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2009 Schedule of Panels (tentative, subject to change).
All events scheduled Saturday, February 28th, 2009 in the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University - Bloomington
Scroll down for a list of presenters and paper titles, by panel.
| Session | Day | Time | Dogwood Room | Oak Room | Hoosier Room |
| Sat | 7:30 - 8:45 | REGISTRATION: Indiana Memorial Union; University Club, President's Room | |||
| Sat | 8:45 - 9:00 | OPENING REMARKS: Indiana Memorial Union; University Club, President's Room | |||
| Session 1 | Sat | 9:00 - 10:30 | Language Pedagogy Chair: Beatrix Burghardt |
Minority Communities Chair: Ron Sela |
Issues in Contemporary Kazakhstan Chair: Zamzagul Kashkimbaeva |
| Session 2 | Sat | 10:40 - 12:10 |
Chair: William Fierman |
Islam & Society Chair: Devin DeWeese |
Music Chair: Lynn Hooker |
| Sat | 12:10 - 1:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |||
| Session 3 | Sat | 1:30 - 3:00 | Societies and Cultures of Xinjiang Chair: Gardner Bovingdon |
Integration and Development Chair: Edward Lazzerini |
Market Building as Nation Building in Central Asia: Entrepreneurs, Markets and Morals Chair: Gul Berna Ozcan |
| Session 4 | Sat | 3:10 - 4:40 | Nationalism & Identity Chair: Gardner Bovingdon |
Inner Asia & Late Imperial China Chair: Klaus Muehlhahn |
Linguistics Chair: György Kara
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| Sat | 5:00 - 6:00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "The Return of Lieutenant Atarshchikov: Empire and Identity in Asiatic Russia," Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University Chicago), Indiana Memorial Union, Dogwood Room | |||
| Sat | 6:00 - 6:30 | RECEPTION: Indiana Memorial Union, University Club, President's Room | |||
Panel: Language Pedagogy
Chair: Beatrix Burghardt
Malik Hodjaev (Indiana University): Effective Use of Technology in Uzbek Language Instruction
Rahmon Inomkhojayev (Indiana University): Some Problems and Solutions of a Distance Language Class
Tserenchunt Legden (Indiana University): Modal Particles Common for Spoken Mongolian
Panel: Minority Communities
Chair: Ron Sela
Lennea Carty (Indiana University): On the Decline of Ottoman Jewry in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Benjamin Lazarus (Georgetown University): Turkey's IDP Crisis: The Consequences of Internal Displacement for Turkish Society
Rob Dunbar (Indiana University): Shi'a Muslim Enslavement in 19th Century Bukhara
David Straub (Indiana University): Religious Dissent in Tajikistan in the Late Soviet Period
Panel: Issues in Contemporary Kazakhstan
Chair: Zamzagul Kashkimbaeva
Zamzagul Kashkimbaeva: Linguistic aspects of cross-cultural communication in multilingual Kazakhstan
Alla Kim & Almira Kustubayeva: Psychology in Kazakhstan
Svetlana Belenkova: Teaching Medical Students in Kazakhstan
Ainur Abdrazakova: Internationalization of education in Kazakhstan
Gulmira Sheryazdanova: Democracy in Kazakhstan
Natalya Borgul: Polylingual Education in multinational Kazakhstan
Panel: Music
Chair: Lynn Hooker
Elise Anderson (Indiana University): Singing the Homeland: Music and musicians in Uyghur diaspora communities
Colin Legerton (Indiana University): Musical Canon Formation of the Uyghur Diaspora Web
Jessie Wallner (Indiana University): Musicians in Lhasa's Nang-ma'i Skyid-sdug and Skyor-mo-lung Musical Associations and their Relevance to Present-day Tibetan Performing Arts
Panel: Integration and Development
Chair: Edward Lazzerini
Ivan Peshkov (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ): Conservative Adaptation Trap. Poverty in Unrestructured Transition Economies with Traditional Sectors. The Cases of Mongolia, Northern and Northeastern China, and Siberia.
