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Eighth Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY E IGHTH A NNUAL CONFERENC E October 18-21, 2007 University of Washington Seattle, Washington CESS 07 final.indd 1 9/13/07 11:05:36 AM Dear colleagues and guests: On behalf of the Conference Committee of the Central Eurasian Studies Society and the University of Washington, we would like to welcome you to the eighth annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. This event is a bright spot in the year for many of us, an opportunity to get together with old friends, to exchange ideas with our colleagues, and to see all of the exciting new research being done in our field. We hope that you find the conference stimulating and that you take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to strengthen the ties across the disciplines and regions that make up our diverse and dynamic society. This year has been a very exciting one for the organization with a move to a new Secretariat at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University, and the hiring of a new Executive Director, Dr. Daniel Prior. Dan is eager to hear your ideas about future directions for the organization, so please introduce yourselves to him and share with him any suggestions you have about how CESS can better fulfill its mission to promote research and teaching about Central Eurasia. This conference would not have been possible without the hard work of numerous volunteers from CESS and the University of Washington. The staff of the Ellison Center, especially Allison Dvaladze, have really given this conference the time and attention it deserves and we are very grateful for that. CESS could not function without the dedication of its volunteers, and we invite anyone who is interested in helping to organize next year’s conference to contact us. We also want to let you know that next year’s conference will be hosted by Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The call for papers will go out later this year, but please start talking with your colleagues now about panels you might want to propose. The host for the 2009 conference will be the University of Toronto, and we hope to see you there, as well. The University of Washington has long had a special connection to the Central Eurasian region through its language programs and activities related to Seattle’s sister city relationship with Tashkent. One of the luminaries of this long history of cultural exchange, Mark Weil, director of Tashkent’s Ilkhom Theater, was killed in September, and it is to his memory that we dedicate this year’s conference. Welcome to Seattle! Stephen E. Hanson, University of Washington Laura Adams, Harvard University Michael Rouland, Miami University CESS 2007 Conference Co-chairs Central Eurasian Studies Society Eighth Annual Conference October 18-21 Hosted by: the Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation Table of Contents Conference Schedule ............................................................................................................ 2 Maps of Conference Facilities ................................................................................................ 3 Information ........................................................................................................................... 4 List of Panels ........................................................................................................................ 6 Schedule of Panels ................................................................................................................ 8 Friday-Session I-9:00 am-10:45 am Friday-Session II-11:00 am-12:45 pm Friday-Session III-2:00 pm-3:45 pm Friday-Keynote Address-4:30-6:00 Saturday-Session I-9:00 am-10:45 am Saturday-Session II-11:00 am-12:45 pm Saturday-Session III-2:00 pm-3:45 pm Saturday-Session IV-4:00 pm-5:45 pm Sunday-Session I-9:15 am-11 am Sunday-Session II-11:15 am-1:00 pm Panel Grids ........................................................................................................................... 25 Advertisements ..................................................................................................................... 28 Panelist Contact List .............................................................................................................. 33 Panelist Name Index ............................................................................................................. 