Table of Contents

Map of Meeting Spaces ...... Front Inside Cover Welcome Letter ...... 2 Conference Information ...... 3 Schedule ...... 4-7 Cultural Events ...... 8 Thursday, October 3 Chaos, Violence, Dynasty and Central Asian Society: The Untold Story ...... 9 Welcome Reception, Sponsored by CREECA ...... 9 Friday, October 4 Session 1: 8:15 am - 10:00 am ...... 10-11 Session 2: 10:15 am - 12:00 pm ...... 12-13 Session 3: 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm ...... 14-15 Session 4: 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm ...... 16-17 Keynote: 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm ...... 17-18 Reception, Sponsored by Nazarbayev University: 7:00 pm ...... 17-18 Saturday, October 5 Session 5: 8:15 am - 10:00 am ...... 19-20 Session 6: 10:15 am - 12:00 pm ...... 21 Session 7: 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm ...... 22-23 Session 8: 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm ...... 24-25 Film Screening: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ...... 25 Sunday, October 6 Session 9: 8:15 am - 10:00 am ...... 26-27 Session 10: 10:15 am - 12:00 pm ...... 28 CESS 2014 (and Beyond) Planning Meeting: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm ...... 28

Advertising ...... 29-41 Announcing the 15th Annual Conference ...... 42 Index of Conference Participants ...... 43-45 Notes ...... 46-47 Restaurants ...... 48 About CESS ...... Back Inside Cover

( 1 ) Welcome to the 14th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society!

And welcome back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the first CESS event to be located here since the first three annual CESS conferences were held from 2000-2002! The Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA) is honored to be your host . All conference events will take place in the Pyle Center on the shores of Madison’s Lake Mendota .

We are so pleased that CESS and UW-Madison are joining hands again to bring scholars, practitioners and students of Central Eurasian studies together for a long weekend of intellectual stimulation and exchange . We hope everyone finds something to enjoy!

Aside from 50 panels for you to attend over three days, we would like to highlight the following:

• Preconference Symposium on (Thursday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm, Pyle 225), organized by Uli Schamiloglu .

• CREECA Lecture and Opening Reception (Thursday, 4:00 pm) . All are welcome to a lecture featuring CESS member Eric McGlinchey, followed by a reception on the lovely Rooftop Terrace (if rain, Alumni Lounge), hosted by CREECA Director Yoshiko M . Herrera .

• Plenary Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony (Saturday, 10:15 am-12:00 noon) . CESS President Cynthia Werner will preside over a discussion of the state of the organization, and the Book and Graduate Student Paper Awards will be announced . ALL are encouraged to attend!

• Meet the CESS Bloggers (Friday, 8:15-10:00 am) . Amanda Wooden, CESS Board member and founder of the CESS Blog, will join with several of her regular bloggers to talk about the activities and goals of this site and to hear your views on how to improve it .

• Keynote Address (Friday, 5:45 pm) . Journalist and author Steve LeVine will speak on “Central Asia—What Comes After 2014 .”

• Reception sponsored by Nazarbayev University (Friday, 7:00 pm) . Immediately following the Keynote, all conference attendees are invited to the Alumni Lounge for food and drinks . Hosted by Kadisha Dairova, Vice-President for Student Affairs and International Cooperation, Nazarbayev University .

• Roundtable/Author-Critic Forum (Saturday, 1:45 pm) . Signaling a new stage in cooperation between CESS and Central Asian Survey, a roundtable discussion of CESS Book Award winner Johan Rasanayagam’s Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan will feature the author . The proceedings will subsequently be published in CAS .

• Special conference-within-a-conference on “Islam in Central Eurasia.” Two panels hosted by Uli Schamilogu, Saturday morning (Session 5-2) and afternoon (Session 7-2) .

• Photo Exhibit. “Picturing Russian Colonial Central Asia (ca . 1888): Photography by Orden from the Anahita Gallery Collection,” curated by Heather Sonntag . Pyle Center 3rd Floor .

• Film Screening (Saturday, 7:00 pm): Two films from Xinjiang: “Beside the River” and “The Feast of Kurban Bayram .”

We would like to recognize our sponsors, including the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science at UW-Madison, CREECA, the Middle East Studies Program, and Nazarbayev University . We are grateful to all the members of CESS and UW-Madison who have volunteered their time .

The 15th annual conference will be hosted by our colleagues at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute from October 24-26, 2014 .

Again, welcome to Madison and enjoy your weekend!

Ali Igmen, Laura Adams, and Lawrence Markowitz, CESS Conference Program Committee Co-Chairs Jennifer Tishler, Virginia Martin and Uli Schamiloglu, UW-Madison Organizing Committee Co-Chairs

( 2 ) Conference Information

Conference Registration: 3rd Floor, Pyle Center All participants and attendees must register . The registration desk is located on the third floor of the Pyle Center, in the pre-function space outside room 326 . The registration desk will be staffed: Thursday, 3:00-6:00 pm Friday, 7:30 am-5:30 pm Saturday, 7:30 am-4:00 pm Sunday, 7:30 am-noon Exhibit Room: Room 313, Pyle Center Please visit the publishers, booksellers, study abroad organizations, and universities that are exhibiting at CESS . The exhibit room will be open: Friday, 8:00 am-5:30 pm Saturday, 8:00 am-5:30 pm Sunday, 8:00-noon Coffee and Refreshment Breaks: Early-morning coffee will be available at 7:30 am outside the Exhibit Room (313 Pyle Center) . On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a mid-morning break, featuring coffee, tea, and pastries will be available in the Exhibit Room at 9:45 am . On Friday and Saturday, a mid-afternoon beverage break will be available in the Exhibit Room at 3:15 pm .

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would like to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for their extraordinary support and efforts: Jackie Breeding, CESS Secretariat, Indiana University . CESS Conference Committee: Laura Adams, Ali Igmen, Lawrence Markowitz . UW-Madison Organizing Committee: Virginia Martin, Uli Schamiloglu, and Jennifer Tishler (co-chairs), Funda Derin, David Dettmann, Angela Hakkila, Yoshiko M . Herrera, Mark S . Johnson, Heather Sonntag, Andy Spencer . Student volunteer coordinator: Kathleen Conti . Thanks to all the student volunteers who donated their time to the conference and opened up their homes to visiting graduate students! For their generous financial support of and participation in the conference, we wish to thank the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Science at UW-Madison, the Middle East Studies Program, CREECA, and Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan . Textile images used in this conference program appear courtesy of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

( 3 ) Thursday, October 3, 2013 3, October Thursday,

Reception, Welcome Sponsored by CREECA Session Session pm 7:00 - pm 5:30

Session Session pm 5:30 - pm 4:00 “Chaos, Violence, Dynasty and Central Asian Society: The Untold Story”

Rooftop Terrace Rooftop Terrace rain) if Lounge (Alumni Pyle 325 Room Schedule ( 4 )

0 pm 0 . Reception Keynote/Reception 3 8: - pm 5:45 with Address Keynote by Followed LeVine Steve

The State of Social Mobilization in Central Eurasia (4-1) Identity Politics (4-2) of (Pre-)Islamic Rituals Through Turko-Persia Christian Eyes: Texts, (4-3) Materiality and Images, How to Write About Central Eurasia: Academia and Journalism in Conversation (4-4) and Central Asian Women (4-5) Islam: Ancestral Traditions Expectations Modern and Exhibit Hall Religious and Ethnic Actors as Agents of Change (4-6) Session 4 Session

