[CivilSoc] Conference on Central Asia at Columbia U., Sept 14

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CONF.- Conference in Honor of Prof. Edward Allworth, Columbia, Sept. 14, 2001
Friday, September 14, 2001
This conference is presented by former students of Professor Edward
Allworth in honor of his career at Columbia University's Middle East
and Asian Languages and Cultures Department and at the Harriman
Institute as the Professor of Turco-Soviet Studies and the founder of
the Nationalities Program. The conference is organized by the Caspian
Project of Columbia University at the School of International and
Public Affairs.
	*  *  * This conference is open to all *  *  *
9am Opening Remarks - Peter Sinnott
PANEL I Language, Culture and Literature
9:15-11am
Eden Naby, Research Associate, Harvard University
"The Place of Cultural History"
Caroline Sawyer, Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghampton
"Evolution of a Turco-Persian Myth: The Figure of Afrasayab in Ferdousi's
Shahnameh and the Divan-e Lughat-e Turk"
Xijuan Zhou, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Willamette
University
"Shamanism in Uyghur Literature"
PANEL II Challenges in Rule, Transition and Development
11:15-1pm
Cassandra Cavanaugh, Assistant Professor of History, College of the Holy
Cross
"'Making them More Accustomed to Us': Russia's medical mission in Central
Asia"
Martha Merrill, Visiting Scholar, Ural and Altaic Dept., Indiana
University
"Similarities Across a Century, Differences Across a Decade"
Guita Ranjbaran, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology CUNY
"Law and Social Engineering in Soviet and Post-Soviet Tajikistan"
LUNCH  1-2:15pm
PANEL III Intellectual History
2:30-5pm
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, United Nations Development Program
"A Century of Politics, Patronage, and Passion: Sadr-ZAia's Bukharan
Diary"
Maliheh Tyrell, Visiting Scholar, Teachers' College, Columbia University
"Abbasgulu Agha Bakikhanov (1794-1847)"
Ibrahim Yuksel, Ph.D. Candidate, Mealac, Columbia University
"Central Asia - Azerbaijan Intelloectual Connections at the turn of the
20th Century"
Shawn Lyons, Assistant Dean & Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
at Charlottesville
"Otabek Returns: Jadidist Problems in Modern Uzbekistan"
The conference will be held at the Kellogg Center of the School of
International and Public Affairs on the 15th floor.  It is located
just off Amsterdam Avenue at 420 West 118th St.  Take number 1/9
subway to 116th St. and cross campus to Amsterdam Avenue.
For further information, please contact:
Peter Sinnott at 212.854.2332 or by email at <pjs7@columbia.edu>.