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Dear Colleagues and Guests,

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 In memoriam

Dmitry Semyonov
May 12, 1986 – August 17, 2017

Dmitry was a talented young scholar and educational administrator. The author of a number of
articles on higher education reform, he was the Head of the Laboratory for University
Development of the Institute of Education at the National Research University Higher School of
Economics (HSE), and also Aide to the HSE Rector. Dmitry was a kind and generous person as
well as a promising scholar and educational leader, and he will be deeply missed by all of those
who had the privilege to work with him and to know him.

Dmitry, 31, was killed together with a friend in a tragic automobile crash while on vacation in
Thailand.

The CESS Board and membership offers heartfelt condolences to Dmitry’s family, friends and
colleagues.

Photo source: https://ioe.hse.ru/en/news/208332990.html

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 Program

18th CESS Annual Conference

October 5-8, 2017

Central Eurasian Studies Society

University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

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Contents
Program Overview ......................................................................................................................... 5
Timetable ........................................................................................................................................ 6
Keynote Speaker .......................................................................................................................... 10
Features of the Cultural Program ................................................................................................ 11
Thematic Listing of Panels ........................................................................................................... 12
Program of Sessions and Panels .................................................................................................. 15
Participants Index and Information ............................................................................................. 39
The Host Institution ..................................................................................................................... 49
Conference Committee ................................................................................................................. 49
Central Eurasian Studies Society .................................................................................................. 50
Mini-Workshops for Junior Scholars from Eurasia ...................................................................... 51
Overview Plans of the Conference Rooms .................................................................................. 52

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 Program Overview

Thursday, October 5
11:30-19:00 - Registration and Inquiries, Hub 214
14:15-16:00 - Session 1
16:15-18:00 - Session 2
Friday, October 6
08.00-18.00 - Registration and Inquiries, Hub 250
08:45-10:30 - Session 3
10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 - Session 4
12:30-14:15 - Lunch
12:30-14:15 - Cultural program / Special sessions
14:15-16:00 - Session 5
16:00-16:15 - Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 - Formal Welcoming, Awards Ceremony and Keynote Speech, HUB 160 (The
Lyceum)
18:15-20:00 – Keynote Reception, Kane Hall 225 (The Walker Ames Room)
Saturday, October 7
08.00-16.30 - Registration and Inquiries, Denny Lobby
08:45-10:30 - Session 6
10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 - Session 7
12:30-14:15 - Lunch
12:30-14:15 - Cultural Program
14:15-16:00 - Session 8
16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break
16:30-18:15 - Presidential Plenary Panel, Kane Hall 210
18:15-18:45 - CESS Business Meeting, Kane Hall 210
18:45-20:00 - Wine & Cheese Reception, Kane Hall 225 (The Walker Ames Room)
Sunday, October 8
08:00-11:00 - Registration and Inquiries, Denny Lobby
08:45-10:30 - Session 9
10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 - Session 10

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Timetable ♦ Thursday and Friday
HUB 334 HUB 145 HUB 214 HUB 238 HUB 307 HUB 332 HUB 337 HUB 340

Session 1 HI-16 ♦ (p. Error! AN-01 ♦ (p. 15) CU-01 ♦ (p. Error! SO-01 ♦ (p. Error! HI-01 ♦ (p. Error! EN-01 ♦ (p. Error! LA-01 ♦ (p. Error!
Thursday Bookmark not Contemporary Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not
October 5 defined.) Uyghur Society: defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.)
14:15-16:00
19th and Early 20th C Tradition and The Cultures and Informal Practices in Nomads and Empire Energy and Ecology Legality in Russia and
History Transformation Languages of the Education and Central Asia
Caucasus Healthcare in Post-
Communist States

Session 2 SC-02 ♦ (p. Error! IR-01 ♦ (p. Error! LI-01 ♦ (p. Error! SO-02 ♦ (p. 17) HI-03 ♦ (p. Error! PO-01 ♦ (p. Error!
Thursday Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Islamic Practices and Bookmark not Bookmark not
October 5 defined.) defined.) defined.) Entrepreneurship in defined.) defined.)
16:15-18:00
Roundtable: Bridging Environmental Caucasian Languages Russia Source Analysis for Mongolia’s
Central Asian and Preservation in the Mongol Empire Engagement in
Caucasus Area Central Asia Central Eurasia
Studies

Session 3 PO-03 ♦ (p. Error! AN-03 ♦ (p. Error! PO-02 ♦ (p. Error! LI-02 ♦ (p. Error! SO-03 ♦ (p. Error! HI-05 ♦ (p. Error! ED-01 ♦ (p. Error! CU-02 ♦ (p. Error!
Friday Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not
October 6 defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.) defined.)
8:45 -10:30
Roundtable: Burial Traditions and Innovations as the Cultural Contact and Roundtable: Socio- Central Asian Oral Post-Independence Religious Identity and
Tamerlane Revisited: Cultural Identity in Instruments of Diachronic Change in political Activism in Histories: Everyday Higher Education in Cultural Practices in
The New Edition of Central Asia Increasing Public Turkic Languages Central Asia: Gender, Life, Identities, and Kazakhstan: Realities Tajikistan and the
‘In the Tracks of Welfare Nationalism, and Nostalgia and Perspectives Kyrgyz Republic
Tamerlane’ Neoliberalism

Session 4 PO-04 ♦ (p. Error! AN-04 ♦ (p. Error! AN-07 ♦ (p. Error! AN-02 ♦ (p. Error! SO-04 ♦ (p. Error! HI-06 ♦ (p. Error! HI-17 ♦ (p. Error! CU-06 ♦ (p. Error!
Friday Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not
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10:45-12:30
Roundtable: Exploring Workshop: Piety & Problems of Religious Gender, Migration Administration and Historical Change in Music and Folklore in
Fieldwork in Unaddressed Facets Radicalization Thesis: Identities in Central and Patriarchy Politics in the Mongol Turkestan Central Eurasia
Challenging Settings of Gender-based Anthropologists on Asia in the Context of Empire
Violence in Central Political Analysis of Globalization
Asia Islam

Special Cultural Program OSF Mini-Workshop Tradition and the

(Open event) ♦ (p. 5) ♦ (p. 45) Future of Central

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HUB 334 HUB 145 HUB 214 HUB 238 HUB 307 HUB 332 HUB 337 HUB 340
Friday Folktales from the By invitation only Asian Studies, a
October 6 Steppes roundtable honoring
12:30-14.00 Prof. Ilse Cirtautas

Session 5 PO-05 ♦ (p. Error! AN-05 ♦ (p. Error! CU-05 ♦ (p. Error! HI-09 ♦ (p. Error! LI-03 ♦ (p. Error! CU-04 ♦ (p. Error! HI-07 ♦ (p. Error!
Friday Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not Bookmark not
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14:15-16:00
CESS Book Prize Gender, Tourism in the Alphabet Soup: The Language Teaching Bacha and Beyond: Voices from the
Author-Critic Forum: Environment, and Caucasus: Trends and Politics of and Attitudes Crossdressing and Steppe: Linguistic and
Jesse Driscoll’s International Challenges Orthography Gender Diversity in Historical
Warlords and Development‘ Central Asia Explorations
Coalition Politics’

Special Formal Welcoming

Friday
October 6 CESS Awards Ceremony: Best Book (History/Humanities), Best Graduate Student Paper, Public Outreach
16:15-17:00 HUB 160 (The Lyceum)
(Welcomes)
17:00-18:00
(Keynote)
Sarah Chayes’ Keynote Speech “Transnational Kleptocratic Networks: The Central Asian Connections”
18:15-20:00 HUB 160 (The Lyceum)
(Reception)
Keynote Reception
Kane Hall 225 (The Walker Ames Room)

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Timetable ♦ Saturday and Sunday
Denny 259 Denny 112 Denny 110 Denny 111 Denny 113 Denny 210 Denny 313 Denny 213 Denny 256 Denny 211 Denny 258

Session 6 PO-06 ♦ AN-06 ♦ CU-07 ♦ SO-06 ♦ HI-10 ♦ RE-01 ♦ RS-01 ♦ HI-11 ♦ HI-08 ♦
Saturday (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error!
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08:45-10:30
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Author-Critic Xinjiang in The Rider, the Migration Between Islam in Central Afghanistan Central Asia in The Qing
Forum: Regine Central Asia: Storyteller, and Resistance and Asia 1 the USSR Empire
Spector’s Cultural and the Shaman Accommodation between China
‘Order at the Geographical and Central
Bazaar’ Linkages Asia

Session 7 GE-01 ♦ CU-03 ♦ CU-08 ♦ CU-09 ♦ SO-07 ♦ HI-12 ♦ RE-03 ♦ RS-03 ♦ HI-13 ♦ PO-08 ♦ RE-02 ♦
Saturday (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error!
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10:45-12:30
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Geography Nostalgia, Engagement, The Arts and Social Media Historical Religion in the Kazakhstan 1: Historiography Conflict in the Islam in Central
Beyond the Bilingualism Authenticity Politics and Diplomacy Caucasus Journalism, Caucasus and Asia 2
Nation and Identity in and Gender in Memory in Public Opinion Central Asia
Eurasian Mountaineering Central Eurasia and Protest
Literature

Special Cultural
Saturday Program ♦
October 7 (p. 5)
12:30-14:00
Film screening

Session 8 HI-02 ♦ AN-08 ♦ CU-10 ♦ PO-09 ♦ SC-01 ♦ HI-14 ♦ SO-08 ♦ RS-04 ♦ SO-10 ♦ RS-06 ♦ RS-05 ♦
Saturday (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error!
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14:15-16:00
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Author-Critic Values and Visuality and Revolution and 2015 Public Central Asia in Cities in Central Kazakhstan 2: Families in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan
Forum: Making Well Being Representation Opposition Outreach the Middle Asia Nationalism Central Asia China
Uzbekistan: A in Central Asia Award: CESMI Ages and Identity
Conversation
with Adeeb
Khalid

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 18th CESS Annual Conference ♦ Univ. of Washington ♦ Timetable ♦ Saturday and Sunday

Denny 259 Denny 112 Denny 110 Denny 111 Denny 113 Denny 210 Denny 313 Denny 213 Denny 256 Denny 211 Denny 258

Special Presidential Plenary Panel

Saturday
October 7 16:30-18:15, Kane Hall 210
16:30-18:15
(Panel) CESS Business Meeting
18:15-18:45
(Meeting)
18:15-18:45, Kane Hall 210
18:45-20:00
(Reception) Wine and Cheese Reception
18:45-20:00, Kane Hall 225 (The Walker Ames Room)

Session 9 SO-09 ♦ AN-09 ♦ RS-07 ♦ RS-08 ♦

Sunday (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error!
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08:45-10:30
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Women in Archeology in Sovereignty Tatarstan
Central Asia Central Asia and
Governance in
the Caucasus

Session 10 HI-04 ♦ SO-11 ♦ RS-09 ♦ IR-03 ♦

Sunday (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error! (p. Error!
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10:45-12:30
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Leadership, Family and Uzbekistan Geopolitics in
Literature, Childhood Eurasia
Libraries, and
Lenses: Edward
Allworth’s
Legacy

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 Keynote speaker
Sarah Chayes, Senior Fellow, Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace

“Transnational Kleptocratic Networks: The Central Asian Connections”

Sarah Chayes is internationally recognized for her innovative thinking on

corruption and its implications. Her work explores how severe corruption can
help prompt such crises as terrorism, revolutions and their violent aftermaths,
and environmental degradation.

A senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law program, Sarah

Chayes is the author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global
Security. She is internationally recognized for her innovative thinking on
corruption and its implications. Her work explores how severe corruption can
help prompt such crises as terrorism, revolutions and their violent aftermaths, and environmental
degradation.

Before joining Carnegie, Chayes served as special assistant to the top U.S. military officer, Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. She focused on governance issues, participating in
cabinet-level decision-making on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring, and traveling with
Mullen frequently to these regions. Chayes was tapped for the job after her work as special adviser to
two commanders of the international troops in Afghanistan (ISAF), at the end of a decade on the
ground there.

It was a sense of historic opportunity that prompted Chayes to end her journalism career in early
2002, after covering the fall of the Taliban for NPR, and to remain in Afghanistan to help rebuild the
country. She chose to settle in the former Taliban heartland, Kandahar.

In 2005, Chayes founded Arghand, a start-up manufacturing cooperative, where men and women
working together produce fine skin-care products. The goal was to revive the region’s historic role in
exporting fruit and its derivatives, to promote sustainable development, and expand alternatives to
the opium economy. Running Arghand in downtown Kandahar proved to an instructive vantage point
for observing the unfolding war.

From 1996 to 2001, Chayes was NPR’s Paris correspondent. For her work during the Kosovo crisis, she
shared the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards.

Along with Thieves of State, which won the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chayes is the author
of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Penguin, 2006).

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 Cultural Program

Friday October 6, 12:30 - 2:15, Hub 214

Folk Tales From The Steppes
It is in the nature of stories to travel, and today folk tales from Central Asia arrive in Seattle! Join us
for an hour of traditional stories told by professional storytellers and scholars that will open a window
into the steppes. Veronica Muskheli (University of Washington, Slavic Languages and Literatures)
studies world folk tales and their life as performance art. Dana Sherry (Silk Road House) is a
respectable historian of Russia who now has turned to a life of storytelling. Kira Van Deusen
(independent scholar) is a folk tale collector and ethnographer; accompanied by her evocative
singing, she delights listeners with adventures in worlds we do not see with the eye.

This is an open session to which members of the local community are also welcomed.