3:45 pm - 5:30 pm 5:30 - pm 3:45 Friday, October 4, 2013 October Friday,

Dissent, Reform and Dissent, Reform and Revolution (3-1) Central Eurasian Studies: the New Foundations for Development of Reseach within the Region (3-2) Post-Soviet State-Society Relations (3-3) Central Asian Military History (3-4) Social Memory and the (3-5) Material World Exhibit Hall in Tajikistan: Conceiving Contingency and (3-6) Opportunity USSR the of Visions Early Session 3 3 Session 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm 3:30 - pm 1:45 Lunch — 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm 1:45 - pm 12:00 — Lunch

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Exhibit Hall Deciphering Documents and History Mysteries (2-6) Energy and Security Energy and Security Policies (2-3) Heritage History-Making: Asian Central and Global Genealogical, Oral, (2-5) Narratives Collective Session 2 2 Session New Role in China’s Central Asia (2-1) Education and Community Development in Rural Central Asia (2-2) Protecting and Sustaining Central Asian Cultural 10:15 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 - am 10:15

in Kyrgyzstan

Turkey and the EU in the the in EU the and Turkey Security, Space: Post-Soviet (1-6) Gender and Energy and Tajikistan (1-3) and Tajikistan Past, Present and Future of Gender Studies in Central Asia (1-4) Osh Three Years After: Reordering and (1-5) City the Remembering Exhibit Hall Contemporary Higher Education Meet and Greet The CESS Meet and Greet The Bloggers (1-1) Session 1 1 Session 8:15 am - 10:00 am 10:00 - am 8:15

325 Pyle Alumni and Lounge Pyle 317 Pyle 313 Pyle 213 Pyle 226 Pyle 225 Pyle 220 Pyle 205 Room Schedule ( 5 )

films from Xinjiang, Two directed by Liu Xiangchen Film Screening Film pm 9:00 - pm 7:00

Exhibit Hall Religion Beyond the Repression: Islam and (8-2) State in Central Asia and Language, Literature Power (8-3) Building the State in Afghanistan (8-4) Intelligentsia of the Late Imperial Era (8-5) Why Central Asia Matters: Methodology and Theory, Practice (8-6) Session 8 Session pm 5:30 - pm 3:45 and Nomads, Networks, Migration (8-1)

Saturday, October 5, 2013 October Saturday,

Exhibit Hall Asian Higher Education (7-1) Education Higher Asian #2 Islam in Central Eurasia (7-2) Mongolia and the Third (7-3) Neighbor Approach Film and Literature (7-4) Forum Author-Critic Rasanayagam (7-5) Session 7 7 Session pm 3:30 - pm 1:45 on Perspectives Comparative Central in Internationalization Lunch — 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm 1:45 - pm 12:00 — Lunch

CESS Executive Board Meeting 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

CESS Membership Meeting Ceremony and Awards (6-1) Exhibit Hall

Session 6 6 Session pm 12:00 - am 10:15

Exhibit Hall

Wars and the Purges (5-5) Wars Analyses Linguistic-Historical the in Steppe Kazakh the of (5-6) Century 18th Evaluating Social and Economic Capital (5-4) Identity Politics during (5-2) International Organizations and Governance (5-3) Teaching from a Global Global a from Teaching World New (5-1) The Perspective: Roads Silk the and History #1 Islam in Central Eurasia Session 5 5 Session am 10:00 - am 8:15

235 Pyle DE Pyle 320 Pyle 313

Pyle 325 Pyle 317 Pyle 213

Pyle 226 Pyle 225 Pyle 220 Pyle 205 Room

Schedule ( 6 ) Sunday, October 6, 2013 6, October Sunday,

CESS 2014 (and Beyond) Conference Planning Meeting

pm 2:00 - pm 12:00

Exhibit Hall Tradition Oral and Music (10-3) Language and Culture The (10-4) Georgia of Session 10 10 Session pm 12:00 - am 10:15 Policy Energy Crafting (10-1) Borders across Turkish The Roundtable: (10-2) Presidency

(9-6) Exhibit Hall Migration and Diaspora Diaspora and Migration (9-5) and Language of Politics Xinjiang in Identity Cultural (9-3) Economic of Politics (9-4) Development Challenges to State Authority Authority State to Challenges (9-2) Religious Regulating Revival and Mobilization 8:15 am - 10:00 am 10:00 - am 8:15 Relations International (9-1) Asia Central of Session 9 9 Session

Pyle 320 Pyle 313

Pyle 317 Pyle 213 Pyle 226 Pyle 225

Pyle 220 Pyle 205 Room Schedule ( 7 ) Cultural Events

Exhibit: “Picturing Russian Colonial Central Asia (ca . 1888): Photography by Orden from the Anahita Gallery Collection .” Third Floor, Pyle Center . Among the first to haul cumbersome camera equipment around the Kara Kum desert and other parts of after completion of the Trans-Caspian railway from Merv to Samarkand via Bukhara, Orden amassed a remarkable stock of photographs representing colonial Central Asia at the end of the 1880s . A little known photographer, Orden has not been entirely overlooked by scholars interested in images of Central Asia . Yet he remains effectively obscure . Very little has been written about him, and the significance of his visual take on Turkestan has been under researched . This unique collection stands alone as an important record of modernity in colonial Central Asia and of a photographic history seen to visually exploit Asia within a Russian sphere of European cultural influence . Exhibition Curator: Heather S . Sonntag, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Films: Two films from Xinjiang, directed by Liu Xiangchen . Saturday, October 5 . 7:00-9:30 pm . Pyle Center, Room DE 235 . Introduction by David Dettmann, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison . “Beside the River” (60 min ,. 2005, in Uyghur with English subtitles) . This film documents the challenges of daily life for members of a Uyghur family living in a remote village in the Taklamakan Desert, alongside the Keriya River in southern Xinjiang, China . “The Feast of Kurban Bayram” (48min ., 2012, in Kyrgyz with English subtitles) . This film tells the story of the hardships of a Kyrgyz family in western Xinjiang who are forced to move as a new highway is constructed and as the mining industry rapidly takes over . Their problems are compounded as their traditional pasturelands become slowly flooded with the completion of a hydroelectric project . Following the second film, a discussion will be led by Guven Witteveen, Independent Scholar, and David Dettmann

“Beside the River” “The Feast of Kurban Bayram”

Textile images used in this conference program are courtesy of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison . During the CESS conference, please visit the ongoing exhibit “Clothing, Culture, Context in South Asia: Selections from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection .” The exhibit is on display from September 8-October 20 in the in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery located at Nancy Nicholas Hall, 1300 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin-Madison . The Ruth Davis Design Gallery is open Tuesday - Thursday, 10am - 4pm and Sunday, 12 - 5pm . Call 608- 262-8815 for more information .

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Thursday, October 3, 2013 3, October Thursday, Pyle 325 Rooftop Terrace (Alumni Lounge if rain) Rooftop Terrace 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 4:00 pm - Welcome Reception, Sponsored by CREECA Welcome

“Chaos, Violence, Dynasty and Central Asian Society: The Untold Story” Dynasty and Central Asian Society: “Chaos, Violence,

McGlinchey, Associate Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University and Politics, George Mason Associate Professor of Government Eric M . McGlinchey, Sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) and the Mellon Foundation Slavic Studies Initiative Asia (CREECA) and the Mellon Foundation for Russia, East Europe, and Central Sponsored by the Center Lecture CREECA ( 9 )

Alan DeYoung, University of Kentucky (Discussant) Alan DeYoung, Contemporary in Kyrgyzstan Education Higher (1-3) and Tajikistan Pyle 225 (Chair) Kent State University Shakhnoza Yakubova, of Kentucky Zumrad Kataeva, University Life Faculty and Profession Academic the Understanding Tajikistan in Post-Soviet State University Martha Merrill, Kent Authority and Actors, Reform: Rationalesfor Recognizing Academics Drummond, Michigan State University Todd between and Russian GapThe in Kyrgyzstan Achievement The is In Evidence Language Schooling: Medium Non-Russian Friday, October 4, 2013 4, October Friday,

