Asiac yearly conference
2019
5 December – 6 December
2019
Interdepartmental Research
Centre on Central-Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Università degli Studi –
Roma Tre
via Gabriello Chiabrera
199, Rome
https://goo.gl/maps/DpWNFC6FBGg7d97t6
This conference is organised by professor Simona Merlo of Università degli Studi – Roma Tre and Asiac’s board of directors: Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri, Giorgio Comai, Carlo Frappi, Fabio Indeo, Francesco Mazzucotelli, and Paolo Ognibene
Thursday 5
December
9.00 Registration
9.30 Opening greetings and introduction
Francesco Guida (Università
degli Studi – Roma Tre), president of the Interdepartmental
Research Centre on Central-Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Vittorio Tomelleri (Università
di Macerata), president of ASIAC
9.45 Understanding contemporary Chechnya
Chair: Giorgio Comai (OBCT/CCI)
Image as a tool of power legitimization: the case of Ramzan Kadyrov / Marat Iliyasov (University of St. Andrews)
The Islamisation of the Chechen society under Kadyrov leadership: implication for the national and regional dynamics / Giuliano Bifolchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Chechnya’s current status in the Russian Federation and its geopolitical futures / Giorgio Cella (Catholic University of Milan)
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Language and education in Georgia and the
South Caucasus / Session A
Chair: Vittorio
Tomelleri (Università di Macerata)
The young and the Russian Language in the
contemporary Southern Caucasus /
Daniele Artoni (University
of Verona)
The Language of Academic Journals in Georgia:
Georgian vs Other languages / Gogolashvili Giorgi (Tbilisi State
University) / Tamari Lomtadze (Akaki Tsereteli State University)
Svan-speaking communities and emergent literacy
/ Alessio Giordano (IUSS Pavia)
Issues of Language Policy in First Democratic
Republic of Georgia / Mariam Manjgaladze (Tbilisi State
University)
The origins of Caucasus studies in Georgia
/ Maka Tetradze (Tbilisi State University)
11.30 International relations in Central Asia /
Session B
Chair: TBD
Central Asia: new trends of connectivity and
regional integration / Fabio Indeo
Tamerlane’s trip to Shanghai: analysis of
Sino-Uzbek relations from 1991 to 2016 / Frank Maracchione
(University of Sheffield)
Understanding the Role of Turkey in the
Geo-Politics of the Central Asian States (With Special Reference to
Afghanistan)/ Angana Kotokey (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi, India)
Perspectives on Central Asian Security involving Afghanistan / Anchita Borthakur (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Cultural encounters
Chair: Simona Merlo (Università Roma Tre)
Central Asia in Contemporary Russian
Literature: Among Nostalgia, Stereotypes, History and Myth /
Dmitry Novokhatskiy (Università di Padova)
Georgian-Dagestan ethno cultural relations
X-XIV centuries / Maia
Tsitsvidze (Tbilisi State University)
In search of unknown languages, flowers and
butterflies. The other side of the Russian military expeditions in
Central Asia and the Caucasus / Paolo Ognibene (University of
Bologna)
Country at Crossroads: Oriental-Occidental
Encounters in Georgian Literary Modernism / Irakli Tskhvediani
(Akaki Tsereteli State University)
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Architecture in the Caucasus between urban
form and identity
Chair: Marco Falsetti (Università degli Studi di
Roma “Sapienza”)
Caucasian architecture between vernacular and
modernism / Giusi Ciotoli (Università degli Studi di Roma
“Sapienza”)
The myth of Soviet Tashkent from Revolution to
Reconstruction / Marco Falsetti (Università degli Studi di Roma
“Sapienza”)
The geographic architectures of the Caucasian
landscape / Antonella Pettorruso (Politecnico di Torino)
17.30 Book presentations
Book presentation: Daniel Pommier, “Storia
internazionale dell’Azerbaigian“, Carocci Editore, 2019
Book presentation: Aldo Ferrari, “L’Armenia
perduta“, Salerno Editrice, 2019
17.50 End of session
18.00 Asiac association meeting (in Italian)
Friday 6
December
9.30 In the Caucasus, from the Caucasus
Chair: Carlo Frappi (Università Ca’ Foscari,
Venezia)
Mещанство and Intelligentsia between
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist
Republic / Cristina Boboc (University of Ghent)
Tek Millet, İki Devlet: Turkey and Azerbaijan
between operational environment and psychological environment /
Federico Lanza (Università di Pavia)
The quest for visibility and self-assessment of
the caucasians in Turkey / Fabio L. Grassi (Sapienza University –
Rome)
Armenian Clergy and Conflict Management between
Etchmiadzin and Beirut, 1943–1994 / Francesco Mazzucotelli
(Università di Pavia)
Urban Transformations in Post-Soviet Tbilisi
/ Vincenzo Zenobi
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Domestic politics in contemporary Central Asia
Chair: Amb. Stefano Ravagnan
Protest under Patronal Presidentialism:
Kyrgyzstan, 1991-2010 / Katherine Crofts-Gibbons (King’s
College London)
The role of Kazakh society in the state development: an overview of the current situation, between governmental fickleness and nation branding initiatives / Lucia Bortolotti
Media Education in Kyrgyzstan: Challenges and New Opportunities / Elira Turdubaeva (American University of Central Asia)
Globalization of Kazakhstan Economy: Success or Failure? / Garima Tomar (Visiting scholar, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
The Uzbekistan turn: true changes or just
geopolitical calculations? / Igor
Jelen (Università di Trieste), Alessandro Carile
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Contemporary South Caucasus
Chair: Gabriele Natalizia (Università degli Studi
di Roma “Sapienza”)
The EU’s human rights promotion in the South
Caucasus: constructing ‘civil’ society, depoliticizing human
rights? / Laura Luciani (Ghent University)
The role of bargaining power in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process / Eske van Gils
(University of Kent)
Establishing sustainable peace, the linkage
between financially beneficial energy projects and conflict
resolution: the case of trans-Caspian energy pipelines and
Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict / Gunel Madadli
(University of Bergamo)
Why joining the “international donors
club”? Portraying Azerbaijan’s Humanitarian Diplomacy/ Carlo
Frappi (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
Russia hacked: problematic sources for insights
on conflicts in Ukraine and the South Caucasus / Giorgio Comai
(OBCT/CCI)
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 – South Caucasus linguistics
Chair: Vittorio
Tomelleri (Università di Macerata)
Correlation of Adverbs and Semantics of Present
Perfect in Georgian / Giuli Shabashvili (Tbilisi State
University)
The Spatial Categories of the Kartvelian Languages As the Cultural and Linguistic Representants of the Kartvelian Mentality / Rusudan Gersamia (Ilia State University), Ketevan Lortkiphanidze (Tbilisi State University), Nino Tsulaia (Ilia State University)
On Some Phonetic Processes at the Edge of Morphemes in Megrelian / Tsita Janjgava
17.30 – End of conference
