CCCAC Seminar Programme
The seminars are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
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Previous Events in this series
Film Screening: From Tent Encampments to New Settlements
Avaz Hasanov
Screening and discussion of an Azeri film from Avaz Hasanov 'From Tent Encampments to New Settlements' which charts the story of internally displaced people since the conflict with Armenians.
27 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4429, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMArmenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry
Dr Laurence Broers (SOAS Research Associate)
The Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict for control of the mountainous territory of Nagorny Karabakh is the longest-running dispute in post-Soviet Eurasia. Laurence Broers shows how decades of dynamic territorial politics, shifting power relations, international diffusion and unsuccessful mediation efforts have contributed to the resilience of this stubbornly unresolved dispute.
28 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4429, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe South Caucasus: What Future for a Fractured Region?
Thomas de Waal (Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe)
Tom de Waal presents the updated edition of his book The Caucasus: An Introduction, the essential guide to the history and politics of the South Caucasus.
5 June 2019, Brunei Gallery, B103, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMThe Non-Russian face of Russia: Muslim Soundscape of post-soviet Moscow
Dr Razia Sultanova (University of Cambridge)
An exploration of the sense of national identity as a social category for those finding themselves both on the inside and the outside of Central Asian communities.
7 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMuslims of Central Asia: Between National, Eurasian and Global
Galina M.Yemelianova (Independent Scholar of Eurasian Islam, UK)
An examination of how throughout history various Muslim peoples of present-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan have negotiated their distinctively Central Asian Islamic identity.
31 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMNetworks, informality, and corruption: how to parse Central Asian governance
Panel discussion with Dr Abel Polese (Dublin City U, Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction), Prof Alena Ledeneva (UCL-SSEES) and Scott Newton (SOAS Law).
24 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMurad Ismayilov (University of Cambridge)
A detailed account of the dynamics behind the religious-secular divide in Azerbaijan over the past two decades of independence and the conditions underlying the ongoing process of normalization of Islamic discourse and the rising cooperation across the country’s secular-religious political landscape.
6 December 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Impact of Investment Treaty Law on Host States: Some empirical insights from Central Asia
Dr Mavluda Sattorova (University of Liverpool)
How developing states learn from international investment law: a Central Asian experience.
15 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDemocratic Socialism: The Georgian Experiment 1918-1921
Eric Lee
1 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe fiddler in the steppe. The soft power of the Jewish sphere in Central Asia and the Caspian.
Bruno De Cordier (Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University)
1 March 2018, Brunei Gallery, B204, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCaught in the Middle: Nationalism and International Boundaries in Central Asia
Nick Megoran (Newcastle University)
7 December 2017, Brunei Gallery, B204, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMRussia's Insurgent Threat After the Islamic State: Transformations and New Directions?
Jean-François Ratelle, Mark Youngman, Laurence Broers
5 December 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMA Symoposium with John Smith Fellows from Central Asia
John Smith Fellows from Central Asia in conversation with Dr Bhavna Dave (SOAS), Dr Scott Newton (SOAS) and Dr John Heathershaw (University of Exeter)
29 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMCarpetbaggers of Kabul: Gender and International Development issues in Afghanistan
Rachel Lehr (Fulbright Scholar, National Library, Oslo)
10 March 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), S211, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMAnimated Puppets and Dancing Children: Juvenile Performance in Contemporary Kazakhstan
Meghanne Barker (University of Michigan)
27 February 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PMFollow up discussion with the Director Avaz Hasanov, chaired by Laurence Broers
23 February 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCaress Schenk (Nazarbaev University)
Please note that this seminar has been cancelled.
