability \nSergey is consultant to Crude Accountability since 2009\, and is responsible for the organization’s activities in Kazakhstan\, including its research on Chinese investments in oil and gas. He has been an active participant in Kazakhstan’s environmental movement since 1990. For nearly twenty years he worked at the Ecological Society Green Salvation\, one of the oldest and most respected public environmental organizations in the country. Sergey has a degree in electrical engineering and a Masters in Environmental Politics from Keele University in the UK\, which he studied under a Chevening Scholarship granted by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-other-side-of-oil/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Parental Labor Migration and Educational Attainment in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program invites you to an online discussion with international education specialist Dr. Todd Drummond about the association between migrant parents and student learning outcomes in Kyrgyzstan. The event will focus on the methods employed and an interpretation of results. The discussion will pose important questions for policy makers in the Kyrgyz Republic as they grapple with parental migration issues and educational achievement.About Todd Drummond \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Todd Drummond is currently the Director of Assessment and Education Services at The American Councils for International Education in Washington\, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Michigan State University. Dr. Drummond has been studying education in Eurasia since 1994\, when he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer educator in Kyrgyzstan. From 1998 to 2000 Dr. Drummond served as the Country Director for The American Councils for International Education in Bishkek. From 2002 to 2005 he was the director of the National Testing Initiative in the Kyrgyz Republic\, a USAID-funded project that resulted in the creation of a new university admissions system. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn August 2002\, he received an award from the President of the Kyrgyz Republic\, Askar Akaev\, for “Outstanding Contribution to the Educational Development of the Kyrgyz Republic” for his leadership of the National Testing Initiative. His recent publications have focused on university admissions reform in the Eurasian region (in Silova & Niyozov\, 2020). Before returning to American Councils in 2020\, Dr. Drummond served as the Acting Director of Office of International Studies in Education in the College of Education\, Michigan State University in 2014. From 2015 to 2019 Dr. Drummond worked as a Principal Researcher in the International Standards and Assessment Division\, American Institutes for Research (AIR). At AIR Dr. Drummond worked on the design\, administration\, and analysis of Early Grade Reading Assessments in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. Dr. Drummond has also worked in the education sector in Zambia\, Ethiopia\, Tanzania\, Bangladesh\, Honduras\, Afghanistan\, Azerbaijan\, Ukraine\, Tajikistan\, Georgia\, Russia\, Moldova and all the Central Eurasian nations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Moderator \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.  \n \n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/parental-labor-migration-and-educational-attainment-in-kyrgyzstan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T100000
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SUMMARY:1150th Anniversary of Al-Farabi: The Legacy of Medieval Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:The year 2020 marks the 1150th anniversary of Al-Farabi – the most famous Oriental thinker originated from the Kazakh land. His legacy has been a connecting “spiritual bridge” between West and East\, combining the works of the ancient and Islamic worlds\, and influencing the development of science and the Renaissance in Europe. In these difficult times for the world\, Al-Farabi’s legacy is worth rediscovering.  \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Overview\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 29 (Time EDT)\n\n\n\n10:00 AM – Introductory Remarks by Dr. Marlene LaruelleDirector\, Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies and Research Professor of International Affairs. \n\n\n\n10:05 AM – Welcome Remarks by Ambassador Erzhan KazykhanovAmbassador of Kazakhstan to the United States \n\n\n\nKeynote Speakers:\n\n\n\n10:10 AM Featured Remarks by Professor Peter RollbergAssociate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research Initiatives at the George Washington University \n\n\n\n10:20 AM Featured Remarks by Dr. Paul Michael TaylorCurator of European\, Near Eastern\, and Asian Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution \n\n\n\n10:30 AM Featured Remarks by Professor Aliya MasalimovaDean of Faculty at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University \n\n\n\n10:40 AM Commentary by Mr. Askar AlimzhanovDirector of the national branch MIR TV \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:45 AM Open Discussion \n\n\n\n11:00 AM Closing Remarks
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/1150th-anniversary-of-al-farabi-the-legacy-of-medieval-wisdom/
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SUMMARY:Current Challenges Facing the Post-Soviet Societies of Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program invites you to an online discussion with renowned human rights lawyer Yevgeniy Zhovtis about how the future of Central Asian states is threatened by their inability to move past Soviet attitudes and the grasp of elite ruling circles. The event will focus on concerns stemming from the continuing concentration of political power and wealth among former communist elite; a lack of real\, independent and activist civil society\, and nationalist and xenophobic trends among youth.About Yevgeniy Zhovtis \n\n\n\nYevgeniy Zhovtis is a prominent human rights lawyer and the current director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law\, as well as a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and the board of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute. Before graduating with honors from the High Law School “Adilet” in 1999\, Zhovtis served as a union leader in the early 1990s and has been an outspoken critic of human rights violations in Kazakhstan for the past 30 years.   Zhovtis has been the recipient of numerous human rights awards\, including the EU and U.S. Democracy and Civil Society Award in 1999\, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Human Rights Award in 2007\, and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee Andrey Sakharov Freedom Award in 2010. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Moderator \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. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/current-challenges-facing-the-post-soviet-societies-of-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Civil Society in Central Asia,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T090000
