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Wednesday 17 June

Session 1
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ANT002 Ethnic repatriation as migration: revisiting return and integration in Kazakhstan
GEND002 Gender, voice, and cultural memory in Kazakh discourse: from proverbs to post-soviet literature
HIST003 Traditions of Authority and Statecraft across the Eurasian Steppe
HIST025 Commodities and Imperial Infrastructure
LANG002 Academic Writing in Higher Education
LIT003 Regimes of Legitimacy: Representing Authority, Tradition, and Knowledge in the Kazakh Context
POL004 From Security Order to Security Flux: Rethinking Central Asian Security Architecture
POL021 One Family, Many Agendas: The Organization of Turkic States Between Solidarity and Friction
REL001 Faith, Identity and the Empires
SOC011 Rethinking positionality in the era of “I feel offended”
SOC016 Negotiating Kazakhstani identity in a changing world

Session 2
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ANT008 Beyond Socialism and Islam: Practices and Belonging
BUS001 Corporate Governance and Sustainable Development in Central Asia
CULT011 Polygamy in Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Cinema: Traditional Discourses vs. Lived Realities
HIST001 Interpreting Sources: Discourses of Historical Events in Late Medieval and Early Modern Central Asia and the Caucasus
HIST036 Sects, Schisms, and Politics
LANG007 Leadership and Language Studies
POL006 Recent Institutional Adaptations in Central Asia: Universities, NGOs, Media, and Think Tanks
POL019 Dynamics of Great Powers Competition
PUB002 Living Law and Layered Governance: Informal Institutions and Administrative Legacies in Central Asia
SOC006 Marxism in/on Central Asia
SOC010 Multiple identity and social consensus: social distance and accord in Central Eurasia

Session 3
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ANT010 Diasporas after Socialism
ANT011 Material Histories and Interpretations
CULT006 Central Eurasia’s Crossroads: Cultural Exchange and Economic Adaptation
EDU001 Collaborative Action Research: In Search of Professional Autonomy
GEND003 Men and masculinities in Central Asia
HIST007 Russian Imperial Rule in Kazakhstan: Knowledge, Economic Development, Memory, and Society [English&Russian]
HIST022 Diaspora and Displacement in Central Asia
MED001 Artificial Intelligence, Media, and Journalism Education in Central Eurasia: Rethinking Knowledge, Technology, and Power
POL003 From Resistance to Connectivity: Iran’s Strategic Pivot to Central Eurasia
SOC009 Ethnic (Out)Migration and Co-Ethnic Interaction in Central Eurasia: Dynamics, Policies and Identity Dilemmas
SOC014 Interpersonal conflict and relationships in post-Soviet societies

Session 4
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ANT017 Critical perspectives and challenges in material culture research: Central Asian Textiles (HALI, 2025) by Snezhana Atanova and Theresa Tereza Hejzlarová
CULT005 Political Ideology Through Visual Culture
ECON002 Labor and Mobility
EDU007 Education system transformation
HIST010 The Book Culture of Muslims in the Steppe Region in the 19th and the early 20th Centuries: Approaches, Sources, and Social Significance
HIST023 Diasporic Communities and Networks
POL005 The Kleptocratic Enterprise: Redefining kleptocracy for the offshore era
POL022 Inventing the Nation: Identity, Memory, and the Politics of Belonging
PUB003 The book ‘Political Economy of Kazakhstan: From Neoliberal Dogma to Social Catastrophe. Includes a glossary of neoliberal euphemisms and postmodernist concepts’
SOC005 Research for Whom? Applied Qualitative Studies and the Positive Dual Use of Knowledge
SOC020 The Return Journeys of Koryo Saram: Tracing Roots and Routes—Academic Contributions and Prospects for Future Research
URB005 Urban Studies and Transitional Spaces

Thursday 18 June

Session 5
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ANT009 The Imprint of the Imperial
ECON001 Inflation, Structural Dependence, and Household Vulnerability in Post-2022 Central Asia.
EDU010 Pedagogy
HIST002 The hermeneutics of historical and literary occurrences in Turkestan during the 18th - early 20th centuries
HIST008 Kyrgyz Nomads between Empire and Socialism: Reconfiguring Power, Mobility, and Governance, Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries
LANG001 "Voices of Steppe and Taiga - Bridging the Digital Divide: Language Documentation and Resource Development for the Languages of Central and Northern Asia" (I and II)
LIT004 Translation, Censorship, and Decolonization in Central Asian Literature
POL015 Words as Weapons: Russian Discourse, Revisionism, and Regional Threat Framing
POL026 Reform and the Limits of Transformation
PUB004 Digital Governance and the Reconfiguration of State Power: Transparency, Participation, and Control
SOC008 Kazakh/Kazakhstani diaspora: Adaptation strategy, identity, new trends

Session 6
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ANT004 Migration and Welfare Austerity: Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan, Berghahn Books, 2026 (March)
EDU009 Navigating higher education transformation
GEND006 Gendered Labor Markets and Work-Life Balance
HIST011 Book Presentation for the 110th Anniversary of Urkun: Memory Practices and Contemporary Approaches to a Traumatic Past
HIST020 Imagining and Making the Kazakh Nation
LIT002 Contested Bodies: Representing Corporeality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Cultural Production
MED003 Social Media and Television in Central Asia: Negotiating Public Discourse, Decoloniality and Geopolitical Landscapes
POL020 Stitching the Region Together: Integration, Institutions, and Economic Cooperation
POL024 Soft Power, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Art of Attraction
PUB005 Society in Transition: Public Attitudes, Identity, and Knowledge in Central Asia
SOC001 Legal Precarity, Vernacular Navigation, and Migrant Agency across Central Eurasia and Beyond

Session 7
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ANT001 (1/2) Ethical and Secure Research in a Changing World. An Open Discussion about Methodology under Surveillance, Inequality, Propaganda and State Violence (I and II)
ANT007 Dealing with Institutional Volatility: Food Production, Processing and Trade in South-Eastern Qazaqstan
HIST004 Hybridity, Alterity, and Boundary-Crossing
HIST006 Empire, Nationalism, and Ethnicity in Central Eurasia
HIST032 Limits of Memory Politics
LANG005 Kazakhstani Languages I
LIT005 Literary Representations in Central Asian Texts: Perfomativity, Complexities and Criticism
POL011 Reform and Power in Political and Economic Context of Central Asia
REL002 Religion in Memory and Institutions
SOC004 Book Discussion: "Traditions and Values of Kazakhs in the XXI century," Edited by Alima Bissenova (2025), Astana: "Foliant"
SOC012 Computational Social Science: Applications to Central Asian Studies

Session 8
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ANT001 (2/2) Ethical and Secure Research in a Changing World. An Open Discussion about Methodology under Surveillance, Inequality, Propaganda and State Violence (I and II)
GEND007 Representations of Gender in History and Arts
GEO001 Environmental Ideologies in Central Eurasia: Regional and Local Dimensions
HIST012 From the Caucasus to Xinjiang: The Interests of Empires in the Context of Historical Time [Russian]
HIST031 Digital Humanities and Central Asian Studies
LANG004 Diasporic Languages
LIT001 Kazakh Decolonial Intellectual Discourse: Language, Literature, History, and Politics in the XXth Century Қазақтың деколониялық интеллектуалдық дискурсы: ХХ ғасырдағы тіл, әдебиет, тарих және саясат
POL028 People on the Move: Migration, Mobility, and Transnational Lives
PUB001 Varieties of Neoliberalism: From Authoritarian to Plutocratic to ‘Progressive’. Political, Economic, and Social Dimensions
SOC003 The formation and development of contemporary soft power of Central Asian countries
SOC015 Gender and Family Law in the Late Imperial and early Soviet Periods
 
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