The tasks of ethnographic study of the Turkic-Mongolian world were discussed at AltSU

8 December 2020 Department of Information and Media Communications
On December 4, on the platform of Altai State University, an online expert session “Historical unity and cultural diversity of the Turkic-Mongolian world. Promising directions in the organization of educational and scientific projects" was held.

The session was organized within the framework of the project "The Turkic-Mongolian World of the Greater Altai: Unity and Diversity in History and Modernity," which is being implemented by the flagship university of Altai Krai with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The session was attended by leading ethnologists from Russia and Kyrgyzstan, representing scientific and university organizations in Moscow, Bishkek, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Barnaul and Kemerovo.

The session was moderated by Ivan Nazarov, Director of the Institute of History and International Relations, and Larisa Nekhvyadovich, Director of the Institute of Arts and Design. Vice-Rector for the Development of International Affairs of Altai State University Roman Raikin addressed the participants with a welcoming speech.

Their proposals on promising areas of scientific and educational projects in the field of ethnography were expressed by: Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History Dmitry Funk; Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology, Kyrgyz State University named after I. Arabaev, Doctor of History Sinaru Alymkulova; Leading Researcher of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS, Doctor of History Irina Oktyabrskaya; Head of the Center for Ethnohistory of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History Irek Atnagulov; Director of the Higher School of International Relations of the Humanitarian Institute of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Doctor of History, Sergei Pogodin; and Professor of this school, Doctor of History Lyudmila Lbova; Head of the Department of Central and South Asia of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History Tatyana Skrynnikova, Head of the Department of Ethnography, Anthropology, Archeology and Museology, Omsk State University named after F.M. Dostoevsky, Candidate of Historical Sciences Svetlana Korusenko; Director of the Omsk branch of the Russian Scientific Research Institute of Natural and Cultural Heritage named after D.S. Likhachev, Candidate of Historical Sciences Irina Selezneva; Associate Professor of the Department of Ethnography, Anthropology, Archeology and Museology, Omsk State University named after F.M. Dostoevsky, Candidate of Historical Sciences Alexander Seleznev; Head of the Laboratory of Ethnosocial and Ethnoecological Geoinformatics, Kemerovo State University, Candidate of Historical Sciences Vladimir Poddubikov.

“The session is a logical continuation of the meeting of ethnographers, which took place at AltSU on October 31. Then, together with our colleagues, we identified the main problems and promising directions in the study of the culture of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples. Now we focus on developing concrete proposals for a program of joint ethnographic research in the coming years. Colleagues formulated a number of important ideas: including joint field study, digitization of museum and archival materials, holding training seminars and schools for young scientists, establishing new scientific journals on Turkic-Mongolian topics, etc. All these proposals will be included in the program of the project "Turkic-Mongolian World of the Greater Altai: Unity and Diversity in History and Modernity" for 2021," Ivan Nazarov explained.

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