2007 Annual Conference - Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

HC-16: The Culture of Georgia
Chair: Julie A. Christensen (George Mason University)
Discussant: John Colarusso (McMaster University)
Kevin J. Tuite (Universite de Montreal)
“Reconfiguration of ritual space in the traditional religious systems of the Georgian highlands”
Babak Rezvani (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
“The Shiite Fereydani Georgians: Joyous (In)Compatibility”
Bert Beynen (Free Library of Philadelphia)
“Royal Succession in Shahnameh and Shota Rustaveli’s The Man in the Panther Skin”
HC-20: AATT Graduate Student Session in Turkish and Turkic Studies
Chair: Sylvia Onder (Georgetown University)
Discussant: Erika Gilson (Princeton University)
Brad Dennis (University of Utah)
“Kurdish and Armenian Relations during the Sultan Abdulhamit II period (1876-1909)”
Jessie Clark (University of Arizona)
“(Re-)Producing the State and Family in Southeast Turkey”
Kristin Fabbe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Defining Minorities and Identities: Religious Categorization and State-Making Strategies
in Greece and Turkey”
Alex Balistreri (Princeton University)
“A Nation in Exile: The Letters of Yusuf Baksan Efendiolu and the Creation of a (Diaspora)
Balkar Identity 1944-50”
David Dettman (University of Wisconsin)
“Developing Advanced-level Cross-language Interactive Listening Modules for Turkic
Languages”
PO-06: Challenges to Democracy in the Former Soviet Union
Chair: Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)
Discussant: Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)
John Mackedon (Elliott School of International Affairs)
“Unprecedented: A Look at Kosovo, Abkhazia and the Right to Statehood”
Cristian Ciobanu (Elliott School of International Affairs)
“Nationalism in Putin’s Russia”
David Mastro (West Virginia University)
“A Structured Exploratory Analysis of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia”
PO-16: Western Policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus
Chair: Brant Paulson (University of Washington)
Discussant: Alex Cooley (Barnard College)
Jazgul Ismailova (Independent Scholar)
“Debt Sustainability in Kyrgyzstan”
Saule Sagandykova (University of Stavanger)
“The Impact of European FDI on Central Asian Countries”
Ali Tekin (Bilkent University)
“Western Policies towards the Caspian Basin: Comparison of the EU and USA”
Bek-Myrza Tokotegin (Institute for Social Science)
“An Analysis of Russian-American Approaches to Central Asian Security (post 9/11)”
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