[Discussion] WORKSHOP- Anthropological Perspectives on Central Asia, Max Planck Institute, Halle, Dec. 19-21

[Gonul Pultar]

WORKSHOP- Anthropological Persp. on Central Asia, Max Planck Inst., Dec. 
19-21

Workshop:

"Anthropological Perspectives on Central Asia"
December 19-21, 2003

Organisers: Peter Finke and Meltem Sancak

Venue:

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle/Saale
Germany

Friday, December 19th

8:30 Registration

9:30 Günther Schlee, Director, Max Planck Institute for Social 
Anthropology,
Halle/Saale; Germany
Welcome Address

9:45 Peter Finke & Meltem Sancak, both Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, Halle/Saale; Germany
Introduction to the Workshop

10:00 Coffee Break

Panel 1: Locating Central Asia in the Global World: Academic Traditions,
Historical Legacies, and Future Perspectives

10:15 Anatoly Khazanov, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and The 
Hebrew
University of Israel, Jerusalem
Central Asia in the Contemporary World: The Russian Dimension

11:00 Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University, USA
Post-Soviet Muslim Central Asia and the Middle East: Coping with the
Legacies of Colonialism and Orientalism

11:45 Dru Gladney, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA, and MPI,
Halle/Saale, Germany
De-Centering Central Asia

12:30 Discussion

13:00 Lunch Break

Panel 2: State and Local Communities

14:30 David Sneath, Cambridge University, UK
Land, Locality and the State: Technologies of Power and Mongolian Pastoral
Lifeworlds

15:15 Johan Rasanayagam, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 
Germany
Market, State and Community in Uzbekistan: Reworking the concept of the
informal economy

16:00 Coffee Break

16:15 Boris Petric, CNRS, France
Neighbor Community (Mahalla): An Institution to Understand the New Social
and Political Imaginary in the Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

17:00 Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, University of Vienna, Austria
Rebuilding the Afghan State: Local Politics versus State Policies

17:45 Discussion

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, December 20th

Panel 3: Economic Transformations and Social Change

9:30 Alisher Ilkhamov, Open Society Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Rural Economy in Uzbekistan: Lost Chances for Economic Growth and Prosperity
10:15 Cynthia Werner, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA
Markets, Networks and Gifts: Reflecting on a Decade of Transition in Rural
Kazakstan

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Russell Zanca, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
Making Economy Matter to the Ethnography of Contemporary Uzbekistan

12:00 Yang Shengmin, School of Ethnology, Central University of
Nationalities, Beijing, China
Culture and Ecology of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Problems and
Prospects

12:45 Discussion

13:15 Lunch Break

Panel 4: Central Asian Pastoralists in a Period of Change

14:45 Joerg Janzen, Center for Development Research, National University of
Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, and ZELF, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Problems and Perspectives of Pastoral Economy and Land Use in Mongolia

15:30 André Bourgeot, College de France, Paris, France
Transformations in a Kyrgyz Area (Song Köl) since 1992: A Kind of Assessment

16:15 Coffee Break

16:30 Carol Kerven, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK
Emerging Differentiation among Pastoral households in Kazakstan

17:15 Roy Behnke, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK
Property Rights and Use of Rangeland Resources in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan

18:00 Discussion

19:00 Dinner

Sunday, December 21st

Panel 5: Ethnic and Religious Identities

9:30 Morgan Liu, Harvard University, USA
Can Central Asian Anthropology Shed Light on Post-Socialisms and
Modernities? Thinking through Fieldwork on Political Imagination in Osh,
Kyrgyzstan

10:15 Saulesh Yessenova, University of British Columbia, Canada
The Politics and Poetics of the Nation: Local Narratives of Kazakh Identity

11:00 Coffee break

11:15 Abylabek Asankanov, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ethnic and Religious Identities in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan

12:00 John Schoeberlein, Harvard University, USA
Transformation of Islamic Legitimacy in Post-Independence Central Asia

12:45 Discussion

13:15 Lunch Break

Final Discussion

14:30 Anthropology in Central Asia: Past Achievements and Future 
Perspectives

15:30 End of the Workshop

Web address: www.eth.mpg.de

Meltem Sancak
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Postfach 110351
06017 Halle/S.

E-mail: sancak@eth.mpg.de
Tel: +49 345 2927
Fax: +49 345 2927 102