[Discussion] CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA SEMINAR

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CONF. PROGRAM- CIAS 2003, University of Toronto, May 23-24

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CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA SEMINAR
ASIAN INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

"THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LAND AND PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA"

FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY 23 & 24, 2003

CROFT CHAPTER HOUSE & ROOM 119, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

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($10 for Students and Seniors)
includes light lunch and mid-session refreshments on both days

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The activities of the Central and Inner Asian Seminar are generously
supported by the Asian Institute, the Centre for the Study of Religion,
and
the School of Graduate  Studies, all of the University of Toronto.

FRIDAY

8.30 Registration /coffee/ book sales
Photo Exhibition - Mongolia's Struggle for Independence in the 20th
Century

9.00 Opening remarks
  * His Excellency BATSUKH Galsan, Ambassador of Mongolia to Canada
  * Dean Michael MARRUS, School of Graduate Studies
  * Professor Michael DONNELLY, Director, Asian Institute

9.15 His Excellency BATSUKH Galsan, Ambassador of Mongolia to Canada:
"Mongolia-Canada: Road to a new partnership"

9.45 NIKNAMI, Dr. Kamal, University of  Tehran, Iran:
"The African Emergence and Early Human Expansion into the Near East and
Central Asia"

10.15 FORAGE, Dr. Paul, Florida Atlantic University, USA:
"Orthography and the Geo-Politics of Eleventh Century Asia"

10.45 Coffee break

11.00 SOBTI, Manu, College of Architecture, Atlanta GA, USA:
"The Oases Settlements of Central Asia"

11.30 PAPOLI, Leila, University of Tehran, Iran:
"An ethno-archaeological perspective of the Lack of Agricultural Land
and
Multi Professions in Miyankuh"

12.00 GARAZHIAN, Omran, University of Tehran, Iran:
"Miyankuh People: Adaptation of village plans in their environment"

12.30 SHAMATOV, Duishon, OISE/University of Toronto:
"Visions and realities of a young history teacher from a village in post

Soviet Kyrgystan"

1.00 LUNCH (Provided)

1.45 KHAMIDOV, Alisher, Notre-Dame University, South Bend IN, USA:
"Organized Opposition and Civil Unrest: The Case of Kyrgyzstan"

2.15 ZHAO, Dr. George Qingzhi, University of Toronto:
"'One-way marriages': The Imperial Marriages between the Mongol Royal
Clan
and the Uighur Idug-qut's Clan during the 13th and 14th Centuries"

2.45 BUNN, Dr. Stephanie, Open University, England:
"The Interaction between Land and People among Kyrgyz Nomadic
Pastoralists
in Central Asia"

3.15 BEKTEMIROV, Dr. Kuatbay and Luke POTOSKI, Indiana University,
Bloomington  IN, USA:
"A Market for Water Use in Central Asia: Instituting the Bank of the
Aral
Sea and Grass-root Water User Associations"

3.45 Coffee break

4.00 JAYYUSI-LEHN, Ghada, University of Toronto:
"Edessa: A Holy City in the Muslim-Crusader Conflict"

4.30 WILLIAMS, Dr. Brian, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA:
"From Dar al-Harb (Realm of War with the Infidel) to Anavatan
(Motherland):
Changing Perceptions of Land among the Crimean Tatars (1783 to the
Soviet Era)"

5.00 SHIRAZI, Dr. Habibollah, Tehran Azad University, Iran:
"Land Reform in Central Asia: Tajikistan and Kyrgystan"

SATURDAY

8.45 Registration /coffee/ book sales

9.00 GANIEVA, Iroda, Taskhent, Uzbekistan: "Uzbek folk music and modern
life"

9.30 YADOLLAHI, Sima, University of Tehran, Iran:
"An Analytical Study of Monuments, Architecture and Data in southern
Turkmenia and Western Iran"

10.00 LEITICH, Keith, Seattle WA, USA:
"Globalization and the Politics of Identity: Political Islam in the
Ferghana
Valley"

10.30 Coffee break

10.45 USMANOVA, Dr Rokhat, Tashkent, Uzbekistan:
"Water Consumption Management Factor for Sustainable Development of
Uzbekistan"

11.15 McGREGOR, Dr. Andrew, Aberfoyle International Security Analysis,
Toronto:
"Khalifate in Central Asia: Islamist ambition or political fantasy?"

11.45 BOJKOV, Peter, International Consultant, Toronto:
"The Mining Industry of Kazakhstan: economic and social impacts"

12.15 LUNCH (Provided)

1.00 WAUGH, Dr. Daniel, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA:
"C.P. Skrine's 'Kongur Alps'"

1.30 MENDIKULOVA, Dr. Gulnara, Almaty, Kazakhstan:
"Kazakhstan's State Borders as Source of Conflicts: Land and People"

2.00 DASHPUREV, Professor of History, Sociology & Philosophy,
Ulaanbaatar
University, Mongolia:
"Mongolia's Political Survival in the 20th century"

2.30 ALIBEKOVA, Rinata, KIMEP Center for Research and Development,
Almaty,
Kazakhstan:
"Deconsolidation of Kazakh Identity: Causes and Prospects"

3.00 Coffee Break

3.15 KARIMOV, Fayzillo, Uzbekistan Art Academy, Samarkand, Uzbekistan:
"Ecology of Soil in Samarkand"

3.45 SOPUEVA, Nurjan Junusovna, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic:
"Great Silk Road and Interrelations of the People of Central and Middle
Asia"

4.15  MAMATOV, Kanatbek, Whitefield NGO, Osh, Kyrgyzstan:
"Development Methodology in Kyrgyzstan"

CLOSING REMARKS BY
Professor Michael Gervers