AI用丗算然

AI用丗算然 - AUCA - 2019-2020 Academic year

Anthropology Club Meeetings 2019-2020

March 10, 2020

Naomi Ntakiyica

Teaching Feminine Spirituality: Practices of female spiritual authorities in Kyrgyzstan

Female spiritual authorities play an important role in the perpetuation of local spiritual and cultural heritage. Performing an Uzbek tradition, the otynchalar incarnate a relation between the Uzbek and Kyrgyz culture that has received rather little attention. At the same time, their agency takes place in an environment that aims to clearly define a national and religious identity. How do the otynchalar, but also other women transmit local spiritual knowledge in Kyrgyzstan today and how has this evolved over the last years? How do they relate to these dynamics, to the secular state and to the transforming religious landscape of the country? Does this influence their practices, their discourses, their role in the community and if yes, how?

Naomi Ntakiyica has started her research in the framework of the Volkswagen Foundation Project Eurasian Studies and Beyond in September 2019 at the Central Asian Department of the Humboldt AI用丗算然 of Berlin under the supervision of Professor Manja Stephan-Emmrich. She has freshly arrived in Kyrgyzstan to start her fieldwork. She holds a BA and MA in Slavic Studies and an advanced MA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies from KULeuven, Belgium. For her second Masters thesis she conducted ethnographic fieldwork among young pious Muslim women in Bishkek. Before returning to the academic world she worked in the social and cultural sectors in Brussels.

3 仄舒舒, 2020

个仍仂亳舒仆 仂仗仗亠仆舒

Kyrgyz Raptrepreneurs 亅从仂仆仂仄亳从舒 仗舒 于 亳从亠从亠

仗 亟仂仄亳仆亳ム亳亶 仄亰从舒仍仆亶 亢舒仆 仆舒亠亞仂 于亠仄亠仆亳. 亞亰舒仆亠 仂仆 亳仄亠亠 30 仍亠仆ム 亳仂亳 亳 亢亠 仗亠亠亢亳仍 仆亠从仂仍从仂 于仂仍仆 仗仂仗仍仆仂亳. 仂仗亠从亳 仂弍舒亰, 仂 束仗仂仄 亢亳 仆亠仍亰晛, 仗亠 亳 亳 仂从亢亠仆亳亠 亳仄亠ム 亠仍亶 磲 舒亠亞亳亶 亳 仗舒从亳从, 仂弍 亟亠仍舒 亳 亳从于仂 弍仂仍亠亠 仂亶亳于仄. 亰仄亠仆亠仆亳 于 仄亳仂于仂亶 仄亰从舒仍仆仂亶 亳仆亟亳亳 亰舒 仗仂仍亠亟仆亠亠 亟亠亳仍亠亳亠 舒从亢亠 仆亠 仄舒仍仂 于仍亳ム 仆舒 从仂仆仂仄亳亠从亳亠 于仂亰仄仂亢仆仂亳 亳从亠从从仂亞仂 仗舒. 从仂仆亠从亠, 亞亟亠 亳仗仂仍仆亳亠仍亳 舒仂 亟仂仍亢仆 于仗舒 亳 仗亠亟仗亳仆亳仄舒亠仍礆亳 亟舒仍亠从亳仄亳 仂 弍仂仍仂亞仂 仂-弍亳亰仆亠舒, 亟舒仆仆舒 仗亠亰亠仆舒亳 仂仗亳于舒亠, 从舒从 仗 亳 仂仂于亠于ム亳亠 仆舒于从亳 仄仂亢仆仂 仗亠于舒舒 于 亠.

个仍仂亳舒仆 仂仗仗亠仆舒 - 舒仗亳舒仆 丶亠仆舒仍仆仂-舒亰亳舒从仂亞仂 亠仄亳仆舒舒 丕仆亳于亠亳亠舒 仄弍仂仍亟舒 亳 舒仂亳亳仂于舒仆仆亶 仆舒仆亶 仂亟仆亳从 Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient 于 亠仍亳仆亠. 亞仂 亟亳亠舒亳 仗仂于亠仆舒 从仂仆仂仄亳从亠 亳仗-仂仗 仄亰从亳 于 亞亰舒仆亠. 仆 舒从亢亠 磦仍磳 仂亠亟亳亠仍亠仄 亳仆亠仆亠-亢仆舒仍舒 "novastan.org", 从仂仂亶 仂于亠舒亠 仆仂于仂亳 亳 舒仆舒仍亳亳从 丶亠仆舒仍仆仂亶 亰亳亳 仆舒 仆亠仄亠从仂仄 亳 舒仆亰从仂仄 磶从舒.

Feb 25, 2020油

Tatiana Efremenko

What does it mean to have the right to the city in the contemporary urban world?

The city is the place where inequality, injustice and exploitation are most visible, but it is also the site of its transformation and resistance. The right to the city has emerged as a call for action encouraging local communities to transform urban realities under the principles of socio-spatial justice. The city is a theater of everyday life, and physical spaces of the city are its stage used by the city dwellers to claim, transform and appropriate those spaces and places in the form of protests, performance acts or individual struggles.

Tanya will give a glance on different ways to claim the right to the city she has encountered throughout her studies, work and personal experiences. In particular, she will talk about the traditional way of how the right to the city can be expressed as a collective voice in the form of womens struggles to build their capacity for meaningful participation in urban development and governance, or citizens who defend their homes in informal settlements in Portugal and Turkey. Then, examples of a more individual and subtle approach to demand the right to the city will be brought up by the practices of urban exploration of abandoned and hidden spots in the cities. She will also bring an example of how an anthropological approach to study the right to the city was a way to influence the decision-making process of the urban renewal project in Spain.

Tanya Efremenko holds a Bachelors degree in Anthropology from AUCA and a Masters degree in Urban Studies as a part of Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in four cities (Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid). After completing her studies, she moved to Denmark to start working as a project coordinator at the art gallery. Later she completed an internship and worked at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. In 2018, she also became a co-founder of a start-up, where they help small and medium companies to integrate circular economy principles in their business models.

18 亠于舒仍, 2020

亳仆舒舒 仄舒仆仂于舒, 亠仄亠 仂弍舒亠于舒

舒仆亳亠 亞仂仂亟舒. 亠仂亟 亠舒 仂于仆 亰舒亞磶仆亠仆亳 于仂亰亟舒 亳 亞舒亢亟舒仆从亳亠 仗舒从亳从亳 舒亳

仂仂亞亳亠 从仂仍仍亠亞亳, 仗亳亞仍舒舒亠仄 于舒 仆舒 仂亠亠亟仆 于亠 仆仂仗仂仍仂亞亳亠从仂亞仂 从仍弍舒 18-亞仂 亠于舒仍, 亞亟亠 亳仆舒舒 仄舒仆仂于舒 舒从舒亢亠 仂 仄亠仂亟亳从舒 仄仂仆亳仂亳仆亞舒 亳 舒弍仂 亟舒仆仆仄亳 仗仂 亰舒亞磶仆亠仆亳 于仂亰亟舒 亳 亠仄亠 仂弍舒亠于舒 仗仂亟亠仍亳 仗舒从亳从舒仄亳 亞舒亢亟舒仆从仂亞仂 舒亳.
亰仄亠仆亠仆亳 仗仂仍亠 舒仗舒亟舒 弌弌弌 亳 仂弍亠亠仆亳 仆亠亰舒于亳亳仄仂亳 亞仂亟舒于 舒于亳 仆仂于亠 亰舒亟舒亳 亞仂仂亟从仂亞仂 仗舒于仍亠仆亳 仗亠亠亟 于仍舒 亳 仂弍亠于仂仄. 丱舒仂亳仆亠 仗亠仂弍舒亰仂于舒仆亳 于 亞仂仂亟从仂仄 舒亰于亳亳亳 亞仂仂亟仂于 丶亠仆舒仍仆仂亶 亰亳亳 仂弍仆舒亢亳于舒ム 仂亢亳亠 仗仂弍仍亠仄 从舒从 亰舒亞磶仆亠仆亳亠 于仂亰亟舒, 仂从舒亠仆亳亠 亰亠仍亠仆 亰仂仆 亳 仂弍亠于亠仆仆仂亞仂 舒仆仗仂舒, 仂 于 仗亠于 仂亠亠亟 仂舒亢舒亠 仆舒 从仂仍仂亞亳亳 亞仂仂亟舒 亳 亰亟仂仂于亠 亞舒亢亟舒仆.
舒 仗亠亳仂亟 仆仂磡 2019 亳从亠从 仆亠从仂仍从仂 舒亰 亰舒仆亳仄舒仍 仗亠于仂亠 仄亠仂 于 仄亳亠 仂亞仍舒仆仂 亠亶亳仆亞 AirVisual (亠亟亳 从仗仆 亞仂仂亟仂于). 丕仂于亠仆 亰舒亞磶仆亠仆亳 于亠亟仆仄亳 舒亳舒仄亳 2.5 亰舒 于亠 仂仂仗亳亠仍仆亶 仗亠亳仂亟 弍仍 仗仂亳 于亠亞亟舒 于亠 仗亠亟亠仍仆仂 亟仂仗亳仄仂亶 仆仂仄 亳 舒仂 于 仆亠从仂仍从仂 舒亰, 于 亠亰仍舒亠 亠亞仂 舒亟舒ム 亟亠亳, 仗仂亢亳仍亠 亳 于于亳亠仍仆亠 从 仄仂亞 亞仗仗 仆舒亠仍亠仆亳.

