Fourth East Asian Conference on Slavic and Eurasian Studies
4-5 September 2012
Kolkata
Venue: Azad Bhavan, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
IB 166, Sector III
Salt Lake City 700106
Kolkata
Panels

1. Spaces in History
Chair: Professor Madhavan K. Palat
Discussant:Sergei Lyubichankovsky: Experience of creation of regions’ images in the Russian Empire military science
Dmitry Vasiliev: Russians Myths about Turkestan: Dynamics of Images and Practices

S.I. Kovalskaya- Kazakh steppes of 19th– early 20th century: the northernmost end of the Muslim world or thesouth of the Eurasian space?
Iqboljon Qoraboyev-Escaping ‘Central Asia’’: How the region’s image influencing normative search forregional identity in post-Soviet space
Yoko Tateishi: Rewriting “the history of the USSR” during the Khrushchev period
Arup Banerji- Perceptions of Central Asia in Mohanlal’s travels

2. Post-Soviet as Post-Colonial: Shared or Non-Shared History of Soviet Past in Eurasia
Chair: Prof. Zifa Auezova
Discussant: Dr. Munira Shahidi

Diana Kudaibergenova: Imagining Post-colonial Geography in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Boram Shin: The Construction of the Red Colony in Uzbekistan between the 1920s-1930s
Nikolai Murashkin: Russian Foreign Policy Beyond Central Asia: Construction of post-Soviet Eurasia

3. Regional conflicts in Eurasia: Political Violence as a Factor of Domestic Politics: Dagestan, South
Ossetia, and Transnistria
Chair: Professor Purabi Roy
Discussant: Prof. Gautam Basu

Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov: Politics around the so-called Struggle against Wahhabism in Dagestan (inRussian)
Kimitaka Matsuzato: Domestic Politics of South Ossetia in the Environment of Conflict Regulation: 1990-2012

Keiji Sato: Europeanizing Moldova at the 'Grassroot' level: How to Deal with the Transnistrian Conflict
Effectively?
Debidutta Aurobinda Mohapatra: Mapping Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus

4. Policies and Structures
Chair: Professor Ajay Patnaik
Discussant: Bijoy Kumar Das

Wang Ning-Analysis of Russian foreign policy strategy after Vladimir Putin’s comeback as President
Abdurahim Juraev-Prospects of studying of the Central Asia in a new research field ” Regional Studies” inframework of University of SCO (The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
Akbota Zholdasbekova-The foreign policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a factor in creating a positive
image of the state
Rupakjyoti Borah- The energy factor in India’s foreign policy towards Russia and Central Asia
Lopamudra Bandyopadhyay- Nation-building in Turkmenistan: A comparison of the Evolution of Nations
within the Central Asian Sphere

The image of Central Asian borderlands
Chair:
Discussant:Feng Shaolei: Historical Inheritance and Evolution of Northeast Asian Regional Image
Hyun G. Park-'Comparing image of neighbour in China-Russia borderland of Northeast Asia'.
Sharad Soni: Debates on the nomadic space of Mongolia and Kazakhstan
Arai Yukiyasu-The Language Policy of Kalmykia in 1990s-search for new identity after collapse of Soviet
Union

5. Images of transition and integration (Session I)
Chair: Prof. Mahavir Singh
Discussant:Haiyan Wang- Comparative study of economic structural reform about medium and small countries intransition-based on the basis of analysis of the five Central Asian countries
Yang Cheng-: Chinese Acts Shape the Behaviour of Central Asian Countries in Post-Soviet Period: Research onContemporary Political Developments from the Perspective of Regime Security
Sreemati Ganguli:- Silk Road as an integrative Concept: the 21st Century Scenario
Meena Singh Roy- Iran’s engagement with Central Asia: trends and analysis

6. Images of transition and integration (Session II)
Chair:
Discussant:Paul Richardson- Reordering and reimagining post-Soviet space: The Eurasian Union
Zamirbek Manasov- Evaluation of New Custom Union within the dimensions of Central Asian Economic
integration: New dimension, new hope
R.G. Gidadhubli- Eurasian Economic Union: Opportunities and challenges

7. Image of the region in the Archives
Chair:
Discussant:H.S. VasudevanPurabi RoySobhanlal Duttagupta-

8. The Indo-Persian ecumeneChair: Professor Mushtaq Kaw
Discussant: Dilorom Karomat

Umedjon Majidi- Tajik-Indian Relations in XX-XXI centuries - Cultural aspects
Nandini Bhattacharya- Reinventing Culture: The Tajik experience of Post-Soviet Years
Rajarshi Ghose- Comparative Paradigms of Islamization: Inner Asia and India
Anwesha Ghosh- The Central Asia factor in India-Afghanistan Relations

9. Central Europe as a region in Slavic Eurasian studies
Chair: Purushottam Bhattacharya
Discussant:Hiroshi Fukuda- Milan Hodza's Idea of Central Europe: Agrarian Democracy between Germany and Soviet-Russia
Dmitry Selster- Comparing Postcommunism «Big» and Postcommunism «Small»: The Constitutional Elections
in Russia (1991) and Macedonia (1990).
Minori Takahashi- The EU ‘Regulatory Empire’ and Whale Protection Regulation

10. Culture and the region (Session I)
Chair: Dr. Ranjana Saxena
Discussant:Gafur Juraev-Image of Central Asia in fine arts: pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods
Tassiya Marmontova-Culture of post-Soviet Kazakhstan: between traditionalism and globalization
Takahashi Sanami: Everyday life and the Soviet rituals under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
Baktygul Ismailova- Education and Nation Building in post-Soviet Central Asia

11. Culture and the region (Session II)
Chair: Prof. Anuradha Chanda
Discussant- Goutam GhoshAkiko Honda- The “Ensemble” of People’s Bodies and Socialist Realist Architecture: The All-Union
Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) in Soviet Movies
Rashmi Doraiswamy- Presentation and representation: Subjectivity through history in Kazakh cinema
Reyaz Mohammad- Post-Soviet Media in Central Asia: With Special Focus on Coverage of Presidential
elections of Kyrgyzstan

12. Some aspects of Soviet Literature and Society
Chair: Prof. Rashmi Doraiswamy
Discussant:Mike Nicholson- Patterns of Contemplation and Resistance in early writings of Solzhenitsyn
Isabelle Faure Jaitley-The Eurasian philosophical movement and Solzhenitsyn’s vision of Russia
Junna Norimatsu- Questions of Property and Desire in Early Soviet Literature
Maeda Shiho- Gender Hierarchy in Representation of War in Soviet Culture and Literature in the Second Halfof the 20th Century
Ranjana Saxena- Representing the Region: Creative writings ‘then’ and ‘now’