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Events
Central Asia Lecture Series
2010-2011 EVENTS
Thursday, September 16, 2-4 pm
Alexander A. Cooley (Barnard College, Columbia University), "Great Games, Local Rules: US-Russia-China Competition in Central Asia"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9214
Room 108, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Central Asia Program
Alexander Cooley is an associate professor of international relations at Barnard College at Columbia University. His work examines the politics of sovereignty, hierarchy and international patron-client relations, with a regional focus on the states of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Professor Cooley is the author of three books. The first, Logics of Hierarchy:The Organization of Empires, States and Military Occupations (Cornell University Press 2005), examined the enduring legacies of Soviet rule in Central Asia in a comparative post-imperial perspective and was awarded the 2006 Marshall Shulman Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (co-winner) for outstanding book on the international relations of the post-Communist states. In 2009 he published Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations, co-authored with Hendrik Spruyt, which examines the various ways in which states bargain to split and share their sovereign rights.
Friday, September 24, 10 am-2 pm
Revolutions, Elections, and Politics in Post-Soviet Georgia
Speakers: Stephen F. Jones (Mount Holyoke College), Julie George (Queens College), John Colarusso (McMaster University). Discussant: Matthew Light (University of Toronto)
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9192
Room 208, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Central Asia Program.
Friday, February 18, 12-2 pm
Central Asia Lecture Series
Scott Radnitz (Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington), "Don’t Stop Thinking about Yesterday: An Experiment with Conflict Narratives in the Caucasus"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10009
Room 208, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Central Asia Program.
Thursday, March 10, 2-4 pm
Central Asia Lecture Series
Matteo Fumagalli (Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University), "Civil society under Authoritarian Rule: What Ethnopolitics in Central Asia Tells Us of the Civil Society/Democratization Nexus"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9672
Room 108, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Central Asia Program.
CANCELLED: Friday, April 1, 12-2 pm
Central Asia Lecture Series
Pauline Jones Luong (Department of Political Science, Brown University), "Why Oil Is Not a Curse: Lessons from the Soviet Successor States"
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Central Asia Program.
Monday, April 4, 12-2 pm
Central Asia Lecture Series
Luc Moers (Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Guelph), "Tajikistan and the IMF: Lessons for Development Policies"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10081
Room 108, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Central Asia Program.
2009-2010 EVENTS
Friday, September 18, 12-2 pm
Igor Saveliev (Nagoya University Graduate School of International Development and Visiting Scholar of CERES), "'Samarkand' in Seoul and 'Los Amigos' in Nagoya: Japanese and Korean Immigration Policies in Transformation, 1990-2008"
Sponsored by the Asian Institute and the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
Igor Saveliev is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Development of Nagoya University (Japan). He holds a Ph.D. in history from St. Petersburg State University and Nagoya University. His research is focused on human migrations and immigration policies in East Asia. Currently he heads a research project on Korean diasporas in the former Soviet Union and PRC. He is the author of Migration and State: Chinese, Korean and Japanese in the Russian Far East, 1860-1917 (Tokyo, 2005, in Japanese) and co-editor and contributor of "Globalizing Chinese Migration" (Ashgate, 2002).
The talk will focus on the transformation of Japanese and Korean immigration policies in the 1990s - 2000s and will show how these policies affected the formation of migrant communities in these two countries (Central Asians in the South Korea and Latin Americans in Japan). The presentation will be based on the materials of the field work conducted in Korea and Japan in 2007-2008 and various Japanese, Korean and English sources.
October 9-11
Tenth Annual CESS Conference
The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Central Asia Program are delighted to be hosting the annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society in October 2009. Information regarding local arrangements at the University of Toronto may be found on this website at www.utoronto.ca/ceres/centralasiaconference.html. For more information on CESS, please visit http://www.cess.muohio.edu/.
Friday, October 9, 5:30 pm
Graham Fuller, Simon Frasier University, "The New Face of Eurasianism"
Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West
Graham Fuller is a prolific writer and analyst of global affairs. Among his many publications are the books New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World (2007), The Future of Political Islam (2004), and the forthcoming A World Without Islam.
