Central Asia Palimpsest

Crossing Borders: Institute of International Studies; University of California, Berkeley

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

Chair: David Hooson, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley

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

Chair: Kathleen Collins, Dartmouth College

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
Threat from Abroad: Perceptions of Missionary Activity in Independent Kazakhstan

William Fierman, Indiana University

16.30-17.00: Discussion

Discussant: Andre Gunder Frank, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Florida International University

Sunday, April 22: 105 North Gate Hall

9.00-12.45
Panel III: The Architecture of Identity

Chair: Harsha Ram, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

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

Discussant: Siamak Adhami, Saddleback College

12.45-13.50: Lunch Break

13:50-14:45
Panel IV: Ancient Histories, New Uses

Chair: David Stronach, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley

13.50-14.35
Independence and Cultural Heritage in Uzbekistan

Rustam Suleymanov, Institute of Archaeology, Samarkand

14.35-14.45: Discussion

Discussant: Frantz Grenet, Director of Mafouz, the French Archaeological Mission in Uzbekistan

14:45-16:30
Panel V: Women in Post-Soviet Central Asia

14.45-15.35
"Woman`s Place": A Documentary

Fatimakhon Ahmedova, Visiting Scholar, Indiana University

15.35-15.45: Coffee/Tea Break

15.45-16.30
Women`s Criminality in Tajikistan

Fatimakhon Ahmedova, Visiting Scholar, Indiana University

16.30-16.55: Discussion

Discussant: Shirin Akiner, SOAS, London