Women in Central Asia: The Politics of Change (fwd)

[Kevin Eric Laney]

The Columbia Caspian Project presents a conference

WOMEN IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE POLITICS OF CHANGE

April 15, 1998 Columbia University, International Affairs Building
6th floor, 420 West 118th St.

8:45am     Opening Remarks, Peter Sinnott, Conference Organizer

Panel 1    Social Policies in the Early Soviet Period
9-11am     Douglas Northrup, Pitzer College
           "Nationalizing Backwardness, Gender and Uzbek Identity"
           Marianne Kamp, Whitman College
           "Land for Women, Too!"
           Cassandra Cavanaugh, Ph.D. Candidate in History,Columbia U.
           "Health and Hujum in Uzbekistan, 1927-1931"

Panel 2    Women in Conflict, Chair: Hamideh Sedghi, Columbia U.
11am -     Brigitte Heuer, Freie Universit"at, Berlin
12:30pm    "Conflict and Conflict Solution in Uzbek Women's Lives:
           What has Changed?"
           Sima Wali, President, Refugee Women in Development
           "Fundamentalism Against Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict
           Situations: Afghanistan - A Case Study"

12:30 -    Lunch
1:45

1:30 -     Gulbakhar Ashimova, Artist, New York City
1:45       "Woman as Artist in Central Asia"
           An exhibition of recent works by Ashimova will be made
           at the Conference

Panel 3    Women Through Generations"
1:45 -     Guita Ranjbaran, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, CUNY
3:45       "Marrying Privilege, Privileging Marriage: Reproduction of
           Khojandi Elite in Soviet Tajikistan"
           Viktoria Koroteeva, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
           Oriental Studies & Ekaterina Makarova, University of Virginia -
           Charlottesville
           "The Making of Uzbek National Identity: Women as the Epitome of
           Developmental Choices"
           Kathleen Kuehnast, University of Minnesota
           "From Pioneers to Entrepeneurs: Young Women, Consumerism, and
           the 'World Picture' in Kyrgyzstan"

Panel 4    Women, Gender and Development
4:00 -     Gulnara Kuzibaeva, Dept. of Demography, Toshkent Medical School
5:45pm     "Fertility Transition in Uzbekistan"
           Armine Ishkanian, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University
           of California - San Diego
           "Women at the Crossroads: Armenian Women in Public Life in the
           Post-Soviet"
           Saulesh Esenova, Centre for International Management Studies,
           McGill University
           "Gender and Development Issues: Managing Job and Family: How do
           Kazak Female Managers Cope?"
           An additional speaker for this panel may be added later.
6pm        Conference conclusion

This conference is free and open to the general public. A Central
Asian lunch will be served but to receive it you must make a reservation.
Contact Peter Sinnott, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Middle East Institute,
1113 IAB no later than Monday April 13th.
email: pjs7 at columbia.edu  telephone: 212.854.2332  or fax: 212.854.1413

This conference has been funded by support from the Caspian Project of
Columbia University, The National Resource Center for International
Studies, Columbia University, The Middle East Institute, The Harriman
Institute, The Southern Asian Institute, and the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender.