Aydarova, E. & Reed, G. (2023). “If you can’t kill them, co-opt them”: How educational reformers appropriate teachers’ voice. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
Aydarova, E. (2023). Shadow elite of teacher education reforms: Transnational policy networks, global neoliberal designs. Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, D.C., February 18-22.
Aydarova, E. (2022). Shadow elite of “science of reading” reforms and the construction of technocratic regimes in the United States. American Anthropological Association, Seattle, WA, November 9-13.
Aydarova, E. (2022). “A web of privatizers”: Science of reading advocacy networks in Tennessee. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
Aydarova, E. (2022). “Just like K–12”: New accountability systems in teacher education. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
Aydarova, E. (2022). Building a one-dimensional teacher: Technocratic trends in U.S. teacher education policies. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
Cahnmann-Taylor, M., Aydarova, E., & Skilton, E. (2021). Performing truths as responsible anthropology of education. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
Aydarova, E., Rigney, J., & Dana, N. (2021). “It’s a real tightrope we have to walk”: Teacher educators as policy advocates. American Educational Research Association Virtual Meeting.
Aydarova, E., Roodsari, S. Z., Corser, M., Davis, M. M., Hatchett, M., Davis, E., Croley, A., (2021). Global perspectives, local responses: Decolonial and antiracist explorations of teacher education practices, discourses, and spaces. American Educational Research Association.
Aydarova, E. (2021). Discussant for the panel Policing, discipline disparities, and race in schools. American Educational Research Association Virtual Meeting.
Aydarova, E., Artiles, A., Velez-Ibanez, C., Pollock, M., Brown, L. X. Z., & Wright, K. (2020). Speaking truth to power: How anthropologists engage in public and policy advocacy. American Anthropological Association, Raising Our Voices virtual event, November 4-14.
Aydarova, E., Dana, N., & Rigney, J. (2020). Reclaiming professional voice and authority: Teacher educators as policy actors. American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Rigney, J., Aydarova, E., & Dana, N. (2020). Participating in the public sphere: Teacher educators as educational policy advocates. Association of Teacher Educators Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Aydarova, E. (2019). Teacher education reforms as political theater: A comparative analysis of Russia and the United States. European Conference on Educational Research, Hamburg, Germany.
Aydarova, E. (2019). Political theater of educational reforms in the Russian Federation. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Roue, B., & Aydarova, E. (2019). “Cute Books” and “Good Literature”: A comparative analysis of early literacy constructions. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Aydarova, E. (2019). Flipping the paradigm: Studying up and research for social justice. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Aydarova, E. (2018). Educational reform as political theater: Russian policy dramas in global neoliberal contexts. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Aydarova, E. (2018). Political theater of educational reforms and competitive grant-funding. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA.
Aydarova. E. (2018). Joker in the public square: Qualitative research in troubled times. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana Champaign, IL.
Aydarova, E. (2018). Money matters: Political theater of competitive grant-funding and reform ideologies. Comparative and International Education Society, Mexico City, Mexico.
Roue, B. & Aydarova, E. (2018). Adapt to the world or transform it? Teacher education and pedagogy at the service of social change. Comparative and International Education Society, Mexico City, Mexico.
Aronson, B., Aydarova, E., Boveda, M., Cordova, R., Reyes, G. (2018). Teacher Educator Collectives to Reimagine the Teachers as Public Intellectuals. Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Aronson, B., Aydarova, E., Boveda, M., Cordova, R., Hayes, N., Reyes, G. (2017). Teacher educators as collectives of diverse transformative intellectuals. American Educational Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Aydarova, E. (2017). “All you need is a credit card”: Global commodification of teacher education. American Education Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Aydarova, E. (2017). “Why would I want to be a teacher?”: Perceived, lived, and conceived spaces of schools. American Education Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Aydarova, E. (2017). Donors, scripts, and playwrights: Global educational reforms as political theater. American Education Research Association, San Antonio, TX, April.
Aydarova, E., Boveda, M., Caldas, B., Hayes, N., Warner, C. (2017). Confronting myths in teacher education policy and practice: An interdisciplinary collective approach. American Education Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Aydarova, E. (2017). Teacher education reform as political theater: Modernization dramas in global neoliberal contexts. Comparative and International Education Society, Atlanta, GA.
Aydarova, E. (2017). Discussant for the panel Higher education transformations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Highlighted Session. Comparative and International Education Society, Atlanta, GA.
