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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/
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CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200706T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200706T113000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200611T130000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200603T145220Z
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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:20260924T222811
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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
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
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SUMMARY:Assessing the Terrorist Threat In and From Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with\n Dr. Edward Lemon\n\nIn the past two years\, Central Asians have been involved in terrorist attacks in Istanbul\, New York\, St. Petersburg\, and Stockholm. While we have seen more attacks by Central Asians outside the region than within it\, in August four tourists were killed in an Islamic State-inspired attack in southern Tajikistan. This was the first attack credibly linked to IS in the region. Some have been quick to label Central Asia as a growing “hotbed” of Islamic extremism and exporter of terrorism. Returning fighters from Syria and Iraq\, spillovers from Afghanistan and “homegrown” terrorists are all framed as threats to the region. Yet assessing the threat remains difficult in no small part due to the way the governments of the region manipulate it to consolidate their power. Through an examination of the available evidence and ongoing fieldwork since 2014\, Edward Lemon discusses the threat posed by terrorism in the region and from beyond the region\, in Russia\, Turkey\, Europe and the US.\n\nDr Edward Lemon is the DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C. He was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Harriman Institute\, Columbia University. He earned his PhD in international studies from the University of Exeter in 2016. In his research\, he examines terrorism\, authoritarian governance\, religion\, security\, and migration in Eurasia. He is currently writing a book on transnational repression and counter-extremism in Tajikistan. Since 2009\, he has spent almost three years working and conducting fieldwork in Tajikistan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Kazakhstan\, Russia\, and Poland. \n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/assessing-the-terrorist-threat-in-and-from-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T170000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
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SUMMARY:Post-Soviet Think Tanks: The Influence of Think Tanks on Policy Processes in Post-Soviet States
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Vera Axyonova \n\nThe influence of think tanks on policy processes and civil society in non-consolidated democracies and authoritarian regimes is the focus of this presentation\, which aims to map the local think tank landscapes and examine their resources and strategies used to advance certain foreign and security policy choices. The analysis draws on extensive data\, including an original set of expert interviews with think tankers\, as well as on think tanks’ constitutive documents and publications. The project contributes to the literature on think tanks’ participation in public policy-making by explicating policy influence mechanisms and challenges faced by think tanks in post-Soviet non-consolidated democracies and authoritarian regimes. \n\nDr. Vera Axyonova is a postdoctoral researcher and Assistant Professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen\, Germany. Her research focuses on international support to democratization and conflict management\, as well as policy processes in former Soviet states. She was previously Hurford Next Generation Fellow with the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, and Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. Axyonova is the author of The European Union’s Democratization Policy for Central Asia: Failed in Success or Succeeded in Failure? (Ibidem\, 2014) and editor of European Engagement under Review: Exporting Values\, Rules\, and Practices to the Post-Soviet Space (Ibidem\, 2016). \n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/post-soviet-think-tanks-the-influence-of-think-tanks-on-policy-processes-in-post-soviet-states/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192336Z
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SUMMARY:Access and Control of University Education in Central Asia Since 2000