. Kudaibergenova Cody Behles Aisalkyn Botoeva Michael Igoe Sarah Dixon Klump David Levy Bradley Murg James Pickett Guest Bloggers: Alfred Bustanov Melissa Kerr Chiovenda Diana T Lakhonin Vassiliy Max Suchkov Read more at http://centraleurasia .org/thecessblog/ CESS would like to acknowledge and thank editor Amanda Amanda editor thank and acknowledge to like would CESS Blog CESS The to contributors the all and Wooden Regular Bloggers:

Sarah Dixon Klump, Georgetown University Sarah Dixon Klump, James Pickett, Princeton University Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge Diana Kudaibergenova, University Aisalkyn Botoeva, Brown Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, University of Connecticut Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Amanda Wooden, Bucknell University (Moderator) Bucknell University Amanda Wooden, Boston University David Levy, Meet and Greet The CESS Bloggers (1-1) Bloggers CESS The Greet and Meet Pyle 205 Session 1 — 8:15 am - 10:00 am - 10:00 8:15 am 1 — Session ( 10 ) angün, Middle East Technical University Technical angün, Middle East ğ e Ayata, Middle East Technical University (Chair) Middle East Technical e Ayata, ş Isik Kuscu Bonnenfant, Middle East Technical University University Isik Kuscu Bonnenfant, Middle East Technical (Discussant) Turkey and the EU in the Post-Soviet Space: EU in the Post-Soviet and the Turkey and Gender (1-6) Energy Security, Pyle 317 Ay Gökten Do Space the Post-Soviet and Turkey in Politics Gender University Ergun, Middle East Technical Ayca Security and the South in Caucasus Democratization EU, University, Hayriye Kahveci, Middle East Technical Northern Cyprus Campus Asiathe Caucasus and with Central Relations Energy Turkey’s Friday, October 4, 2013 October Friday,

Pyle 213 Laura Adams, Harvard University (Chair) University Emily Canning, Brandeis City in a Scarred Language Power and Signs: of Scarcity Institute for Central Asian Olivier Ferrando, French Studies (IFEAC) An Asia: Central Violence Post-Soviet in Identity Political and RelationIncestuous Elly Harrowell, University of Birmingham Urban Change the Future: MemoriesMapping Building and for Kyrgyzstan in Osh, Grace Zhou, Stanford University Construction, Conflict, on Building City: and Perspectives House Citizenshipand Southern in Kyrgyzstan Morgan Liu, Ohio State University (Discussant) Osh Three Years After: Reordering and Reordering and After: Years Osh Three City (1-5) Remembering the

Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University Texas Cynthia Werner, Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming Marianne Kamp, University of Uzbekistan Shahnoza Madaeva, National University Noor Borbieva, Indiana University-Purdue University Noor Borbieva, Indiana Fort Wayne Svetlana Peshkova, University of New Hampshire (Chair) Svetlana Peshkova, University of Exeter Zulfiya Bakhtibekova, of Gender Studies in Central Asia (1-4) of Gender Studies Pyle 226 Roundtable: Past, Present and Future Past, Present Roundtable: Session 1 — 8:15 am - 10:00 am - 10:00 8:15 am 1 — Session ( 11 ) University in Kazakhstan Energy Nuclear of Debatingthe Future OSCE Academy Behruz Yodgorov, -2014 Withdrawal USthe AsiaAfter Security Central Sarah Hummel, Princeton University (Discussant) Energy and Security Policies (2-3) Policies Security and Energy Pyle 225 Zachary University of Wisconsin- Barnett-Howell, Madison (Chair) Intelligence University Daniel Burghart, National Eurasian Game of Changers—The Changing Nature Great Energy Indiana University Amita Vempati, Theory Alliance the Iran-Tajikistan and Balancing Uzbekistan: Relationship Harriman Institute, Columbia Aitmukhanbet Yesdauletov, University Harriman Institute, Columbia Ardak Yesdauletov, Friday, October 4, 2013 4, October Friday, Martha Merrill, Kent State University (Chair) Martha Merrill, Kent Aga Khan University Mir Tajik, Mountainous the Rural, in Self-Help Development Community Asia Central of Regions Kent State University Shakhnoza Yakubova, of Study Case A Education: to Higher Secondary from Transition Southern Kazakhstan Ethnic Uzbeks Rural in Drummond, Michigan State University Todd (Discussant) Education and Community Development in in Development Community and Education (2-2) Asia Central Rural Pyle 220

Mongolians (Discussant) Alima Bissenova, Nazarbayev University Sansar Tsakhirmaa, Johns Hopkins University Sansar Tsakhirmaa, Comparing Consensus: of Out Sinicized Looking Less/more (Southern) Ethnic-boundary-making and Uyghurs Among Compensatory Measures Against China’s Economic Expansionist Expansionist Economic China’s Against Compensatory Measures Kazakhstan Useful Countries: for Lessons Resource-rich in Policy Gulnara Dadabayeva, KIMEP University Gulnara Dadabayeva, The Chinese Opportunities 2008 after Kazakhstan in OSCE Academy in Bishkek Irina Malyuchenko, Toward an Understanding of Kyrgyz Perceptions of China: China: of Perceptions Kyrgyz of Understanding an Toward Nationalism Memoryto a Modern Kyrgyz “Historical” from Rian Thum, Loyola University (Chair) Rian Thum, Loyola University University Assel Bitabarova, Hokkaido China’s New Role in Central Asia (2-1) New Role in China’s Pyle 205 pm am - 12:00 10:15 2 — Session ( 12 ) Jing Wei, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jing Wei, Dictionaries Persian-Chinese Ancient in Words Decoding Xinjiang University Erkenjiang Yidelisi, Unearthed Century 19th On Some Newly Contract Chaghatay Xinjiang Southern Documentsfrom University (Discussant) Beatrice Manz, Tufts Deciphering Documents and History Mysteries (2-6) Mysteries History and Documents Deciphering Pyle 317 (Chair) University of Wisconsin-Madison Judd Kinzley, State University Michele Brunelli, Bergamo With Days Six the Shah University Shiming Chen, Xinjiang Asian Central of Translation Annotated Uyghur of The Project 24the Dynastic China MaterialsHistorical Historiesfrom of Institute of Social Sciences, Hacettepe Attila Mateffy, University the Dualisticthe Myths The of Creation of Variants Hungarian World the of Friday, October 4, 2013 October Friday,

— 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm (on your own) (on your Pyle 213 Illinois University (Chair Russell Zanca, Northeastern and Discussant) of Wyoming Marianne Kamp, University Mundane and National Narratives Memory: and The Past Stories Farmers’ Collective Uzbek in Recollections Long Beach Ali Igmen, California State University, Constructing Knowledge:” “Collective Memories and Actors’ Historythe Mid-twentieth in Cultural Century Kyrgyz of Svetlana Jacquesson, American University Central Asia Some on Genealogical Relationsto Global Connections: From Kyrgyzstan Independent in the GenealogicalAspects Frenzy of Miami University Daniel Prior, Twentieth-Century Nineteenth- and Northern Kirghiz Perspective Historical in Sources Narrative Oral-Derived Central Asian History-Making: Oral, Genealogical, Genealogical, Oral, History-Making: Asian Central Narratives (2-5) Global and Collective

