CHAIR

Michele E Commercio

(U of Vermont, US)

michele.commercio@uvm.edu

 

PAPERS

Maxime Corron

(AUCA, Kyrgyzstan)

corronmaxime@gmail.com 

A Comparative Approach to Soft Powers in a Contemporary Kazakhstani School:

From Ethnocentric Universalisms to Anthropological Diversity

 

Akbota Karibayeva

(George Washington U, US)

akaribayeva@gwu.edu 

Nationalizing Language Regimes in Multiethnic Post-Soviet States:

The Case of Kazakhstan

 

Siyang Liu

(U of Hong Kong) 

liusy19@connect.hku.hk 

More Than Bread and Butter:Cross-Regional Comparisons 

of Identity Contestation in Hong Kong and Kazakhstan

 

Arzuu Sheranova

(Corvinus U of Budapest, Hungary)

arzuusher@gmail.com 

Behind the Extravaganza of World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan:

Inventions, Imaginations, Instrumentalism and Identities

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DISCUSSANT

Aziz Burkhanov

(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)

aziz.burkhanov@nu.edu.kz

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