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Spotlight on Central Asian Studies
- Thursday, October 23, 2025 EDT
- 10:45am EDT
10:45am to 12:30pm EDT (10:45am to 12:30pm EDT)
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Memory and Migration: Screen Visions of Past and Future Lives in Russian and Central Asian Cinema
Sub Unit: Cinema, Television, Electronic Media
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:45am to 12:30pm EDT (10:45am to 12:30pm EDT)
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Book Discussion: The Eastern International Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire, by Masha Kirasirova
Sub Unit: History: 1900-1945
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 1:00pm EDT
1:00 to 2:45pm EDT (1:00 to 2:45pm EDT)
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Erasure and Resilience in Eastern European Architectures
Sub Unit: Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 3:15pm EDT
3:15 to 5:00pm EDT (3:15 to 5:00pm EDT)
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Post-Soviet Queer Writing
Sub Unit: Gender/LGBTQ Studies
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- Friday, October 24, 2025 EDT
- 1:00pm EDT
1:00 to 2:45pm EDT (1:00 to 2:45pm EDT)
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Remembering Queer Futures: Reflections on Queer-Worldmaking in Russia and Central Asia in the 2000-2020
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- Thursday, November 20, 2025 EST
- 1:00pm EST
1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Shades of Russian Orientalism: Comparing Imperial Russian Entanglements with Islamic and Buddhist Easts
Sub Unit: History: 1800-1900
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Placing Climates Across (Post-)Soviet Regions: Knowing, Writing, Planning
Sub Unit: Geography, Environmental Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Allah, Tengri, Science, or Something Else?: Alternative Spirituality, Religion, and Nation-building in Perestroika and the Post-Soviet Era
Sub Unit: History: Since 1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 3:00pm EST
3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Thinking with the Steppes as an Environmental, Socio-Political, and Epistemic Space
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Public Attitudes and Propaganda of Heroic Labor in Ego and Official Sources: A Case Study of Kazakh SSR during WWII
Sub Unit: History: 1900-1945
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Daring, Subversive, Transgressive: Strategies of Self-Representation in 20th-Century Central Asian Art
Sub Unit: Arts II: Music, Theater, Performance Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices I: Translating
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Yugoslav Memories II: Remembering after Yugoslavia: Archives, Feelings, and Anachronistic Memories
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 5:00pm EST
5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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The Path
Sub Unit: Film Series
Session Submission Type: Film
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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Public Opinion and International Security: Identity, Media, and Influence in Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Sub Unit: International Relations, Security Studies, Foreign Policy
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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Local Agency and the Limits of Imperial Knowledge in the Kazakh Steppe and Beyond
Sub Unit: History: 1800-1900
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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Unruly Acts: Polish and Polish Jewish Women Resisting War and Persecution
Sub Unit: History: 1900-1945
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices II: Performing
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 6:45pm EST
6:45 to 8:15pm EST (6:45 to 8:15pm EST)
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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Reception
Sub Unit: Ancillary Events
Session Submission Type: Ancillary Event
Add/Remove Session Submission- 7:30pm EST
7:30 to 9:00pm EST (7:30 to 9:00pm EST)
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Celebrating Central Asian and Southeast European Literature in Translation with Turkoslavia
Sub Unit: Ancillary Events
Session Submission Type: Ancillary Event
Add/Remove Session Submission- 8:00pm EST
8:00 to 10:00pm EST (8:00 to 10:00pm EST)
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40 Days of Silence (Chilla)
Sub Unit: Film Series
Session Submission Type: Film
Add/Remove Session Submission- Friday, November 21, 2025 EST
- 8:00am EST
8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Negotiating the Colonial Gaze: Russian and Soviet Visual Culture in Domestic and International Contexts
Sub Unit: Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Empires of Paper: Knowledge Production, Paper Technology, and Power in Imperial and Soviet Central Asia
Sub Unit: History: 1800-1900
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Book Discussion: The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship, by Diana T. Kudaibergen
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 10:00am EST
10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Renegotiating Soviet Ethnofederalism in Central Asia under Brezhnev
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Social History of the Kazakh Steppe in the 19th - Early 20th Centuries as a Factor in the Formation of Historical Memory
Sub Unit: History: 1800-1900
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Writing the Self, Nation, and Empire
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 1:30pm EST
1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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Aka, My Russian Uncle
Sub Unit: Film Series
Session Submission Type: Film
Add/Remove Session Submission1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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Museums, Memory, and Violence: From Colonial Turkestan to Soviet Estonia and Post-Socialist Poland
Sub Unit: History: Since 1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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Authoritarian Politics in Central Asia: Adaptations and Innovations
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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Intersections of War, Science, and Legal Frameworks: Shaping Crime, Violence and Justice Across Historical and Geographical Contexts
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 3:30pm EST
3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Behind the Mask: Contemporary Drag Culture in Kazakhstan
Sub Unit: Film Series
Session Submission Type: Film
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Moral Economies of Reproduction in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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“Good Mothers” and (Nation)lisms: The Case of Lithuania, Authoritarian Russia, and of the Postsocialist Migrant Mothers in Sweden
Sub Unit: Gender/LGBTQ Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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What does 1991 Mean in Central Asia?: Oral Histories of a Turning Point
Sub Unit: History: Since 1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Building (and Resisting) Nation and Empire: Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Cultural Heritage as Usable Pasts
Sub Unit: Folklore Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Statecraft and Geoeconomics: Impacts on Energy and Infrastructure in Central Eurasia
Sub Unit: International Relations, Security Studies, Foreign Policy
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Dear, Queer, and Slow: Soviet Cinema Remembered
Sub Unit: Cinema, Television, Electronic Media
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Musical Genealogies and Remembered Pasts in Central Asia
Sub Unit: Arts II: Music, Theater, Performance Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- Saturday, November 22, 2025 EST
- 8:00am EST
8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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The Ukraine War: Reshaping Central Asia?
