American University of Central Asia - AUCA - First conference program and abstracts

First Annual CASI Conference

Twenty Years of Central Asian Independence: Shared Past, Separate Paths?

14 October, 2011
Opening Remarks
Andrew Wachtel	President, AUCA
Larry Held	Acting USAID Representative in the Kyrgyz Republic
Keynote speaker
Prof. Deniz Kandiyoti	SOAS, UK Editor-in-Chief, Central Asian Survey	Central Asian Studies: State of the Art
Panel 1	Studying the "Region": What is Central Asia?	Matteo Fumagalli, Central European University, panel chair
Catherine Poujol	INALCO, France	Central Asia 20 years after the collapse of USSR, the French and European school of Central Asian Studies, a point a view from abroad
Farkhad Tolipov	Knowledge Caravan, Uzbekistan	Doctrinal, Conceptual, Institutional and Political Problems of the Region-Building in Central Asia
Fabio Indeo	University of Camerino, Italy	The concept of a "Greater Central Asia": Perspectives of a Regional Approach
Panel 2	Historical Crossroads	John Schoeberlein, chair, Harvard University
Paul Wordsworth	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Connecting pathways – the organization and impact of medieval desert trade routes in southwest Central Asia
Cholpon Turdalieva	AUCA, Kyrgyzstan	Imperial Power and Violence in Central Asia through the 19th Century Western Travelogues
Jamby Djusubalieva	AUCA, Kyrgyzstan	Buddhism in Kyrgyzstan: A Historiographical Analysis
Panel 3	Crossroads Revisited?	Eugene Huskey, Stetson University, panel chair
Mark Kramer	Harvard University, USA	The International Context of Mass Political Unrest in Central Asia: Conceptual Issues and Perspectives
Ilya Levine	Melbourne University, Australia	Andijan, the War on Terror and US-Uzbek relations: The Relevance of Liberalism and Non-State Actors
Dmitry Shlapentokh	Indiana University South Bend, USA	The [Russia's] Image of Central Asia: From Eurasianism to Traditional Imperialism
Panel 4	State and Social Mobilizations in Central Asia	Sally Cummings, University of St. Andrews, panel chair
Timor Sharan	University of Exeter, UK	The Networked State: the Post-2001 Afghanistan
Asel Doolotkeldieva	University of Exeter, UK	Understanding State Crisis in Kyrgyzstan Through Centre-Periphery Dynamics
Medet Tiulegenov	AUCA, Kyrgyzstan	Institutionalization of Regimes and Preempting Contention in Kyrgyzstan
15 October, 2011
Panel 5	Nation-Building and Socio-Political Change in Central Asia: States, Cities, and Communities	Bhavna Dave, SOAS, panel chair
Abel Polese	University of Edinburgh, UK	Civil Society and Political Transformation: Comparing the Effects of Colour Revolutions in the Central Asian Region
Matteo Fumagalli	Central European University, Hungary	Osh and Jalalabat Uzbeks Between Authoritarianism, Crisis of the State and Normalization of Violence
Giulia Panicciari	INALCO, Paris, France	Almaty as a New Kazakh City: Kazakhization of the Urban Spaces After the Independence.
Valerii Hardin	AUCA, Kyrgyzstan	Central Asian Film Critique: Rethinking the Past
Panel 6	Post-1990 Political Trends in Kyrgyzstan: Actors and Institutions	John Heathershaw, University of Exeter, panel chair
Sally Cummings	University of St Andrews, UK	State and Regime in Kyrgyzstan: Comparing 2005 and 2010 Events
Eugene Huskey	Stetson University, USA	The Changing Role of Opposition in Post-Communist
David Merrell	University of Washington, USA	Using State Institutions to Facilitate Minority Systems of Justice in Northern Kyrgyzstan
Lunch Break	12:15-13:15
Panel 7	Leaders, Power and State-Building in Central Asia	Medet Tiulegenov, AUCA, panel chair
Marilisa Lorusso	Instituto di Studi Politici Internazionali, Italy	State Building/Nation Building: Towards a Consolidation of Powers (Comparative Analysis of The South Caucasus and Central Asia in 1991-2011)
Alessandro Frigerio and Nikolay Shevchenko	KIMEP, Kazakhstan	Hannah Arendt in Bishkek: New Beginnings and Politics of Immortality in Central Asia
Seçkin Köstem	McGill University, Canada	Researching the Kyrgyz State: The Role of the First President in the State-Building Process
Panel 8	Islam in Central Asia: Meanings and Implications	Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS, panel chair
Khashayar Beigi	University of California Berkeley, USA	Transformation of the Languages of Islam in Tajikistan
John Heathershaw	University of Exeter, UK	Islam and Danger: A Reconsideration of the Link Between Religiosity, Radicalism and Rebellion in Central Asia
Ruslan Jalil	AUCA, Kyrgyzstan	Changing role of Islam in post-Communist Central Asia: the Case of Kyrgyzstan
John Schoeberlein	Harvard University, USA	Islam and Post-Soviet Secularism in Central Asia
16 October, 2011
Panel 9	Education, Employment and Migration in Central Asia	Cholpon Turdalieva, AUCA, panel chair
Damir Esenaliev	German Institute for Economic Research	Educational Mobility in Kyrgyzstan
Emil Nasritdinov and Ruslan Rahimov	AUCA, Kyrgyzstan	Transnational and National Identities of Kyrgyz Labor Migrants: Death or Expansion of Nation-State?
Bakhrom Mirkasimov	German Institute for Economic Research	Migration and Education in Uzbekistan
Bhavna Dave	SOAS, UK	Kazakhstan’s Migration Control Regime, Undocumented Labour Migrants and the Informal Migration Industry
Round Table & Conclusion	Developing Local Research Capacity in Central Asia: Challenges and Strategies

With short introduction from Deniz Kandiyoti, Gulnara Ibraeva and John Schoeberlein