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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

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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


Soviet & Post-Soviet Central Asia

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

 

  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

 

2009 ACES Conference Panels, Presenters, and Papers

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 Amad-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