DKU Talks «The life and work of Ilyas Esenberlin» will be held on March 13, 2021
The Kazakh-German University is pleased to invite everyone to the DKU Talk «The Life and Work of Ilyas Esenberlin», which will be held on March 13, 2021 at 15: 00 Almaty time on the Zoom channel.
At this meeting, we will talk about the life and work of the famous Kazakh Soviet writer Ilyas Esenberlin (1915−1983), how difficulties and hardships influenced the formation of the writer's views on life, how the idea to write a trilogy of the historical novel «Nomads» was born and what the author tried to show with his work, as well as how the writer's work influenced the national identity of the Kazakhs. We will discuss these and other issues with Yesenberlina Dilfruza Ilyasovna, Diana Kudaibergenova and Dina Sharipova.
Yesenberlina Dilfruza Ilyasovna is a guest teacher of KAZNIIS. Previously, she served as the director of the Center for Advanced Training at KazNIISSA. Dilfruza Ilyasovna has published a number of scientific and methodological works, textbooks and has more than 70 publications in scientific journals and collections of scientific works of KAZGAS, KAZNIIS and other scientific publications. In 2005, she was awarded the badge «Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan». In 2009, Dilfruza Ilyasovna was awarded the badge «Honorary Builder of Kazakhstan».
Diana Kudaibergenova is a Doctor of Social Sciences, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. In her numerous studies, Diana studies various aspects of national and state construction, the relationship between power and society, the development of political regimes and ideologies through the prism of political sociology. Dr. Kudaibergenova holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. Her first book «Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature», published in 2017, is devoted to the development of national identity, modernization and cultural development of modern Kazakhstan. Her second book, «Toward Nationalizing Regimes," was published in 2020. She is currently finishing work on her third book, on issues of power, state, and resistance in contemporary art in post-Soviet Eurasia, and is also working on a new project related to state/regime theory.
Dina Sharipova is an assistant professor at the Higher School of Public Policy of the Nazarbayev University. Dr. Sharipova holds a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University (Bloomington). Dr. Sharipova's research interests include state and nation-building, security issues, informal institutions, and identity and nationalism in Central Asia. She has been widely published in such scientific journals as «Nationalism and Ethnic Politics», «Central Asian Survey», «Nationalities Papers», «Europe-Asia Studies», etc. Dr. Sharipova is the author of the book «State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions». She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Central Asian Survey.
The working language of the event will be Russian.
Date: March 13, 2021, 15: 00 Almaty
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Conference:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81451148574?pwd=cmNZaUhiUHVPTEFGMkRKb2kzVEtmUT09
Conference ID: 814 5114 8574
Access code: 271163
DKU Talks is held with the financial support of DAAD from funds provided by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Contacts: dku.talks@dku.kz