September 2021

September 30, 2021

On September 30, 2021, Dr. Zharmukhamed Zardykhan conducted a seminar on The Kazakh Diaspora: Repatriation Process and the Demographic Transformation.

Zharmukhamed Zardykhan explained the meaning of the terms used in diaspora research and talked how the case of Kazakhstan can interpreted from a scientific point of view. Diaspora is a group of people living permanently outside of the geographical area of their ethnic and cultural origin. According to the estimates […]
September 28, 2021

Milley defends China calls and says ‘I am certain Trump did not intend to attack the Chinese’

During his questioning at the Senate hearing, Republican senator Tom Cotton pressed Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, on why he did not resign over Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. […]
September 23, 2021

On September 23, 2021, Almas Junisbayev conducted a seminar on medicine and healthcare in Central Asia (history and continuity).

Almas Junisbayev started with an overview of the history of pandemics. He described diseases and illnesses that have plagued humanity during the last centuries, how historically diseases were spread through military channels in Tsarist Russia and compared the measures taken by Tsarist Russia and European countries for combating diseases. Further, […]
September 16, 2021

On September 16, 2021, Daulet Zhailybayev conducted a seminar on ethnographic research in Kazakhstan: past, present and future.

Daulet Zhailybayev talked about three main periods of the history of ethnographic research in Kazakhstan. The first period of ethnographic research on the territory of Kazakhstan lasted from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Studies done during this period laid the foundation […]