EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES
ESCAS
VII. ESCAS CONFERENCE
27.9. – 30.9. 2000
CENTRAL ASIA
Past-Present-Future
Institut für Ethnologie, Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
(Institute for Social and Culturl Anthropoloy (Ethnology)
Universtätsstraße 7/IV; Neues Institusgebäude, 1010 Wien
Opening Session
Wednesday, September 27,2000
10.00 – 11.00
Neues Institusgebäude Hörsaal I
Welcome Addresses:
Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Prof.Dr. Georg Winckler
Rector of the University of Vienna
Ao.Prof.Dr. Thomas Fillitz
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Touraj Atabaki
Escas President
Central Asia: Past, Present and Future
VII. Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology), University of Vienna
27 to 30 September 2000
The Conference is divided into five panels, covering the following themes
Panel I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia
¨ Tribe and State Relations in Central Asia
¨ Reform, Modernity and Power Struggles in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Perceptions and Practices
¨ History and Education
Panel II: Cultural Manifestations in Central Asia Throughout Time and Space
¨ Linguistics
¨ Literary Traditions
¨ Music
¨ Arts
¨ Archaeology
¨ Sports and Games
Panel III: National, Regional, Global in the Culture of the Central Asian Region
¨ Multiculturalism in Central Asia
¨ Ethnicity and Identity in Central Asia
Panel IV: Religion and Society
¨Religious Beliefs and Practices in Central Asia
Religious Varieties
Shamanism and Healing Spirits
Sufizm
Religion and Politics in Current Central Asia
¨ Forms of Social Organization and their Transformations
Panel V: Economy, Politics and Geopolitics in Central Asia
¨ Economy
Economic Developments in Central Asia: Potentials and Obstacles
Nomadism
¨ Politics and Geopolitics in Central Asia
Human Rights and Democratization
Local Politics and Geopolitics
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
08.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 11.00: Opening Session
11.00 - 13.00: Panel Sessions
ROOM A:
Panel I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia: Tribe and State Relations in Central Asia
11.00 - 13.00: Käthe Uray-Köhalmi
(Department of Inner Asian Studies, University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary)
How Does a Confederacy of Tribes Evolve?
Szabolcs Polgar
(Department of Medieval History, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
Nomadic Empires and Commercial Centers in Medieval East Europe
ROOM B:
Panel III: National, Regional, Global in the Culture of the Central Asian Region: Multiculturalism in Central Asia
11.00 - 13.00: Michal Biran
(Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
China, Nomads and Islam: Multi-Culturalism under the Qara Khitai (Western Liao) Dynasty 1124-1218
Meruert Abuseitova
(Institute of Orientalism of the Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Kazakhstan and Central Asia: Cultural Continuity and Mutual Influences
ROOM C:
Panel IV: Religion and Society: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Religious Variety:
11.00 - 13.00: Shodmon Vakhidov
(Centre of Historiography and Sources, Tashkent State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Zoroastrian Traditions among the Tajik People of the Pendjikent Region of Tajikistan
Zbigniew Jasiewicz
(Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland))
Wall Paintings on 19th Century Houses and Rock Paintings from the Southern Uzbekistan. Do They Belong to the Nouroz Magic?
Alexei Khismatulin
(Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Islam in Central Asia and Caucasus in the Complex Approach of the Study of Islam in the Former Russian Empire
ROOM D:
Panel II: Cultural Manfestations in Central Asian Throughout Time and Space: Linguistics:
11.00 - 13.00: Stefan Buchmayer
(Oriental Society-Hammer-Purgstall, Vienna, Austria)
Some Remarks on the Verbal Composition in the Central Asian (South-Eastern) Group of the Turkic Languages
Jadwiga Pstrusinska
(Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
An Attempt to Discover the Origin of Ogham Script
♦ 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 18.30: Panel Sessions
ROOM A:
Panel I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia: Tribe and State Relations in Central Asia
14.00 - 16.15: Oleg Akimushkin
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Eastern Turkestan Chaghatais and Shibanids Mawerannahr Alliance Against the Qazakhs in the Middle of the XVI. Century
Nurten Kilic-Schubel
(Kenyon College, Mount Vernon, Ohio, USA)
The Limitation of Power Towards a Balance Between Yasa and Shari´at in the Shibanid-Uzbek Khanate in 16th Century Central Asia
Hirotake Maeda
(Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan; Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia)
On the Origins of Four Powerful Ghulam Families in Safavid Iran
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00: Paul Geiss
(Department of Political Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
The Problem of Order in the Khanate of Khokand: Between Tribalism and Patrimonialism
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
(Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Frontiers, Centers, and Peripheries: Adapting to Changing Fortunes – the Uzbeks of Afghanistan
ROOM B:
Panel III: National, Regional, Global in the Culture of the Central Asian Region: Multiculturalism in Central Asia
14.00 - 16.15: Jacob Landau
(Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
Political Aspects of the Language Debate in the Ex-Societ Turkic States
V.M. Alpatov
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Multi-Lingualism in Modern Tashkent
Tschangiz Pahlavan
(Berlin, Germany)
New Perspectives of the Iranian Civilization in the 21st Century: Convergence and Conflict
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00: Wolfgang Holzwarth
(Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Central Asian Influence in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakorum, 1500-1800
Olga Brusina
(Department of Central Asia of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
The Participation of the Russian Old-Settlers in the Ritual Life of the Uzbek Community
ROOM C:
Panel IV: Religion and Society: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Religious Variety:
14.00 - 16.15: Dan Shapira
(Department of Comparative Religions and Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
Judaization of Central Asian Traditions as Reflected in the so-called Jewish-Khazar Correspondence
Dov Yaroshevski
(The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Masters and Protected Mennonites in Khorzm, 1882-1935
Sergei Andreyev
(Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, United Kingdom)
The Shaping of the Ismaili Community in Badakhshan
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00:Rustem Zhangozha
(National Ukrainian-Russian Relations Institute, Kiew, Ukraine)
Newly Independent States in Central Asia- within the First Decade of Their Independence
Borys Parakhonsky
(National Ukrainian-Russian Relations Institute, Kiew, Ukraine)
Central Asia: Geo-strategic Survey
ROOM D:
Panel II: Cultural Manfestations in Central Asian throught Time and Space: Literary Traditions
14.00 - 16.15: Irina Morozova
(Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
The World of the Nomadic Culture in the Written and Oral Epic Traditions
Aftandil Erkinov
(Department of the History of the Uzbek Language, Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan)
Poetry of the Nomadic Shibanid Rulers During the Process of Sedentarization
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00:Dilbar Rashidova
(Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Linguistic Culture in the Enlightening Program of Behbudi. Lessons for us
Philippe Frison
(AFRANE and Conseil de l'Europe, Strasbourg, France)
Afghanistan´s Smashed Mirror: Atiq Rahimi's Novel 'Khakestar-o Khak' (Earth and Ashes)
19.00 Reception
Thursday, September 28, 2000
09.30 - 13.00: Panel Sessions:
ROOM A:
Panel I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia: Tribe and State Relations in Central Asia
09.30 - 11.00: Suchandana Chatterjee
(Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta, India)
The Emirat of Bukhara in the 19th and 20th Century: Reflections on Transition
►11.00 - 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45: Irina Erofaeva
(Institute of History and Ethnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan)
The Evolution of Traditional Ruling Elites of the Kazakhs: Nomads in the State Administrative System of the Russia Empire (18th - 20th century)
Juliette Meshkidze
(Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Northern Caucasian Emirat (1919-1920)
ROOM B:
Panel III: National, Regional, Global in the Culture of the Central Asian Region: Ethnicity and Identity in Central Asia
09.30 - 11.00: Marie-Carin von Gumppenberg
(OSCE Mission, Bishkek Kyrgyzstan)
Nation and State-Building in Kazakstan Between Ethnic and Social Conflict
Birgit Schlyter
(Department of Central Asian Studies, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden)
South Korean Business and Culture in Former Soviet Central Asia
►11.00 - 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45: Duygu Köksal
(Atatürk Institute, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)
The Role of the Central Asian Origins of the Turks in the Construction of Turkish Nationalism
Elena Boikova
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Reversion to the Mongolian Script: A Revival of the Self-Consciousness of the Mongols or a Political Campaign?