DESCRIPTION:withDr. Alan DeYoung\nProfessor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky\nWhat does it mean to be a “student” and “to study” in contemporary Central Asia? During the Soviet era teachers and university faculty were highly regarded and rewarded\, however this has changed. As a comparative education scholar\, Dr. Alan DeYoung’s research questions focus on issues of teacher\, faculty\, and student life during times of transition in higher education systems in Central Asian. Dr. DeYoung began his teaching and research in Kazakhstan at Arabaev Pedagogical University in 1996 as a Fulbright Scholar; and most recently his regional teaching and research activities occurred as a Fulbright Scholar in 2016 at the International University for Humanities and Development in Turkmenistan. \nAlan DeYoung is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation\, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He directed a U.S. Department of State exchange program between three Kyrgyz state universities and the University of Kentucky. He also worked in seven other universities in Central Asia. His published work focuses on educational dynamics in post-Soviet Central Asia\, including Surviving the Transition?: Case Studies of Schools and School Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic since Independence (2006)\, and Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic (2011). DeYoung’s recent regional research focused on higher education issues and reforms in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropological and Sociological Studies in Education from Stanford University. \n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/access-and-control-of-university-education-in-central-asia-since-2000/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180830T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180830T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192348Z
UID:17599-1535644800-1535650200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Discursive Power: Comparative Analysis of the "Silk Road" Narrative in Japanese\, Chinese\, and Korean Foreign Policies towards Central Asia\, and implications for U.S. regional presence
DESCRIPTION:withDr. Timur Dadabaev\nAssociate Professor and Director of the Special Program\nfor Japanese and Eurasian Studies\, University of Tsukuba (Japan)\nThere is considerable debate over how and in what form Central Asian (CA) states should conduct relations among each other and with other post-Soviet states. The notion of the “Silk Road” has become one of the symbols of extended economic and political cooperation. Notably\, however\, Japan (Silk Road Diplomacy\,1996–1999)\, China (One Belt\, One Road [OBOR] or the Belt and Road initiative [BRI])\, and South Korea (Silk Road Strategy\, 2011) have used the rhetoric of reviving the Silk Road to imply closer engagement with the CA region\, but with different connotations. This presentation focuses on the formation of this discourse of engagement with the CA region through the notion of the Silk Road in China\, South Korea\, and Japan\, and offers some implications for the U.S. presence in the region. \nTimur Dadabaev is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities\, University of Tsukuba\, Japan. He has published in Communist and Post-Communist Studies\, The Pacific Review\, Nationalities Papers\, Journal of Contemporary China\, Asian Survey\, Inner Asia\, Central Asian Survey\, Asian Affairs\, Strategic Analysis\, Journal of Eurasian Studies\, Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies\, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics\, Japanese Journal of Political Science and others. His latest monographic books are Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Oxon: Routledge\, 2015) and Japan in Central Asia (NY: Palgrave Macmillan 2016). His edited volumes include Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, and Uzbekistan: Life and Politics during the Soviet Era\, (Co-edited with Hisao Komatsu)\, NY: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017; and Social Capital Construction and Governance in Central Asia (Coedited with Yutaka Tsujinaka)\, NY: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017. \nThese works can be accessed at http://www.tsukuba.academia.edu/TimurDadabaev \n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/discursive-power-comparative-analysis-of-the-silk-road-narrative-in-japanese-chinese-and-korean-foreign-policies-towards-central-asia-and-implications-for-u-s-regional-presence/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180823T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180823T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192358Z
