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• Program for the 2004 CESS Conference
• Abstracts of Papers Presented at CESS 2003
Contents of This Page:
• Overview of the Conference Schedule
See Also:
• Abstracts of Papers Presented at CESS 2003
The program information listed below reflects the actual conference. Presentations which were listed in the printed program, but which were not made due to the absence of the presenter, are omitted.
October 2 - Thursday
Arrival to the conference Thursday afternoon and evening. From 3:30-5:30 pm, there will be a registration desk open at the Davis Center (625 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd floor). Here you can pick up your registration packet, including information on local cafes and restaurants. We encourage you to plan on meeting colleagues and friends here to go out to dinner together.
Thursday evening there will be a reception for the newly established American Institute of Afghanistan Studies.
At 8:00, Kazakh filmmaker Rachid Nougmanov will present his influential film “The Needle” at the Science Center.
October 3 - Friday
Registration opens at 8:00 am at the Davis Center (625 Massachusetts Avenue).
Sessions begin at 9:00 am and continue through 6:20 pm.
The lunch break runs from 12:50 to 2:30 pm. Central Square provides a wide array of cafes and restaurants where conference attendees can get lunch, and a limited number of sandwiches will be sold at the conference venue.
In the afternoon, a number of documentaries will be shown at the Science Center.
At 7:00 pm there will be an informal catered reception/dinner, hosted by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (location to be confirmed). Dinner tickets are free to registered conference attendees, but must be reserved in advance as space is limited to 500 attendees.
At 9:00 pm there will be a screening of the acclaimed Kyrgyz feature film “Beshkempir” in the Science Center.
October 4 - Saturday
Registration opens at 8:00 am in Rockefeller Hall at the Harvard Divinity School.
Sessions begin at 9:00 am and continue through 6:20 pm. The morning sessions will be held at the Divinity School. There will also be two plenary sessions, for all conference attendees, to be held in Paine Hall (see details of the plenary sessions below).
The lunch break runs from 12:50 to 2:30 pm. Conference attendees can find a rich array of cafes and restaurants for lunch in Harvard Square, and a limited number of sandwiches will be sold at the conference venue.
In the afternoon, the film series will feature screenings of new films by Uzbek filmmaker, Yusup Razykov, at the Harvard Film Archive.
At 7:00 pm, there will be a reception hosted by the Caspian Studies Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Tickets are free to registered conference attendees, but space is limited so sign-up in advance is required. There will be musical performance from the region. Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided.
October 5 - Sunday
Sessions will begin at the Divinity School at 9:00 am and continue through 12:50 pm. (Registration will open at 8:30 am).
Conference attendees are encouraged to plan on spending the afternoon visiting beautiful and historic Boston and Cambridge.
Departure on Sunday afternoon and evening.
Note that the thematic designation ("Politics", "Society", etc.) of panels is somewhat imprecise, since we have worked to make panels interdisciplinary and cross-cutting thematically, while at the same time seeking coherence of the panel. Therefore, you can expect to find papers and panels of interest in sections other than your primary field.
PL-01 • Central Eurasian Studies: The State of the Field
GE-01 • Roundtable: Supporting the Development of Central Eurasian Studies
GE-02 • Approaches to Central Eurasian Studies
GE-03 • Roundtable: Human Rights Problems in Central Eurasia: What Is Being Done?
EC-01 • Changing Land and Water Use Patterns in Central Asia
EC-02 • Kazakhstan in Transition: A Success Story?
EC-03 • Gendered Economy in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: Separate and Unequal
EC-04 • Impacts of Economic Reform in Contemporary Central Asia
EC-05 • Old Issues, Modern Situations: New Economic Institutions in Eurasia
EC-06 • Balancing Environment with Development in Eurasia
EC-07 • Land and Irrigation in Eurasia
EC-08 • The Amu Darya Basin: Political Economy and Technological Solutions
DP-06 • Economies in Central Eurasia: Pasts, Presents and Futures
ED-01 • Teacher Education in Central Asia: Visions and Realities in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
ED-02 • Higher Education Reforms in Contemporary Eurasia
ED-03 • Eurasian Education Past and Present: Dynamics of Religion and Reform
ED-04 • Higher Education within New National and International Orders
ED-05 • Teaching Journalism in Central Asia
DP-11 • Higher Education Transformed in Central Eurasia
HC-01 • Nation and Invention among Mongols and Tajiks
HC-02 • Sufism and Shrine Culture in Central Asia
HC-03 • Assessing Mediaeval Central Asia
HC-04 • New Approaches to Central Asian History
HC-05 • Religion and the Construction of Post-Soviet Ethnic Identity
HC-06 • Central Asian Women: History and Current Issues
HC-07 • Religions of the Caucasian Peoples
HC-08 • Dynamics of Literature and Identity in Eurasia
HC-09 • Redefining Religion in Post-Soviet Realities
HC-10 • Power and Prestige in Representation
HC-11 • Imagining the Self: Mechanisms and Channels
HC-12 • Arts and Letters across Time
HC-13 • Image: Seeing the Self, Seeing the Other
HC-14 • Reclaiming Identity through Film: Space, Gender and National Allegory
HC-15 • Cultural and Political Spheres Intersecting
HC-16 • Shifting Cultural Maps across Eurasia
DP-02 • Culture, Rituals and Habits Defining Social Norms and Alternatives
DP-08 • Conquest and Formation of Central Eurasia through History
LS-01 • Current Legal Topics in Central Eurasia
LS-02 • Roundtable: Legal Reform in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
PO-01 • Security and Regional Cooperation in the Caucasus and Central Asia
PO-02 • Quagmire: Critically Assessing the Second Russo-Chechen War
PO-03 • Roundtable: Moving Forward on Caspian Delimitation: Views from the Region
PO-04 • Afghanistan: Measures of Coherence and Fragmentation
PO-05 • The Caucasus: The State and Nation in Transition
PO-06 • After the Big Guys: The Future of the State and Democracy in Central Asia and the Caucasus
PO-07 • Foreign Interests and Influence in Central Asia and the Caspian
PO-08 • Imagined Landscapes: Culture, Ideology and Place in Central Asia
PO-09 • Roundtable: Challenges to Democracy in Central Asia and the Caucasus
PO-10 • Governance and State Power: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
PO-11 • Methods and Consequences of State Leadership
PO-12 • Factors in Eurasian Foreign Policy across Time
PO-13 • Experimenting with Democracy in Central Eurasia
PO-14 • Threat and Responses to WMD Nonproliferation in Central Asia
PO-15 • Partners and Rivals in Central Eurasia
PO-16 • Islam: Social Agendas and Insurgency
PO-18 • Kazakhstan in Transition: 200 Years before Democracy?
DP-01 • Issues of Stability and Security in Central Eurasia
DP-03 • Dialectic Binaries: The Normative Center and Its Peripheries
DP-04 • Governance and Civil Society
DP-05 • Shifting Geopolitics and Changing Priorities in Central Eurasia
DP-10 • Finding the Roots of Conflicts in Eurasia
SO-01 • Diasporas I: Across Space, Across Time
SO-02 • Diasporas II: Forced Migration and Urban Settlement
SO-03 • Reconstructing the Public Sphere in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1876-1938
SO-05 • Relating Civil Society, Local Organizations, and Human Rights
SO-06 • Borders and Locations: The Politics and Economics of Post-Soviet Space
SO-07 • The New Dynamic of Information and Health Policy in Central Asia
SO-08 • Local Responses to Global Intervention
SO-09 • Thinking Local, Reacting to the Global
SO-10 • The Media as a Medium for Identity
SO-11 • Reinventing the Self in a Post-Soviet World
SO-12 • Refugees, Migrants and Survival Strategies
DP-07 • The Nexus of Language and Identity
DP-09 • In and Out of Place: Geography and Identity
Chair: John Schoeberlein (Harvard University, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus; schoebermuohio.edu)
Jan Kubis (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; jan.kubisosce.org)
David Pearce (World Bank; dpearceworldbank.org)
Martha Brill Olcott (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; molcottceip.org)
Gerard J. Libaridian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; j1378att.net)
Matthew Bryza (National Security Council; mbryzansc.eop.gov)
Chair: Gregory Gleason (University of New Mexico; gleasongunm.edu)
Richard N. Frye (Harvard University; fryemuohio.edu)
Pauline Jones Luong (Yale University; pauline.luongyale.edu)
John Schoeberlein (Harvard University, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus; schoebermuohio.edu)
Bruce Grant (Swarthmore College; bgrant1swarthmore.edu)
William Fierman (Indiana University, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; wfiermanindiana.edu)
James Millward (Georgetown University; millwarjgeorgetown.edu)
Chair: Thomas Barfield (Boston University; barfieldbu.edu)
Mark G. Pomar (International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX); mpomarirex.org)
John F. Richards (Duke University; richardsduke.edu)
Seteney Shami (Social Science Research Council (SSRC); shamissrc.org)
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek (European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) / University of Vienna; gabriele.rasulyunivie.ac.at)
Oleksandr Shtokvych (Open Society Institute, Budapest; oshtokvychosi.hu)
Chair: Edward Keenan (Harvard University; keenanedoaks.org)
Discussant: Seteney Shami (Social Science Research Council (SSRC); shamissrc.org)
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek (European Society for Central Asian Studies
(ESCAS) / University of Vienna; gabriele.rasulyunivie.ac.at)
“Anthropological Approaches to Central Asia and the Middle East: Intersections or Disparities?”