亠亰仍舒亠 仗仂亟亠仍舒仆仆仂亶 舒弍仂 仂弍亠于亠仆仆 仂亞舒仆亳亰舒亳亶 亳 从仗亠仂于 仗仂弍仍亠仄 亰舒亞磶仆亠仆亳 于仂亰亟舒 仗仂亟于亠亟亳仍亳 仄 亳从亠从舒, 仗亠仄亠-仄亳仆亳 亳 仗亠亰亳亟亠仆 . 仆亳 从舒亰舒仍亳 仗舒于亳仍仆亠 仍仂于舒 亳 仆舒亰于舒仍亳 仗舒于亳仍仆亠 仗仂仂弍 亠亠仆亳. 仂 仂仆亳 仆亠 仆舒亰于舒仍亳 从仂仆从亠仆 仂从仂于. 仂亟 仆舒亰舒亟 舒从亢亠 仂弍亠舒仍亳 于于亠亳 磲 仄亠, 仆舒仗亳仄亠 亰舒仗亠亳 于于仂亰 舒 舒于仂, 仆仂 仗仂从舒 仆亠 仗亠亟仗亳仆亳仄舒亠 亠舒仍仆 亟亠亶于亳亶.

亳仆舒舒 仄舒仆仂于舒 - 仆亠亰舒于亳亳仄亶 从仗亠 仗仂 仂舒仆亠 仂从亢舒ム亠亶 亠亟, 从舒仆亟亳亟舒 ム亳亟亳亠从亳 仆舒从 (从仂仍仂亞亳亠从仂亠 仗舒于仂), 16-仍亠仆亳亶 仂仗 舒弍仂 于 亞仂亟舒于亠仆仆仂亶 仗亳仂亟仂仂舒仆仆仂亶 亳亠仄亠, 仗舒从亳亠从亳亶 仂仗 舒亰舒弍仂从亳 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从亳 仆仂仄舒亳于仂于 (仗亠亟亠仍仆仂-亟仂仗亳仄 于弍仂仂于, 弍仂仂于, 舒亰仄亠亠仆亳 仂仂亟仂于), 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从仂亶 仂亠仆从亳 亳 舒亟亳舒. 弌亠舒 仆舒仆 亳仆亠亠仂于: 亰舒亳舒 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从亳 仗舒于, 仂亠仆从舒 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从仂亞仂 亠弍舒, 仆亠亞舒亳于仆仂亞仂 于仂亰亟亠亶于亳 仆舒 仂从亢舒ム 亠亟, 从舒亟舒 亰舒亞磶仆ム亳 于亠亠于 (于弍仂仂于, 弍仂仂于, 仂仂亟仂于), 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从亳亶 亠, 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从仂亠 亰舒从仂仆仂亟舒亠仍于仂.

亠仄亠 仂弍舒亠于舒 - 亳仍亠亟仂于舒亠仍仆亳舒 于 仂弍仍舒亳 从仂仍仂亞亳亳 亞仂仂亟舒, 从舒仂. 亠亟亠亟舒亠仍 仂仍仂亟亠亢仆仂亠 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从仂亠 亟于亳亢亠仆亳亠 亠仍亠仆亶 亞亰舒仆. 舒亳亳仍舒 仄舒亞亳亠从 亟亳亠舒亳 于 亠亶 丿从仂仍 亅从仂仆仂仄亳从亳 (仂从于舒) 仗仂 亳亠仄亠 仂弍亠于亠仆仆仂亞仂 于亠仍仂仗仂从舒舒 于 仂从于亠. 弍仍舒 仆舒仆 亳仆亠亠仂于: 从仂仍仂亞亳 亞仂仂亟舒 亳 舒仆仗仂仆舒 仗仂仍亳亳从舒, 仗仂仍亳亳亠从舒 从仂仆仂仄亳 仗仂亳亰于仂亟于舒 亳 亟仂于亠 仗舒于舒.

Feb 11, 2020

Baasanjav Terbish, PhD

The Kalmyks in Russia

The talk is about a digital project which was hosted in the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) of Cambridge AI用丗算然 in 2014-2019. Aimed at video-documenting Kalmyk culture in the broadest sense, the project produced a comprehensive database more than 2,600 unique videos on the cultural heritage of the Kalmyks.

Dr. Basaanjav Terbish is an Affiliated Researcher with the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, AI用丗算然 of Cambridge.

Jan 28, 2020

Dr. Elena Molchanova

"I am not under stress, I am just ill!": Longitudinal Study of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Adults and Adolescents after Osh Events in 2010

Upon expiration of the statute of limitations, it is now believed that survivors of the Osh two-days in 2010 have been successfully recovered. Moreover, emotionally saturated words, such as crisis, massacre and war, are tacitly forbidden, and not recommended to use in academic articles. Instead of these objectives, a neutral substitute - events is recommended a concept, which does not reflect the significance of harm to the mental health of Kyrgyz citizens due to the Osh massacre in 2010. This research has been going for 8 years (from 2010 till present) in order to study the dynamics of symptoms of post-traumatic stress among the Osh massacre survivors, and those children who were 9 years or older at the time of the events.

Elena Molchanova, M, from Psychology Department has been working with Osh professionals in the Mental health sphere since June 2010.

22 礌于舒, 2020

亞仍亶 仂仍 亠仄 仗仂亠亳仂仆舒仍仆仄亳 舒亳亠从仂舒仄亳 (亳仄 舒仆从亠, 亰亳仄弍亠从 舒仂于 亳 仍舒仆 舒仍亳仆仂于) 仆舒 亠仄:

亅从仂仍仂亞亳 亳 舒亳亠从舒

仂弍仍亠仄舒 从仂仍仂亞亳亳 亳 亞仍仂弍舒仍仆仂亞仂 仗仂亠仗仍亠仆亳 从仍亳仄舒舒 磦仍ム 舒仄仄 弍仂仍亳仄 于亰仂于仂仄 仆舒亠亞仂 仂仍亠亳. 亠亰仍舒亠 亠仍仂于亠亠从仂亶 亟亠亠仍仆仂亳 亰舒亞磶仆磳 仂从亢舒ム舒 亠亟舒, 于亠仍亳亳仍 亟仂 从亳亳亠从亳 仂仄亠仂从 弍仂 仗舒仆亳从仂于 亞舒亰仂于 (弌2, 亠舒仆) 于 舒仄仂亠. 弌仂亞仍舒仆仂 IPCC, 亠仍亳 亠仍仂于亠亠于仂 仗仂亟仂仍亢亳 亢亳 于 舒从仂仄 亠仄仗亠, 从 从仂仆 21-亞仂 于亠从舒 仗仍舒仆亠舒 仆舒亞亠亠 亟仂 4属弌 舒弍仂仍ム仆仂 从舒舒仂亳亠从亳仄亳 仗仂仍亠亟于亳礆亳. 仍仂弍舒仍仆亠 仗仂弍仍亠仄 仄仂亢仆仂/仆亢仆仂 仆舒舒 亠舒 仍仂从舒仍仆仂. 亞亰舒仆 仆亠 磦仍磳 亳从仍ム亠仆亳亠仄. 亳亠仍亳 亞仂仂亟舒 亳从亠从 亳仗于舒ム 仆舒 亠弍亠 仗仂仍亠亟于亳 亰舒亞磶仆亠仆亳 于仂亰亟舒. 亳亠仄 舒仄仄亳 从仗仆仄亳 亳仂仆亳从舒仄亳 弍仂仂于 于亠亟仆 亞舒亰仂于 磦仍ム 舒仆仗仂 亳 仂仂仗亳亠仍仆亶 亠从仂.

