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Shrine, State and Sacred Lineage in Modern Kazakhstan

with Ulan Bigozhin, Indiana University Many scholars have argued that shrine veneration and respect for sacred lineages are essential parts of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia because of their long history… Continue reading

Cinema Club Film Screening: Days Gone By (O’tgan kunlar/Minuvshie dni)

Directed by Yuldash Azgamov (Uzbekistan, 1969) In partnership with the Uzbekistan Embassy in Washington, DC Central Asia Program and the Uzbekistan Embassy are happy to invite you to attend the… Continue reading

From Empires of Faith to Nationalizations of Islam & the Globalization of Jihad in Central Asia

with Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University This seminar will discuss the versatility, uses and abuses of Islam as religion by the faithful and its various deployments by the political elites for… Continue reading

The Curious Rise and Development of Central Asian Nationalisms

with Dr. Russell Zanca, Northeastern Illinois University This presentation examines scholarly notions about post-Soviet Central Asia’s future close to the the time of the Soviet dissolution. Given the rather different… Continue reading

Kazakh security policy and its position as a vanguard for East-West cooperation

with Dr. Marcel de Haas, Professor, Nazarbayev University This presentation first describes the foundations of Kazakh security policy, i.e. the key security-related documents, especially the Law on National Security, the Military… Continue reading

Cinema Club Film Screening: Pure Coolness

Directed by Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan, 2007) Asema gets engaged to Murat and the two go to Murat's hometown, where the traditional Kyrgyzstani culture remains. One day, Asema learns of a plan… Continue reading

Identity-Based Discrimination in Kazakhstan: Migrant Workers in Pandemic Times

By Preety Sahu Preety Sahu is a PhD student currently working at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She specializes in domestic policies of Central… Continue reading Identity-Based Discrimination in Kazakhstan: Migrant Workers in Pandemic Times

The Return of Foreign Fighters from Conflict Zones: Kazakhstan’s Experience

The Return of Foreign Fighters from Conflict Zones: Kazakhstan’s Experience (January 28, 2020) As the Syrian conflict entered into the new stage, the return of foreign fighters to Central Asia… Continue reading The Return of Foreign Fighters from Conflict Zones: Kazakhstan’s Experience

Advancing Kazakh Culture: Launch of the Abai Center Website

The Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the George Washington University’s Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) are proud to announce… Continue reading Advancing Kazakh Culture: Launch of the Abai Center Website

The Nazarbayev Generation. Youth in Kazakhstan

The Nazarbayev Generation. Youth in Kazakhstan EDITED BY MARLENE LARUELLE – CONTRIBUTIONS BY AZIZ BURKHANOV; ULAN BIGOZHIN; DOUGLAS BLUM; REUEL R. HANKS; SABINA INSEBAYEVA; RICO ISAACS; AZAMAT K. JUNISBAI; BARBARA JUNISBAI; KARLYGASH KABATOVA;… Continue reading The Nazarbayev Generation. Youth in Kazakhstan

State-Building in Kazakhstan. Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions

State-Building in Kazakhstan. Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions DINA SHARIPOVA This book challenges the conventional wisdom that informal institutions—networks, clientelism, and connections—have to disappear in modern societies due to… Continue reading State-Building in Kazakhstan. Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions

Kazakhstan: Nation-Branding, Economic Trials, and Cultural Change The economic driver of Central Asia, Kazakhstan stands up for its forward-looking branding and its multivectoral foreign policy. Behind its many successes, the… Continue reading Kazakhstan: Nation-Branding, Economic Trials, and Cultural Change

Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature. Elites and Narratives DIANA T. KUDAIBERGENOVA Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature is a book about cultural transformations and trajectories of national… Continue reading Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature. Elites and Narratives

Imagining the Nation: Identity, Nation Building and Foreign Policy in Kazakhstan

By Sabina Insebayeva

Tag: Kazakhstan

Shrine, State and Sacred Lineage in Modern Kazakhstan

Cinema Club Film Screening: Days Gone By (O’tgan kunlar/Minuvshie dni)

From Empires of Faith to Nationalizations of Islam & the Globalization of Jihad in Central Asia

The Curious Rise and Development of Central Asian Nationalisms

Kazakh security policy and its position as a vanguard for East-West cooperation

Cinema Club Film Screening: Pure Coolness

Identity-Based Discrimination in Kazakhstan: Migrant Workers in Pandemic Times

The Return of Foreign Fighters from Conflict Zones: Kazakhstan’s Experience

Advancing Kazakh Culture: Launch of the Abai Center Website

State-Building in Kazakhstan. Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions

Inequality in Secondary Education and Kazakhstan’s Risk of Becoming a Fragmented Society

Contemporary Art as a Public Forum in Kazakhstan

Improving Governance in Kazakhstan’s Mining Towns

Kazakhstan: Nation-Branding, Economic Trials, and Cultural Change

Armament Strategies and Development of the Kazakhstani Military-Industrial Complex: Stakes and Prospects

The Northern Region and the Southern People: Migration Policies and Patterns in Kazakhstan

Ethnic Return Migration in Kazakhstan: Shifting State Dynamics, Changing Media Discourses

A New Makeup of Central Asia? The First Results of the Regional Policy of Sh. Mirziyoyev

How the Terrorism–Trafficking Nexus Has Shaped Security Apparatuses in Central Asia

Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature. Elites and Narratives

Imagining the Nation: Identity, Nation Building and Foreign Policy in Kazakhstan