PROGRAM

PROGRAM
UZBEKISTAN BEYOND THE
‘CURTAIN’. APPROACHES,
FIELDWORKS AND TOPICS
A conference organized by the Georgetown Washington University’s Central
Asia Program (CAP) and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Program
Day 1: Thursday, June 11
09:00-10:30
Session 1. Uzbekistan’s Political Economy
Alisher Ilkhamov (Open Society Foundation, London)
Neopatrimonial regime and the system of corruption in
Uzbekistan
Russel Zanca (North-Eastern Illinois University)
The relationship between government and cotton farms
regarding labor migration
Tommaso Trevisani (Max Planck Institute)
Informal economy and national identity in Uzbekistan
10:30-10:45
Coffee break
10:45-12:15
Session 2. A Rising Field of Research. Uzbeks
outside Uzbekistan
Matteo Fumagalli (Central European University,
Budapest)
When security trumps identity: Uzbekistan, Uzbeks
abroad, and the logic of severing ties
Sergey Abashin (European University at St-Petersburg)
Uzbeks in Russia. A new diaspora or a transnational
society?
Sarah Kendzior (Al-Jazeera English and CAP associate)
Diaspora and dissent in Uzbekistan
12:15-13:15
Lunch
Date:
11-12 June, 2015
Location:
The Swedish Institute
of International Affairs (UI),
Drottning Kristinas väg 37
Stockholm (subway station
Tekniska högskolan)
Room:
Leijonsköldska salen
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Program (continued)
Day 1: Thursday, June 11
12:15-13:15
Lunch
13:15-16:00
Session 3. Uzbek Islam: State, Media and the Morality
Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University)
State and religion in Uzbekistan: laws, rhetoric, and the
Soviet legacy
Johan Rasanayagam (University of Aberdeen)
Secularism and the category of religion: Should we be
studying ‘Islam’ at all?
Maria Louw (Aarhus University)
Moral exemplars and ordinary ethics: revisiting Sufism in
Bukhara
14:45-15:00
Coffee break
Svetlana Peshkova (University of New Hampshire)
Women, Islam, and Identity: Public Life in Private Spaces
Noah Tucker (Registan.net and CAP associate)
Uzbek Islam in the social media era
Day 2: Friday, June 12
09:30-11:30
Session 4. Renegotiating Identities
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
Academia and the National Identity Narrative in
Uzbekistan. Structure and evolution
Timur Dadabaev (Tsukuba University)
Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Central Asia:
Comparative Study of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan
Peter Finke (University of Zurich)
Be(com)ing Uzbek: Patterns of Identification and
Processes of Assimilation
Rano Turaeva (Max Planck Institute, Halle)
Who are the We: Uzbek identity revisited
11:30-12:30
Lunch
Date:
11-12 June, 2015
Location:
The Swedish Institute
of International Affairs (UI),
Drottning Kristinas väg 37
Stockholm (subway station
Tekniska högskolan)
Room:
Leijonsköldska salen
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Program (continued)
Day 2: Friday, June 12
12:30-14:30
Session 5. The Uzbek Regime. Elite and Ideology
Nicklas Norling (Institute for Security and Development
Studies, Stockholm)
Sharaf Rashidov's Uzbekistan: A ‘Normal’ Soviet
Republic?
Morgan Y. Liu (Ohio State University)
Uzbek Political Thinking in the Third Decade of
Independence
Nick Megoran (Newcastle University)
Remaking of border landscapes as a spatial manifestation
of nationalist ideology
Laura Adams (Harvard University)
International human rights regimes and the backlash
against universalism in Uzbekistan
Date:
11-12 June, 2015
Location:
The Swedish Institute
of International Affairs (UI),
Drottning Kristinas väg 37
Stockholm (subway station
Tekniska högskolan)
Room:
Leijonsköldska salen