Session 4
Thursday (May 5):
8.30-10.00 AM ET
CHAIR
Brent Hierman
(Virginia Military Institute, US)
PAPERS
Nandini Bhattacharya
(Calcutta Girls’ College, India)
Inculcating “Vatandori” or National Belongingness in Post-Soviet Tajikistan:
Image of Nationhood in the School Texts for the Citizen Body in the Making
David Nolle
(National Coalition of Independent Scholars, US)
Islam and Ethnic Tolerance in Central Asia:
Assessing the Role of Muslim Religiosity in Kyrgyz Acceptance
of Uzbeks and Russians Living in Kyrgyzstan
DISCUSSANT
Hélène Thibault
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)