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Event: Seminar 2, Day 2

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May 6, 2005
9.00-9.45
Program orientation.

10.00-11.45
Round Table (1) Security in Central Asia

Chair: Dennis Sandole, ICAR, GMU

Discussants:

  • Eric Vickland, Senior Terrorism Analyst, SRA International
  • Peter Stavrakis, National Defense University
  • Mark Cameron , Uzbekistan Desk Officer, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Presentations:

  • Mark Katz, George Mason University, Revolution in Central Asia
  • Douglas Tookey, OSCE. Environmental Security in Central Asia:  A Chance for Regional Cooperation
  • Gawdat Bahgat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    The Geopolitics of the Caspian Sea Region
    Reuel Hanks, Oklahoma State University, Dynamics of Islam, Identity, and Institutional Rule in Uzbekistan: Constructing a Paradigm for Conflict Resolution

12.00-13.00  Lunch

13.00 -14.45 Round Table (2) Politics and Society in Central Asia

Chair:  Karina Korostelina, ICAR, GMU 

Discussants:    

  • Molly O'Neal and Eileen Wickstrom Smith, FREEDOM Support Act Division
  • Arshad Mane

Presentations:  

  • Gregory Gleason, University of New Mexico , Succession Dynamics in Central Asia.
  • Mark Johnson, Colorado College, Educational Development, Conflict Resolution and Postconflict Development in Central Eurasia
  • Andrei Korobkov,  Middle Tennessee State University, Post-Soviet Migration Dynamics: From Ethnic Conflict to Economic Necessity

14.45.-15.15 coffee break

15.15 –17.00 Round Table (3) Society and Change         

Chair: Johanna Bockman, Director, Global Affairs Program, GMU

Discussant:   

  • Lubov Fajfer, EGAT/ED
  • Ingrid Sandole- Staroste, Women's Studies Program, GMU

Presentations:

  • Tamara Sivertseva, Independent scholar, Family, Woman, and  Popular Myth-Making
  • Alan DeYoung, University of Kentucky, School Reform in Central Asia
  • Dmitry Shlapentokh, Indiana University, Dugin's Eurasianism and the Russia's relationship with the greater

Central Asia

17.00 Dinner

18.30. Reception, Alla Rogers Gallery , 1054 31 st Str, NW, Washington , DC .

Gallery will present exhibition of Central Asian artist R. Useinov.

  

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