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Subject: International Conference: “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (30 May – 1 June 2013, Bishkek)
International Conference
“The History of Perestroika in Central Asia”
30 May – 1 June 2013, Bishkek
hosted by
Aigine Cultural Research Center
Convenor:
Dr. Irina Morozova (Seminar for Central Asian Studies, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany)
Synopsis:
The conference aims to shed a critical light at the processes of academic knowledge production on the history of late socialism and perestroika
in Central and Inner Asia. The process of institutionalisation of Central Asia-focused research in the social sciences and humanities started in the 1980s with the launch of perestroika in the USSR and the Mongolian People’s Republic. The re-conceptualisation
of socialist legacies and the systemic change of the late 1980s - beginning of the 1990s had a tremendous impact upon the way academic understanding of the region is now shaped. The conference will bring together international scholars actively engaged in
researching late socialist Central and Inner Asia.
Our knowledge of socio-political developments, communal life, identities and religion in late socialist
Central and Inner Asia has been greatly influenced by conventional approaches on the causes of
socialism’s deconstruction, which are still reflected in people's attitudes towards the reform. The
ideological trends, which resurfaced with perestroika, have been determined by the course of social
transformation and complex inter-dependencies of various international and transregional actors. The
conference is organised by the international group of scholars, pursuing a comparative analysis of the
social groups’ transformation, socio-political dynamics and reform during perestroika, the status of
different elites vis-à-vis Moscow and particularities in cultural and religious institutions and identities in Central and Inner Asia before and
after the USSR’s and CMEA’s disintegration.
Conference Programme
Venue: Conference Hall, Park Hotel, 87, Orozbekova str., Bishkek
Conference languages: Russian and English (professional simultaneous translation is provided)
30 May, Thursday
12:00-13:30 – Lunch and registration of participants
13:30-14:00 – Welcoming addresses: Chyngyz Shamshiev, Choi Key Ho, Britta Utz, Irina
Morozova, Gulnara Aitpaeva
14:00-15:30 – Keynote lecture
Nancy Ries “Glasnost' and Perestroika: Mourning the Past, Stealing the Future”
15:30-16:00 – coffee break
16:00-18:00 – First Session
“Political economy of perestroika and reform vis-à-vis Moscow”
Chair:
Udo Barkmann
Salavat Iskhakov
“The CPSU Central Committee’ Politburo policies towards the central republican
nomenklatura of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: configurations of centre-periphery relations in
1982-1991”
Tolganai Umbetalieva
“The party elite’s transformation and evolution of ideas in the perestroika
period in Kazakhstan”
Timur Dadabaev
“From Economic Reforms to the Politics of “Perestroika”: Retrospectives of
Expectations and Everyday Life in Central Asia“
Turar Koichuev
“Economy in the USSR and the KirSSR at the times of perestroika: hopes and
disappointments”
Discussant:
Petra Stykow
19:00 – 21:00 – dinner
31 May, Friday
9:00 – 10:30 – Second Session
“Ground waters of perestroika worldwide”
Chair:
Petra Stykow
Jean-Robert Raviot
“Ecology and Nationalism in the Perestroika Years: “Restoring National
Heritage” and “Struggling Against Soviet Industrial Colonialism””
Andrei Chebotarev
“Labour movement and independent trade unions in Kazakhstan: main
tendencies of perestroika period”
Elena Zimovina
“Transformation of ethno-demographic structure of Kazakhstan in the context of
perestroika processes: republican trends and regional particularities”
Discussant:
Melanie Arndt
10:30 – 10:45 – coffee break
10:45 – 12:45 – Podium discussion
“Perestroika in Central Asia within the international
change of the last quarter of the 20th century”
with
Mattias Middell, Andrei Fursov, Udo Steinbach, Ishembai Abdurazakov. Moderation:
Irina Morozova.
12:45 – 14:45 – Lunch
14:45 – 16:15 – Third Session
“Perestroika contexts reflected in memories and
biographies”
Chair:
Nancy Ries
Yuki Konagaya and Maqsooda Shiotani
“Mongolian Women’s Life Trajectories influenced by
Perestroika”
Sophie Roche
“Islam and Perestroika in the lives of selected intellectuals of Central Asia”
Emil and Nail Nasritdinovs
“Soviet Rock with Asian face: Viktor Tsoi in Central Asia”
Discussant:
Serguei Oushakine
16:15 – 16:30 – coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 – Fourth Session
“Perestroika discourses and their transmitters: academia,
literature and literature criticism, journals and other media”
Chair:
John Schoeberlein
Aftandil Erkinov
“The forbidden fiction literature as a means to search for identity (based on the
analysis of literature periodicals in Uzbekistan, 1985-1991”
Ainura Turgangazieva
“Characteristics of perestroika discourses in Kyrgyzstani literature journals:
“Ala-Too” and “Literaturnyi Kyrgyzstan”
Gulnara Aitpaeva
“Kyrgyz historical prose during Perestroika: anticipating the 21st century?”
Discussant:
Svetlana Jacquesson
19:00 – 21:00 – dinner and
the evening of reminiscences about perestroika “Epitaphic of
the Epoch”
with
Aleksandr Ivanov, Svetlana Suslova, Vyacheslav Shapovalov.
1 June, Saturday
9:30 – 11:00 – Fifth Session
“The role of the party in drafting official history narrative and
social policies at perestroika times: the case of Mongolia”
Chair:
Andrei Fursov
Udo Barkmann
“The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party in 1985-1990: balancing between
the party, parliament and executives”
Jigjidijn Boldbaatar
“Perestroika in Mongolia and re-discovering concepts on nation and history”
Enkhbaatar Munkhsaruul
“Collectivisation of cattle in Mongolia, 1990-1992 (to the question of
economic history of perestroika in Mongolia)”
Discussant:
Irina Morozova
11:00 – 11:15 – coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 – Sixth Session
“Central Asian societies at the times of perestroika in
comparative perspective: why and what we compare”
Chair:
Matthias Middell
Sergei Abashin
“Soviet “theory of ethnos”: inevitability of the USSR’s disintegration?”
