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Pax Turcica Conference is an academic initiative started in 2009 by a group of Turkic grassroots organizations with the aim of promoting knowledge and scholarship about the history, culture, language, economy, politics and contemporary development of Turkic-speaking nations. The First Pax Turcica Conference is being organized on May 16, 2009 at Columbia University, PROGRAM |
Introduction: Official Opening & Invited Speeches | | Tomris Azeri, Ali Cinar, Dr. Albert Bressand and Dr. Javid Huseynov | | · Organizers' welcome and the official opening of the First Pax Turcica Conference | 10:00 am | | Ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan | | · Cooperation of Turkic States: Past, Present, Future | 10:20 am | | A minute of silence in memory of the victims of April 30, 2009 violence at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy
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| I. Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Identity | | Dr. Audrey Altstadt | Professor & Department Chair | University of Massachusetts Amherst | | · Language, naming, and national identity in Azerbaijan, 1880s to 1930s | 11:00 am | | Dr. Altay Goyushov | Visiting Professor | University of California Los Angeles | | · Building strong & sophisticated national consciousness: Azerbaijani definition of Turkic identity | 11:15 am | | Dr. Umut Uzer | Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Maryland / Harvard University | | · Pan-Turkism in the works of Gokalp and Atsız | 11:30am | | Dr. Sylvia Önder | Professor | Georgetown University | | · A 1991 anthology of modern short stories from Azerbaijan for an Anatolian Turkish audience | 11:45am | | Nurhayat Bilge | Ph.D. Student | Arizona State University | | · Cultural identity of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks
| 12:00pm | | Dr. Tadeusz Swietochowski | Professor | Monmouth University | | · The development of Azerbaijani national identity in 20th century | 12:15pm | | Dr. Uli Schamiloglu | Professor | University of Wisconsin-Madison | | · The Past, Present, Future of Turkic Linguistic Unity: A Global Perspective of Literary Languages | 12:30pm | | Dr. Sani Hajiyev | Professor & Dean | Baku State University | | · Azerbaijani-Ottoman relations at the end of World War I | 12:45pm | | Dr. Parvin Ahanchi | Fulbright Scholar / Honorary Fellow | University of Wisconsin-Madison | | · Pearls from the archives: On the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Islam and national identity | 01:00pm | | | | | | | | II. Energy Security, Diplomacy & Global Interests in the Turkic-speaking region
| | Dr. Albert Bressand
| Professor & Director | Columbia University, SIPA Center for Energy | | · A European Perspective on the Development of Eurasian Energy Relations | 02:00pm | | Özgem Örnektekin | Energy Consultant (AECOM Energy) | The City of New York | | · Energy planning and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions | 02:15pm | | Elin Suleymanov | Consul General
| Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles | | · Geopolitics of Energy Security in Eurasian and Turkic context | 02:30pm | | Dr. Tuncay Babalı | Counselor | Embassy of Turkey in the U.S.
| · Energy Cooperation Potential of the Turkic Nations and Essentials for the Eurasian Energy Security
| 02:45pm | | Dr. Hakan Yavuz | Professor | University of Utah | | · Turkish identity and foreign policy in the context of regional strategic interests | 03:00pm | | Bek-Ali Yerzhan | Ph.D. Candidate / Lecturer | Kazakh National University / Columbia University | | · Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy | 03:15pm | | Vladimir Socor | Political Analyst | Jamestown Foundation
| | · Energy Corridors and the Geopolitical Game
| 03:30pm | | Baktygoul Koubanytchbekova | Freidmann Fellow | Columbia University, School of Law | | · Kyrgyzstan and the New Great Game: Regional Cooperation and the Geopolitical Interests of the Great Powers
| 03:45pm | | | | | | | | III. Society, Media, Civic Engagement & Grassroots | | Dr. Javid Huseynov
| President
| Azerbaijani-American Council | | · Pax Turcica Platform: A Vision of Future | 04:00pm | | Dr. Leyla Ismayilova | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Columbia University | | · Women in Azerbaijan: A Step Forward to the Past | 04:15pm | | Assel Rustemova | Ph.D. Student
| Rutgers University
| | · Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Contrasting the Political Realm in Authoritarian Liberalism | 04:30pm | | Farkhod Muradov | Co-founder / AVP
| Uzbek Initiative / Capital Group | | · Outlook of Global Uzbek Community organizing: The case of Uzbek Initiative | 04:45pm | | Tulin Daloglu | Columnist / Washington Bureau Chief | HaberTurk
| | · The Role of Media in Turkish-Azeri relationship | 05:00pm | | Dr. Lala Abasova | Visiting Scholar | Georgetown University | | · Development of civil society and democratization: ADR experience | 05:15pm | | Ali Cinar | Member of Turkish Diaspora Advisory Board | State Ministry of Turkish Republic | | · The future of Turkic Diaspora in the U.S. | 05:30pm | | Dr. Adil Baguirov | Managing Director | U.S. Turkic Network | | · Grassroots advocacy: From social networks to political networks - and back
| 05:45pm | | Alexandria Sultan von Bruseldorff | Graduate Student | Westminster Choir College / Uzeyir Hajibeyov Caspian Mugham Opera Federation APFA of America | | · Uzeyir Hajibeyov father of Azeri opera, the history of the distinctive futures of Azeri opera, Women of Azerbaijan in Music | 06:00pm | | Mehriban Efendiyeva | Spokeswoman | Azerbaijani Women of America | | · The role of women's associations in protecting and promoting the cultural identity amongst young Azerbaijani-Americans
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