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Guest lectures

Central Asia between Russia and China: Local Strategies and Perspectives on the new 'Great Game', Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Stockholm University, March 25, 2009.

The Chinese Economic Presence in Central Asia . Sinophobia and Sinophilia among Central Asian Elites, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University , October 30, 2008.

The Chinese Presence in Central Asia and its Social Reception, Centre français d’études de la Chine contemporaine (cefc), Hong Kong, October 29, 2008.

Political and Geopolitical Stakes of the Sino-Central-Asian Relations, Graduate Institute of Russian Studies, National Chengdu University, Taipei , October 17, 2008.

Cultural and Economic Mediators of the China-Central Asia Relations, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Central Asia, Ching Yun University, Taipei, October 16, 2008.

La présence chinoise en Asie centrale et sa réception sociale [The Chinese Presence in Central Asia and its Social Reception], Doctoral Workshops of the French Center, Beijing, May 8, 2008.

From Repatriation to Remittance: The Evolution of Migration Flows from Central Asia to Russia, Kennan Institute Seminar, Washington D.C., April 30, 2007.

Islam and Politics in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March 22, 2007.

Managing Religion in Central Asia: The Continuity of the Soviet Conceptual Framework, Central Asia Seminars, Tokyo University, September 16, 2006.

State, Religion and Secularism Issue in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Summer Symposium, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, July 9, 2006.

Central Asia Fifteen Years after Independence: The Drift towards Authoritarianism, Kennan Institute Seminar, Washington D.C., March 20, 2006.

Asie centrale, quinze ans après l’indépendance : un bilan en demi-teinte [Central Asia fifteen years after Independence. A Mitigated Balance], Paris, Foundation for Strategic Research, March 1, 2006.

Presentation of the book Central Asia, the Drift towards Authoritarianism, Paris, Center of International Relations Studies (CERI), February 24, 2006.

Colloquium Presentations

Secularism Issue in the Post-Soviet Space, Round-table “Religion in the former Soviet Union: Official, Unofficial, Secular, Diverse”, Kennan Institute, Washington D.C., March 20, 2007.

The Partnership between Islam and Orthodox Christianity in Central Asia, International Conference “Islam and Orthodoxy: Confrontation, Cohabitation and Comparison”, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University, Vienna, Austria, March 12-13, 2007.

The “Imperial Minority”: An Interpretative Framework of the Russians in Kazakhstan?, 6th Annual International Young Researchers Conference “Orienting the Russian Empire”, Havighurst Center, Miami University, Ohio, October 26-28, 2006.

Laïcité et gestion de la religion en Asie centrale [Managing Secularism and Religion in Central Asia], International Conference “Secularism in the World and the Post-Soviet experiences”, French-Russian Center in Social Sciences and Humanities and RGGU, Moscow, Russia, October 27-28, 2005.

The American Policy in Uzbekistan: a Hesitating Commitment?, International Conference “Il sistema internazionale e la nuova politica estera degli Stati Uniti”, [Le Système international et la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine], Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Milan, Italy, May 30, 2005.

Proselytizing Stakes and Christian Perspectives in Soviet Central Asia, International Conference “Religious conversion after Socialism”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, April 7-9, 2005.

How the Christian Denominations View Extremism in Central Asia, International Conference “Three Years after the Tashkent Resolution against Religiously Motivated Polical Terrorism and Extremism”, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, December 10, 2002.

Conference Papers

The Chinese Presence and its Social Reception in Central Asia, International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies: Past, Present and Future, Maltepe University, Istanbul , March 17-19, 2009.

Central Asia as a boundary of Islam? A reflection on Post-soviet Islam and Christianity, National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Washington D.C., November 16-18, 2006.

When a Majority becomes a Minority: Russians in Kazakhstan, Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York, March 23-25, 2006.

The Ambiguities of Secularism in Central Asia, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington D.C., November 18-20, 2005.

Managing Religion in Central Asia. The Continuity of the Soviet Conceptual Framework, Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Boston University, September 29-October 2, 2005.

The Orthodox Church Mission in the Kazakh Steppe (1881-1917): A Russian Religious Vision of Kazakhs, VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Berlin, Germany, June 25-30, 2005.

Russians in Kazakhstan and the Question of Emigration, Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Bloomington, Indiana University, October 4-7, 2004.

Between Russia and Central Asia: Stakes and Perspectives of the Russian Minority in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Toronto, November 20-23, 2003.

Christians and Muslims Relationships in Central Asia, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Anchorage, Alaska, November 6-9, 2003.

Between Atheism and Islam: Christians in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Boston, Harvard University, October 3-5, 2003.

Christianity and Nationality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia: Mutual Intrusions and Instrumentalisations, Annual Convention of the Association for the Study on Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New-York, April 3-5, 2003.

The Russian minority's Political Situation in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, European Society of Central Asian Studies Conference, Bordeaux, France, September 25-27, 2002.

Between Politics and Religion: The Christian Movements in Post-Soviet Central Asia, European Society of Central Asian Studies Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 27-30, 2000.

A Christian Revival in Central Asia ? Between Introversion and Universalism, 6th annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, March 27, 1999.

Un exemple d’espace social hors du contrôle du pouvoir : les minorités chrétiennes en Asie centrale post-soviétique [An example of Social Space Beyond the Control of the Power: Christian Minorities in Central Asia], Annual Convention of the French Association for the Arabic and Muslim Studies (AFEMAM), Tours, France, July 2-4, 1999.

Solidarités chrétiennes en Asie centrale ? [A Christian Solidarity in Central Asia?], Annual Convention of the French Association for the Arabic and Muslim Studies (AFEMAM), Lyon, France, July 2-4, 1998.

seminar and workshop presentations

The Political and Religious Situation in Contemporary Central Asia, Graduate Institute for Central Asian Studies, Xian Normal University , October 9, 2008.

The Economic and Social Situation in Contemporary Central Asia, Institute for Central Asian Studies, Lanzhou University , October 2, 2008.

The Post-Soviet States of Central Asia, 1991-2006: Political Trajectories Fifteen Years after Independence, History Department, Brock University, Saintes-Catharines, Canada, March 23, 2007.

Islam and Politics in Post-Soviet Central Asia: a Response to Globalization?, Woodrow Wilson Work in Progress, Washington D.C., November 21, 2006.

Question nationale, question religieuse : les Russes en Asie centrale [National and Religious Questions: Russians in Central Asia], Eurasian Studies Doctoral Seminar, INALCO, Paris, December 14, 2004.

Une majorité devenue minorité : les Russes du Kazakhstan [A Minority as the Former Majority. Russians in Kazakhstan], Russian Studies Seminar, Le Mirail University, Toulouse , December 10, 2004.

Les Russes du Kazakhstan : situation politique et sociale d’une minorité [Russians in Kazakhstan: Social and Political Situation of a Minority], Uzbekistan Institute of Oriental Studies and IFEAC joint seminar, Tashkent, January 14, 2004.

Presentation of the book Christians between Atheism and Islam at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, the French Cultural Center in Bishkek, and the French Cultural Center in Almaty, May 6-7, 2004.

Le christianisme en Asie centrale contemporaine [Christianity in Contemporary Central Asia], IFEAC Doctoral Seminar, Tashkent, December 12, 2002.  

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