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2008 Schedule of Panels
| Session | Day | Time | Ballantine Hall 016 | Ballantine Hall 003 | Ballantine Hall 011 | Ballantine Hall 015 | Ballantine Hall 005 |
| Sat | 7:30 - 8:45 | REGISTRATION: Ballantine Hall 008 | |||||
| Sat | 8:45 - 9:00 | OPENING REMARKS: Ballantine Hall 013 | |||||
| Session 1 | Sat | 9:00 - 10:30 | Politics of the Environment & Natural Resources Chair: Roman Zlotin |
Turkic Language Pedagogy Chair: Bill Johnston |
The New Buryatka: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Buryatia Chair: Chris Atwood |
Central Eurasian Literature Chair: Paul Losensky |
Imperial Russia's Central Asian Frontier Chair: Edward Lazzerini |
| Session 2 | Sat | 10:40 - 12:10 | Education in Contemporary Central Asia Chair: Malik Hodjaev |
Civil Society Chair: M. Nazif Shahrani |
“Old” Ways in “New” Contexts: Tradition and Representation among the Buryats and Sakha Chair: György Kara |
Music of Central Eurasia (Ballantine Hall 013) Chair: Lynn Hooker |
Sources for the Study of Central Asian History Chair: Ron Sela |
| Sat | 12:10 - 1:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |||||
| Session 3 | Sat | 1:30 - 3:00 | Eurasian Historical Trends Chair: Christopher Beckwith |
The Crisis in Tibet: A Roundtable Chair: Elliot Sperling |
Contemporary Mongolian Affairs Chair: Christopher Atwood |
Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond in Hungarian Literature, Culture, and the Arts Chair: Adriana Varga |
Uyghur Culture Chair: Gardner Bovingdon |
| Session 4 | Sat | 3:10 - 4:40 | Eurasian Linguistics Chair: Christopher Beckwith |
Tibetan Texts Chair: Elliot Sperling |
Contemporary Iranian Affairs Chair: Paul Losensky |
Finno-Ugric Languages and Cultures Chair: Toivo Raun |
Xinjiang History Chair: Ron Sela |
| Sat | 5:00 - 6:00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Hamza: A Communist Martyr and Uzbek Collective Memory, Marianne Kamp (University of Wyoming), Indiana Memorial Union, Alumni Hall | |||||
| Sat | 6:00 - 6:30 | RECEPTION: Indiana Memorial Union, Solarium | |||||
| Sat | 7:00 - 9:00 | NAVRUZ CELEBRATION: Indiana Memorial Union, Alumni Hall | |||||
| Session 5 | Sun | 8:30 - 10:00 | Issues in Turkish Identity Chair: Kemal Silay |
Issues in Contemporary Kazakhstan Chair: William Fierman |
Sources for the Study of Eurasia Chair: tbd |
Regional Security in Central Asia Chair: Gardner Bovingdon |
Religion in Central Asia Chair: tbd |
| Session 6 | Sun | 10:10 - 11:40 | Islam in Turkey Chair: Kemal Silay |
Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia Chair: William Fierman |
States Chair: M. Nazif Shahrani |
Foreign Relations Chair: Gardner Bovingdon |
Early Period of Central Asian History Chair: Jamsheed Choksy |
| Sun | 12:00 - 1:00 | DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE: Raising the Dead: Life and Death in Turkic Central Eurasia Edward J. Lazzerini (Indiana University), Indiana Memorial Union, Frangipani Room |
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| Sun | 1:00 - 1:30 | RECEPTION: Indiana Memorial Union, Frangipani Room | |||||