CHAIR
Anna Vozna
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
PAPERS
Gizem Kaftan
(Boston U, US)
The Invention of Tradition and New Turkey:
Creating a New National Identity
Anna Novikov
(U of Greifswald, Germany)
Patriotic Fashion and Performance in the Post-Communist Eurasia
Kunduz Niiazova
(Tel-Aviv U, Israel)
Empire, Nationality, and Modernity in Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Nexus of Kyrgyz-Jewish Intellectuals
and Formation of Kyrgyz Cultural Identity 1930-1970
Moira O’Shea
(U of Chicago, US)
Kok-boru (Kyrgyzstan’s National Sport) :
Beyond Invention of Tradition
DISCUSSANT
Dina Sharipova
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)