ROOM C:
Panel IV: Religion and Society: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Shamanism and Healing Spirits
09.30 - 11.00: Giorgio Rota
(Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy)
A Remnant of Shamanistic Beliefs in the Safavid Period: Cannibalism
Judith Schlehe
(Freiburg, Germany)
Shamanism in Mongolia and in the New Age Movements
►11.00 – 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45: Per-Arne Berglie
(Department of Comparative Religion, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
Ritual Possession among Spirit Mediums and Tantric Buddhists
Ildiko Beller-Hann
(Institute for Oriental Studies, Halle, Germany)
Healing Spirits: Belief and Ritual Practice among Uyghur Women in Kazakhstan
ROOM D:
Panel V: Economy, Politics and Geopolitics in Central Asia: Economy: Economic Developments in Central Asia: Potentials and Obstacles
09.30 – 11.00: Raimjon Kh.Alimov
(Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Diversification of the Agricultural Production and Increasing Efficiency of the Agricultural-Industrial Complex in Uzbekistan
Abdulkhalil Razzakov
(Department of Economic History, Tashkent State Economic University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Key Problems of Economic Liberalization in Uzbekistan
►11.00 - 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.00:Klaus Pander
(University of Applied Studies, Trier, Germany)
Tourism in Central Asia- Chance and Challenge for the Heirs of the Great Silk Road only?
♦12.45 - 14.00: Lunch
ROOM A:
Panel I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia: Reform, Modernity and Power Struggles in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Perceptions and Practices:
14.00 - 16.15:Vincent Fourniau
(Institut Français d´Études sur l´Asie Central (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
La collaboration dans le domaine des savoirs, bilans et perspectives
Ingeborg Baldauf
(Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
How many Reformism were there in 1915 Central Asia?
Yana Botsman
(Department of Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine)
Three Modes of Time Perception in the Context of Central Asia´s Cultural Conflict
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00: Dilaram Alimova
(Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
The Views of the Turkistan Jaddidists on the Muslim Culture
Touraj Atabaki
(Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Trans-Caspian Cultural Connections of the Turkistan Jadidists
ROOM B:
Panel III: National, Regional, Global in the Culture of the Central Asian Region: Ethnicity and Identity in Central Asia
14.00 - 16.15: Giampiero Bellingeri
(Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici, Universita „ca´Foscari“ di Venezia, Venice, Italy)
Names of Peoples and Lands of Central Asia in Venetian Manuscript Sources (16th-18th Century)
Vahe Boyajyan
(Department of Iranian Studies, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia)
Iranian Ethnic Elements in Central Asia: The Baluchis of Turkmenistan
Guram Chikovani
(Institute of Asia and Africa, Tbilisi, Georgia)
About the History and Language of Arabs of Central Asia
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00: Ayse Azade Rorlich
(Department of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Identities in Flux: the Mirror of Popular Culture
Dinora Azimova
(Department of International Relations, The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
National, Regional and Global in the Culture of the Central Asia Region
ROOM C:
Panel IV: Religion and Society: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Religion and Politics in Current Central Asia:
14.00 - 16.15: Saidakbar Agzamhodjaev
(Islamic Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Socio-political Processes in Uzbekistan. Islam in the First Half of the 20th Century
Lars-Erik Nyman
(Pedagocial Institute. Lulea Technical University, Lulea, Sweden)
Religion, Society and Politics in Central Asia: God meets Allah
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
Sébastien Peyrouse
(INALCO, Paris, France)
Entre politique et religion: les mouvements chrétiens en Asien centrale post-soviétique
Vyacheslav Ya Belokrenitsky
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
The Shadow of Islamic Radicialism over Central Asia
ROOM D:
Panel V: Economy, Politics and Geopolitics in Central Asia: Economy: Economic Developments in Central Asia: Nomadism:
14.00 - 16.15: Istvan Zimonyi
(Department of Altaistics, Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary)
Notes on the Differences between Bedouin and Inner Asiatic Nomadism
Peter Finke
(Max-Planck-Institute for Ethnological Research, Halle, Germany)
The Current State of Pastoral Nomadism in Central Asia
Bernt Glatzer
(German Foundation for International Development, Bad Honnef, Germany)
Current Nomadism in the Hazarajat and in Ghor
►16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00: Beate Eschment
(Central Asian Seminar; Humbolt Universität Berlin; Germany)
Russians and Kazakh Nomads: a Permanent Misunderstanding?
GulnarTorabekgyzy-Kendirbai
(Almaty, Kazakhstan)
The Struggle for Land on the Kazak Steppe at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Friday, September 29, 2000
09.30 – 13.00: Panel Sessions
ROOM A:
Panel I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia: Reform, Modernity and Power Struggles in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Perceptions and Practices:
09.30 - 11.00: Kahramon Radjabov
(Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
The Significance of the Islamic Factor in the Struggle for the Independence of Turkistan
Reinhard Eisener
(Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)