[Discussion] CONF.- Empires, Islam and Politics in Central Eurasia, July 7-8, Sapporo, Japan

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From: Tomohiko Uyama <uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp>

CONF.- Empires, Islam and Politics in Central Eurasia, July 7-8, 
Sapporo, Japan

Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan presents a
conference (2005 Summer International Symposium):

"Regional and Transregional Dynamism in Central Eurasia: Empires, Islam and
Politics"

Room 423, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

July 7 (Thu)

9:30-9:45 Opening Speeches

9:45-12:00 Session 1: Modern Intellectuals in Central Eurasia

  - Adeeb KHALID (Carleton College, USA) "The Fascination of Revolution:
Central Asian Jadids, 1917-1924"
  - Mambet KOIGELDIYEV (Institute of History and Ethnology, Ministry of
    Education and Science, Kazakhstan) "The Alash Movement and the Soviet
    Government: Difference of Positions"
  - KOMATSU Hisao (The University of Tokyo, Japan) "Dar al-Islam under
    Russian Rule As Understood by Turkestani ulama"

13:30-15:15 Session 2: Mass Deportations in Soviet Central Eurasia

  - Elza-Bair GUCHINOVA (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian
    Academy of Sciences) "Stigmatised Ethnicity: Deportation of Kalmyks 
in the
    USSR"
  - HANYA Shiro (The University of Tokyo, Japan) "National Politics of the
    Brezhnev Era: In the Case of Deported Nations"

15:30-17:30 Session 3: Political Regimes in Post-Soviet Central Eurasian 
States

  - Alexander MARKAROV (Yerevan State University, Armenia) "Regime Formation
    and Development in Armenia"
  - Dosym SATPAYEV (Assessment Risks Group, Kazakhstan) "An Analysis of the
    Internal Structure of the Political Elite in Kazakhstan and the 
Assessment
    of Levels of Political Risk"

18:00-20:00 Reception at Sapporo Aspen Hotel

July 8 (Fri)

9:30-12:00 Session 4: Islamic Revival: Transnational or National Phenomenon?

  - George SANIKIDZE (Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of
    Sciences) "Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Caucasian Region: 
'Global' and
    'Local' Islam in the Pankisi Gorge"
  - Ashirbek MUMINOV (Tashkent State Institute for Oriental Studies,
    Uzbekistan) "Fundamentalist Challenges to the Local Islamic 
Traditions in
    Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia"
  - SUGAWARA Jun (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) "The 'Revitalization' of
    Risale: Islamic Folk Publications in Modern Xinjiang"

13:30-15:45 Session 5: The Russian Empire and Central Eurasia

  - NAGANAWA Norihiro (The University of Tokyo, Japan) "Maktab or School?
    Introduction of Compulsory Education among Muslim Population in Ufa
Province"
  - Margaret DIKOVITSKAYA (Library of Congress, USA) "Russian Imperial
    Colonial Attitudes and Visual Culture: Central Asia in Early 
Photography"
  - UYAMA Tomohiko (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan) "A
    Particularist Empire? The Russian Policies of Christianization and 
Military
    Conscription in Central Asia"

16:00-17:45 Session 6: State Borders and Minorities

  - Sergey GOLUNOV (Volgograd State University, Russia) "Drug-Trafficking
    through the Russia-Kazakhstan Border: Challenge and Responses"
  - OKA Natsuko (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan) "Transnationalism
    As a Threat to State Security? Case Studies on Uighurs and Uzbeks in
    Kazakhstan"

July 9 (Sat) Excursion

For more details, please see:
http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/05summer/2005summer-e.html

All sessions are free and open to the public. However, we request that
potential auditors contact T. Uyama (uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp) in advance.
Please also note that travel support is not available.

UYAMA Tomohiko
Associate Professor
Slavic Research Center
Hokkaido University
Kita 9, Nishi 7, Kita-ku
Sapporo 060-0809
Japan
E-mail: uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp






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