UID:17598-1535040000-1535045400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Foreign Investment Law and Sustainable Development in the Kyrgyz Republic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Dr. Begaiym Esenkulova an Associate Professor of Law of the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) and who is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Indiana University (Bloomington). Begaiym will discuss the investment legislation and international investment agreements of the Kyrgyz Republic and provide a critical analysis of how they should be reformed for the advancement of sustainable development of the country. She will also explore how to design and implement a new generation legal framework of foreign direct investment that will not only provide for the protection of investors’ rights\, but will also address investments’ wider social\, economic\, and environmental effects in the Kyrgyz Republic.\n\n\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/foreign-investment-law-and-sustainable-development-in-the-kyrgyz-republic/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kyrgyzstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180611T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180612T000000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192413Z
UID:17591-1528675200-1528761600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:BISHKEK: Joint Conference "Integration Processes and State Interests in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION: Joint Conference of the American University of Central Asia and The George Washington University\, Central Asian Program with support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID)\nIntegration Processes and State Interests in Eurasia \nVenue: \nAmerican University in Central Asia \nTokombaev St. 7/6\, Bishkek\, Kyrgyz Republic \nRoom 440 (CH-1) \nJune 11\, 2018 (Monday) \n  \nDownload program \n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/bishkek-joint-conference-integration-processes-and-state-interests-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kyrgyzstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180607T133000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192424Z
UID:17595-1528372800-1528378200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty; The Return of Tamerlane?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Therese Sabonis-Helf\, Georgetown University\nDr. Dan Burghart\, National Intelligence University \nDr. Marlene Laruelle\, The George Washington University \nDr. Roger Kangas\, National Defense University \nDr. Laura Adams\, USAID \nStacie Giles\, Virginia Commonwealth University \nGawdat Bahgat\, National Defense University \nMr. Robert Timm\, Naval War College \nThis collection provides a broad analysis of social\, political\, economic\, and security issues in contemporary Central Asia. In particular\, the contributors highlight the differences and similarities among the region’s states in how they have consolidated statehood since the collapse of the Soviet Union.\n Register
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-in-the-era-of-sovereignty-the-return-of-tamerlane/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T160000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162641Z
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SUMMARY:The Identity Crisis of Uyghurs Today
DESCRIPTION:Symposium Agenda\n9:00-9:40 Refreshments and Registration \n9:40-10:00 Opening Remarks \n10:00 – 12:00: Session A: Challenges in Uyghur Education & China’s Harsh Policy towards Uyghurs \nChair: Rishat Abbas\, Pfizer\, USA\n1. Rebecca Clothey\, Drexel University\, USA\, “Education Policy Appropriation\, Ethnic\nSegregation and Cultural Transmission in Urumqi”\n2. Nury A. Turkel\, Lawyer\, USA\, “China’s Re-Education Detention Centers: Examination\nUyghur Rights under China’s Constitution and International Human Rights Law”\n3. Lauren Hansen Restrepo\, Bryn Mawr College\, USA\, “The Middle Can not Hold:\nUnpacking the Role of Development on the Rising Culture War within Urban Uyghur\nSociety”\n4. Memet Emin\, Colombia University\, USA\, “Mental Impact of Chinese Harsh Policy\ntowards Uyghurs” \n12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH \n1:45 – 3:45: Session B: China’s Cultural Assimilation Policy towards Uyghurs \nChair: Ilshat Hassan\, Uyghur American Association\, USA \n1. Louisa Greve\, Washington Fellow\, Christian Solidarity Worldwide\, USA\, “The\nCampaign to “Sinicize Religion” in the XUAR”\n2. Abdulhamit Karahan\, Uyghur Academy\, TURKEY\, “Uyghur Language Crisis in\nEducation both in Uyghur Homeland and Diaspora”\n3. Nicole Morgret\, Uyghur Human Rights Project\, USA\,“Uyghur Intangible Cultural\nHeritage” \n3:45 – 4:00 Closing Remarks \n4:00 – 5:00: Post-Symposium Social \nThis one-day symposium is organized by: \nThe Uyghur American Association\, \nThe Uyghur Academy\, \nThe Uyghur Human Rights Project \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-identity-crisis-of-uyghurs-today/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uyghur Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180524T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192451Z
