History of the Great Steppe and Personality
On the 23 December 2020 at 11.00 a.m. the Ch.Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology in collaboration with the “Rukhani zhangyry” Institute of the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University and World Association of Kazakhs will hold International scientific and practical on-line conference “History of the Great Steppe and Personality” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of a prominent public figure, politician, historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Zardykhan Kinayatuly (1940-2016).
Conference objective is to discuss the contemporary state and trends of the historical science development in Kazakhstan, evaluation and propaganda of the scientific legacy of Z. Kinayatuly. During the conference there will be held virtual book exhibition of his works arranged by specialists of the National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Kinayatuly was born in 1940 in Kobdy district of Mongolia, graduated from the Mongolian State University and Moscow Academy of Social Sciences. His life could be divided into two stages. Before moving to Kazakhstan, he lived and worked actively in the Mongolian People’s Republic, and after Kazakhstan gained independence, he returned to his historical homeland.
From 1975 to 1987 Z. Kinayatuly was secretary of the Mongolia Central Trade Unions Committee, in early 1990s he was appointed deputy chair of the head of government and vice- chairman of the Mongolian parliament. After internal political transformations in the country caused by the communist party downfall, Z. Kinayatuly participated in building new Mongolia. He was in the team elaborating the New Constitution of the country that was adopted on the 13 January 1992 and laid the legal foundations of the political and economic reforms in Mongolia. Recalling the events of those years, Kinayatuly said: “In the 1980s and 1990s, I was lucky to be the first to declare the need, from a theoretical point of view, for new democratic transformations for Mongolian society. Nobody in Mongolia can deny this today”.
In 1994 Z. Kinayatuly moved to Kazakhstan and until his last days he worked at research in history in the Ch. Valikahnov institute of history and ethnology.
In 1994, Zardykhan Kinayatuly moved to Kazakhstan and devoted his life only to research in the field of history, until the end of his life working as a researcher at Ch.Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology.
As a scholar Z. Kinayatuly made a valuable contribution into the historical science development of Kazakhstan. The academic works by Z. Kinayatuly «Chronicle of the mourning years», «Kazakhs of Mongolia», «The last Turkic tribes inhabiting the Mongolian plateu», «Nomadic life», «Jochi ulus», «Chingis khan and Kazakh state» are unique researches of the historical past of the Great Steppe and Mongol legacy.
The scholar’s works cover various periods of the national and world history, issues of political science, diaspora studies, historical sources and historiography, personalias’ history, ethnic studies, history of nomadic statehood, theory and methodology of historical science. But is goes without questions that Z. Kinayatuly laid down the basics of new directions in the studies of Mongol and post-Mongol worlds – history of imperial tradition set up by Chingis khan, legacy of Jochi khan, origin of the Kazakh statehood and activities of the Kazakh rulers, historical figures of the the Turkic world. He highly appreciated the contribution of А. Levshin, V. Bartold, L. Gumilev, K. Nurpeissov, Banbyn Rinchin, Zaissanov into the studies of the nomadic societies and state formations.
The following themes will discussed at the conference:
- Life and activities of Z. Kinayatuly;
- Scientific Z. Kinayatuly legacy and national historical sciences problems;
- Kinayatuly’s ethnic researches;
- Contribution of Z. Kinayatuly into studies of the Kazakh statehood, personalia’s history and diaspora studies.
Conference working languages: Kazakh, Russian and English.
Form of the conference conduct: intra-mural and on-line on Zoom platform (conference ID: 873 7788 9845, password: 683119)
Registration of participants– 10.30 a.m., Сonference starts at 11.00 a.m. Almaty time.
Scholars, public and state figures, teachers, doctoral students and undergraduates, representatives of the general public are invited to participate in the conference. To include reports in the program and collection of the conference, you must send the registration form to the address of the organizing committee by December 15, and the text of the report – by December 21, 2020.
The materials should meet strictly and following requirements:
- Registration form and the text of the report (on the topic of the conference and no more than 7 pages), must be typed in a text editor MSWord; the file with the report should be name after the author (s).
- Page format: A4, font: Times New Roman, KZ Times New Roman, size – 12, top and bottom margins – 2 cm, right – 1 cm, left – 3 cm, line spacing – single, red line indent: 0.95.
- First, the title of the report is printed: at the top in the center IN CAPITAL LETTERS (BOLD).
- Under the title of the report, centered in lower case letters (in bold), author (s), academic degree, academic rank (if any);
- Below is the full name of the institution where the author (s) works, position;
- Below, in one space, the text of the report (article).
- A list of literature and sources is placed at the end of the article and compiled as they are mentioned in the text. Links are formatted in square brackets as a list number indicating the source page, for example: [6, p. 2].
- All drawings and photographs must have a title, good resolution, at least 300 dpi, and inserted into the article in jpeg format.