Saturday, October 10
CESS Conference Film Screenings (All films have English subtitles):
9 am: Kosh ba kosh (Tajikistan, 1993, 90 min) Director: Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov
Story of a young Russian woman whose father gambles her away to a man with whom she ultimately falls in love.
11 am: Aksuat (Kazakhstan, 1997, 80 min) Director: Serik Aprymov.
Aman's simple life is disrupted by the unannounced arrival of his younger brother Kanat, who is on the run from debtors with his pregnant girlfriend.
4 pm: Little Angel, Make Me Happy (Turkmenistan, 1992, 88 min) Director: Usman Saparov.
The film tells an intimate story within the larger historical context of the deportation of ethnic Germans from Turkmenistan to Siberia during the Second World War.
6 pm: Beshkempir - The Adopted Son (Kyrgyzstan, 1999, 81 min) Director: Aktan Abdikalikov
The story of a young boy in Kyrgyzstan who finds out that his parents are not his birth parents but rather that his was given to them as a gift, as part of a tradition in which the parents of a large family give a baby to a childless couple. Although he has good relationships with his family and friends, the news of his adoption changes his life dramatically.
Tuesday, October 20, 12-2 pm
Central Asia Program Film Screening: Daughter in Law (Turkmenistan, 1972)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Central Asia Program.
The film is based on a true story witnessed by the director of the film. At the very railway junction where he spent his childhood there lived two people - an old shepherd and his daughter in law. The shepherd's son died at the front. The young wife, however, never accepted his death and kept waiting for her husband's return. The film "Daughter in Law" portrays the usual lifestyle of Turkmen shepherds with much insight and sympathy for the deeper meaning of traditional values. The wealth of detail and the laconic, iconographic, imagery prompted certain critics to call this film an "encyclopedia of Turkmen life." The cast of the movie is also noteworthy, especially the performance of the young actress Maya-Guizel Aymedova, who later became one of the best-known actresses of Turkmenistan. The film received the USSR State prize and was awarded numerous prizes at international film festivals, including Locarno, Tbilisi, Sorrento, Venice, etc. Hodzhakuli Narliev, Turkmenistan, 1972, Russian, Russian/Subtitles: English, 75 min, fiction film
Tuesday, November 10, 12-2 pm
Central Asia Program Film Screening: White Mountains (1964, Kyrgyzstan)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Central Asia Program.
The film tells of the tragic events in the aftermath of the Kyrgyz popular revolt of 1916. "White Mountains" was the first film to express the spirit of the nation, its wisdom, strength and perseverance during hard times. The image of the Blind Mother (actress Baken Kydykeeva) who takes up the burden of all the hardships that befall her is a metaphor for the miserable Motherland - a noble blind woman, who lost her sight mourning her dead husband and son. Only one daughter remains with her - Uldzhan - and to make her happy, the Blind Mother agrees to her journey to the city with the young man Mukash. Mukash's devotion overcomes all the trials and tribulations that haunt the two young people. The film was awarded the First Prize at the1965 Almaty Film Festival of Central Asian Republics. The distribution title of the film was "Hard Passage". It was selected by Kyrgyz cinematographers and film critics for the collection of the Central Asian Cinema compiled by OSI, Budapest and the Center of Central Asian Cinematography in 2006 in order to save the first work of the national cinematography, renowned for its outstanding artistic qualities. Melis Ubukeyev, Kyrgyzstan, 1964, Russian/Subtitles: English, 63 min, fiction film.
Friday, February 26, 2-4 pm
Devin DeWeese (Indiana University), “Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Islam in Central Asia”
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
Thursday, March 25, 2-4 pm
Central Asia Speaker Series
Saulesh Yessenova(University of Calgary), "/Nomad/ for Export, Not for Domestic Consumption: Kazakhstan's Arrested Endeavor to 'Put the Country on the Map"
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
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