Saturday October 7, 12:30 - 2:15, Denny 112

Film showing

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 Thematic Listing of Panels
Anthropology
AN-01 ♦ Contemporary Uyghur Society: Tradition and Transformation (p. 15)
AN-02 ♦ Problems of Religious Identities in Central Asia in the Context of Globalization (p.21)
AN-03 ♦ Burial Traditions and Cultural Identity in Central Asia (p. 19)
AN-04 ♦ Exploring Unaddressed Facets of Gender-based Violence in Central Asia: Economic and
Political Participation, Societal Stigmatization and Mental Health (p. 21)
AN-05 ♦ Gender, Environment, and International Development (p. 23)
AN-06 ♦ Xinjiang in Central Asia: Cultural and Geographical Linkages (p. 26)
AN-07 ♦ Workshop: The Piety and Radicalization Thesis: Anthropologists on Political Analysis of
Islam (p. 22)
AN-08 ♦ Values and Well-Being (p. 32)
AN-09 ♦ Archeology in Central Asia (p. 36)
Cultural Studies
CU-01 ♦ The Cultures and Languages of the Caucasus (p. 15)
CU-02 ♦ Religious Identity and Cultural Practices in Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic (p. 19)
CU-03 ♦ Nostalgia, Bilingualism and Identity in Eurasian Literature (p. 28)
CU-04 ♦ Bacha and Beyond: Crossdressing and Gender Diversity in Central Asia (p. 24)
CU-05 ♦ Tourism in the Caucasus: Trends and Challenges (p. 24)
CU-06 ♦ Music in Central Eurasia (p. 22)
CU-07 ♦ The Rider, the Storyteller, and the Shaman: Women and Oral Traditions in Central Asia
and the Caucasus (p. 26)
CU-08 ♦ Engagement, Authenticity and Gender in Eurasian Mountaineering (p. 29)
CU-09 ♦ The Arts in Politics and Memory in Central Eurasia (p. 29)
CU-10 ♦ Visuality and Representation in Central Asia (p. 32)
Education
ED-01 ♦ Post-Independence Higher Education in Kazakhstan: Realities and Perspectives (p. 19)
Energy
EN-01 ♦ Energy and Ecology (p. 15)
Geography
GE-01 ♦ Geography Beyond the Nation (p. 29)
History
HI-01 ♦ Nomads and Empire: New Perspectives on Central Asian Encounters with Imperial
States and Spaces (p. 16)
HI-02 ♦ Author-Critic Forum: Making Uzbekistan: A Conversation with Adeeb Khalid (p. 33)

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HI-03 ♦ Source Analysis for the Mongol Empire (p. 17)
HI-04 ♦ Leadership, Literature, Libraries, and Lenses: Edward Allworth’s Legacy in Central Asian
Studies (p. 37)
HI-05 ♦ Central Asian Oral Histories: Everyday Life, Identities, and Nostalgia (p. 20)
HI-06 ♦ Administration and Politics in the Mongol Empire (p. 22)
HI-07 ♦ Voices from the Steppe: Linguistic and Historical Explorations of the 18th and Early-19th
Centuries (p. 24)
HI-08 ♦ The Qing Empire between China and Central Asia (p. 26)
HI-09 ♦ Alphabet Soup: The Politics of Orthography in Late-Imperial and Soviet Eurasia (p. 25)
HI-10 ♦ Between Resistance and Accommodation: Muslim Tatars and the Russian Imperial
State, 1800-1914 (p. 27Error! Bookmark not defined.)
HI-11 ♦ Central Asia in the USSR (p. 27)
HI-12 ♦ Historical Diplomacy (p. 30)
HI-13 ♦ Historiography (p. 30)
HI-14 ♦ Central Asia in the Middle Ages (p. 33)
HI-16 ♦ 19th and Early 20th C History (p. 16)
HI-17 ♦ Historical Change in Turkestan (p. 23)
International Relations
IR-01 ♦ Environmental Preservation in Central Asia: The Ili River-Lake Balkhash Ecosystem as a
Case Study (p. 17)
IR-03 ♦ Geopolitics in Eurasia (p. 37)
Law
LA-01 ♦ Legality in Russia and Central Asia (p. 16)
Linguistics and Language
LI-01 ♦ Caucasian Languages (p. 18)
LI-02 ♦ Cultural Contact and Diachronic Change in Turkic Languages (p. 20)
LI-03 ♦ Language Teaching and Attitudes (p. 25)
Politics
PO-01 ♦ Mongolia’s Engagement in Central Eurasia: Geopolitics, Energy, Transportation and
Natural Resources (p. 18)
PO-02 ♦ Innovations as the Instruments of Increasing Public Welfare (p. 20)
PO-03 ♦ Roundtable: Roundtable: Tamerlane Revisited: The New Edition of ‘In the Tracks of
Tamerlane’ (p. 20)
PO-04 ♦ Roundtable: Fieldwork in Challenging Settings (p. 23)
PO-05 ♦ CESS Book Prize Author-Critic Forum: Jesse Driscoll’s ‘Warlords and Coalition Politics in
Post-Soviet States’ (p. 25)

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PO-06 ♦ Author-Critic Forum: Regine Spector’s ‘Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central
Asia’ (p. 27)
PO-08 ♦ Conflict in the Caucasus and Central Asia (p. 30)
PO-09 ♦ Revolution and Opposition (p. 33)
Religion
RE-01 ♦ Islam in Central Asia 1 (p. 27)
RE-02 ♦ Islam in Central Asia 2 (p. 31)
RE-03 ♦ Religion in the Caucasus (p. 31)
Regional Studies
RS-01 ♦ Afghanistan (p. 27)
RS-03 ♦ Kazakhstan 1: Journalism, Public Opinion and Protest (p. 31)
RS-04 ♦ Kazakhstan 2: Nationalism, Identity and Representation (p. 34)
RS-05 ♦ Kyrgyzstan (p. 34)
RS-06 ♦ Mongolia and China (p. 34)
RS-07 ♦ Sovereignty and Governance in the Caucasus (p. 36)
RS-08 ♦ Tatarstan (p. 36)
RS-09 ♦ Uzbekistan (p. 38)
Issues of Scholarship
SC-01 ♦ 2015 Public Outreach Award: CESMI: Central Eurasian Scholars and Media Initiative
(p. 35)
SC-02 ♦ Roundtable: Roundtable: Bridging Central Asian and Caucasus Area Studies (Part Two)
(p. 18)
Society
SO-01 ♦ Informal Practices in the Education and Healthcare Sectors in Post-Communist States:
Causes, Mechanisms, and Implications (p. 17)
SO-02 ♦ Islamic Practices and Entrepreneurship in Russia (p. 18)
SO-03 ♦ Roundtable: Roundtable: Socio-political Activism in Central Asia: Gender, Nationalism,
and Neoliberalism (p. 21)
SO-04 ♦ Gender, Migration and Patriarchy (p. 23)
SO-06 ♦ Migration (p. 28)
SO-07 ♦ Social Media (p. 32)
SO-08 ♦ Cities in Central Asia (p. 35)
SO-09 ♦ Women in Central Asia (p. 37)
SO-10 ♦ Families in Central Asia (p. 35)
SO-11 ♦ Family and Childhood (p. 38)

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 Program of Sessions and Panels
Session 1 ♦ Thurs., Oct. 5, 14:15-16:00

AN-01 ♦ Contemporary Uyghur Society: Tradition and Transformation

Location: HUB 145
Chair: Arienne M. Dwyer (University of Kansas; [email protected])
Discussant: David W. Montgomery (University of Maryland; [email protected])
Rune Steenburg-Reyhe (Columbia University; [email protected])
“Star Preachers and Debated Dance in Southern Xinjiang, 2010-2013”
Darren Byler (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“The Rise of Uyghur Piety”
Aynur Kadir (Simon Fraser University; [email protected])
“Moral Quandaries of Uyghur Youth: Social Media Memes and the Changing Morality of
Uyghurness”

CU-01 ♦ The Cultures and Languages of the Caucasus

Location: HUB 238
Chair: Malkhaz Saldadze (University of Washington; [email protected])
Discussant: John Colarusso (McMaster University; [email protected])
Revaz Abashia (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; [email protected])
“Reconstructing the Sibilant Spirants and Affricates of the Kartvelian Proto-language”
Alexandra Yatsyk (Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna; [email protected])
“Security in the South Caucasus: Russia and Turkey in Adjara and Abkhazia”
Ia Grigalashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; [email protected])
“Early Christian Liturgical Practice in the Martyrdom of the Nine Children from Kola”

EN-01 ♦ Energy and Ecology

Location: HUB 337
Chair: Bert Cramer (Independent Scholar, [email protected])
Discussant: Amanda Wooden (Bucknell University; [email protected])
Alyssa Meyer (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Climate Change Impacts on Long-Term Energy Access: Looking Toward Solutions”
Murodbek Laldjebaev (University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Assessment of Energy Poverty in Rural Communities of Khatlon Region, Tajikistan”
Jeanene Mitchell (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“Brokering the Local: Civil Society Participation in River Management in Azerbaijan”
Zhyldyz Doolbekova (The Christensen Fund Central Asia; [email protected])
“Traditional ecological knowledge and practices of ethic Kyrgyz of the Eastern Pamir in ethno-
toponyms”

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HI-01 ♦ Nomads and Empire: New Perspectives on Central Asian Encounters with Imperial
States and Spaces
Location: HUB 332
Chair: Eric Johnson (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Virginia Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected])
Joo-Yup Lee (University of Toronto; [email protected])
“The Frontier Spaces in the Qipchaq Steppe and the Kazakhs during the Post-Mongol Period”
Takahiro Onuma (Tohoku Gakuin University; [email protected])
“Dispatch of the Nusan Mission: The Negotiations between Qing and Ablay in 1757”
Jipar Duishembieva (Evergreen State College; [email protected])
“Let Our People Get on with Their Lives: Threading the Needle Between the Qing and Kokand in
Turbulent Times”

HI-16 ♦ 19th and Early 20th Century History

Location: HUB 334
Chair: Marianne Kamp (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Discussant: Marianne Kamp (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Bakhtiyor Alimdjanov (University of Saint Petesburg; [email protected])
“Between Disregard and Control of Islam: Activities of V. P. Nalivkin as the 3rd Inspector of
Educational Institutions of Turkestan (1889-1896)”
Aminat Chokobaeva (Australian National University; [email protected])
“A Small War: The Uprising of 1916 in Semirechie”
Darima Amogolonova (Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch, Russian
Academy of Sciences; [email protected])
“Religion - State - Society: Buddhism in Late-Imperial Russia”

LA-01 ♦ Legality in Russia and Central Asia

Location: HUB 340
Chair: Bradley Murg (Seattle Pacific University; [email protected])
Discussant: Diana Kudaibergenova (University of Lund / University of Cambridge; [email protected])
Natalia Alenkina (American University of Central Asia; [email protected]) and Aigerim Azimova
(American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Access to Justice? Impact on Non-Governmental Courts: The Aksakal Courts Example”
Stephen Chaudoin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; [email protected]) and
Terrence Chapman (University of Texas, Austin; [email protected])
“Contingent Public Support for International Legal Institutions: Evidence from a Survey
Experiment in Kyrgyzstan”
Nazim Ziyadov (Antalya International University; [email protected])
“Russian Constitutionalism and International Law: Comparing Judicial Interpretation
Techniques”
Aisulu Raspayeva (Georgetown University; [email protected])
“Interplay of professional caution and culture: How Kazakh and Russian meeting chairs criticize
and direct”

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SO-01 ♦ Informal Practices in the Education and Healthcare Sectors in Post-Communist
States: Causes, Mechanisms, and Implications
Location: HUB 307
Chair: Stanley Currier (IREX, Washington, DC; [email protected])
Discussant: Zhibek Tleshova (Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of
Kazakhstan; [email protected])
Olena Levenets (Tallinn University of Technology; [email protected])
“Informal Practices in Healthcare: Case of Ukraine”
Dina Sharipova (KIMEP University; [email protected])
“Informal Exchanges in Higher and Secondary Education in Kazakhstan”
Natsuko Oka (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization;
[email protected])
“Grades and Degrees for Sale: Informal Exchanges in Kazakhstan’s Education Sector”
Alan DeYoung (University of Kentucky; [email protected])
“Teaching and Research in the Republic of Turkmenistan: Negotiating with the Sponsors?”