UID:17589-1527177600-1527183000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Uzbekistan’s Newfound Foreign Policy and its Implications for U.S.-Uzbekistan Relations
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on the outcome of the Uzbek president Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to the United States and the future role of Uzbekistan in the administration’s Central Asia and South Asia strategy.\nwith \nScotty Reid\nOffice Director for Central Asia\,\nThe Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs \nPaul Stronski\nCarnegie Endowment for International Peace \nNavbahor Imamova\nVoice of America-Uzbek service \nMarlene Laruelle\nGeorge Washington University \n\n Register
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/uzbekistans-newfound-foreign-policy-and-its-implications-for-u-s-uzbekistan-relations/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180524T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192502Z
UID:17588-1527177600-1527183000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:“Paradoxes of Legitimation”: Authoritarianism(s) in modern Azerbaijan\, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
DESCRIPTION:Sofya Omarova\,Ph.D. candidate in International Politics and Sociology\nDepartment of Social Sciences\nOxford Brookes University \nThis presentation seeks to explore the concepts of legitimacy and legitimation and how they relate to regime self-legitimation in Kazakhstan\, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Legitimation and legitimacy in authoritarian contexts needs to be understood as a three-part process. The first concerns ‘inputs’: the narratives\, discourses and claims of legitimation on behalf of the regime. The second aspect is the process of legitimation: the ways in which actors use and apply these claims in relation to a broader society. Finally\, there are ‘outputs’: the extent to which the application of claims about the right to rule is ‘believed’ by the population. It is impossible to make generalized claims about the extent to which citizens in authoritarian states believe in the legitimacy of rulers because it is very difficult to discern genuine beliefs in such closed political contexts. Thus\, the main focus is on conceptualizing authoritarian claims of self-legitimation. \nThe presentation is based on an upcoming book chapter from “Theorizing Central Asia” (Palgrave Macmillan)\, co-authored with Dr. Rico Isaacs (Reader in Politics\, Oxford Brookes University). \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/paradoxes-of-legitimation-authoritarianisms-in-modern-azerbaijan-kazakhstan-and-turkmenistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180511T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180511T160000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192515Z
UID:17585-1526047200-1526054400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:CAP Roundtable on “Muslim Middle Class” vs the Islamic State: National Identity and Revolutionary Justice in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:withNoah Tucker\nRFE/RL\, CAP Associate \nZhuldyz Tuleouva\nKazakhstan Producer of “Not in Our Name\,” RFE/RL project \nSerik Beissembayev\nStrategia Sociological Center\, former CAP fellow \nAurelie Biard\nNAC-NU Postdoctoral fellow\, GWU \nChair\nWendell Schwab\nPennsylvania State University \nThis roundtable panel will present and discuss preliminary results from new fieldwork\, focus groups and video interviews conducted in 2017 and 2018 at urban and rural sites on increasingly bitter and politicized religious divisions in Kazakh society\, competing visions of religious authority and how Kazakhstan’s stark economic inequalities can be interpreted from an Islamic perspective. \nDrawing on interviews and materials collected over multiple trips to Zhezkazgan\, Satpayev\, and Kengir\, we will also explore why some residents from specific communities embraced the radical vision of violent “social justice” and separation offered by Jihadi Salafism and ISIS\, why they left in surprisingly large numbers to fight in foreign civil wars in Syria and Iraq\, and how the divisions that remain in these communities may lead to new conflicts in the future. \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cap-roundtable-on-muslim-middle-class-vs-the-islamic-state-national-identity-and-revolutionary-justice-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T190000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192525Z
UID:17583-1525708800-1525719600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The 11th CAP Fellows Seminar "Youth\, Civic Engagement\, and Civil Service in Central Asia and Azerbaijan"