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SUMMARY:Cultures of Islam: Variations of Muslim Belief and Practice from the Irtysh River to the Black Sea
DESCRIPTION:Summary\n\n\n\nIn this open discussion\, we will examine the diversity of Muslim belief and practice in Russia beyond the capital\, Moscow. During this two-day conference\, twelve experts will reflect upon case studies from regions across Russia: Siberia\, the Ural and Volga regions\, the North Caucasus and Crimea. Of primary interest is the relationship between Islam and various aspects of culture. Our scholars will examine many complex questions\, such as when and why some aspects of culture (national\, ethnic\, regional\, local) become influential\, whose interests are being served\, and which kind of power struggles can be determined? Further\, they ask if global and local interpretations of Islam must clash or if they can co-exist? The discussion will encompass the uneasy convergence of one Islamic revelation and a multitude of other Muslim traditions. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nThe Initiative “Islam in Russia\, Russia in the Islamic World” is generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Overview\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, October 19\n\n\n\n9:00 – 9:10 (EDT) –– Welcoming Remarks\n\n\n\nMarlene Laruelle\, Director\, Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies and Research Professor of International Affairs. \n\n\n\n\njoin here\n\n\n\n\n9:10 – 10:30 –– Section 1: Muslim Identities\n\n\n\n\njoin this section here\n\n\n\n\n9:10 – 9:21 – The Sociology of Competition of “Traditional” and “Globalized” Islam among Tatars from Russia: Actors and Their InterestsLiliya Sagitova\, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan\, Sh. Marjani Institute of History \n\n\n\n9:22 – 9:33 – Muslim Identity Politics in Contemporary Tatarstan: Historical Legacies\, Secular Cultures and Religious BeliefsBulat Akhmetkarimov\, Kazan Federal University \n\n\n\n9:34 – 9:45 – To Be a Muslim in a Crimean Tatar Way: Ethnic Culture and Global TrendsElmira Muratova\, Crimean Federal University \n\n\n\n9:46 – 9:57 – Some Reflections on the Study of Islamic Traditions in SiberiaAlfrid Bustanov\, University of Amsterdam \n\n\n\n10:00 – 10:30 – Discussion \n\n\n\n10:30 – 10:40 – Coffee break \n\n\n\n10:40 – 11:20 –– Section 2: Religious Activism and Lifestyles\n\n\n\n\njoin this section here\n\n\n\n\n10:40 – 10:51 – Muslim Communities of Kazan in the Beginning of the XXI century: Reasons of Rise and Fall of Islamic Youth ActivismGuzel Guzelbaeva\, Kazan Federal University \n\n\n\n10:52 – 11:03 – Halal Headaches: Entanglements of (Islamic) Rule and Law in TatarstanMatteo Benussi\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\n\n\n11:05-11:20 – Discussion \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 20\n\n\n\n9:00 – 9:40 –– Section 3: Islamic Educational Systems\n\n\n\n\njoin this section here\n\n\n\n\n9:00 – 9:11 – Islamic Education in Post-Soviet Tatarstan: Trans-locality\, Ethnicity and the Struggle for IdentityLeila Almazova\, Kazan Federal University \n\n\n\n9:12 – 9:23 – Re-appropriating Traditional Tatar Educational Culture or Building its Own: Homeschooling Practices among Observant Muslims in Tatarstan\, RussiaLiliya Karimova\, Northern Virginia Community College-Annandale \n\n\n\n9:25 – 9:40 – Discussion \n\n\n\n9:40 – 9:50 – Coffee Break \n\n\n\n9:50 – 11:10 –– Section 4: Vernacular Muslim Practices\n\n\n\n\njoin This Section here\n\n\n\n\n9:50 – 10:01 – Pilgrimage to Muslim Shrines in Hybrid Everyday Cultures: Three Dagestani CasesVladimir Bobrovnikov\, Higher School of Economics\, St. Petersburg \n\n\n\n10:02 – 10:13 – Local Shia Community and the Sacred Mount: Social Practices around Shalbuzdag Pilgrimage in DagestanEkaterina Kapustina\, Kunstkamera \n\n\n\n10:14 – 10:25 – Divine Presence: Sufi Practice as a Means of Enchantment in the Urals and BeyondJesko Schmoller\, Perm State University \n\n\n\n10:26 – 10:37 – Sufism in Dagestan after the USSR: A Retrospective View on the History of Discussions about Sufism (This presentation is in Russian)Shamil Shikhaliev\, Institute of History\, Makhachkala/University of Amsterdam \n\n\n\n10:40 – 11:10 – Discussion
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cultures-of-islam-variations-of-muslim-belief-and-practice-from-the-irtysh-river-to-the-black-sea/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Kyrgyzstan Parliamentary Elections and the Path Forward
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you for a discussion on Kyrgyzstan as it holds parliamentary elections on October 4. Kyrgyzstan is Central Asia’s only democracy\, but contested elections and pluralistic politics there have not necessarily led to better governance and accountability in the nation. This election is taking place amidst tremendous political and socio-economic upheaval\, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a conversation on the outcome of the election and prospects for the country’s future as it faces multiple converging crises. This event is held in partnership with the Central Asia Programat GWU\, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs\, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nClick here for more information
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kyrgyzstan-parliamentary-elections-and-the-path-forward/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T100000
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SUMMARY:What's At Stake In Tajikistan's Presidential Elections
