[Discussion] 15th Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium

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CONF.- 15th Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium, U. of Washington-Seattle,
May 17

University of Washington
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
15th Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central/Inner Asian Studies

Saturday, May 17, 2003

8:30 am-6:00 pm
Denny Hall 215-215A

Program

8:30-9:10 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments

9:10-9:20 Welcome Address: Professor Ilse D. Cirtautas

9:20-9:40 "Mongolian Studies in the Republic of Buryatia: A Tribute
to Nicholas Poppe"
Dr. Nikolay Tsyrempilov, Institute of Mongolian, Tibetan and Buddhist
Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan
Ude,
Buryatia (Russia)

Discussion

9:50-11:10 "Numerals in Inner Asian Ethnonyms"
Dr. Penglin Wang, Department of Anthropology, Central Washington
University,
Ellensburg, WA

Discussion

11:20-11:50 "The Current State of the Kazakh Language"
Dr. Jaksylyk Khuseinov and Dr. Ilse Cirtautas, Department of Near
Eastern
Languages & Civilization, University of Washington

Discussion

11:50-12:00 Awarding of the Galen Mohr Seattle-Tashkent Sister City
Association Prize for the Best Student in First-Year Uzbek (2002-2003),
and
the Nicholas Poppe Prize for the Best Translation of Central Asian
Turkic
Oral or Written Literature

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-1:50 "Kazakhstan: Cultural Diversity and National Identity"
Dr. Sulushash Kerimkulova, Taraz State University, Kazakhstan

Discussion

2:00-2:20 "Nation and State Building in Uzbekistan"
Dr. Mirzohid Rahimov, Institute of History of the Uzbek Academy of
Sciences,
Tashkent

Discussion

2:30-2:50 "Economic Change and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet
Uzbekistan"
Dr. Peter Finke and Meltem Sanjak, Ph.D.C., Max Plank
Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Discussion

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-3:50 "U.S. Educational Programs in Kyrgyzstan and Their Impact on
the
Kyrgyz"
Dr. Anara Jamasheva, IREX, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Discussion

4:00-4:20 "The Soviet Houses of Culture in the Kyrgyz Region of the Late

1920s and Early 1930s: Local Demands of Cultural Development From the
Center"
Ali Igmen, Ph.D.C., Department of History, University of Washington

Discussion

4:30- 4:50 "The Central Asian Turkic Community in Korea: 1920-1950"
Dr. Hee Soo Lee, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Hanyang
University,
Seoul, Korea; Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Languages &
Civilization, UW

Discussion

5:00- 5:30 "Ecological Issues in Xinjiang"
Dr. Stanley Toops, Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio

Discussion

5:30 Closing Remarks