CALL FOR COLLABORATION- Al-Farabi Academy, Shymkent, Kazakstan

The Al-Farabi Academy, organized by the Southern Kazakstan branch of the Academy of Sciences and the South Branch Research Foundation, would like to invite specialists from the fields of Central Asian studies, archaeology, ethnography, folklore studies, social anthropology, and ecology and environmental studies to participate in field-work in Southern Kazakstan. South Kazakstan, known in the medieval period as Farab, is the birthplace of the great Eastern scholar of the period, Abu Nassyr Al-Farabi, whose legacy is shared broadly throughout all of contemporary Central Asia and the world.

In the sphere of archaeology, the Academy conducts excavations of the burial grounds and petroglyphs of Bronze-Era nomads, the remains of early agricultural settlements, and the cities of the late medieval period (Turkistan, Otyrar, Sauran, and others).

In the spheres of ethnography and folklore studies, the Academy conducts research on the traditional culture of nomadic and sedentary regions from the 17th century to the post-Soviet period.

In the sphere of social anthropology, the Academy conducts research on the social structure and identities of the various cultural groups of Southern
Kazakstan in the pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

In the spheres of ecology and environmental studies, the Academy conducts
botanical, zoological, and geographical field-studies in the Western Tien
Shan mountains and in the desert sands of the Kyzyl Kum.

For more information, please contact:

Igor Savin
Secretary Al-Farabi Academy
Shymkent, Kazakstan
[email protected]