PSCE Conference 
Event: Seminar 1, Day 2
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February 16, 2005
10.00-11.00 Session 1: Trends in Population: Migration and Gender issues
Chair: Ingrid Sandole- Staroste, Women's Studies Program, GMU
Discussant: Julie A. Christensen, Russian Studies, GMU
Presentations:
Tamara Sivertseva, Independent scholar, Family, Woman, and Popular Myth-Making
Andrei Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State University
The Post-Dissolution Migration Flows in the Former Soviet Union:The New Trends
11.15 -12.15 Session 2: Security and Terrorism
Chair: Peter Stavrakis, National Defense University
Discussant: Eric Green, Special Assistant, Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State
Presentations: Douglas Tookey, OSCE
Environmental Security in Central Asia
Gawdat Bahgat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The Geopolitics of the Caspian Sea Region
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Session 3: Islam and the Soviet Successor States
Chair: Karina Korostelina, ICAR, GMU
Discussant: Mark Cameron, Uzbekistan Desk Officer, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Presentations:
Reuel Hanks, Oklahoma State University, Radical Islam in Uzbekistan: Issues of Policy and Conflict in Central Asia's Keystone State
Dmitry Shlapentokh, Indiana University, Eurasianism and the Foreign Policy of the Putin Regime
14.45 - 15.45 Session 4: Succession Dynamics and Revolution in Central Asia
Chair: Dennis Sandole, ICAR, GMU
Discussant:
Presentations: Mark Katz, George Mason University, Revolution in Central Asia
Gregory Gleason, University of New Mexico, Succession Dynamics in Central Asia
16.00-17.00 Session 5: Education and Conflict in Central Asia
Chair: Johanna Bockman, Director, Global Affairs Program, GMU
Discussant: TBA
Presentations:
Alan DeYoung, University of Kentucky, School Reform in Central Asia
Mark Johnson, Colorado College, Trends in Secular Educational Development in Azerbaijan and Central Asia: Implications for Social Stability and regional Security
Quick Links
ICAR Main Site
Title VIII Program of the State Department
Seminar 1
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