[Discussion] CONF. PROGRAM- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Univ. of Toronto, Apr. 16-17

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From: Gillian Long <gillian.long@utoronto.ca>
Subject: CONF. PROGRAM- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Univ. of Toronto,
Apr. 16-17

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CONF. PROGRAM- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Univ. of Toronto, Apr. 16-17

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, the Tenth Annual Conference of the Central and Inner Asia
Seminar (CIAS 2004) will be held at the University of Toronto on April 16th
& 17th 2004.  Our theme this year is The Domestic Environment of Central 
and
Inner Asia.

Please check our website www.utoronto.ca/deeds/cias/cias.html for 
last-minute
updates and an on-line registration form.

We hope to see many of you in Toronto.  If you have any questions please
email me or call 416 978 4882.

Best wishes

Gillian Long

The Domestic Environment of Central and Inner Asia
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Central and Inner Asia Seminar

Croft Chapter House, University College
Friday And Saturday April 16 & 17, 2004

Friday

8.10 Registration

8.30 Welcome by Dr Robert J. Birgeneau, President of the University of 
Toronto

8.45 Coffee and book sales

9.00 SHIRAZI, Dr. Habibollah, Tehran Azad University, Iran: The Role of
Islam and the Expansion of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Domestic
Environment of Central Asia

9.30 BUNN, Dr. Stephanie, Open University, England: From the Domestic to 
the
Divine: a Study of Kyrgyz Felt Carpets

10.00 ABBAS, Dr. Najam, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, England:
Tajikistan's Civil Society Environment: Endogenous Preferences & Exogenous
Perceptions

10.30 LISSENKOVA, Natalia, University of Leeds, England: Textual
Representations of Mongolia and the Mongols in Official Chinese 
Publications
since 1991

11.00 Coffee break

11.20 MAJIDI KHAMENEH, Batoul, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran: 
The
Protection of the Environment according to Islam

11.40 SOFUOGLU, Dr. Ebubekir, Sakarya University, Turkey: The Effects of 
the
Turkish
 Sultan Khalifat on Middle Asian and Indian Muslims, according to Ottoman
Archives

12.10 YAZDANI, Enayatollah, Australian National University, Canberra:
Democracy Reform in Central Asia: Why it has not worked.

12.40 GHAMAT, Dr. Jafar, Tehran Azad University Iran: Authoritarian Regimes
in Central Asia and their Impacts within the Domestic Environment

1.10 Lunch (provided)

2.10 MAHFROOZI, Dr. Ali, Cultural Heritage of Mazandaran, Iran: Cultural
Affinities among the States of the Caspian Sea Littoral from an
Archaeological Perspective

2.40 AKHMEDJONOV, Alisher & SAIMOV, Komil, Samarkand, Uzbekistan: The
Economic Development of Uzbekistan, 1991 to the Present
3.10 BENJAMIN, Dr. Craig, Grand Valley State University, Michigan: A Nation
of Nomads? The Lifeway of the Yuezhi in the Gansu and Bactria

3.40 LARSON, Christian Nils, Indiana University: Hospitality in 19th-
Century Samarqand and Bukhara: The Travelers's Logs

4.10 Coffee break

4.30 TAYNEN, Jennifer, University of Toronto: The Rise of Modern Uighur
Nationalism

5.00 OJEDA-MATA, Maite, Samarkand University, Uzbekistan: Towards an
Anthropology of Genocide

5.30 RIGI, Dr. Jakob, Cornell University: Primordialism versus
Constructivism: Genealogies, Family, discourses of Homeland and claims to
Resources in Kazakhstan

6.00 ZHAO, Dr. George, University of Toronto: Female Anxiety and Female
Power: The Political Involvement of Mongol Empresses during the 13th and
14th centuries

Saturday

8.30 Registration/coffee/book sales

9.00 KRAVETS, Maryna, University of Toronto: From Nomad Tent to Garden
Palace: The Evolution of a Jeghizid Household in the Crimea

9.30 SHAMATOV, Duishon, OISE/Univ. of Toronto: Teaching History in
post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Challenges and Possibilities

10.00 MAJIDI KHAMENEH, Farideh, Cultural Heritage of Iran: An
Anthropological Study of Medicinal Herbs in Iran

10.30 ABLIZ, Dr. Bahargul, Private scholar, Toronto: The Uyghur's Role on
the Silk Road

11.00 Coffee break

11.20 FREEDMAN, Eric, Michigan State University: The coverage of Central
Asian environmental problems on Western-based web news sites

11.40 ABDUALIEV, Aset, Winthrop University, S. Carolina: The Impact of
Globalization on the National Values of Central Asian States

12.10 SAIDGASIMOVA, Sayyora, Private Scholar, Toronto: The Philosophical
Categorization of Speech Sounds in Human Consciousness

12.40 NAURYZBAEV, Dr. Mikhail, al-Farabi Kazakh National University: 
Central
Asian Ecological Problems connected with Rocket Space Activity

1.10 Lunch (provided)

2.10 KOZAK, Aysegul & ISIK, Gulseren, University of Minnesota: The Welfare
State and Gender: New Directions in Reshaping a Welfare Policy for the Post
Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

2.40 CORBETT, Nicholas, University of Manitoba: Steppes to Statehood:
Contemporary Nationalism in Uzbekistan

3.10 JAMANGULOVA, Nurmira, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan:
Charitable Work in Kyrgyzstan: a Case Study of Activities of the
International Charitable Foundation "Meerim"

3.40 Coffee break

4.00 KARAKOZUEVA, Erkingul, ACDI/VOCA CAIP Project, Kyrgyzstan: Central
Asia: Women and Islamism

4.30 SOBTI, Manu, College of Architecture, Atlanta, GA: Spatial Realms and
Typologies in the Domestic Environment of the Central Asian Dwelling