CHAIR

Anatolii Tokmantcev

(UCLA, US)

atokmantcev@ucla.edu

 

 

PAPERS

Abigail Scripka

(ZZF Postdam, Germany)

abbyscripka@gmail.com

Tengrism as a Lived Religion in Kazakhstan and its Role in National Identity Building

 

Aidan Islyami

(Kazakh-British Technical U)

aidan.islyami@gwu.edu

Footprint of the Nomadic Culture in Kazakhstan and Its Implications for Development

 

Agnieszka Smelkowska

(UC Berkeley, US)

agnessmelkowska@berkeley.edu

“Comrade Khrushchev speaks that no religion is forbidden”: 

Religious Revival among Ethnic Minorities in Soviet Central Asia

 

 

DISCUSSANT

Morgan Liu

(Ohio State U, US)

liu.737@osu.edu

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