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Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Posted: 4/17/2013
Upcoming conference reflects on 20 years since fall of Soviet Union
To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, the UCLA Center for European and Eurasia Studies is bringing together international experts to discuss the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that have taken place in Russia and its successor states over the past two decades.
Posted: 10/10/2011
Graduate Student Profile: Hannah Reiss
A video interview with Hannah Reiss, PhD candidate in Anthropology
Posted: 1/18/2011
Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia
A book talk by Gul Ozcan, Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London.
Posted: 5/3/2010
No Tulips This Time, But Hope
Ali F. Igmen, a historian at CSU Long Beach who specializes in Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan, recalls the disappointments of the country's 2005 revolution in assessing the events of this week.
Posted: 4/8/2010
Unsettled Deep in Asia
With a film screening and a panel discussion, the UCLA Asia Institute and partners launch a Central Asia Initiative. The goal is to understand societies and cultures long on the fringes of study. Anticipating a UCLA conference in October 2008, historians on the panel ask what changed on the steppes of Central Asia as states acquired the means to move and deport whole peoples, and as nomads increasingly stayed put.
Posted: 5/19/2008
Future of Iraq, Israel-Palestine Conflict, and Central Asia Weighed at International Conference
Three-day meeting at UCLA hears reports on "The Middle East in 2005"
Posted: 5/27/2005
The Rise of Islamic Extremism in Central Asia
Former Uzbek Ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan reviews the development of Muslim groups in his region as Soviet power faded and Saudi and Iranian influence grew.
Posted: 4/28/2005