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Azamat Sakiev, University of North Georgia (Discussant) Azamat Sakiev, (ACMS) Studies Mongolian for American Center the by organized Panel Talking with Each Other or Archaeological Sites Museums as Archaeological or with Each Other Talking On-Site and Preservation of Tourism History, Archives, in Iran: Selected Studies Case Monuments and Rock Art of Far-Western Mongolia and Eastern and Kazakhstan Mongolia Far-Western of Art Rock Alexander Nagel, Smithsonian Institution Richard Kortum, East Tennessee State University Richard Kortum, East Tennessee Archaeology Wessex Kenneth Lymer, William Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution Deer Whatfor Prospects Heritage: Sustaining Mongolia’s Monument? Stone Harriet Beaubien, Smithsonian Institution Harriet Beaubien, Smithsonian Institution Paula DePriest, Smithsonian Heritage Asian Cultural Sustaining and Central Protecting David Dettmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison David Dettmann, University (Chair) Cultural Heritage (2-4) Heritage Cultural Pyle 226 Protecting and Sustaining Central Asian Asian Central Sustaining and Protecting pm am - 12:00 10:15 2 — Session ( 13 )

Post-Soviet State-Society Relations (3-3) State-Society Post-Soviet Pyle 225 (Chair) University of Kansas Alexander Diener, Scholar Marintha Miles, Independent Tajikistan Blocking in Internet the Facebook: and Foes, Friends, University of Toronto Alexander Sodiqov, of Tales Asia: Human and Rights(Sur)Realpolitik in Central Tajikistan in Executions Two Extrajudicial of Washington Williams, University Nora Webb Resultsfrom Observers Kyrgyzstan: Use in Media and Protest Survey Bishkek a 2012 Pauline Jones Luong, University of Michigan (Discussant) Friday, October 4, 2013 4, October Friday,

Pyle 220 University (Chair) Edward Lazzerini, Indiana Institute for Central Asian Olivier Ferrando, French Studies (IFEAC) American University of Central Svetlana Jacquesson, Asia, Bishkek Asel Murzakulova, Bishkek Humanities University John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University Roundtable: Central Eurasian Studies: Central Eurasian Roundtable: Development for the New Foundations (3-2) within the Region of Research

in Kyrgyzstan: Evidence from Leadership Trait Analysis? Trait Leadership from Evidence in Kyrgyzstan: Independant Scholar (Discussant) Noah Tucker, What Presidential Personalities Can Tell Us About Popular Uprisings Uprisings University of North Georgia Azamat Sakiev, Popular About Us Tell Can Personalities Presidential What Peter Nasuti, University of Wisconsin-Madison Peter Nasuti, University the Georgian of Corruption: Implications of Varieties Process Reform Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mark S . Johnson, University (Chair) Dissent, Reform and Revolution (3-1) Reform and Revolution Dissent, Pyle 205 Session 3 — 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm - 3:30 1:45 pm 3 — Session ( 14 )

Ali Igmen, California State University, Long Beach Ali Igmen, California State University, (Discussant) Conceiving Tajikistan: Opportunity and Opportunity Tajikistan: Conceiving Visions of the USSR (3-6) Contingency in Early Pyle 317 of Wyoming (Chair) Marianne Kamp, University Politics University and Brinton Ahlin, New York Poetics The Brick: by Brick Ethnography Tajik Founding Andreev Mikhail S. of Work Ethnographic the in Absence of Patryk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reid, and the 1920s in Tajikistan Visions of Afterthoughts? Soviet the Realities Mobility of Flora Roberts, University of Chicago Nation Tajik the Forming Friday, October 4, 2013 October Friday,

Kathleen Conti, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Chair) Kathleen Conti, University University of Connecticut Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Ethnic Hazaras’ Landscape Marginality: Illustrates How Afghanistan in Oppression Memories of University Nygmet Ibadildin, KIMEP Kazakhstan Contemporary in Past Soviet of Interpretation Indiana University Miriam J . Woods, Realities and Representations the Street: In the Museum, In “National Dress” Tajik of Heather Sonntag, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Discussant) Social Memory and the Material World (3-5) Social Memory World and the Material Pyle 213

David Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison David Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Discussant) Timothy May, University of North Georgia May, Timothy in Warfare as Herding Livestock Warfare: and Livestock Empire the Mongol Beatrice Manz, Tufts University Beatrice Manz, Tufts Settled and Rulers Soldiers Nomad Scott Levi, Ohio State University Scott Levi, Ohio State Asian MilitaryThe Revolution Central Pyle 226 of Wisconsin-Madison (Chair) Andre Wink, University Central Asian MilitaryCentral Asian History (3-4) Session 3 — 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm - 3:30 1:45 pm 3 — Session ( 15 ) Rian Thum, Loyola University (Discussant) (Pre-)Islamic Rituals of Turko-Persia through Rituals of Turko-Persia (Pre-)Islamic and Materiality Images, Eyes: Texts, Christian (4-3) Pyle 225 of Wisconsin-Madison Heather Sonntag, University (Chair) University Elio Brancaforte, Tulane Rituals (Pre-)Islamic of Representations Image: and Word Between Accounts Travel Modern European Early from Iran in Safavid of Muslim Institute for the Study Irina Shingiray, University Societies and Civilizations (SMSC), Boston Medieval Early Turks-Khazars: the Nomadic Religious Rituals of Muslim Sources Christianvs. Friday, October 4, 2013 4, October Friday, Aida Aaly Alymbaeva, Max Plank Institute for Social Aida Aaly Alymbaeva, Anthropology Between Sart Contemporary in Kalmak: and Identity Politics Kyrgyzstan of Wisconsin-Madison Saule Batayeva, University Ethnic Identities of of Formation The of Contradictions Kazakhstan in Post-Soviet Andrea Chiovenda, Boston University Pukhtunthe Challenge and Selves Masculine the Making: in Men Conflict Violent of years 30 of Asian Olivier Ferrando, French Institute for Central Studies (IFEAC) (Discussant) Identity Politics (4-2) Identity Politics Pyle 220 of Oxford (Chair) Rebecca Fradkin, University

Edward Schatz, University of Toronto Edward Schatz, University Pauline Jones Luong, University of Michigan Pauline Jones Luong, George Mason University Eric McGlinchey, Pyle 205 (Chair) Bucknell University Amanda Wooden, Roundtable: The State of Social Mobilization Social Mobilization The State of Roundtable: Eurasia (4-1) in Central Session 4 — 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - 5:30 3:45 pm 4 — Session ( 16 )

and Eleventhand Centuries State Under Tashkent Lyceum Dilrabo Tosheva, Economic University Bukhara Relations of Foreign the in The Sufi of Role Ulama’s Khanate (Discussant) John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University Religious and Ethnic Actors as Agents of and Ethnic Actors Religious Change (4-6) Pyle 317 (Chair) Belmont University Daniel Schafer, Emory University Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Asia Christians Legal Central Islamic in Jews about Opinions and University of Michigan Richard Antaramian, Ottoman and the State: Systematizing Millets Centralizing and 1856-1866 Armenian Reform, Gerald Mako, Cambridge University the Pechenegs: and the Rus’ Bulghars, Volga the The Khazars, Tenth the in SeaThe Frontier the Black of Religious Dimension Friday, October 4, 2013 October Friday,

Pyle 325 and Alumni Lounge Book Signing and Reception (Alumni Lounge) . Pyle 213 of Wyoming (Chair) Marianne Kamp, University University-Purdue University Noor Borbieva, Indiana Fort Wayne in Orthodoxy and Women, Men, Tradition: Debating the Islam Kyrgyz Svetlana Peshkova, University of New Hampshire Valley the Ferghana in “National Islam” Creating University of Wisconsin-Madison Fatima Sartbay, Poetics Oral Kyrgyz Islam: in Shamanic Practices of Resilience A&M University (Discussant) Texas Cynthia Werner, Central Asian Women and Islam: Ancestral and Islam: Ancestral Women Central Asian Expectations (4-5) and Modern Traditions Reception sponsored by Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan . Reception sponsored by Nazarbayev University, Keynote and Reception — 5:45 pm - 8:30 pm Keynote Keynote Address: Steve LeVine, “Central Asia—What Comes After 2014?” (Pyle 325) Keynote Address: Steve LeVine, “Central

Monica Whitlock, SOAS, University of London Bruce Pannier, Radio Free Europe Bruce Pannier, Navbahor Imamova, Voice of America of Voice Navbahor Imamova, Asel Murzakulova, University Bishkek Humanities Jesko Schmoller, Humboldt University Berlin (Chair) Humboldt University Jesko Schmoller, State University Eric Freedman, Michigan Academia and Journalism in Conversation (4-4) Conversation in Journalism and Academia Pyle 226 Roundtable: How to Write About Central Eurasia: Eurasia: Central About Write to How Roundtable: Session 4 — 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - 5:30 3:45 pm 4 — Session ( 17 ) The The Oil and Last year, . Last year, , and is the and before that BusinessWeek Oil and the Glory ., and an D .C magazine in Washington, The Wall Street Journal The Wall Foreign Policy in Pakistan, where he covered the Soviet withdrawal from in Pakistan, where he covered the Soviet In 2003, LeVine took up residence at Stanford University’s University’s . In 2003, LeVine took up residence at Stanford Newsweek Newsday LeVine has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State degree in journalism from California . LeVine has a bachelor’s He has written and spoken about the published in 2008 . He has written and , a profile of Russia Before working in the former Soviet Union, LeVine was based for three years as . Before working in the former Soviet Union, Foreign Policy , a history of oil and gas on the . In 2008, he moved of oil through the lens Putin’s Labyrinth Putin’s Steve LeVine is a contributing editor at Steve LeVine is a contributing adjunct professor of energy and security at the School of Securities Studies at the Georgetown energy and security at the School of Securities adjunct professor of Foreign ServiceUniversity School of The . He writes a blog called House . He is also the author the same name, published in 2007 by Random author of a book by of was based in the Caspian Sea energy and pipelines for 15 years, and geopolitics of Eurasian a foreign correspondent for region for 11 years as Times New York a foreign correspondent for rise of Benazir Bhutto . Before that, he was and the political Afghanistan, the subsequent civil war, based in the Philippines for and writing he spent two years researching Institute for International Studies, where the Glory writer for D .C ., where he became chief foreign affairs to Washington, he joined University School of Journalism . degree from the Columbia University at Fresno, and a master’s “Central Asia—What Comes After 2014?” Asia—What Comes “Central Keynote Address by Steve LeVine by Steve Address Keynote

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(Discussant) International Organizations and Governance (5-3) (5-3) Governance and Organizations International Pyle 225 of Wisconsin-Madison M . Herrera, University Yoshiko (Chair) Indiana University Malika Bahovadinova, Role International Organizations’ Accident? or Design by Failure InstitutionsTajikistan Government in of the Development in Commissioner for Human Rights Elmira Suleymanova, of the Republic of Azerbaijan the in Mechanisms Independent and Legislative Reforms Human Rights of Promotion and Protection of Improvement Mert Kartal, University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday, October 5, 2013 5, October Saturday, Agnès Kefeli-Clay, Arizona State University (Chair) Arizona State University Agnès Kefeli-Clay, of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Manu Sobti, University Asian Urbanity Early-Medieval the in Suburban Central Civitas: Period of Sciences Academy Institute of History, Damir Isxakov, of the Republic of Tatarstan Modern Period the Early in The Eurasia Sayyids Central of Uli Schamiloglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Muhammad: the Prophet the Birthday of Celebrating Eurasia Central in Tradition Mawlid Nathan Spannaus, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Modernity Eurasia in Islamic Approaching Islam in Central Eurasia #1 (5-2) Central Eurasia #1 Islam in Pyle 220

Tim Mulvehill, Millikan High School Tim Gail Hamilton, Bancroft Middle School Gail Hamilton, Bancroft Long Beach Keirn, California State University, Tim Ali Igmen, California State University, Long Beach State University, Ali Igmen, California (Chair) The New World History and the Silk Roads (5-1) Roads Silk the and History World New The Pyle 205 Roundtable: Teaching from a Global Perspective: Perspective: Global a from Teaching Roundtable: Session 5 — 8:15 am - 10:00 am - 10:00 8:15 am 5 — Session ( 19 )

Daniel Prior, Miami University (Discussant) Daniel Prior, Linguistic-Historical Analyses of the Kazakh of the Kazakh Analyses Linguistic-Historical the 18th CenturySteppe in (5-6) Pyle 317 (Chair) Wisconsin-Madison of University Martin, Virginia of R .B . Suleimenov Institute Bakhyt Ezhenkhanuli, Oriental Studies Activities of The Recovering Territorial Return – Kazakhs East Centurythe 18th of Half the Second in Kazakhs of Washington Eric Johnson, University Mawkanuli, University of Washington Talant Findings Early Translation: and Tradition of the Frontiers On Eighteenth-Century of Analysis Textual the Linguistic and from Diplomatic Documents Kazak

Saturday, October 5, 2013 October Saturday, Audrey Altstadt, University of Massachusetts Amherst Audrey Altstadt, University Azerbaijan 1937 of Case Tribunal: as Writers Union of Wisconsin - Madison Roberto Carmack, University Frontline ‘True People’: the Kazakh of Daughters and Sons 1941-1945 Soldiers, Kazakh Among Propaganda Studies named after Institute of Oriental Ablet Kamalov, R .B .Suleimenov and University ‘Turan’ American Diplomatic Mission War’: ‘Cold to Game’ ‘Great From the 1940s Xinjiang in in Derek Peterson, Ohio State University Army Asians Red the in Central Brezhnev?: or Brothers For War Duringthe Soviet-Afghan Mark S . Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Discussant) Identity Politics during Wars and the Purges (5-5) Purges the and Wars during Politics Identity Pyle 213 University (Chair) Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton

Social Capital and Government Regulation Kazakhstan in Social Capital Government and of Kent (Discussant) Balihar Sanghera, University Regional Variation of Public Health in Xinjiang Public of in Health Variation Regional Rudnyi Industrial Institute Marina Lukmanova, Sarfaroz Niyozov, University of Toronto (Chair) University of Toronto Sarfaroz Niyozov, Li, Rowan University Yuhui Evaluating Social and Economic Capital (5-4) Social and Economic Evaluating Pyle 226 Session 5 — 8:15 am - 10:00 am - 10:00 8:15 am 5 — Session ( 20 )

Saturday, October 5, 2013 5, October Saturday, — 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

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(on your own) (on your All CESS members and prospective members are encouraged to attend! prospective members are encouraged All CESS members and Announcement of Book Award and Graduate Student Paper Award and Graduate Student Paper Book Award Announcement of Lunch Plenary Membership and Awards Ceremony and Awards Plenary Membership Conversation with the President: Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University Texas the President: Cynthia Werner, Conversation with pm am - 12:00 10:15 6 — Session ( 21 )

Mongolia and the Third Neighbor Approach (7-3) Approach Neighbor Third the and Mongolia Pyle 225 University (Chair and Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev Discussant) National University of Mongolia Davaanyam Budsuren, Policy Neighbor Third the the Implementation of on Analyses Mongolia of Nichols, Indiana University Teresa Heritage Mongolian Managing and Making Nehru University Sharad Soni, Jawaharlal Diplomacy Mongolia’s of Approach “ThirdThe Neighbour” Relations on between Effects India External Relations: of Mongolia and Saturday, October 5, 2013 October Saturday, Timothy Jack Rowe, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jack Rowe, University Timothy TheVitality Mystical in 19th-century Islam Murids: of 10,000 Asia Central Wisconsin-Madison University of Abdulsait Aykut, the Turn of the Asian SufiNetworks at Central Rämzi on Murat Century20th Arizona State University Agnès Kefeli-Clay, Eschatology Tatar Modern in Noah The Prophet Edward Lazzerini, Indiana University (Discussant) Islam in Central Eurasia #2 (7-2) Central Eurasia #2 Islam in Pyle 220 of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Chair) Mani Sobti, University

Tayyab Zaidi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tayyab (Discussant) Yasin Tunc, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tunc, Yasin Curriculum: Education Higher Internationalization of Idea Travelling Global Citizenship a as Two Aspiring ‘World-class’ Research Universities in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan in Universities Research ‘World-class’ AspiringTwo Arabia Saudiand in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and in Kazakhstan University of Wisconsin-Madison Lee Rensimer, at Tensions Global / Local Worth? Most What is of Knowledge Madina Djuraeva, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madina Djuraeva, University Education Higher in Language of Policies Analysis Comparative Katarzyna Cakala, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Aid Dependency InternationalizationThe and of Politics Education Asian Higher Central Pyle 205 of Wisconsin-Madison (Chair) Mark Johnson, University Comparative Perspectives on Internationalization Internationalization on Perspectives Comparative (7-1) Asian Higher Education in Central Session 7 — 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm - 3:30 1:45 pm 7 — Session ( 22 ) Saturday, October 5, 2013 5, October Saturday, (7-5) Experience Pyle 213 Illinois University (Chair) Russell Zanca, Northeasthern Po, Paris Aurelie Biard, Sciences University Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University of Aberdeen Johan Rasanayagam, Roundtable: Author-Critic Forum on Rasanayagam, Rasanayagam, on Forum Author-Critic Roundtable: of The Morality Uzbekistan: Post-Soviet in Islam

Julie Christensen, George Mason University Julie Christensen, George Mason University (Discussant) Genre Filmmaking at Eurasian Studios: The “Stagnation”-era “Stagnation”-era The Studios: Eurasian Filmmaking at Genre Melodrama What is Lost and Found in ‘Unreal’ Spaces :Post-Soviet Magical Magical :Post-Soviet Spaces ‘Unreal’ in What Found and is Lost ‘Yurt’ and ‘Parizod’ Films the Uzbek in Chronotope Realist Booth Wilson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ilya Bakhtiya, Uygur Poet Uygur Ilya Bakhtiya, Boram Shin, University of Cambridge Apocalyptic and Revolution in Fitrat’s Qiyamat Apocalyptic in Fitrat’s Revolution and Abylai Khan University of Difuza Rozieva, Kazakh Languages and World International Relations Madison (Chair) of Chicago Claire Roosien, University Pyle 226 University of Wisconsin- Maria Belodubrovskaya, Film and Literature (7-4) Film and Session 7 — 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm - 3:30 1:45 pm 7 — Session ( 23 )

Radha Balasubramanian, University of Nebraska Lincoln Radha Balasubramanian, University of Nebraska Awakening Death an as Ramakrishna: Saint and Tolstoy N. L. Funda Derin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Discussant) Language, Literature and Power (8-3) Literature and Language, Pyle 225 of Wisconsin-Madison Uli Schamiloglu, University (Chair) College CUNY Brooklyn Daniel Barry, Kazakh Analysis of A Contrastive Language Purification: Turkish and and University John M . Clifton, SIL International of North Dakota Dialects Non-Standard of the Promotion Ethics and Gulzura Jumakunova, Ankara University in Manas of the Post of Lexical Parallels Kyrgyz-Mongolian Borrowing and Commonness of Terms Saturday, October 5, 2013 October Saturday,

Wendell Schwab, Indiana University (Chair) Schwab, Indiana University Wendell the Muftiate: Competition Beyond Islamic Islam Within the State Kazakhstani University Benjamin Gatling, Duke ‘Political’ the Muslims and AdaptingTajikistan: the Stateto in 2010 Since of Pittsburgh University David Montgomery, State and Kyrgyzstan in Democracy Beyond Islam Independent Scholar Noah Tucker, The Uzbekistan in State Religious and Discourse (Discussant) David Abramson, US State Department Religion Beyond Repression: Islam and Beyond Repression: Religion in Central Asia (8-2) the State Pyle 220

Timothy May, University of North Georgia (Discussant) May, Timothy Leaving Empires in the Dust: Why Core-Periphery Relationships Why Core-Periphery the Dust: in Leaving Empires Asia Central Prehistoric Understanding Helpfulfor Aren’t Beyond Crossborder Ethnicity: Dungans as Cultural and and Ethnicity: Dungans Cultural as Beyond Crossborder Asia Central of Mediators Economic University Rouse, Washington Lynne Household Production Among Pastoralists, Kazakhstan Pastoralists, Among Production Household University Marlene Laruelle, George Washington Tribalism Among the Kyrgyz of High Asia High of the Kyrgyz Among Tribalism University Paula Doumani, Washington and Migration Age: the Bronze in Know-How Technical Yuri Boyanin, La Trobe University Boyanin, La Trobe Yuri Settlement and Nomadism, Pastoralism, Sedentary Nomads? Javad Abbasi, Ohio State University Javad Abbasi, Ohio Jalayerids Study: (Case Long-term Iran in Mongols Heritage of Khorasan) Contemporary in Janighorbanids and Anatoly Khazanov, University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison Anatoly Khazanov, (Chair) Nomads, Networks, and Migration (8-1) Networks, and Nomads, Pyle 205 Session 8 — 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - 5:30 3:45 pm 8 — Session ( 24 ) Everyday Practices Everyday Virginia Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Discussant) Why Central Asia Matters: Theory, Methodology Methodology Theory, Matters: Asia Central Why and Practice (8-6) Pyle 317 Nazarbayev University (Chair) Alexei Trochev, University of Cambridge Diana Kudaibergenova, Space Post-Soviet in Regimes “Nationalizing” Elites and Nation, University Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton Studies in Centering of the Region Asia Matters: Why Central Imperialthe USSR and Russia Balihar Sanghera, University of Kent Theory Social of a Strong Needs Asian Scholarship Why Central

Saturday, October 5, 2013 5, October Saturday, Pyle DE 235 Ablet Kamalov (Chair) of Michigan Christopher Fort, University Maktab-i Ayni’s Childhood: SadriddinJadid Constructing a Kohneh University Gabriel McGuire, Nazarbayev Shortanbai of Work the in Production Piety Pastoral and Qanaiuly (Discussant) Anna Oldfield, Coastal Carolina University Intelligentsia of the Late Imperial Era (8-5) of the Late Imperial Intelligentsia Pyle 213 Film Screening — 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Screening Film

Two films from Xinjiang, directed by Liu Xiangchen — “Beside the River” and “The Feast of Kurban Bayram” Two

Dostum the Taliban Killer: Field Research With an Uzbek Warlord WithWarlord Uzbek an Field Research Killer: Taliban Dostumthe Turkistan Afghan in Intelligence and Strategy and Intelligence University of Massachusetts Brian Glyn Williams, Dartmouth Bill Mankins, Indiana University Bill Mankins, Indiana of Epistemology An Counterinsurgency: and Afghanistan Pyle 226 Discussant) and (Chair University Indiana Shahrani, Nazif Building the State in Afghanistan (8-4) the State in Afghanistan Building Session 8 — 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - 5:30 3:45 pm 8 — Session ( 25 )

