[Discussion] Yunanistan'da Orta Asya Toplantisi

[Gonul Pultar]

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SYMPOSIUM- International Symposium on Central Asia, CHA, Athens, GA,
Feb. 2003

CHA 2003 International Symposium Focuses on Central Asia

Athens, Ga. - The war in Afghanistan waged by the United States against
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban following the events of September 11 called the

world's attention to Central Asia - to the religions of its people,
their longstanding traditions and values, their histories and their
interrelationships.

The Center for Humanities and Arts will sponsor an international
symposium on February 19-21, 2003, on "Globalization and Change in
Central Asia." It is the ninth in the CHA Program for Global
Understanding. Approximately twenty distinguished artists, scholars, and

diplomats will come to Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing

Education to join in discussions about the effect of globalization on
the cultures, arts, economies, and politics of the nations of the
region.

April Palmerlee, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues at
the United States Department of State, will give the keynote address at
8:00 pm on Wednesday, February 19. Since the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001, Palmerlee has served as the Project Director of the
Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Afghanistan, composed of
scholarly experts in the region, journalists, aid workers, United States

policymakers, and United Nations officials.

Thursday morning will feature an "Ambassadors' Roundtable," in which
ambassadors to the United States and the United Nations discuss the
effects on Central Asia of the war on terror and other recent events.
The panelists include Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United
States, Baktybek Abdrisaev; Senior Advisor of the Permanent Observer
Mission of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United
Nations, S. Shahid Husain; Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the
Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Madina Jarbussynova; and
Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States,
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi.

The other roundtable discussions on Thursday and Friday will focus on
"Cultural Connections," "Women in Central Asia," and "Building Peace and

Prosperity."

On Thursday evening, at 8:00 pm, the Kazakh State Chamber Orchestra
"Academy of Soloists" will perform traditional music of the region.

Gary Bertsch, Director of the Center for International Trade and
Security and University Professor of Political Science, and Betty Jean
Craige, Director of the Center for Humanities and Arts, co-chaired the
program committee. Milton Masciadri, Professor of Music, planned the
musical event.

This project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the
National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from
the Georgia General Assembly.

Program details are available at:
<http://www.cha.uga.edu/symposia/central_asia_program.htm>

All program events are free and open to the public.