Women and Water in Central Asia and South Asia: Building a Sustainable Future
Funded by the US State Department for 2013-2015, this project connected women in Central and South Asia to water and its management, and proposed a program of international exchange of…
GLASGOW – Inside the Pyramid: Is Central Asia authoritarianism stable?
A Workshop Series organized byCRCEES & CAP View the full program here. Patrimonial, patronal, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics…
Studying Social Marginalization in Central Asia: Sixth Central Asia Fellows’ Seminar
Opening Remarks, Marlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program, IERES, GWU) Aspects of Social Marginalization in Central Asia. Some Introductory Data Serik Bessembayev (Kazakhstan) Violent Extremism in Kazakhstan: The Fertile Soil of…
Kazakhstan Nationbuilding and Kazakh Nationalism: A Debate
A new social activism has emerged in Kazakhstan, organized by different small groups self-defining as Kazakh nationalists. Who are they? What is their audience? What political and national projects do…
Cinema Club Film Screening: Kyrgyzland
By Elunura Osmonalieva (2014) This movie is about a small mountainous country with big problems and huge potential. Young heroes let viewers into their lives, lifting a curtain into multi-layered…
Religion-Branding? Central Asia’s Integration into the International Scene through Religion
10:00am-12:00pm. Session 1. Central Asian States and the Gulf Countries. In Search of New Models of Development Luca Anceschi (Glasgow University, UK), Natalie Koch (Syracuse University), Bruno de Cordier (Gent…
Public and State Responses to ISIS Messaging in Central Asia
This workshop and policy discussion will mark the launch of a new series of policy papers from the CERIA initiative that examine state and public responses to ISIS and its…
Cinema Club Film Screening: Tahir and Zuhra
A 15th-century Uzbek 'Romeo and Juliet', this film, by Nabi Ganiev, quickly became one of the canons of Soviet cinema. "Takhir and Zukhra are childhood sweethearts brought up together at…
The Fight for Followers: Muslimness and Authenticity in Tajikistan
Recently, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon has sought new ways to reassert his Muslim identity. These public acts of piety serve not only to sway the population toward the state…
The Central Asia Security Workshop
9:00am. Registration and Breakfast 9:30-11:00am. Session 1. The Chinese ‘One Belt One Road’ Strategy Chair: Robert Sutter (George Washington University) Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute, Columbia University) One Road, One Belt,…
Adeeb Khalid – The Making of Uzbekistan: Nation Making in an Age of Revolution
Uzbekistan appeared on the map in 1924. Adeeb Khalid traces its emergence in the interstices between Soviet nationalities policies and the strivings of the Central Asian Muslim intelligentsia. Understanding the origins…
Daniil Kislov – The State of Media in Central Asia
Daniil Kislov is chief editor of Fergana.ru/Fergananews.com web edition. He was born in 1965 in the city of Ferghana, Uzbekistan, but was banned from visiting Uzbekistan in 2005. Fergana.ru information…
Selbi Jumayeva – Feminist Organizing in Kyrgyzstan
During this discussion, Selbi Jumayeva will share her experiences in the women’s rights activism, feminist organizing and anti-violence campaigning in Kyrgyzstan and discuss gender and sexuality issues in Central Asia,…
Jesse Driscoll – Beyond Hobbesian Legitimacy: Thinking A Way Out Of Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia
Despite Tajikistan's impassable mountains, hostile neighborhood, and overall bleak structural inheritance, its civil war was resolved with unusual speed. The Tajik Civil War was settled through the selective co-optation of many…
Cinema Club Screening: “The Builders (Stroiteli)” (2013)
Three siblings - two teenage brothers and their little sister - are evicted from their apartment. The youngsters' last hope rests on a plot of land outside of the city,…
Yerken Turganbayev – Regional Disparities in Kazakhstan
Economic development in Kazakhstan was accompanied by increasing disparities across the country's various regions, which has contributed to a number of social and economic problems. The urgency to find a solution…
Joanna J. Sienkiewicz – (Trans-)National Social Protection of Repatriates from Kazakhstan in Germany
In the first half of the 1990s, about one million ethnic Germans of all ages resettled in Germany. Many of those movers wanted to return to their 'homeland' and improve…
Inside the Pyramid: Is Central Asia Authoritarianism Stable?
Patrimonial, patronal, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that, if anything,…
Understanding Regime Legitimacy in Central Asia
A round table organized by GW's Central Asia Program and CRCEES, University of Glasgow Chair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU) Sally Cummings (St Andrews) Edward Schatz (University of Toronto) Luca Anceschi (Glasgow University) Patrimonial,…
Cinema Club in Partnership with the Embassy of Tajikistan: “Rostam and Sohrab” (1971)
Opening remarks by H.E. Farhod Salim, Ambassador of Tajikistan in the United States. This epic masterpiece by Tajik director Boris Kimyagarov is a patriotic ode to the Persian poet Ferdowsi. The…
Theodore P. Gerber – Political and Social Attitudes of Russia’s Muslims: Caliphate, Kadyrovism, or Kasha?
Russia's Muslim population, estimated at 16.4 million in 2010, is often considered as a potential source of instability, given perennial concerns about threat of extremist movements, particularly in the North…
Aurélie Biard – The Tablighi Revivalism and its Social and Political Implications in Kyrgyzstan
How are revivalist forms of Islam emanating from the Indian subcontinent, especially the 'preaching group' of the Tablighi Jama'at, impacting the construction of post-Soviet national identities and attitudes vis-à-vis society…
Michele Commercio – The Rise of Polygamy in Kyrgyzstan: A Consequence of the Country’s Post-Soviet Islamic Revival?
Although there are no official statistics reflecting cases of polygamy in Kyrgyzstan, anecdotal evidence suggests that polygamy is on the rise. This talk explores possible reasons for this and asks,…
David Kemme & Kassymkhan Kapparov – The Evolution of the National Oil Fund of Kazakhstan: Inception, Utilization and Expectations
The National Oil Fund of Kazakhstan (NOF) was created by Presidential Decree in 2002. Funded by direct taxes and royalties from natural resource producers, it was intended to be…
