IU welcomes Dr. Ravshan Shamsitdinov, Dean of the History Faculty at Andijan State University, who will give a lecture assessing the social, economic, and political situation in Uzbekistan on the eve of independence in 1991 and during the early years that followed. Dr. Shamsitdinov will review the domestic and foreign policies of the Islam Karimov era (which ended in 2016), as well as the election of Shavkat Mirziyoyev as president and the subsequent shifts in foreign policy and educational reforms, with a particular focus on developments in higher education.
This event is free and co-sponsored by the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region, the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the Center for the Study of the Middle East, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Comparative Literature.