Message-ID: <9603102122.AA10604@mail.cee.umn.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:23:37 -0500 From: Jean Martin <mailto:jmartin@MAIL.CEE.UMN.EDU> Subject: Conference Announcement: Central Asian Republics To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Conference Announcement
The Struggle for Modernization and Democratization:
THE CASE OF THE FORMER SOVIET CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS
April 11-13, 1996
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
The newly independent states of Central Asia are experiencing problems of
modernization common to many developing agricultural countries, but they
also face the added pressures of liberalization associated with post-Soviet
regimes. This conference is designed to increase knowledge about the
region for those in business, academia, education, economic development,
government, and for anyone interested in the area.
Uzbek ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N., F. G. Teshabaev, will open the
conference.
Chingiz Aitmatov will deliver the keynote address, National Problems in
the Development of Literature and Art in the Post-Totalitarian Epoch.
For further information on session titles, speaker schedule, etc., please
see the World Wide Web page at http://www.cee.umn.edu/pdcs/cfscar.html
or contact Shirley Mueffelman:
PDCS, University of Minnesota, 315 Pillsbury Drive S.E.,
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0139 USA;
612/625-3850 (phone), 612/ 626-1632 (fax),
mailto:smueffel@mail.cee.umn.edu (e-mail).