Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

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

Beyond the Nation: Central Asian Literatures and Cultures in Transnational Perspective

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 14:15

DISCUSSANT: Samuel Hodgkin
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Fri, Oct 26th, 14:15

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS
•Christopher Baker (American University of Central Asia)
•Emily Laskin (University of California, Berkeley)
•Naomi Caffee (Reed College)

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

Empires of Paper: Central Asian Literature and the Construction of Imperial Subjectivity

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Naomi Caffee | DISCUSSANT: Eva-Marie Dubuisson
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Fri, Oct 26th, 09:00

•Uzbek Drama and the All-Soviet Sacralization of the Text
Christopher Fort (University of Michigan)

•Prestige Editions and Borrowing Privileges in the Stalinist Library of World Literature
Samuel Hodgkin (University of Chicago)

•Steppe Realism: Landscape, Imagination, and Empire in Nikolai Karazin
Emily Laskin (University of California Berkeley)

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

Author-Critic Forum: Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature

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

CHAIR: Eva-Marie Dubuisson
ROOM: Posvar 5604 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

AUTHOR
•Diana Kudaibergenova (Lund University)

CRITICS
•Eva-Marie Dubuisson (Nazarbayev University)
•Christopher Fort (University of Michigan)
•Christopher Baker (American University of Central Asia)
•Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University)
•Boram Shin

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

Trials and Courts in Eurasia

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

CHAIR: Raufhon Salahodjaev | DISCUSSANT: Erica Marat
ROOM: Posvar 3600 | Fri, Oct 26th, 11:00

•Courts of Women-Aksakals in the Kyrgyz Republic
Aisuluu Abubakirova (Kompozit Group Holding)

•Legal Recognition of Mental Disabilities in Azerbaijan: The Legal and Practical Challenges
Ravan Samadov (University of Bristol)

•Country Assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic: Fair Trial Standards and Meaning in Local Context
Iuliia Emtseva (University of Notre Dame); Elida K. Nogoibaeva (American University of Central Asia)

Location: 
Posvar 3600
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Narratives and Areal Linguistics

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

CHAIR: Bert Beynen | DISCUSSANT: Cass Lowry
ROOM: Posvar 3600 | Sat, Oct 27th, 11:00

•Sign Language Issues in Kyrgyzstan
Feruza Shermatova

•Being a Neighbor among Kazakhs: The Insights from Discourse Analysis of Personal Narratives
Aisulu Raspayeva (Rice University)

•A Diachronic, Usage-Based Model of Harmonic Change in Uyghur
Eric de Roulet (California State University Fullerton)

Location: 
Posvar 3600
Event Web Site: 
https://www.cess.pitt.edu/
Contact Person: 
Susan Dawkins
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7403
Contact Email: 
sad96@pitt.edu

Caucasian Linguistics

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 09:00

CHAIR: Murad Jalilov | DISCUSSANT: John Colarusso; Kevin Tuite
ROOM: Posvar 3800 | Fri, Oct 26th, 09:00

•The Semantic Distinctive Features of the Georgian Verbal Infix -Am-
Bert Beynen (Temple University)

•The Development of Modal Meaning - Georgian Unda
Nino Sharashenidze (I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

•GESL and Innovation Technologies
Tamar Makharoblidze (Ilia State University)

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

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