[Bilimsel Haber] CONF.- Assessing Social Change in Central Asia, March 9, Columbia University, NY City

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From: Peter J Sinnott <pjs7@columbia.edu>


CONF.- Assessing Social Change in Central Asia, March 9, Columbia U., NY 
City

Assessing Social Change in Central Asia Conference
March 9, 2006

Panel I: Defining some parameters for Social Change in Central Asia
9:00-11am Chair unassigned

Peter Sinnott, Lecturer, Harriman and Middle East Institutes
'Social and Political processes: Managed and unwilling elements of change'

Anara Tabyshalieva, Visiting Fellow, Central Asia Caucasus Institute, SAIS,
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
'The Social Development Challenge in Central Asia'

Cholpon Chotaeva, Visiting Scholar, War & Peace Institute, Columbia 
University
'Ethno-Political Situation in Post-Independent Kyrgyzstan'

Orifjon Rafiev, Tajik State National University
'Demographic Processes in Tajikistan'

Panel II: Women and Development in Central Asia
11:00- 12:30pm

Muhiba Mahmadjanova, Dushanbe State Pedagogical University
'The Contemporary Problems of Women in Tajikistan'

Anora Mahmudova, Correspondent BBC's Central Asian Service
'The Contemporary Problems of Women in Uzbekistan'

12:30 - 2pm Lunch

2:00 - 4:30pm: The State as the Agent of Social Change

Victoria Clement, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
'Civil Society in Turkmenistan'

Muheddin Kabiri, Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
'Understanding Social Change within the Politics of Tajikistan'

Kurbon Giyoev, Department of Social Philosophy, Tajik Academy of Sciences
'Political Process and Social Change in Tajikistan'

Zamira Sydykova, Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States
'Social Change after the Kyrgyz Revolution'


Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian 
Studies