Conference
Conferences are a major issue in Institute’s activities. They brighten up the routine, provide new impetus to research, open up new fields of study and expand the boundaries of research activities.
Traditionally the Institute holds:
– Conference of Africanists. The tradition of holding such a conference dates from 1969. The 11th conference took place in 2008. The conference is held tri-annually and is usually timed to the celebration of the Africa Day – in the last week of May – with broad representation of scholars from all over the world and particularly from Africa. The conference comprehensively addresses a wide range of urgent African problems and generates forecasts for the future. This academic project, conducted over the past decades, has become one of the major forums for Russian and foreign Africanists for complex approach to the problems of Africa.
– The International Conference «Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilisations» takes place every second or third year and is organised jointly with the Russian State University for Humanities. In 2009 it was convened for the fifth time. The conference is attended by experts in history, political sciences, anthropology, cultural studies and other branches of science from dozens of countries.
– I. I. Potekhin Memorial Readings are held once in two years in early October and focus mainly on historical and socio-political problems. Special attention is paid to the issues of the national liberation struggle of the African nations.
– The School of Young Africanists is an annual forum which brings together young researchers from among senior postgraduate students and addresses all spheres of African studies. The School is organised within the ambit of the RAS programme «Support of young researchers» in cooperation with the universities of various Russian cities. It is usually scheduled during October or November.
– D.A. Olderogge Memorial Readings, which honour the memory of one of the forefathers of the Soviet/Russian Africanistics, are traditionally held by St. Petersburg State University with the assistance of the RAS Research Council for the Problems of Africa, the RAS Institute for African Studies and other academic organisations.
– The permanent seminar «Culture and Society», which is established by the Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology, aims at contributing to further development of methods of civilisational and cultural-anthropological approaches to academic studies.
The papers presented at these conferences are traditionally published in collections of the Institute’s works.
The Institute’s research fellows take part in conferences both in Russia and abroad on an ongoing basis.
- "The Round Table "New Trends in African Studies: Historical, Anthropological, and Gender Aspects" (Moscow, October 1, 2019)
- "State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges" 1st International Social Scientists Conference (Dar es Salam, Tanzania March 4th -7th, 2019)
- "Elections in Africa" Internal Changes and Foreign Policy of African Countries Conference Series (November 1-2, 2018 )
- Russian-African Relations in the Context of The Africa’ “Turn To The East” (Moscow, April 18, 2018 )
- 14th International African Studies Conference (Moscow, October 17-20, 2017)
- Non-Western Europe and Africa: Connections in the Past and the Present (Moscow, June 2–3, 2016)
- The first scientific colloquium "African Studies: Perspectives from Russia and Slovenia" (Ljubljana, May 14-15, 2015)
- 13th International Conference of Africanists (Moscow, May 27-30, 2014)
- Round table discussion "Africans in Russia: problems of adaptation and integration" (Moscow, 31 october 2012)
- 12th Conference of Africanists "Africa in The Changing World Development Paradigm" (Moscow, 24-26 may 2011)
- Динамика африканских обществ: закономерности, тенденции, перспективы (Москва 23-24 ноября 2010)
- Séminaire international «Racisme, xénophobie et discrimination. Tels que nous les avons vus…» (Moscow, 27-28 may 2010)
- V International Conference "Hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations" (23-26 june 2010)
- 11-th Conference of africanists "Africa's development: possibilities and contrasts" (22-24 may 2008 )
- Вторые чтения памяти И.И. Потехина (1 октября 2008 г.)
- VII Школа молодых африканистов России (26-27 ноября 2008 г.)
- IV International Conference "Hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations" (13-16 june 2006)
- III International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in The History of Civilizations" (18-21 june 2004)
- II International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in The History of Civilizations" (4-7 jule 2002)
- International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in The History of Civilizations" (15–20 june 2000)