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CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY 15TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE October 24­26, 2014 PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE The Harriman Institute Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Columbia University Thursday, October 24, 2014 Early Registration: 4­6 Stop by the 12th floor Lobby of the Harriman Institute to pick up your name badge, program or to say hello. Registration will also be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. External Interventions: Aid, Accreditation, and Professionalization (Fri 1­1) Chair: Alan DeYoung, University of Kentucky Discussant: TBD Aynur Nabiyeva, Independent Scholar Elvin Aliyev Effects of Managerial Practices on Knowledge Production in Think Tanks: Existing Patterns and Trends of Perceived Organizational Support Chiara Pierobon, Bielefeld University The European Union and the Thematic Program Non­State Actors and Local Authorities in Development in Kazakhstan: Relational, Structural and Cognitive Outcomes Martha Merrill, Kent State University Old Kumys in New Bottles: Independent Accreditation in Kyrgyzstan Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. Urban Landscapes, Ancient and Modern (Fri 1­2) 1 Chair: Nick Walmsley, Indiana University Discussant: Ali Igmen, California State University, Long Beach Artemy Kalinovski, University of Amsterdam From Village to Showpiece City: The Making of Nurek Heather DeHaan, Binghamton University Modernizing Communities in Baku Mavlyuda Yusupova, Academy of Science of Uzbekistan Specific Features of Colonial Architecture of Fergana Valley (end of 18th – beginning of 20th centuries) Muhsin Hidirov, Samarkand State Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute Formation of Architectural Ensembles and Complexes of Historic Towns of Central Asia Tekla Schmaus, Indiana University The Pastoral Landscape in Prehistoric Semirech'ye Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. Imagining Space and Peoples in Siberia (Fri 1­3) Chair: Gulnar Kendirbai, Columbia University Discussant: Jane Burbank, New York University Gul’mira Sultangalieva, Junior Officials on Special Assignments in the System of Administration of the Kazakh Steppe in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Ranks, Functions and Activities. Dina Amanzholova, Senior Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences Some Aspects of Cooperation of Kazak Alash Leaders with Siberian Regionalists Anna Afanasyeva, Explaining Epidemics in Imperial Contexts: Russian Responses to Plague in the Kazakh Steppe in the Late 19th – early 20th Centuries David Rainbow, New York University The Life of Siberia: Biology as Metaphor in Late Imperial Russia Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. 2 Preserving, Protecting, and Sustaining Central Asian Cultural Heritage (Fri 1­4) Chair: Alexander Nagel, Smithsonian Institution Discussant: Soeren Stark, New York University William Fitzhugh and Paula Depriest, Smithsonian Institution Preserving Mongolia's Tangible Cultural Heritage Damien Huffer, Christine France and Bruno Frohlich,Smithsonian Institution Illuminating Life Histories and Restoring Provenience to Archaeological Human Remains using Stable Isotope Geochemistry: New Case Studies from Mongolia and near Environs. Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. The New Great Game in Central Asia: Recent Factors, Forces and Trends (Fri 1­5) Chair: Mukhtar Hajizada, Khazar University Discussant: Alexander Cooley, Columbia University Anara Tabyshalieva, Marshall University Contending Visions of Post­Soviet Central Asia: Russian, Chinese and U.S. Engagement (1991­Present) R. Charles Weller, Georgetown and Washington Universities The Impact of Russia’s Annexation of the Crimea on the Central Eurasian Islamic World Gulnara Dadabaeva, KIMEP University Central Asian State Responses to the Russian Annexation of the Crimea Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. Dynamics of Security and Stability (Fri 2­1) Chair: Caspar ten Dam, University of Leiden Discussant: Norman Graham, Michigan State University Bill Mankins, Indiana University Modernity's Armed Intervention in Afghanistan and Pashtun Resistance Maruf Kandikov, Independent Scholar The role of Tajikistan in reconstruction of Afghanistan 3 Peter Sinnott, Independent Scholar The Debate in the Inner Room: The Secret Conversation of President Karimov and Tohir Yodash in Namangan December 9, 1991 Yasar Sari, Kyrgyzstan­Turkey Manas University and Abant Izzet Baysal University