DESCRIPTION:Tajikistan is headed to a crucial presidential election on October 11\, where incumbent Emomali Rahmon is once more on the ballot\, who is in power since 1992. \n \nThe other four candidates on the ballot are\, Rustam Latifzoda of the Agrarian Party; Abduhalim Ghafforov of the Socialist Party; Miroj Abdulloev of the Communist Party; Rustam Rahmatzoda of the Party of Economic Reforms.\n \nThe only opposition party functioning inside the country\, the Social Democratic Party boycotting the polls\, incumbent Emomali Rahmon is clearly in the advantageous position to win the election\, which is held against the backdrop of speculations that he is preparing his son Rustam Emomali as his successor\, when and if he decides to step down. \n \nWith Tajikistan facing severe economic challenges\, due to the dramatic decrease in remitances from the Tajik migrant workers in Russia\, and growing domestic crackdown against opponents and perceived opponents of the regime\, this panel will analyze what’s at stake in Tajikistan’s presidential elections\, and what it means for the country’s future.\n\nSpeakers\n\nSirojiddin Tolibov is the Managing Editor of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service. Having reported on operations against Islamic militants from the main hot spots in Tajikistan\, Uzbekistan\, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan throughout his journalistic career\, he is an expert on security matters\, Islamic groups\, human rights\, and social and economic issues in Central Asia. Hundreds of his articles have been published across the globe in English\, Russian\, Persian\, Turkish\, and Uzbek. He made several short documentaries on Islamic militancy\, corruption and on human rights issues in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Prior to RFE/RL\, Tolibov spent 20 years with the BBC World Service’s Central Asian unit as a reporter\, manager\, news anchor\, and editor. In 2001\, he was announced the Service’s Best Reporter. He has also performed leading roles in award winning BBC radio dramas. Tolibov holds honorary masters degree from the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies.\n\nDr. Hélène Thibault is professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University since 2016. She specializes in ethnography\, religion\, secularism\, and the Soviet legacy. Her current projects also look at gender issues in Central Asia\, more specifically\, marriage and polygyny. She is also a member of the The Political Economy of Education Research (PEER) Network\, led by the University of Ulster and of the Oxus Society based in Washington. Apart from research activities\, she also took part in multiple election observation missions with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine and travelled extensively in the former USSR.\n\n\nEdward Lemon is Research Assistant Professor at The Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M University\, Washington D.C. teaching site. He has previously held positions at the Wilson Center and Columbia University. Dr. Lemon’s research focuses on authoritarianism and security issues in Central Asia. He is editor of the book Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia (Routledge\, 2018). His research has been published in Democratization\, Central Asian Affairs\, Caucasus Survey\, Journal of Democracy\, Central Asian Survey\, the Review of Middle Eastern Studies and The RUSI Journal.\n \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/whats-at-stake-in-tajikistans-presidential-elections/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Current Challenges in Tajikistan Amidst Elections and Covid-19 with Muhiddin Kabiri
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program invites you to an online discussion with exiled opposition leader Muhiddin Kabiri\, the Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan\, to explore the country’s current situation and future prospects. Tajikistan faces significant economic\, social\, and human rights challenges as it gears up for Presidential elections on October 11\, 2020 and deals with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Kabiri’s presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. \n\nAbout Muhiddin Kabiri \n\nMuhiddin Kabiri is a Tajik politician and Chairperson of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan. He is best known for his speeches and interviews on Islam and politics and de-radicalization in Central Asia. He has received awards for his service in the peace process in Tajikistan as a member of the National Reconciliation Commission. In 2013\, he was included in “The Muslim 500”\, a list of the most influential Muslims in the world by RISSC\, Jordan. \nHe has he has written books and published hundreds of articles and interviews on various topics regarding Islam\, de-radicalization in Central Asia and Tajikistan\, in various languages including Tajik\, Russian\, English\, Persian\, and Arabic. Many of his analytical articles have been published in well-known think-tanks and research centers\, such as the Central Asia Program at George Washington University and Chatham House. \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. \n\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/current-challenges-in-tajikistan-amidst-elections-and-covid-19-with-muhiddin-kabiri/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200914T100000
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SUMMARY:Kazakhstan's Policy on Multilingualism with Jill Neuendorf
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Jill Neuendorf examines the advantages and disadvantages of Kazakhstan’s Trinity Language Program. She presents the findings of qualitative research conducted in Almaty\, Kazakhstan in July 2019 with ten Kazakhstani pedagogues who shared their opinion of the Program’s ultimate success or failure. Participants stated that factors such as having a sufficient number of qualified specialists to teach English and the Kazakhstani government’s readiness to fund the Trinity Language Program will impact upon its success. Moreover\, participants emphasized that the government should make a concerted effort to help students retain a high level of proficiency in Kazakh\, and teachers should be taught the English language vocabulary that is specific to their subject. If the government of Kazakhstan takes steps such as these\, respondents thought that the Trinity Language Program has the potential to be successful. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nJill Neuendorf earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in German and Humanistic Studies\, a MA both from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Teaching Russian as a Second Language and Georgetown University in Teaching English as a Second Language\, and a PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Second Language Acquisition and Russian. Prior to her appointment as Assistant Teaching Professor in the Slavic Languages Department in the fall of 2010\, she taught first- through third-year Russian at the University of Maryland\, Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College. She lived abroad for seven years in Moscow\, Vladimir\, Tver’ and Izhevsk\, Russia\, Kharkov\, Ukraine\, and Kishinov\, Moldova where she studied Russian\, taught English as a Foreign Language\, and worked with American students on study abroad programs. Her research interests include: identity and second language acquisition\, Russian heritage speakers\, and study abroad and language gain.\nModerator  \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. \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstans-policy-on-multilingualism-with-jill-neuendorf/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200827T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy - Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era
DESCRIPTION:This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era. It delves into the specific Eurasia-centric narratives through which the regime\, headed by Nursultan Nazarbaev\, imagined the role of post-Soviet Kazakhstan in the wider Eurasian geopolitical space. Based on substantive fieldwork and sustained engagement with primary sources\, the book unveils the power implications of Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism\, arguing that the strengthening of the regime’s domestic power ranked highly in the list of objectives pursued by Kazakhstani foreign policy between the collapse of the Soviet Union and Nazarbaev’s apparent withdrawal from the Kazakhstani political scene (19 March 2019). This book\, ultimately\, is a study of inter-state integration\, which makes use of a rigorous methodological approach to assess different incarnations of post-Soviet multilateralism\, from the Commonwealth of Independent States to the more recent\, and highly controversial\, Eurasian Economic Union. \n \nSpeakers\nLuca Anceschi\, Author\n\n\n\nLuca Anceschi teaches Central Asian Studies at the University of Glasgow\, where he also edits Europe-Asia Studies. He is the author of Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy–Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime (2009) and Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: Regime New-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era (2020)\, both published by Routledge.\n\n\n\n\n\nNargis Kassenova\, Discussant\n\n\n\nNargis Kassenova is a Senior Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies of Harvard University\, and Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies of KIMEP University. Her areas of research include Central Asian politics and security\, Eurasian geopolitics\, Kazakhstan’s foreign policy\, religion and politics in Central Asia\, and history of state-building in Central Asia.\n\n\n\n\nMarlene Laruelle\, Discussant\n\n\n\nMarlene Laruelle\, Ph.D.\, is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)\, GW. Dr. Laruelle is also a Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia) and Director of GW’s Central Asia Program. Her research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia and nationhood construction in Central Asia\, as well as the development of Russia’s Arctic regions. Two of her books will be out in late 2020: Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West (Cornell University Press) and Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War. Red versus Whites (Bloomsbury).\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-launch-analysing-kazakhstans-foreign-policy-regime-neo-eurasianism-in-the-nazarbaev-era/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200722T110000
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SUMMARY:Current Developments in Uzbekistan: A Conversation with H.E. Javlon Vakhabov\, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the US and Canada
DESCRIPTION:Uzbekistan has been witnessing significant transformation since the election of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in 2016: changing foreign policy priorities\, liberalizing economy\, reforming state administration and developing job opportunities for a younger population (72% of the population is under the age of forty). Furthermore\, in December 2019 the country held its first parliamentary election under the new administration. The global COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the country’s healthcare system\, as well as presenting challenges to economic development. Join us to discuss the future of Uzbekistan and current reforms with H.E. Javlon Vakhabov\, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the US.\n\n \n\nAmbassador Javlon Vakhabov joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan in 2001\, serving early career assignments as an attaché\, 3rd secretary\, and chief of division. In 2006 he was appointed to the Uzbek National Security Council where he was promoted to deputy security of the Council in 2011. In 2013\, Ambassador Vakhabov served as the Director of the Institute for Strategic and Inter-Regional Research\, a government-funded think tank in Tashkent. He joined the leadership team at the Foreign Ministry in 2013 as one of four deputy ministers of foreign affairs. In July 2015\, he was promoted to First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs\, the title he held when he was appointed Ambassador to the U.S. in 2017.\n\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/current-developments-in-uzbekistan-%ef%bb%bfa-conversation-with-h-e-javlon-vakhabov-ambassador-of-uzbekistan-to-the-us-and-canada/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200716T100000
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SUMMARY:The COVID-19 Pandemic and Central Asian Migrants in Russia