Session 2 ♦ Thurs., Oct. 5, 16:15-18:00

HI-03 ♦ Source Analysis for the Mongol Empire

Location: HUB 332
Chair: Timothy May (University of North Georgia; [email protected])
Discussant: Daniel Waugh (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Paul Buell (University of Salzburg; [email protected])
“Arabic Medicine in the Mongol World: Huihui Yaofang , Muslim Medicinal Recipes”
Christopher Eirkson (University of Pittsburgh; [email protected])
“Diplomatic Correspondence in the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition, 1000-1425 CE”

IR-01 ♦ Environmental Preservation in Central Asia: The Ili River-Lake Balkhash Ecosystem as
a Case Study
Location: HUB 145
Chair: Maigul Nugmanova (Kazakh Ablai Khan University; [email protected])
Discussant: Uli Schamiloglu (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Steve Pueppke (Michigan State University; [email protected])
“A Systems Framework for Facing the Challenge of Water, Energy, and Food in the Ili River-Lake
Balkhash Ecosystem”
Sabir Nurtazin (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
“The Challenge of Providing Southeastern Kazakhstan with Quality Drinking Water”
Fatima Kukeeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
“The Ili River: Is It a ‘Casualty’ of Kazakhstan’s Complicated Relationship with China”
Norman Graham (Michigan State University; [email protected])
“The Sustainability of Fisheries in the Ili Delta-Lake Balkhash Region”

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LI-01 ♦ Caucasian Languages
Location: HUB 238
Chair: Mary Childs (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Revaz Abashia (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; [email protected])
John Colarusso (McMaster University; [email protected])
“The Vertical Vowel Systems of North West Caucasian”
Bert Beynen (Temple University; [email protected])
“The Semantic Distinctive Features of the Georgian Verbal Infix -am-”
Maia Tsitsvidze (Institute of Caucasiology, Ivane Javakhishvili State University; [email protected])
“The Language and Culture of the Georgian-Avar Inscriptions”

PO-01 ♦ Mongolia’s Engagement in Central Eurasia: Geopolitics, Energy, Transportation and

Natural Resources
Location: HUB 340
Chair: Robert Bedeski (University of Victoria, Canada; University of Washington; [email protected])
Discussant: Alisia Campi (The Mongolia Society; [email protected])
Mendee Jargalsaikhan (University British Columbia; [email protected])
“Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan in Renewed Geopolitical Settings”
Marissa Smith (De Anza College; [email protected])
“Three Projects of One Belt One Road’s Mongolia/Russia/China Economic Corridor and Three
Bilateral Relationships”
Julian Dierkes (University British Columbia; [email protected])
“The Variety of Governance Models in Mongolia’s Resource Industry”

SC-02 ♦ Roundtable: Bridging Central Asian and Caucasus Area Studies (Part Two)
Location: HUB 334
Chair: Timothy Blauvelt (American Councils / Ilia State University; [email protected])
John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University; [email protected])
Jeremy Johnson (University of Michigan; [email protected])
Jesse Driscoll (University of California, San Diego; [email protected])
Amanda Wooden (Bucknell University; [email protected])

SO-02 ♦ Islamic Practices and Entrepreneurship in Russia

Location: HUB 307
Chair: Liliya Karimova (George Washington University; [email protected])
Discussant: Rahimjon Abdugafurov (Emory University; [email protected])
Rano Turaeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; [email protected])
“Islam and Enterpreneurship in Russia: Women’s Networks in Mosques in Moscow”
Izzat Aman (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Halal Businesses of Muslims in Russia”

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Session 3 ♦ Fri., Oct. 6, 8:45-10:30

AN-03 ♦ Burial Traditions and Cultural Identity in Central Asia

Location: HUB 145
Chair: Cyrus Rodgers (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Jennifer Webster (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Chorshanbe Goibnazarov (University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Music and Funeral Ceremonies in Badakhshan, Tajikistan”
Guldana Salimjan (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British
Columbia; [email protected])
“Sounding Kinship and Land: Lament as Ritual of Intergenerational Bonding in Northern
Xinjiang”
Margaret Morton (School of Art, The Cooper Union; [email protected])
“Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan”

CU-02 ♦ Religious Identity and Cultural Practices in Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic
Location: HUB 340
Chair: Zulfiya Bakhtibekova (University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Discussant: Jon Mahoney (Kansas State University; [email protected])
Vincent Artman (Wayne State; [email protected])
“My Poor Nation, Where Are You Going? Theologies of Nationhood in Kyrgyzstan”
Jamilya Anderson (Kansas State University; [email protected])
“Non-Consensual Bride Kidnapping in the Kyrgyz Republic”
Benjamin Ale-Ebrahim (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Islamic Digital Media in Tajikistan: A Changing Religious Public Sphere”

ED-01 ♦ Post-Independence Higher Education in Kazakhstan: Realities and Perspectives

Location: HUB 337
Chair: Judith Parker (Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; [email protected])
Discussant: Mikhail Akulov (Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty; [email protected])
Bayan Yesperova (Kazakh National Agrarian University, Almaty; [email protected])
“Agriculture Education as a New Trend of Kazakhstan’s Sustainable Development”
Stanley Currier (IREX, Washington, DC; [email protected])
“Workforce Development in Kazakhstan: The Role of University Career Centers”
Gainiya Tazhina (University of International Business, Almaty; [email protected])
“Distance Learning in Kazakhstan: Challenges and Opportunities”
Fatima Duisebayeva (Kazakh National Agrarian University, Almaty; [email protected])
“Multilingual Education in Kazakhstan: New Economic and Employment Opportunities”

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HI-05 ♦ Central Asian Oral Histories: Everyday Life, Identities, and Nostalgia
Location: HUB 332
Chair: Zukhra Kasimova (The University of Illinois at Chicago; [email protected])
Discussant: Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University; [email protected])
Adrienne Edgar (University of California, Santa Barbara; [email protected])
“Akbota or Svetlana? Names and Naming in Mixed Families in Soviet Central Asia, 1945-1991”
Ali Igmen (California State University, Long Beach; [email protected])
“Selective Memories of the Late Twentieth-Century Soviet Theatre”
Marianne Kamp (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Potatoes, Canals, and Schools: Incremental Transformations of Daily Life on the Kolkhoz in
Uzbekistan”

LI-02 ♦ Cultural Contact and Diachronic Change in Turkic Languages

Location: HUB 238
Chair: Talant Mawkanuli (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Uli Schamiloglu (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Jonathan North Washington (Swarthmore College; [email protected]) and
Christopher P. Atwood (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected])
“The Relation of Some Yuan-era Turkic Words to the Siberian Sibilant Shift”
Arienne M. Dwyer (University of Kansas; [email protected]) and Akbar Amat (University of Kansas;
[email protected])
“Defining the End of Chaghatay and the Beginning of Its Modern Descendants”

PO-02 ♦ Innovations as the Instruments of Increasing Public Welfare

Location: HUB 214
Chair: Merim Koichueva (Eastern University Mahmud Kashgar Barskani; [email protected])
Discussant: Aigul Kulmatova (Academy of Public Administration under President of the Kyrgyz Republic;
[email protected])
Maral Sagynalieva (Open Innovations Research Community; [email protected])
“Impacts of Innovations on Public Sector of the Kyrgyz Republic”
Aigul Zhusupbaeva (Ecological Movement ‘Aleyne Plus’; [email protected])
“Innovative Discipline in Favor of Environmental Solutions”
Asel Abubakirova (The Scientific and Educational Society for Cultural Studies, Academy of Public
Administration under President of the Kyrgyz Republic; [email protected])
“Innovations in the Modern Culture of Kyrgyzstan”
Ailuna Shamurzaeva (International Ataturk-Alatoo University; [email protected])
“Innovations in Migration Regulation in the Kyrgyz Republic”

PO-03 ♦ Roundtable: Tamerlane Revisited: The New Edition of ‘In the Tracks of Tamerlane’
Location: HUB 334
Chair: Daniel Burghart (National Intelligence University; [email protected])
Theresa Sabonis-Helf (National Defense University; [email protected])
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University; [email protected])

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Sebastian Peyrouse (George Washington University; [email protected])
Stacie Giles (Adjunct Instructor, Virginia Commonwealth University; [email protected])
Bruce Pannier (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; [email protected])

SO-03 ♦ Roundtable: Socio-political Activism in Central Asia: Gender, Nationalism, and

Neoliberalism
Location: HUB 307
Chair: Svetlana Peshkova (University of New Hampshire; [email protected])
Selbi Jumayeva (Bishkek Feminist Initiatives; [email protected])
Samuel Buelow (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Yelena V. Muzykina (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
Joanna Pares Hoare (Amnesty International; [email protected])

Session 4 ♦ Session 4: Fri., Oct. 6, 10:45-12:30

AN-02 ♦ Problems of Religious Identities in Central Asia in the Context of Globalization

Location: HUB 238
Chair: Leila Almazova (Kazan Federal University; [email protected])
Discussant: Emil Dzhuraev (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Zhibek Syzdykova (Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University; [email protected])
“Key Aspects of the Kazakh Religious Identity”
Daria Zhigulskaya (Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University;
[email protected])
“Globalization and New Forms of Religiosity (An Islamic Perspective from Central Asia)”
Anastasiya Ganich (Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University;
[email protected])
“The Pilgrimage to the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi as an Element of Social and Cultural
Life of the Kazakhs”
Jamal Rakhaev (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences; [email protected])
“National and Religious Identity of the North Caucasus Mountaineers during the Deportation to
Central Asia (1943-1944)”

AN-04 ♦ Exploring Unaddressed Facets of Gender-based Violence in Central Asia: Economic

and Political Participation, Societal Stigmatization and Mental Health
Location: HUB 145
Chair: Elena Kim (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Discussant: Lori Handrahan (Independent Consultant; [email protected])
Nurgul Ukueva (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Gender and Self-employment: The Effect of Marriage, Children and Household Living
Arrangements in Kyrgyzstan”
Mirgul Karimova (Search for Common Ground; [email protected])
“Lack of Women’s Political Participation in Kyrgyzstan Due to Societal Expectations”

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Elena Molchanova (Republican Center of Mental Health of the Kyrgyz Republic;
[email protected])
“Mental Health Consequences of Gender-Based-Violence in the Kyrgyz Republic”
Olha Yarova (Institute for Behavioral Science and Researc; [email protected])
“Mothering a Special Child in Kyrgyzstan: Experience Shaped by Traditional Gender Roles”

AN-07 ♦ Workshop: The Piety and Radicalization Thesis: Anthropologists on Political Analysis
of Islam
Location: HUB 214
Chair: John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Liliya Karimova (George Washington University; [email protected])
Mukaram Toktogulova (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Helene Thibault (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Nazif Shahrani (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
David W. Montgomery (University of Maryland; [email protected])

CU-06 ♦ Music and Folklore in Central Eurasia

Location: HUB 340
Chair: Dana Sherry (Silk Road House; [email protected])
Discussant: Laada Bilaniuk (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
Robert Beahrs (University of Pittsburgh; [email protected])
“Nomadic Perspectives on Envoicement in the Sayan-Altai Mountains”
Eunkyung Oh (Dongduk Women’s University; [email protected])
“An Integrated Study on Performance Art and Storytelling Meistersingers Tradition from Pansori
Performers to Eurasian Turkic Epic Singers”
Meiramgul Kussainova (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
“Soviet Kazakh Music”

HI-06 ♦ Administration and Politics in the Mongol Empire

Location: HUB 332
Chair: Daniel Waugh (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Timothy May (University of North Georgia; [email protected])
Jesse Sloane (Yonsei University; [email protected])
“Balancing Qa’ans and Warlords in the Promotion of Religious Confucianism in 13th Century
North China”
Anne Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; [email protected])
“The Linked Deaths of Grand Khan Gedei and His Sister, Al Altan, Queen of the Uighurs: What
Explanations Can Be Found?”
Michael Hope (Yonsei University; [email protected])
“From Herat to Haleb: A Comparative Analaysis of Population Displacement and Urban Revival
After the Mongol Conquests”
Michael Brose (University of Wyoming; [email protected])
“Personnel and Policy in the Yuan Southern Censorate Bureau”

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HI-17 ♦ Historical Change in Turkestan
Location: HUB 337
Chair: Douglas Northrop (University of Michigan; [email protected])
Discussant: Ian Campbell (University of California, Davis; [email protected])
Zhanat Kundakbayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
“Bolsheviks’ Interference into the Intimate Daily Lives of Kazakh Women, 1920-1930: Duel
between Soviet Transformation and Tradition”
Bakhodir Pasilov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences;
[email protected])
“Ethno-political Processes in Turkestan, Bukhara and Khorezm in 1917-1924”
Taylor Zajicek (Princeton University; [email protected])
“A Natural Disaster History: Earthquakes, Science, and Empire in Late 19th Century Turkestan”
Khushnudbek Abdurasulov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences;
[email protected])
“New Faces in the Markets of Russian Turkestan: Polizmeisters and Veterinarians as Colonial
Agents”

PO-04 ♦ Fieldwork in Challenging Settings

Location: HUB 334
Chair: Timothy Blauvelt (American Councils / Ilia State University; [email protected])
Krista Goff (University of Miami; [email protected])
Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh; [email protected])
Edward Schatz (University of Toronto; [email protected])
Sasha Klyachkina (Northwestern University; [email protected])

SO-04 ♦ Gender, Migration and Patriarchy

Location: HUB 307
Chair: Selbi Jumayeva ((Bishkek Feminist Initiatives; [email protected]))
Discussant: Swetlana Torno (Heidelberg University; [email protected])
Zulfiya Bakhtibekova (University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Who Is the Head of the Household? Women as Guardians of Patriarchy in Tajikistan”
Cholpon Turdalieva (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Gendered Mobility and ‘Transport Social Exclusion’ in Bishkek”
Nodira Kholmatova (European University Institute in Florence; [email protected])
“Changing the Face of Labor Migration? The Feminization of Labor Migration from Tajikistan to
Russia”

Session 5 ♦ Fri., Oct. 6, 14:15-16:00

AN-05 ♦ Gender, Environment, and International Development

Location: HUB 145
Chair: Emil Nasritdinov (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Discussant: Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; [email protected])

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Asel Myrzabekova (Bonn International Center for Convention; [email protected])
“Agricultural Knowledge Transfer in Rural Kyrgyzstan: Implications for Empowerment”
Karina Standal (University of Oslo; [email protected])
“Where Did All the Women Go? Corporate Ambitions and Gender Focus in Public Private
Partnerships for Energy Development”
Elena Kim (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“How Development ‘Misses’ Women: Water Management in Uzbekistan”
Altyn Kapalova (Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia;
[email protected])
“Water Resources Management in Kyrgyz Mountain Communities: Informal Communications
and the Role of Women”

CU-04 ♦ Bacha and Beyond: Crossdressing and Gender Diversity in Central Asia
Location: HUB 337
Chair: Guldana Salimjan (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British
Columbia; [email protected])
Discussant: Svetlana Peshkova (University of New Hampshire; [email protected])
Bradley Horst (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“The Ethnographic Encounter in the East: Russian Colonial Knowledge and the Gendering of
Bacha, 1870-1920”
Jennifer Wilson (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected])
“Queer Tashkent, Queer Harlem: Langston Hughes’ ‘The Boy Dancers of Uzbekistan’”
Samuel Buelow (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Crossdressers and Conchitas: Differing Approaches to Men’s Femininity in Kyrgyzstan 2014”

CU-05 ♦ Tourism in the Caucasus: Trends and Challenges

Location: HUB 214
Chair: Bert Beynen (Temple University; [email protected])
Discussant: Veronica Muskheli (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Michael Long (Baylor University; [email protected]) and Sara Alexander (Baylor University;
[email protected])
“Tourism Development in Georgia: Priorities, Possibilities, and Vulnerabilities”
Mary Childs (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“Of Birders and Botanists: Eco-Tourism in Georgia”
Julie Christensen (George Mason University; [email protected])
“The Role of Film and Media in the ‘Struggle for Gagra’”

HI-07 ♦ Voices from the Steppe: Linguistic and Historical Explorations of the 18th and Early-
19th Centuries
Location: HUB 340
Chair: Jipar Duishembieva (Evergreen State College; [email protected])
Discussant: Takahiro Onuma (Tohoku Gakuin University; [email protected])

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Eric Johnson (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“Navigating the Scylla of Empire and the Charybdis of Tribal Politics: Nurali and the Younger
Horde, 1748- 1786”
Virginia Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected])
“Kazak Elites and the Power of Written Communication in the 1820s-1830s”
Talant Mawkanuli (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“A Linguistic Analysis of Kazak Correspondence of the 18th and 19th Centuries”

HI-09 ♦ Alphabet Soup: The Politics of Orthography in Late-Imperial and Soviet Eurasia
Location: HUB 238
Chair: Ian Campbell (University of California, Davis; [email protected])
Discussant: Laada Bilaniuk (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Daniel Schafer (Belmont University; [email protected])
“Reform, Revolution, and Crisis in Tatar Orthography, 1870-1970”
Rebekah Ramsay (Emory University; [email protected])
“A Revolutionary Alphabet for the Masses: Latinization and the Localization of Eastern
Modernity in Kazakhstan, 1925-1935”
Jeremy Johnson (University of Michigan; [email protected])
“A Georgian Script for the Friendship of Peoples: Orthographies of National Chauvinism in Soviet
Georgia”
Anna Whittington (University of Michigan; [email protected])
“Between Russification and Friendship: Cyrillization in Stalinist Central Asia”

LI-03 ♦ Language Teaching and Attitudes

Location: HUB 307
Chair: Karlyga Myssayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
Discussant: Timothy Blauvelt (American Councils / Ilia State University; [email protected])
Malik Hodjaev (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Prospects of Teaching Uzbek Language Online”
Jukka Pietilainen (University of Helsinki; [email protected])
“Language Skills and Attitudes towards Foreign Countries in Kazakhstan”
Zhibek Tleshova (Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
[email protected]) and Gulbakhyt Menlibekova (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University)
“ESL as One of the Languages in Implementing Multilingual Education Policy: Context of
Kazakhstani Higher Education”

PO-05 ♦ CESS Book Prize Author-Critic Forum: Jesse Driscoll’s ‘Warlords and Coalition Politics
in Post-Soviet States’
Location: HUB 334
Chair: Bradley Murg (Seattle Pacific University; [email protected])
Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh; [email protected])
Suzanne Levi-Sanchez (United States Naval War College; [email protected])
Stephen Majeski (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Jesse Driscoll (University of California, San Diego; [email protected])

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Session 6 ♦ Sat., Oct. 7, 8:45-10:30

AN-06 ♦ Xinjiang in Central Asia: Cultural and Geographical Linkages

Location: Denny 112
Chair: James Millward (Georgetown University; [email protected])
Discussant: Darren Byler (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Arienne M. Dwyer (University of Kansas; [email protected])
“The Fungus that Overtook Oral Literature: Scald-heads (Taz)”
Joanne Smith Finley (Newcastle University; [email protected]) and Sarah Tynen (University of
Colorado, Boulder; [email protected])
“Guarding Purity and Halal Spaces in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China”
Stanley Toops (Miami University; [email protected])
“Trade and Linkages on the New Silk Road: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Pakistan”

CU-07 ♦ The Rider, the Storyteller, and the Shaman: Women and Oral Traditions in Central
Asia and the Caucasus
Location: Denny 110
Chair: Mary Childs (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Guntis Smidchens (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Veronica Muskheli (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“Her Horse: A Proto-Feminist Central Asian Wonder Tale Unknown in the West”
Dana Sherry (Silk Road House; [email protected])
“Folk Feminism?: Power, Lust, and Violence in Folktales Told by Women”
Kira van Deusen (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Life and Death: A Tuvan Shaman in Fact and Fiction”

HI-08 ♦ The Qing Empire between China and Central Asia

Location: Denny 211
Chair: Jonathan Lipman (Mt. Holyoke College; [email protected])
Discussant: Jonathan Lipman (Mt. Holyoke College; [email protected])
Matthew Mosca (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
“Mystery of the Missing Country?: Persia in Qing Geographic Scholarship in the 18th Century”
Noriko Unno-Yamazaki (Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences; [email protected])
“The Cultural and Political Activities of Russian Muslim Intellectuals in Early 20th-Century China”
Eric Schluessel (University of Montana; [email protected])
“Islamic Interpretations of the Chinese Rites in Late-Qing Xinjiang”

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HI-10 ♦ Between Resistance and Accommodation: Muslim Tatars and the Russian Imperial
State, 1800-1914
Location: Denny 210
Chair: Elena Campbell (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Ian Campbell (University of California, Davis; [email protected])
Kelly A. O’Neill (Harvard University; [email protected])
“Shipbuilders, Shepherds, and the Politics of Nature in 19th Century Crimea”
Stefan B. Kirmse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany; [email protected])
“In Defense of Land and Faith: Rebellious Tatars Encountering State Officials in Late Nineteenth-
Century Crimea and Kazan”
Norihiro Naganawa (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan;
[email protected])
“Mutinous Intermediaries? Muslim Chinovniki in the 1905 Revolution”

HI-11 ♦ Central Asia in the USSR

Location: Denny 256
Chair: Ali Igmen (California State University, Long Beach; [email protected])
Discussant: Anna Whittington (University of Michigan; [email protected])
Didar Kassymova (KIMEP University; [email protected]) and Baurzhan Zhanguttin (Abay State University;
[email protected])
“Migrations Regulations during the Virgin Lands Campaign in Soviet Kazakhstan”
Maria Taylor (University of Michigan; [email protected])
“Designing Garden-Factories under Stalin: From Moscow to Tashkent”

PO-06 ♦ Author-Critic Forum: Regine Spector’s ‘Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in
Central Asia’
Location: Denny 259
Chair: Liliya Karimova (Kennan Institute / George Washington University)
Amanda Wooden (Bucknell University; [email protected])
Emil Dzhuraev (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Scott Radnitz (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Regine Spector (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; [email protected])

RE-01 ♦ Islam in Central Asia 1

Location: Denny 313
Chair: Rahimjon Abdugafurov (Emory University; [email protected])
Discussant: John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Shahnoza Madaeva (National University of Uzbekistan; [email protected]) and Nargiza
Hidirova
“Islam, Power and Mechanisms of Formation of Religious Identity in Fergana Valley”
Nazif Shahrani (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“‘Wahhabi’ Narrations of the First Muslims in the Mid-1990s for Post-Soviet Central Asians”

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Paul Kubicek (Oakland University; [email protected])
“Islamist Political Orientations Among Central Asian Youth”

RS-01 ♦ Afghanistan
Location: Denny 213
Chair: Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh; [email protected])
Discussant: Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh; [email protected])
Lenny Linke (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Transiting in the Shadow? Trade, Economy and Traditions Across the Afghan-Pakistani Border”
Sayed Nooroddin Alavi (Kabul University; [email protected])
“Corruption in Afghanistan: Factors, Types and Consequences”
Christina Sciabarra (Bellevue College; [email protected]) and Farzana Hervey (University of
Arizona; [email protected])
“No Time for Love-Songs: Utilizing Contemporary Afghan Women’s Poetry to Understand
Peacebuilding in Post-9/11 Afghanistan”
Bill Mankins (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Epistemology, Intelligence, and Strategy in the US Armed Intervention in Afghanistan”

SO-06 ♦ Migration
Location: Denny 113
Chair: Michelle O’Brien (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Cholpon Turdalieva (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
Jakhongir Kakhkharov (Griffith University; [email protected])
“Remittances and Financial Development in Transition Economies”
Bakhrom Radjabov (University of Tsukuba; [email protected])
“Social Remittances Created by Uzbek Students Studying in Kassel, Germany and Tsukuba,
Japan: A Comparative Analysis”
Vasili Rukhadze (The Jamestown Foundation; [email protected])
“Mass Migration and Economic Crisis in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Which Starts First and
How Do They Impact Each Other?”
Farrukh Irnazarov (Central Asian Development Institute; [email protected])
“The Impact of Russian Re-entry Bans on Central Asian Labor Migrants’ Coping Strategies”
Canan Cetin (Yildirim Beyazit University; [email protected])
“The Gravity Model of Migration Applied to Central Asia?”

Session 7 ♦ Sat., Oct. 7, 10:45-12:30

CU-03 ♦ Nostalgia, Bilingualism and Identity in Eurasian Literature

Location: Denny 112
Chair: Dana Sherry (Silk Road House; [email protected])
Discussant: Mary Childs (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Miglena Dikova-Milanova (University of Ghent; [email protected])
“How to Deal with Nostalgia”

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Azatkul Kudaibergenova (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Creative Bilingualism of Chingiz Aitmatov”
Dmitriy Melnikov (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
“Writing as Identity: Narrating Imagined (Hi)Stories in Contemporary Kazakhstani Russophone
Literature”

CU-08 ♦ Engagement, Authenticity and Gender in Eurasian Mountaineering

Location: 110
Chair: Krista Goff (University of Miami; [email protected])
Discussant: Timothy Blauvelt (American Councils / Ilia State University; [email protected])
John P. Hope (Purdue University; [email protected])
“Vot eto dlia muzhchin - riukzak i ledorub: Soviet Mountaineering, Popular Culture, and the
Question of Gender”
Ben Bamberger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; [email protected])
“At the Center of the Periphery: Svaneti and the Meaning of Mountainous Space, 1925-1955”

CU-09 ♦ The Arts in Politics and Memory in Central Eurasia

Location: Denny 111
Chair: Wumaier Yilamu (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
Discussant: Petya Andreeva (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected])
Monica Steinberg (University of Southern California; [email protected])
“Subtle Activism in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”
Alexey Ulko (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Postcolonial Perspectives on Contemporary Esoteric Art in Uzbekistan”

GE-01 ♦ Geography Beyond the Nation

Location: Denny 259
Chair: Douglas Northrop (University of Michigan; [email protected])
Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected])
Eva-Marie Dubuisson (Bogazici University; [email protected])
“Exploring a Sacred Geography: Environmental Discourses in Kazakhstan”
Amanda Wooden (Bucknell University; [email protected])
“Meanings of Glaciers, Mountains, and Mines in Kyrgyzstan’s Historical Context and Future
Climate Change”
Diana Kudaibergenova (University of Lund / University of Cambridge; [email protected])
“My Silk Road to You: Re-imagining Routes, Roads, and Geography in Contemporary Art of
Central Asia”

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HI-12 ♦ Historical Diplomacy
Location: Denny 210
Chair: Ron Sela (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Discussant: Ron Sela (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Aftandil Erkinov (Tashkent State University of the Uzbek language and literature named after Alisher
Navoi; [email protected])
“A Poetical Anthology Infused with the Geopolitical Design of the Kokand Khanate: The
Muhabbat-Nama as a Diplomatic Gift from Umar-khan (1810-1822) to the Ottoman Sultan
Mahmud II (1808-1839)”
Hideyuki Naganuma (University of Tokyo; [email protected])
“Russia’s Politics toward the Kazakh Khans in the Early 19th Century: ‘Divide et Impera’
Paradigm Revisited”
Gulchekhra Sultonova (Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences; [email protected])
“A Dialog between Bukhara and Russia on Power Change in 18th Century: Analyzing Archival
Documents of Russian Empire”

HI-13 ♦ Historiography
Location: Denny 256
Chair: Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College; [email protected])
Discussant: Eric Schluessel (University of Montana; [email protected])
Yunus Emre Gurbuz (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University; [email protected])
“Nationalization of the Historical Territory in Azerbaijan: The Impact of Nagorno-Karabakh
Conflict on the Azerbaijani Historiography”
Kwang Tae Lee (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
“Making a Villain in Bukhara: The Russian-Soviet Historiography on Amir Nasrullah (r. 1827-
1860)”
Ali Mohammad Tarafdari (National Library & Archives of I. R. of Iran; [email protected])
“The Link between Archaeology and Nationalism in Iran: Archaeology Excavations and
Nationalistic Historiography in Qajar Era”
Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; [email protected])
“Anchoring the Nation in the Past: History Textbooks and Nation-building in Central Asia”

PO-08 ♦ Conflict in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Location: Denny 211
Chair: Rainer Ruge (Former EU Council Officer; [email protected])
Discussant: Michelle O’Brien (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Grkem Atsungur (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Politics of Ethnic Mobilization: Ethnic Identity and External Kin: Russian Compatriots in Post-
Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan”
Qingming Huang (University of Florida; [email protected])
“Generational Gap and Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang”
Natia Jalabadze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Javakhishvili Institute of History and
Ethnology; [email protected])
“Interethnic Relations in the Borderlands: The Case of Georgia and North Ossetia -Alania”

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Emrullah Uslu (Virginia International University; [email protected])
“Caucasian, Central Asian-origin and Uyghur Militant Islamist Network in Turkey”

RE-02 ♦ Islam in Central Asia 2

Location: Denny 258
Chair: Paul Kubicek (Oakland University; [email protected])
Discussant: Nazif Shahrani (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Mukaram Toktogulova (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Religious Mobilities of Masturat (Female Tablighies) in Kyrgyzstan”
Daria Saprynskaya (Moscow State University; [email protected])
“The Role of Islam in the Process of Oralman’s Social Adaptation in Kazakhstan”
Charles Weller (Washington State University and Georgetown University; [email protected])
“Abai and Islam in Soviet and Post-Soviet Perspective”

RE-03 ♦ Religion in the Caucasus

Location: Denny 313
Chair: Ia Grigalashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; [email protected])
Discussant: John Colarusso (McMaster University; [email protected])
Kevin Tuite (Universite de Montreal; [email protected])
“The Institutional and Popular Cults of the Military Saints in the Western Caucasus”
Nino Ghambashidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Javakhishvili Institute of History and
Ethnology; [email protected])
“Forms of the Georgian Traditional Pilgrimage and the Modern Orthodox Autocephalous Church
of Georgia”
Lavrenti Janiashvili (Tbilisi State University / Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Tbilisi;
[email protected])
“Traditional Festivals against the Background of Ethno-demographic Transformations: Some
Aspects of Georgian-Ossetian Relations in Kazbegi District”