Dichotomy of Identity and Conflict in Osh Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. Mass Media and Social Analysis (Fri 2­2) Chair: Justin Burke, Eurasianet Discussant: Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University Chinara Sultanalieva, Independent Scholar Eric Freedman, Michigan State University Press Coverage of Environmental News in Kyrgyzstan and the Role of Eco­Nongovernmental Organizations Christopher Edling, Columbia University Aigerim Alzhanova, Al­Farabi Kazakh National University Private Affairs, Public Matters: Responses and Representations of Bride Kidnapping in Contemporary Eurasia Mariam Gersamia, Tbilisi State University Eric Freedman, Michigan State University Challenges to Creating Vibrant Media Education in Young Democracies: Accreditation for Media Schools in Georgia Muhammad Akbar Hashimi, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Kabul, Afghanistan Empirical Research on Women Empowerment through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Context of Afghanistan Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. Historical Linguistics of the Caucasus (Fri 2­3) Chair: Babak Rezvani, University of Amsterdam Discussant: John Colarusso, McMaster University 4 Tsira Baramidze, Tbilisi State University Ethnogenesis of Georgians and the Problem of the Affinity of the Ibero­Caucasian Languages (State­of­the­art and Prospects) Rusudan Asatiani, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University The Diachronic Stability of the Morphological Structure of the Verb: Georgian and the Other Kartvelian Languages Natia Dundua, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main The Main Rules of Foreign Lexic Transmission in Medieval Georgian Translations Nino Rukhadze, Tbilisi State University Some Issues of the History of Udi (Ancient Albanian) Evgenia Kurtishvili, Faculty of Humanities Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Study of the Ibero­Caucasian Languages in Georgia Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. Public Health, Psychology, and Social Work (Fri 2­4) Chair: David Levy, Boston University Discussant: Heather DeHaan, Binghamton University Alexander Cheryomukhin, Rutgers University Validation of the Azerbaijani Empowerment Scale: Support and New Implications for the Theory Andrea Chiovenda, Boston University The "myth" of the socio­centric society: individuated self and inter­connectivity among Pashtun Afghan men Yuhui Li, Rowan University Health Variations among Major Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang, China Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. The State of Business: Rethinking Business Networks, Social Relations, and Governance in Central Asia (Fri 2­5) Chair: Morgan Liu, Ohio State University Discussant: TBD 5 Regine Spector, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Urban Geography of Predation: Apparel Producers and the State in Kyrgyzstan Asialkyn Botoeva, Brown University Governing Islamic Business in Central Asia: Exploring the Puzzle of Islamic Entrepreneurial Practices and Meanings in Relation to State and Religious Regulators Dena Sholk, Georgetown University Governing Trading Spaces and the Trading System: An Insider’s Analysis of Baraholka Lunch: 12:00­1:45 pm CESS Bloggers Meeting Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 3­­ 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. Shrines, Pilgrims and Martyrs (Fri 3­1) Chair: Scott Levi, Ohio State University Discussant: Timothy May, University of North Georgia Hakki Gurkas, Kennesaw State University Botbay Shrines: Cultural grafting in the Syr Darya Valley of Kazakhstan Leila Chamankhah, Exeter University Political Messianism in Contemporary Iran Margarethe Adams, Stony Brook University Practical Matters of Faith: Shrine Pilgrimage and Religious Healing in Kazakhstan Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, University of Connecticut The Karbala Paradigm in Afghanistan: Hazara Political Leaders and the Legacy of Hussein Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 3­­ 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. The Curse and the Blessing of Being a Soviet Woman (Fri 3­2) Discussant: Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming Organizer/Participant: Ali Igmen, California State University, Long Beach Svetlana Peshkova, University of New Hampshire Liliya Karimova, George Washington University 6 Guljanat Kurmangaliyeva Ercilasun, Gazi University, Ankara Timur Dadabaev, University of Tsukuba Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 3­­ 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. Memoirs, Travel Accounts and Pamphlets in Cultural and Political Context (Fri 3­3) Chair: Alexander Morrison, Nazarbayev University Discussant: Orhon Myadar, University of Arizona Michele Brunelli, University of Bergamo "Give me 4 millions gold scudos and I will bring Constantinople back to the Christianity."​
