The International Scientific and Practical Conference History in the Scope of Social and Humanitarian Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Approaches and New Research Practices’ was held at the Russian-Armenian University from April 29 to May 3.

The guests and speakers of the conference were welcomed by Rector of RAU, Doctor of Economics of RA and RF, Professor Edward Sandoyan. He stressed that the conference would promote the exchange of experience and knowledge, strengthening of international cooperation, and the proposals and recommendations would serve as an impetus for deeper, more meaningful analyses of historical situations.

In turn, Olga Vorobeva, a leading researcher of the Institute of Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Humanitarian Knowledge of the Russian State University of Humanities wished the participants fruitful and effective work. She presented the Institute of Humanities with the books "Professional Identity and Self-Consciousness of the Historian", "Cognitive Sciences and Historical Cognition", and "Silence and Silencing History".

The key moments of the conference were an active search for interdisciplinary "meeting places" and points of intersection of research positions of historians and specialists of related disciplines, comparison of the principles of critical scientific thinking, the latest approaches and methods of production of scientific knowledge.

The participants of the event noted that the conference contributed to the enrichment of theoretical,methodological and conceptual tools used by historians, the identification of promising problem fields, and the discovery of new ways of studying and representing the historical past. The interaction of professionals from different fields of social and humanitarian knowledge creates opportunities for mutual enrichment of specific research practices.

The event was organized by the RAU Institute of Humanities (Department of World History and Foreign Regional Studies) and the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

 

Translated by Milena Nazaryan,    
I year Master’s Student in Translation & Interpretation, RAU