Ablet Kamalov
“Through whose eyes to look at recent history: on the transformation of the
Uyghurs’ communities in Central Asia in the 1980s”
Irina Morozova
“Comparing social transformation of late socialist societies in Central Asia at the
time of structural and systemic crisis: on the problem of objective criteria for comparison”
Discussant:
John Schoeberlein
12:45-14:15 – lunch
14:15 – 15:15 – concluding remarks
18:00 – 20:00 – conference dinner and concert
2-3 June, Sunday-Monday
Trip to Issyk-Kul
Departure from Bishkek: early morning 2 June
arrival back to Bishkek: 15-18:00 3 June
For any enquiry, also for attending the Conference as an observer, please, contact the organisers: Irina Morozova ([log in to unmask]),
Gulnara Aitpaeva ([log in to unmask]) and Ainura Turgangazieva ([log in to unmask])
The list of conference participants:
Dr. Sergei Abashin, Institute for Ethnography and Anthropology, the
Russian Academy of Science,
Moscow, Russia
Prof. Ishenbai Abdurazakov, Karasaev Bishkek University for Humanities,
Kyrgyzstan
Dr. Gulnara Aitpaeva, Director of Aigine Cultural Research Center,
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Senior
Researcher within the Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
Dr. Melanie Arndt, the Graduate School for Eastern and Southern European
Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany
Prof. Udo Barkmann, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Institute
for Mongol Studies,
National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Acad. Prof. Jigjidijn Boldbaatar, Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Ulaanbaatar University,
Chairman of the Union of Historians, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Senior Researcher within the Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (sponsored
by Volkswagen Foundation)
Dr. Andrei Chebotarev, Director of the Center for Actual Research
“Alternativa”, Almaty, Kazakhstan Senior Researcher within the Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
Prof. Choi Key Ho, President of Ulaanbaatar University, Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia
Prof. Dr. Timur Dadabaev, Graduate School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Aftandil Erkinov, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies,
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Prof. Andrei Fursov, Director of the Institute for Russian Studies,
the Russian University for
Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Dr. Salavat Iskhakov, Institute for Russian History of the Russian
Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Mr. Aleksandr Ivanov,
editor in chief of “Literaturnyi Kyrgyzstan”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Dr. Svetlana Jacquesson, Director of the Institute for Central Asian
Studies, American University of
Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Prof. Ablet Kamalov, the University of “Turan”, the Institute for
Oriental Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Acad. Prof. Turar Koichuev,
Advisor to the Presidium of the National Academy of Science of
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Prof. Yuki Konagaya, National Museum for Ethnography, Osaka, Japan
Prof. Matthias Middell, Director of the Global and European Studies
Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Irina Morozova, Seminar for Central Asian Studies, Institute for
Asian and African Studies,
Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, Director of the Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
Mr. Enkhbaatar Munkhsaruul, Ph.D. student (sponsored by Volkswagen
Foundation) at the Chair for History, the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Dr. Emil Nasritdinov, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
Mr. Nail Nasritdinov, “AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW)”, Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
Prof. Serguei Oushakine, Director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian
Studies as well as
Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, the USA
Prof. Jean-Robert Raviot, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défens,
Paris, France
Prof. Nancy Ries, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies Program,
Colgate University, New York, the USA
Dr. Sophie Roche, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Vyacheslav Shapovalov,
the Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Prof. John Schoeberlein, Director of the Eurasian Regional Studies,
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Prof. Chyngyz Shamshiev, Rector of the Academy for State Administration
attached to the President of the Kyrgyz Republic
Dr. Maqsooda Shiotani, Center of Central Asian Studies, University
of Kashmir, India
Prof. Udo Steinbach, Director of the Governance Centre Middle East
/ North Africa, Humboldt-
Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Petra Stykow, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ms. Svetlana Suslova,
vice editor in chief of “Literaturnyi Kyrgyzstan”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ms. Ainura Turgangazieva, Ph.D. student (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
at the Kyrgyz
Russian Slavic University, Junior Researcher at Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Dr. Tolganai Umbetalieva, Director of the Central Asian Foundation
for Developing Democracy,
Almaty, Kazakhstan, Senior Researcher within the Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
Ms. Britta Utz, Regional Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan
Dr. Elena Zimovina, the Center for Socio-economic Research, Kant Baltic
Federal University,
Kaliningrad, Russia, Senior Researcher within the Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia” (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
The project
“The History of Perestroika in Central Asia (social transformation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1982-1991)”, sponsored by Volkswagen
Foundation, investigates the adaptive strategies of social groups in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and
Mongolia during perestroika in a broader socio-cultural context and seeks to explain how the
newly introduced ideological trends and cultural ideas impacted on social groups and
personalities. The project follows a genuinely comparative approach and aims to distinguish the
similarities, differences and specifics of patterns of social consolidation in the three societies. The
study begins chronologically at the end of Brezhnev's era in 1982 and Tsedenbal's long rule in
Mongolia in 1984 and continues up to the dissolution of the USSR and CMEA in 1991. The
project is carried out by an international research team that includes senior and junior researchers
from Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia; the senior scholars supervise selected
doctoral students, who write their PhD theses in the framework of the project at their home
institutions.
For more information on the project, please, visit the website of the Seminar for Central Asian
Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University in Berlin:
http://www2.huberlin.
de/zentralasien/index-en.php?section=perestroika_en