Oriental Field Research-2022: the Second All-Russian Academic Conference

Abstract

The paper is a review of the second All-Russian Scientific Conference “Oriental Field Research” held in Moscow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences on April 20-21, 2022. In this scientific event 65 researchers from different countries, near and far abroad, took part — from Russia (such regions as Dagestan, Kalmykia, Tatarstan), Tajikistan, China, Pakistan, Italy, Hungary. These are representatives of academic institutions, museums, higher education, and independent researchers. The work of the conference was held in a mixed format, face-to-face reports and online presentations were heard, a total of 50 reports. The increased number of participants compared to the previous year indicates the importance and relevance of the ongoing scientific event. The topics of the reports were varied and touched upon current problems and prospects of Oriental studies, the results of field expeditions, archaeological, underwater archaeological, epigraphic, anthropological, sociological, and many other issues. Within the framework of the conference, the exhibition “Expeditions of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences” was organized, at which the artworks of T. P. Udyma, created in the course of her work in the South Tajik Archaeological Expedition under the leadership of Academician B. A. Litvinsky in Tajikistan, as well as photographs taken during modern expeditions by employees of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, India, the Republic of Korea, and Uzbekistan. This scientific symposium was prepared by the Center for Historical and Archaeological Research of Crimea and the Mediterranean. The proceedings of the conference in the form of scientific articles are planned to be published in a special issue of the “Orientalistika” academic journal.