We are delighted to announce the release of a new book, Russia’s Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution, published by the University of Wisconsin Press this past June written by Associate Professor Daniel Scarborough. This book tells the story of the late Russian Empire and how it experienced rapid […]
Dear friends, we are pleased to announce that on the YouTube channel of our School you can watch all the sessions and lectures of the speakers from the conference “Empire, Colonies and Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”, which was held at Nazarbayev University on May 21-22, 2022. The conference […]
From May 21st to 22nd, Nazarbayev University hosted the International Conference “Empire, Colonies, and Knowledge.” in partnership with Harvard University. It was the first major in-person humanities and social science conference since the pandemic, an event organized with an eye on potential future cooperation between the universities. As Dr. Nargiz Kassenova, a conference co-organizer and […]
Please tell us about your background and why you chose MA in Eurasian Studies? It all started when I was an undergraduate student and decided to declare history as my major. After years of taking different history courses, I finally decided to stick with a field of history of medicine. My area of interests is […]
Dear friends, we are happy to announce that from September 25 to October 29 SSH will host a series of online events dedicated to social sciences and humanities. Lectures and seminars will be held online on zoom platform. There is no cost to attend these events, but some webinars are for a limited audience only. […]
Assistant Professor of the History, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Clare Griffin took part in “The Global History” Podcast. Professor was interviewed by host Chase Caldwell Smith for the podcast’s “Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World ” series. They talked about professor Griffin’s research on the global links of […]
May 31 – Memorial Day for victims of political repression in Kazakhstan. Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, historian Mikhail Akulov gave a lecture on the memory of a difficult past for the project called “omindkz”. […]
