All U.S.-CARNet participants will gather for a final conference to be held in Almaty or Astana, Kazakhstan, or a similar location. The two-day conference will be a hybrid event, with live streaming to allow for remote attendance. Media representatives, regional scholars, and graduate students will also be invited to attend the conference.
During day one, each team of U.S.-CARNet scholars will present and discuss their joint articles, delivering rigorous, objective findings to a wide audience of fellow scholars, students, local media, and government policymakers. Day two of the conference will be dedicated to a series of smaller roundtable discussions among U.S.-CARNet participants, American Councils staff, and U.S. Embassy personnel. Discussions will focus on scholars’ roles as public intellectuals in their home countries and specific strategies to engage wider audiences in their research; lessons learned and the value of collaboration; strategies to engage students in collaborative projects with regional and U.S. counterparts; and plans to continue U.S.-CARNet activity through future joint articles and research projects, as well as shared courses and possible student exchanges. A special session will focus on specific strategies to strengthen academic collaboration among Central Asian scholars of China regionally.