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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New Perspectives on the Biography and Works of Vasily Grossman: Archival Discoveries of the 2020s
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 10:00am EST
10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Environmentalists, Spies, and Scientists: Remote Sensing in and of Eurasia I
Sub Unit: Geography, Environmental Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Politics of Infrastructure across the Soviet/Post-Soviet Transition
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Migrants Negotiating Identity Beyond the Soviet Space: Central Asian and White Russian Experiences
Sub Unit: History: 1900-1945
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Book Discussion: Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment, by eds. Ann-Mari Sätre, Yulia Gradskova and Vladislava Vladimirova
Sub Unit: Gender/LGBTQ Studies
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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The Vanishing Self: The Politics of Forgetting in Russophone and Balkan Literatures and Film
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Left Perspectives on Decolonization and Geopolitics II: Decolonization or Ethnonationalism? The Ups and Downs of Post-Soviet Decolonial Discourse
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 12:00pm EST
12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Two Poets and a River
Sub Unit: Film Series
Session Submission Type: Film
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Soviet Materialities: Socialist Things, Environments, and Affects
Sub Unit: Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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The Armed Forces of Central Asia
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Homeland in Exile: Navigating Belonging in the Soviet Union
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Post-Imperial Reckonings: Decolonization, Memory, and Russian Influence
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Textures of Memory in Films of the Soviet Peripheries
Sub Unit: Cinema, Television, Electronic Media
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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The Role of Courts in Eurasia
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Resources for Teaching about Kazakhstan
Sub Unit: Linguistics/Language Pedagogy/Translation
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 2:00pm EST
2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Ritual Otherworlds in Oral Traditions of Matrimony, War, and Death
Sub Unit: Folklore Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Reimagining Modern Russian Drama: New Interpretations and Productions
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 4:00pm EST
4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Russian Migration to Central Asia and the Caucasus: Shifting Narratives
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Visual Culture in Central Asia I: Repetition and Reenactment
Sub Unit: Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan, by Marianne Kamp
Sub Unit: History: 1900-1945
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- Sunday, November 23, 2025 EST
- 8:00am EST
8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Language and Education in Estonia and Kazakhstan: Discourses of the Past and Visions of the Future in Policy
Sub Unit: Sociology, Public Health, Education
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Activism among Russian Migrants
Sub Unit: Politics/Law
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Eco-Mnemonics as Colonial Critique in Literature and the Arts
Sub Unit: Literature: 21st Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Narrative and Memory in Kazakh Literature
Sub Unit: Literature: 20th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Space, Place, and Mediated Memory in Baltic and East European Cinema
Sub Unit: Cinema, Television, Electronic Media
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Urban Histories of Central Eurasia: Memory, Mobility, and Modernization
Sub Unit: Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 10:00am EST
10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Space and Place in the Cultural Representations of/in the Global East
Sub Unit: Urban Studies, Built Environments
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Memory in Creation: The Artistic Legacy of the Soviet Past, Present, and Future
Sub Unit: Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Liberal Arts Education: Freedom of Memory and the Memory of Freedom
Sub Unit: Sociology, Public Health, Education
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Bringing Central Asia into the Classroom
Sub Unit: Professional Development, Non-language Pedagogy, State-of-Field
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Industrialization, Deindustrialization, and the Soviet Modernization Project: Revisiting Economic Transformations in Late Soviet Central Asia
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Botanical Histories of Tsarist Central Asia and the Caucasus
Sub Unit: History: 1800-1900
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 12:00pm EST
12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Visual Culture in Central Asia II: Spectatorship and Consumption
Sub Unit: Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Soviet Internationalism at Home and Abroad
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Dostoevsky on the Margins
Sub Unit: Literature: 19th Century
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission