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 […]
On May 21 and 22, 2022 in Nur-Sultan, Nazarbayev University jointly with Harvard University (Davis Center), will hold the international conference “Empire, Colonies and Knowledge”. The objective of its participants consists in exploring the role of the multinational elites in forming and mediating the relations between the imperial center and the peripheries., as well as […]
Please tell us about yourself and the most important skills you would have learned as a student at NU. Born and raised in Aralsk, a small town in southern Kazakhstan, I grew up taking on any leadership role at my school as an opportunity to reconcile my bookish introversion with a streak of competitiveness. However, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Supporting the initiative of home-based education, the Tselinniy Center for Contemporary Culture has initiated a series of podcasts called “Around the bush”. In the first episode of the podcast, historian, assistant professor of the school of sciences and humanities Mikhail Akulov and journalist Arslan Akanov talk about what the Soviet bourgeoisie is and how it […]
The interview of Mikhail Akulov regarding the memory of repressions and deportations in 1930s and 1940s. Here the link below to the interview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13wsgUKObjrtY-76XLrc8DL1RM-L3rk8M/view or the link for mobile devices: https://soundcloud.com/everydaybyday/zhivaya_pamyat_1 […]
The Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University hosted an international conference “Religious [In]Tolerance in the Russian Empire” in cooperation with Lev Gumilov Eurasian National University and Yevnei Buketov Karaganda State University on October 5-7th, 2018. Three hosting universities faculty and scholars from the […]
In May of this year, the project “Investment potential of the sacred geography of Kazakhstan: geospace monitoring, IT technology and historical-cultural analysis in the production of an electronic atlas of the Republic” led by Nikolay Tsyrempilov, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, entered its expeditionary phase. To see the report, visit: […]