48 1 Conference Schedule Summary Thursday, October 18 5:00 pm-7:00 pm Registration – Kane Hall, Concourse, 2nd Floor 6:00 pm-8:00 pm Reception – Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room, 2nd Floor Friday, October 19 8:00 am-4:00 pm Registration – Husky Union Building, Room 108 9:00 am-10:45 am Session I 10:45 am-11:00 am Break 11:00 am-12:45 pm Session II 12:00 pm-3:00 pm AIAS Meeting, Thomson Hall, Room 317 12:45 pm-2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm-3:45 pm Session III 3:45 pm-4:00 pm Break 4:30 pm-6:00 pm Keynote Address: Rogers Brubaker, Kane Hall, Room 120 6:00 pm-8:00 pm Reception-Kane Hall, Room 225 Saturday, October 20 8:00 am-4:00 pm Registration – Husky Union Building, Room 108 9:00 am-10:45 am Session I 9:00 am-11:00 am CESS Publications Meeting, Thomson Hall, Room 317 9:30 am-5:00 pm Film Festival, Suzzallo-Allen Library, Allen Auditorium, 1st Floor 10:45 am-11:00 am Break 11:00 am-12:45 pm Session II 12:00 pm- 2:00 pm CESS Board Meeting, Thomson Hall, Room 317 12:45 pm-2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm-3:45 pm Session III 3:45 pm-4:00 pm Break 4:00 pm-5:45 pm Session IV Sunday, October 21 8:00 am- 9:00 am 2008 Conference Committee Meeting, Thomson Hall, Room 317 9:00 am-10:00 am Registration – Husky Union Building, Room 108 9:15 am-11:00 am Session I 11:00 am-11:15 am Break 11:15 am-1:00 pm Session II 1:00 pm Conference ends 2 HUB Meeting Facilities 304D and Services 304F 3 GPSS 3 To Loading Dock On Ground Floor Outdoor Balcony Freight Elevator E HUB E 309 310 Administration East Ballroom 204M 204N 200 200 200 A B C West Ballroom E E 209A 209B To Loading Dock On Ground Floor Outdoor Balcony Student Activities Office (SAO) Freight Elevator E WHEELCHAIR ASUW ENTRANCE 106B Upper Husky Den Student Lounge $ Auditorium E Info Music Desk Study Computer 108 Bookstore Lounge N S Art Gallery E E ASUW W Bike Shop HUB Event Services Office Newsstand Cashier ENTRANCE Ticket Office LEGEND: Reservable Rooms Telephones Men's Restroom Atrium E Women's Restroom $ ASUW E Elevator Experimental 3 College Housing Office $ Automatic Teller Machine South Husky Den North Husky Den 2 Husky Den Food Services 1 6 7 $ Firecracker 4 5 US 1 Bank 2 At Home Subway TV Lounge 3 Arriba 8 4 Pagliacci E $ Etc. E 5 Pickles & Fries Scissor's Red Radish Edge Salon 6 7 Ride Board 8 Stamp Machines 3 Information Computers and Internet Computers available in HUB Room 108 Wireless access on campus for CESS participants: Username: event0142 Password: watch/seTaL Post Office 4244 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105 Print Shop Ram’s Copy Center M-F 8 am-11 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am-8pm Phone: (206)632-6630 Fax: (206)632-6730 4144 University Way NE http://www.ramscopy.com/ Other options located on University Way and in University Village Shopping and Dining University Village Apparel, Electronics, 24-hour Supermarket, Drugstore, Bookstore, Dining http://www.uvillage.com/index.html M-S 9:30 am – 9 pm, Sunday 11 am- 6 pm Located down the hill from UW campus, at the intersection of 25th Ave NE and 45th St., the 65, 68, 243, and 372 buses run from the HUB to U-Village. Approximately a 15 minute walk from the HUB. Other dining and shopping options are available on University Way, commonly called “the Ave,” approximately 10 minutes by foot to the west of the HUB. Bookstores University Bookstore 4326 University Way NE M-F 9am-9pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Barnes and Noble Located in University Village, open 9am-11pm daily 4 On-Campus Dining By George Café Located in Odegaard Library M-Th 7:30am-5pm, Fri 7:30am-4pm Suzzallo Espresso Located in Suzzallo Library M-Th 7:30am-9pm, Fri 7:30am-3pm Husky Den Located in the basement of the HUB M-F 7am-7pm TurkFest TurkFest will run from noon Saturday through 6 pm Sunday at the Seattle Center. Entrance is free. Seattle Center can be reached on the 74 bus line leaving from University Way. For more information: www.turkfest.org Questions? If you have additional questions please ask for Ellison Center Staff or conference volunteers identifiable by their badges. **Complimentary coffee will be provided in HUB Room 108 Saturday and Sunday mornings. Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies REECAS Program Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington 203B Thomson, Box 353650 Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-4852 (206) 685-0668 (fax) http://jsis.washington.edu/ellison 5 List of Panels History and Culture HC-01 Crossing Cultural Borders (p. 12) HC-02 Migration and Diaspora (p. 8) HC-03 Russia’s Steppe Frontier: Kazakhs in the Multi-ethnic Russian Empire (p. 15) HC-04 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conversion in Caucasia and Central Eurasia (p. 21) HC-05 Russia’s Muslims and Eurasian Networks (p. 10) HC-06 Modern History of Central Eurasia (p. 9) HC-07 Law on the Imperial and Cultural Frontier: 19th-20th Century Legal documents from Xinjiang and the Qazaq Steppe (p. 22) HC-08 New Research on Central Asia in the 18th and 19th Centuries (p. 14) HC-10 Early Islam in Central Asia (p. 17) HC-11 Archaeology and Material Culture (p. 23) HC-12 Linguistic Landscapes (p. 19) HC-13 Current Research in Linguistics (p. 12) HC-14 Discourses of Empire (p. 14) HC-15 Mongol Empire (p. 21) HC-16 The Culture of Georgia (p. 16) HC-17 Religion and Identity: The Armenian Case (p.
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