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Past Conferences

The Second Annual OASIES Graduate Student Conference:

"Inner Eurasia: Crossing Boundaries"

Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 10 am to 5:30 pm
Columbia University in the City of New York
707 International Affairs Building

10-10:30 Breakfast and Registration IAB 707

10:30-12 Negotiating Borders IAB 707

"Destiny and Fatality of the Last Soviet Generation: Timur Bekmametov's 2006 "Day Watch""
- Anaita Khudonazar, University of California at Berkeley
"Border-Making as National Consciousness: the Demarcation of the Ferghana Valley, 1924-1927"
- Benjamin Loring, Georgetown University
"Historiography Wars in Central Asia: Clashing History Narratives and Post-Independence Statehood of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan"
- Mohira Suyarkulova, University of St. Andrews

Community and Identity IAB 1219

"Comparative Study of Motifs in a Sassanid Fire-Temple and Central Asian Art"
- Parisa Atighi Moghadam, Tohoku University
"Kongrat Tribal Groups in Southern Uzbekistan: Overview of Studies"
- Otabek Gulyamov, Simmons College
"Kazakhstani Mass-Media Bias in Covering Ethnic Minority Issues"
- Dinara Tussupova, Oklahoma State University
"Culture of Modern Uzbekistan: Sociolinguistic Aspects"
- Klara Nazmutdinova, Iowa State University

12-1 Lunch IAB 707

1-2 Film: "Gift to Stalin" IAB 707

3-4:30 Narratives of Empire IAB 707

"International Islam and Religious Identity in Central Asia"
- James Pickett, Princeton University
"Regional News and the Politics of Siberian Patriotism in the 1880s"
- David Rainbow, New York University
"The Image of the Kurds in the Sources of the Russian Empire"
- Oleksandr Liapkalo, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Economic and Security Policy IAB 1219

"Education in Kazakhstan: Economic Aspects"
- Ainur Abdrazakova, Florida State University
"Kazakh-Indian Nuclear Cooperation"
- Bek-Ali Yerzhan, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
"European Neighbourhood Policy and the South Caucasus Countries (The Case of Azerbaijan)"
- Shahin Bayramov, Indiana University at Bloomington
"The Partnership of Kazakhstan and the European Union: the Energy Dimension"
- Ardak Yesdauletova, Eurasian National University

4:30-5:30 Reception IAB 1219

This event is free and open to the public.
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The First Annual OASIES Graduate Student Conference
"Interrogating Inner Eurasia"

Sunday, April 13, 2008 from 5 to 8:00 pm
Columbia University in the City of New York
The Gottesman Libraries @ Teachers College | 525 W. 120th St.
Group Study Room 306

Panels included: Imperialism and Inner Eurasia: Xinjiang, the Caucasus, and Armenia; Negotiating the Nation in Iran and Central Asia; Bringing Europe to Asia; 

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Conference Schedule

5:00 - 5:10 Opening Remarks

5:10 - 5:40 Imperialism and Inner Eurasia: Xinjiang, the Caucasus, and Armenia

"Discovering the Xinjiang: A Brief History of Human Ecology in China's 'New Dominion'" - Darren Byler, Columbia University

"Violence at the Ends of Empire: The Catastrophes of the Circassians and Armenians" - Owen Miller, Columbia University

5:45 - 6:45 Negotiating the Nation in Iran and Central Asia

"'Tant pis pour nous': Nationalism, Symbolic Martyrdom, and the Iranian Oil Crisis"

- Arya Rejaee, New School for Social Research

"Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy Towards South Asia"
- Bek-Ali Yerzhan, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan

"Foreign Investment Law in the Republic of Kazakhstan"
- Maulenov Kassym Syrbaevich, Kazakh-British Technical University, Kazakhstan