The Tenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference Schedule
and List of Panels
8:00- 9:00 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Room: 008
9:00-5:00 BOOK EXHIBIT & SALE
Room: 008
9:00-12:00 CENTRAL ASIA: POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Room: 228 Chair:
Prof. Henry Hale
T. Tuleubayev (University of Washington): Imagining Homeland: Political
Mobilization of Russian-speaking minorities in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and
Moldova (1989-1992)
.
V. Levinskaya (Catholic University of America): Methods of Measuring
the Strength and Weakness of Civil Society.
Dr. D.L. Ford, Jr. (University of Texas): Fostering Executive Leadership
Development in Post-Soviet Countries: Insights from a Central Eurasia
Experience.
V. Babak (Tel Aviv University): Post-Soviet Central Asia: Integration
or Disintegration?
9:00-12:00 HISTORY
Room: 006 Chair: Prof.
Edward Lazzerini
H.M.A. Hsu (University of Pennsylvania): A tale of Two Instruments:
The Greek Lyra and the Chinese Ruanxian in the Musical Ensemble Scene in
Cave No. 38 of
Kizil, Xinjiang.
E. Binbaş (University of Chicago): Visualizing History in the Medieval
Islamic World: The Bahr al-Ansāb and Shu‘ab-i Panjgāna.
R. Sela (CEUS, IUB): The Return of the King: Timur’s Resurrection
in 18th Century Central Asia.
F. Venturi (CEUS, IUB): Rebuilding a Monastery: the case of Sa skya.
N. Willock (CEUS, IUB): Criticism of the Military Campaign to Tibet
in 1720/1 documented in Jiao Yingqi’s Zangcheng jilüe.
N. Tsyrempilov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Buriatia): Gelugpa and
Qing Empire: Alliance of Ideologies.
9:00-12:00 OUTLAWS, EPICS, BODYBUILDERS AND NAVRUZ
CELEBRATIONS IN IRANIAN AND TURKIC FOLK CULTURE
Room: 005 Chair:
Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar
H. Ekbia: The Regaining of an Identity: the Development of chahar-shanbeh
soori Tradition in Iran.
D. Burdick (IUB): The Zūrkhāneh: Sacred Space for Sufist Martial Artist.
D. E. Gay: The Shahnameh in Manuscript and Oral Culture.
S. Daneshgar (IUB): Koroğlu, Robin Hood of the East: from Folk to
National Hero.
9:00-12:00 ECONOMY AND WATER MANAGEMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA
Room: 013 Chair:
Prof. Roman Zlotin
Aziz A. Karimov (Northeastern University): Future Economic Prospects
for the Central Asian Countries.
V. Badaker: Corruption and Environment: Kazakhstan as a case study.
Askarali Karimov (SPEA, IUB): Central Asia – Regional Water Allocation,
Food Security and International Relations.
K. Bektemirov (SPEA, IUB): Water Allocation in Central Asia: Institutional
Responses to Upstream-Downstream Challenges.
L. Potoski (CEUS/SPEA, IUB): Bank of the Aral Sea as a Tool for Integrated
Water Resources Management in the Aral Sea Basin.
12:00-1:00 COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH BUFFET
Room: 008
1:00-2:00 FEATURE PRESENTATION Room: 013
“Timur’s Tomb: Politics and Commemoration”
Professor Robert McChesney of New York University
2:00-5:00 CENTRAL ASIA: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Room: 228 Chair:
Prof. Nazif Shahrani
M. Rahimov (Institute of History, Uzbekistan): The International Relations
of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
H. J. Mettes (The Silk Road Cultural Foundation, Austin, TX): How
a synthesis of Islam and Marxism has produced behaviours retrogade to democratic
movements.
E. Yazdani (Australian National University): The Role of ‘Islam Card’
in the Central Asian Republics’ Policy toward the Muslim world.
M. Walhert (Wright State University): At What Cost? U.S. Foreign Policy
in Central Asia.
