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2004 CEUS Panel Schedule

All panels take place in Ballantine Hall (BH)
(Please note, that this schedule is subject to change. All changes will be posted in Ballantine Hall 008 on the day of the conference)

Morning
Afternoon

Morning Panel Sessions:

WATER RESOURCES

Chair: Roman Zlotin

Time: 9:00 –11:30

Room: BH 013

 

Luke Potoski

(CEUS/SPEA, IUB)

A Tool for Efficient Water Management? Utilizing Water Accounting in Central Asia

Kerim Kurbanaliev

(Batken State University, Kyrgyzstan)

Environmental Problems of Flooding in Kyrgyzstan

Aida Alymbaeva

(Rochester Institute of Technology)

Institutional Development of Water User Associations in Kyrgyzstan 

Kuatbay Bektemirov

(SPEA, IUB)

GIS as a Decision Making Tool in the Aral Sea Basin

Nagmet Aimbetov

(Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences: Karakalpak branch)

On the Strategy of Sustainable Water Use for Irrigated Farming of the Amudarya River Basin

 

NATIONALISM & IDENTITY:

Chair: Gardner Bovingdon

Time: 9:00 – 12:00

Room: BH 005

 

Nina Tyurina

(Northwestern University)

Interpreting Violence in the Northern Caucasus

Aktam Jalilov

(Batken State University)

The Central Asian Ethnic-Political Phenomenon

Leila Zakhirova

(Political Science, IUB)

Clan Politics of Turkmenistan

Ravshan  Mardanov

(Samarkand State University)

Islam in Central Asia: Globalization and Localization

George Murer

(independent scholar)

A Uniquely Khorasanian Kurdish Identity

Assel Rustemova

(Kazakh Institute of Management)

Nationalism and Democracy in Kazakhstan

 

TIBET

Chair: Christopher Beckwith

Time: 9:00-11:30

Room: BH 006

 

Federica Venturi

(CEUS, IUB)

An Old Tibetan Document on the Uyghurs Reexamined: ŕ propos the itineraries in PT 1283

Elliot Sperling

(CEUS, IUB)

The Kings of Nang-chen

Gedun Rabsal

(CEUS, IUB)

Tibetan Grammar: The Missing Six Books

Nicole Willock

(CEUS, IUB)

Reconsidering Autobiography: The Life Story of Tshe tan Zhabs drung

Stacey van Vleet

(CU Boulder)

Khyed rang nang pa yin pas?: The Encounter of Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism in Boulder, Colorado

 

HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA

Chair: Nazif Shahrani

Time: 9:00-12:00

Room: BH 011

 

Nurmatova Mukaram

(National University Uzbekistan)

Hussain Voiz Kashifi: Refinement of Manly Character in 15th Century Muslim Central Asia

Alexander Morrison

(All Souls College, Oxford)

The Abolition of Amlakdari on the Zeravshan Valley after the Russian Conquest, 1867-1875

Recep Gurkan Goktas

(Harvard University)

A Salafi Scholar during the Revolution: Muhammad Sultan al-Ma’sumu al-Khujandi (1880-1960)

Christian Larson

(CEUS, IUB)

Hospitality in 19th Century Samarqand and Bukhara: The Traveler’s Log

Ruben Nazaryan

(Samarkand State University)

Figaro from the Middle Ages, or the Privilege of Being Beard-Shaver

Shokir Gaffarov

(Samarkand State University)

On the Resettlement Policy of Tsarist Russia in Turkestan

  

CENTRAL ASIA: Socio-economic Issues

Chair: Edward Lazzerini

Time: 9:00-12:00

Room: BH 018

 

Dilshod Rakhimov

(NGO Mardomshinasi: Ethnology, Tajikistan)

The Functions of Superstition in the Tajik society

Brent Hierman

(Political Science, IUB)

Internal Migration in Central Asia: A Comparative Case Study of Rural-Urban Migration to Astana and Tashkent

Masoud Naseri

(Anthropology, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)

Medical Pluralism and the Competition between Cosmopolitan and Ghasghai Medical Practices among Iran’s Nomadic Pastoralist Turkic Community

Serkan Yalcin

(Ataturk Alatoo University)

The Interactions between Emerging Markets and Transition Economies: The Case of Turkish International Administration (TICA) in Kyrgyzstan

Edward Snajdr

(Anthropology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

The Tools of Tradition: Women’s Activism and Domestic Violence in Kazakhstan

Usubalieva Gulnara Mamytovna

(Kyzyl-kya Humanitarian Pedagogic  Institute, Kyrgyzstan

Gender Politics in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

 

Afternoon Panel Sessions:

 

ESTONIA

Chair: Toivo Raun

Time: 2:30 – 4:00

Room: BH 003

 

Owen Witesman

(CEUS, IUB)

Alcohol Control Policy in Post-War Finland: Values and Politics of Intoxication

Doyle Stevick

(CEUS, IUB)

Lost in Translation: Civic Education and Democratic Practice in Estonia as it prepares to Enter European Union

Kara Brown
(Education, IUB)

 

Securing Regional Education through National Policy: Voro Attempts to Negotiate International Legal Frameworks and Charters to Find a Place in State Law

 