29 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMRussia as a Non-native Speaker of International Law
Dr Anna Dolidze (Deputy Minister of Defence for Republic of Georgia)
12 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, L67, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM2014 MSc graduates: Rosa Vercoe, John Moore, and Maurizio Totaro
26 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Diana Ibañez-Tirado (SOAS, University of London)
20 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMUnpacking the Afghan elections
Anna Larson (Research Associate, SOAS), Antonio Giustozzi (Research Associate SOAS) and Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS)
23 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMResearchers at Risk in Central Asia: the Detention of Alexander Sodiqov
Dr John Heathershaw (Exeter), Saule Mukhametrakhimova, (Central Asia Editor, IWPR), Representative from Amnesty International (TBC)
27 June 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMBetween State and Religion: Officials and Religious Figures in Soviet Tajikistan (1943-1991)
Sultonbek Aksakolov
13 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMCIRCASSIA: Exploring the Sounds of an Ancient Country
Vincent Moon and Bulat Khalilov (Directors)
This event will now be held in conjunction with the seminar on the 'Music of the Uzbeks of Northern Afghanistan'. 4 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMCentral Planning, Local Knowledge? Labour, Population and the Tajik School of Economics
Dr Artemy Kalinovsky (University of Amsterdam)
27 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMilitias, Counterinsurgency and Statebuilding in Afghanistan
Professor Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS) & Aziz Hakimi (PhD Candidate, SOAS)
20 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Foreign Policy Options of a Small Unrecognised State: The Case of Abkhazia
Thomas Frear (Independent Analyst)
23 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Afghan Conundrum: Intervention, Statebuilding and Resistance
Jonathan Steele (Guardian), Aziz Hakimi (SOAS), Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS)
5 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Current Migration Trends in North America and the Post Soviet Space: A Comparative Perspective
Professor Andrei Korobkov (Middle Tennessee State University)
28 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMModes of Mistrust in the Caucasus and Beyond
Florian Mühlfried
21 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMManaging uncertainty in Afghanistan - a view from the ground
Michael Keating, Senior Consulting Fellow, Chatham House; former Deputy UN Envoy to Afghanistan (until November 2012)
28 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMWhen mullahs rise up: Explaining variation in Muslim protests in Central Asia
Alisher Khamidov (Newton International Fellow at Newcastle University)
29 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Nagorny Karabakh peace process: is there a way out of the impasse? A public debate
Discussants: Tatul Hakobyan (Civilitas) and Tabib Huseynov (Saferworld)
21 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMWhy Central Asian scholarship needs a strong social theory?
Dr Balihar Sanghera (University of Kent)
Please note that this seminar is taking place on Thursday, 15 November (not Wed, 14 as was originally advertised).
15 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Price of Influence: Geopolitics and Human Rights in Central Asia, 2001-2011
Professor Alexander Cooley (Barnard College, Columbia University)
2 May 2012, Brunei Gallery, B101, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMDr John Heathershaw and Mr Serik Beimenbetov (University of Exeter)
15 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMRachel Clogg (Caucasus Programme Director), Mira Sovakar (Caucasus Projects Manager), Laurence Broers (Caucasus Projects Manager)
8 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMLabour migrants from Central Asia in Russia: Isolation or integration into the Russian society
Professor Sergei Riazantsev (Head of the Centre of Social Demography and Economic Sociology, Institute of Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
23 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM'An Enemy We Created': The Myth of the Taliban / Al-Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn (Authors)
There is thus an urgent need to re-examine the known facts of the Taliban-al-Qaeda relationship and to tell the story of the Taliban's encounter with internationalist militant Islamism, which is what Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn set out to do in An Enemy We Created.
20 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, L67, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMShadow Governance: Approaches to Government and Institutions in Eurasia's de facto States
Dr Laurence Broers (Research Associate, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, SOAS)
9 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMEveryday Life and Education of Women in Azerbaijan
Dr Tamara Sivirtseva (Independent Scholar, Associate Member of Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the University of Chicago)
8 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMTwo Decades of ‘Development’: the Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan
Dr Tommaso Trevisani (Free University, Berlin)
1 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMCharles Buxton, INTRAC (International NGO Training & Research Centre), Central Asia Programme, Bishkek
24 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Youth Jama'ats in the North Caucasus: Return to the Islamic roots or a new religious movement?
Marat Shterin (King’s College London)
17 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMErlan Karin
This event has been cancelled.
2 November 2011, , TBC, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMKazakhstan’s Migration Regime, ‘Illegal’ Foreign Labour Migrants and the Informal Migration Industry
Dr Bhavna Dave (SOAS)
27 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMAfghanistan 10 years on: What lessons can be learned?
Astri Suhrke, Lucy Morgan Edwards and Edwina Thompson
20 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMTwo Decades of ‘Development’: the Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan
Dr Tommaso Trevisani (Independent Scholar, PhD from Freie Universität, Berlin)
Due to strike action taking place this week we have had to cancel this seminar. We hope to accommodate Dr Tommaso Trevisani in our seminar programme, but details have yet to be confirmed. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
24 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe OSCE and the SCO in Central Asia: Competing Narratives of Security and Development?