DESCRIPTION:The Covid-19 pandemic revealed how Central Asian migrants in Russia are vulnerable to both the spread of the virus and the impact it causes on their livelihoods. Its effects are particularly visible in the everyday living and working conditions of migrants\, including for those migrants who are currently serving prison sentences in Russian penal institutions and those who had to bury their relatives/friends/compatriots. Join us in the event where we discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on vulnerable communities of Central Asians in Russia and their remittance-dependent home countries. \n\nSpeakers\nSherzod Eraliev is a postdoctoral researcher at Aleksanteri Institute for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, the University of Helsinki. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Tsukuba\, Japan (2018) and a master’s degree from the University of Manchester\, the UK (2009). Sherzod Eraliev was a visiting fellow at the Central Asia Program of the Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)\, the George Washington University in 2019. \n  \n  \n\nJuliette Cleuziou is an assistant professor in anthropology at the University Lumière-Lyon 2 (France). Her work in Tajikistan has been focusing on kinship\, marriage and the impact of migration on family life and reproduction\, while her fieldwork in Russia has been focusing on diasporic networks of mutual help among Tajikistani migrants\, and transnational relations between Russia and Tajikistan. She is currently coordinating a collective research project (REFPoM) on migrants' access to the health care system in Russia and their attitude towards the risk of death\, which also addresses the care collectively provided to bodies of migrants who have died in Russia (burial on the spot\, repatriation\, mutual aid funds\, etc.). \n  \n​Rustam Urinboyev\, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University and Senior Researcher within the ERC-funded “GulagEchoes” project in the Aleksanteri Institute\, University of Helsinki. Rustam works at the intersection of sociology of law and ethnography\, studying migration\, corruption\, governance and penal institutions in the context of Russia and Central Asia. His current research focuses on (1) migration\, shadow economy and informal legal orders in hybrid political regimes\, (2) corruption\, informality and legal pluralism in Uzbekistan\, and (c) informal hierarchies\, religious orders and ethnic identities in Russian penal institutions. He is the author of Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia (2020)\, published by the University of California Press. \n\n\nPhoto from pda.iarex.ru \n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-covid-19-pandemic-and-central-asian-migrants-in-russia/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200709T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200709T120000
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SUMMARY:Post COVID-19: Building Resilience in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The social and economic impacts of the novel coronavirus are amplified in Central Asia\, where healthcare resources are limited\, supply chains are vulnerable\, and government revenues are dependent on a narrow range of commodities produced by extractive industries. While the spread of the disease in Central Asia is moderate\, the economic repercussions are more serious. With cross-border trade volumes and commodity prices at historic lows due to COVID lockdown measures\, the region’s national governments are straining to implement policy measures that address both disease containment and economic stimulus – a difficult balancing act that if executed poorly could significantly exacerbate the consequences of coronavirus. \n\n\n\nThe resilience of the region\, or the ability of its people\, communities\, governments and systems to withstand the impacts of negative events and to continue to grow despite them\, is being put to the test. The  ITIC  report\,  authored by Dr. Ariel Cohen and Mr. James Grant\, discusses four primary areas of resilience-building that\, if addressed\, will enable Central Asia to not only weather the remainder of the COVID storm\, but emerge with stronger and more competitive economies that can continue to improve quality of life for its citizens. \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks \n \nAmbassador Vakhabov joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan in 2001\, serving early career assignments as an attaché\, 3rd secretary\, and chief of division. In 2006 he was appointed to the Uzbek National Security Council where he was promoted to deputy security of the Council in 2011. . In 2013\, Ambassador Vakhabov served as the Director of the Institute for Strategic and Inter-Regional Research\, a government-funded think tank in Tashkent. He joined the leadership team at the Foreign Ministry in 2013 as one of four deputy ministers of foreign affairs. In July 2015\, he was promoted to First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs\, the title he held when he was appointed Ambassador to the U.S. in 2017. \n\n\n\nDaniel A. Witt is President of the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC)\, a nonprofit education and research organization that serves as a clearinghouse for tax policy and tax administration expertise. Since founding ITIC in 1993\, Mr. Witt has promoted best practices on tax\, trade\, and investment policy in transition economies\, by facilitating information exchanges among public-sector officials\, private-sector executives\, and academic experts. From its initial programs in Russia and Kazakhstan\, ITIC’s programs now include participants from 85 countries.\n\n\nPrior to founding ITIC in 1993\, Mr. Witt was Executive Director of the Tax Foundation\, and prior to that\, Vice President and Director of Membership with Citizens for a Sound Economy. He received a BBA in public administration and an MBA in finance from Western Michigan University. \n\n\n\nPanelists \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Ariel Cohen (Author) is a Senior Fellow at the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) where he heads the Energy\, Growth\, and Security Program (EGS). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He is a recognized authority on international security and energy policy\, and a leading expert in Russia\, Eurasia\, and the Middle East. Dr. Cohen is the Founding Principal of International Market Analysis Ltd.\, a boutique political risk advisory.\n\n\nFor over 20 years Dr. Cohen served as a Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at the Heritage Foundation. He directed Heritage’s energy war games and worked closely with Members of Congress and Congressional staff members as well as cabinet-level and sub-cabinet domestic and foreign decision-makers. Dr. Cohen is the author of six books\, 30 book chapters\, and over 1\,000 articles Dr. Cohen is a regular commentator on Voice of America and Newsweek\, as well as a weekly Forbes energy columnist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Grant  (Author) is a Research Fellow with the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) and Manager of ITIC’s Energy Growth and Security (EGS) program. Mr. Grant is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS) where he earned a master’s degree in International Economics. His concentration was Energy\, Resources\, and the Environment and U.S. National Security. During his tenure at SAIS\, James worked as an analyst for the Asia Group in Hong Kong and Washington D.C. where he provided expertise on issues of defense\, energy\, and finance for corporate clients on both sides of the Pacific.