Cambridge Central Asia Forum & Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series
Paper 400 Friday Required Seminar
Lent Term 2023
11-1pm Fridays Term Time
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqfuqsqjIrH9bgook7uZIgrFDlixSokPcE
20 Jan Dr Boram Shin, Jeonbuk National University, 'UNESCO and Soviet Central Asia: Socialist Internationalism from Central Asia in the 1950s-1960s’
27 Jan Uzbek Roundtable : Policy Paradigm Evolution in Uzbekistan and Impact on Central Asia Region
Panelists: Prof Gulnoza Ismailova, Vice-Rector, University of World Economy and Diplomacy Tashkent, Prof Mirzokhid Rakhimov, Head of Department, Centre of Contemporary History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Prof Nargis Nurulla Khoja, Samarkand State University, Samarkand, Dr Akram Umarov, Deputy Director, Institute of Advanced International Studies, Tashkent
10 Feb Reza Hussaini, Kings College Silk Roads Programme, ‘Arab Muslim Conquests of Bactria: An untold Story’
17 Feb Albbina Muratbekova, Eurasian Research Institute of the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, ‘Soviet Science Diplomacy: Central Asia and Central Asians in the Advancement of Soviet Eastern Policy’
24 Feb Prof Moon, Jeonbuk National University, ‘Dynamics in Foreign Aid: digital government project between the Kyrygz Republic and South Korea'
3 March TBC
10 March Yasmin Faghighi, University Library, Cambridge, ‘Written cultural heritage (of Central Asia), nation statehood and Library data’
Everyone is welcome.