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Conferences and presentations 2022

  • Aliya Assubayeva, Stefanos Xenarios and Riccardo Pelizzo. 2022. “The role of river basin management”, IAMO Forum, Halle/Salle, Germany, June 22.
  • Burkhanov, Aziz. “From “Listening State” to “New Kazakhstan”: January 2022, Institutions, and Identity”. Paper presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 2022.
  • Ha, Hyesong, Aarthi Raghavan, & Mehmet K. Demircioglu. 2022. “COVID19 & Employee Productivity in the Public Sector,” invited to the 10th Asian Management Research and Case Conference (AMRC) in Collaboration with Asian Universities Alliance (AUA), in Al Ain, UAE, Oct. 4-6.
  • Ha, Hyesong, Aarthi Raghavan, & Mehmet K. Demircioglu. 2022. “Impact of COVID19 on Employee Productivity in the Public Sector,” presented at the 2022 Korean Public Administration International Conference, in Yesosu, S. Korea, Jun 22-24.
  • Knox, Colin. 2022. “Civil Society in Central Asia”, American Bar Association (Online), Astana, Kazakhstan, May 26.
  • Knox, Colin. 2022. “Public Sector Reform in Kazakhstan”, GSPP Annual Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, June 7-8.
  • Kuzenbayev, Nygmetzhan & Hyesong Ha, “Pro-democracy views and corruption tolerance in post-soviet countries: a multi-level analysis,” presented at the 2022 GSPP Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 7.
  • Omer Baris. 2022. “Strategic Compliance and Inspection: Experimental Results”, Central European Program in Economic Theory (CEPET 2022), Udine, Italy, June 2022.
  • Omer Baris. 2022. “Strategic Compliance in Inspection Games: Evidence from Lab”, Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences (CEBEX 2022), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2022.
  • Orazgaliyev, Serik. 2022. “Labour unions and institutional corruption in Post-Soviet countries,” British Association of Slavonic and East European and Studies (BASEES), Robinson college, Cambridge, UK, April 8-10.
  • Orazgaliyev, Serik. 2022. “Social Fragmentation and January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan,” Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) and European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 22-26.  
  • Peter Howie. 2022. “Kazakhstan’s challenges in environmental markets: The case of emissions trading.” Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy 6th Annual Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, May 2022.
  • Peter Howie. 2022. “Evaluating policy success of emissions trading schemes in Korea and Kazakhstan.” UNDP workshop on Auctioning in the ETS of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, May 2022.
  • Peter Howie. 2022. “CO2 emission reduction within Kazakhstan’s energy industry: determinants and performance” Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy. Seminar Series, Nur-Sultan Kazakhstan, March 2022.
  • Peter Howie. “Assessing Kazakhstan’s Emissions Trading Scheme Outcomes” Carbon Pricing Policy Making through a Sectoral Lens Workshop, The PolyCarbon Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (online), March.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2022. “Making Tourism Work for Tanzania”, Open Session Dialogue, Policy Analysis and Development Organization, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 25.
  • Sharipova, Dina. 2022. “Dissonance between state and citizens: January 2022 in Kazakhstan,” NU GSPP Conference, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 2022.
  • Sharipova, Dina. 2022. “Wellbeing and Social capital,” Conference at AlmaU, Almaty, Kazakhstan, December 13.
  • Torabi Haghighi, A., Baubekova, A., and Xenarios, S. 2022. “Climate-justified strategies for sustainable urban water supply system: sources diversification in Almaty city, Kazakhstan,” EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022.
  • Xenarios, S., Buurman, J., and Araral, E. 2022. “Water Tariffs and Affordability in Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Systems,” EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2022. “Discursive Delegitimation of the Eurasian Economic Union by the European Union,” 6th Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies: Which Way is the Future? Progress and Tradition in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, June 2022.          
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2022. “International Reaction to the January 2022 Events in Kazakhstan: How Will It Impact the Country’s Foreign Policy?” CESS (Central Eurasian Studies Society) Regional Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 2022.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2022. “Research Methodology: Major Conceptual Concerns,” Open lecture for MA and PhD students at Suleiman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 2022.         

