"Women in Modern Central Asia"

The Russian East European Eurasian Studies Centre (REEES) at the University of Graz, Austria in cooperation with Mme.Roza Otunbayeva (President of the Kyrgyz Republic 2010-2011), is pleased to announce that it is hosting the First International Conference "Women in Modern Central Asia", on the 6th and 7th of November 2012. The goal of the conference is to create a forum of exchange between young scholars and practitioners from NGOs and International Organizations. Renowned keynote speakers, such as former the former President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mme Rosa Otunbayeva, will share their experience and bring encouragement to a new generation of scholars who work on gender issues and their effect on the socio-economic development of Central Asia. The conference will solicit papers from social sciences and law, approaching the issue of the lives of women in Central Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The first conference of this sort will be designed to take stock of developments following 20 years of independence, further conferences will translate into action, particularly in the legislative arena.