Central Eurasian Studies Society Fourth Annual Conference October 2- 5, 2003 Hosted by: Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University Cambridge, Mass., USA Table of Contents Conference Schedule ................................................................................... 1 Film Program ......................................................................................... 2 Panel Grids ................................................................................................ 3 List of Panels .............................................................................................. 5 Schedule of Panels ...................................................................................... 7 Friday • Session I • 9:00 am-10:45 am ..................................................... 7 Friday • Session II • 11:00 am-12:45 pm .................................................. 9 Friday • Session III • 2:00 pm-3:45 pm .................................................. 11 Friday • Session IV • 4:00 pm-5:45 pm .................................................. 12 Saturday • Session I • 9:00 am-10:45 am ............................................... 14 Saturday • Session II • 11:00 am-12:45 pm ............................................ 16 Saturday • Session III • 2:00 pm-3:45 pm .............................................. 18 Saturday • Session IV • 4:00 pm-6:30 pm .............................................. 20 Sunday • Session I • 9:00 am-10:45 am ................................................. 20 Sunday • Session II • 11:00 am-12:45 pm .............................................. 22 Contact List .............................................................................................. 28 Indexes: Name Index .......................................................................................... 48 Subject Index ............................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Conference Schedule Thursday, October 2 3:30-5:30 pm Registration (Davis Center, 625 Massachusetts Ave., 2nd fl.) 6:00-8:00 pm Reception for the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (by invitation) 8:00-10:30 pm Kazakh filmmaker Rashid Nougmanov presents his film “The Needle” (Science Center Hall D); see Film Schedule below for details of other films shown in parallel with the main conference program. Friday, October 3 8:00-9:00 am Registration (Davis Center, 625 Massachusetts Ave., 2nd fl.) 9:00-10:45 am Session I (see pages 7-7) 10:45-11:00 am Break 11:00-12:45 pm Session II (see pages 9-9) 12:45-2:00 pm Lunch Break (lunch can be bought in Central Square shops and restaurants) 2:00-3:45 pm Session III (see pages 11-11) Journalists’ Discussion Forum (1st floor, Room 2) 3:45-4:00 pm Break 4:00-5:45 pm Session IV (see pages 12-12) 7:00-10:00 pm Reception/Dinner hosted by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (tent on Oxford St. by the University Museum) Saturday, October 4 8:00-9:00 am Registration (Divinity School, Rockefeller Hall) 9:00-10:45 am Session I (see pages 14-14) 10:45-11:00 am Break 11:00-12:45 pm Session II (see pages 16-16) 12:45-2:00 pm Lunch Break (lunch can be bought from the sandwich seller at the Divinity School or in Harvard Square shops and restaurants) 2:00-3:45 pm Plenary Session: “Central Eurasian Political Development and Stability: Effects of International and Regional Actors” (see page 18) 3:45-4:00 pm Break 4:00-4:45 pm CESS Business: Awards, announcements and presentations. 4:45-6:30 pm Plenary Session: “Central Eurasian Studies: The State of the Field” (see page 20) 6:45-8:45 pm Reception hosted by the Caspian Studies Program of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (Taubman Building, 5th floor, Allison Dining Room). There will be live musical performance from the region. 1 Sunday, October 5 8:30-9:00 am Registration (Divinity School, Rockefeller Hall) 9:00-10:45 am Session I (see pages 20-20) CESS Information Meeting (Andover Hall, Room B) 10:45-11:00 am Break 11:00-12:45 pm Session II (see pages 22-22) 1:00 pm-… Lunch and departure Film Program Thursday, October 2 8:00-10:30 pm The Needle (1988): Kazakh filmmaker Rachid Nougmanov will present and participate in a discussion of this influential film, moderated by Vida Johnson (Science Center Hall D) Friday, October 3 2:00-3:30 pm Films from the series Gender Montage, introduced by Jane Knox- Voina and with discussion with conference participants led by regional specialists (Science Center Hall C): Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter (Azerbaijan; Ali-Isa Djabbarov; 2002) Silk Patterns (Mongolia; Uranchimeg Nansalmaa; 2003) 3:45-6:00 pm Documentaries (Science Center Hall C): Dance, Grozny, Dance (The Netherlands; Jos de Putter; 2002) Shto Novovo: An Elegy for the Union (USA; George Fitzherbert; 2003), presented by and discussed with the filmmaker. 