Conferences and presentations 2021

  • Assubayeva, A., Xenarios, S., Li, A., and Fazli, S. 2021. “Assessing Water Security in Central Asia through a Delphi Approach,” (Online) EGU General Assembly, 19–30 Apr 2021.
  • Hyesong Ha. 2021. “Economic shocks of COVID19 in Kazakhstan,” presented at the 2021 GSPP Conference, Oct. 15-16 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
  • Knox, Colin. 2021. “Digital Kazakhstan”, Astana Civil Service Hub (online), Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, April 8.
  • Knox, Colin. 2021. “Designing Public Management Education Programs”, Institute of Public Administration (Online), London, UK, September 8-9.
  • Knox, Colin. 2021. “Open Government”, GSPP Annual Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 15-16.
  • Kanat Adbulla and Riccardo Pelizzo. 2022. “Gender disparities in the labor market outcomes in Kazakhstan”, 2021 GSPP Conference Policy Change and Sectoral Reforms in Eurasia, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 15.
  • Peter Howie. 2021. “An Empirical Analysis of inequality, informality and resource booms.” Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference 2021, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (online), October 2021.
  • Peter Howie. 2021. “An Evaluation of Kazakhstan’s Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons for Emerging Economies” Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy 5th Annual Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 2021.
  • Peter Howie. 2021. “Cost Effectiveness of Workfare Programs in Kazakhstan” 2021 Society of Benefit Cost Analysis Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA (online), March 2021.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2021.   “Continuity and change in the Kazakhstani party system”, Conference: «EVOLUTION OF THE PARTY-POLITICAL SYSTEM OF KAZAKHSTAN: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS» dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, November 30.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo, 2021. “Good governance and development”, INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia, September 30.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2021.“Good governance, accountability and collaborative governance”, international seminar in International Student Symposium on Collaborative Governance and Public Policy at Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar, Indonesia (Keynote Speaker), July 23.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2021.“Democracy and accountability”, (Online) Symposium on Globalisation and Democracy: Opportunities and Challenges, INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia, June 17.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2021.“Government accountability”, Narxoz University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, April 14.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2021. “James Madison and the Principles of Constitutional Engineering”, Legal Literacy Academy, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, March 28.
  • Simeon Nanovsky. 2021. “The Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on the Growth Rate of New COVID-19 Cases: Evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.” at the 2nd edition of “Webinar in Corona & Research” organized by Global Episteme (Online).
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “The EU and Kazakhstan: The New Old Relationship,” (Online) Kazakhstan’s Pathway out of the Global Crisis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, April 2021.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “Highly Admired, Hardly Visible? Youth Perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan,” (Online) ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) 2020 World Convention, Harriman Institute, University of Columbia, US, May 2021.          
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “Reflections on ‘Global Perspectives from Lecturers and Students on taking Higher Education Online,” (Online) You’re on mute: Global Insights of Studying Online in a Pandemic, University of Glasgow, UK, May 2021.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “The current state of EU-Central Asia relations,” Round table with EU Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian, Al-Farabi KazNU, Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 2021.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “Educated into Sinophilia? China as Perceived by Kazakhstani Graduates/Students of Chinese Universities,” (Online) International Conference ‘Conceptualizing the “Belt and Road Initiative” and its Effects’, University of Toronto, Canada, June 2021.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “‘Nobody Goes to Another Monastery with Their Own Charter’. The EU’s Promotion of ‘European Values’ as Perceived in Central Asia,” (Online) 27th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias’, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2021.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2021. “The European Union and Central Asia Relations,” (Online Lecture) For ‘Central Asian Solidarity Group’, Malmo, Sweden, September 2021.

Conferences and presentations 2020

  • Angeli, A., Karkani, E., Alamanos, A., Xenarios, S., and Mylopoulos, N. 2020. “Hydrological, socioeconomic, engineering and water quality modeling aspects for evaluating water security: experience from Greek rural watersheds,” (Online) EGU General Assembly, 4–8 May 2020.
  • Buurman, J., Xenarios, S., Araral, E., and Ong, C. 2020. “Challenging Drinking Water Affordability and Wastewater Services in Urban Environments,”(Online) EGU General Assembly, 4–8 May 2020.
  • Knox, Colin, Saltanat Janenova, & Hyesong Ha. 2020. “Consolidating authoritarianism: Policy Responses to Covid-19 in post-Soviet Countries,” presented at the 2020 Korean Association for Public Administration (KAPA) Conference, in Seoul, S. Korea, Dec. 10-11.
  • Knox, Colin. 2020. “Political patronage in Central Asia”, Political Patronage Conference, Seoul, South Korea, February 4-9.
  • Knox, Colin. 2020. “Global Civil Service Reforms”, Stanford Public Sector Reforms Conference (Online), May 21.
  • Knox, Colin. 2020. “Civil Society in Central Asia”, GSPP Annual Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 15-16.
  • Omer Baris and Riccardo Pelizzo. 2020. “Governance indicators explain discrepancies in COVID-19 data”, International Webinar under the theme of “Covid-19 Pandemic Outbreak & Governance Discrepancies: Experienced from Kazakhstan, Estonia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Kesatuan Program Studi Ilmu Pemerintahan Indonesia (Indonesian Governmental Science Association) in Collaboration with Universitas Jenderal Ahmad Yani, Indonesia, November 24.
  • Peter Howie. 2020. “Inequality, informality and resource booms: preliminary evidence from Kazakhstan.” Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference 2020, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (online)
  • Peter Howie. 2020. “An Evaluation of Kazakhstan’s Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons for Emerging Economies” University Graduate School of Public Policy 4th Annual Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2020. “Good Governance and Development in Central Asia”, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 18.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2020. “Covid-19 Pandemic and the Health of Democracy”, Department of Government Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia, April 9.
  • Simeon Nanovsky. 2020. “Oil Prices, Exchange Rates, and the Trade Balance: Evidence from Kazakhstan and Russia” in “Sustainable Development Goals in Central Asia and the Challenges of COVID-19.” at the Nazarbayev University GSPP Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Conferences and presentations 2019

  • A. Alamanos, N Mylopoulos, A Loukas, D Latinopoulos, S Xenarios. 2019. “Hydro-economic modelling approaches for agricultural water resources management in a Greek Watershed,” 11th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment: Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future, EWRA 2019, Madrid, Spain.
  • Burkhanov, Aziz. “Kazakhstan’s Youth Vision of National Identity: Then and Now”, Paper presented at the ASN Annual World Convention. Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2019. 
  • Knox, Colin. 2019. “Reforms in Central Asia”, Public Administration Conference, Novosibirsk, Russia, April 15-20.
  • Knox, Colin. 2019. “Ethics Commissioners in Central Asia”, International Institute of Administrative Sciences Conference, Kaunas, Lithuania, April 23-26.
  • Knox, Colin. 2019. “Corruption in Public Procurement”, Astana Economic Forum, Astana, Kazakhstan, May 16-17.
  • Knox, Colin. 2019. “Political patronage”, NISPACEE Conference, Prague, May 23-25.
  • Knox, Colin. 2019. “Open Government Partnership”, GSPP Annual Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 10-12.
  • Omer Baris. 2019. Experimental Techniques in Environmental Policy: Strategic Compliance and Inspection”, GSU-KAZGUU Impact Evaluation Conference, KAZGUU University campus, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, August 29.
  • Omer Baris. 2019. “Non-Cooperative Cooperation: A Behavioral Approach to the Theory of the State”, Institute for Research on Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF) Workshop, Aix-en-Marseille, France, May.
  • Omer Baris. 2019. “Good enough governance in Post-Soviet Eurasia”, Prague Conference on Political Economy (PCPE 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, April.
  • Orazgaliyev, Serik. 2019. “Outward foreign direct investment and intergovernmentalism: China’s investment in Central Asia’s natural resource sector,” The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) biannual conference, Exeter, UK, June 27-29.
  • Peter Howie. 2019. “Comparing Emission Trading Schemes in Kazakhstan and Korea: Design Characteristics, Processes of decision-making, and the behavior of the involved actors” International Association of Energy Economics 4th Eurasian Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 2019.
  • Peter Howie. 2019. “Determinants of Emissions Growth in Central Asian Countries since 2000” International Association of Energy Economics 4th Eurasian Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (Plenary Presentation), October 2019.
  • Peter Howie. 2019. “Inequality, informality and resource booms: Evidence from Kazakhstan” Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy 3rd Annual Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 2019.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2019. “Good governance and party system change”, 2019 GSPP Conference Risk, Rationality and Resilience, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 10.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2019. “Good governance, development, and civil society”, Astana Economic Forum, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, May 17.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2019. “Corruption: causes and consequences”, Academy of Public Administration, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan, April 25.
  • Sharipova, Dina. 2019. “Youth, Patriotism and National Identity,” ESCAS conference, Exeter, UK, June 29 – July 1.  
  • Simeon Nanovsky. 2019. “A New Test for Optimum Currency Area with an Application to the Central and Eastern European Countries” at the 13th International Conference “Challenges of Europe” in Split, Croatia.
  • Simeon Nanovky. 2019. “Optimum Currency Area in the CIS countries” ” at International Trade and Finance Association 29th Annual Conference in Livorno, Italy.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2019. “Kazakhstan 2019: still in search of national identity?” presented at 30 years on: Insights from Eastern, Central and Wider Europe Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, September 2019.
  • Zhanibek Arynov. 2019. “‘European values’ in the eyes of opinion-makers in Kazakhstan,” Annual GSPP Conference, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 2019. 
  • Zim Nwokora, Anton Pak and Riccardo Pelizzo. 2019. “Economic Growth in Fluid Polities: Evidence from Africa”, paper presented at the 115th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, USA, August 31.

Conferences and presentations 2018

  • Burkhanov, Aziz. “Depoliticizing Alphabet” or “Civilizational Choice”: Discourse on Switch to Latin Alphabet in Kazakhstan”. Paper presented at the ASN Annual World Convention. Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2018.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Civil Service reforms”, Astana Civil Service Hub, Astana, Kazakhstan, March 16.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Leadership workshop”, Lee Kuan Yew Public Policy School, Singapore, April 24-28.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Outcomes Based Accountability”, Astana Economic Forum, Astana, Kazakhstan, May 17-18. 
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Open Government in Kazakhstan”, NISPACEE Conference, Iasi, Romania, May 23-27.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Public Sector Reform in Central Asia”, Public Management Conference, Singapore, May 29-June 2.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Designing an MPA Program”, Academy of Public Administration Project, Turkmenistan, June 11-14.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Researching agenda for Central Asia”, Soros Foundation, Astana, Kazakhstan, September 13.
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Ethics and corruption in Kazakhstan”, GSPP Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 5-6.  
  • Knox, Colin. 2018. “Public Service Motivation”, Political Studies Association Conference, London, UK, December 1-6.
  • Omer Baris 2018. “Evidence Based Policy, Policy Based Evidence and Behavioral Public Policy”, Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences (CEBEX 2018), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2018.
  • Omer Baris. 2018. “Monopoly and Price Dispersion: Limited Memory Consumers”, Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences (CEBEX 2018), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2018.
  • Omer Baris. 2018. “Understanding Corruption Risks and Strategic Responses to Corruption”, Transformational leadership, Nur Otan Party, May 14-18.
  • Omer Baris. 2018. Expert meeting on corruption and anti-corruption policies at the Research Center for Anti- Corruption of the Academy of Public Administration, May 17.
  • Orazgaliyev, Serik. 2018. “Central Asia in the Overland Silk Road,” Invited speaker at the conference ‘China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative: Five Years On’, organised by East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, November 2.
  • Orazgaliyev, Serik. 2018. “Energy geopolitics in the Caspian region: moving beyond the realist framework,” A Northern Tier in West Asia? States, Networks, and Informal Diplomacy’ Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, July 5.
  • Orazgaliyev, Serik. 2018. Central Asia Digital Dialogue International Conference, Eurasian National University (organiser and participant), Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, April 24.
  • Peter Howie. 2018. “Emissions trading in Kazakhstan: Looking back to look ahead” at the 6th International Association of Energy Economics Asia and Pacific conference, Wuhan, China, November 2018.
  • Peter Howie. 2018. “Informal businesses and motivations for switching to the formal sector: Lessons from Astana” Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy 2nd Annual Conference, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, October 2018.
  • Peter Howie. 2018. “Cost-Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Screening Program in the Republic of Kazakhstan” 23 Annual Conference of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) in Baltimore, MD, USA, May 2018.
  • Peter Howie. 2018. “Research Ethics Committees: Their Importance in Building a Vibrant Research Community in Kazakhstan” 3rd Annual International Academic Integrity Conference in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, May 2018.
  • Peter Howie. 2018. “ETS in Kazakhstan: Looking Back to Look Ahead” GSPP Seminar Series, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, April 2018.
  • Riccardo Pelizzo. 2018. “Development in Africa”, Dipartimento di Scienza Politica, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, March 19.
  • Simeon Nanovsky. 2018. “Monetary Independence in the Eurozone: An Alternative Assessment” at the 37th International Academic Conference in Budapest, Hungary.