The Discourse on the Present State of the Turks and the Method to Wage a Real War. A 1585 War Plan. Sandrine E. Catris, Georgia Regents University Contested Memories of the Cultural Revolution in Xinjiang Victoria Clement, Naval Postgraduate School Jadid Inspired Turkmen Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 3­­ 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. Illicit Political Economy and Security (Fri 3­4) Chair: Norman Graham, Michigan State University Discussant: Jennifer Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh Lawrence Markowitz, Rowan University Foreign Aid and Rent Seeking in Eurasia Mana Farooghi, Independent Scholar Insurgency and Other Drugs: Organised Crime and Conflict Risks in Tajikistan Mariya Omelicheva, University of Kansas Human Trafficking in the Organized Crime/Terrorism Nexus in Eurasia Yulia Uryadova, Longwood University Ferghana Valley as a Site of Anxiety for Russian Imperial Authorities (1905­1914) Friday, October 24, 2014 7 Session 3­­ 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. Societal Power: Protests Politics & Nationalisms in Central Asia (Fri 3­5) Chair: Elise Giuliano, Barnard College Discussant: Paulina Luong Jones, University of Michigan Amanda Wooden, Bucknell University Why Not Uranium? What the Absence of Protests Tells us about Environmental Mobilization in Kyrgyzstan Asel Doolotkeldieva, University of Exeter Structure of ‘peripheral’ protests in Kyrgyzstan Alexander Wolters, OSCE Academy Political Protest and the Challenge of Public Opinion. A Case Study on Kyrgyzstan Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge The Archaeology of Ethnonationalist Movements in Post­Soviet Space: Narratives, Groups and Counter Elites Scott Radnitz, University of Washington Practically Paranoid: Conspiracy Discourses in Central Asia Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 4­­ 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. Embedded Economies (Fri 4­1) Chair: Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University Discussant: Regine Spector, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dilafruz Khaydarova, Eurasia Foundation Social Entrepreneurship in Central Asia: Case of Uzbekistan Gulzat Botoeva, University of Essex Gift Giving Practices in Kyrgyzstan: An Embedded Economy Approach Svetlana Jacquesson, American University of Central Asia From Clan Politics to Clan Public Associations​
: Wither Clans in Central Asia? Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 4­­ 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. 8 Countering “Cold War 2.0”: Are There Limits to the Re­polarization of Eurasia? (Fri 4­2) Chair: John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 4­­ 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. Ethnic Diversity, Tolerance, and Conflict (Fri 4­3) Chair: Aftab Kazi, John Hopkins University Discussant: David Levy, Boston University Emily Canning, Brandeis University Language in Conflict and the Language of Conflict: Osh's June Events from Emic and Etic Perspectives Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University From Kazakhstaness to Kazakhness: Evolving National Narrative and Social Changes in Kazakhstan Mzia Tseretelli, I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University The Intercultural Sensitivity among Georgian and Ethnic Minority Students of Georgia Soledad Jiménez­Tovar, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Kazakhstani Language Policies, the Conformation of the Linguistic Majorities/Minorities and Nationalism: an Analysis from the Dungan Perspective Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 4­­ 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. Reading Central Asia: the Politics and Poetics of Literary Canon Formation (Fri 4­4) Chair: Kimberly Powers, University of Michigan Discussant: Nurten Kilic­Schubel, Kenyon College Nick Walmsley, Indiana University Anxiety and Influence in nineteenth­century Khiva: How poets responded to ‘Alī Shīr Navā’ī Rian Thum, Loyola University New Orleans Parallel Canons: Legal and Illegal Uyghur Literature, or How to Get your Uyghur Book Banned Joshua Freeman, Harvard University From Communist Poet to National Poet: Remaking the Uyghur Literary Canon in China’s