Ayşe Gneş-Ayata (Middle East Technical University, Ankara;
aayatametu.edu.tr) and
Hayriye Kahveci (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; hkahvecimetu.edu.tr)
and Işık Kuşu (Middle East Technical University, Ankara;
isikkuscuyahoo.com)
“Eurasian Studies in Turkey”
Hisao Komatsu (The University of Tokyo; komatsul.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
“Modern Central Eurasian Studies in Japan: An Overview, 1985-2000”
Chair: Joshua Rubenstein (Amnesty International USA; jrubenstaiusa.org)
Rachel Denber (Human Rights Watch; denberrhrw.org)
Junsei Terasawa (Buddhist monk of Order Nipponzan Myohoji, Consultant of the International Peace Bureau; myohojiukr.net)
Dolkun Kamberi (Radio Free Asia; kamberidrfa.org)
Kathleen Samuel (Independent Scholar; ksamuelcrisisweb.org)
Chair: Rafis Abazov (Columbia University, Harriman Institute; polra99yahoo.com)
Discussant: Malcolm Childress (University of Wisconsin-Madison; mdchildrfacstaff.wisc.edu)
Timur Dadabaev (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka; dadabaevidc.minpaku.ac.jp)
“Water Politics and Cooperation in Post-Soviet Central Asia”
Kyle Thomas Evered (Illinois State University; ktevereilstu.edu)
“Political Ecologies of Wetland Protection in Eurasia: An Evaluation of Critical Sites in Turkey”
Peter C. Bloch (University of Wisconsin-Madison; pcblochwisc.edu)
“Valuing Land and Water in the Kyrgyz Republic: Are New Markets Working?”
Peter Wehrheim (University of Maryland-College Park / University of
Bonn-Germany; wehrheimagp.uni-bonn.de)
and Marc Mueller (University of Maryland-College Park; mmarcmuelleraol.com)
“Land and Water Use in Uzbekistan: Institutional Constraints on More Efficient and More Sustainable Agriculture”
Zvi Lerman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; lermanagri.huji.ac.il)
and Ivan Stanchin (Turkmen National Institute of Statistics, Ashgabat;
stanchinonline.tm)
“New Contract Arrangements in Turkmen Agriculture: Impacts on Productivity and Rural Incomes”
Chair: Kathryn H. Anderson (Vanderbilt University; kathryn.andersonvanderbilt.edu)
Discussant: Walter C. Clemens, Jr. (Boston University; wclemensbu.edu)
Margarita Basabikova (Маргарита
Басабикова)
(Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research under
the President of Kazakhstan (KIMEP), Almaty; bmrgkimep.kz)
“Kazakhstan's Petroleum Industry: Success or Failure?”
Jan Tomczyk (Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic
Research under the President of Kazakhstan (KIMEP), Almaty; jtomczykasdc.kz)
and Alex Danilovich (Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and
Strategic Research under the President of Kazakhstan (KIMEP), Almaty; alexdkimep.kz)
“Local Trade Associations as a Catalyst for Economic Change in Kazakhstan”
Sofiya Issenova (Internews Network in Kazakhstan, Almaty; sofiaisenovayahoo.com)
“Fighting Corruption in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges”
Ai-Gul Salgarovna Seitenova (Pragma Corporation, Almaty; agseitpragma.kz)
and Charles Becker (University of Colorado at Denver)
“Kazakhstan's Pension Reform: The First Five Years”
Zehra Vildan Serin (Fatih University, Istanbul; vserinfatih.edu.tr)
and Elif Yksel Oktay (Kocaeli University, Istanbul; elifselkou.edu.tr)
“The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Socio-Economic Development of Kazakhstan”
Chair: Anne T. Sweetser (Asian Development Bank, Manila; asweetserpost.harvard.edu)
Discussant: Marianne Kamp (University of Wyoming; mkampuwyo.edu)
Lyudmila Kim (National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent; lyudmilakimalbatros.uz,
lyudmilakimyahoo.com)
“Gender Stereotypes in Employment”
Dinara Alimdjanova (Independent Scholar (Tashkent); adinarafreenet.uz)
“Gender Aspects of Economy: Application for Uzbekistan”
Gulnora Makhmudova (Center of Effective Economic Policy under the Ministry
of Economy of Uzbekistan, Tashkent; bwa-gmnglobalnet.uz)
“Women's Entrepreneurship in Uzbekistan”
Yelena Istileulova (Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and
Strategic Research under the President of Kazakhstan (KIMEP), Almaty; iyelenakimep.kz)
and Svetlana Shakirova (Center for Gender Studies, Almaty; genderacademset.kz)
and Mara Seitova (Center for Gender Studies, Almaty; iyelenakimep.kz)
“Gender Trends in the Labor Market of Kazakhstan”
Chair: Rajiv Kumar (Asian Development Bank, Manila; rkumaradb.org)
Discussant: Marshall Goldman (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; goldman3muohio.edu)
Kathryn H. Anderson (Vanderbilt University; kathryn.andersonvanderbilt.edu)
and Richard Pomfret (Adelaide University, School of Economics; richard.pomfretadelaide.edu.au)
“Spatial Inequality and Development in Central Asia”
Gregory Gleason (University of New Mexico; gleasongunm.edu)
“The Politics of Structural Reform in Uzbekistan”
Martin C. Spechler (Indiana University, Inner Asian and Uralic National
Resource Center; mspechleiupui.edu)
and Farrukh Suvankulov (Ministry of Finance, Republic of Uzbekistan,
Tashkent; fsuvankulovmf.uz)
and Ulugbek Khasanov (Independent Scholar (Tashkent); ukhnoffyahoo.com)
“Economic Reform in Uzbekistan”
Mieke Meurs (American University; mmeursamerican.edu)
and Lisa Giddings (University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse; giddings.lisauwlax.edu)
and Telahun Temesgen (American University; ttemesgenyahoo.com)
“Changing Childcare Enrollments in Post-Socialist Central Asia: Causes and Implications”
Jyldyz Aknazarova (Osh State University; akjyldyzmail.ru)
“An Evaluation of Privatization in Kyrgyzstan”
Chair: Michael Lelyveld (Radio Free Asia; mlelyveldworldnet.att.net)
Discussant: Traci Phillips (U.S. Department of the Treasury; traci.phillipsdo.treas.gov)
Rajiv Kumar (Asian Development Bank, Manila; rkumaradb.org)
“Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Imperatives, Constraints and Prospects”
David Lehrer (University of Helsinki; davlehreraol.com)
and Doreen Sprer (University of Konstanz; doreen.spoereruni-konstanz.de)
“Paths, Models, Mechanisms? Banking Reform in Central Asia”
Sergei Pushkarev (The University of Georgia; sergei_pushkarevmail.ru)
“Citizen and Small Business Satisfaction with Local Government Performance and Responsiveness in the Urals”
Arman Kashkinbekov (CJSC "National Company "KazMunayGas", Astana; akashkinbekovkazmunaygas.kz)
“Modernization of the Petroleum Industry in the Republic of Kazakhstan”
Tamara Nezhina (Тамара Нежина)
(University of Georgia in Athens; tnezhinayahoo.com)
“Expenditure Allocation among Levels of Government in Kazakhstan: Application of the Model for Functional Analysis”
Chair: Kyle Thomas Evered (Illinois State University; ktevereilstu.edu)
Discussant: Ayse Kudat (Social Assessment, LLC; aysekudathotmail.com)
Masahiko Gemma (Waseda University, Tokyo; gemmawaseda.jp)
“Sources of Growth for Agriculture in Central Asia after Independence”
Yuehtsen Juliette Chung (University of Bristol; yuehtsenyahoo.com)
“The 'Develop the West' Campaigns and Their Environmental Impacts”
Caroline Upton (University of Cambridge; huitenyahoo.co.uk)
“Formation, Transformation and Adaptation of Institutions for Natural Resource Management in a Pastoral Society”
Ian Small (University of Toronto, Centre for International Health; ian.smallutoronto.ca)
“Operationalizing a Complex Environmental Disaster: The Case of the Aral Sea Area”
Moira Feil (Adelphi Research, Berlin; feiladelphi-research.de)
“Environmental Governance and Security in Central Asia”
Chair: Peter Sinnott (Columbia University, Harriman Institute; pjs7columbia.edu)
Discussant: Eric Sievers (Baker and McKenzie; eric.w.sieversbakernet.com)
David W. Norman (Kansas State University; dnormanloki.agecon.ksu.edu)
and Yorbol Yahshilikov (Kansas State University; yerbolyhotmail.com)
“Agricultural Development in Central Asia”
Shuhrat Rajabov (Independent Scholar (Dushanbe); shuhratrajabovhotmail.com)
“Gender and Land Issues in Rural Tajikistan”
Chair: Aydin een (Central Michigan University; a.cecencmich.edu)
Discussant: Zvi Lerman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; lermanagri.huji.ac.il)
Tsuneo Tsukatani (Kyoto University; tsukakier.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
“The Left and Right Banks of Amu Darya”
Udi Zur (Netafim Ltd.; udiznetafim.com)
“Drip Irrigation Solutions to Deal with the Water Crisis in Central Asia”
Hikaru Ohbayashi (Kyoto University; hikaru-fkg8.so-net.ne.jp)
“Central Asia: The Corridor to Hydrogen Stocks”
Kristina Toderich (Samarkand Division, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan;
ktoderichyahoo.com)
“Challenges for the Future of Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Uzbekistan”
Moderator: Martin C. Spechler (Indiana University, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; mspechleiupui.edu)
Manabu Shimizu (Utsunomiya University, Tokyo; manachamsd.biglobe.ne.jp)
“Energy Politics between the Caspian Region and East Asia”
Ali Tekin (Bilkent University, Ankara; tekinbilkent.edu.tr)
“Geopolitics of the Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline after the Iraqi War”
Natia Natsvlishvili (National Bank of Georgia; nnatsvlishvilinbg.gov.ge)
“Transmission of External Disturbances on the Georgian Economy”
Thierry Coville (Centre d'Observation Economique / Paris Chamber of
Commerce and Industry; tcovilleccip.fr)
“A Bleak Future for the Rent-Seeking Economies of Central Asia and Caucasus?”
