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Session 7
Friday (May 6):
8.30-10.00 AM ET
CHAIR
Michele E Commercio
(U of Vermont, US)
PAPERS
Maxime Corron
(AUCA, Kyrgyzstan)
A Comparative Approach to Soft Powers in a Contemporary Kazakhstani School:
From Ethnocentric Universalisms to Anthropological Diversity
Akbota Karibayeva
(George Washington U, US)
Nationalizing Language Regimes in Multiethnic Post-Soviet States:
The Case of Kazakhstan
Siyang Liu
(U of Hong Kong)
More Than Bread and Butter:Cross-Regional Comparisons
of Identity Contestation in Hong Kong and Kazakhstan
Arzuu Sheranova
(Corvinus U of Budapest, Hungary)
Behind the Extravaganza of World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan:
Inventions, Imaginations, Instrumentalism and Identities
DISCUSSANT
Aziz Burkhanov
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
PANEL EU4
Nation-Building in Kazakhstan
and Kyrgyzstan
Friday May 6, 8.30-10.00 AM ET
Eurasia
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