From: "Sanjyot Mehendale" <[log in to unmask]>
CONF.- Central Asia Palimpsest: Re-emerging Identities, Berkeley, Apr. 21
Central Asia Palimpsest:
(Re) Emerging Identities and New Global Imprints
Conference Program
Saturday, April 21: 105 North Gate Hall
9.15: Opening Remarks
Sanjyot Mehendale
Caucasus and Central Asia Program
University of California, Berkeley
9.30 - 12.30
Panel I: Post-Soviet Central Asia - Challenges of Autonomy
9.30-10.15
Post-totalitarian Society in Contemporary Central Asia
Anatoly Khazanov
University of Wisconsin
10.15-11.00
Dividing Lines: Physical Infrastructures and Policy Coordination Among the
States of Central Asia
Gregory Gleason
University of New Mexico
11.00 - 11.15: Coffee/Tea Break
11.15-12.00
The Taliban and the Issues of Security and Integration in Central Asia
Natalya Khan
Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan
12.00-12.30: Discussion
12.30-14.00: Lunch Break
14.00- 17.00
Panel II: Global Repositioning - Central Asia and the World
14.00-14.45
Foreign Policy Vectors in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Building Security,
Attracting Investment
Shirin Akiner
School of Oriental and African Studies, London
14.45-15.30
Cyber-separatism: Pioneering Global Islam on the Borders of Imperialism in
Central Asia
Dru Gladney
University of Hawaii, Manoa
15.30-15.45: Coffee/Tea Break
15.45-16.30
(Topic TBA)
William Fierman
Indiana University
Andre Gunder Frank
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Florida International University
16.30-17.00: Discussion
Sunday, April 22: 105 North Gate Hall
9.00-12.45
Panel III: The Architecture of Identity
Discussant: Siamak Adhami, Saddleback College
9.00-9.45
The History of Turkic and Tajik Identities in Central Asia
Beatrice F. Manz
Tufts University
9.45-10.30
The Concept of Nation and the (Re) Conceptualization of Identities in
Central Asia (19th-21st Centuries)
Uli Schamiloglu
University of Wisconsin
10.30 - 10.45: Coffee/Tea Break
10.45-11.30
Kazakh Identity: Renaissance as Invention of Tradition
Alma Kunanbaeva
University of California
11.30-12.15
The Reemergence of Clan Identities in Post-Soviet Central Asia"
Kathleen Collins
Dartmouth College
12.15-12.45: Discussion
12.45 - 14.00: Lunch Break
14.00-16.00
Panel IV: Ancient Histories, New Uses
14.00-14.45
Independence and Cultural Heritage in Uzbekistan
Rustam Suleymanov
Institute of Archaeology, Samarkand
14.45-15.30
Uncovering the Past in Present-day Central Asia
Frantz Grenet
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris
15.30-16.00: Discussion
For further information, contact:
Sanjyot Mehendale
tel.: +1 (510) 643-5845
Dana Sherry
tel.: +1 (510) 643-5844
Caucasus and Central Asia Program
Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
266 Stephens Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Tel: +1 (510) 643-5845
Fax: +1 (510) 643-5045
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