Garth Willis (Alpine Fund; garthalpinefund.org)
and Irena Mrak (University of Ljubljana; irena.mraksiol.net)
“The Potential of Mountain Tourism in Kyrgyzstan”
Chair: Emine Grsoy-Naskali (Marmara University, Istanbul; naskalitnn.net)
Discussant: Rafique Keshavjee (The Christensen Fund; rafiquechristensenfund.org)
Dishn Shamatov (University of Toronto / Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education; dshamatovoise.utoronto.ca)
“Voices of Beginning Teachers from Kyrgyzstan: Visions and Realities”
Kunduz Maksutova (Кундуз Максутова)
(Osh State University (Osh, Kyrgyzstan) / University of Massachusetts-Amherst;
kmakseduc.umass.edu)
“From Insight and Awareness to Peacebuilding Education in Southern Kyrgyzstan”
Amynah Charania (Independent Scholar (Montreal); amynahhotmail.com)
“Experiences of Teacher Education in Badakhshan, Tajikistan: An 'Outsider's' Perspective”
Toc Dunlap (Creating Hope International; chicreatinghope.org)
“Training a New Generation of Afghan Teachers”
Chair: Alan J. DeYoung (University of Kentucky; ajdeyuky.edu)
Discussant: Stephen P. Heyneman (Vanderbilt University; s.heynemanvanderbilt.edu)
Todor Balabanov (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna; balabanoihs.ac.at)
“Facing Reform in the Research Community: A Survey of Willingness to Accept Change in Three Central Asian Countries”
David J. Mikosz (World Bank; dmikoszworldbank.org)
“Educational Exchanges and Central Asian Higher Education”
Madeleine Reeves (University of Cambridge; mfr21cam.ac.uk)
“Markets, 'Missions' and Languages of Higher Education Reform in Kyrgyzstan”
Chair: Jonathan Cebra (U.S. Department of State; jcebrapd.state.gov)
Discussant: Margaret A. Mills (Ohio State University; mills.186osu.edu)
Recep Grkan Gktaş (Harvard University; goktasmuohio.edu)
“The Question of Decline in Central Asian Madrasas, 16th-19th Centuries”
Audrey Altstadt (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; altstadthistory.umass.edu)
“Communizing Education in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-1926”
Bayram Balci (Institut Franais d'Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA), Istanbul;
bayram.balcisuperonline.com)
“Nurcu Missionary Activities from Turkey to Central Asia and Caucasus”
Tetyana Koshmanova (Western Michigan University; tetyana.koshmanovawmich.edu)
“Civic Education in Ukraine”
Tamo Chattopadhay (Columbia University, Teachers College; tamoghnaatt.net)
and Gerelmaa Amgaabazar (Columbia University, Teachers College; ga2106columbia.edu)
and Otgonjargal Okhidoi (Columbia University, Teachers College; oo2006columbia.edu)
“Challenges to Educational Access in Central Asia: Critical Perspectives”
Chair: Martha Loerke (Open Society Institute, New York; mloerkesorosny.org)
Discussant: Mark S. Johnson (Colorado College; msjohnsoncoloradocollege.edu)
Shynar Imangaliyeva (Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, Almaty; simansoros.kz)
“Introduction of State Accreditation in Higher Institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Objectives and Outcomes”
Almaz Tolymbek (Kent State University; atolymbekyahoo.com)
“Public Policy on Higher Education Today in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan”
Martha Merrill (School for International Training (Brattleboro); mcm15columbia.edu)
“International Integration of Kyrgyzstani Universities”
Chair: Luigi De Martino (Cimera CH, Geneva; luigi.demartinocimera.org)
Discussant: Joshua Machleder (Independent Scholar / Internews Central Asia, Almaty; joshinternews.kz)
Thomas A. Dine (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague; dinetrferl.org)
“The Sorry State of Media Freedom in Central Asia”
Laurence A. Jarvik (Johns Hopkins University, School of Professional
Studies in Business and Education; lajarvikjhu.edu)
“American Approaches to the First International Journalism Course at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy”
Eric Freedman (Michigan State University, School of Journalism; freedma5msu.edu)
“Designing and Implementing the First Environmental and Science Journalism Course for an Uzbekistan Journalism School”
Aktam Jalilov (University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent;
jakuwed.freenet.uz)
“The UWED Masters Degree Program in International Journalism in the Context of Higher Education in Uzbekistan”
Richard Shafer (University of North Dakota; undprofhotmail.com)
“Obstacles to Adapting Western News Reporting Models in Post-Soviet Central Asia”
Moderator: Martha Merrill (School for International Training (Brattleboro); mcm15columbia.edu)
Marlne Laruelle (French Institute for Central Asia Studies (IFEAC),
Tashkent; marlenelaruelleyahoo.com)
“The Teaching of Nationalism in the Academic System in Post-Soviet Central Asia”
Emine Grsoy-Naskali (Marmara University, Istanbul; naskalitnn.net)
“The Turkish Scholarship Program for Students from Post-Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus”
Boturkhon Valikhodjaev (Samarkand State University and Institute of
Foreign Languages; sabronline.ru)
and Mehribon Azamatovna Abdullayeva (Samarkand State Institute of Foreign
Languages; mehribonayahoo.com)
“Medresah Oliya: Mediaeval Universities in Central Asia (with a Focus on the Region of Present-Day Uzbekistan and Samarkand City)”
Liudmila Devel (Association of Applied Linguistics of St. Petersburg;
milasolaris.ru)
“Innovations in Russian Higher Education”
Toichubek Kabylov (Кабылов Тойчубек)
(Osh State University; tkabylovyahoo.com)
“Issues of Government-Based In-Service Teacher Education Programs in Kyrgyzstan: What is Needed for Improvement?”
Chair: Thomas Barfield (Boston University; barfieldbu.edu)
Discussant: Peter Perdue (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; pcperduemit.edu)
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University; jelverskmail.smu.edu)
“The Fragmented Mongol Nation of the 16th Century”
Mark C. Elliott (Harvard University; mcelliotumich.edu)
“The Mongol Subaltern: Coloniality and Nationality in the Qing”
Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn (Harvard University; buyandelmuohio.edu)
“The Spirit of My Homeland is Recalling Me: Nationalism, Landscape, and Ritual among the Buriats of Mongolia”
Eva Jane Neumann Fridman (Brown University; jonevaworldnet.att.net)
“81 Birches and a Nest of Eggs: Rebirth of Shaman Initiations in Dornod Province, Mongolia”
Michael Hall (Harvard University; mhallmuohio.edu)
“Viewing the Nation through a Fractured Lens: Regionalism in Tajikistan”
Chair: Virginia Martin (University of Alabama in Huntsville; martinviemail.uah.edu)
Discussant: Ali Asani (Harvard University; aliasanimuohio.edu)
Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey; grosstcnj.edu)
“The Islamic Shrines of Tajikistan: Preliminary Questions”
Beatrice Forbes Manz (Tufts University; beatrice.manztufts.edu)
“Sufi Circle and Tariqa in the Early Timurid Realm”
Florian Schwarz (Ruhr-Universitt Bochum; florian.schwarzruhr-uni-bochum.de)
“The Shrine of Baha'uddin Naqshband”
Habibeh Rahim (St. John's University; rahimhstjohns.edu)
“Nature Symbolism and the Spiritual Path in `Abdallah al-Ansari: Piety and Devotion as Extensions of the Cosmic Realm”
Vahe Boyajian (Yerevan State University; vaheboyajianirex.am)
“Sufi Brotherhoods in Iranian Baluchistan”
Chair: Wheeler Thackston (Harvard University; wthackstmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Nurten Kili-Schubel (Kenyon College; kilicnkenyon.edu)
Roziya Galievna Mukminova (Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences
of Uzbekistan; tarihuzsci.net)
“Social Processes of Urbanization in Medieval Central Asia”
Melanie Michailidis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; melmichmit.edu)
“A Shining Jewel: Gauhar Shad and Female Patronage in the Islamic World”
Anne Falby Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; broadbridgehistory.umass.edu)
“Mongols, Mamluks and Timur: Anachronism, Ideology and War in the Late 14th Century”
J. Audrey Burton (University of Leeds; a-burtonrapidial.co.uk)
“The Samarqand Jewish Community: A Historical Note”
Chair: Yuri Bregel (Indiana University; bregelindiana.edu)
Discussant: Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey; grosstcnj.edu)
Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University; faaznmail1.hofstra.edu)
“Christians in the Qarakhanid Domain”
Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; biranmh2.hum.huji.ac.il)
“Chinggis Khan in the Muslim World: A Reassessment”
Ron Sela (Indiana University; rselaindiana.edu)
“An Introduction to Timur's Role in Early Modern Central Asian History”
Scott Levi (University of Louisville; sclevi9earthlink.net)
“The Emerging State in 18th Century Central Asia”
Uli Schamiloglu (University of Wisconsin-Madison; uschamilwisc.edu)
“The Potato and the Kazak: The Origins of the Colonization of the Kazak Steppe (An Essay in Comparative History)”
Chair: Thomas W. Simons, Jr. (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; tsimonsmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Uli Schamiloglu (University of Wisconsin-Madison; uschamilwisc.edu)
Walter Comins-Richmond (Occidental College; richmondoxy.edu)
“Can There Be a 'Great Russian Islam'?”
Suzanne Wertheim (Northwestern University; wertheimnorthwestern.edu)
“The De-Russification and Re-Arabicization of Modern Tatar”
Helen Faller (University of Michigan; hmfallerumich.edu)
“(Re)construcing Kul Sharif: Building a Nation without a State”
Olessia Vovina (Seton Hall University; ovovinaattglobal.net)
“Tatars in Chuvashia: Religious Identity and Sacred Space on the Crossroads of Ethnic Traditions”
Alisher Khamidov (University of Notre Dame; akhamidond.edu)
“Threat of Islamic Extremism in Kyrgyzstan: A Self Fulfilling Prophecy?”
Chair: Shahla Haeri (Boston University; shaeribu.edu)
Discussant: Nayereh Tohidi (California State University-Northridge; nayereh.tohidicsun.edu)
Nurten Kili-Schubel (Kenyon College; kilicnkenyon.edu)
“Gulbadan Begum's 'Humayun-nama': The Role of Women in Dynastic Politics”
Marianne Kamp (University of Wyoming; mkampuwyo.edu)
“Before the Soviets, Women Did Not Work in the Fields”
Chiara De Santi (European University Institute, Florence; chiara.desantiiue.it)
“Terror in Central Asia during the 1920s: Between the Emancipation of Women and the Muslim Tradition”
Daria Fane (U.S. Department of State; fanedmstate.gov)
“Women in Afghanistan: Lessons from Central Asia in the 1920s-30s”
Sakena Yacoobi (Afghan Institute of Learning; sakenayaol.com)
“Empowering and Educating Afghan Women”
Chair: Nur Yalman (Harvard University; yalman1muohio.edu)
Discussant: Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; alknyshumich.edu)
Christian Dettmering (Freie Universitt Berlin (Free University of Berlin);
christian.dettmeringgrude.de)
“The Differences in the Political Role of Sufi Islam among Chechens and Ingushes in the 19th Century”
Irina Leonidovna Babich (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow; cipddiea.ras.ru)
“Policy on Religion in the North Caucasus: Islam and Christianity”
Alla Ter-Sarkissiants (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow; cipddiea.ras.ru)
“Christianity in Armenia and Its Role in the Preservation of Armenian Society”
Chen Bram (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; chenbmscc.huji.ac.il)
“Re-Islamization and Ethno-Nationalism: The Case of the Circassians (Adyghe) of the Northwest Caucasus”
Chair: Beatrice Forbes Manz (Tufts University; beatrice.manztufts.edu)
Discussant: Elizabeth Bishop (The American University in Cairo; bishopaucegypt.edu)
Munira Shahidi (Ziyodullo Shahidi Museum of Musical Culture, Fonus Journal,
Dushanbe; munira_shahidiyahoo.com)
“Correcting Misinterpretations of the Cultural History of Central Asia”
Rahilya Geybullayeva (Literary Institute, Azerbaijan National Academy
of Sciences; rahilya_ghotmail.com)
“Cultural Dominants of Azerbaijani Literature”
Bert Beynen (Des Moines Area Community College; gkbeynendmacc.edu)
“Hospitality and Altruism: The Beginnings of Shota Rustaveli's Vepxist'q'aosani”
Jazira Asanova (Independent Scholar (Toronto); jaziraaaol.com)
“Nation-Building and Literature in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Poetics and Politics”
Chair: William R. Darrow (Williams College; wdarrowwilliams.edu)
Discussant: Nazif Shahrani (Indiana University; shahraniindiana.edu)
Lygzima Chaloupkova (Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague;
chaloupkorient.cas.cz)
“The Amarbayasgalant Monastery in Mongolia: Past and Present”
Narantuya Danzan (Mongolian University of Science and Technology, School
of Humanitarian Science, Ulaanbaatar; dnaran608yahoo.com)
“Religious Changes among Mongols”
Vernon James Schubel (Kenyon College; schubelkenyon.edu)
“From Kızılbaş to Alevilik: The Legacy of Tarikat Shi'ism in Contemporary Anatolia”
Farideh Heyat (American University-Central Asia, Bishkek; fh1soas.ac.uk)
“Re-Islamisation in Kyrgyzstan: Gender, New Poverty and the Moral Dimension”
Sbastien Peyrouse (French Institute for Central Asia Studies (IFEAC),
Tashkent; sebpeyrouseyahoo.com)
“Between Atheism and Islam: Christians in Post-Soviet Central Asia”
Chair: Sean Pollock (Harvard University; smpollocmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Vernon James Schubel (Kenyon College; schubelkenyon.edu)
Heleanor Beth Feltham (Powerhouse Museum / University of Technology,
Sydney; heleanor.felthamuts.edu.au)
“Tracking the Lion”
Hiromi Kinoshita (木下弘美) (University of Oxford;
omikonebox.com)
“Golden Crowns of the Liao Khitan Elite (907-1125)”
Frederick De Jong (Utrecht University; frederick.dejonglet.uu.nl)
“Islam in the Middle Volga Region as Reflected in 19th and Early 20th Century Shamayil”
Marina Tolmacheva (Washington State University; tolmachewsu.edu)
“Writing Kyrgyz History: Historiography in the Year of Kyrgyz Statehood”
Chad D. Thompson (Civic Education Project / Aga Khan Humanities Project,
Dushanbe; thompson.akhptajnet.com)
“The Science of Terror, the Art of Tolerance”
Chair: Marina Tolmacheva (Washington State University; tolmachewsu.edu)
Discussant: Terry Martin (Harvard University; martin11muohio.edu)
Robert V. Barylski (University of South Florida; barylskisar.usf.edu)
“The New Tatar Historiography: Challenging Slavic-Russian Tradition”
Azim Malikov (Samarkand State University; kungrat2002yahoo.com)
“Some Observations on the Identity of Rural Uzbeks of Samarkand Province of Uzbekistan in the 20th Century”
Tomohiko Uyama (Hokkaido University, Sapporo; uyamaslav.hokudai.ac.jp)
“Why Did the Russian Empire Avoid Conscripting Central Asians?: An Aspect of the Failed Policy of Russification”
Vincent Fourniau (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS),
Paris; vfourniauwanadoo.fr)
“Self Identification, Historical Discourse and the Notions of Open and Continental States in the Rewritten History of Ex-Soviet Central Asian Countries: A Comparative Study”
Chair: Vincent Fourniau (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris; vfourniauwanadoo.fr)
Discussant: Theodore Levin (Dartmouth College; tlevindartmouth.edu)
Vika Gardner (University of Michigan; vikaumich.edu)
“Is Listening to Music (Sam') Allowed in the Naqshbandiyya/Khwjagn: A 16th Century Answer in Mawarannahr”
Anna Oldfield Şenarslan (University of Wisconsin-Madison; aosenarslanwisc.edu)
“Narrative Time and Travel: The Multiple Worlds of Aşık Garip”
Hlne Perrin-Wagner (Harvard University; hperrinmuohio.edu)
“The Literature of Adab and the Rediscovery of Social Etiquette in Post-Soviet Central Asia, 1991-2002: How Best to Redefine Human Relationships”
Ghilyana Dordzhieva (St. Petersburg State University for Culture and
Art; ghilyanamail.ru)
“Musical traditions of Kalmyks: comparative observation”
Chair: Ablet Kamalov (Institute for Oriental Studies, Kazakh Academy of Science / Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty; abletkyahoo.com)
Discussant: Sheila Blair (Boston College; blairshbc.edu)
Zahra N. Jamal (Harvard University; jamalmuohio.edu)
“Material Faith: Architectural Embodiments of Religious Belief in Tajik Badakhshan”
Attilio Petruccioli (Politecnico di Bari, Como; petruccioliyahoo.com)
“Architecture in the Image of the King: Timurid Re-planning of Bukhara and Samarkand”
Christiane Gruber (University of Pennsylvania; cjgrubersas.upenn.edu)
“Illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascension (Mi'raj) in 15th Century Central Asian Painting”
Elizabeth Bishop (The American University in Cairo; bishopaucegypt.edu)
“Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Azerbaijan's National Literature”
Nariman Skakov (Kazakh State University named after Al-Farabi, Almaty;
narimanskakovhotmail.com)
“Moral Imagination: Sufi Lore and Holistic Manifestations”
Chair: Pamela Kachurin (Harvard University; kachurinmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Michael Rouland (Georgetown University; roulandmgeorgetown.edu)
Vida Johnson (Tufts University; vjohnsontufts.edu)
“National Cinemas in an Era of Globalization: The Rediscovery of National Identity, Language, Space (Territory) and Culture in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Its Borderlands”
Jane Knox-Voina (Bowdoin College; jknoxbowdoin.edu)
“Central Asian and Siberian Film as National Allegory”
Yusup Razykov (Uzbekfilm, Tashkent; uzbekfilmbuzton.com)
“New Cinema in Uzbekistan”
Nora Armani (London School of Economics and Political Science; n.armanilse.ac.uk)
“Armenian National Identity in Paradjanov's 'The Color of Pomegranates'”
Chair: Jay Dautcher (University of Pennsylvania; dautchersas.upenn.edu)
Discussant: Shoshana Keller (Hamilton College; skellerhamilton.edu)
Zahra Faridany-Akhavan (Georgia State University; zfakhavanaol.com)
“Ab o Rang az Farang: Orientalism in Afghanistan: Survey, Romance or Espionage?”
Ali Igmen (University of Washington; igmenu.washington.edu)
“Finding History in Chingiz Aitmatov's Fiction: Soviet Era Kyrgyzstan”
Nouchine Yavari d'Hellencourt (French Centre for Scientific Research
(CNRS); aedeiclub-internet.fr)
“New Identity Conflicts in Tajikistan”
Tsetsenbileg Tseveen (Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Mongolian
Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar; tsetsenbilegyahoo.com)
“The Creation of National Identities of Mongols”
Chair: C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (Harvard University; karlovskmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Philip L. Kohl (Wellesley College; pkohlwellesley.edu)
Fredrik T. Hiebert (University of Pennsylvania / University of Pennsylvania
Museum; hiebertsas.upenn.edu)
“Defining the Southern Boundary of Central Asia in the Past”
Mark Topliss (Independent Scholar (Kieler, Wisc.); toplissmarkdhotmail.com)
“Re-evaluating Civilization's Impact on the Origins of the Karez/Qanat Irrigations Systems”
William W. Fitzhugh (Smithsonian Institution; fitzhugh.williamnmnh.si.edu)
“Northern Mongolia and its Arctic and North Pacific Relations”
Mikls rdy (Independent Scholar (New York); erdy88hotmail.com)
“An Analysis of Eight Archaeological Links between the Xiongnu and the Huns Supported by Four Written Sources”
Ahmadali Asqarov (Tashkent State Education Institute; nfizmatnarod.ru)
“The Ethnogenesis of Turkic Peoples of Central Asia: The Role of Patriotism and Nationalism in Its Interpretation”
Chair: Erika H. Gilson (Princeton University; ehgilsonprinceton.edu)
Discussant: Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University; cboeckxmuohio.edu)
Glşat Aygen (Reed College; gulsat.aygenreed.edu)
“The Contribution of Turkic Languages to Syntactic Theory: What Kazakh and Tuvan Indicate about Universal Grammar”
Kerim Demirci (University of Wisconsin-Madison; kerimdemirciyahoo.com)
“Aspect and Grammaticalisation in Kazakh Descriptive Verbs”
Karl Adam Peet (Harvard University; karl_peetksg05.harvard.edu)
“Effects of Perceptual Constraints in Turkic Cluster Alternations”
Moderator: Mica Hall (Medina Joint Language Center; micamyshkayahoo.com)
Dolkun Kamberi (Radio Free Asia; kamberidrfa.org)
“The Study of Medieval Uyghur Manuscript 'Maitrisimit'”
Radha Raina (Independent Scholar (Gugaon); radharainasify.com)
“Through the Mountain Corridors: Cross-Cultural Interaction, India and Central Asia”
Izabella Horvath (Independent Scholar (Skokie, Ill.); ihorvath3cs.com)
“Contextual and Constructional Parallels between Mongolian Epics and Hungarian Folk Tales and Poetry”
Moderator: Virginia Martin (University of Alabama in Huntsville; martinviemail.uah.edu)
Carl Max Kortepeter (New York University; cmaxkortepeterpost.harvard.edu)
“Complex Goals of the Ottomans, Persians and Muscovites in the Caucasus, 1578-1639”
Aysegun Soysal (Bogazici University, Istanbul; gsoysalsuperonline.com)
“Sunni-Shia Conflict in Bukhara in 1910: A Tatar Perspective”
Dina Doubrovskaia (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow; distanzamok.net)
“Notes on Russian Orientalism Concerning the Conquests in Central Asia”
Mikhail S. Zeldovich (Dewey Ballantine, LLP; mzeldovichdbllp.com)
“The Deluge: Volga Bulgaria and the Mongol Invasion”
Anie Kalayjian (United Nations / Fordham University; kalayjianaaol.com)
“Generational Impact of Mass Trauma: The Post-Ottoman Turkish Genocide of the Armenians”
Chair: Gregory Gleason (University of New Mexico; gleasongunm.edu)
Discussant: Philip Nichols (University of Pennsylvania; nicholspwharton.upenn.edu)
Artie McConnell (George Washington University Law School; artiemcconnellhotmail.com)
“Secession, Intervention, and Multilateralism: International Legal Perspectives on the Abkhazian War”
Peter Maggs (University of Illinois College of Law; p-maggsuiuc.edu)
“The Civil Codes of Central Eurasia: A Comparison”
Ainash Alpeissova (Independent Scholar (Cambridge, Mass.); ainash_alpeissovapost.harvard.edu)
“Problems of Tax Administration of Bilateral Tax Treaties in Kazakhstan”
Eric Sievers (Baker and McKenzie; eric.w.sieversbakernet.com)
“From Watergate to Kazakhgate”
Chair: Michael Maya (American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI); mmayaabaceeli.org)
Carolyn Clark Campbell (American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), Tbilisi; carolynccyahoo.com)
Christopher E. Krafchak (American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), Almaty; ckrafchaknursat.kz)
Richard Paton (American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), Tashkent; rpatonabaceeli.uz)
John Porter (American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), Baku; raportfreeyahoo.com)
Heidi B. Silvey (American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), Yerevan; heidiabaceeli.am)
Chair: Lena Jonson (Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm; lenajonsonui.se)
Discussant: Charles Fairbanks (Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute; veilleuraol.com)
Leila Alieva (Center for National and International Studies, Baku; leilaliaol.com)
“Security Challenges in the Caucasus after 2001”
Roy Allison (University of Oxford; rallisonriia.org)
“Regional Security and Defense Cooperation in Central Asia: The Limits of Multilateral Cooperation”
Annette Bohr (University of Manchester; a.bohriname.com)
“Regional Cooperation and the New Strategic Order in Central Asia”
Pavel K. Baev (International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo;
pavelprio.no)
“The Interplay between Caspian Energy and Caucasian Security in Russia's Policies”
Edmund Herzig (University of Manchester; edmund.herzigman.ac.uk)
“Regionalism in Iranian Foreign Policy: Concepts and Initiatives in Relations with Central Asia, 1991-2003”
Chair: Monica Toft (Harvard University; mtoftcfia.harvard.edu)
Discussant: John B. Dunlop (Hoover Institution; dunlophoover.stanford.edu)
Bruno Coppieters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel; bruno.coppietersvub.ac.be)
“Secession and War: A Moral Analysis of the Russian-Chechen Conflict”
Miriam Lanskoy (National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C.;
miriamlned.org)
“Chechen Terrorism: What Do We Know? How Do We Know It?”
Brian Glyn Williams (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; bwilliamsumassd.edu)
“Jihad or Secessionist Struggle? The Role of Al Qaeda and Transnational Holy Warriors in the Russo-Chechen Conflicts”
Beate Maeder-Metcalf (German Foreign Ministry; beate.maeder-metcalfdiplo.de)
“Chechnya: Prospects for a Peace Settlement”
Chair: Richard Morningstar (Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; richardmorningyahoo.com)
Ben Dunlap (Boston College Law School; dunlapbebc.edu)
Brenda Shaffer (Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; brenda_shafferharvard.edu)
Seymour Khalilov (U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce; skhalilovusacc.org)
Carol R. Saivetz (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; saivetzmuohio.edu)
Chair: John F. Richards (Duke University; richardsduke.edu)
Discussant: Nigel Allan (University of California-Davis; njrallanucdavis.edu)
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University; hanif2smjmu.edu)
“Revisiting the 19th Century Afghan Economy”
Thomas Barfield (Boston University; barfieldbu.edu)
“The Central Government and Regional Power in Afghanistan”
Senzil Nawid (University of Arizona; nawidemail.arizona.edu)
“Afghanistan and the Basmachi Movement: Conflicting National Interests in Central Asia”
Robert Canfield (Washington University; canfrobtartsci.wustl.edu)
“Trouble in Birgilich: Trials of a Hazara Sayyed Family”
Markus Mller (Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC); markus_mullerkgyahoo.com)
“Building a Potemkin Democracy in Afghanistan?: Actual Risks of State-building”
Chair: Hayg Oshagan (Wayne State University; h.oshaganwayne.edu)
Discussant: Dikran Kaligian (Boston College; dikran.kaligianstate.ma.us)
Khatchik DerGhoukassian (University of Miami; khatchikdhotmail.com)
“War, Globalization and State Formation in the Caucasus: A Theoretical Approach”
Anna Ohanyan (Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; anna_ohanyanksg.harvard.edu)
“Globalizing or Localizing? The Case of Policy Diffusion in the Microcredit Sector of the Caucasus and Central Asia”
Richard Giragosian (U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center and School;
giragosimsn.com)
“Geopolitics and the Formation of Foreign Policy in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia”
Razmik Panossian (London School of Economics and Political Science;
r.s.panossianlse.ac.uk)
“The End of Nationalist Politics in the South Caucasus?”
Asbed Kotchikian (Boston University; asbedhotmail.com)
“The Domestic and Regional Dynamics of the Georgian Foreign Policy”
Chair: James Critchlow (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; jimcritchearthlink.net)
Discussant: Eric McGlinchey (Iowa State University; mcglinstanford.edu)
Julie George (University of Texas-Austin; jageorge_98yahoo.com)
“Federalism and Ethnic Separatism: Comparing Georgian and Russian Experiences”
Amanda Wooden (Northeastern Illinois University; a-woodenneiu.edu)
“Environmental Policy and the Sequence of Political and Economic Reform in the Caucasus and Central Asia”
Daniel R. Kempton (Northern Illinois University; dkemptonniu.edu)
and Laman Rzayeva (Northern Illinois University; laman_rzayevayahoo.com)
“A Preliminary Comparative Study of Post-Soviet Operational Codes: V. Putin, H. Aliev and N. Nazarbayev”
Christoph Stefes (University of Colorado at Denver; cstefescarbon.cudenver.edu)
“New Faces in Post-Soviet Politics - Does It Really Matter?”
Chair: Dan Burghart (National War College / National Defense University; burghartdlaol.com)
Discussant: Tiffany Petros (DFI Government Services; tpetrosdfi-intl.com)
Olga Oliker (RAND Corporation; olikerrand.org)
“Power Lines: Russia's Relations with the States of Post-Soviet Central Asia”
Jennifer D. P. Moroney (RAND Corporation; jennifermoroneyhotmail.com)
“US and European Security Cooperation in Central Asia and the Caspian”
Rollie Lal (RAND Corporation; rollierand.org)
“Complex Ties: South Asia and Central Asia”
Sergej Mahnovski (RAND Corporation; sergejrand.org)
“Prospects for Economic Growth and Implications for Stability in Post-Soviet Central Asia”
Theresa Sabonis-Helf (National War College / National Defense University;
sabonishelftndu.edu)
“Competition in the Caspian: Its Implications for Energy and Environmental Security”
Chair: Nick Megoran (University of Cambridge; nwm20cam.ac.uk)
Discussant: Adrienne Edgar (University of California-Santa Barbara; edgarhistory.ucsb.edu)
Katrina Akiko Swendseid (University of Oregon; kswendsedarkwing.uoregon.edu)
“Identity and the Turkic Male Image, 5th-11th Centuries CE”
Michael Rouland (Georgetown University; roulandmgeorgetown.edu)
“Culture, Korenizatsiia and Kazakstan, 1920-1936”
Stuart Horsman (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London; stuart.horsmanfco.gov.uk)
“Pik Communism: The Politics and Propaganda of Soviet Mountains and Mountaineering”
Michael Denison (University of Leeds; ipimjdleeds.ac.uk)
“'Are They Laughing at Us?' Strategies of Compliance and Resistance to the Leadership Cult in Contemporary Turkmenistan”
Chair: Paula Newberg (International Consultant; prnewbergaol.com)
Charity Fain (National Democratic Institute, Washington, D.C.; cfainndi.org)
Terry Horton (National Democratic Institute, Washington, D.C.; thortonndi.org)
Katie Fox (National Democratic Institute, Washington, D.C.; kfoxndi.org)
Miriam Lanskoy (National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C.; miriamlned.org)
Chair: Catherine Poujol (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris; cpoujol34wanadoo.fr)
Discussant: James Jongsoo Lee (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; jamesleepost.harvard.edu)
Yonggyu Lee (Harvard University; lee17muohio.edu)
“Qubilai (1260-1294), Qaishan (1307-1311), and the Imperial Guards”
Iain Lauchlan (Oxford University, St. Cross College; iain_lauchlanyahoo.com)
“The Tail that Wagged the Dog: Stalinism and Security Police in the Caucasus, 1917-1934”
Nigmet Ibadildin (Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and
Strategic Research under the President of Kazakhstan (KIMEP), Almaty; nigmetkimep.kz)
“Oil and Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan”
Slawomir Redo (United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention,
Vienna; slawomirredo.net)
“Organized Crime and Its Control in Central Asia”
Chair: Meryem Kırımlı (Cankaya University, Ankara; kirimlicankaya.edu.tr)
Discussant: Paula Newberg (International Consultant; prnewbergaol.com)
Yudru Tsomu (Harvard University; hjinmuohio.edu)
“The 35 Articled Tibetan Military Regulatory Document Promulgated by the Tibetan Government in 1950”
Drew Green (Carleton University; agreen66hotmail.com)
“Threat Definition as a Communicative Medium for Nation-Building in Karimov's Uzbekistan”
Carol J. Riphenburg (College of DuPage; riphenbucdnet.cod.edu)
“The Politics of Contestation in Afghanistan: Warlords, Ethnic Rivalry, and State”
Marina Kozlova (Independent Scholar (Tashkent); marinakonline.ru)
“The Terrorist Threat and Freedom in Uzbekistan”
Erika Iskakova (University of Bremen, Graduate School of Social Sciences;
erica_maratyahoo.com)
“Parliamentary and Civil Control over Military Forces in Kyrgyzstan”
Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow (Harvard University; tarlowmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Robert M. Cutler (Carleton University, Institute of European and Russian Studies; rmcalum.mit.edu)
Avinoam Idan (University of Haifa; avdannetvision.net.il)
“Landlocked Caspian States: The Impact of Geography on Foreign Policy”
Gkhan etinsaya (Istanbul Technical University; cetinsayagitu.edu.tr)
“Caucasia in the Ottoman Press: The Case of the Basiret Newspaper, 1875-1878”
Takeshi Yuasa (National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo; tynids.go.jp)
“Russian Engagement Policy toward Central Asia, 1992-2002”
Per Normark (University of Kent at Canterbury; pnormarkosce.sand.uz)
“Russian Threat Perception in the Caucasus”
Chair: Timothy Colton (Harvard University; tcoltonmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Virginie Coulloudon (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague; coulloudonvrferl.org)
Jamilya T. Ukudeeva (Cabrillo College; jaukudeecabrillo.edu)
“Socio-Economic Stratification and Its Effects on the Level of Political Mobilization”
Lyubov Viktorovna Chapurina (UNDP Kazakhstan, Astana; lyubov.chapurinaundp.org)
“Parliamentary Development in Central Asian Countries: Ten Years of Experience”
Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Central European University, Budapest; pphsoe01phd.ceu.hu)
“Building Responsive Institutions in the Northern Caucasus: Local Governments and Informal Power Structures in Ingushetia and Chechnya”
Nayereh Tohidi (California State University-Northridge; nayereh.tohidicsun.edu)
“The Gender Dimension of Democratization in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan”
Pinar Akali (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; akcalimetu.edu.tr)
“Democracy and Political Stability: Central Asian Dilemmas”
Chair: Andrew Hess (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; andrew.hesstufts.edu)
Discussant: Kathleen Collins (University of Notre Dame; kcollinsnd.edu)
Wendin Davis Smith (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy / Booz
Allen Hamilton; smith_wendinbah.com)
“Security in the Central Asian Environment: The Role of Civic Actors”
Mariya A. Kravkova (Independent Scholar / Booz Allen Hamilton Energy
Practice, Washington, D.C.; kravkova_mariyabah.com)
“International Legal Non-Proliferation Regime and Central Asian States”
Togzhan Kassenova (University of Leeds, Institute for Politics and International
Studies; ipitokleeds.ac.uk)
“Dangers of WMD and WMD Materials Proliferation in Central Asia”
Chair: Carol R. Saivetz (Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies/American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; saivetzmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Brenda Shaffer (Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; brenda_shafferharvard.edu)
Lena Jonson (Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm;
lenajonsonui.se)
“Central Asia: From Russian Backyard to Global Frontyard: Implications for Russian Policy”
Mohiaddin Mesbahi (Florida International University; mesbahimfiu.edu)
“Conceptual Foundations of Iranian Foreign Policy in Central Asia”
Abdulkader Sinno (Indiana University; abdulsinno.com)
“State-Building by Outsiders: Can the US Create a Stable Client Regime Based on Participatory Institutions in Afghanistan?”
Tun Aybak (Middlesex University, London; t.aybakmdx.ac.uk)
“Turkey and Russia in the Black Sea Region: Rivals or Partners?”
Oksana Antonenko (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London;
antonenkoiiss.org)
“Transatlantic Contradictions in the Central Asian Region”
Chair: Sergei Gretsky (U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute / Georgetown University; gretskysmsn.com)
Discussant: Mohiaddin Mesbahi (Florida International University; mesbahimfiu.edu)
Stefan Bastian Kirmse (University of London, School of Oriental and
African Studies; stefikmail.ru)
“Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia: The Link between Conflict and Institutional Settings”
Jonathan Eastvold (Princeton University; eastvoldprinceton.edu)
“Charming the Hydra: Assessing Islamist Militancy in the Ferghana Valley”
Elena Vladislavovna Ryabova (Independent Scholar (Moscow); elena_ryabovayahoo.com)
“Revival of Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia: Is the Danger Real?”
Kathleen Collins (University of Notre Dame; kcollinsnd.edu)
“Hizb ut-Tahrir: Understanding Islamic Networks and Mobilization”
Chair: Regina Faranda (U.S. Department of State, Office of Research; rfarandapd.state.gov)
Discussant: Pavel K. Baev (International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo; pavelprio.no)
Carolyn Kissane (Cimera US / Colgate University; cmk32columbia.edu)
“The De-Politization of History Education in Kazakhstan: Talk and Reality”
Luigi De Martino (Cimera CH, Geneva; luigi.demartinocimera.org)
“Supporting Political Dialogue in Tajikistan: The Case of Center-Regions Relations”
Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov (Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography
of the Daghestan Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, Makhachkala;
mmmdatacom.ru)
“Daghestan on the Way towards Civil Society: Under Ethnic Unity, across Russian Model or over Selected Values?”
Dana Burde (Cimera US / Columbia University; dsb33columbia.edu)
and Carine Bachmann (Cimera CH; carine.bachmanncimera.org)
“Citizenship as an Instrument of Social Closure: A Comparative Study of Popular Conceptions of Citizenship in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan”
Luise Druke (UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) / University of Schumen; ldruke1yahoo.com)
“Developing the Refugee Regimes in Central Eurasia”
Chair: Tomohiko Uyama (Hokkaido University, Sapporo; uyamaslav.hokudai.ac.jp)
Discussant: Martha Brill Olcott (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; molcottceip.org)
Nurbulat Masanov (Kazakhstan Association of Political Science, Almaty;
edigerambler.ru)
“Political Developments in Sovereign Kazakhstan”
Zauresh Battalova (Kazakh Parliament; battalovakub.kz)
“Parliamentary Democracy vs. Authoritarian Regime”
Dinissa Duvanova (Ohio State University; duvanova.1osu.edu)
“Political Prisoners in Kazakhstan as an Indicator of Authoritarian Consolidation
and Changing Social Dimension of Regime's Opposition”
Rachid Nougmanov (Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan; rnkub.kz)
“Virtual Democracy: The Face Behind a Thousand Masks”
Chair: Roy Allison (University of Oxford; rallisonriia.org)
Stuart Horsman (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London; stuart.horsmanfco.gov.uk)
Beate Maeder-Metcalf (German Foreign Ministry; beate.maeder-metcalfdiplo.de)
Takeshi Yuasa (National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo; tynids.go.jp)
Oksana Antonenko (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; antonenkoiiss.org)
Thomas W. Simons, Jr. (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; tsimonsmuohio.edu)
Moderator: Annette Bohr (University of Manchester; a.bohriname.com)
Valeria Fiorani Piacentini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,
Milan; valeria.piacentiniunicatt.it)
“Central Asia: A Multi-Dimensional, Collective and Cooperative Security System”
Payam Foroughi (The University of Utah; payamforoughiaol.com)
“The Political Economy of Central Asia: Concepts, Hypotheses, and Forecast”
Eric A. Miller (National Institute for Public Policy; eric.millernipp.org)
“Bringing the Leader Back In: Alignment Patterns in the Former Soviet Union”
Stephen Maly (Independent Scholar (Helena, Mont.); lightbrigadeonewest.net)
and Ernest "Ric" Bridwell (Montana National Guard; brid1hotmail.com)
“Big Sky/Silk Road: Montanans' Mission to Kyrgyzstan”
Elin Suleymanov (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University;
elin.suleymanovtufts.edu)
“National Security Thinking in Azerbaijan: Coherent Policy without Systematic Process”
Moderator: Morgan Y. Liu (Harvard University; mliumuohio.edu)
Arthur Drampian (Urban Institute; artdramphotmail.com)
“Local Self-Government and Decentralization Reforms in Armenia”
John Anderson (University of St. Andrews; jpast-and.ac.uk)
“Coping with Otherness: Dealing with Religious Minorities in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan”
Eric Lepisto (Columbia University, GSAS / Teachers College; ejlepistoyahoo.com)
“Ten Years of Democratization and Development in Azerbaijan: Lessons and Cross-Cutting Issues”
Nataliya Pushak (Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental
Affairs; npushakindiana.edu)
“Attitude of Ukrainians towards Not-for-Profit Organizations: Crimea in Comparison to the Rest of Ukraine”
Pascal Raymond Aim Bulliard (Institute of Federalism, Fribourg; pascal.bulliardunifr.ch)
“The Central Asian and Caucasian Countries and Switzerland: The Role of "Helvetistan"”
Moderator: Amanda Wooden (Northeastern Illinois University; a-woodenneiu.edu)
Elena S. Gvozdeva (Institute of Economics and IE, Siberian Branch of
the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk; elena_gvozdevamail.ru)
“The Role of Young Leaders in Sustainable Development of Siberia”
Eric McGlinchey (Iowa State University; mcgliniastate.edu)
“Torment or Transformation? The Future of Opposition Movements in Central Asia”
Aysegul Kozak (Minnesota University; koza0022umn.edu)
and Gulseren Kozak-Isik (Minnesota University; isik0005umn.edu)
“Welfare State and Gender: New Directions in Reshaping Welfare Policy in the Post-Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan”
Elvira Ganeeva (National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent; elviraalbatros.uz)
“Ethnic Tolerance among Social Groups in Uzbekistan”
Naida Khalilova (Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental
Affairs; nkhaliloindiana.edu)
“Democratically Sustainable Development in Azerbaijan through the Educating of Non-governmental Organizations”
Moderator: Bruno Coppieters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel; bruno.coppietersvub.ac.be)
A. Kayyum Kesici (Gebze Institute of Technology; akesicigyte.edu.tr)
“The Ideal of Turar Ryskulov, A Turkestani Bolshevik Leader, on Panturkism and Kemalism”
Enayatollah Yazdani (The Australian National University, Canberra; enayatollah.yazdanianu.edu.au)
“Central Asian International Relations in the Post-Soviet Era: The Case of the United States”
Sairee Chahal (Confederation of Indian Industry and Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi; saireechahalhotmail.com)
“India-Central Asia Relations: The Road Ahead”
Havva Kk (University of Mersin, Ankara; hvkokyahoo.com)
“An Examination of Turkish Foreign Policy by Using Miles and Snow's Organizational Culture Typology”
Taleh Ziyadov (Beloit College; talehziyadov.com)
“The Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline and Its Potential Impact on Turkish-Russian Relations”
Moderator: Asbed Kotchikian (Boston University; asbedhotmail.com)
Nilgn Dalkesen (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; dalkesenhotmail.com)
“Safavid Propaganda in Anatolia during 15th and 16th Centuries”
Hsiao-ting Lin (University of Oxford; hsiao-ting.linstx.ox.ac.uk)
“Reassessing the 1947 Coup in Tibet”
Meryem Kırımlı (Cankaya University, Ankara; kirimlicankaya.edu.tr)
“The Roots of 'Eastern Turkestani' Resistance to the Chinese Authority”
Elvira Mamytova (Research Centre Eurasia, Bishkek; elviranetkey.bishkek.su)
“Religious, Ethnic and Clan Aspects of Conflicts in Central Asia”
Zumrat Salmorbekova (Center for Social Cooperation, Bishkek; zsalmorbfreenet.kg)
“Central Asia: Social Issues in the Ferghana Valley”
Reto Weyermann (Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern; reto.weyermannswisspeace.unibe.ch)
“Tajikistan: A Good Case for Political Power-Sharing?”
Benjamin Jensen (American University; benjamin_jensenyahoo.com)
“Horizontal Inequalities in the Chechen Conflict: An Analysis of Structural Conflict Typologies”
Chair: Gnl Pultar (Bilkent University, Ankara; gonulbilkent.edu.tr)
Discussant: Alanna Cooper (Harvard University, Center for World Religions; alannaecooperhotmail.com)
Andrew J. Brown (Colby College; ajbrowncolby.edu)
“Germans in Germany and Germans in Kazakhstan: A Eurasian Volk in the Twilight of Diaspora”
Gulnara Malbagarovna Mendikulova (Institute of History and Ethnology
of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education, Almaty;
gmendikulovahotmail.com)
“Some Problems of Adaptation of the Kazakh Repatriates (Oralmans) in Contemporary Kazakhstan”
Sascha Goluboff (Washington and Lee University; goluboffswlu.edu)
“'Mama Will Not Be Able to Bear It; She Will Kill Herself': Female Tradition and Resistance in Mountain Jewish Funeral Practices”
Hillary Colter (University of Oregon; h_colteryahoo.com)
“From Bukhara to Queens: The Diasporic Experience of Uzbekistani Jews”
Tatiana Garakani (Columbia University, Teachers College; tg124columbia.edu)
“Living on the Margins: A Case Study of Afghan Refugees in Iran”
Chair: Gerard J. Libaridian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; j1378att.net)
Discussant: Peter Sinnott (Columbia University, Harriman Institute; pjs7columbia.edu)
Gulnar Kendirbai (Columbia University, Harriman Institute; gulnarfreenet.kz)
“Urbanizing the Steppe: Kazak Nomads in Russian Colonial Cities”
Don Dines (Indiana University; dondineshotmail.com)
“Commissars, Nomads, and Pioneers: Russian Settlement of Iran's Gorgan Steppe and the 1916 Turkestan Revolt”
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis (Θεοχάρης
Ν. Γρηγοριάδης)
(Yale University; theocharis.grigoriadisyale.edu)
“Stalinist Deportations and Ethnic Engineering: The Case of the Greek Minority”
Dilchoda Berdieva (Miami University; berdiednmuohio.edu)
“Central Asian Migration Patterns in the Post-Soviet World and Their Implications for the Region”
Chair: Roger Owen (Harvard University; eowenmuohio.edu)
Discussant: Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College; kevin.reinhartdartmouth.edu)
Nadir zbek (Bogazici University, Istanbul; ozbeknboun.edu.tr)
“Defining the Public Sphere in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1918”
Ferdan Ergut (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; fergutmetu.edu.tr)
“Surveillance and the Public Order in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918”
Onur Yildirim (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; onuryilmetu.edu.tr)
“Immigration and the Making of the Public Sphere in the Early Turkish Republic, 1922-1935”
Tolga Koker (Hamilton College; tkokerhamilton.edu)
“Constructing Secular Public Sphere in the Early Turkish Republic, 1922-1937”
Didar Erdinc (American University in Bulgaria; didaraubg.bg)
“Creating a Public Sector in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-1938”
Chair: Edmund Herzig (University of Manchester; edmund.herzigman.ac.uk)
Discussant: Naghmeh Sohrabi (Harvard University; sohrabimuohio.edu)
Farzin Vahdat (Harvard University; vahdatmuohio.edu)
“Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary Islamic Thought in Iran: Continuities and Discontinuities”
Mirjam Knkler (Columbia University; mk2081columbia.edu)
“Advocating Women's Rights in the Language of Islamic Texts: The Tripartite Struggle for Women's Rights in Iran”
Shahla Haeri (Boston University; shaeribu.edu)
“Women and Political Leadership in Iran”
Fereydoun Safizadeh (Boston University; safibu.edu)
“Dynamics of Ethno-National Identity in Iranian Azerbaijan”
Chair: Pinar Akali (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; akcalimetu.edu.tr)
Discussant: Adam Smith Albion (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague; asalbionyahoo.com)
Babken Babajanian (London School of Economics and Political Science;
b.v.babajanianlse.ac.uk)
“Building Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia”
Ayca Ergun (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; ayermetu.edu.tr)
“Human Rights Organizations in Azerbaijan”
Leila Baishina (UNDP Kazakhstan, Almaty; leilabmail.fulbrightweb.org)
“Creation of System of Human Rights Protection and Promotion in Transitional Countries: The Experience of Kazakhstan”
Daniel John Stevens (University of London, School of Oriental and African
Studies; stevenspobox.com)
“Mahallas and NGOs in Uzbekistan: In Search of Civil Society and Synergy in Uzbekistan”
Erdin Beshimov (University of Bradford; e.beshimovbradford.ac.uk)
“Understanding the Concept of 'Social Morality' in the Context of Post-Soviet Transition”
Chair: Luise Druke (UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) / University of Schumen; ldruke1yahoo.com)
Discussant: Ayşe Gneş-Ayata (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; aayatametu.edu.tr)
Gal Raballand (Sorbonne University, Paris; graballandyahoo.com)
“Economic Integration: In Which Direction for Central Asian Countries?”
George Gavrilis (Columbia University; gg96columbia.edu)
“Policing the Periphery: Security Repertoires along Central Asian Boundaries”
Nick Megoran (University of Cambridge; nwm20cam.ac.uk)
“Danger at the Border: The Geopolitics of Fear in Uzbekistani Political Identity”
Chair: Mark Field (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; mfieldhsph.harvard.edu)
Discussant: Salmaan Keshavjee (Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; salmaanpost.harvard.edu)
Mark McEuen (Abt Associates Inc.; mark_mceuenabtassoc.com)
“A Pilot Approach to Sustainable National Health Sector Change in Kyrgyzstan”
Cheryl Cashin (Boston University, School of Public Health; ccashinbu.edu)
“A Monitoring System for the Primary Health Care in Karaganda, Kazakhstan: Information, Motivation and Performance Improvement”
Fuad Aliev (Boston University, School of Public Health; fuadbu.edu)
“Evaluating the Effect of Primary Health Care Reforms on Access to Health Care in Ferghana Province, Uzbekistan: The Role of Community-Based Surveys”
Sergei Muratov (Boston University, School of Public Health; sergmur2001mail.ru)
“Information on Drug Prices and Availability: Shifting Power to Patients”
Irina V. Campbell McKeehan (Columbia University, Harriman Institute;
ivm1columbia.edu) and Sergei
Pozdnyakov (Ukrainian Anti-Plague Research Institute, Odessa; sergeyp44hotmail.com)
and Alla M. Sherbinskaya (Ukrainian Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Kiev;
spidg.com.ua)
“A Comparison of the Social and Economic Factors Influencing the Transmission of HIV/AIDS in the Ukraine and Central Asia: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan”
Chair: Salmaan Keshavjee (Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; salmaanpost.harvard.edu)
Discussant: Laura Adams (Georgetown University; lladams2earthlink.net)
Catherine Poujol (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations
(INALCO), Paris; cpoujol34wanadoo.fr)
“Confronting Modernity and Innovations in Central Asia through Colonial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations”
Alex McKay (The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Study of the History of
Medicine at University College London; dungogalexhotmail.com)
“Political Factors in the Introduction of Western Biomedicine in Tibet”
Nancy Rosenberger (Oregon State University; nrosenbergerorst.edu)
“The Dream and Reality of NGOs in Tajikistan”
Sada Aksartova (Princeton University; sadaprinceton.edu)
“Donors and NGOs in Kyrgyzstan: Trust, Mistrust and Social Networks”
Chair: Karen Zhussanbay (Independent; zhussanbaymsn.com)
Discussant: Morgan Y. Liu (Harvard University; mliumuohio.edu)
Nikolai Mitrokhin (Memorial, Human Rights Centre, Moscow; nikolai-mitrokhinmtu-net.ru)
“Christianity and Islam in Central Asia: Religion, the State, and Human Rights”
Matthew John Spence (University of Oxford; mspencestanfordalumni.org)
“The Impact of US Democracy Promotion in Kyrgyzstan, 1991-2001”
Aizhan Mukanbetkaliyeva (Columbia University, School of Social Work;
am2247columbia.edu)
“The Impact of Foreign Aid on Health NGOs in Kazakhstan”
Alexandra Goulasarian (Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University,
Yerevan; alexandranyuyahoo.com)
“Globalization's Impact on General Education Reform: A Case Study of Armenia”
Sven Gunnar Simonsen (International Peace Research Institute (PRIO),
Oslo; sven_gprio.no)
“Ethnicizing Afghanistan?”
Chair: Michael Fischer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; mfischermit.edu)
Discussant: Douglas W. Blum (Providence College; dougblumpostoffice.providence.edu)
Ivan Sigal (Independent Scholar / Internews Central Asia, Almaty; sigalinternews.ru)
and Joshua Machleder (Independent Scholar / Internews Central Asia, Almaty;
joshinternews.kz)
“Independent Media and Alternative Narratives in Central Asia”
Zabihulla S. Saipov (Columbia University, School of International and
Public Affairs; zs2006columbia.edu)
“Uzbek Sense of Censorship: Source of Stability or Instability?”
Baasanjav Undrahbuyan (Баасанжавын
Ундрахбуян)
(Ohio University; bu322000ohio.edu)
“The Digital Divide in the Gobi Desert: Spatiality, the National Identity Collapse, and a Language Gap”
Robert Saunders (Rutgers University; robert_a_saundershotmail.com)
“Building New National Identities in Cyberspace: Cyber-Russians in the Near Abroad, the Digital Pan-Turkic Movement and State Sovereignty in the Age of the Internet”
Beth Kolko (University of Washington; bkolkou.washington.edu)
“Examining How Culture and Policy Affect the Role Internet Technologies Can Play in Central EurasiaR