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Columns::February 17, 2003
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Campus News
Ninth international symposium will explore ‘Globalization and Change in Central Asia’
By Lloyd Winstead
winstead@uga.edu
The war in Afghanistan waged by the United States against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban following the events of Sept. 11 called the world’s attention to Central Asia--to its religions, its longstanding traditions and values, its histories and their interrelationships.
The Center for Humanities and Arts will sponsor an international symposium on Feb. 19-21 on “Globalization and
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Change in Central Asia.” It is the ninth in the center’s Program for Global Understanding. Approximately 20 distinguished artists, scholars and diplomats will come to Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education to join in discussions about the effect of globalization on the cultures, arts, economies, and politics of the nations of the region.
As an introduction to the symposium, Phi Kappa Literary Society will debate a resolution on U.S. policy in Central Asia at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 in Masters Hall. The resolution will be: “In Central Asia, Islam is more a political tool than a religious movement.” The debate is open to the public.
April Palmerlee, senior coordinator for international women’s issues at the U.S. Department of State, will give the keynote address at 8 p.m. on Feb. 19. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Palmerlee has served as the project director of the Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Afghanistan, which is composed of scholarly experts on the region, journalists, aid workers, U.S. policymakers and U.N. officials.
On Feb. 20, a morning Ambassadors’ Roundtable, in which ambassadors to the United States and the United Nations discuss the effects on Central Asia of the war on terror and other recent events, will be held. The panelists include the ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States, Baktybek Abdrisaev; senior adviser of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations, S. Shahid Husain; ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Madina Jarbussynova; and ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi.
The other roundtable discussions on Feb. 20 and Feb. 21 will focus on cultural connections, women in Central Asia, and building peace and prosperity.
On Feb. 20 at 8 p.m., the Kazakh State Chamber Orchestra Academy of Soloists will perform traditional music of the region. The Academy of Soloists is the leading musical collective of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Founded in 1991 by violinist Aiman Mussakhajayeva, who is its art director, and her two sisters, Bakhatzhan Mussakhajayeva and Raushan Mussakhajayeva, the group performs both Western classical music and Kazakh traditional music.
The chamber orchestra has played throughout Europe, East Asia and North America, and its musicians have received numerous awards in international competitions.
Gary Bertsch, director of the Center for International Trade and Security and University Professor of Political Science, and Betty Jean Craige, director of the Center for Humanities and Arts, co-chaired the program committee. Milton Masciadri, professor of music, planned the musical event.
For program details: www.cha.uga.edu/symposia/central_asia_program.htm |
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