2007 Annual Conference - Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

List of Panels
History and Culture
HC-01 Crossing Cultural Borders (p. 12)
HC-02 Migration and Diaspora (p. 8)
HC-03 Russia’s Steppe Frontier: Kazakhs in the Multi-ethnic Russian Empire (p. 15)
HC-04 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conversion in Caucasia and Central Eurasia (p. 21)
HC-05 Russia’s Muslims and Eurasian Networks (p. 10)
HC-06 Modern History of Central Eurasia (p. 9)
HC-07 Law on the Imperial and Cultural Frontier: 19th-20th Century Legal documents
from Xinjiang and the Qazaq Steppe (p. 22)
HC-08 New Research on Central Asia in the 18th and 19th Centuries (p. 14)
HC-10 Early Islam in Central Asia (p. 17)
HC-11 Archaeology and Material Culture (p. 23)
HC-12 Linguistic Landscapes (p. 19)
HC-13 Current Research in Linguistics (p. 12)
HC-14 Discourses of Empire (p. 14)
HC-15 Mongol Empire (p. 21)
HC-16 The Culture of Georgia (p. 16)
HC-17 Religion and Identity: The Armenian Case (p. 10)
HC-18 Xinjiang: History and Geography (p. 19)
HC-19 Doing Oral History of Central Asian Transformations (p. 17)
HC-20 AATT Graduate Student Session in Turkish and Turkic Studies (p. 16)
Politics
PO-01 Citizenship and National Identity in Kyrgyzstan (p. 12)
PO-02 Nation-building in Central Asia (p. 21)
PO-03 Understanding Conflict: Security and Violence in Central Asia and the
Caucasus (p. 11)
PO-04 Xinjiang: Politics and Policies (p. 14)
PO-06 Challenges to Democracy in the Former Soviet Union (p. 16)
PO-07 Energy Sovereignty and Security (p. 13)
PO-08 Roundtable: New Foreign Policy Concerns and Strategies in Central Asia (p. 9)
PO-09 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Democracy Building in the Caucasus and
Central Asia (p. 14)
PO-10 Emerging Oil/Gas Economies and Societies: The Focus on Central Asia (p. 23)
PO-11 The Politics of Oil (p. 20)
PO-12 International Politics in Central Asia (p. 18)
PO-13 Effects of Informal Institutions, Clans, and Corruption in Central Asia and the
Caucasus (p. 20)
PO-14 Economic “Transition” in Central Asia (p. 9)
PO-15 Cases in Economic Reform in Central Asia (p. 21)
PO-16 Western Policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus (p. 16)
PO-17 Whither Turkmenistan? (p. 11)
PO-18 Civil Society and Social Movements in Central Asia (p. 23)
PO-19 Mongolia’s Post-Socialist Transition (p. 18)
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