舒从 仄 仄仂亢亠仄 亠亳 亳 仗仂弍仍亠仄? 仍亳, 亞亟亠 亳 从舒从 仄 仄仂亢亠仄 仆舒舒? 丼亠仄 仄 仄仂亢亠仄 仆舒亳 仄亳仂于仂亶 仗舒从亳从亳? 从舒从 仄仂亢仆仂 亠亟于舒仄亳 舒亳亠从仆仂亞仂 仗仂亠从亳仂于舒仆亳 于仆亠亳 于从仍舒亟 于 亠亠仆亳亳 从仂仍仂亞亳亠从亳 仗仂弍仍亠仄? 仗亳亞仍舒舒亠仄 舒 仂弍亟亳 (亳仍亳 仗仂舒于亳 亟舒仍仆亠亶亳亠) 于仂仗仂 于 仂仄舒亠 从亞仍仂亞仂 仂仍舒.

亳仄 舒仆从亠, 舒亳亠从仂, 个舒仆从-仆舒-舒亶仆亠, MOW Architekten Master in Science, Architektur (TU Darmstadt) 仆舒仗舒于仍亠仆亳亠: Nachhaltiger St辰dtebau und kologisches Bauen.

亰亳仄弍亠从 舒仂于, 亳亠从仂-亞舒亟仂仂亳亠仍, 舒从亳于亳, 仗仂亟于亳亞舒仍 于亠仍仂亟仂仂亢从亳 于 亞. 亳从亠从, 亳 亠舒弍亳仍亳舒亳 亠仍 亠从 仍舒-舒舒 亳 仍舒仄亠亟亳仆从舒, 舒于仂于舒仍 于 仗舒亠仆亳亳 仗舒从舒 丼舒仗舒亶从舒.

仍舒仆 舒仍亳仆仂于, 舒亳亠从仂-亟亳亰舒亶仆亠, 2002 仂仂仆仂于舒亠仍 亟亳亳 亳仆亠亠仆仂亞仂 亟亳亰舒亶仆舒 II&D Kazakhstan, 从仂仆仍亳亠 仗仂 仂亳亠仍于 从仂-亟仂仄仂于.

Dec 10, 2020

Pr. Elena Kim

Child Marriage in Kyrgyzstan: Exploring Institutional Ambivalences in Constructing The Victim

This talk is based on Elena's recent publication in an edited collection "Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else?: Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence", edited by D. B端hler-Niederberger and L. Alberth and publisehd by Emerald Publishing.

The research focuses on institutional processes addressing child marriage in Kyrgyzstan with an emphasis on the operation of state-sponsored institutions of secondary education and their management strategies deployed when a child marriage comes under their purview. Based on thirty-two child marriage cases, contradictions between the recently emerging nationally recognized commitment to combatting violence against school children in Kyrgyzstan and the actual work done to protect schoolgirls from child marriage are identified. Administrative practices used by educational managers construct married schoolgirls as unfit for schooling and act in accordance with such a construction. Using D. E. Smiths feminist-inspired alternative sociology approach, Institutional Ethnography, as a conceptual framework, I argue that what happens is much more complex and nuanced than what is typically seen as mere lack of acceptance, concealment or acquiescence. The presented study describes, maps and analyzes this institutional system to reach beyond the locally observable and discoverable into the trans-local social relations and organizations that permeate and control the local (Smith, 2006, p. 65). Taking my inquiry from the married girls standpoint, I discover that their exclusion is articulated by the system of schools appraisal and monitoring, both organized politically and administratively as an extension of government and its efforts to reform the national comprehensive education system and ensure national security and peace. I discover that, in this system, the concept of child bride is treated with striking ambivalence in the institutional and public discourses and the notion of violence is applied to child marriage in an inconsistent manner. Conceptual instability of child marriage as violence informs practices which often results in preventing young girls from formal schooling. When child brides are not immediately recognized as legitimate victims eligible for state protection, they become easily and eagerly erased in and by the system of secondary education. Schools, conceptualized as important allies in anti-child marriage programmes, fail to provide protection to their own students and work to exacerbate young girls marginalization and contribute to Kyrgyzstans new image as a regional hotbed of child marriages in the region. I empirically trace discursive linkages connecting national discourses on violence against children to specific programs and the organization of school work in relation to child marriage identifying, thereby, the place and role of the concept of child marriage in these institutional settings. The settings which, I argue, ultimately work to unmake child marriage as an act of violence against girl child.

Dr. Elena Kim is an associate professor at the AI用丗算然, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. With her research interests in gender, international development, and global processes she has published her research in journals such as Gender, Technology and Development, Central Asian Survey, Rural Society, Business Ethics: A European Review, etc.

E-mail: kim_el@auca.kg

20 仆仂磡, 2020

丐亳仄 个舒亶亰亳亠于

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Oct 17, 2020

James Plumtree

Placing a Difficult Guest:油The Presence of Russians in Nineteenth Century Kyrgyz Epic Poetry

Episodes of the Kyrgyz-language epic Manas collected by Wilhelm Radloff in 1862 and 1869 feature Orus (Russians). This detail fits awkwardly with later scholarly attempts to find historical evidence in the Manas epos for earlier Kyrgyz history. This talk suggests that the presence of Russians in the narratives provide another type of historical evidence: records of nineteenth-century Kyrgyz views concerning the increasing presence of Russian colonialism.

James Plumtree, following a CEU Global Teaching Fellowship, is a Faculty Member at AUCA. He is part of the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research Group.

Oct 10, 17.00, room 309, AUCA

With Basira Mir Makhamad

Seeds can speak: discovering the functional roles of structures from Early Bronze Age Ib via archaeobotanical investigation at Arslantepe (Turkey)

This thesis illustrates the results of the archaeobotanical study carried out at the long-lived site of Arslantepe (Malatya), Turkey. The study focusses on 131 carpological samples from the village of the Early Bronze Age (VIB2 period, 3100-2900 cal. BCE) destroyed by a fire. The aim of this study was to study the functional roles of structures from Early Bronze Age Ib using plant remains. 63,941 seeds/fruits, including the estimated ones, have been analyzed. This study has identified 15 taxa belonging to 7 plant families. Cultivated species were found together with wild plants and non-economic weeds. The distribution of plant remains in the rooms allows to find out that Building IX inhabitants were mainly specialized in cereal production. This building has been used for crop processing, storing and food consumption. While Building VIII was not a place where crop processing had been practiced. As regards an isolated room A472, inhabitants of this room cultivated not only cereals but also legumes. Based on the results, agriculture at Arslantepe was family-based.

Basira Mir Makhammad is a graduate of AUCA Anthropology program. From AUCA, she went to complete her Erasmus Mundus Masters of Science degree by studying in three countries: Portugal, Greece and Italy. Basira has just defended her Masters thesis at the Sapienza AI用丗算然 of Rome.

Oct 3, 2019

Dr. Edward Lemon

Ethnographic Approaches to Security and Repression in Central Asia

Using examples from his fieldwork in Russia, Poland and Tajikistan, Dr. Lemon will reflect on how ethnographic approaches can enhance our understanding of security. He will examine how individuals experience security issues, cope with and resist security practices. He will focus on the repression of religious and political groups in the name of counter-extremism. Dr. Lemon will focus on the subjects of securitization, those who have been deemed a threat by Central Asian regimes.

Dr Edward Lemon is DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. His research examines security, counter-extremism and authoritarianism in Central Asia. He is the editor of Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia (Routledge, 2018).

Sept 26, 12019

Noah Tucker

Field Notes: Conflict, Survival and the Ethics of Violence: Personal Narratives of the Wars in Syria and Afghanistan

Description: This talk will offer preliminary results from an ongoing fieldwork project interviewing demobilized Central Asian participants in the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The dataset, collected in partnership with Sirojiddin Tolibov, provides a unique window into the recruiting process and decisions surrounding the ethics and morality of the use of violence through interviews primarily with interlocutors located in either still in combat or who demobilized voluntarily and have sought asylum or refugee status in in Turkey rather than returning home.

Noah Tucker is research associate at George Washington AI用丗算然's Elliot School of International Affairs Central Asia Program. He was previously Executive Editor for RFE/RLs Uzbek Service and the Not in Our Name film and television series, the first region-wide project designed to counter violent extremism in Central Asia. Noah has worked on collaborative projects to identify the way social and religious groups affect political and security outcomes and headed a team that tracks social media use by Uzbek violent extremist organizations and their effect on the Uzbek language internet and the way culture shapes the conflict in Afghanistan. Recent publications include Terrorism without a God: Reconsidering Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization Models in Central Asia (GWU Central Asia Program September 2019). Noah has worked on Central Asian issues since 2002specializing in religion, national identity, ethnic conflict and social mediaand received an MA from Harvard in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies in 2008. He has spent around six years living and working in in the region, primarily in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and speaks Russian and Uzbek.

19 亠仆磡

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舒亞亳亰 丼仆舒仍亳亠于舒 - 亟仂亢仆亳从, 仍亠从仂 仗仂亠从舒 " 弌丱 丼亊", 仂仆仂于舒亠仍 亟亳亰舒亶仆 亟亳亳 DILDEN. 亠亢亟亠 亠仄 仗仂仆 亠弍 仗仂仗仂弍仂于舒仍舒 亳 仄亠仆亳仍舒 10 仗仂亠亳亶. 丶亠仍 于 亢亳亰仆亳: 于仂亠从舒 舒仄仂亠舒仍亳亰舒亳 亳 仂亟亠亶于亳亠 舒 仍ミ莞黍.

Sept 11, 2019

Gulniza Taalaibekova油

Propellers of changes: the role of religious speakers in changing societal practices and peoples lives

Based on 11-months of fieldwork Gulniza Taalaibekova in Uzgen (2018) and Bishkek (2019) will present her preliminary findings of her research and elaborate on current changes that are unfolding in individual peoples lives and the Kyrgyzstani society, in general. Specifically, she will be focusing on religious speakers of various backgrounds who call for changes in peoples lives and in the society but have different visions and understandings of what these changes should be. In her talk, she will discuss in detail what the differences of these visions and understandings are and connect an overabundance of Islamic YouTube channels, blogs, Instagram pages, websites, seminars, speech performances and study groups to competing visions of changes promoted by different religious figures. She argues that these different visions that are mediated in live and recorded speeches are not always commonly welcomed or agreed upon but get often questioned, challenged, and contested both by other religious figures and lay people, who are to consume them.

Gulniza Taalaibekova has studied Anthropology at the AI用丗算然 and graduated in 2015. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology at Goethe AI用丗算然 in Frankfurt am Main. Her work is part of the Collaborative Research Centre 1070 ResourceCultures based at Tuebingen AI用丗算然 and is funded by the German Research Foundation.

Sept 5, 2019

Dr. Yanti H旦lzchen

Kyrgyzstan's New Mosques: Religious Knowledge ilim and Religious Infrastructure in Present-day Kyrgyzstan

In her talk, Yanti Hoelzchen will present the main findings from her PhD thesis Kyrgyzstan's New Mosques: Religious Knowledge ilim, Resources and Religious Infrastructure in Present-day Kyrgyzstan (translated from German), defended in October 2018.

Based on twelve months of fieldwork in Bishkek and in the Yssykk旦l region, Yanti investigates social and cultural dynamics involved in the construction of mosques in Kyrgyzstan since the countrys independence in 1991. She shows how processes of mosque construction are connected to and embedded in larger networks of institutions and agents such as Islamic funds, madrasas, state and non-state institutions, imams, davatchy etc. In her thesis, Yanti gives a detailed ethnographic account of each of these institutions and groups of agents, and shows how these interconnect and interweave to constitute what she calls the "religious infrastructure". This religious infrastructure, she argues, revolves around the promotion and dissemination ilim, understood as an Islamic concept of knowledge. She portrays how ilim relates to both theological assumptions of what "knowledge" in Islam is, but also to the everyday embodied appropriations, embodied enactments and therefore embodied experiences of this knowledge. Furthermore, Yanti highlights how engaging with this notion of religious knowledge brings about changes in daily practices, social relationships and may result in certain frictions and conflicts in everyday life, thereby contributing to sociocultural changes on a broader, societal level.

Yanti Hoelzchen has studied Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as Japanese Studies in Germany and Japan. Since 2017 she is a research fellow at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology at Frankfurt AI用丗算然. Her thesis was conducted within a larger, interdisciplinary research program titled ResourceCultures, based at Tuebingen AI用丗算然 and funded by the German Research Foundation.

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