2007 Annual Conference - Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

Sunao Hori (Konan University)
“On Socio-economic Documents in Hui-jiang (1760-1884): An Introductory Notice on the
Chaghatay Turkic Documents under Qing Rule”
Jun Sugawara (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Tradition and Adoption: The Sinicization of Legal Documents in Turkic Traditional Society
in Provincial Xinjiang (1884-1955)”
Jin Noda (Toyo Bunko)
“The Qazaq Nomadism Reflected in the Imperial Documents: Between the Qing and
Russian Empires, 19th Century”
HC-11: Archaeology and Material Culture
Chair: Scott Noegel (University of Washington)
Discussant: [TBD]
Omran and Liela Garazhian and Papoli Yadzi (University of Tehran)
“Stratigraphic Excavation in Qaleh Khan:A Site from Neolithic To Contemporary Period”
Soeren Stark (University Halle-Wittenberg)
“Sacral Landscapes’: Kurgans and Petroglyphs in High Mountain Valleys of the Turkestan
Range (Tajikistan)”
Gala Argent (University of Leicester)
“A Herd of Two: A Communications-Based Model for Reassessing the Pazyryk Horse
Burials in Terms of Identity and Ideology”
PO-10: Emerging Oil/Gas Economies and Societies: The Focus on Central Asia
Chair: Wojciech Ostrowski (University of St. Andrews)
Discussant: Saulesh Yessenova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Nygmet Ibadildin (University of Tampere)
“Issue of the Contract Sanctity in Kazakhstan in the Context of Oil Resources and Growing
Public Pressures”
Saulesh Yessenova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
“Tengiz Crude: A View from Below”
Wojciech Ostrowski (University of St. Andrews)
“Peripheries, Foreign Oil Companies and Regime Maintenance in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan”
PO-18: Civil Society and Social Movements in Central Asia
Chair: Stephen E. Hanson (University of Washington)
Discussant: Stephen E. Hanson (University of Washington)
Scott Radnitz (Kennan Institute)
“Social Capital and Organized Resistance in Central Asia”
Amy Forster Rothbart (University of Wisconsin)
“The Effects of Multilateral Environmental Cooperation on Environmental Politics in
Kazakhstan”
Kimairis Toogood (George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution)
“Tajikistan’s Potential for a ‘Bottom-Up’ Revolution”
Gert Jan Veldwisch (Reinische Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität Bonn)
“Uzbek Water Users Associations (WUAs) in Action: The Continuation of State Control and
the Emergence of Collective Action in Khorezm, Uzbekistan”
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