University of Exeter, 21–22 March 2011
Off-campus visitors can see a map with an arrow pointing to the location of the Amory building here.
Monday 21 March
12.00–1.00pm: Arrival
Please convene at John Heathershaw’s office: Room 229, Amory building, Rennes drive.
1.00–2.00pm, Lunch: Location TBA
2.00–3.00pm, Roundtable: Kyrgyzstan’s political crisis, Amory building, Room 316
With students from John Heathershaw’s third-year module, Central Asian Politics.
Chair: John Heathershaw
Speakers:
- Madeleine Reeves, Steffi Ortmann, Asel Doolotkeldieva, plus others
3.15–4.45pm, Panel 1: The Family and gender relations, Room 402
Chair: Madeleine Reeves
Speakers:
- Medina Aitieva, University of Manchester: “An Approach to the Study of the Transnational Family in Kyrgyzstan”
- Zulfiya Bakhtibekova, University of Exeter: “Early female marriages in Tajikistan: understanding the reasons”
5.15–6.45pm, Seminar: Queens Building, Margaret Room 1
Chair: John Heathershaw
Speaker:
- Madeleine Reeves, University of Manchester: “Mourning, violence and political community in Kyrgyzstan’s ‘April Events’ of 2010”
7.30pm onwards: Nooruz celebration at the [then] home of Zamira Dildorbekova
Tuesday 22 March
9.15–10.45am: Panel 2: Politics and political change in Kyrgyzstan, Room 239C
Chair: Steffi Ortmann
Speakers:
- Zamira Dildorbekova, University of Exeter: “Why civil war over peaceful democratic transition: A prehistory to contemporary analysis of authoritarianism and democracy in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan”
- Asel Doolotkeldieva, University of Exeter: “Conditions for democratization within the Kyrgyz society”
- Elima Karalaeva, University of Exeter: “Tax reform and fiscal consolidation in the Kyrgyz Republic”
11.15–12.45pm: Panel 3: Political economy and the state, Amory 229
Chair: John Heathershaw
- Gulzat Botoeva, University of Essex: “Drug economy in the post-soviet Kyrgyzstan”
- Timor Sharan, University of Exeter: “Network politics and the state in Afghanistan”
- Zulfia Satimbai, Amnesty International: TBC