DESCRIPTION:4:00 – 5:00 PM\, Session 1: Improving Civic Networks and Civil Service in Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan\n\nRaushanna Sarkeyeva (Founder/Director\, Urban Initiatives Public Foundation\, Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan)\nHow Do We Strengthen Bishkek’s Civic Networks?\n\nElchin Karimov (Independent Researcher\, Azerbaijan)\nMoving from a Patronage to Merit-Based Civil Service in Azerbaijan\n\nBreak: 5:00 – 5:15 PM\n\n5:15 – 6:15 PM\, Session 2: Youth and Public Dialogue in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan\n\nDinara Alimkhanova (Chief Manager\, National Vocational Education Agency\, Kazakhstan)\nUn-enrolled and Unemployed: a Pilot Study of Youth in Southern Kazakhstan\n\nDilmira Matyakubova (Associate Lecturer\, Westminster International University\, Tashkent\, Uzbekistan)\nWho is the Tashkent-City for? Nation-branding and Public Dialog in Uzbekistan\n \nReception: 6:15 – 7:00 PM\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-11th-cap-fellows-%ef%bb%bfseminar-youth-civic-engagement-and-civil-service-in-central-asia-and-azerbaijan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192538Z
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SUMMARY:Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:10:30AM – 12:00 PM\, Session 1: Central Asia’s Regional Environment. Moves and Stabilities\n \nAlexander Cooley\, Columbia University\nCentral Asia as Part of Greater Eurasia? Prospects and Challenges\n\nJeffrey Mankoff\, CSIS\nWhither the Eurasian Economic Union?\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, The George Washington University\nA Sustainable Attractiveness? China’s Projection and Construction of Soft Power in Central Asia\n \nLunch: 12:00 – 1:00 PM\n  \n1:00 -2:30 PM\, Session 2: Rethinking the Obvious. Changes in Perceptions\, Strategies and Policies\n  \nMarlene Laruelle\, The George Washington University\nKazakhstani Perceptions of External Powers. Unexpected Findings of Survey Analysis\n\nLuca Anceschi\, Glasgow University\nRethinking Central Asia’s Energy Security: The view from Astana and Ashgabat\n\nSean Roberts\, The George Washington University\nProspects and Limits to Reform in Uzbekistan\n  \nCoffee Break: 2:30-3:00 PM\n  \n3:00-4:30 PM\, Session 3: Securing and Securitizing Policies\n  \nRoger Kangas\, National Defense University\nUS Strategy for South Asia/Afghanistan and its Impact on Central Asia\n\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University\n“Central Asian Terrorism” and the Limits of Extreme Vetting\n\nErica Marat\, National Defense University\nThe Politics of Policy Reform in Central Asia\n  \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-security-workshop-2/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180215T190000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192552Z
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SUMMARY:Culture and Islam in Late Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:9:00-11:00 AM\, Session 1: Sovietness in Central Asia. Politics\, Economy\, and Society\nIsaac McKean Scarborough (London School of Economics)\nThe Political Culture of Late Soviet Tajikistan \nRiccardo Cucciola (National Research University – Higher School of Economics\, Moscow\, Russia)\nRashidov’s diplomacy: Rethinking Uzbekistan as a model for the Third World (1959-1983) \nIrina Morozova (Regensburg University)\nSocialist Solidarity or Market Rationality: the Debates and Politics on Economy and Resources between Moscow and Central Asian Republics\, 1989-1991 \nMarkus Göransson (Stockholm School of Economics)\nBrezhnev’s generation. Tajik soldiers of the Afghan War and Political Socialisation \nCoffee Break: 11:00-11:30 AM \n11:30 AM-2:00 PM\, Session 2: Culture and Religion in Late Soviet Central Asia \nArtemy M. Kalinovsky (University of Amsterdam)\nAdab\, Kultura and the Limits of Friendship \nPeter Rollberg (George Washington University)\nThe Axiological Subversion of Soviet Officialdom by Kazakh Cinema in the Early 1980s \nSonja Luehrmann (Simon Fraser University)\nPreaching Islam\, Preaching Culture: Brezhnev-era Sermon Texts from the Tatar ASSR \nLunch: 2:00-2:45 PM \n2:45-4:15 PM\, Session 3: Literature\, Art\, and Nation in a Timeless Perspective \nNaomi Caffee (Arizona University)\nNotes from the Afterlife? Uzbekistan’s Russophone Poets Then and Now \nAnanda Breed (University of Lincoln)\nEpic Performances in Central Asia: Negotiating between Past and Present \nDiana T. Kudaibergenova (Lund University/Cambridge University)\nThe Limits of Late Socialist Realism: Art\, Power and National Museum in Central Asia \nCoffee Break: 4:15-4:30 PM \n4:30-6:00 PM\, Session 4: Performing and Remembering Culture and Islam \nSvetlana Peshkova (University of New Hampshire)\nNational Traditions and Natural Landscape \nAli Igmen (California State University\, Long Beach)\nSelective Remembrance of ‘the Good Old Days’: the Lives of Kyrgyz Actresses According to the post-Soviet Interviewees \nChristopher Baker (University of Indiana\, Bloomington and American University of Central Asia\, Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan)\nEthnic Words and Soviet Things: Coming to Terms with Soviet Civilization in Esenberlin’s Kōşpendiler \nThis workshop is part of the CERIA Initiative\, generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation \n RSVP\n  \nPainting by Kazakhstan’s contemporary artist Saule Suleimenova \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/culture-and-islam-in-late-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180129T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192601Z