Daniel Schafer, Belmont University Daniel Schafer, During Muslims the Volga- Among Rebellions Peasant 1918-1921 War, Civil Russian Nygmet Ibadildin, KIMEP University (Discussant) Regulating Religious Mobilization and Religious Mobilization Regulating Revival (9-3) Pyle 225 (Chair) University of Toronto Alexander Sodiqov, Endowment Carnegie Scholar, Bayram Balci, Visiting Asian Influences: South and Iranian Arab, Turkish, Between the End Since Asiathe Caucasus and Central in Revival Islamic Union Soviet of of Minnesota Kathleen Collins, University Mobilization Islamist in Interests and Institutions, Ideas, Moderation and Boston University David Levy, Asian Republics Central Three in Religion State Regulation of Sunday, October 6, 2013 6, October Sunday,

Discussant) of Central Asia American University Emilbek Dzhuraev, Thinking GoodAbout Asia: Constitutionalism Central in Societies Not-So-Well-Governed in Governance Nazarbayev University Alexei Trochev, Crime Modern in Punishment and Kazakhstan Lund University Rustamjon Urinboyev, Asia: Central Stability Post-Soviet in Political and Living Law Uzbekistan in Valley the Ferghana of Study Case A Challenges to State Authority (9-2) to State Authority Challenges Pyle 220 (Chair and of Toronto Edward Schatz, University

Confrontation for Power? for Confrontation (Discussant) University State Michigan Graham, Norman Yelena Zabortseva, University of Sydney Yelena Relations: Bilateral Russia-Kazakhstan Contemporary Economic a New or Partnership Economic Bilateral Increased an John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University John Schoeberlein, RuminationsTheoretical Soft Is Power? What Power Kind of in Eurasia Japanese Culture of the Influence Based on Tachmurad Jumayev, St .Petersburg State University Jumayev, Tachmurad Legal Sea Caspian Status of The Turkish and Russian “Soft Power” in Eurasia in the Last the Last in Eurasia in Power” “Soft The Russian and Turkish Analysis Comparative A Decade: Marlene Laruelle, Johns Hopkins University (Chair) Marlene Laruelle, Johns University Imanbeyli, Istanbul Sehir Vugar International Relations of Central Asia (9-1) Relations of International Pyle 205 Session 9 — 8:15 am - 10:00 am - 10:00 8:15 am 9 — Session ( 26 )

Francois Tochon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Francois Tochon, (Discussant) Politics of Language and Cultural Identity Cultural Identity Language and Politics of in Xinjiang (9-6) Pyle 317 (Chair) Mawkanuli, University of Washington Talant Rian Thum, Loyola University the Uyghurs Among Islam Understanding Miami University Stanley Toops, Xinjiang Census in the 2010 Results of Liang Zheng, University of Colorado Boulder Identity Uyghur and TheThe Rumor Of Doppa Incident: Politics Age Media In New

Sunday, October 6, 2013 6, October Sunday, çu Bonnenfant, Middle East Technical University East Technical çu Bonnenfant, Middle ş ık Ku ş Kraus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicole M . Kraus, University of (Chair and Discussant) University of Kansas Alexander Diener, Regional Mobilitiesthe Eurasian Repositioning: and Russian Concept I University Ünlü Bilgiç, Middle East Technical Tuba in Uyghurs and Kazakhs of Migration State: a Host as Turkey the 1950s Shushanik Makaryan, State University Pennsylvania the Eastern Nexus in Neighborhood Policy Emigration-Diaspora Union the European of Irakli Saldadze, TBC Bank Causing Refugee Problems Poverty Extreme Migration. Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev University Regimes Immigration RightsPost-Soviet in Barriersto Migrant Migration and Diaspora (9-5) Migration Pyle 213

Hannah Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hannah Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Discussant) Dina Sharipova, KIMEP University from Institutions: Evidence Continuity Informal Change and of Kazakhstan Post-Soviet a Survey of Land Distribution by Default: Understanding Patterns of of Patterns Understanding Land Distribution Default: by Tajikistan in Decollectivization Agricultural The Burden of Paternalism: The Boom, the Bust, and the and the Bust, The Boom, Paternalism: of The Burden Mediating State in Kazakhstan MilitaryBrent Hierman, Virginia Institute (Chair) University Alima Bissenova, Nazarbayev Pyle 226 of Wisconsin-Madison Scott Gehlbach, University Politics of Economic Development (9-4) Economic Development Politics of Session 9 — 8:15 am - 10:00 am - 10:00 8:15 am 9 — Session ( 27 ) The First Georgian Sign Language Alphabet Sign Language The Georgian First John Colarusso, McMaster University (Discussant) The Culture and Language of Georgia (10-4) and Language The Culture Pyle 226 of Wisconsin- University George Andrew Spencer, Madison (Chair) University Bert Beynen, Temple Aristotle Shota and to Rustaveli According Human and Animal Mason University Julie Christensen, George Style Georgian Global Culture Secretariat Rainer Ruge, EU Council Electionsthe 2012 Did Georgia in Saakashvili: after Georgia Development? Change its Democratic Makharoblidze, Ilia State University Tamar Sunday, October 6, 2013 6, October Sunday, Pyle 320 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm CESS 2014 (and Beyond) Planning Meeting Elmira Köchümkulova, University of Central Asia Elmira Köchümkulova, Lament Funeral Koshok, Recording Tradition: Oral of The Bearers Women Elderly Kyrgyz from Eldaraova Amina Carolina University Anna Oldfield, Coastal of Work and Life The Ashig”: Azerbaijani the of “Art Brigita Sebald, UCLA Music Canon the Popular and Legitimacy, Bands, Cover Laura Adams, Harvard (Discussant) University Music and Oral Tradition (10-3) Oral Tradition Music and Pyle 225 (Chair) Wisconsin-Madison of University Dettman, David

efik Taylan Akman, Hacettepe University efik Taylan Zeynep Ayata, Université Paris I Panthéon Zeynep Ayata, Ş (Moderator) University Pinar Akcali, Middle East Technical Pyle 220 Long Beach Ali Igmen, California State University, Roundtable: Gezi Park Events and Roundtable: Gezi Park Events and (10-2) Presidentalism in Turkey Daniel Burghart, National Defense Intelligence College Daniel Burghart, National (Discussant) Sub-National Politics and International Cooperation Over Water Water Over International and Cooperation Sub-National Politics Asia Central in Post-Soviet Resources Energy and From Baku to Batumi or, Oil and Unification in Transcaucasia in Unification Oil and Bakuto Batumi or, From University Sarah Hummel, Princeton Funda Derin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Chair) Funda Derin, University University of Wisconsin-Madison Sara Brinegar, Crafting Energy Policy Across Borders (10-1) Energy Policy Across Crafting Pyle 205 pm am - 12:00 — 10:15 10 Session ( 28 ) Index of Conference Participants

