The East European, Russian and Eurasian National Resource Center, The Harriman Institute and Caspian Project of Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs

 

Present a Conference

 

Aspects of Social Change in Central Asia

 

Thursday March 24th, Kellogg Center, 15th floor, International Affairs Building, 

                             Columbia University, 420 West 118th St. (off Amsterdam Avenue)

 

 9:00 am           Orifjon Rafiyev, Deputy Director, Institute of Demography

                            Tajik Academy of Sciences

                             “Demographic Aspects of Social Change in Tajikistan”

 

 9:30 am           Gulnara Kuzibaeva, Associate Professor, Center for Social Research

                             Toshkent National University

                             “Demographic Changes in Uzbekistan: Socioeconomic Implications”   

 

10:00 am           Irina Liczek, New School University

 “Cultural Parameters of Gender Policy-making in Contemporary   Turkmenistan”

 

10:30 am          Muhiba Mahmadjanova, Department of Philosophy and Law,

                              Tajik Academy of Sciences

                              “Women’s Status in Contemporary Tajikistan”

 

11:00 am          Muborak Sharipova, Director, Open Asia, Denmark

                          “From Soviet “Liberation” to post-Soviet Segregation:

                            Women in Central Asia and Domestic Violence”

 

11:30 am          Kristen Degan, SIPA/Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

                           “AIDS in Uzbekistan”

                       

 

12-1:30pm         LUNCH BREAK

 

 

1:30 pm            Pulat Shozimov, Tajik Academy of Sciences and Visiting Fulbright Scholar

                            Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC

                            “Islam and Social Change in Tajikistan”

 

2:00 pm            Shokhrat Kadyrov, Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

                            “Social Change in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan”

 

2:30 pm            Neema Nouri, Sociology Department, Columbia University

“Unravelling the State: The Mahallah Initiative and Decentralization in    Uzbekistan”

 

3:00 pm            Kurbon Giyoev, Head, Department of Social Philosophy

                           Tajik Academy of Sciences

                            “Social Philosophy and Social Change in Tajikistan”

 

3:30 pm            TEA/COFEE BREAK

 

4:00 pm            Hilda Eitzen, Independent Scholar, Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia U.

“ Social Risk and the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in two Regions of  Kazakhstan”

 

4:30 pm            Peter Sinnott, Harriman and Middle East Institutes, SIPA, Columbia U.

                           “Push” and “Pull” Factors in Tajikistan Migration.

 

5:00 pm            Saulesh Yessenova, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology,

                           University of British Columbia.

                            “Rural to Urban Migration in Kazakhstan”

 

5:30 pm            Erica Marat Iskakova, Graduate School of Social Sciences,

                         University of Bremen, Germany

                           “Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic, Labor and Political Migration”