UID:17570-1517221800-1517245200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:‘Bourgeois’ Islam\, Prosperity Theology\, and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:9:30-11:30 AM\, Session 1: Towards an Islamic Capitalist Ethic in Central Asia\nGül Berna Özcan (Royal Holloway\, University of London) Islam\, Morality and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Central Asia \nAlima Bissenova (Nazarbayev University) Fitting into a Secular Society: The Discreet Charm of Kazakhstani Muslim\nEntrepreneurs \nAisalkyn Botoeva (Islamic Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School) How Do Capitalist Islamists Make Use of their Money and Envision the\nFuture? \nCoffee break: 11:30 AM-12:00 PM \n12:00 AM-1:15 PM\, Session 2: Alternative Islamic Middle Classness at home and abroad \nAurélie Biard (Central Asia Program\, The George Washington University) Ultra-Orthodox Hanafite and Salafist Predications via Halal Business in\nKazakhstan \nManja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ‘Bourgeois Islam’\, Gulf Migration\, and Post-national Sentiments \nLunch: 1:15 PM-2:00 PM \n2:00 PM-4:00 PM\, Session 3: Islamic Business inMigration: the Case of Russia \nRano Turaeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) Muslim Female Entrepreneurs in Moscow: From Mosque to Business Office \nIzzat Aman (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) Halal Businesses in Russia: Religion vs Capitalism \nMorgan Liu (The Ohio State University) \nDiscussion and Concluding Remarks \n  \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/bourgeois-islam-prosperity-theology-and-ethics-in-muslim-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180124T190000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192616Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a New Uzbekistan? The Magnitude\, Impact and Limitations of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Reforms
DESCRIPTION:Since taking office in September 2016\, the new President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has initiated many reforms\, ranging from economic and social policies aimed at improving the investment climate and the education and health systems to domestic and foreign policy changes aimed at eliminating any cult of personality\, providing greater freedom of media and expression\, and improving relations with neighboring States.\nThe pace and scope of the initiatives have taken many academics and experts by surprise and raises several questions. Are these reforms sustainable\, and how do they impact the lives of Uzbekistani citizens? What are the consequences for relations between Uzbekistan and the international community? Do they provide an opportunity for Western countries to strengthen their relations with Uzbekistan and to improve their image\, in the country? \nFour panelists will discuss these issues with a focus on specific areas that President Mirziyoyev has targeted for reform\, including civil society (Sean Roberts\, GWU)\, economic development (Eric Rudenshoild\, USAID)\, media (Navbahor Imamova\, Voice of America) and education (Sebastien Peyrouse\, GWU).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/towards-a-new-uzbekistan-the-magnitude-impact-and-limitations-of-shavkat-mirziyoyevs-reforms/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T144500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192636Z
UID:17561-1510929900-1510934400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Afghan Shi'i Movement: Revolutionary Politics and Global Islam
DESCRIPTION:With Prof. Robert Crews\n \nThe leftist coup in Afghanistan in 1978 and the Iranian revolution of 1979 unleashed a radical political movement among the Afghan Shia. Since 2001\, this movement has achieved new momentum\, and Afghan Shi’i activism has become central both to Afghan national politics and to global Shi’ism. This talk examines how Afghan Shi’i elites imagined a revolutionary project that would transform Islam and the Afghan nation – and explores how this project continues to shape the wider region today. \nProf. Robert D. Crews is an historian whose research and teaching interests focus on Afghanistan\, Central and South Asia\, Russia\, Islam\, and Global History. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, he received an MA from Columbia University and a PhD degree in History from Princeton University. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, and The New York Times. His course offerings include “The Global Drug Wars\,” “The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran\, Afghanistan\, and Pakistan\,” and “Modern Islamic Movements.” His latest research project explores Shia politics in Afghanistan. \nCo-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, the Institute for Middle East Studies\, and the Central Asia Program \n  \n RSVP\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-afghan-shii-movement-revolutionary-politics-and-global-islam/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T213000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192645Z
