[Bilimsel Haber] FW: CONF.- 16th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conf., Bloomington, Feb. 28

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CONF.- 16th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conf., Bloomington, Feb. 28

Posted by: Association of Central Eurasian Students <aces at indiana.edu>



The Association of Central Eurasian Students at Indiana University cordially
invites you to attend the:

16th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference
28 February 2009

Indiana University, Bloomington
Complete information: www.indiana.edu/~aces

ACES is grateful for the support of the following individuals, departments,
and organizations at Indiana University: The Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Studies Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of History,
the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the Sinor Research
Institute for Inner Asian Studies, the Indiana University Student's
Association, the Graduate and Professional Student Organization, and the
Indiana Memorial Union.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Khodarkhovsky, Loyola University Chicago


Panels, Presenters, and Papers:

Panel:  Language Pedagogy

Malik Hodjaev (Indiana University): Effective Use of Technology in Uzbek
Language Instruction

Rahmon Inomkhojayev (Indiana University): Some Problems and Solutions of a
Distance Language Class

Tserenchunt Legden (Indiana University): Modal Particles Common for Spoken
Mongolian


Panel: Minority Communities

Lennea Carty (Indiana University): On the Decline of Ottoman Jewry in the
Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Benjamin Lazarus (Georgetown University): Turkey's IDP Crisis: The
Consequences of Internal Displacement for Turkish Society

Rob Dunbar (Indiana University): Shi'a Muslim Enslavement in 19th Century
Bukhara

David Straub (Indiana University): Religious Dissent in Tajikistan in the
Late Soviet Period


Panel: Issues in Contemporary Kazakhstan

Zamzagul Kashkimbaeva: Linguistic aspects of cross-cultural communication in
multilingual Kazakhstan

Alla Kim: Psychology in Kazakhstan

Svetlana Belenkova: Teaching Medical Students in Kazakhstan

Ainur Abdrazakova: Internationalization of education in Kazakhstan

Gulmira Sheryazdanova: Democracy in Kazakhstan

Natalya Borgul: Polylingual Education in multinational Kazakhstan


Panel: Music

Elise Anderson (Indiana University): Singing the Homeland: Music and
musicians in Uyghur diaspora communities

Colin Legerton (Indiana University): Musical Canon Formation of the Uyghur
Diaspora Web

Jessie Wallner (Indiana University): Musicians in Lhasa's Nang-ma'i
Skyid-sdug and Skyor-mo-lung Musical Associations and their Relevance to
Present-day Tibetan Performing Arts


Panel: Integration and Development

Ivan Peshkov (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna�±): Conservative
Adaptation Trap. Poverty in Unrestructured Transition Economies with
Traditional Sectors.  The Cases of Mongolia, Northern and Northeastern
China, and Siberia.

Delgerjargal Uvsh (University of Notre Dame): Amartya Sen's Theory of
Development and Status of Mongolian Nomadic Herders' Development since 1990

Navruz Nekbakhtshoev (Indiana University): Explaining the Dynamic of
Minority Radicalization in Tajikistan and Moldova

Matthew Price (Indiana University): The Loss of the Grey Areas: Changes in
state control over Islamic institutions in Soviet and post-Soviet Central
Asia


Panel: Soviet and Post-Soviet Society

Michael Hancock (Indiana University): The Future of Balkhash

Baktybek Isakov (Harvard University): Nomadic Society during
Collectivization: Changes in the Role of Individual Autonomy in Pastoral
Kyrgyz Families during Soviet Times

Kristine Kohlmeier (Indiana University): Internet Libel Law in Tajikistan

Aziz Burkhanov (Indiana University): Formal and Informal Presidential Powers
in post-Soviet Area: the Problem of Measuring


Panel: Societies & Cultures of Xinjiang

Tim Grose (Indiana University): The Xinjiang Class: Education, Integration,
and the Uyghurs

Gulnisa Nazarova (Indiana University): On Uyghur Nicknames

Eitan Plasse (Harvard University): Interpreting Signs on the Silk
Road: Xinjiang Ethnic Minorities' Perceptions of Post-Soviet Central Asia


Panel: Islam and Society

Nur Khan (University of Cambridge): Rethinking "Slavery" in
sixteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul

Aynur Onur (Indiana University): The Sacred Flower: Pagan Worshippers or
True Followers of Allah?

John Dechant (Indiana University): Islamization, the Mongols, and the
Man��qib al-'��rif�«n of Shams al-D�«n Aḥmad-i Afl��k�«


Panel: Market Building as Nation Building in Central Asia: Entrepreneurs,
Markets and Morals

Erica Marat: The Early 1990s in Ferghana Valley: Shortages of State and
Emergence of Violent Entrepreneurs

Deniz Tura: Formal institutions and entrepreneurship: the case of micro-
finance

Alisher Khamidov: Doing business the Islamic way: Jamoats and their growing
economic role in the Ferghana Valley

Gul Berna Ozcan: Markets and morality: a typology of entrepreneurial choices


Panel:  Linguistics

John Erickson (Indiana University): Specificity and Accusative Case Marking
in Written and Spoken Uzbek

Andrew Shimunek (Indiana University): Several layers of Turkic in Khotong, a
forgotten Turkic language of northwestern Mongolia

Jonathan North Washington (Indiana University): Complex codas in Kazakh and
Kyrgyz

Ilya Yakubovich (University of Chicago): Linguistic Convergence between
Bactrian and Sogdian


Panel: Inner Asia & Late Imperial China

Devon Dear (Harvard University): Protectors or Predators?: Money lending,
Violence, and the State in late Qing Mongolia, 1861-1905

Benjamin Levey (Harvard University): Writing the Oirats Back into
History: Qing China's Colonization of the Zunghar Frontier, 1757-1800

Max Oidtmann (Harvard University): Playing the Lottery With Sincere
Thoughts: Manchu Officials and the Selection of Incarnate Lamas in the Late
Qing

Elliot Sperling (Indiana University): The Co-ne dpon-po (tusi ��):
Their Origins and Relations with the Ming Court


Panel: Nationalism

Naomi Caffee (UCLA): Reclaiming the Soviet Success Story: Kazakh Identity in
Olzhas Suleimenov's Ode to Gagarin

Eric T Schluessel (Indiana University): Networks of reform and activism in
Chinese Turkestan

Aysen Uslu Bayramli (Beykent University Istanbul): Turkistanis (Central
Asian Turks) in Exile

Nick Walmsley (Indiana University): The origins, manifestations and
implications of elite historiography in independent Uzbekistan


Association of Central Eurasian Students
Goodbody Hall 157
Indiana University
1011 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
Fax: (812) 855-7500
aces at indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~aces



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