
Conferences
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The Organizations for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies
at Columbia University, New York University, and Yale University are pleased to announce the Third Annual OASIES Student Conference
"POWER AND MOVEMENT ACROSS EURASIA"
which will be held on Saturday, APRIL 10, 2010 at Columbia University in New York City. (Please Note New Date)
+ 2010 OASIES Graduate Conference Call for Papers
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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.
For more information about this or other events visit www.oasies.org
or e-mail contact[at]oasies.org
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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
6:50 - 7:50 Bringing Europe to Asia
"Sex and Gender in the Soviet Union"
- Jessica Teicher, Columbia University"Hungarian Voices at the League of Nations"
- Andrew Behrendt, University of Chicago"Investigating the Mysterious East: Friar John of Plano Carpini's Mission to the Mongols" - Hannah Barker, Columbia University
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This event is free and open to the public. For more information about this or other events visit www.oasies.org or e-mail contact@oasies.org.
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