UID:17559-1510860600-1510867800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:CAP Cinema Club Presents: Shal (Kazakhstan\, 2012) by Ermek Tursunov
DESCRIPTION:Based on Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea\,” this Kazakhstani Oscar submission tells the story of Kasym\, an old shepherd who lives on the remote steppes of Kazakhstan. The old man loves international soccer\, horses\, his flock and family and tries to bond with his grandson Erali. In the spirit of Hemingway’s original text\, Kasym uses every trick up his sleeve to survive the elements and out with the wolves.\n  \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cap-cinema-club-presents-shal-kazakhstan-2012-by-ermek-tursunov/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T143000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192652Z
UID:17568-1510750800-1510756200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Global Powers and Competing ‘Fixes’ in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Balihar Sanghera\, Director of Graduate Studies (Taught)\,\nSenior Lecturer in Sociology\, University of Kent; George F. Kennan Fellow\, Woodrow Wilson Center \n\nThis presentation examines how the US\, Russia\, and China have proposed different development visions for Central Asia. While it is common to frame these visions in exclusionary or conflictual terms (such as market reforms versus state controls\, the dominant Western hegemony versus rising powers\, or the core versus the semi-periphery)\, Dr. Sanghera will argue that they reflect a shared imperative to tackle and fix structural contradictions inherent in advanced and newly capitalist economies. In this respect\, there is a family resemblance among the competing fixes\, rather than strong differences of economic and political ideologies. Central Asia has become an important space for global powers to shape and contest the future direction of capitalism. Drawing upon a qualitative study of international financial institutions in the region\, Dr. Sanghera will also examine how Central Asian states strategically respond to different social fixes to address their own economic and political needs\, often in ways that are unstable and contradictory.\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/global-powers-and-competing-fixes-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T143000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192707Z
UID:17565-1510750800-1510756200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The 10th CAP Fellows Seminar "Peacebuilding and Civic Literacy in Central Asia and South Caucasus"
DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n4:00 – 5:30 PM\, Session 1: New Perspectives on Grassroots Peacebuilding \nDiana Mamatova (former Project Coordinator\, the United Nations in Kyrgyzstan) Grassroots Peacebuilding: Cross-Border Cooperation in the Ferghana Valley \nJafar Usmanov (former Lead Researcher at ACT Development Group\, Tajikistan) Youth as Agents of Peace at the Tajik-Kyrgyz Border \nJeyhun Valiev (Independent Researcher\, Azerbaijan) Assessing the Impact of NGO Peacebuilding Programs in the South Caucasus:\nthe Case of Nagorno-Karabakh \nBreak: 5:30 – 5:45 PM \n5:45 – 6:45 PM\, Session 2: Empowerment through Civic Literacy in Kazakhstan \nKarlygash Kabatova (Astana Paper-Lab ResearchGroup\, Kazakhstan) Overcoming a Taboo: Normalizing Sexuality Education in Kazakhstan \nAnna Gussarova (Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies)\nCountering Extremism versus Freedom of Online Expression: the Case of Kazakhstan \nReception: 6:45 – 8:00 PM \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-10th-cap-fellows-seminar-peacebuilding-and-civic-literacy-in-central-asia-and-south-caucasus/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T143000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192717Z
UID:17564-1510750800-1510756200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Deciphering the Notion of "Uzbek Terrorists"
