Friday, April 26th, 2013 Contemporary Issues in Azerbaijan

DateTimeLocation
Friday, April 26, 20139:30AM - 5:00PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Description

9:30 Welcome and Keynote Remarks by Heydar Mirza.

10:30-12:30 Panel 1 “Economics, Security and, International Relations in Contemporary Azerbaijan”
Panel Chair: Aslan Amani, LSE
Panel Members: Polina Osmerkina, Lindsay Parrott, Elshan Alekberov, Kemal Makili-Aliyev
Discussant: Matthew Light, U of T

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:30 Panel 2 “Society, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijan”
Panel Chair: Ilham Akhundov
Panel Members: Yoonhee Lee, Emily Pittman, Spencer Nordwick, Aslan Amani
Discussant: Edward Schatz, U of T

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 Concluding Remarks/Question and Answer with Mr. Arif Mammadov, Second Secretary of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Canada

Contact

Daria Dumbadze (daria.dumbadze@utoronto.ca)
(416) 946-8945

Speakers

Ilham Akhundov
Speaker
Deputy Director of University of Waterloo UAE Campus in Dubai

Elshan Alekberov
Speaker
Doctorate Degree from the Plekhanov Moscow University of Economics, and Masters Degree from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University.

Kamal Makili-Aliyev
Speaker
Leading Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies, Baku, Azerbaijan

Matthew Light
Discussant
Centre for Criminology, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto

Edward Schatz
Discussant
Central Asia Studies Program, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto

Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Sponsors

Canadian Institute for Azerbaijan Studies

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