2007 Annual Conference - Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

Ilhom Miliyev (Union of Disabled Sportsmen)
“Soviet Style Nomenclatura Employment: Employment Discrimination”
Michael Zukosky (Eastern Washington University)
“‘Free herding’ in Kazakh pastoral areas : A Semantic Shift from Socialist Land Reform to
Modern Scientific Management in Northern Xinjiang, China”
SO-02: Central Asian Studies in Light of Imperialism: A Neo-Orientalist Approach within Western
Academia
Chair: Tugrul Keskin (Virginia Tech. University)
Discussant: Kemal Silay (Indiana University)
David Sneath (University of Cambridge)
“The Discourse of Tribalism and the Headless State: Evolutionist Social Theory and the
Misrepresentation of Nomadic Inner Asia”
Barbara Potrata (University of Manchester)
“Circumventing Orientalism In Studying Traditional Medicines in Central Asia”
Rebecca L. Bowman (University of Iowa)
“American University of Central Asia (AUCA): Comparative Access to Education and
Advancement”
SO-13: Immigrants and Acculturation
Discussant: Saltanat Sulaimanova Liebert (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Elene Medzmariashvili (Tbilisi State University)
“Georgian Immigrant Women in the U.S.: Problem of Americanization”
Alexia Bloch (University of British Columbia)
“Post-Soviet Mistresses and the Turkish State: Negotiating Intimacy and Labor Migration
in a Time of Transnationalism”
Vasili Rukhadze (Independent Scholar)
“The Growth of Ethnic Intolerance in Russia’s Big Cities”
SO-14: International Organizations and Local Responses
Chair: Diana Pearce (University of Washington)
Discussant: [TBD]
Aaron Erlich (Caucasus Research Resource Centers)
“Collecting Thin Air: Migration Data and its Problems in the South Caucasus”
Eric Freedman (Michigan State University) and Richard Shafer (University of North Dakota)
“Press Freedoms in Central Asia: Why Not?”
Diana Pearce (University of Washington)
“Picking up the Pieces: Women’s NGOs Responding to Families under Economic and
Social Stress in Muslim Central Asia”
Sunday, October 21, 11:15-1:00
HC-07: Law on the Imperial and Cultural Frontier: 19th-20th Century Legal documents from Xinjiang
and the Qazaq Steppe
Chair: Tatsuo Nakami (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Discussant: James A. Millward (Georgetown University)
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