DESCRIPTION:with Alisher Siddique\, Director of RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service\nIn 2017\, four terrorist attacks were carried out by Uzbek citizens or people of Uzbek origin in several Western cities. Contrary to the media discourse\, Uzbekistan is not a hotbed of terrorism\, nor does it “export terrorists.” However\, many Uzbek nationals leave Uzbekistan for work\, becoming labor migrants. How and why did some Uzbek migrants get radicalized in different contexts–the U.S.\, Europe\, and Russia? How does the evolving political climate in Uzbekistan change the state’s relationship to Islam? What are some possible answers to the challenge of migration integration? \nIn partnership with RFE/RL \nLight lunch will be served \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/deciphering-the-notion-of-uzbek-terrorists/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171106T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171106T150000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192725Z
UID:17557-1509975000-1509980400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Islam and the State in Central Asia - a Friedrich Ebert Foundation Report
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sanat Kushkumbayev (Deputy Director\, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan) will present the latest report of the Almaty club (a Central Asia Policy Group) on Islam and the State in Central Asia.\nComparing Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan\, the report analyzes evolution in legislation\, the secularization of Islam\, Islamic education\, and the revival of public piety (the use of the veil). This presentation will be in Russian\, with translation in English. \nSupport for the report was provided by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. \n  \n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islam-and-the-state-in-central-asia-a-friedrich-ebert-foundation-report/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20171011T195000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192735Z
UID:11433-1508414400-1508421600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:What Lies ahead for Kyrgyzstan after the Presidential Elections?
DESCRIPTION:with\nKadyr Toktogulov\, Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States\nErica Marat\, National Defense University\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University\nPaul Stronski\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\nKyrgyzstan’s Presidential Elections on October 15\, 2017\, have been particularly competitive\, with tensions running high between the two main contenders\, Omurbek Babanov and Sooronbai Jeenbekov. Several post-election factors will shape the future direction of the country\, both domestically and internationally. How will the winner and the looser manage their post-election relationship? In what way will the political landscape be reshuffled? Answers to these questions will influence several critical issues such as ethnonationalism\, migration\, and Kyrgyzstan’s relationship with Russia\, the West\, and the Central Asian neighbors. Join our four experts to discuss the elections’ results\, the way the campaign was mediated\, its significance for the future of Kyrgyzstan\, and implications for the U.S. \n\n\nIn partnership with RFE/RL\n\n\nLight lunch will be served\n \n Register
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/lies-ahead-%ef%bb%bffor-kyrgyzstan-presidential-elections/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kyrgyzstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T120000
DTSTAMP:20260924T222811
CREATED:20200930T162509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T192822Z
UID:17555-1508414400-1508414400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:What Lies ahead for Kyrgyzstan after the Presidential Elections?
DESCRIPTION:with\nKadyr Toktogulov\, Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States\nErica Marat\, National Defense University\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University\nPaul Stronski\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\nKyrgyzstan’s Presidential Elections on October 15\, 2017\, have been particularly competitive\, with tensions running high between the two main contenders\, Omurbek Babanov and Sooronbai Jeenbekov. Several post-election factors will shape the future direction of the country\, both domestically and internationally. How will the winner and the looser manage their post-election relationship? In what way will the political landscape be reshuffled? Answers to these questions will influence several critical issues such as ethnonationalism\, migration\, and Kyrgyzstan’s relationship with Russia\, the West\, and the Central Asian neighbors. Join our four experts to discuss the elections’ results\, the way the campaign was mediated\, its significance for the future of Kyrgyzstan\, and implications for the U.S. \n\n\nIn partnership with RFE/RL\n\n\nLight lunch will be served\n \n Register
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/what-lies-ahead-%ef%bb%bffor-kyrgyzstan-after-the-presidential-elections/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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