Events

The OSCE Academy regularly hosts academic conferences, seminars, workshops, and public lectures engaging experts from a variety of fields to discuss the current problems and engage the expert community.

 

Book Launch: Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance: Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region

Date: 20 December 2023

The book is available is here

Book Launch Event: Researching Central Asia: Navigating Positionality in the Field

Date: 9 November 2023

The book is available is here.

 

Joint Expert/Alumni Conference on Comprehensive Security and Sustainable Development

Date: 4-5 November 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Launch of the Second Edition of Central Asia Forecasting Project Report

Date: 19 October 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Conference on “China-Central Asia Affairs: Perspectives from Junior Research Fellows”

Date: 27-28 June 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Policy Discussion on Importance of Public Diplomacy for the Kyrgyz Republic

Date: 26 June 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Research workshop “Connecting Protest Research(ers)"

Date: 15-17 May 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Online Discussion on the Foreign Policies of Central Asian Countries

Date: 28 April 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

 

Book "Climate Change in Central Asia – Decarbonization, Energy Transition and Climate Policy" launched at the OSCE Academy

Date: 24 April 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Book Launch "Foreign Fighters and International Peace: Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home"

Date: 28 March 2023

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Book Launch "Incomplete State-Building in Central Asia: the State as Social Practice"

Date: 25 November 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Launch of the Russian Edition of the book "Russia and Development: Capitalism, Civil Society and the State"

Date: 18 November 2022

 

 

 

Presentation of Preliminary Research on Electric Vehicles in Bishkek

Date: 24 October 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Expert Roundtable on Public Diplomacy in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia

Date: 19 October 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptation and Transformation in Central Asia

Date: 24-25 September 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Workshop “Active Mobility Lab Bishkek”

Date: 24 August 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Hybrid Panel Discussion on Perceptions of China in Central Asia: Problems and Perspectives

Date: 30 June 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

Report Launch: “China’s Security Management Towards Central Asia”

Date: 2 June 2022

The report is available here.

 

Living Lab Bishkek Workshop

Date: 29 April 2022

 

 

 

International Workshop "How to promote Clean Energy Access in Rural Areas in Central Asia and Beyond?"

Date: 26 April 2022

 

 

Energy Transition and Central Asia

Date: 17 January 2022

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Authors’ Workshop on the Forthcoming Book “Climate Change and Decarbonization in Central Asia”

Date: 16 December 2021 

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Report Launch: Corridors of Power: How China Creates Economic, Social, and Network Ties to Exert Influence Along the Silk Road

Date: 14 December 2021

Full programme of the event is available here.

 

Expert Round Table “Winning Hearts and Minds? Public Diplomacy and Norm Entrepreneurs in Central Asia”

Date: 26 November 2021

The recording is available here. Full programme of the event is available here.

 

Forecasting Central Asia 2021 - Results from an Expert Survey

Date: 2 November 2021

 

 

 

Glocal Transformation in Central Asia

Date: 25-26 September 2021 

The recorded version of the conference is available here. Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Conference "The Covid-19 Crisis and Its Impact on Central Asia" 

Date: 9 September 2021

 

 

Webinar “The impact of COVID -19 Pandemic on Migration and Migration Governance in Kyrgyzstan”

Date: 14 April 2021

 

IPSA RC34 Quality of Democracy Workshop “China's Belt and Road Initiative: Curse or Blessing for Democracy in Eurasia?”

Date: 12-14 March 2021

The recorded version of the conference is available here. Full programme of the event is available here.

 

 

Launch Event: International Affairs Special Issue on Environmental Peacebuilding

Date: 15 February 2021

The recording of the event is available here

 

 

 

Round Table on “Free Media and Human Rights”

Date: 21 October 2021

 

 

 

 

Virtual Conference “The COVID-19 Crisis and its Impact on Post-Soviet Central Asia”

Date: 18-20 November 2020 

The recording of the event is available here. The exchanges at the conference can be found in the summary report within the Academy Papers series.

 

Second Interdisciplinary Conference on Value Transformation in Central Asia

Date: 16-17 October 2020

The recording of the Conference is available here. The Summary Report is available here

 

Expert Discussion “Implications of COVID-19 on Climate Change”

Date: 24 June 2020

The recording of the discussion is available here.

 

 

Round table on “Dialogue on Migration” 

Date: 26 November 2019

 

 

 

Workshop on China’s Belt & Road Initiative: Cross Regional Perspective

Date: 8 November 2019

The Summary Report of the event is available here

 

 

Memory and Transitional Justice in Central Asia Conference

Date: 12 October 2019 

Programme is availiable here

 

 

System Transformation in Central Asia in Comparative Perspective

Date: 20-21 September 2019

The Summary Report of the event is available here.

 

 

The EU, Central Asia and the South Caucasus: New Approaches on Regional and International Cooperation Conference 

Date: 24-25 May 2019

 

 

 

 

DAAD – Research Symposium “Bioeconomy & Security”

Date: 15 April 2019

 

 

 

 

 

Annual Regional Security/Alumni Conference “Central Asian Security: Factors of Fragility, Sources of Resilience”

Date: 11-13 October 2018

The Summary Report of the event is available here.

 

 

Workshop on OSCE in Central Asia: National Perceptions

Date: 3 November 2018

 

 

 

 

Workshop on New Security Challenges in Central Asia

Date: 31 July - 1 August 2018 

 

 

 

Conference on Non-Traditional Risks and Challenges to Central Asian Security

Date: 17-18 May 2018

The Programme is available here. The book of participants is available here

 

“Gender Issues in Central Asia” Workshop 

Date: 15-16 February 2018 

The Summary Report is available here

 

Round table “Does state performance in human rights and governance influence on national and regional security in Central Asia?"

Date: 2 November 2017

 

 

Round table: Bride kidnapping. The status quo and the formation of public opinion: approaches, practices, problems, opportunities

Date: 25 October 2017 

 

 

Workshop “Contested Global Governance, Transformed Global Governors?”

 Date: 3-4 July 2017 

 

 

 

The 5th Alumni Conference on Comprehensive Security and Sustainable Development in Bishkek

Date: 18-19 November 2017

 

 

 

Round Table: "The 2016 US Presidential Election: Impact on Central Asia"

Date: 22 November 2016

 

 

 

“Post-Communism 25+: Reflections on Social, Economic & Political Transitions” Conference

Date: 6-8 October 2016

 

 

The annual security seminar on “Global security trends and their impact on Central Asia”

Date: 1-2 September 2015

 

 

 

Round Table "Energy and Climate Change: Agenda for Central Asia"

Date: 27 March 2014

Round Table "Eurasian Union for Central Asia: Political and Economic Implications"

Date: 18 March 2014

 

 

Workshop "Understanding Central Asian Islam: Contemporary Research Standards"

Date: 12-13 September 2013

 

 

 

 

 

The 6th Annual Seminar on Regional Security in Central Asia

Date: 6-7 September 2013