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Laura YEREKESHEVA

Ph.D., Dr.Sc. (History)
 

Professor, al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), Oriental Faculty; Faculty of History, Archaeology and Ethnology (Almaty, Kazakhstan): Leading Research Fellow, Centre for Rapprochement of Cultures (UNESCO Category 2 Centre), Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Basic Areas of Research:

Identity, the “Other”, Cross-Cultural and Religious Encounters, Social Cohesion in Central and South Asia (explored within the fields of theoretical sociology, anthropology of religion, history, art).

Recent Publications:

2021

  • Yerekesheva Laura. Ways of Living along the Silk Roads: Representation of the “Other” and Cross-Cultural Encounters During the Second Half of First Millennium CE. In Art, Design & Society. Global Perspectives. Pande A., S. Kumari (Eds). New Delhi: National Museum Institute, Macmillan Education, 2021. p. 340–350.
  • Yerekesheva L. G. Religion and the Art of Representation: Symbolism of Zoomorphic Style in Central Asia. NewResearchofTuva, 2021, no. 1, pp. 6–29. (InRuss.) DOI:https://www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2021.1.1

2020

  • Yerekesheva L. Functions of Religions and Dynamics of Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan // The Muslim World, Vol. 110, Issue 1 (2020): 64–88. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/muwo.12319
    https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12319

2019

  • Yerekesheva L. Syncretism of Religious Beliefs in Western Himalayas’s Lahoul. In Südasien-Chronik – South Asia Chronicle, Vol 9 (2019): 83–119. Berlin: Humboldt University. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/21749

2017

  • Yerekesheva L. Sufism and Religious Syncretism in the History of Central Asia. In N.R. Khan (Ed). Sufism in India and Central Asia. NewDelhi: ManakinPress, 2017. p. 141–148.

The Northern Caucasus Affiliation

On March 25, 2015, the Northern Caucasus affiliation of our Chair was inaugurated in the city of Derbent, basing upon the premises of the State University of Daghestan, and the Naryn-Kala historical, architectural and artistic museum.

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UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)

  • College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center
  • Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions (Jerusalem, Izrael)

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