B. Grodsky (University of Michigan): The Limitations of Direct Foreign
Pressure on Human Rights Reform in Uzbekistan.
2:00-3:30 CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
4:30-5:30 FOR AZERBAIJANIS
Room: 005 Chair:
Eric Lepisto
J. Eyvazov (Baku State University): Azerbaijan in the Structure of
Security Interactions in Central Eurasia.
A. Mammedov (Baku State University): The Superhighway Information
Science in Azerbaijan in the 21st Century: Problems and Suggestions for
Bibliographic, Library Processing and
Online Information .
T. Mahmudova (Baku State University): Azerbaijani Television in the
New Information Era.
R. Soltanova (Kansas State University): Fires in the Mirror: The Female
Experience in Azerbaijan.
A. Obali: Assimilation, Identity Process and Prospects for Azerbaijanis
in Iran.
3:30-4:30 LECTURE & DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOP ON
THE MUGHAM (MODAL) AND ASHIQ (BARDIC) MUSIC OF
AZERBAIJAN
Room: 109
2:00-5:00 CENTRAL EURASIA: CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Room: 013 Chair: Prof.
Christopher Atwood
G. Nagy (CEUS, IUB): Post-war Theatre in Hungary: Structural Changes
and the Repertoire.
T. Newyear (CEUS, IUB): Images of Genre, Sounds of History in Mongolian
Film.
M. Saruul Erdene (Mongolian State Pedagogical University): Features
of Internet Mongolian.
K. Metzo (ANTH, IUB): The “Real” Russian Economy: Exchange, Mutual
Support Networks, Obligation and “Gifts” in Contemporary Buriatia.
R.G. Rozi (RMIT University, Australia): Hierarchical Social Structure
of the Uyghur Society and the Spatial Organization of Uyghur Houses.
2:00-4:00 TURKEY I
Room: 004 Chair:
Prof. Kemal Silay
Z. Baskal (University of Wisconsin): The Distorted Image of the Yunus
Emire.
Y. Kaptan (FOLK, IUB): The Cultural Policies of the Turkish Republic
in the Establishment Period of Modern Turkey.
K. Hart (ANTH, IUB): The Local Story of DOBAG: a carpet weaving cooperative
in Western Anatolia.
B. Tarman (Pennsylvania State University): The Digital Divide in Turkey
.
3:00-6:00 CENTRAL ASIA: CULTURE AND EDUCATION
Room: 006 Chair: Prof.
William Fierman
M. Suleymanov (New School University): Intercultural Communication and
Uzbek Culture.
Malik Hodjaev (CEUS, IUB): Civic Education in an Uzbek “Mahalla”
.
O.O. Yazliyeva (Pennsylvania State University): Transformation of
Higher Education in Turkmenistan for the 21st Century.
A. F. Igmen: (University of Washington): The Houses of Culture in
Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
A. Khamidov (University of Notre Dame): Kyrgyzstan: Organized Opposition
and Civil Unrest.
4:00-6:00 Turkey II
Room: 004 Chair:
Prof. Martin Spechler
F.G. Onbasi (Baskent University, Turkey): The Evolution of the Ideology
of the Republican People’s Party: Change or Continuity?
F.S. Gelir (Baskent University, Turkey): Islamist Perceptions of Turkey’s
Accession to the European Union.
Y. Demyrag (Baskent University, Turkey): Conflict in the Turkish Russian
Interests in Central Asia and Caucasian Energy Politics.
T. Ziyadov (Beloit College): The Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline and Its Potential
Impact on Turkish-Russian Relations.
B. Elturan: Kurdish Question in Turkey: From Denial to Foot-Dragging.
6:00-9:00 DINNER RECEPTION
University Club, IMU Room: 150
8:00 SPECIAL
PERFORMANCE:
MAMEDOV FAMILY ENSEMBLE OF AZERBAIJAN & THE SILK ROAD
ENSEMBLE
Ballantine Hall Room: 013