Russia/Eastern Europe

Dimensions of Uyghur Displacement and Challenges to Scholarship

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: James A. Millward | DISCUSSANT: Kelly Hammond
ROOM: Posvar 5702 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

•Settlement and Ethnic Conflict
Mukeddes Omer (American University)

•A “Flavorless” Song for Xi Jinping: Changing Uyghur Soundscapes in the People’s War on Terror
Elise Anderson (Indiana University Bloomington)

•Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: How Uyghurs from China Became Foreign Fighters in Syria
Sean Roberts (George Washington University)

Location: 
Posvar 5702
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Are There Central Eurasian Forms of Power? Theorizing Configurations and Materialities

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/25/2018 - 14:15

CHAIR: Christopher Atwood | DISCUSSANT: Henry Hale
ROOM: Posvar 3911 | Thu, Oct 25th, 14:15

•Geo-Power Beyond Spheres of Influence: Connecting Central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula
Natalie Koch (Syracuse University)

•Power and Community Organization in Central Eurasian Prehistory
Tekla Schmaus (Indiana University)

•Powerful Dispossessions: Power, Borders, and Environment in the Georgian Mining Industry
Jesse Swann-Quinn (Syracuse University)

Location: 
Posvar 3911
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

State Regulation and Policy

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Medet Tiulegenov
DISCUSSANT: Emilbek Dzhuraev
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Sun, Oct 28th, 09:00

•Legitimation through Latinisation: Power, Legacies and De-Russification in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Sofya du Boulay (Omarova) (Oxford Brookes University)

•Cross-National Variations in the State Regulation of Organizational Life in Post-Soviet Countries
Serik Beimenbetov (Kazakh-German University); Markus Kaiser (Kazakh-German University)

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Soft Power, Information, and Framing

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Rainer Ruge | DISCUSSANT: Yuval Weber
ROOM: Alcoa Room | Sat, Oct 27th, 09:00

•OSINT through Text Mining: A Case Study of Russian and Chinese Influence within Tajik Media
Victoria Breshears (University of Texas, El Paso)

•Authoritarian Regimes and the Co-Optation of Religion: Kazakhstan and Russia
Rebecca Fradkin (University of Oxford)

•Soft Power Vehicles and the Root Factors in China’s Soft Power Deficiency in Central Asia
John Irgengioro

Location: 
Alcoa Room, 228 Barco Law
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Migration and Identity

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Brent Hierman
DISCUSSANT: Anar Ahmadov
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Sun, Oct 28th, 11:00

•Gender and Remittances: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic
Ailuna Shamurzaeva (Ala-Too International University); Zhibek Kenzhebaeva (Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University)

•“Lost in Translation:” Exploring Uyghur Identity in Canada
Maihemuti Dilimulati

•Migrant Workers and Modern Brides: Gendered Dimensions of Identity in Contemporary Tajikistan
Mariana Irby (University of Pennsylvania)

Location: 
Posvar 3800
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Media and Politics in Central Asia

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Yuval Weber | DISCUSSANT: Galiya Ibrayeva
ROOM: Alcoa Room | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

•Turkmenistan: Political Culture and Media Landscape
Oguljamal Yazliyeva (Charles University, Prague)

•Electronic Bazaar: Social Media as a Marketplace in Contemporary Kazakhstan
Aigerim Kagarmanova (Nazarbayev University)

Location: 
Alcoa Room, 228 Barco Law
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Professional Values in a New Media Economy: Case Studies of Entrepreneurial Journalism in Post-Soviet Countries

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 11:00

CHAIR: Oguljamal Yazliyeva | DISCUSSANT: Karlyga Myssayeva
ROOM: Posvar 3911 | Sun, Oct 28th, 11:00

•Chuchuk-Gate in Kyrgyzstan: A Case Study in International Public Relations
Lana V Kulik (Thiel College)

•An Enterprise Journalism in Kazakhstan: Reality or Myth?
Galiya Ibrayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University)

Location: 
Posvar 3911
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Gender, Identity, Multiculturalism

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/25/2018 - 14:15

CHAIR: Azatkul Kudaibergenova
DISCUSSANT: Joshua Freeman
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Thu, Oct 25th, 14:15

•Constructing a Free Woman’s Body in Modern Turkish Literature
Zehra Guven Kilicarslan (Indiana University)

•The Skull Speaketh in Many Tongues: On the Transposition of the Story of the Speaking Skull in the Turkic World
Kristof D’hulster (University of Ghent)

•Of Crossed-Dressed Batyrs and Transvestite Tricksters: Gender Performance in Central Asian Folk Tales
Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 14:15

CHAIR: Christopher Fort | DISCUSSANT: Emily Laskin
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Sat, Oct 27th, 14:15

•Kyrgyz Translated into Kyrgyz
Azatkul Kudaibergenova

•Literature ad Marginem? Imagining National Territory in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Russophone Writing
Dmitriy Melnikov (KAZGUU University)

•Ideological Narratives, Evaluation and Representation of the Georgian Soviet Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s
Ana Todua (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Intersections of History and Literature: Translation and Academia in Central Eurasian Studies (Roundtable)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Joshua L. Freeman | DISCUSSANT: Chris Fort
Room: Posvar 5604 | Sat, Oct 27th, 09:00

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS

•Christopher Fort (University of Michigan)
•Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)
•Nicholas Walmsley (Al Quds Bard College of Arts and Science)
•Joshua Freeman (Harvard University)

Location: 
Posvar 5604
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

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