Dr David Lewis (Senior Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford)
17 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMPath dependence of institutional trajectories: explaining transition in Kyrgyzstan
Medet Tiulegenov (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan)
10 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMOil Windfalls in Azerbaijan: The Challenges of Transparency and Good Governance
Farda Asadov (Director, Open Society Institute, Azerbaijan)
3 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMigration in Kyrgyzstan: Some Fundamental Questions
Dr Emil Nasritdinov (Department of Anthropology, American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
27 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMDr Ceri Oeppen (University of Exeter) Dr Angela Schlenkhoff (Community Service Volunteers) Dr Deborah J Smith (formerly) Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit) Professor John Baily (Goldsmiths College)
20 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 5:00 PMScreening and discussion of Armenian-Azerbaijani short films about the Karabakh conflict.
9 December 2010, Brunei Gallery, B102, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PMTaking Stock: The Child Labour Debate in Central Asia
Daniel Stevens (SOAS), Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS) Joanna Ewart-James (Antislavery International) and Bhavna Dave (SOAS) [Chair]
2 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe New Institutions of Capitalism in Central Asia: Entrepreneurs and the Mikado Game
Gül Berna Özcan (Royal Holloway College)
25 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSarfraz Khan, Director, Area Study Centre (Russia, China & Central Asia), University of Peshawar
28 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMKazakhstan’s oralmany (repatriates) and their role in Kazakh society
Alan Parfitt (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
21 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Circassiada 2012 - World Circassian Olympic games in 2012
Dr Sufian Zhemukhov (Member of PONARS Eurasia Program and Former Fulbright Scholar) and Alexey Bekshokov (Chairman of the Union of Abkhaz War Veterans of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, RF)
14 April 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: On bride abduction in Kyrgyzstan
Julie McBrien
25 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Authenticity and tradition: secular discourses and non-secular accommodations in Uzbekistan
Johan Rasanayagam (University of Aberdeen)
11 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: The value of EU “engagement” in Uzbekistan since 2005– a tale of two projects
Daniel Stevens
28 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch: My Life with the Taliban. Abdul Salam Zaeef
Alex Strick van Linschoten (co-founder of Afghanwire and PhD candidate, Kings College)
21 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBayram Balci (Institut Français d'Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale (IFEAC))
14 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan
Antonio Giustozzi (LSE)
17 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Economic Challenges in Tajikistan: the Role of International Financial Institutions
Makoto Ojiro (Asian Development Bank in Tajikistan)
10 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Islam, Nation and Revolution: The Making of Central Asia’s First Communists
Adeeb Khalid (Professor, History Department, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA)
3 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMAndrey Kazantsev (Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute in Florence & Research Associate at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO))
26 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Is the Coexistence of Post-Soviet Secularism and Islam Stable?
John Schoeberlein (Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Harvard University)
5 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Dangerous Divisions: Revisiting Peace-building in the Ferghana Valley
Christine Bichsel (Postdoctoral fellow, University Priority Research Programme Asia and Europe, University of Zürich)
22 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMPeter Marsden, Anna Paterson, Jonathan Goodhand and Deniz Kandiyoti
19 May 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, KLT, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMSeminar: Endangering Space: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Central Asia
John Heathershaw (University of Exeter) and Nick Megoran (University of Newcastle)
5 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Kyrgyzstan
Mathijs Pelkmans (London School of Economics)
19 February 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Islam, State and the Transformation of the Rural Space in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Habiba Fathi (Research Fellow, Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London)
29 January 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Balance of Threat: Security Organizations and Foreign Policy Alignment in Central Asia
Gregory Gleason (Professor of Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch & Professor, University of New Mexico)
22 January 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Postcards from Tora Bora
Wazhmah Osman (film director) and Kelly Dolak (co-director)
15 January 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PMSeminar: Debating Debate in Northern Afghanistan
Magnus Marsden (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
4 December 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMRoundtable: Russia-Georgia Conflict: Implications for Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Caucasus
Bill Bowring (Law, Birkbeck College), Laurence Broers (Projects Manager in the Caucasus Programme, Conciliation Resources) and Domitilla Sagramoso (Department of War Studies, King's College)
27 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMHamid Ismailov (Uzbek writer, Head of Central Asia and Caucasus service BBC World Service)
13 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: The Debate over Alphabet Change in Kazakhstan
Rustem Kadyrzhanov (Institute of Philosophy and Political Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan)
23 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Patronage, Islam and the Fading Central Asian State
Dr Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)
24 April 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: China, Xinjiang and the Transnational Security of Central Asia
David Kerr (Durham University)
13 March 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Revisiting the Tibet Question in International Relations
Dr Dibyesh Anand
13 March 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Rethinking Afghanistan? A Panel Discussion
Antonio Giustozzi (LSE), Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS), Dave Mansfield (Independent), Andrew Wilder (Tufts University)
6 March 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMAkbar Rasulov (Law Faculty, University of Glasgow)
5 March 2008, 21/22 Russell Square, 102, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMSeminar: Uzbekistan’s Development Impasse: Was It Inevitable?
Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS)
28 February 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Georgia: A Permanent Revolution?
Vicken Cheterian (CIMERA, Geneva)
21 February 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Interaction and Coexistence in Bukhara
Dr Siddharth S. Saxena, University of Cambridge
24 January 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop. The neo-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan’
Antonio Giustozzi, LSE
13 December 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: International Actors in Central Asia: Pros and Contra
Anna Matveeva, LSE
6 December 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Security, Sovereignty and the Tajiik-Afghan Border
John Heathershaw, University of Exeter
22 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMFilm Screening: You are not an Orphan [Ty ne sirota] 1962
Director: Shukhrat Abbasov (Uzbekistan)
In this film Abbasov, one of the founders of Uzbek national cinematograph, brings out several issues and concerns, typical for the films of Soviet era – the effects of World War II on family life, life in Soviet orphanages and the ‘internationalism’ of Soviet life.
15 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMFilm Screening: Orator [Voiz] 1998
Director: Yusup Razykov (Uzbekistan)
This film explores the accidental exploits of Iskander, a 40-ish cart driver who is glumly comfortable in the Tashkent of 1915.
8 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMSeminar: Paul Bergne, The birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic
Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS), Professor Edmund Herzig (Oxford University), Zuhra Halimova (OSI, Dushanbe) Monica Whitlock (BBC)
19 June 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, KLT, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Eurasian Crossroads: History and the present in Xinjiang, Chinese Central Asia
James A Millward
10 May 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Drugs in Afghanistan Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales
David MacDonald (author)
26 April 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Failing to Change the Rules: Local Government and State-Building in Afghanistan
Sarah Lister (Independent Consultant (previously Head of Political Economy research at the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit))
15 March 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: When Transition Visits Mountains: Education, Work and Careers in Southeastern Tajikistan
Najam Abbas (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)
8 March 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Nurbulat Masanov: A Commemoration
Bhavna Dave (SOAS – Chair), Annette Bohr (Royal Institute of International Affairs), Natsuko Oka (Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo), Benjamin Rahr (Bloomberg Television), Laura Masanova (wife of Prof Masanov) and Rachid Nougmanov
1 March 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: The Kazakhs of Western Mongolia: Dynamics of Cultural Expression
Saida Daukeyeva and Anna Portisch (SOAS)
22 February 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: The Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan
Kathryn Lockett (WOMANKIND Worldwide) and Ms Najia Haneefi (Afghan Women’s Educational Centre (AWEC))
8 February 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, Room 116, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Roundtable: Turkmenistan after Niyazov: The End of Isolation?
Victoria Clement (Western Carolina University), Michael Denison (University of Leeds) and John Roberts (Senior Editor, Energy Security at Platts)
25 January 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Framing Andijon: Islam Karimov's narration of the violence of May 12-13, 2005
Nick Megoran (Newcastle University)
7 December 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Aid effectiveness for governance and sustainability in Afghanistan
Hamish Nixon (Researcher, Subnational Governance Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit)
23 November 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMadeleine Reeves (University of Cambridge)
16 November 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMJacob Rigi (Cornell University, New York)
2 November 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Andijan One Year On: Lessons and Perspectives for the Future
Monica Whitlock (BBC), Alisher Ilkhamov (SOAS), and Matteo Fumagalli (University of Edinburgh)
11 May 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMAntonio Giustozzi (LSE)
27 April 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Aiding Peace?: Peace conditionalities and 'post conflict' reconstruction in Afghanistan
Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS) and Mark Sedra (SOAS)
16 March 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMarc Theuss (Independent consultant, Aga Khan Foundation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Department, Kabul (2002-2004))
2 March 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Revolution through Rose-coloured Glasses: Law and Institutions in Georgia
Christopher Waters (University of Reading) and Scott Newton (SOAS)
16 February 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeminar: Karabakh: What Price Sovereignty?
Mamuka Kuparadze (Studio Re, Georgia) and Svetlana Korsaia (Abkhazian State Television, Abkhazia)
30 November 2005, Russell Square: College Buildings, KLT, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PMSeminar: Social Policy in Central Asia