CONF: SOAS Eurasia Research Programme on 18 Feb in London announced

Second Annual Interdisciplinary

Eurasia Research Conference

at

School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS

Russell Square, London

Jointly organized by The Eurasian Studies Society (TESS) and New Research on Central Asia and Caucasus (NRCAC)

Conference Chairs: Sevket Akyildiz (SOAS) & Gaigysyz Jorayev (UCL)

Contact e-mail: eurasiasocietyuk@gmail.com 

Venue: Room G2, SOAS, Russell Square, London

Saturday 18 February 2012, (Starts at 9.00- ends at 17.00pm)

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Programme 

 Welcome (Dr. Sevket Akyildiz, SOAS)

Panel 1- [9.05- 10.50]  
- Identity, Culture and Anthropology
Chair: Dr. Otambek Mastibekov, Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London

• Diana Ibanez  (PhD Candidate, SOAS, London)

Taloq or ‘Fast Track Divorce’: Subjectivity, Personhood, and Mexican Soap Operas in Kulob, Southern Tajikistan

•  Bolant Yeskarauly (PhD Candidate, Leicester University)

Kazakhness and Kazakhstanshipness in the 21st Century

• Rebecca Beardmore (PhD Candidate, UCL)

The Past is Another Country: Reflections on Conducting Archaeology in the Post-Soviet, Multinational, Nation-state of Kazakhstan

• Diana Kudaibergenova (PhD Cambridge University)

National Identity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Soviet Legacy and Primordialism Post-1991
Coffee Break [10.50-11.10]
Panel 2 – History [11.10-12.50]
Chair: Katherine Hughes, PhD Candidate, SOAS

• Dr. Elena Paskaleva (Leiden University, Holland)

The Bibi Khanum Kosh in Samarqand: Its Mongol and Timurid Architecture

• Stefan Peychev (PhD Candidate, University of Illinois).

Capital Cities and Imperial Ideology in Eurasia, 1200-1500

• Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev (PhD Student, SOAS, London)

Soviet and Post-Soviet Sources on Mughal – Tajik Historiography

• Barakatullo Ashurov (PhD Student, SOAS, London)

Sogdian Texts from Sogdiana: Eighty Years Ago and Now
Lunch Break [12.50-13.30]
Panel 3 –  [13.30- 14.50] Migration & Social Development
Chair: Sultonbek Aksakolov, PhD Candidate, SOAS

• Bogumil Terminski (PhD Candidate, University of Warsaw/Geneva)

Environmentally Induced Migrations: Theoretical Frameworks and Current Challenges

• Gulzat Botoeva (PhD Candidate, Essex University)

Social and Economic Conditions of Drug Production in Kyrgyzstan

• Zamira Dildorbekova (Exeter University, UK)

The Dynamics of Islam and Modernity in Tajikistan
Coffee Break [14.50-15.10]
Panel 4 – [15.15-16.50] International Relations & Politics
Chair: Zayra M Badillo Castro, PhD Candidate, SOAS

• Cyrus Ki Yip Yee (PhD Candidate, SOAS)

China’s New Administration in the Inner Asian Frontiers in the Late Qing Period 1901-11

• Timothy Alexander Nunan (PhD Candidate, Oxford University)

Soviet Development Thought, the ‘Central Asian Consensus’, and Soviet Afganovedeniie. c. 1953-1991

• Dr. Filiz Katman (Istanbul Aydın University)

New Great Game, South Caucasus and NATO

• Aijan Sharshenova (PhD Candidate, Leeds University)

Democracy Promotion in Central Asia: the European Union’s Strategy Towards Kyrgyzstan
Closing Remarks: Dr. Gül Berna Özcan, Royal Holloway, University of London

http://eurasiastudies-society.com/submitted-papers-2011/

Conference Sponsors -

Arcadia University,

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,

Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Post event dinner at 19:00 PM Sofra Restaurant, Covent Garden, London.

http://www.sofra.co.uk/sofra_coventgarden.htm £17.00 per person (payable on the night).