[Discussion] CONF.- Aspects of Social Change in Central Asia, March 24, Columbia University

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF.- Aspects of Social Change in Central Asia, March 24, Columbia
University

The East European, Russian and Eurasian National Resource Center, The
Harriman Institute and Caspian Project of Columbia University's School
of International & Public Affairs Present a Conference:

Aspects of Social Change in Central Asia

Thursday March 24, 2005

Kellogg Center
15th floor, International Affairs Building
Columbia University
420 West 118th St. (off Amsterdam Avenue)
New York, NY

8:45 am Introduction - Peter Sinnott, Conference Organizer

9:00 am Orifjon Rafiyev, Deputy Director, Institute of Demography Tajik
Academy of Sciences
"Demographic Aspects of Social Change in Tajikistan"

9:30 am Gulnara Kuzibaeva, Associate Professor, Center for Social
Research, Toshkent National University
"Demographic Changes in Uzbekistan: Socioeconomic Implications"

10:00 am Irina Liczek, New School University
"Cultural Parameters of Gender Policy-making in Contemporary Turkmenistan"

10:30 am Muhiba Mahmadjanova, Department of Philosophy and Law, Tajik
Academy of Sciences
"Women's Status in Contemporary Tajikistan"

11:00 am Muborak Sharipova, Director, Open Asia, Denmark
"From Soviet "Liberation" to post-Soviet Segregation: Women in Central
Asia and Domestic Violence"

11:30 am Kristen Degan, SIPA/Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University
"AIDS in Uzbekistan"

12-1:30pm Lunch Break

1:30 pm Pulat Shozimov, Tajik Academy of Sciences and Visiting Fulbright
Scholar Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
"Islam and Social Change in Tajikistan"

2:00 pm Shokhrat Kadyrov, Researcher, Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs
"Social Change in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan"

2:30 pm Neema Noori, Sociology Department, Columbia University
"Unravelling the State: The Mahallah Initiative and Decentralization in
Uzbekistan"

3:00 pm Kurbon Giyoev, Head, Department of Social Philosophy Tajik
Academy of Sciences
"Social Philosophy and Social Change in Tajikistan"

3:30 pm Tea/Coffee Break

4:00 pm Hilda Eitzen, Independent Scholar, Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia U.
"Social Risk and the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in two Regions
of Kazakhstan"

4:30 pm Peter Sinnott, Harriman and Middle East Institutes, SIPA,
Columbia U. "Push" and "Pull" Factors in Tajikistan Migration.

5:00 pm Saulesh Yessenova, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology,
University of British Columbia.
"Rural to Urban Migration in Kazakhstan"

5:30 pm Erica Marat Iskakova, Graduate School of Social Sciences,
University of Bremen, Germany
"Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic, Labor and Political Migration"

Neema Noori
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
413 Fayerweather Hall
New York, NY 10027
E-mail: nn88@columbia.edu



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