April 26-28, 2023, XXXII International Congress on Source Studies and Historiography of Asia and Africa

On April 26-28, 2023, St. Petersburg State University hosted the XXXII International Congress on Source Studies and Historiography of Asia and Africa: “Russia and the East. Сommemorating 300th anniversary of Saint-Petersburg State University”. The faculty of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences actively participated in the event, presenting the results of their research in person and online. Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doctor of Historical Sciences, prof. Dmitri Bondarenko (report topic: "Post-colonial Africa: historical memory - nation-building - neo-traditionalism") and Doctor of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow Irina Tatarovskaya (“The contribution of D.A. Olderogge to the study of the epic legend about the Sundyat of the people of West Africa”) made their reports at the opening of the section of Africanists “Readings in memory of D.A. Olderogge”, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist. As part of the further work of the section, reports were made by Junior Research Fellow Valentina Bryndina (“Europeans and Tippu-Tip: Mutual Descriptions of Encounters in Central and East Africa Based on European Memoirs and a Swahili Autobiography”), Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology Valentina Gribanova (“The Cape Peninsula through the Eyes of Russian Sailors of the 19th Century”), Ph.D. in History, Leading Research Fellow Tatyana Denisova (On the issue of the formation of the “West African province of the “Islamic state”), Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow Evgeniya Morozenskaya (“Modernization of technologies and vocational education as a basis for socio-economic transformations in Africa”), Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow Natalya Khokholkova (“Returning Africa to the past”: on the centenary of the birth of Sheikh Anta Diop).

Ph.D. in History, Leading Research Fellow Natalya Zherlitsyna presented the report “Letters of Miss Tully from Tripoli (1783-1795) as the most valuable source on the history of Tripolitania” in the section “Source study and historiography of the Arab countries. Readings in memory of Academician I.Yu. Krachkovsky (1883–1951)».

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