Reform Era 9 Simon Wickhamsmith, Independent Researcher A Weapon In The Battle Of Culture: Mongolian Writers’ Theoretical Perspectives On Literature During The 1930s Friday, October 24, 2014 Session 4­­ 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. Researcher at Risk (Fri 4­5) Discussant: Alexander Cooley, Columbia University Saturday, October 25, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. Issues of Georgian Identity, Past to Present (Sat 1­1) Chair: Rusudan Asatiani, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Discussant: Mary Childs, University of Washington Tinatin Gudushauri, University of Georgia The Swan Picture of the Next World (According to the German Ethnographical Material of the XIX century) Zaza Khintibidze, Tbilisi State University Rustaveli’s Vepkhistkaosani ­ The Man in the Panther Skin ­ at the crossroads of Oriental and European epic traditions Sardion Zedelashvili, Georgian Aristocracy in the Earlier Half of the 19th c. and the Caucasus Policy of the Russian Empire Babak Rezvani, University of Amsterdam Fereydani Georgian Ethnic identity: Emic Coherence, Hegemonic and non­Hegemonic Representations of Identity Kornely Kakachia, Tbilisi State University Role of Beliefs, Ideas and Identity in Georgian Foreign Policy Discourse Elene Medzmariashvili, Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Peculiarities of Post­Soviet Georgian Identity Saturday, October 25, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. 10 Nomadism and its Political Legacy (Sat 1­2) Chair: Kwangmin Kim, University of Colorado, Boulder Discussant: David W. Montgomery, University of Pittsburgh Fangyi Cheng, University of Pennsylvania Shooting Willow: The Nomadic Legacy in the Ming Court Gulnar Kendirbai, Columbia University Khan vs. Tsar: the Nomadic Political Institution of Co­Ruling Gulnara Dadabayeva, KIMEP University Dina Sharipova, KIMEP University In Search for an Ideal Nation­State: Post­Colonial Discourse in The Nomads​
of Ilyas Esenberlin Virginia Martin, University of Wisconsin­Madison 'Let us live as before, under Abylai,' and Other Kazakh Views on Nomadic­Imperial Relations in the Early 19th Century Teaching Central Eurasian History (Sat 1­3) Discussant: Scott Levi, Ohio State University Timothy May, University of North Georgia Morris Rossabi, Columbia University Shoshana Keller, Hamilton College Colonial Legacies in Caucasian and Central Asian Political Culture (Sat 1­4) Chair: Cynthia Buckley, University of Illinois, Urbana­Champaign Discussant: Aftab Kazi, John Hopkins University Alexander Morrison, Nazarbayev University The Jamskii Otryad and the Origins of the Second Afghan War Elyor Karimov, Institute of History, Uzbek Academy of Science, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Marriage, Divorce and Family Law in Sharia Court of Central Asia 19th­early 20th century Janet Kilian, Independent Scholar Economic Motivations for Kazakh Alliances in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries Madina Zainullina Goldberg, Georgia Institute of Technology Re­imagining the Nation: Iashlär as a Second Generation of Muslim Modernists in Late Imperial Kazan Comparing minor armed conflicts and conflict management in Central Asia (Sat 1­5) 11 Chair: Edward Schatz, University of Toronto Discussant: Alexander Cooley, Columbia University John Heathershaw, University of Exeter Rising powers, conflict management and state formation in Central Asia: some early findings David Lewis, University of Exeter The political economy of peacebuilding: business and reconstruction in post­conflict Osh Edward Lemon, University of Exeter Mediating the conflict in the Rasht Valley, Tajikistan: The hegemonic narrative and anti­hegemonic challenges Saturday, October 25, 2014 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. Culture and Power (Sat 2­1) Chair: Ali Igmen, California State University, Long Beach Discussant: Kwangmin Kim, University of Colorado, Boulder Darima Amogolonova, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences Religion, Identity and Power in post­soviet Buryatia Elena Caprioni, University of Toronto Sexist Proverbs, Gender and Uyghur Nationalism in Xinjiang Maureen Pritchard, The School of Oriental and African Studies Music and Moral Citizenship Persheng Sadegh­Vaziri, Temple University Making Documentary Films in Iran: Cinema, Society, and Power Saida Daukeyeva, Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory The Social and Sacred Meanings of the Kiiz Üi: Space and Sound in Rituals for the Dead among the Kazakhs in Mongolia Regional Interactions and Changing Identities (Sat 2­2) Chair: Orhon Myadar, University of Arizona Discussant: Alexander Morrison, Nazarbayev University Joseph MacKay, University of Toronto The Nomadic Other: Steppe Societies and the Confucian "Long Peace" of East Asia 12 Nargiza Alimova, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies Radicalization of Islam in post­Soviet Central Asia and International Islamic Organizations: Muslim’s Integration in Context of Oic Vugar Imanbeyli, Istanbul Sehir University Perceptions of the Strategic Depth in Central Eurasian Countries Natalia Hapek, University of Warsaw Polish Military Expeditions to Circassia (1856­1864) The Social Construction of Morality, Authority and Knowledge (Sat 2­3) Chair: Heather DeHaan, Binghamton University Discussant: Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Emory University David Montgomery, University of Pittsburgh Tradition as a Way of Being in the World: Islam, Ritual, and Kyrgyzstan as a Means to Learning One's Place David Levy, Boston University Psychological Determinism in the Religious Policy of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Leyla Almazova, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University The Phenomenon of the Kazan Mosque "Shamil": Sufi Origins of Healing Practices Rozaliya Garipova, University of Pennsylvania Abystais in the Post­soviet Space: Re­claiming Religious Authority Regine Spector, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Urban Geography of Predation: Apparel Producers and the State in Kyrgyzstan Roundtable: Remembering Life and Work of Anatoly Remnev (Sat 2­4) Chair: Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall University Discussant: Richard Wortman, Columbia University Jane Burbank, New York University Gul’mira Sultangalieva, Kazakh Al Farabi University Natal’ia Suvorova, Omsk State University Leonid Gorizontov, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Svetlana Mulina, Omsk Agrarian University "Workshop on Preparing for Academic and Non­Academic Job Searches" (Sat 2­5) Chair/Discussant: Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University 13 Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming Edward Schatz, University of Toronto Scott Levi, Ohio State University Stephen Hegarty, US State Department David Abramson, US State Department Lunch: 12:00­1:45 pm CESS Executive Board Meeting Saturday, October 25, 2014 Session 3­­ 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. Democratization, Institutions and State­Building (Sat 3­1) Chair: Fatima Sartbaeva, University of Wisconsin­Madison Discussant: Cynthia Buckley, University of Illinois, Urbana­Champaign Andrew Buck, University of Southern Indiana Coalitions and Democracy: the Caucasus and Central Asia in Comparative Perspective, 1991­2010 Donnacha Beachain, Dublin City University Imagined Democracy: Elections and Nation­Building in Central Asia Hamed Kazemzadeh, University of Warsaw Review Process of Democratization in South Caucasus after the Presidential Elections in 2013 Jennifer Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh Built to Fail: Institutional Design in Post­2001 Afghanistan New Foreign Policy Directions (Sat 3­2) Chair: Nicholas Contessi, Columbia University Discussant: Caspar ten Dam, University of Leiden Elaheh Koolaee, University of Tehran Impact of Turkey­Armenia Rapprochement on Iran­Armenia Relation Marion Messmer, University of Cambridge The Influence of Russo­European Rivalries on Georgian Political and Economic Development Rainer Ruge, "Ex EU Council Secretariat Official" and "Managing Director of Wider EU" The Influence and Participation of Georgia(ns) in the Events of the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution and the war in East Ukraine 2014 14 Follow the Money in Soviet Central Asia (Sat 3­3) Chair: Timothy May, University of North Georgia Discussant: Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming Shoshana Keller, Hamilton College Money and Power between Central Asia and Moscow Botakaz Kassymbekova, Technische Universitat Berlin The "bai" Dilemma: Grain, Plan and Agency during First Collectivization in Tajikistan Space and Imagination: Critical Geography and Social Change (Sat 3­4) Chair: Bryan Furman, Georgetown University Discussant: Martha Merrill, Kent State University Alexander Diener, University of Kansas Imagining Kazakhstani­stan: Considerations of Nationalizing Social Space and Socializing National Space Elly Harrowell, University of Birmingham "Standing for a Modern City" ­ Visions of Modernity in Osh, Kyrgyzstan Jake Fleming, University of Wisconsin­Madison The Hard Work of Simplification: Sweating for Land Reform in Kyrgyzstan's Walnut­fruit Forest Natalie Koch, Syracuse University "Cowboys","Hooligans",and Country "Bumpkins": Constructing the "Other” in Kazakhstan's "Texas" Revolutions, Conflicts and (Non­)interventions: Comparing Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan Ten Years after the Colored Revolutions (Sat 3­5) Discussant: Alexander Cooley, Columbia University John Heathershaw, University of Exeter David Lewis, University of Exeter Julie George, Queens College­CUNY Scott Radnitz, University of Washington Alexander Cooley, Columbia University Edward Schatz, University of Toronto Saturday, October 25, 2014 Session 4­­ 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. 15 CESS Membership Meeting and Award Ceremony President's Speech and Cash Bar: 5:30­7:00 p.m. Edward Schatz’s Speech, University of Toronto Sunday, October 26, 2014 Session 1­­ 8:15 – 10:00 a.m. Political Economy of Reform (Sun 1­1) Chair: TBD Discussant: TBD Alexander Akimov, Griffith University Political Economy of Financial Reforms in Authoritarian Transition Economies. The case of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Farhod Yuldashev, University of Pittsburgh The Role of Land Reform in Explaining State Capacity and Economic Reform in Rural Central Asia Orhon Myadar, University of Arizona Digging Deeper: Beyond the Resource Nationalism Label Parallel Law and Policy (Sun 1­2) Chair: Leila Chamankhah, Exeter University Discussant: Bryan Furman, Georgetown University Dmitry Vasilyev, Institute of State Management, Law and Innovative Technologies Dynamics of the Russian Legislation for the Kazakh Steppe in 19th Century Meltem Sancak, Harvard Davis Center/CASCA Halle­Zurich Executing Power through Tolerance of Law Infringement Rezagul Dodikhudoeva, Tajik State University Marrying a Married Man: The Revival of Polygamy in Tajikistan Undargaa Sandagsuren, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Pastureland or Pastoral Production Management?: Property Relations and Resource Access in Mongolian Pastoralism Sochi and Its Legacy (Sun 1­3) Chair: Paul Goble, Institute of World Politics, Washington D.C. Discussant:Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge 16 Sufian Zhemukhov, George Washington University Kremlin’s Methods towards Migrant Workers: A Case Study of Preparations For the 2014 Olympics Irina Babich, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow The Olympic Games and the Circassians: Different Aspects of the Problem John Colarusso, McMaster University Managing Sochi The Question of Ethnic and Religious Origins (Sun 1­4) Chair: Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Emory University Discussant: Jyldyz Aknazorova Attila Mátéffy, Hacettepe University The Hungarians in the Caucasian Mountains in the 6th­9th Centuries A.D.: An Interdisciplinary Approach Ihsan Colak, Suleyman Sah University Imagining Iranian Nationalism: Mirza Fethali Akhunzade’s Ideas in Iranian Nation. Rustam Sabirov, Moscow State University Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary Inner Asia: Between National States and Imperial Past IR of Resource Management (Sun 1­5) Chair: Morgan Liu, Ohio State University Discussant: TBD Lauren Woodard, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dammed if we do? Water, Power, and Aid in Central Asia Norman Graham, Michigan State University Security and the Environment: The Political Economy of the Energy­Water Nexus in Azerbaijan and Georgia Sarah Hummel, Princeton University Cooperation, Noncooperation, and Water Scarcity in Post­Soviet Central Asia Vijay Bhatia, Ramlal Anand College University of Delhi New Delhi India Geopolitics of Oil and Gas in Central Asia: Implications for India Sunday, October 26, 2014 17 Session 2­­ 10:15 – 12:00 p.m. Graduate Student Panel 1 (Sun 2­2) Organizer and Chair: Uli Schamiloglu, University of Wisconsin, Madison Graduate Student Panel 1 (Sun 2­3) Organizer and Chair: Uli Schamiloglu, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sufism through Time and Space (Sun 2­4) Chair: TBD Discussant: Nick Walmsley, Indiana University Aida Gasimova, Baku State University If All the Trees on Earth Were Pens: A Survey of the Qur’anic Symbolism of the Pen in Medieval Azeri­Turkish Sufi Poetry John Dechant, Indiana University The Manaqib­i Shah Husayn: A Neglected Source on Sufism in the Ferghana Valley Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Emory University Boborahim Mashrab: Sufi Saint of the People Central Asian Studies Barriers (Sun 2­5) Discussant: Alexander Cooley, Columbia University 18