Delgerjargal Uvsh (University of Notre Dame): Amartya Sen’s Theory of Development and Status of Mongolian Nomadic Herders’ Development since 1990
Navruz Nekbakhtshoev (Indiana University): Explaining the Dynamic of Minority Radicalization in Tajikistan and Moldova
Matthew Price (Indiana University): The Loss of the Grey Areas: Changes in state control over Islamic institutions in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia
Panel: Soviet and Post-Soviet Society
Chair: William Fierman
Michael Hancock (Indiana University): The Future of Balkhash
Baktybek Isakov (Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University): Nomadic Society during Collectivization: Changes in the Role of Individual Autonomy in Pastoral Kyrgyz Families during Soviet Times
Kristine Kohlmeier (Indiana University): Internet Libel Law in Tajikistan
Aziz Burkhanov (Indiana University): Formal and Informal Presidential Powers in post-Soviet Area: the Problem of Measuring
Panel: Societies & Cultures of Xinjiang
Chair: Gardner Bovingdon
Tim Grose (Indiana University): The Xinjiang Class: Education, Integration, and the Uyghurs
Gulnisa Nazarova (Indiana University): On Uyghur Nicknames
Eitan Plasse (Harvard University): Interpreting Signs on the Silk Road: Xinjiang Ethnic Minorities' Perceptions of Post-Soviet Central Asia
Panel: Islam and Society
Chair: Devin DeWeese
Nur Khan (University of Cambridge): Rethinking “Slavery” in sixteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul
Aynur Onur (Indiana University): The Sacred Flower: Pagan Worshippers or True Followers of Allah?
John Dechant (Indiana University): Islamization, the Mongols, and the Manāqib al-‘ārifīn of Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad-i Aflākī
Panel: Market Building as Nation Building in Central Asia: Entrepreneurs, Markets and Morals
Chair: Gul Berna Ozcan
Erica Marat: The Early 1990s in Ferghana Valley: Shortages of State and Emergence of Violent Entrepreneurs
Deniz Tura: Formal institutions and entrepreneurship: the case of micro-finance
Alisher Khamidov: Doing business the Islamic way: Jamoats and their growing economic role in the Ferghana Valley
Gul Berna Ozcan: Markets and morality: a typology of entrepreneurial choices
Panel: Linguistics
Chair: György Kara
John Erickson (Indiana University): Specificity and Accusative Case Marking in Uzbek
Andrew Shimunek (Indiana University): Several layers of Turkic in Khotong, a forgotten Turkic language of northwestern Mongolia
Jonathan North Washington (Indiana University): Complex codas in Kazakh and Kyrgyz
Ilya Yakubovich (University of Chicago): Linguistic Convergence between Bactrian and Sogdian
Panel: Inner Asia & Late Imperial China
Chair: Klaus Muehlhahn
Devon Dear (Harvard University): Protectors or Predators?: Money lending, Violence, and the State in late Qing Mongolia, 1861-1905
Benjamin Levey (Harvard University): Writing the Oirats Back into History: Qing China's Colonization of the Zunghar Frontier, 1757-1800
Max Oidtmann (Harvard University): Playing the Lottery With Sincere Thoughts: Manchu Officials and the Selection of Incarnate Lamas in the Late Qing
Elliot Sperling (Indiana University): The Co-ne dpon-po (tusi 土司): Their Origins and Relations with the Ming Court
Panel: Nationalism
Chair: Gardner Bovingdon
Naomi Caffee (UCLA): Reclaiming the Soviet Success Story: Kazakh Identity in Olzhas Suleimenov's Ode to Gagarin
Eric T Schluessel (Indiana University): Networks of reform and activism in Chinese Turkestan
Aysen Uslu Bayramli (Beykent University Istanbul): Turkistanis (Central Asian Turks) in Exile
Nick Walmsley (Indiana University): The origins, manifestations and implications of elite historiography in independent Uzbekistan