\n\n\nJames is also a Junior Fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) where he specializes in global energy markets\, geopolitics\, and U.S. national security. He is a frequent contributor to The National Interest and his commentary can also be found in The Washington Times\, Bloomberg\, Forbes\, Newsweek\, The Diplomat and The Journal of Energy Security. He is a class of 2018 Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Energy Security Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJavier Piedra serves as the Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia\, where he provides oversight and management for the South and Central Asia and Technical Services portfolios.\n\nPiedra brings 35 years of private and public sector experience to USAID. He has also spent several years in Asia working on investment banking\, USAID-funded credit initiatives and as a Senior Advisor on the World Bank’s Central Asia Trans-Biodiversity Project. He has 20 years combined experience living in Central Asia and Latin America.\n\n\nPiedra received his master’s degree in international affairs from John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies\, a bachelor’s degree in history from Boston College and attended Manufacturers Hanover Bank’s Management Training Program in Finance\, Economics\, and Banking. He is fluent in Russian and Spanish. \n\n\n\n\nEric Livny joined the EBRD in September 2019 as Lead Regional Economist for Central Asia. In his current role with the Bank\, Eric advises senior management on the Bank’s country strategies\, liaises with governments and international financial institutions\, and leads the industrial policy stream within the Bank’s Community of Practice on Competition Policy. In 2007-2018\, Eric served as President with the International School of Economics in Tbilisi (ISET) and the affiliated ISET Policy Institute. In this capacity\, he consulted the Georgian government\, international organizations\, and business associations on a very wide range of policy issues from education and labor market reforms to industrial policy\, rural development and agricultural policies\, quality of the business environment and national competitiveness. In 2015-2017\, Eric advised Georgia’s ministers of Economic and Sustainable Development Dimitri Kumsishvili and Giorgi Gakharia. Throughout his career\, Eric was involved in the creation and management of several world-class education start-ups in the former USSR\, including the New Economic School in Moscow\, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)\, and the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET).\n\n\n\nPhoto: Foreign Ministers of Central Asia and the EU Discussing Joint Actions to Eliminate the Consequences of COVID-19. Photo from SNG. Today. \n\n RSVP \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/post-covid-19-building-resilience-in-central-asia/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Turkmenistan and the Fight Against COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Even if officials in Turkmenistan continue to remain in denial about the virus\, there are growing signs that not only the pandemic might have reached the country\, but the authorities are increasingly concerned about how to deal with it. While certain early measures have been taken by the government officials such as banning incoming and outgoing flights and establishing quarantine centers in the Lebap region\, state media and high-level officials grew silent about the situation. Today\, Turkmen authorities are facing the challenge of responding to the “unspoken outbreak” that is evolving in the increasing number of cases across the country. Join us to discuss Turkmenistan’s management of the pandemic with our four speakers.\nSpeakers\nRachel Denber\, ​Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division \nRachel Denber\, Deputy Director of Europe and Central Asia Division\, specializes in countries of the former Soviet Union. Previously\, Denber directed Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office and did field research and advocacy in Russia\, Georgia\, Armenia\, Azerbaijan\, Kazakhstan\, Uzbekistan\, Estonia\, Ukraine\, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. She has authored reports on a wide range of human rights issues throughout the region. Denber earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in international relations and a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University\, where she studied at the Harriman Institute. She speaks Russian and French. \n\n\n\n\n\nAynabat Yaylymova\, Founder and Program Direсtor of Saglyk.org \nAynabat Yaylymova is a native of Turkmenistan and has worked with a number of civil society organizations in Turkmenistan and the United States. She is the Founder and Program Director of Saglyk.org\, a centerpiece project of the Turkmenistan Health Initiative. Saglyk.org has been working to improve public health literacy in Turkmenistan over the last 10 years\, including becoming a source of COVID-19 information in in the Turkmen language. \nBefore that\, Aynabat worked as a Program Manager of the Europe and Central Asia Program at the Bank Information Center (BIC)\, a World Bank watchdog organization in Washington\, DC. In Turkmenistan\, she co-founded and led the Alliance for Responsible Community Action (ARCA)\, an organization dedicated to promoting civic education. She is an alumna of the first Central Eurasia Leadership Academy and from 2006 to 2008 was the manager of that program. CELA is a large network of mid-career professionals and leaders from Central Asia\, the Caucasus and Afghanistan.