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Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm (Video)
Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm March 11, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for… Continue reading Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm (Video)
The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925 – 1991: An Uneasy Legacy
The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925 – 1991: An Uneasy Legacy This monograph by Peter Rollberg, Elliott School Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Research Initiatives and Professor of Slavic Languages,… Continue reading The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925 – 1991: An Uneasy Legacy
Book Launch: March 10, 2021 – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm
The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this… Continue reading Book Launch: March 10, 2021 – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm
30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations (Video)
30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations February 11, 2021 Virtual discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program and the Embassy of Kazakhstan to mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations… Continue reading 30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations (Video)
Disabling Public Discontent: The 2021 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan
By Serik Beimenbetov Serik Beimenbetov is a post-doctoral research fellow and senior lecturer at the Kazakh-German University in Almaty. He completed his PhD at the Department of Political Science and… Continue reading Disabling Public Discontent: The 2021 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan
30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations
The 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,… Continue reading 30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations
Informing the Public about the Dangers of a Pandemic. Early COVID-19 Coverage by News Organizations in Kazakhstan
Authors:Bakhtiyar Nurumov, Ph.D. candidate, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, KazakhstanGulnur Berkenova, Ph.D. candidate, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, KazakhstanEric Freedman, J.D., Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University, USA Galiya Ibrayeva, Ph.D., Professor… Continue reading Informing the Public about the Dangers of a Pandemic. Early COVID-19 Coverage by News Organizations in Kazakhstan
The Other Side of Oil
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… Continue reading The Other Side of Oil
Documentary Film Screening: “550 Years of the Kazakh Khanate”
with Mr. Andrey Khazbulatov, Director General of the Kazakh Science and Research Institute of Culture under the Ministry of Culture and Sports The documentary, based on a historical opus “Within the… Continue reading Documentary Film Screening: “550 Years of the Kazakh Khanate”
Cinema Club Film Screening: Tulpan
Directed by Sergei Dvortsovoi (Kazakhstan, 2009) On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Tulpan
Security Challenges and Scenarios for Central Asia
with Erlan Karin, Visiting Professor, American University Erlan Karin will discuss the diverse security challenges, both external and internal, that the Central Asian countries currently face. He will explore the presidential successions, possible scenarios,… Continue reading Security Challenges and Scenarios for Central Asia
The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
4:00 pm. Registration 4.15pm. Welcome Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Executive Director, SIPRI-North America 4:30-6:00 pm. Fellows Presentations and Discussion: Aitolkyn Kourmanova, Central Asia Fellow (Kazakhstan) Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Nurturing from… Continue reading The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
Cinema Club Film Screening: Aksuat
Written and directed by Serik Aprymov (Kazakhstan 1997) Aksuat is the name of a village in Kazakhstan, where Kanat takes his pregnant wife Zhanna to visit his brother, Aman. Just… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Aksuat
Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
with Sean Roberts, Associate Professor and Director, International Development Studies Program, GWU With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan, like many others in the former USSR, began to resurrect… Continue reading Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
Nomadic Life Styles and Narratives in Kazakhstan: Then and Now
A workshop held in conjunction with the exhibition “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan” currently at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution until December 2,… Continue reading Nomadic Life Styles and Narratives in Kazakhstan: Then and Now
Diversification of an Energy-Producing Economy Agricultural Policy in Kazakhstan
with Richard Pomfret, Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia Kazakhstan has used energy revenues to save for the future, invest in human capital, and diversify the structure of production with the goal… Continue reading Diversification of an Energy-Producing Economy Agricultural Policy in Kazakhstan
Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
Discussion on Kazakh Cinema Introduction: Peter Rollberg, Director, IERES, GWU Kazakh Cinema in an Historical Perspective: from Perestroika to Post-Borat Time Jean Radvanyi, Professor, National Institute for Oriental Languages and… Continue reading Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
Traps of Political Succession in Kazakhstan
with Dosym Satpayev, Director, Non-governmental Consulting Organization “Risks Assessment Group” Tolganay Umbetaliyeva, Director General, Public Fund “Central Asian Foundation for Democracy” Andrey Chebotarev, Director, “Alternative” Center for Topical Studies Rasul Zhumaly, Lecturer, S. Demirel… Continue reading Traps of Political Succession in Kazakhstan
The ATOM project exhibit and art show
To Mark the International Day Against Nuclear Tests Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Kairat Umarov and GW’s Central Asia Program have the honor to invite you to attend The ATOM project exhibit and… Continue reading The ATOM project exhibit and art show
Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University Margarita Assenova, Jamestown Foundation Anara Ibraeva, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law The Central Asia Program will be debating Kazakhstan’s rapidly… Continue reading Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing
with Karipbek Kuyukov, ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador and Artist, and Roman Vassilenko, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan The ATOM Project (Abolish Testing Our Mission) is an international campaign designed… Continue reading Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing
Cinema Club Film Screening: Land of the Fathers
Directed by Shaken Aimanov (Kazakhstan, 1966) An old man decides to look for his dead son and bring his corpse back to bury him in the land of his ancestors;… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Land of the Fathers
