Douglas Blum – Cosmopolitan Kazakhs: A Case Study in How Globalization Works
On the basis of extensive fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Douglas Blum considers the experiences of young people who spent time in the US, asking what cultural "baggage" they brought home with…
Cinema Club Film Screening: Little Angel, Make Me Happy (Turkmenistan, 1993)
Directed by Usman SaparovThis film "tells an intimate story within the larger historical context of the deportation of ethnic Germans from Turkmenistan to Siberia during the Second World War. Saparov's historical…
Sergey Abashin – Central Asian Migrants in Russia: Will there be a Religious Radicalization?
Religious radicalization among Central Asian migrants to Russia have raised particular attention in connection with the active recruitment by the "Islamic State" of many people from the region, as well…
Islamic Education and Knowledge Transmission in Central Asia
Islamic Education and Knowledge Transmission in Central Asia April 10, 2017, 9:30am-3:00pm Central Asia Program, IERES George Washington University 1957 E Street, NW, Lindner Commons, Suite 602 9:30am. Session 1.…
Cinema Club Film Screening: “The Gift to Stalin” (Kazakhstan, 2008)
Directed by Rustem Abdrashev "Set in 1949, just before Stalin’s 70th-birthday jubilee, the film centers on Sasha (Dalen Shintemirov), a 9-year-old boy who escapes from a train transporting Jewish refugees from…
Mining Firms and Local Communities in Central Asia
Chair: Sean Roberts (George Washington University) Zhanyl Moldalieva (United Nations University—Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology) (Re)thinking Transparency and Accountability in Natural Resource Governance: The Case of Kyrgyzstan’s…
Julie McBrien – The Tricky Matter of Defining Religion
What is religion? The answer to this question is either so obvious that it needs no asking, or so abstract and theoretical that we end up declaring it insoluble. The…
The United States’ and Russia’s Relationship in Central Asia and its Neighborhood
Tuesday, May 2 10:30 Opening remarks Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute, Columbia University) and Marlene Laruelle(George Washington University) 10:45-12:15 Panel 1. Central Asia and the ‘global order’ Chair: Rajan Menon (City…
Cinema Club Film Screening: “Two Horses of Genghis Khan” (Mongolia, 2009)
Directed by Byambasuren Davaa "Two Horses presents a stiff look at the crushing after-effects on Mongolian heritage in the years following the Chinese cultural revolution, in which priceless artifacts of music…
Social Cohesion in Kyrgyzstan
Social cohesion has emerged over the last two decades as an important concept in both academic and political discourse, especially in fragile and conflict-affected environments. At the same time, the…
Victoria Kim – Re-visiting the 1937 Deportation of Ethnic Koreans to Central Asia + Film Screening of “Koryo Saram The Unreliable People”
Re-visiting the 1937 Deportation of Ethnic Koreans to Central Asia: 80 Years of Survival and Prospering Followed by a screening of Koryo Saram The Unreliable People The year 2017 marks…
Ninth Fellows’ Seminar: Development Challenges and Evolving Identities in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
2:00pm. Introductory remarksMarlene Laruelle, Director, Central Asia Program 2:15-4:00pm. Panel 1. Identities, Ideologies and Religion in Flux Zhar Zardykhan (KIMEP, Almaty) Between Two Worlds: The Ambiguities of Kazakhstan's Search for…
Russia’s Approaches to Afghanistan and its Implications for Central Asia
Stephen Blank, American Foreign Policy Council Russia’s Policy toward Afghanistan and the Taliban and its Impact on Central Asia Stephen Blank is an internationally known expert on Russia and the…
ASTANA: “China’s “One Belt, One Road” project and its impact for Central Asia”
Nazarbayev University, Preliminary programme Day 1 8 June 2017 9.00 – 9.30 Registration 9.30 – 10.00 Welcome speech Shigeo Katsu, President, Nazarbayev University (TBC) Marlene Laruelle, Director CAP, George Washington University…
BRUSSELS: Central Asian ‘Jihad’: Home-grown Terror or Marginalised Migrants’
AgendaIntroduction: Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director, European Endowment for Democracy (EED) Presentation: Noah Tucker, Associate, Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Central Eurasia – Religion in International Affairs (CERIA) initiative; Senior…
2017 Trans-Caspian Forum: East West Trade & Transit Corridor
See tentative program. Background: The Trans-Caspian East-West Trade and Transit Corridor brings together the Central Asia, Caspian and Black Sea strategic regions to form a viable trade and transit corridor…
Uzbekistan’s Heritage and New Transformations
in partnership with the Embassy of Uzbekistan Sirojiddin Yakhshilikov (Charge d'affaires at the Embassy of Uzbekistan) Uzbekistan's Social Policy: Ensuring Stability and Development Through Modernization and Heritage Rahimjon Abdugafurov (Ph.D.…
2017 Trans-Caspian Forum: East West Trade & Transit Corridor
See tentative program. Background: The Trans-Caspian East-West Trade and Transit Corridor brings together the Central Asia, Caspian and Black Sea strategic regions to form a viable trade and transit corridor…
“Rooted in Felt” International Textile Exhibit Opening Reception
Believed to be one of the world’s oldest textiles, felt was first made over 2,500 ago by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. It’s a multifunctional non-woven fabric used for…
One Year of the Mirziyoyev Presidency: What Has Changed in Uzbekistan?
This is a joint Central Asia Program - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty event with Alisher Sidiq, head of RFE/RL Uzbekistan service Sean Roberts, Professor, GWU Navbahor Imamova, International Broadcaster, Uzbek Service,…
NAC-NU CAP Conference on External and Internal Migration in Central Asia, ASTANA
Program Day 1, 28 September 2017 9.00 – 9.30 Registration 9.30 – 9.45 Welcome speech Shigeo Katsu, President, Nazarbayev University (TBC) Marlene Laruelle, Director CAP, G. Washington University…
The Islamic Mediascape in Central Asia
9:00-11:00 AM, Session 1: The Evolution of Religious and Irreligious MediaEren Tasar (University of North Carolina) Casting a Wide Net: Islamic Media in Central Asia under Atheism Shahnoza Nozimova (George Mason…
What Lies ahead for Kyrgyzstan after the Presidential Elections?
with Kadyr Toktogulov, Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States Erica Marat, National Defense University Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University Paul Stronski, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Kyrgyzstan's Presidential…
What Lies ahead for Kyrgyzstan after the Presidential Elections?
with Kadyr Toktogulov, Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States Erica Marat, National Defense University Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University Paul Stronski, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Kyrgyzstan's Presidential…
