Graduate Student Conference on Сentral Asia

4:30- 4:40 pm: Opening of the Conference

• Welcome by Dr. Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center

4:40-5:45 pm: Keynote Lecture,

• Amb. (ret.) Steven Mann

9:00-10:30 am: Keynote Lecture, “

• Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair: Dr. Nargis Kassenova, Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Presenters:

• Aleksei Rumiantsev, Indiana University, Changes in Labor Migration Trends From Uzbekistan in the Wake of the Russian Full-Scale Aggression in Ukraine
• Yipeng Zhou, University of Michigan, (Un)Replicable Russian Factories, Quirky Asian Rocks, and “Enlightened Absolutism” in Eighteenth-Century Inner Asian Mining Zones
• Yida Jiao, John Hopkins University, The Contradiction of Clusterization: Chinese Capital in Uzbekistan's Agricultural Reform

Chair: Dr. Nari Shelekpayev, Yale University

Presenters:

• Nazerke Mukhlissova, Yale University, The Emergence of Central Asian Nationalisms 1916-1936: The Case of the Socialist Union Republics in the Soviet Union
• Nicholas Seay, Ohio State University, Striking With a Sword: Cotton in Soviet Tajikistan and the Development of the Integrated Control of Pests in the Soviet Union
• Khasan Redjaboev, Davis Center and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Public Service Accountability in Non-Democratic Regimes: Evidence From Elite and Public Experiments in Uzbekistan
• Yang Zitong, Tsinghua University, The Adaptation of Central Asian Rent-Dependent States: Strategies for Regime Stability Amidst Rent Changes

Chair: Khasan Redjaboev, Davis Center and University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presenters:

• Matteo Bonini, University of Oxford, How Constitutionalism Manifests in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
• Akbota Karibayeva, George Washington University, Managed Successions Gone Wrong: Cases from Central Asia
• Malika Toqmadi, Davis Center and University College London, Do Western-Educated Elites Bring Change in Authoritarian Regimes?
• Emma Larson, Columbia University, The Economic Drivers of Polygyny in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
• Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova, Harvard University, Childcare Expansion Policy in Uzbekistan: Working for Yourself or for Your Kids?

Chair: Yipeng Zhou, University of Michigan

Presenters:

• Nurlan Kabdylkhak, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Voices of the Faithful: Muslim Religious Institutions in Late Imperial Russia
• Daniil Kabotyanski, Indiana University, Non-Slavic Settlers, Non-Turkic Muslims: Dungan Identity in Russian and Soviet Semirech’e
• Albert Harry Shaheen, Harvard University, Quranic Diplomacy: Colonialism, the Quran of ʿUthmān, and the Liberation of the East Under Early Soviet Power
• Joshua Fernandez, Harvard University, The Power of Anchors and Flows: The Historical Impact of Reform-Era PRC Migration Law on its Multiethnic Inner Asian Frontiers
• Jake Vasishchev-Perl, New York University, Imagining Sulayman-Too: New Perspectives on Memory and Practice at a Central Asian Muslim Shrine

Chair: Dr. Nari Shelekpayev, Yale University

Presenters:

• Ulbossyn Parmanova, University of Georgia, Language Maintenance in Soviet Central Asia
• Leora Eisenberg, Harvard University, Leonard Bernstein, Muslim Magomayev, Dave Brubeck, and Yalla: The Cold-War Rise of "Eastern" Music
• Sophie Lockey, UC Berkeley, Especially Post-Soviet Literature: Hamid Ismailov and Anatoliy Kim in Comparative Dimension
• Mira Kuzhakhmetova, Indiana University Bloomington, Deportation and Memory: Grateful Citizens in the Making. The Case of Kazakhstani Koreans

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, United States