RS-03 ♦ Kazakhstan 1: Journalism, Public Opinion and Protest

Location: Denny 213
Chair: Nora Webb Williams (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
Discussant: Alexander Diener (University of Kansas; [email protected])
Nazgul Shyngyssova (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected]), Aliya Boranbayeva (Al-
Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected]) and Saida Negizbayeva (Narxoz University;
[email protected])
“Are We Living through a ‘Golden Age’ of Tabloid Journalism?”
Galiya Ibrayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
“Why Study Journalism: Perspectives of Future Kazakh Journalists”
Barbara Junisbai (Pitzer College; [email protected]), Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College;
[email protected]) and Baurzhan Zhusupov (National Medical Academy;
[email protected])
“The Nazarbayev Generation and Public Opinion in Kazakhstan”

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Ajay Kumar Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University; [email protected])
“Causes and Nature of Protests in Kazakhstan”

SO-07 ♦ Social Media

Location: Denny 113
Chair: Swetlana Torno (Heidelberg University; [email protected])
Discussant: Gulnara Medeubekova (University of Toronto; [email protected])
Inessa Beloglazova (Kazan Federal University; [email protected])
“Citing the Quran on the Internet: Social Networks (On Material of Community Islam…”
Karlyga Myssayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected])
“The Impact of Social Media in Kazakhstan”
Katy Pearce (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]), Jessica Vitak (University of
Maryland) and Kristen Barta (University of Washington, Seattle)
“Socially Mediated Visibility: Friendship and Dissent in Authoritarian Azerbaijan”
Amita Vempati (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“#tajik: Post-Soviet Nationalism, Curated Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Hashtag Use”

Session 8 ♦ Sat., Oct. 7, 14:15-16:00

AN-08 ♦ Values and Well-Being

Location: Denny 112
Chair: Katy Pearce (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Balihar Sanghera (University of Kent; [email protected])
Corinne Hughes (Portland State University; [email protected])
“Freedom, Capability, and Poverty: Conceptualizing Well-being in Post-Soviet Space”
Jildyz Urbaeva (State University of New York at Albany; [email protected]), Ted Jackson (State
University of New York at Albany; [email protected]) and Daejun Park (State University of
New York at Albany; [email protected])
“Are Social Relations Good for Health? Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, a Low-Income Transitional
Society”
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University; [email protected])
“The Rise of Illiberal Values in Central Asia”
Fatemeh Sadraee (University of Kansas; [email protected])
“Ab-Paria ‘Water Fairy’: The Concept of Water from Mythology to Reality, from Sacredness to
Scarcity”
Galib Bashirov (Florida International University; [email protected])
“Deconstructing Multiculturalism Discourse in Azerbaijan”

CU-10 ♦ Visuality and Representation in Central Asia

Location: Denny 110
Chair: Monica Steinberg (University of Southern California; [email protected])
Discussant: Monica Steinberg (University of Southern California; [email protected])

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Konstantin Vasiltsov (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) Russian Academy of
Science; [email protected])
“Visual Representation and Russian Orientalism: Central Asia in Photo-illustrative Collections of
the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography RAS”
Moldiyar Yergebekov (Suleyman Demirel University; [email protected]) and Amina
Zhemeney (KIMEP University; [email protected])
“Representation of Women in Contemporary Kazakh Cinema”
Petya Andreeva (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected])
“Visualizing Central Asia: Pictorial Narratives of Early Propaganda Art in Soviet Russia and the
People’s Republic of China”

HI-02 ♦ Author-Critic Forum: Making Uzbekistan: A Conversation with Adeeb Khalid

Location: Denny 259
Chair: Scott Levi (Ohio State University; [email protected])
Alexander Morrison (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
Adrienne Edgar (University of California, Santa Barbara; [email protected])
Marianne Kamp (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University; [email protected])
Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College; [email protected])

HI-14 ♦ Central Asia in the Middle Ages

Location: Denny 210
Chair: Michael Hope (Yonsei University; [email protected])
Discussant: Anne Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; [email protected])
Guram Chikovani (Free University of Tbilisi; [email protected])
“Arabs of Central Asia: Materials of Scientific Expeditions”
Zachary Hershey (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected])
“Alcohol and Diplomacy: Khitan-Chinese Relations in the Early 11th Century”
Khilola Nazirova (Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences; [email protected])
and Hamidullo Aminov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences;
[email protected])
“Khwarizmian Calendar Based on 19th Century Manuscripts”
Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University; [email protected])
“To Cross, or Not to Cross, the Hindu-Kush: The Transition Between the Kidarite and Hephthalite
Rule in Tokharistan”
Abdumalik Tuychibaev (Ankara University; [email protected])
“Samarkand in the Light of Fatwas”

PO-09 ♦ Revolution and Opposition

Location: Denny 111
Chair: Regine Spector (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; [email protected])
Discussant: Jesse Driscoll (University of California, San Diego; [email protected])
Rebecca Clendenen (University of Illinois at Chicago; [email protected])
“Articulations of Legitimacy in the Orange Revolution”

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Maia Machavariani (Dublin City University; [email protected])
“Political Opposition versus Sources of Power in the Caspian Region; Case Studies from
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan”
Elena Semenova (Free University of Berlin; [email protected])
“Why Revolutions Fail? Political Elites in Kyrgyzstan”

RS-04 ♦ Kazakhstan 2: Nationalism, Identity and Representation

Location: Denny 213
Chair: Jukka Pietilainen (University of Helsinki; [email protected])
Discussant: Diana Kudaibergenova (University of Lund / University of Cambridge; [email protected])
Mukhtar Senggirbay (Suleyman Demirel University; [email protected])
“Socio-Psychological Conditions Influencing the Ethno-Cultural Identity Shift of Kazakhstani
Russians”
Elise Ahn (University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected])
“A Phenomenological Look at Historical Diasporas in Kazakhstan: Situating the Experiences of
Kazakhstani Koreans”
Alexander Diener (University of Kansas; [email protected]), Nora Webb Williams (University of
Washington, Seattle; [email protected]) and Kristoffer Rees (Indiana University East;
[email protected])
“Civic Nationalism in Kazakhstan: Results from 2017 Fieldwork”
Maira Zeinilova (Dublin City University; [email protected])
“Analyzing the Significance of the Changing Pattern of the Descriptive Representation of
Women in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Kazakhstan”

RS-05 ♦ Kyrgyzstan
Location: Denny 258
Chair: Vincent Artman (Wayne State; [email protected])
Discussant: Edward Schatz (University of Toronto; [email protected])
Emil Dzhuraev (American University of Central Asia; [email protected])
“Post-Revolutionary Nationalism in Kyrgyzstan”
Sarah Hummel (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; [email protected])
“Saying No: Determinants of Dissent Among Kyrgyz Legislators”
Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College; [email protected]) and Barbara Junisbai (Pitzer College;
[email protected])
“Institutional Trust in Kazakhstan vs. Kyrgyzstan: How Do the Divergent Trajectories Matter?”

RS-06 ♦ Mongolia and China

Location: Denny 211
Chair: Sansar Tsakhirmaa (Johns Hopkins University; [email protected])
Discussant: Darren Byler (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Sandrine Emmanuelle Catris (Augusta University; [email protected])
“The Cultural Revolution and the ‘Xinjiang Wenti’: The Beijing Narrative”
Sureyya Yigit (Yalova University; [email protected])
“Mongolian Transition: The Normative Role of the European Union”

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Sharad Soni (Jawaharlal Nehru University; [email protected])
“Reassessing Mongolian Foreign Policy amidst Quest for ‘Permanent Neutrality’”

SC-01 ♦ 2015 Public Outreach Award: CESMI: Central Eurasian Scholars and Media Initiative
Location: Denny 113
Chair: Annika Schmeding (CESMI; [email protected])
David W. Montgomery (University of Maryland; [email protected])
Bruce Pannier (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; [email protected])

SO-08 ♦ Cities in Central Asia

Location: Denny 313
Chair: Zachary Schuyler (University of Chicago; [email protected])
Discussant: Bert Cramer (Independent Scholar, [email protected])
Emil Nasritdinov (American University of Central Asia; [email protected]) and Raushanna Sarkeyeva
“Structure and Texture of Bishkek’s Urban Communities: Who Has a Right to the City?”
Vladimir Ionesov (Samara State Institute of Culture; [email protected])
“Samara and Samarkand in Dialogue of Cities: Experience of Transcultural Samarkandiana
Project”
Christilla Marteau d’Autry (Center of Comparative Sociology and Ethnology (LESC);
[email protected])
“The Foundation of a Mahalla: An Ongoing Process”

SO-10 ♦ Families in Central Asia

Location: Denny 256
Chair: Guangqing Chi (Pennsylvania State University; [email protected])
Discussant: Margarethe Waldt (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; [email protected])
Saltanat Childress (University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected])
“Understanding Help-seeking and Coping Mechanisms among Women Survivors of Domestic
Abuse in Kyrgyzstan: A Qualitative Study”
Gulrukh Rakhimova (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Intercultural Parenting among Russian-speaking Families in Uzbekistan”
Swetlana Torno (Heidelberg University; [email protected])
“Mothers in Sorrow: On the Interrelations of Love, Care and Aging in Tajikistan”
Helene Thibault (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
“Second-wives and Other Polygynous Arrangements in Astana”

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Session 9 ♦ Sun., Oct. 8, 8:45-10:30

AN-09 ♦ Archeology in Central Asia

Location: Denny 112
Chair: Jennifer Webster (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected])
Discussant: Nurten Kilic Schubel (Kenyon College, [email protected])
Farhod Razzoqov (Institute of History of the Republic of Tadjikistan / Germany Archaeology Institute;
[email protected])
“The Use of New Methods for the Investigation of Ceramics from Sarazm (Tajikistan) and
Neighboring Settlements in Southern Turkmenistan (Copper and Early Bronze Age, 4-3 BC): First
Results”
Alexander Pachkalov (Financial University; [email protected])
“Numismatics Sources about History of Silk Road in 13th-15th Centuries”
Ablet Kamalov (Turan University; [email protected])
“The Burial Site Shoroon Bumbagar (678 AD) in Mongolia as a New Source on the Early History
of the Toquz-Oghuz (Uyghur)”

RS-07 ♦ Sovereignty and Governance in the Caucasus

Location: Denny 111
Chair: Katy Pearce (University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]),
Discussant: Jeremy Johnson (University of Michigan; [email protected])
John Latham-Sprinkle (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; [email protected])
“Sovereignty and Treason in the Medieval Caucasus”
Farid Shafiyev (MFA of Azerbaijan; [email protected])
“The Forced Resettlement of Azerbaijanis from Armenia, 1948-1953”
Sasha Klyachkina (Northwestern University; [email protected])
“Reconstruction of Local Order and Governance: Responses to State Collapse in the North
Caucasus”
Yulia Antonyan (Yerevan State University; [email protected])
“Market Economy and Economy of Faith: Economic Dimensions of Piety in Contemporary
Armenia”
Cristina Boboc (Ghent University; [email protected])
“Not Halal, Nor Haram: The Double Life of the Azerbaijani Middle Class”

RS-08 ♦ Tatarstan
Location: Denny 113
Chair: Daniel Schafer (Belmont University; [email protected]
Discussant: Ali Igmen (California State University, Long Beach; [email protected])
Liliya Karimova (Kennan Institute / George Washington University; [email protected])
“The Transformative Shariah: Polygyny, Faith, and Community in Tatarstan”
Rezeda Safiullina-Al Ansi (Kazan Federal University; [email protected])
“The Volga Tatars’ Religious Discourse and the State: Historical Perspectives and Present-Day
Discussions”

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Leila Almazova (Kazan Federal University; [email protected])
“Teaching Religion at Schools in the Republic of Tatarstan (2011-2017)”
Sansar Tsakhirmaa (Johns Hopkins University; [email protected])
“Comparative Institutionalized Bilingualism in Tatarstan, Russia and Xinjiang, China: Findings
and Explanations”

SO-09 ♦ Women in Central Asia

Location: Denny 259
Chair: Saltanat Childress (University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected])
Discussant: Selbi Jumayeva (Bishkek Feminist Initiatives; [email protected])
Dilnoza Khasilova (University of Wyoming; [email protected])
“Triple Consciousness and Moments of Transformation: ‘Mystory’ of an Uzbek Girl”
John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
“What Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Do: Religion as a Challenge to Analytical Norms of
Modernity”
Elmira Satybaldieva (University of Kent; [email protected])
“A Mob for Hire? The Older Women’s Agency and Politics in Kyrgyzstan”
Xeniya Udod (Nazarbayev University; [email protected])
“A Choir of Soloists: Agendas and Controversies of Contemporary Feminism in Kazakhstan”

Session 10 ♦ Sun., Oct. 8, 10:45-12:30

HI-04 ♦ Leadership, Literature, Libraries, and Lenses: Edward Allworth’s Legacy in Central
Asian Studies
Location: Denny 259
Chair: Alexander Cooley (Columbia University; [email protected])
Clark Allworth will share memories and photos of his father.
Robert Davis (Columbia University; [email protected])
“Edward and Janet Allworth, and Central Asian Library Resources at Columbia”
Martha Merrill (Kent State University; [email protected])
“Rereading Edward Allworth, Rethinking Educational Assumptions”
Bruce Pannier (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; [email protected])
“The Contemporary Relevance of Classic Central Asian Literature”
Peter Sinnott (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“Leadership And The Good Ruler In Central Asia – An Appreciation of the Career of Professor
Edward Allworth, Columbia University”

IR-03 ♦ Geopolitics in Eurasia

Location: Denny 113
Chair: Rainer Ruge (Former EU Council Officer; [email protected])
Discussant: Olena Kolos (International Chamber of Commerce of Ukraine; [email protected])

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Thomas Wood (University of South Carolina, Aiken; [email protected])
“Kyrgyzstan and the Eurasian Union: A Neofunctionalist Perspective”
Yaşar Sarı (Abant Izzet Baysal University; [email protected])
“Turkish Foreign Policy Towards Russia Since The Arab Spring”
Ling-Wei Kung (Columbia University; [email protected])
“Intelligence Networking between Ladakh, Tibet and the Qing Dynasty, 1724-1759”

RS-09 ♦ Uzbekistan
Location: Denny 110
Chair: Dilnoza Khasilova (University of Wyoming; [email protected])
Discussant: Marianne Kamp (Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected])
Zachary Schuyler (University of Chicago; [email protected])
“Karimov’s Legacy? Evoking the Body and Flesh of Timur”
Nargiza Usmanova (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“The Difference in Work Ethic and Personality between Older and Younger Generations in
Uzbekistan during the Transition Period”
William Dirks (Independent Scholar; [email protected])
“The Elusive ‘Clans’ of Uzbekistan”

SO-11 ♦ Family and Childhood

Location: Denny 112
Chair: Saltanat Childress (University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected])
Discussant: Dilnoza Khasilova (University of Wyoming; [email protected])
Tripp Rosenfelt (Basis Tucson North; [email protected])
“Emigration and Exile: Teenage Voices Across the Uyghur Diaspora”
Margarethe Waldt (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; [email protected])
“Taking Chances: How People in Karakalpakstan Frame Their Youth in School Stories”
Mehmet Kasikci (Arizona State University; [email protected])
“Socialist Visions in the Periphery: Imagining Childhood in Soviet Kazakhstan”
Guangqing Chi (Pennsylvania State University; [email protected]), Annelise Hagedorn (Pennsylvania State
University; [email protected]), Christian Scott (Pennsylvania State University) and Geoffrey Henebry
(South Dakota State University)
“Left-Behind Children in Kyrgyzstan: Lost in Labor Migration, Remittances, and Poverty”

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Participants Index and Information

[Page numbers are given in bold face, followed by the Aminov, Hamidullo ♦ 33:HI-14
panel code.] Senior Researcher
Abashia, Revaz ♦ 15:CU-01; 18:LI-01 Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of
Associate Professor Sciences; [email protected]
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Amogolonova, Darima ♦ 16:HI-16
[email protected] Leading Researcher
Abdurasulov, Khushnudbek ♦ 23:HI-17 Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies,
Junior Research Fellow / Head of International Relations Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Office [email protected]; http://imbt.ru
Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Anderson, Jamilya ♦ 19:CU-02
Sciences; [email protected] PhD Student, Sociology
Abubakirova, Asel ♦ 20:PO-02 Kansas State University; [email protected]
Lecturer, Writer, PhD in Culturology Andreeva, Petya ♦ 14:CU-09; 33:CU-10
The Scientific and Educational Society for Cultural Studies, PhD Candidate
Academy of Public Administration under President of the University of Pennsylvania; [email protected]
Kyrgyz Republic; [email protected] Antonyan, Yulia ♦ 36:RS-07
Ahn, Elise ♦ 34:RS-04 Associate Professor
Project Manager, Office of International Projects Yerevan State University; [email protected];
University of Wisconsin-Madison; www.ysu.am
[email protected]; www.elisesahn.com Artman, Vincent ♦ 19:CU-02; 27:RS-05
Akulov, Mikhail ♦ 19:ED-01 PhD, Instructor, Peace Studies
Dean of the Faculty of General Education Wayne State; [email protected]
Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty; Atsungur, Grkem ♦ 30:PO-08
[email protected], [email protected] Assistant Professor
Alavi, Sayed Nooroddin ♦ 28:RS-01 American University of Central Asia;
Associate Professor [email protected]; www.auca.kg
Kabul University; [email protected] Atwood, Christopher ♦ 29:GE-01; 22:LI-02
Ale-Ebrahim, Benjamin ♦ 19:CU-02 Professor of History and East Asian Languages and
PhD Student Civilizations
Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Pennsylvania; [email protected]
[email protected] Azimova, Aigerim ♦ 16:LA-01
Alenkina, Natalia ♦ 16:LA-01 Student
Assistant Professor American University of Central Asia;
American University of Central Asia; [email protected] [email protected]
Alexander, Sara ♦ 24:CU-05 Bakhtibekova, Zulfiya ♦ 12:CU-02; 23:SO-04
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Institute Assistant Professor
of Archaeology University of Central Asia; [email protected]
Baylor University; [email protected] Bamberger, Ben ♦ 29:CU-08
Alimdjanov, Bakhtiyor ♦ 16:HI-16 PhD Student
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
University of Saint Petersburg; [email protected] [email protected]
Allworth, Clark ♦ 16:HI-04 Barta, Kristen ♦ 32:SO-07
Almazova, Leila ♦ 37:RS-08 ; AN-02 Doctoral Student
Associate Professor University of Washington, Seattle
Kazan Federal University; [email protected] Bashirov, Galib ♦ 32:AN-08
Aman, Izzat ♦ 18:SO-02 PhD Candidate/Lecturer
Independent Scholar Florida International University; [email protected]
Independent Scholar; [email protected] Beahrs, Robert ♦ 22:CU-06
Amat, Akbar ♦ 20:LI-02 Postdoctoral Scholar, SSRC InterAsia Fellow
PhD Student University of Pittsburgh; [email protected];
University of Kansas; [email protected] www.robeahrs.com
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Bedeski, Robert ♦ 18:PO-01 Campbell, Ian ♦ 25:HI-09; 27:HI-10; 20:HI-17
Professor Emeritus; Affiliate Professor Assistant Professor
University of Victoria, Canada; University of Washington; University of California, Davis; [email protected]
[email protected] Catris, Sandrine Emmanuelle ♦ 34:RS-06
Beloglazova, Inessa ♦ 32:SO-07 Assistant Professor of History
PhD Student Augusta University; [email protected]
Kazan Federal University; [email protected] Cetin, Canan ♦ 28:SO-06
Beynen, Bert ♦ 18:LI-01; 24:CU-05 Research Assistant
Librarian Yildirim Beyazit University; [email protected]
Temple University; [email protected] Chapman, Terrence ♦ 16:LA-01
Bilaniuk, Laada ♦ 25:HI-09; 13:CU-06 Professor
Professor University of Texas, Austin; [email protected]
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Chaudoin, Stephen ♦ 16:LA-01
Blakkisrud, Helge ♦ 23:AN-05 ; 30:HI-13 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Senior Researcher, Head of Research Group on Russia and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Eurasia [email protected]
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; [email protected]; Chi, Guangqing ♦ 32:SO-10; 38:SO-11
http://www.nupi.no/en/About- Associate Professor and Director of the Computational and
NUPI/Employees/Researchers/Helge-Blakkisrud Spatial Analysis Core
Blauvelt, Timothy ♦ 18:SC-02 ; 23:PO-04 ; 25:LI-03 ; Pennsylvania State University; [email protected];
29:CU-08 www.landdevelopability.org/chi
Associate Professor/Country Director, Georgia Chikovani, Guram ♦ 33:HI-14
American Councils / Ilia State University; Full Professor, Director, Free University Center for the
[email protected] Study of Arab Countries and Islamic World
Boboc, Cristina ♦ 36:RS-07 Free University of Tbilisi; [email protected];
PhD Fellow gchikovani.ge
Ghent University; [email protected]; Childress, Saltanat ♦ 31:SO-09; 32:SO-10 35:SO-11
http://caspianet.eu/people/cristina-boboc/ Research Scientist
Boranbayeva, Aliya ♦ 31:RS-03 University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected]
Teaching Assistant Childs, Mary ♦ 12:CU-03; 24:CU-05; 26:CU-07; 18:LI-01
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected] Lecturer
Broadbridge, Anne ♦ 22:HI-06; 20:HI-14 University of Washington, Seattle;
Associate Professor [email protected]
University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Chokobaeva, Aminat ♦ 16:HI-16
[email protected] PhD student
Brose, Michael ♦ 22:HI-06 Australian National University;
Professor [email protected]
University of Wyoming; [email protected] Christensen, Julie ♦ 24:CU-05
Buell, Paul ♦ 17:HI-03 Professor
Research Felloq George Mason University; [email protected]
University of Salzburg; [email protected] Clendenen, Rebecca ♦ 33:PO-09
Buelow, Samuel ♦ 21:SO-03 ; 24:CU-04 Graduate Student
Adjunct Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago; [email protected];
Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected] rebeccaclendenen.com
Burghart, Daniel ♦ 20:PO-03 Colarusso, John ♦ 15:CU-01 ; 18:LI-01; 26:RE-03
Professor of Eurasian and National Security Studies Professor
National Intelligence University; [email protected] McMaster University; [email protected]
Byler, Darren ♦ 15:AN-01; 26:AN-06; 27:RS-06 Cooley, Alexander ♦ 37:HI-04
PhD Student, Anthropology Director, Harriman Institute
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Columbia University; [email protected]
Campbell, Elena ♦ 27:HI-10 Cramer, Bert ♦ 15:EN-01; 31:SO-08
Associate Professor Independent Scholar
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] [email protected]

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Senior Program Officer, Education Practice, MA, M.Ed. Professor
IREX, Washington, DC; [email protected] Tashkent State University of the Uzbek language and
Davis, Robert ♦ 17:HI-04 literature named after Alisher Navoi;
Librarian for Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies [email protected]; http://navoiy-uni.uz
Columbia University; [email protected] Ganich, Anastasiya ♦ 21:AN-02
DeYoung, Alan ♦ 17:SO-01 Research associate / Department of Central Asia and the
Professor Emeritus Caucasus
University of Kentucky; [email protected] Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State
Diener, Alexander ♦ 26:RS-03; 34:RS-04 University; [email protected]
Associate Professor of Geography Ghambashidze, Nino ♦ 31:RE-03
University of Kansas; [email protected] Senior Researcher
Dierkes, Julian ♦ 18:PO-01 Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Javakhishvili
Associate Professor Institute of History and Ethnology;
University British Columbia; [email protected] [email protected]
Dikova-Milanova, Miglena ♦ 28:CU-03 Giles, Stacie ♦ 21:PO-03
Lescturer in Bulgarian language and culture Adjunct Instructor
University of Ghent; [email protected] Virginia Commonwealth University;
[email protected]
Dirks, William ♦ 38:RS-09
Language Instructor Goff, Krista ♦ 23:PO-04; 29:CU-08
Independent Scholar; [email protected] Assistant Professor
University of Miami; [email protected]
Doolbekova, Zhyldyz ♦ 15:EN-01
Regional Coordinator Goibnazarov, Chorshanbe ♦ 19:AN-03
The Christensen Fund Central Asia; Junior Research Fellow
[email protected]; www.christensenfund.org University of Central Asia;
[email protected]
Driscoll, Jesse ♦ 18:SC-02 ; 25:PO-05; 25:PO-09
Assistant Professor Graham, Norman ♦ 17:IR-01
University of California, San Diego; Professor and Director, Center for European, Russian, and
[email protected] Eurasian Studies
Michigan State University; [email protected]
Dubuisson, Eva-Marie ♦ 29:GE-01
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grigalashvili, Ia ♦ 15:CU-01 ; 26:RE-03
Bogazici University; [email protected] Professor
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University;
Duisebayeva, Fatima ♦ 19:ED-01
[email protected]
Professor, Director of the Dpt. for International
Cooperation Gurbuz, Yunus Emre ♦ 30:HI-13
Kazakh National Agrarian University, Almaty; Associate Professor
[email protected] Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University; [email protected]
Duishembieva, Jipar ♦ 16:HI-01 ; 24:HI-07 Hagedorn, Annelise ♦ 38:SO-11
Lecturer Pennsylvania State University
Evergreen State College; [email protected] Handrahan, Lori ♦ 21:AN-04
Dwyer, Arienne M. ♦ 15:AN-01 ; 20:LI-02 ; 26:AN-06 ; Human Rights and Gender Consultant
Independent Consultant; [email protected]
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Professor of Anthropology Henebry, Geoffrey ♦ 38:SO-11
University of Kansas; [email protected] South Dakota State University
Dzhuraev, Emil ♦ 9:AN-02 ; 27:PO-06 ; 34:RS-05 Hershey, Zachary ♦ 33:HI-14
Associate Professor PhD Student
American University of Central Asia; University of Pennsylvania; [email protected]
[email protected] Hervey, Farzana ♦ 28:RS-01
Edgar, Adrienne ♦ 20:HI-05 ; 33:HI-02 Graduate Student
Associate Professor of History University of Arizona; [email protected]
University of California, Santa Barbara; Hidirova, Nargiza ♦ 27:RE-01
[email protected] Hodjaev, Malik ♦ 25:LI-03
Eirkson, Christopher ♦ 17:HI-03 Senior Lecturer in Uzbek
Graduate Student Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected]
University of Pittsburgh; [email protected]

