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DESCRIPTION:Social and political developments in Central Asia received grea
 ter attention following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\, in partic
 ular the immediate impacts of new migrant flows\, sanctions\, and Russia’s 
 greater isolation from the West. However\, much of this analysis\, particul
 arly in the media\, has covered the region only insofar as it illustrates r
 eactions to the war in Ukraine\, rather than contextualizing the effects of
  recent events within a deeper understanding of processes already underway 
 in Central Asia.\n\n \n\nThis panel will showcase new research on grassroot
 s activism\, media use\, and intraregional relations in Central Asia. From 
 Kazakhstan’s quasi-transition of power in 2019 and the rise of the Oyan Kaz
 akhstan movement\, the yearslong impact of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Sadyr Ja
 parov’s dramatic rise to the presidency in Kyrgyzstan in 2020\, unprecedent
 ed street violence in several Kazakhstani cities in January 2022 followed b
 y a brief deployment of CSTO forces to the country\, Central Asian societie
 s were already navigating a series of defining events each deserving of the
 ir own careful analysis even before February 2022.  \n\nThis panel will tra
 ck how these developments and others\, including the war\, have shaped soci
 eties and states. Drawing on a range of data sources as well as disciplinar
 y and professional perspectives\, this panel will also combine the insights
  of researchers from or currently living in Central Asia along with those o
 f researchers with extensive field experience in the region.\n\n \n\nPapers
  and Presenters\n\n \n\nCentral Asian Regional Relations in a Changing Geop
 olitical ContextAizada Nuriddenova is an Assistant Professor in the Social 
 Sciences Department at Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan and curren
 tly a Visiting Scholar at IERES. She holds a PhD in International Relations
 \, specializing in Chinese foreign policy\, from the School of Internationa
 l and Public Affairs at Jilin University in China. Her research interests a
 re centered on Chinese foreign policy and regionalism in Central Asia.\n\n 
 \n\nMedia Trends and Geopolitics: Changes in Central Asian Views of Outside
  PowersEli Adam Feiman\, US Department of State\n\n \n\nAttitudes toward Ru
 ssia’s War on Ukraine in Kazakhstan and KyrgyzstanHannah S. Chapman is the 
 Theodore P. Romanoff Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and an Assistan
 t Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma
 . Her research focus is on comparative political behavior with a substantiv
 e focus on public opinion and political communication in non-democracies an
 d a regional focus on Russian and Central Asian politics. \n\n \n\nHow Risk
 s for Activists Differ Depending on their Gender: Accounts from Kazakhstan\
 , Belarus\, Ukraine\, and Russia Karlygash Kabatova is Program Associate at
  the Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU. Her areas of research and advocacy
  are sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)\, gender education\, 
 gender-based violence and civil activism. Karlygash founded UyatEmes.kz – a
 n SRHR initiative in Kazakhstan. \n\n \n\nDiscussants\n\n \n\nMarsha McGraw
  Olive\, Ph.D.\, is a scholar and practitioner of Russian and Eurasian affa
 irs.  She is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins SAIS and serves on t
 he advisory boards of the Caspian Policy Center and the Eurasia Foundation\
 , and as a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Sch
 olars.\n\n \n\nCorby Johnson\, National Endowment for Democracy \n\n \n\nCh
 air \n\n \n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and
  Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main ar
 eas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and socia
 l issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical
  positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia.
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DTSTART:20231204T150000Z
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LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 505
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress on Central Asia: Social and Political Processes i
 n Central Asia amid Internal and External Shocks (hybrid event)
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