12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY 15 & 16 MAY 2007
THE EXPLOITATION OF THE LANDSCAPE OF CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA, PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
PROGRAMME
| TUESDAY | |
|---|---|
| 8.30 | Registration, Book Sales, Tea and Coffee |
| 9.00 | Judith WOLFSON, Vice-President, University Relations, University of Toronto Opening Remarks |
| 9.30 | BUNN Stephanie (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Küt and Dzhüt: food and famine in Central Asia |
| 10.00 | KMITA Cathy (York University, Canada) Mongolian Shamanism: A Journey from Healing to Celebration and Exploitation |
| 10.30 | Break - Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00 | MESERVE Ruth (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Trees: Disease and Healing |
| 11.30 | VOADEN Denys (Mongolia Society, Indiana University, USA) Death and Burial Practices in 20th Century Mongolia |
| 12.00 - 1.30 | Light lunch (provided) |
| 1.30 | HEWITT Kenneth (Wilfred Laurier University, Canada) The recovery of colonised landscapes: the first Europeans at the Mustagh Pass, Karakoram |
| 2.00 | LANGE Keely (Research Fellow - Office of Director of National Intelligence, USA) Energy vs. Water: are energy resource exports undermining Central Asian water management? |
| 2.30 | SUKHBAATAR, Soyoljin (National University of Mongolia) The recovery of colonised landscapes: the first Europeans at the Mustagh Pass, Karakoram |
| 3.00-3.15 | Break - Tea and Coffee |
| 3.15 | DYLEVSKAYA Svetlana (Journalist from Kazakhstan) Polychlorinated biphenyls pollution: monitoring the territory and PCB source inventory development - addressing the problem in Kazakhstan |
| 3.45 | SHAMATOV Duishon (Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, Karachi, Pakistan) & ABDUVAHAP Nurbaev ("Oshcoopkurulush",Osh, Kyrgyzstan) From Soviet Uniformity to Present Diversity: House Construction Changes in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and their Effect on People's Living and Ideas |
| WEDNESDAY | |
| 9.00 | Registration, Book Sales, Tea and Coffee |
| 9.30 | BAYARSAIKHAN Dashdondog (University of Oxford, England) The allocation of Armenian Land under the Mongol Noyons |
| 10.00 | BOHNET Adam (University of Toronto, Canada) 'On either side the River': the rise of Nurhaci and Choson's Jurchen subjects |
| 10.30 | ZHAO George (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA) Kongnyo: Korean Tribute Women and Mongol- Koryo Relations during the 13th and 14th Centuries |
| 11.00-11.30 | Break - Tea and Coffee |
| 11.30 | LING, Elaine (photographer, Toronto) Photographs from the series Eternal Blue Sky: Mongolia |
| 12.00 - 1.30 | Light lunch (provided) |
| 1.30 | KARRAR Hasan (University of Toronto, Canada) Reigning in the Periphery: The Modernization of Economic and Human Geographies in Post-Liberation Xinjiang |
| 2.00 | AHMEDJONOV Akmal (Tashkent U. of Informational Technologies, Uzbekistan) Institutional Reforms of Social Security Systems in Central Asia: Impact on Poverty Reduction |
| 2.30 | IBADILDIN Nygmet (University of Tampere, Finland) Resource Curse avoidance policies in Kazakhstan: issues, debates and difficulties in implementation |
| 3.00-3.30 | Break - Tea and Coffee |
| 3.30 | MARUFI Shuhrat (Samarkand Regional Financial Office, Uzbekistan) Trade Performance of the Central Asian Countries since the 1990s |
| 4.00 | SHIRAZI Habibollah (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran) Russian Exploitation of the Landscape of Central Asia: Past and Present |
| 4.30 | Michael GERVERS (University of Toronto) Closing remarks |