Abbasi, Javad, Ohio State University, jahistorian@gmail com...... 8-1 Carmack, Roberto, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abdugafurov, Rahimjon, Emory University, roberto@carmack us...... 5-5 rahimjon abdugafurov@emory. edu...... 4-6 Chapman, Hannah, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abramson, David, US State Department, abramsondm@state gov...... 8-2 hschapman@wisc edu...... 9-4 Adams, Laura, Harvard University, ladams@fas harvard. edu...... 1-5; 10-3 Chen, Shiming, Xinjiang University, xjdxcsm@gmail com...... 2-6 Ahlin, Brinton, New York University, brintonahlin@gmail com...... 3-6 Chiovenda, Andrea, Boston University, chiov@bu edu...... 4-2 Akcali, Pinar, Middle East Technical University, akcali@metu edu. tr. . . . . 10-2 Chiovenda, Melissa Kerr, University of Connecticut, melissa kerr@uconn. edu...... 1-1;. 3-5 Akman, Sefik Taylan, Hacettepe University, taylanakman@gmail com. . . . . 10-2 Christensen, Julie, George Mason University, jchriste@gmu edu. . . . . 7-4; 10-4 Altstadt, Audrey, University of Massachusetts Amherst, altstadt@history umass. edu...... 5-5 Clifton, John M ,. SIL International and Univ . of North Dakota, john cliftion@gradschool. und. edu...... 8-3 Alymbaeva, Aida Aaly, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, alymbaeva@gmail com...... 4-2 Colarusso, John, McMaster University, colaruss@mcmaster ca...... 10-4 Antaramian, Richard, University of Michigan, antaram@umich edu...... 4-6 Conti, Kathleen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, kconti@wisc edu. . . . . 3-5 Dadabayeva, Gulnara, KIMEP University, gdadabaeva@mail ru...... 2-1 Ayata, Ayşe, Middle East Technical University, aayata@metu edu. tr...... 1-6 Ayata, Zeynep, Université Paris Pantheon, zayata@ku edu. tr...... 10-2 DePriest, Paula, Smithsonian Institute, depriestp@si edu...... 2-4 Aykut, Abdulsait, University of Wisconsin-Madison, aykut@wisc edu. . . . . 7-2 Derin, Funda, University of Wisconsin-Madison, fderin@wisc edu. . . . 8-3; 10-1 Bahovadinova, Malika, Indiana University, bahovadinova@gmail com. . . . . 5-3 Dettmann, David, University of Wisconsin-Madison, dwdettma@wisc edu...... 2-4; 10-3 Bakhtibekova, Zulfiya, University of Exeter, zb215@exeter ac. uk...... 1-4 DeYoung, Alan, University of Kentucky, ajdey@uky edu...... 1-3 Balasubramanian, Radha, University of Nebraska Lincoln, rbalasubramanian1@unl edu...... 8-3 Diener, Alexander, University of Kansas, diener@ku edu...... 3-3;. 9-5 Balci, Bayram, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment, Djuraeva, Madina, University of Wisconsin-Madison, djuraeva@wisc edu. . . . 7-1 balci_bayram@yahoo fr...... 9-3 Doğangün, Gökten, Middle East Technical University, gokten@metu edu. tr. . . 1-6 Barry, Daniel, CUNY Brooklyn College, danielanthonybarry@gmail com. . . . 8-3 Doumani, Paula, Washington University in Saint Louis, Barnett-Howell, Zachary, University of Wisconsin-Madison, pauladoumani@wustl edu...... 8-1 zbarnetthowe@wisc edu...... 2-3 Drummond, Todd, Michigan State University, drummo26@msu edu. . . 1-3;. 2-2 Batayeva, Saule, University of Wisconsin-Madison, sbatayeva@wisc edu. . . 4-2 Dzhuraev, Emilbek, American University of Central Asia, Belodubrovskaya, Maria, University of Wisconsin-Madison, emildzhu@umd edu...... 9-2 mbelodubrovs@wisc edu...... 7-4 Ergun, Ayça, Middle East Technical University, ayer@metu edu. tr...... 1-6 Beaubien, Harriet, Smithsonian Institute, beaubienh@si edu...... 2-4 Ezhenkhanuli, Bakhyt, R B. . Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Beynen, Bert, Temple University, kesaphela@aol com...... 10-4 bakejen08@gmail com...... 5-6 Biard, Auriele, Sciences Po Paris, ayselu@yahoo fr...... 7-5 Ferrando, Olivier, IFEAC, olivierferrando@gmail com...... 1-5; 3-2; 4-2 Bissenova, Alima, Nazarbayev University, abisssenova@nu edu. kz. . . . 2-1;. 9-4 Fitzhugh, William, Smithsonian Institute, fitzhugh@si edu...... 2-4 Bitabarova, Assel, Hokkaido University, assel bitabar@gmail. com...... 2-1 Fort, Christopher, University of Michigan, cfort@umich edu...... 8-5 Borbieva, Noor, Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fradkin, Rebecca, University of Oxford, Rebecca fradkin@sant. ox. ac. uk. .4-2; 5-5 borbievn@ipfw edu...... 1-4;. 4-5 Freedman, Eric, Michigan State University, freedma5@msu edu...... 4-4 Boyanin, Yuri, La Trobe University, yyb@lyub com...... 8-1 Gatling, Benjamin, Duke University, ben gatling@gmail. com...... 8-2 Brancaforte, Elio, Tulane University, ebranca@tulane edu...... 4-3 Gehlbach, Scott, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brinegar, Sara, University of Wisconsin-Madison, brinegar@wisc edu. . . . 10-1 gehlbach@polisci wisc. edu...... 9-4 Brunelli, Michele, Bergamo State University, mickbrunelli@gmail com. . . . . 2-6 Graham, Norman, Michigan State University, grahamn@msu edu...... 9-1 Budsuren, Davaanyam, National University of Mongolia, Hamilton, Gail, Bancroft Middle School, gail hamilton@lbschools. net. . . . . 5-1 budsuren20@yahoo com...... 7-3 Harrowell, Elly, University of Birmingham, eharrowell@gmail com...... 1-5 Burghart, Daniel, National Intelligence University, Herrera, Yoshiko M ,. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Daniel burghart@dodiis. mil...... 2-3; 10-1 yherrera@wisc edu...... 5-3 Cakala, Katarzyna, University of Wisconsin-Madison, cakala@wisc edu. . . . 7-1 Hierman, Brent, Virginia Military Institute, hiermanbd@vmi edu...... 9-4 Canning, Emily, University of California-Berkeley, emilycann@gmail com. . . 1-5 Hummel, Sarah, Princeton University, shummel@princeton edu. . . . 2-3; 10-1

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( 45 ) About the Central Eurasian Studies Society

The Central Eurasian Sudies Society (CESS) is a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia, and its history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies . We define the Central Eurasian region broadly to include Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan, and other peoples . Geographically, Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea region, the Crimea, and the Caucasus in the west, through the Middle Volga basin, Central Asia and Afghanistan, and on to Siberia, Mongolia, and Tibet in the east . The Central Eurasian Sudies Society’s purpose is to promote high standards of research and teaching, and to foster communication among scholars through meetings and publications . The Society works to facilitate interaction among senior, established scholars, junior scholars, graduate students, and independent scholars in North America and throughout the world . We hold an annual conference in the United States, sponsor occasional conferences in Central Eurasian venues, and coordinate panels at various conferences relevant to Central Eurasian studies . The Society also works to promote the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and other information essential to the building of the field . We invite all who share these interests to become members and participate in our activities . To become a member or join the mailing list for occasional announcements concerning CESS activities, visit its website or contact the address below . CESS publications, the Membership Directory, conference paper abstracts and other information are available online at http://www .centraleurasia .org . All inquiries may be directed to:

Edward J . Lazzerini, CESS Executive Director Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies Goodbody Hall 101/102 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Telephone: +1/812-856-0671 Fax: +1/812855-7500 Members of the Executive Board of CESS President (Ex-Officio): Cynthia Werner (2013-2014), Texas A&M University, USA President-Elect (Ex-Officio): Ed Schatz (2014-2015), University of Toronto, USA Past President (Ex-Officio): Scott Levi (2012-2013), The Ohio State University, USA David Montgomery (2013-2016), University of Pittsburgh, USA Sarfaroz Niyozov (2013-2016), University of Toronto, Canada Ali Igmen (2012-2015), California State University Long Beach, USA Pauline Jones Luong (2012-2015), University of Michigan, USA John Heathershaw (2011-2014), University of Exeter, Great Britain Amanda Wooden (2011-2014), Bucknell University, USA Non-Voting Officers and Ex-Officio Board Members Director of the CESS Secretariat: Edward J . Lazzerini, Indiana University, USA Secretary: Jackie Breeding, Indiana University, USA Treasurer: Virginia Martin, University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA