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