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFarruh Yusupov\, ​Acting Director of RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service \nFarruh Yusupov is Acting Director of RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service. He originally joined RFE/RL in 2004\, working as an editor with the Uzbek Service and providing major contributions to its investigative work\, including a series of reports on corruption involving members of Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s family. Yusupov also launched several radio programs for the Uzbek Service\, including “Health\,” “The Other Side of the Coin\,” and “OzodNavigator.” His 2007 radio documentary\, “Uzbekistan and its Neighbors After Andijon\,” was nominated for an AIB award. Before joining RFE/RL\, Yusupov worked for USAID-funded projects in Uzbekistan. He has an M.A. in Linguistics from Ferghana State University\, Uzbekistan.\n\n\n\n\nLuca Anceschi\, ​Senior Lecturer in Central Asian Studies (Central & East European Studies) \nLuca Anceschi teaches Central Asian Studies at the University of Glasgow\, where he also edits Europe-Asia Studies. He is the author of Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy–Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime (2009) and Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: Regime New-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era (2020)\, both published by Routledge.\n\n\n\n  \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/tajikistan-turkmenistan-and-the-fight-against-covid-19/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200630T090000
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SUMMARY:Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China's Relationship with Central Asia with Raffaello Pantucci
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has further exposed tensions that exist within China’s relations with Central Asia. Yet at the same time\, they have created a real opportunity for China to deepen its existing links and strengthen its position within the region. While in the first instance\, the Central Asian countries sent aid to China\, Beijing has now reciprocated with waves of equipment\, doctors visits\, webinars and more to help the region manage the crisis. There has been further acceleration of long-stalled projects and discussions of debt relief\, and the SCO has stepped up into an interesting role facilitating e-education\, e-health and e-commerce solutions with Chinese companies. Yet there have also been tensions with doctors disagreeing over methods of treatment\, diplomats refusing to submit to quarantine\, and Kazakhstan falling into the crosshairs of fake news stories fanned by the Chinese and Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs. But the long-term trajectory will continue to bend towards China\, as the region will find itself increasingly reliant on the Chinese economic machine to get itself going once again. The discussion will look into some detail at China’s relations with Central Asia through the prism of COVID-19 and offer some thoughts about how this might impact the relations going forwards.\n\nRead more on our CAP Publication Series Beijing Binds: COVID-19 and the China-Central Asia Relationship by Raffaello Pantucci\n\n\nRaffaello Pantucci’s research focuses on terrorism and counter-terrorism as well as China’s relations with its Western neighbours. He currently spends his time between London and Singapore. Prior to joining RUSI in London in 2013\, Raffaello lived for over three years in Shanghai\, where he was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS).\nHe is the author of We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists (London: Hurst\, April 2015/US: Oxford University Press\, September 2015)\, described by The Financial Times as ‘the most articulate and carefully researched account of Britain’s ‘suburban terrorists’ to date.’\nHe is currently completing a writing project looking at Chinese interests in Central Asia under contract to a major publisher. His journal articles have appeared in Survival\, The National Interest\, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism\, Terrorism and Political Violence\, and RUSI Journal amongst others\, and his journalistic writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Sunday Times\, CNN\, Guardian\, Foreign Policy\, South China Morning Post\, and more.\n\n\nMain Photo: Meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. Photo from en.kremlin.ru\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/beijing-binds-how-covid-19-is-deepening-chinas-relationship-with-central-asia-with-raffaello-pantucci/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200611T110000
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SUMMARY:Crisis Management as a Test of Reforms in Uzbekistan
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, Uzbekistan has faced the global challenge of Covid-19 as well as a humanitarian disaster following the collapse of the Sardoba Dam. How has the Mirziyoyev government confronted these challenges? What are the social\, political\, and economic implications? How has society responded? What do these responses tell us about the trajectory of reforms in Uzbekistan? \n  \nSPEAKERS\nJennifer Brick Murtazashvili is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of the award-winning book\, Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan  and her second book\,  Land\, the State\, and War: Property Right and Political Order   is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She has been working on Uzbekistan for more than twenty years\, first serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Samarkand and later serving as a Democracy and Governance officer for the United States Agency for International Development in Tashkent for three years. \n\nNikita Makarenko is a journalist from Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. He is covering controversial social issues\, politics\, environmental and urban topics. He worked as a columnist at Gazeta.uz (2017-2020)\, one of the most popular online media in Uzbekistan. Currently\, Nikita works at Uzreport TV channel and writes for his blogs. Nikita was a visiting lecturer at Oberlin College in 2019 and taught his class on propaganda. \n  \n  \n\nNoah Tucker is research associate at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs Central Asia Program and a senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council. Noah has worked on collaborative projects to identify the way social and religious groups affect political and security outcomes and headed a team that tracks social media use by Uzbek violent extremist organizations and their effect on the Uzbek language internet and the way culture shapes the conflict in Afghanistan. Recent publications include “Terrorism without a God: Reconsidering Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization Models in Central Asia” (GWU Central Asia Program September 2019). Noah has worked on Central Asian issues since 2002—specializing in religion\, national identity\, ethnic conflict and social media—and received an MA from Harvard in Russian\, East European and Central Asian Studies in 2008. He has spent around six years living and working in in the region\, primarily in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and speaks Russian and Uzbek. \n\nBekhzod Khoshimov is Doctoral Candidate at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. He is a columnist for gazeta.uz and a host of the podcast “Hoshimov Iqtisodiyoti” (Hoshimov’s Economics). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/crisis-management-as-a-test-of-reforms-in-uzbekistan/
LOCATION:Webex Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200511T130000
DTSTAMP:20260925T150920
CREATED:20200422T161709Z
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SUMMARY:Political Stability and Human Security in Tajikistan in Time of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Conflicting reports from Tajikistan create confusion about how COVID-19 is affecting the country. Tajikistan admitted to its first COVID-19 cases on April 30 as the World Health Organization is sending a team to investigate previous claims that the country was coronavirus free. Independent media outlets which broke stories of suspected COVID-19 deaths have been blocked as death tolls continue to rise. As Tajikistan’s neighbors and Russia limit border access to slow down virus transmission\, the country’s economic and food security are threatened. This panel will explore the effects and outlook of the pandemic on the political\, economic\, and food security as well as the impacts on the medical system in Tajikistan as it heads towards a presidential election later this year.\nSpeakers\n\nMarintha Miles\n\nMarintha Miles is a PhD candidate at George Mason University\, currently researching the nexus between social movements and globalization in Tajikistan. She was formerly Deputy Director the Central Asia Program at George Washington University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Edward Lemon\n\nEdward Lemon is an Assistant Professor of Eurasian Affairs at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School in Washington DC. His research focuses on political and security issues in Central Asia\, with a particular focus on Tajikistan. His research has been published in the Central Asian Survey\, The RUSI Journal\,Caucasus Survey\, Central Asian Affairs\, Review of Middle Eastern Studies and Journal of Democracy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalimjon Aioubov\n\nSalimjon Aioubov was appointed Acting Director of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service in April 2019. 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 the civil war in Tajikistan and UN-mediated inter-Tajik peace talks and refugee issues resulting from the war\, Organization of Islamic Cooperation conferences\, and Shanghai Cooperation Organization summits.\n\n\n\n\nSteve Swerdlow\n\nSteve Swerdlow\, esq. is a human rights lawyer and expert on human rights issues in the former Soviet Region. Between 2010 and 2019\, Swerdlow was Senior Central Asia researcher in the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch. An attorney with two decades of scholarly and human rights experience researching and advocating on the post-Soviet region\, Swerdlow headed Human Rights Watch’s work on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan\, was the founding director of HRW’s Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan field office\, and has been among the first independent human rights workers to conduct extensive fieldwork on the ground inside Uzbekistan since the government’s decision to allow human rights organizations back into the country in 2017. He now is a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization\, where he conducts trainings to build the capacity of human rights activists and journalists in Central Asia.\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/political-stability-and-human-security-in-tajikistan-in-time-of-covid-19-with-marintha-miles-and-dr-edward-lemon/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200413T170000
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SUMMARY:Kyrgyzstan’s Slide to Autocracy with Dr. Erica Marat & Colleen Wood
DESCRIPTION:Kyrgyzstan was on the path of holding local and parliamentary elections this year. But two processes are likely to derail president Jeenbekov’s efforts to ensure election of his loyalists into power. First\, anti-corruption activism has been on the rise in Bishkek and across the country exposing the influence of dark money on the country’s political establishment. Second\, the spread of COVID-19 uncovers both the parliament and president’s inability to design and communicate effective public health policies. Will new political forces challenging the incumbent regime emerge as a result? Or will Jeenbekov succeed in suppressing his opponents to continue consolidation power in his hands?\n\nOn April 26\, 2018\, Dr. Erica Marat gave a talk on her new book\, “The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries.” The talk took place in the Special Collections Library at the National Defense University in Washington\, DC. \nDr. Erica Marat \n\n\nDr. Erica Marat is an Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs of the National Defense University. Her research focuses on state violence\, social movements\, law enforcement\, policing\, and the security sector in former Soviet states. Her book The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018) examines the conditions under which a meaningful transformation of the police is likely to succeed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColleen Wood\n\nColleen Wood is a PhD student at Columbia University’s Political Science department\, where she researches state-building and identity in Central Asia. She writes regularly for The Diplomat about Central Asian politics\, society\, and culture.\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kyrgyzstans-slide-to-autocracy-with-dr-erica-marat-colleen-wood/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Meeting ID: 657 029 221
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kyrgyzstan
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