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Assistant Professor PhD Candidate - History/Anthropology
Purdue University; [email protected] University of Michigan; [email protected]
Hope, Michael ♦ 22:HI-06; 20:HI-14 Jumayeva, Selbi ♦ 21:SO-03; 30:SO-04; 31:SO-09
Assistant Professor Independent Researcher. Local feminist activist
Yonsei University; [email protected] Bishkek Feminist Initiatives; [email protected]
Horst, Bradley ♦ 24:CU-04 Junisbai, Azamat ♦ 31:RS-03; 34:RS-05
PhD Candidate Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Pitzer College; [email protected]
Huang, Qingming ♦ 30:PO-08 Junisbai, Barbara ♦ 31:RS-03; 34:RS-05
PhD student Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies
University of Florida; [email protected] Pitzer College; [email protected]
Hughes, Corinne ♦ 32:AN-08 Kadir, Aynur ♦ 15:AN-01
Graduate Student PhD Candidate
Portland State University; [email protected] Simon Fraser University; [email protected]
Hummel, Sarah ♦ 34:RS-05 Kakhkharov, Jakhongir ♦ 28:SO-06
Assistant Professor Associate Lecturer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Griffith University; [email protected]
[email protected] Kamalov, Ablet ♦ 36:AN-09
Ibrayeva, Galiya ♦ 31:RS-03 Professor
Counselor of the First Vice-Rector, Professor Turan University; [email protected]; turan.edu.kz
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; Kamp, Marianne ♦ 33:HI-02 ; 20:HI-05 ; 20:HI-16;
[email protected] 28:RS-09
Igmen, Ali ♦ 20:HI-05; 19:HI-11; 28:RS-08 ; 29 Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected]
California State University, Long Beach; [email protected] Kapalova, Altyn ♦ 24:AN-05
Ionesov, Vladimir ♦ 35:SO-08 Researcher
Head, Department of Theory and History of Culture Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of
Samara State Institute of Culture; [email protected]; Central Asia; [email protected]
www.smrgaki.ru Karimova, Liliya ♦ 22:AN-07; 36:RS-08 ; 30:SO-02 ; PO-
Irnazarov, Farrukh ♦ 28:SO-06 06
Country Director/Researcher Research Fellow/Professorial Lecturer
Central Asian Development Institute; Kennan Institute / George Washington University;
[email protected] [email protected]
Jackson, Ted ♦ 32:AN-08 Karimova, Mirgul ♦ 21:AN-04
PhD student Project Coordinator
State University of New York at Albany; Search for Common Ground; [email protected]
[email protected]
Kasikci, Mehmet ♦ 38:SO-11
Jalabadze, Natia ♦ 30:PO-08 PhD Candidate
Senior Researcher, Doctor of History Arizona State University; [email protected]
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Javakhishvili
Kasimova, Zukhra ♦ 17:HI-05
Institute of History and Ethnology;
PhD Student
[email protected]
University of Illinois at Chicago; [email protected]
Janiashvili, Lavrenti ♦ 31:RE-03
Kassymova, Didar ♦ 27:HI-11
Chief Scientist at the Department for Ethnology of the
Assistant Professor
Caucasus
KIMEP University; [email protected]
Tbilisi State University / Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of
History and Ethnology, Tbilisi; [email protected] Khalid, Adeeb ♦ 33:HI-02; 19:HI-13
Professor of History
Jargalsaikhan, Mendee ♦ 18:PO-01
Carleton College; [email protected]
PhD Candidate
University British Columbia; [email protected] Khasilova, Dilnoza ♦ 28:RS-09 ; 37:SO-09; 32:SO-11
PhD Student
Johnson, Eric ♦ 16:HI-01 ; 25:HI-07
University of Wyoming; [email protected]
PhD Candidate
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Kholmatova, Nodira ♦ 23:SO-04
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[email protected] [email protected]
Kilic Schubel, Nurten ♦ 11:AN-09 Laruelle, Marlene ♦ 20:PO-03 ; 32:AN-08
Associate Professor of History Research Professor
Kenyon College; [email protected] George Washington University; [email protected]
Kim, Elena ♦ 21:AN-04 ; 24:AN-05 Latham-Sprinkle, John ♦ 36:RS-07
Associate Professor, Social Sciences Division Senior Teaching Fellow
American University of Central Asia; [email protected] School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
Kirmse, Stefan B. ♦ 27:HI-10 London; [email protected]
Research coordinator and fellow Lee, Joo-Yup ♦ Error! Bookmark not defined.:HI-01
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany; Lecturer
[email protected] University of Toronto; [email protected]
Klyachkina, Sasha ♦ 23:PO-04 ; 36:RS-07 Lee, Kwang Tae ♦ 30:HI-13
PhD Candidate PhD Candidate
Northwestern University; Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected]
[email protected]; https://klyachkina.com/ Levenets, Olena ♦ 17:SO-01
Koichueva, Merim ♦ 20:PO-02 Early Stage Researcher
Professor Tallinn University of Technology;
Eastern University Mahmud Kashgar Barskani; [email protected]
[email protected] Levi, Scott ♦ 33:HI-02
Kolos, Olena ♦ 21:IR-03 Associate Professor of History
International Chamber of Commerce of Ukraine Ohio State University; [email protected]
[email protected] Levi-Sanchez, Suzanne ♦ 25:PO-05
Kubicek, Paul ♦ 28:RE-01 ; 28:RE-02 Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs
Professor of Political Science United States Naval War College; [email protected]
Oakland University; [email protected] Linke, Lenny ♦ 28:RS-01
Kudaibergenova, Azatkul ♦ 29:CU-03 Consultant - Nuk Consulting Afghanistan
Independent Scholar Independent Scholar; [email protected]
Independent Scholar; [email protected] Lipman, Jonathan ♦ 18:HI-08
Kudaibergenova, Diana ♦ 29:GE-01; 21:LA-01; 27:RS- Professor Emeritus
04 Mt Holyoke College; [email protected]
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology of Law Long, Michael ♦ 24:CU-05
University of Lund / University of Cambridge; Professor
[email protected] Baylor University; [email protected]
Kukeeva, Fatima ♦ 17:IR-01 Machavariani, Maia ♦ 34:PO-09
Professor of International Relations Junior Researcher/PhD fellow
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected] Dublin City University; [email protected]
Kulmatova, Aigul ♦ 20:PO-02 Madaeva, Shahnoza ♦ 27:RE-01
Lecturer, PhD Candidate Professor
Academy of Public Administration under President of the National University of Uzbekistan;
Kyrgyz Republic; [email protected] [email protected]
Kundakbayeva, Zhanat ♦ 23:HI-17 Mahoney, Jon ♦ 19:CU-02
Professor Professor, Philosophy
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected] Kansas State University; [email protected]
Kung, Ling-Wei ♦ 21:IR-03 Majeski, Stephen ♦ 25:PO-05
PhD student Professor
Columbia University; [email protected]; University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
http://ealac.columbia.edu/graduate/current-phd- Mankins, Bill ♦ 28:RS-01
students/#Kung PhD Candidate
Kussainova, Meiramgul ♦ 22:CU-06 Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected];
Associate Professor http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/graduate/students/manki
Nazarbayev University; [email protected] ns.shtml
Laldjebaev, Murodbek ♦ 15:EN-01 Marteau d'Autry, Christilla ♦ 35:SO-08
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[email protected] 26:RS-01
Martin, Virginia ♦ 16:HI-01; 25:HI-07 Assistant Professor
Faculty Associate; Coordinator University of Pittsburgh; [email protected]
University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected] Muskheli, Veronica ♦ 24:CU-05 ; 26:CU-07
Mawkanuli, Talant ♦ 20:LI-02; 25:HI-07 ; 29 Graduate Student
Lecturer University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Muzykina, Yelena V. ♦ 21:SO-03
May, Timothy ♦ 17:HI-03; 22:HI-06 Department of Religious and Cultural studies, Faculty of
Professor of Central Eurasian History Philosophy and Political Science
University of North Georgia; [email protected] Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected]
Medeubekova, Gulnara ♦ 31:SO-07 Myrzabekova, Asel ♦ 24:AN-05
PhD Student Junior Researcher
University of Toronto; Bonn International Center for Convention;
[email protected] [email protected]
Melnikov, Dmitriy ♦ 29:CU-03 Myssayeva, Karlyga ♦ 22:LI-03 ; 32:SO-07
Graduate Student Vice-Dean, Faculty of Journalism
Nazarbayev University; [email protected] Al-Farabi Kazakh National University;
Menlibekova, Gulbakhyt ♦ 25:LI-03 [email protected]; kaznu.kz
Professor Naganawa, Norihiro ♦ 27:HI-10
L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University Associate Professor
Merrill, Martha ♦ 37:HI-04 Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University,
Associate Professor, Higher Education Administration Japan; [email protected]
Kent State University; [email protected] Naganuma, Hideyuki ♦ 30:HI-12
Meyer, Alyssa ♦ 15:EN-01 PhD Candidate
MPA Candidate in Natural Resource Management/MA University of Tokyo; [email protected]
Candidate in Central Eurasian Studies Nasritdinov, Emil ♦ 23:AN-05 ; 35:SO-08
Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected] Associate Professor
Millward, James ♦ 26:AN-06 American University of Central Asia; [email protected]
Professor, History Nazirova, Khilola ♦ 33:HI-14
Georgetown University; [email protected] Junior Researcher
Mitchell, Jeanene ♦ 15:EN-01 Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of
PhD Candidate Sciences; [email protected]
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Negizbayeva, Saida ♦ 31:RS-03
Molchanova, Elena ♦ 22:AN-04 Student
Chief Counselor Narxoz University; [email protected]
Republican Center of Mental Health of the Kyrgyz Northrop, Douglas ♦ 29:GE-01; 20:HI-17
Republic; [email protected] Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies
Montgomery, David W. ♦ 15:AN-01 ; 22:AN-07 ; 35:SC- University of Michigan; [email protected]
01 Nugmanova, Maigul ♦ 17:IR-01
Associate Research Professor Coordinator of International Projects
University of Maryland; [email protected] Kazakh Ablai Khan University;
Morrison, Alexander ♦ 33:HI-02 [email protected]
Professor of History Nurtazin, Sabir ♦ 17:IR-01
Nazarbayev University; [email protected] Professor of Biodiversity and Bioresources
Morton, Margaret ♦ 19:AN-03 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University;
Professor [email protected]
School of Art, The Cooper Union; [email protected] O'Brien, Michelle ♦ 30:PO-08 ; 30:SO-06
Mosca, Matthew ♦ 26:HI-08 PhD student, Department of Sociology
Assistant Professor University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] Oh, Eunkyung ♦ 22:CU-06
Murg, Bradley ♦ 21:LA-01 ; 25:PO-05 Professor
Assistant Professor of Political Science Dongduk Women's University; [email protected]
Seattle Pacific University; [email protected] Oka, Natsuko ♦ 17:SO-01
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Organization; [email protected] Research associate / Center for the History of the Peoples
O'Neill, Kelly A. ♦ 27:HI-10 of Russia and Interethnic Relations
Associate Professor Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Harvard University; [email protected] [email protected]
Onuma, Takahiro ♦ 16:HI-01 ; 24:HI-07 Rakhimova, Gulrukh ♦ 31:SO-10
Associate Professor, Department of History Researcher
Tohoku Gakuin University; [email protected] Independent Scholar; [email protected]
gakuin.ac.jp Ramsay, Rebekah ♦ 17:HI-09
Pachkalov, Alexander ♦ 36:AN-09 PhD Candidate, History
Assistant Professor Emory University; [email protected]
Financial University; [email protected] Raspayeva, Aisulu ♦ 16:LA-01
Pannier, Bruce ♦ 21:PO-03 ; 35:SC-01 ; 37:HI-04 PhD Candidate
Senior Correspondent Georgetown University; [email protected]
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; [email protected] Razzoqov, Farhod ♦ 36:AN-09
Pares Hoare, Joanna ♦ 21:SO-03 Reasearcher/Postdoc
Gender and Development Specialist Institute of History of the Republic of Tajikistan / Germany
Amnesty International; [email protected] Archaeology Institute; [email protected]
Park, Daejun ♦ 32:AN-08 Rees, Kristoffer ♦ 34:RS-04
PhD student Indiana University East; [email protected]
State University of New York at Albany; Rezakhani, Khodadad ♦ 33:HI-14
[email protected] Associate Research Scholar
Parker, Judith ♦ 19:ED-01 Princeton University; [email protected];
Adjunct Professor www.iranologie.com
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Rodgers, Cyrus ♦ 38:SO-11
[email protected] PhD Student
Pasilov, Bakhodir ♦ 23:HI-17 University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
Senior Research Fellow Rosenfelt, Tripp ♦ 38:SO-11
Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Independent Scholar
Sciences; [email protected]; http://uzhistory.uz/ Basis Tucson North; [email protected]
Patnaik, Ajay Kumar ♦ 32:RS-03 Ruge, Rainer ♦ 23:IR-03; 26:PO-08
Professor of Russian & Central Asian Studies Former EU Council Officer
Jawaharlal Nehru University; [email protected] [email protected]
Pearce, Katy ♦ 11:AN-08; 28:RS-07; 32:SO-07 Rukhadze, Vasili ♦ 28:SO-06
Assistant Professor Political Analyst
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] The Jamestown Foundation; [email protected]
Peshkova, Svetlana ♦ 21:SO-03; 24:CU-04 Sabonis-Helf, Theresa ♦ 20:PO-03
Associate Professor Professor
University of New Hampshire; [email protected] National Defense University; [email protected]
Peyrouse, Sebastian ♦ 21:PO-03 Sadraee, Fatemeh ♦ 32:AN-08
Research Professor Graduate Student
George Washington University; [email protected] University of Kansas; [email protected]
Pietilainen, Jukka ♦ 25:LI-03 ; 27:RS-04 Safiullina-Al Ansi, Rezeda ♦ 36:RS-08
Senior Researcher Senior Researcher
University of Helsinki; [email protected] Kazan Federal University; [email protected]
Pueppke, Steve ♦ 17:IR-01 Sagynalieva, Maral ♦ 20:PO-02
Professor of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences Independent researcher, Lecturer, Master in Public Policy
Michigan State University; [email protected] Open Innovations Research Community;
Radjabov, Bakhrom ♦ 30:SO-06 [email protected]
Doctoral Student Sahadeo, Jeff ♦ 18:SC-02 ; 20:HI-05 ; 33:HI-02
University of Tsukuba; [email protected] Associate Professor of Political Science
Radnitz, Scott ♦ 23:PO-06 Carleton University; [email protected]
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Saldadze, Malkhaz ♦ 11:CU-01
Studies Graduate Student
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] University of Washington:

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Salimjan, Guldana ♦ 19:AN-03 Head, Department of Social Sciences
PhD Candidate Suleyman Demirel University; [email protected]
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Shafiyev, Farid ♦ 36:RS-07
University of British Columbia; PhD post-graduate, diplomat
[email protected] MFA of Azerbaijan; [email protected]
Sanghera, Balihar ♦ 12:AN-08 Shahrani, Nazif ♦ 22:AN-07; 27:RE-01; 27:RE-02
University of Kent Professor of Anthropology and Central Asian Studies
[email protected] Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected];
Saprynskaya, Daria ♦ 31:RE-02 www.indiana.edu/~afghan
Independent Scholar Shamurzaeva, Ailuna ♦ 20:PO-02
Moscow State University; [email protected] Lecturer, PhD in Economics
Sarı, Yaşar ♦ 38:IR-03 International Ataturk-Alatoo University;
Associate Professor [email protected]
Abant Izzet Baysal University; [email protected] Sharipova, Dina ♦ 17:SO-01
Sarkeyeva, Raushanna ♦ 35:SO-08 Assistant Professor
Director, Urban Initiatives KIMEP University; [email protected]
Satybaldieva, Elmira ♦ 37:SO-09 Sherry, Dana ♦ 26:CU-07
Research Fellow Coordinator for Storytelling Programs
University of Kent; [email protected] Silk Road House; [email protected]
Schafer, Daniel ♦ 25:HI-09 Shyngyssova, Nazgul ♦ 31:RS-03
Professor Head of UNESCO Chair, Professor
Belmont University; [email protected] Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; [email protected]
Schamiloglu, Uli ♦ 17:IR-01; 20:LI-02 Sinnott, Peter ♦ 37:HI-04
Professor Independent Scholar
Nazarbayev University; [email protected] Independent Scholar; [email protected]
Schatz, Edward ♦ 23:PO-04; 29:RS-05 Sloane, Jesse ♦ 22:HI-06
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
University of Toronto; [email protected] Yonsei University; [email protected]
Schluessel, Eric ♦ 26:HI-08; 21:H1-13 Smidchens, Guntis ♦ 26:CU-07
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
University of Montana; [email protected] University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected]
Schmeding, Annika ♦ 35:SC-01 Smith, Marissa ♦ 18:PO-01
Co-President Instructor
CESMI; [email protected] De Anza College; [email protected]
Schoeberlein, John ♦ 18:SC-02 ; 22:AN-07; 27:RE-01; Smith FInley, Joanne ♦ 26:AN-06
37:SO-09 Senior Lecturer, Chinese Studies
Associate Professor Newcastle University; [email protected]
Nazarbayev University; [email protected] Soni, Sharad ♦ 35:RS-06
Schuyler, Zachary ♦ 38:RS-09 ; 30:S0-08 Professor and Director, Area Studies Programme
Graduate Student Jawaharlal Nehru University; [email protected]
University of Chicago; [email protected] Spector, Regine ♦ 27:PO-06; 27:PO-09
Sciabarra, Christina ♦ 28:RS-01 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Adjunct Faculty University of Massachusetts-Amherst;
Bellevue College; [email protected] [email protected]
Scott, Christian ♦ 38:SO-11 Standal, Karina ♦ 24:AN-05
Pennsylvania State University Lecturer
Sela, Ron ♦ 30:HI-12 University of Oslo; [email protected]
Professor Steenburg-Reyhe, Rune ♦ 15:AN-01
Indiana University, Bloomington; [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow
Semenova, Elena ♦ 34:PO-09 Columbia University; [email protected]
Assistant Professor Steinberg, Monica ♦ 29:CU-09; 15:CU-11
Free University of Berlin; [email protected] Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Southern California;
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Associate Professor Professor
Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences; American University of Central Asia;
[email protected] [email protected]; www.auca.kg
Syzdykova, Zhibek ♦ 21:AN-02 Tuychibaev, Abdumalik ♦ 33:HI-14
Head of Department of Central Asia and the Caucasus PhD candidate
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State Ankara University; [email protected]
University; [email protected] Tynen, Sarah ♦ 26:AN-06
Tarafdari, Ali Mohammad ♦ 30:HI-13 PhC, geography
Assistant Professor of History University of Colorado, Boulder;
National Library & Archives of I. R. of Iran; [email protected]
[email protected] Udod, Xeniya ♦ 37:SO-09
Taylor, Maria ♦ 27:HI-11 Graduate Student
PhD Candidate (ABD) Nazarbayev University; [email protected]
University of Michigan; [email protected] Ukueva, Nurgul ♦ 21:AN-04
Tazhina, Gainiya ♦ 19:ED-01 associate professor, chair, Economics Department
Associate Professor American University of Central Asia; [email protected]
University of International Business, Almaty; Ulko, Alexey ♦ 29:CU-09
[email protected] Independent Researcher
Thibault, Helene ♦ 22:AN-07; 35:SO-10 Independent Scholar; [email protected]
Assistant Professor Unno-Yamazaki, Noriko ♦ 26:HI-08
Nazarbayev University; [email protected]; Postdoctoral Fellow
https://shss.nu.edu.kz/faculty/helene-thibault Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences;
Tleshova, Zhibek ♦ 22:LI-03; 28:SO-01 [email protected]
Assistant Professor Urbaeva, Jildyz ♦ 32:AN-08
Academy of Public Administration under the President of Assistant Professor
RK; [email protected] State University of New York at Albany;
Toktogulova, Mukaram ♦ 22:AN-07; 31:RE-02 [email protected]
Associate Professor of Anthropology Department Uslu, Emrullah ♦ 31:PO-08
American University of Central Asia; Professor
[email protected]; www.auca.kg Virginia International University; [email protected]
Toops, Stanley ♦ 26:AN-06 Usmanova, Nargiza ♦ 38:RS-09
Associate Professor, Geography Fresh Master Degree Holder
Miami University; [email protected] Independent Scholar; [email protected]
Torno, Swetlana ♦ 32:SO-04; 32:SO-07; 35:SO-10 van Deusen, Kira ♦ 26:CU-07
PhD Candidate Independent Scholar
Heidelberg University; [email protected] Independent Scholar; [email protected]
heidelberg.de; http://www.asia-europe.uni- Vasiltsov, Konstantin ♦ 33:CU-11
heidelberg.de/en/research/c-knowledge-systems/c16- research fellow
demographic-turn/shifting-care-relations-in-womens-life- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
courses.html Russian Academy of Science; [email protected]
Tsakhirmaa, Sansar ♦ 37:RS-08 Vempati, Amita ♦ 32:SO-07
PhD Candidate Independent Scholar
Johns Hopkins University; [email protected] Independent Scholar; [email protected]
Tsitsvidze, Maia ♦ 18:LI-01 Vitak, Jessica ♦ 32:SO-07
Fellow Assistant Professor
Institute of Caucasiology, Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Maryland
University; [email protected]
Waldt, Margarethe ♦ 33:SO-10; 38:SO-11
Tuite, Kevin ♦ 31:RE-03 PhD Candidate
Professor Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology;
Universite de Montreal; [email protected] [email protected]; http://www.eth.mpg.de/waldt
Turaeva, Rano ♦ 18:SO-02 Washington, Jonathan North ♦ 20:LI-02
Associated Researcher Assistant Professor
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; Swarthmore College;
[email protected] [email protected]

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Professor Emeritus Associate Professor
University of Washington, Seattle; Kazakh National Agrarian University, Almaty;
[email protected] [email protected]
Webb Williams, Nora ♦ 34:RS-04 Yigit, Sureyya ♦ 34:RS-06
University of Washington, Seattle; Lecturer
[email protected] Yalova University; [email protected]
Webster, Jennifer ♦ 19:AN-03 Yilamu, Wumaier ♦ 30:SO-08
Lecturer Independent Scholar
University of Washington, Seattle; [email protected] [email protected]
Weller, Charles ♦ 31:RE-02 Zajicek, Taylor ♦ 23:HI-17
Professor Graduate Student
Washington State University and Georgetown University; Princeton University; [email protected]
[email protected] Zanca, Russell ♦ 20:HI-05
Whittington, Anna ♦ 25:HI-09; 20:HI-11 Professor of Anthropology
PhD Candidate, History Northeastern Illinois University; [email protected]
University of Michigan; [email protected] Zeinilova, Maira ♦ 34:RS-04
Wilson, Jennifer ♦ 24:CU-04 PhD Researcher
Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity Dublin City University; [email protected]
University of Pennsylvania; [email protected] Zhanguttin, Baurzhan ♦ 27:HI-11
Wood, Thomas ♦ 38:IR-03 Professor
Associate Professor of Political Science Abay State University; [email protected]
University of South Carolina, Aiken; [email protected] Zhemeney, Amina ♦ 33:CU-11
Wooden, Amanda ♦ 18:SC-02; 16:EN-01; 29:GE-01; ESL Instructor
27:PO-06 KIMEP University; [email protected]
Associate Professor and Director, Environmental Studies Zhigulskaya, Daria ♦ 21:AN-02
Program Research Associate / Department of Central Asia and the
Bucknell University; [email protected] Caucasus
Yarova, Olha ♦ 22:AN-04 Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State
Director University; [email protected]
Institute for Behavioral Science and Research; Zhusupbaeva, Aigul ♦ 20:PO-02
[email protected] Leader, Lecturer, PhD in Environment sciences
Yatsyk, Alexandra ♦ 15:CU-01 Ecological Movement ‘Aleyne Plus’; [email protected]
Visiting Fellow Zhusupov, Baurzhan ♦ 31:RS-03
Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna; [email protected] National Medical Academy; [email protected]
Yergebekov, Moldiyar ♦ 33:CU-11 Ziyadov, Nazim ♦ 16:LA-01
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Suleyman Demirel University; Antalya International University; [email protected]
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[UW to add]

CESS 2017 Conference Committee

Timothy Blauvelt (CESS Conference Committee Chair; Ilia University and American Councils for International Education,
Georgia)
CESS
Leila Almazova (CESS Board Member; Kazan Federal Univ., Russian Federation)
Aksana Ismailbekova (CESS Board Member; Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
Marianne Kamp (CESS; Indiana Univ. Bloomington, USA)
Marlene Laruelle (CESS Board Member; George Washington Univ., USA)
Scott Levi (CESS; Ohio State University, USA)
Jennifer Murtazashvili (CESS Board Member; Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)
John Schoeberlein, Chair (CESS Past President; ESCAS President)
University of Washington
Scott Radnitz (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
Philip Lyon (Managing Director, Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies)

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Central Eurasian Studies Society

The CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY (CESS) is a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based
organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia, and its history, languages, cultures,
and modern states and societies. We define the Central Eurasian region broadly to include Turkic, Mongolian,
Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan and other peoples. Geographically, Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea region,
the Crimea, and the Caucasus in the west, through the Middle Volga region, Central Asia and Afghanistan, and on
to Siberia, Mongolia and Tibet in the east.
The CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY’s purpose is to promote high standards of research and teaching, and to
foster communication among scholars through meetings and publications. The Society works to facilitate
interaction among senior, established scholars, junior scholars, graduate students, and independent scholars in
North America and throughout the world. The Society’s activities include an Annual Conference, a biennial
Regional Conference, and information distribution resources, among others.
The CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Massachusetts, USA.
We invite anyone who shares these interests to become a member and participate in our activities. To become a
member of CESS or join the mailing list for occasional announcements concerning CESS activities, visit the website
or contact the address below.
CESS publications, the Membership Directory, past conference programs, and other information are available
online at: www.centraleurasia.org.
All inquiries may be directed to:
[email protected]
www.centraleurasia.org
CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY
PO Box 72036 Coxwell/Danforth PO
Toronto, Ontario, M4C 0A1
CANADA

Members of the Board of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (2016/17)

Douglas Northrop, President (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Amanda Wooden, President-Elect (Bucknell University, USA)
John Schoeberlein, Past President (Astana, Kazakhstan)
Leila Almazova (Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation)
Gardner Bovingdon (Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Aksana Ismailbekova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
Marlene Laruelle (Washington, D.C., USA)
Morgan Liu (Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Officers (non-voting Board members)

Administrative Coordinator: Emma Sabzalieva (Toronto, Canada)
Secretary: Liliya Karimova (Washington, D.C., USA)
Treasurer: David Pearce (Washington, D.C., USA)

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 Mini-workshops for junior scholars from Central Eurasia
Thanks to support from the Open Society Foundations, CESS is pleased to announce that it will hold
two mini-workshops for up to 20 junior scholars from Central Eurasia, in conjunction with its Annual
Conference in Seattle.

The workshops are designed to help build a stronger community of scholars and scholarship that more
centrally includes scholars from the region.

In 2017, the two workshops are being held on Friday October 6:

Nuts and Bolts of Publishing your Scholarly Work (7.30-8.45am including breakfast)
This session will be run by Dr. Madeleine Reeves (U. Manchester, UK), who edits Central Asian
Survey. Reeves, in an interactive format, will highlight the distinguishing features of scholarly research,
the value of scholarship as such, and walk Central Eurasian junior scholars through the nuts and bolts
of helping scholarly work rise to publishable quality.

Making Yourself Heard: Communicating your Scholarly Work (12.30-2.15pm including lunch)
This session will be run by Dr. Laura Adams (USAID) and Dr. David Montgomery (CEDAR-Communities
Engaging Difference and Religion). They will offer an interactive discussion about how scholars
communicate the public value of their scholarship. Participants will brainstorm ways in which scholars
can be more effective in using their research findings to produce informed public debates, as well as
get the attention of interested policy makers, journalists, non-governmental organizations, or other
non-academic communities in various contexts.

The workshops are open by application to 20 junior scholars from Central Eurasia. To be considered,
applicants must be on the program as presenting a paper at the CESS Annual Conference in Seattle,
originate from one of the Central Eurasian states, be either currently enrolled in a PhD program or
within 5 years of receiving their PhD, be available to attend BOTH sessions, and have demonstrably
strong English-language skills.

The application deadline for 2017 has passed but that we might, on an exceptional basis, be able to
accommodate additional participants.

CESS plans to continue this workshop program at future conferences. If you would be interested in
participating in the workshops, could facilitate a session, or have comments/suggestions about how
the workshops could be set up, please feel free to contact [email protected].

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