HUNGARY

Chair: Mihály Szegedy-Maszák

Time: 4:15 – 6:15

Room: BH 003

 

Laszlo Bengi

(CEUS, IUB)

The Transfiguration of the Hungarian Parabolic Narration

Lynn Hooker

(CEUS, IUB)

Authenticity, Gypsiness, and Authority in the Hungarian Folk Revival

Robert Nemes

(Department of History, Colgate University)

Anti-Semitic Disturbances in Hungary in the 1880s

Matthew Caples

(CEUS, IUB)

The Journal Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review) and Hungarian Revisionism

  

MONGOLIA

Chair: Elliot Sperling

Time: 2:30– 5:00

Room: BH 005

 

Lkhasran Terbish

(National University of Mongolia)

Four Versions of “Kalachakra” Astrology in Inner Asia

Christopher Atwood

(CEUS, IUB)

The Dates of Dayan Khan: A Solution and Its Implications

Ragchaagiin Baasan

(Visiting Scholar, IUB)

US-Mongolian Relations of the 20th Century

György Kara

(CEUS, IUB)

A Short ‘Long Song’ from Gobi-Altai and What is Beyond the Words

M. Saruul-Erdene

(CEUS, IUB)

Mongolian Verb Tense System

 

EARLY CENTRAL EURASIAN HISTORY

Chair: Christopher Beckwith

Time: 2:30-5:00

Room: BH 006

 

Craig Benjamin

(History Department,

Grand Valley State University)

Indo-Europeans on the Border of Han China: The Origin of the Yuezhi (Tocharians)

Rysbek Alimov

(The University of Istanbul)

Turgesh Inscriptions from Kochkor

Christo Dimitrov

(independent scholar)

An Episode of the Hungarian Development-Finno-Ugric and Turkic Tribes in the 6th Century According to Some Greek Sources

Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev

(Elbilge Research Centre, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

System of Counting among Ancient Turkic Tribes

 

Archaeology of Central Asia

Chair: Devin Deweese

Time: 4:00 – 6:00

Room: BH 340

 

Jeffrey D. Lerner

(History Department, Forest University)

Correcting the Early Chronology of Ai Khanoum

Bernardo Rondelli

(University of Bologna)

The Archaeological Map of the Middle Zeravshan Valley: Preliminary Report and Perspective

Barbara Cerasetti

(University of Bologna)

Development of the Open Frontier Between Iran and Central Asia: The Murghab Defensive Systems in the Antiquity and the Variants of the Silk Road across Karakum

Simone Mantellini

(University of Bologna)

Origin and Development of waterways in the Middle Zeravshan Valley according to recent archaeological investigations: The example of the Dargom Channel

 

 

EDUCATION

Chair: Heidi Ross

Time: 2:30 – 5:30

Room: BH 013

 

Kevin Meskill

(CEUS, IUB)

Making Citizens of the Turkish Republic? Religious Schooling and the Politics of Implementing and Eight-Year Cycle of Compulsory ‘Primary’ Education

Malik Hodjaev

(CEUS, IUB)

Uzbek Language Instruction via Interactive Videoconferencing (ITV)

Rahimjon U. Abdugafurov

(Vanderbilt University)

The Need for a Mechanism in Decentralization of Institutional Financial Management

Almaz Tolymbek

(Kent State University)

Public Policies in Higher Education of Today in Kazakhstan

Chris Whitsel

(CEUS, IUB)

Regional Differences in Educational Participation in Tajikistan

Mitalip Tajirov

(Batken State University, Krygyzstan)

Present Day Higher Education and Its Perspectives in Kyrgyzstan

 

POLITICS IN CENTRAL ASIA

Chair: Martin Spechler

Time: 2:30 – 5:30

Room: BH 016

 

Sabina Manafova

(Western University, Azerbaijan)

Political Elections in Azerbaijan

Bahodir Ergashev

(Yale University)

Future of Freedom in Uzbekistan

Aigul Alieva

(Lueven University, Belgium)

Reflecting the Effects of Institutional Changes for Political Development in Central Asia

Brandon Wilkening

(Political Science, IUB)

Political Centralization in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Comparative Perspective

Olamgir Razzoq

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Uzbekistan)

Patterns of Foreign Rivalry in Central Asia

Ziyadulla Yuldashev

(Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies)

Uzbekistan’s New Approach to Economic Independence

 

MUSIC and CULTURE IN AZERBAIJAN and TURKEY

Chair: Shahyar Daneshgar

Time: 2:30 - 4:30

Room: BH 109

 

Jon Liechty

(Composer and performer)

Azerbaijani Composer Uzeyr Hajibekov and the Interpretation of his Compositional Text by an American

Nima Shafaieh

(Ohio State University)

Hamid Notghi (1920-1999): An Introduction to the Life and Works of an Azerbaijani Iranian Author, Poet, and Scholar

Shahyar Daneshgar

(IUB)

“I Challenge You to a Duel”: Meykhaana, the Art of Improvisation, a Genre of Poetry and Musical Performance in Azerbaijani

Eran Livni

(IUB)

Turkish Folk Songs as  a Socialist Manifesto in Ruhi Su’s Devrimci (Revolutionary) Music