9:00-11:00 pm Beshkempir (Kyrgyzstan; Aktan Abdykalykov; 1999), with discussion (Science Center Hall C) Saturday, October 4 12:00-2:00 pm Films from the series Gender Montage, introduced by Jane Knox- Voina and with discussion with conference participants led by regional specialists (Harvard Film Archive Small Screening Rm B04): Live Containers (Tajikistan; Orzu Sharipov; 2002) Hack Workers (Uzbekistan; Furkat Yavkalkhodzhaev; 2002) 2:00-3:30 pm The Needle (repeat screening in HFA Small Screening Room B04) 4:00-6:30 pm Orator (1999): Uzbek filmmaker Yusup Razykov will present and participate in a discussion of this highly acclaimed film, moderated by Vida Johnson (Harvard Film Archive Main Lecture Hall) 2 Panel Grids 625 Massachusetts Avenue — Friday, Oct. 3 Friday, Session 1 Friday, Session 2 Friday, Session 3 Friday, Session 4 9:00-10:45 11:00-12:45 2:00-3:45 4:00-5:45 2nd Floor, Rm 1 LS-01 • Current Legal Topics in PO-06 • After the Big Guys: The HC-04 • New Approaches to GE-01 • Roundtable: Supporting Central Eurasia Future of the State & Democracy Central Asian History the Development of Central in Central Asia and the Caucasus Eurasian Studies 2nd Floor, Rm 2 PO-04 • Afghanistan: Measures of LS-02 • Roundtable: Legal Reform PO-03 • Roundtable: Moving PO-13 • Experimenting with Coherence and Fragmentation in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Forward on Caspian Delimitation: Democracy in Central Eurasia Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Views from the Region 2nd Floor, Rm 3 PO-15 • Partners and Rivals in SO-01 • Diasporas I: Across PO-16 • Islam: Social Agendas PO-02 • Quagmire: Critically Central Eurasia Space, Across Time and Insurgency Assessing the Second Russo- Chechen War 1st Floor, Rm 1 EC-06 • Balancing Environment HC-13 • Image: Seeing the Self, SO-06 • Borders and Locations: HC-09 • Redefining Religion in (Library) with Development in Eurasia Seeing the Other The Politics and Economics of Post-Soviet Realities Post-Soviet Space 1st Floor, Rm 2 SO-03 • Reconstructing the Public PO-19 • Roundtable: Bilateral EC-04 • Impacts of Economic Journalists' Discussion Forum (NRC) Sphere in the Making of Modern Policy toward Central Eurasia: A Reform in Contemporary Central Turkey, 1876-1938 Comparison of Approaches Asia Gnd Floor, Rm 1 HC-12 • Arts and Letters across EC-07 • Land and Irrigation in HC-16 • Shifting Cultural Maps ED-04 • Higher Education within Time Eurasia across Eurasia New National and International Orders Gnd Floor, Rm 2 PO-09 • Roundtable: Challenges SO-07 • The New Dynamic of ED-01 • Teacher Education in EC-05 • Old Issues, Modern to Democracy in Central Asia and Information and Health Policy in Central Asia: Visions and Realities Situations: New Economic the Caucasus Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Institutions in Eurasia 3rd Floor, Rm 1 DP-01 • Issues of Stability and DP-02 • Culture, Rituals and DP-08 • Conquest and Formation DP-04 • Governance and Civil Security in Central Eurasia Habits Defining Social Norms and of Central Eurasia through History Society Alternatives Divinity School — Saturday, Oct. 4 and Sunday, Oct. 5 Saturday, Session 1 Saturday, Session 2 Sunday, Session 1 Sunday, Session 2 9:00-10:45 11:00-12:45 9:00-10:45 11:00-12:45 Andover Hall, HC-11 • Imagining the Self: PO-01 • Security and Regional Chapel Mechanisms and Channels Cooperation in the Caucasus and Central Asia Andover Hall, HC-14 • Reclaiming Identity HC-02 • Sufism and Shrine SO-02 • Diasporas II: Forced HC-10 • Power and Prestige in Sperry Room through Film: Space, Gender and Culture in Central Asia Migration and Urban Settlement Representation National Allegory Andover Hall, PO-05 • The Caucasus: The State EC-02 • Kazakhstan in Transition: SO-04 • Iran in Transition HC-01 • Nation and Invention Braun Room and Nation in Transition A Success Story? among Mongols and Tajiks Andover Hall, SO-08 • Local Responses to Global PO-18 • Kazakhstan in Transition: PO-07 • Foreign Interests and PO-08 • Imagined Landscapes: Room A Intervention 200 Years before Democracy? Influence in Central Asia and the Culture, Ideology and Place in Caspian Central Asia Andover Hall, EC-01 • Changing Land and Water GE-03 • Roundtable: Human CESS Informational Meeting PO-12 • Factors in Eurasian Room B Use Patterns in Central Asia Rights Problems in Central Foreign Policy across Time Eurasia: What Is Being Done? Andover Hall, GE-02 • Approaches to Central PO-11 • Methods and HC-07 • Religions of the ED-03 • Eurasian Education Past Pfeiffer Room Eurasian Studies Consequences of State Leadership Caucasian Peoples and Present: Dynamics of Religion (117) and Reform Andover Hall, ED-02 • Higher Education Reforms SO-05 • Relating Civil