Aydarova, E. (2016). Educational reform as political theater: Dramas of obscurantism in global neoliberal contexts. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Aydarova, E. (2016). Educational reforms as political theater: International assessments as props. The Inaugural Comparative and International Education Society Symposium, Scottsdale, AZ.
Aydarova, O. (2016). “Down to the foundations to build a new world”: Teacher education reform as political theater. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Goodwin, L., Aydarova, O., Boveda, M., Caldas, B., Hayes, N., Warner, C. (2016). Myths about teacher preparation: Dismantling common misconceptions about our work and our impact. Dialogue session presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Aydarova, O. (2016). Global transformations in teacher education: New masters, new agendas, and new alternatives. Paper presented at Comparative and International Education Society, Vancouver, BC.
Aydarova, O. (2016). Discussant for the panel Taking stock and looking forward: Visual methods for comparative and international educational research. Comparative and International Education Society, Vancouver, BC.
Aydarova, O. (2015). Teacher education reform as political theater: Modernization dramas in the Russian Federation. Invited poster presented at the Council of Anthropology and Education Invited Session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Aydarova, O. (2015). The dawn of the new era or the twilight of the old: Contestations over teacher knowledge in the Russian Federation. Paper presented at the European Educational Research Association Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
Apol, L., Aydarova, O., Riggs Stapleton, S., & Tirtowalujo, I. (2015). Reaching for the unsayable: Straddling different worlds in conducting “difficult” research. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Aydarova, O. (2015). The old and new masters: Russian teacher education at the crossroads of social change. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Aydarova, O. (2015). Teacher education as object, subject, and instrument of social change: Russian experiments to create a neoliberal subject. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Aydarova, O. (2014). Real fictions and fake truths: Multi-sited ethnography of teacher education reform in the Russian Federation. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Aydarova, O. (2014). English for pleasure or English for money? Foreign language teacher preparation in the Russian Federation. Paper presented at the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, San Antonio, Texas.
Aydarova, O. (2014). Weaving together strands of becoming: Ideological, historical, social, and cultural. Paper presented at the 15th International Bakhtin Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
Aydarova, O. (2014). When global reforms encounter “kvass patriotism:” Tensions and contradictions in Russian teacher education. Paper presented at Comparative and International Education Society 2014 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Aydarova, O. (2013). “What is good for them may not be good for us”: Contesting visions of quality in Russian educational modernization. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Aydarova, O. (2013). English language teacher education and the global/local nexus in the Russian Federation. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2013 Conference, Dallas, Texas.
Aydarova, O. (2013). Glories of the Soviet past or dim visions of the future: Teacher education programs as sites of historical becoming. Paper presented at the 2013 Annual SOYUZ Symposium “Authoritarianism and Beyond: Lessons from Postsocialist Societies,” New York, New York.
Aydarova, O. (2012). Globalization and teacher education. Paper presented at the Fifth International Global Studies Conference, Moscow, Russia.
Aydarova, O. (2012). Tensions and contradictions of Russian educational reforms. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association 2012 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Aydarova, O. (2012). Global imperative for teacher education re-visited. A roundtable paper presented at American Educational Research Association 2012 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Roue, B., Aydarova, O., and Kennetz, K. (2012). Gendered identities, cultural beliefs, and the teaching force in the United Arab Emirates. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association 2012 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Aydarova, O. (2011). Educational reforms in the United Arab Emirates: Ideological becoming through discursive contestations. Paper presented at Comparative and International Education Society Eastern Regional Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aydarova, O. (2011). Imported teacher education curricula in the United Arab Emirates. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Aydarova, O., Kennetz, K., & Roue, B. (2011). Contextualizing genre-based approaches to writing in a teacher education program. Paper presented at TESOL International Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Aydarova, O. & Solomon, E. (2011). Semantic portrait of a word: A project to develop vocabulary. Poster presented at TESOL International Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Glew, M., Aydarova, O., & Yuliantoro, D. (2010). Internationalizing teacher education at Michigan State University: The Global Educators Cohort Program. Paper presented at Midwest Regional Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Aydarova, O. & Roue, B. (2010). Re-visiting subject knowledge courses in teacher education. Paper presented at the TESOL International Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.
Aydarova, O. & Roue, B. (2010). Subject knowledge courses in teacher education. Paper presented at TESOL Arabia, Dubai, UAE.
Aydarova, O. & Roue, B. (2010). Possible selves in practicum experiences. Paper presented at TESOL Cambodia, Cambodia.
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