Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar Series

Past Seminars (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000)

2007 (All Summaries)

Douglas Northrop, Associate Professor of Modern Central Asian Studies, University of Michigan, "Memories on the Edge of Disaster: Earthquakes in Central Eurasia" - April 26, 2007 - Summary

Judith Beyer, Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, "Imagining the State: How perceptions of the state influence customary law in the Kyrgyz aqsaqal courts" - April 17, 2007 - Summary

Paul Werth, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, "Armenian and Russian Religious Policy in the Context of Caucasian Geopolitics" - Joint Historians' Seminar - April 11, 2007

Galina Yemelianova, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, "The Rise of Islam in Eurasia: Comparative Perspectives and Potential Consequences" - April 10, 2007 - Summary

Edil Baisalov, President of the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society, "Political Instability in Kyrgyzstan: Sources of Hope and Despair" - April 5, 2007 - Summary

Special Roundtable - Turkmenistan After Turkmenbashi - February 27, 2007 - Summary

Panel Participants:

Erika Dailey, Director, Open Society Institute's Turkmenistan Project
Irina Liczek, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Niagara University
John Schoeberlein, Director, Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus at Harvard University
Thomas Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Chair:

Lisbeth Tarlow, Associate Director, Davis Center

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2006 (All Summaries)

Iqbal Aghazadeh, Chairman, Umid Party of Azerbaijan, Member of Parliament, "Prospects for Democratization of Society in Azerbaijan" - December 12 - Summary - Read the Harvard Crimson's report on Mr. Aghazadeh's visit.

Kenzhebai Dusembaev, Gulzhan Nauryzbekova, Jane Knox-Voina, "Kazakh Film and National Identity" - November 14 - Summary

Adeeb Khalid, Professor of History, Carleton College, "'Radical Politics in a Muslim Society: Muslim Communities in Early Soviet Central Asia" - March 7

Michael Hall, Director of the Crisis Group's Central Asia Project, "Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Light at the End of the Tunnel?" - March 6

Nozima Kamalova, Chairperson of the Legal Aid Society in Uzbekistan Tuesday, "The War against Terrorism and Its Implications for Human Rights in Uzbekistan" - February 7 [Back to top.]

2005

Ambassador Steve Young, Office of the Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Dept. of State Former U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, "Kyrgyzstan's Democratic 'Revolution' and its Implications for Central Asia" - November 7

Arienne Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Kansas "Spin-Doctoring the Uyghurs: Recent Developments in Cultural Policy in Xinjiang" - November 1

Giorgi Kandelaki, Senior Advisor, Analytics Group of the Office of the President of Georgia Co-Founder, Kmara! (Enough!), Georgian Youth Organization Monday, "The Rose Revolution: Causes and Consequences" - October 17

Muhammad Solih, Former Presidential Candidate in Uzbekistan Leader of the ERK Democratic Party Friday, "Prospects for Political Pluralism in Uzbekistan Following the Killings in Andijan" - July 1

Special Roundtable- Events in Kyrgyzstan and Their Regional Implications - April 7

Panel Participants:

Laura Adams, Princeton University
Erdin Beshimov, Davis Center, REECA Program
Morgan Liu, Society of Fellows
Kelly McMann, Case Western Reserve University
John Schoeberlein, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus

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2004

Richard Pomfret, Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide Visiting Professor of Economics, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University - Guest Chair: Dr. Thomas Simons, Director, Program on Eurasia in Transition, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, "Central Asia's Economic Transition: The Winners and Losers" - May 4

Brian Glyn Williams, Assistant Professor of Islamic History University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth - Guest Chair: Mike Reynolds, Research Fellow, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, "Dostum: Afghanistan's Anti-Taliban Horsemen and the War on Terror" Film Documentary - April 22 [Back to top.]

2003

Mariya Pulman, Consultant and Head of the Judicial Department of the International Bureau on Human Rights, Almaty, Kazakhstan, "Human Rights Law in Kazakhstan and the Prospects for Development of the Legal Defense System" - May 23

Kamoludin Abdullaev, Sumitomo Bank Fellow, Yale University Center for Area and International Studies, "Tensions in Tajikistan Following the 1997 Peace Accord and September 11" - May 1

Alanna Cooper, Senior Fellow Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, "Looking Out for One's Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Communism" - April 22

Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, "Afghanistan: A Regional Perspective on Reconstruction" - April 21

Musa Yusupov, Head of the Center for Socio-Strategic Research, Groznyi, "The Situation in Chechnya: Prospects for Settlement of the Russian-Chechen Conflict" - April 8

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2002

Boris Shikhmuradov, Former Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, "Political Opposition in Turkmenistan" - May 2

Larry P. Goodson, "Post-War Afghanistan: Will Warring Factions Turn to Peaceful Nation-Building?" - April 9

Ilyas Akhmadov, Foreign Minister of the Chechen Government in Exile, "The Prospects for Peace in Chechnya" - February 4

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2001

Square Table: "Global Terrorism and Central Asia," with Thomas Barfield: "Local Politics in Afghanistan and their International Consequences", John Schoeberlein:"Security and Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia", and Kelly McMann: "The Governments and Economies of Post-Soviet Central Asia" - October 10

Erika Weinthal, "NGOs and the Environment" (Olin Series) - May 17

Cynthia Werner, "State-Society Relations and Marriage in Kazakhstan" (Olin Series) - May 10

Laura Adams, "Cultural Elites in Uzbekistan" (Olin Series) - April 19

John Schoeberlein, "Cultural Nationalism, Islam and State Ideology" (Olin Series) - April 11

Kelly McMann, "NGOs and Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan" (Olin Series) - March 22

Marianne Kamp, "Social Services and Expectations of the State's Role in Uzbekistan" (Olin Series) - March 8

Alisher Ilkhamov, "Center-Periphery Relations in Uzbekistan" (Olin Series) - February 22

Pan Guang, "China and Central Asia" - February 14

Pauline Jones Luong, "Decentralization in Kazakhstan" (Olin Series) - February 8

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2000

Alisher Ilkhamov, "Divided Economy: Kolkhozes vs. Farming for the Market in Post-Soviet
Uzbekistan" - April 17

David M. Abramson, "Constructing Corruption: Foreign Aid, Bureaucratization and Uzbek Social
Networks" - March 20

Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, "Ethnic Identity versus Nationalism: The Uzbeks of Afghanistan and the Afghan State" - February 14

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