International Conference: Contemporary Issues of Oriental Studies

Jubilee International Conference Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA

24 June 2021, at 10:00

Contemporary Issues of Oriental Studies

Address: 24 M. Baghramyan Ave., Yerevan, Armenia,
Round Hall of the Presidium of NAS RA 

9: 30-10: 00 - Registration of participants
10:00 - Opening of the conference

Plenary session - Moderator of the meeting - Yuri Suvaryan, Academician-Secretary of Division of Armenology and Social Sciences of NAS RA

Opening remarks - Yuri Suvaryan, Academician-Secretary of Division of Armenology and Social Sciences of NAS RA 

Welcome speech - Radik Martirosyan, President of NAS RA, Academician of NAS RA

Welcome speech - Robert Ghazaryan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Ph.D.

Speeches - former directors of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA
Nikolay Hovhannisyan - Corresponding Member of NAS RA
Ruben Safrastyan - Academician of NAS RA 

Awarding of Certificates of Honor of NAS RA
Awarding of Letters of Gratitude from the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA

13:00-13:30 - Coffee break

Venue of the conference - 24 Marshal Baghramyan Ave., Round hall of the Presidium of NAS RA (second floor)

Duration of the report - 15 minutes
Questions and answers - 5 minutes
Discussion at the end of the session during summing up

13:30- 16:00 - Scientific reports

Moderator of the meeting - Robert Ghazaryan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Ph.D.

Alexey Maslov - Director of the Institute of the Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History
Discussions on the paths to the development of Oriental Studies: between classics and innovations

Aram Kosyan - Head of the Department of the Ancient Orient of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Doctor of History
Proto Armenia: civilizational panorama of the Armenian Highland

Alexander Skakov - Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.
Russian archaeology in the Caucasus at the beginning of the 21st century 

Khatuna Gaprindashvili - Senior Researcher at the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts, Doctor of History
The structure and original part of Armenian Synaxarion

Temir Khagurov – First Vice-Rector of the Kuban State University of RF, Doctor of Social Sciences
Youth in a global and local multiethnic society: new perspectives of social tension

Sergey Uyanaev - Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.
China's policy in the South Caucasus in the studies of Russian Sinologists

Azat Bozoyan - Head of the Department of Eastern Sources and Historiography of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Doctor of History
The Armenian Church in the hierarchical system of the Ecumenical Church and the significance of the creation of the Alphabet 

16:00-16:30 – Coffee break

Aleksan Hakobyan - Head of the Department of the Christian Orient of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA
On the dating of the official adoption of Christianity in the kingdom of Caucasian Albania (313-315)

Gohar Iskandaryan - Head of the Department of Iran of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Ph.D.
Toolkit of the US strategy in Iran in 1950s-1960s

Mher Sahakyan - Director of “China-Eurasia” Council for Political and Strategic Research, Ph.D.
China and Turkey in a changing world order

Christine Melkonyan - Head of the Department of Turkey of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Ph.D.
Soviet-Turkish relations in 1941 (based on archival materials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) 

Lilit Harutyunyan - Head of the Department of Arab Countries of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Ph.D.
New tendencies of Islamization in Shiite-populated regions of Georgia

Eva Harutyunyan - Head of the Department of International Relations of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Ph.D.
Japan’s Middle East policy following the adoption of the Security Bill in 2015 

Discussion of reports
Summing up the results of the conference

Address: 24 Marshal Baghramyan Ave., Round hall of the Presidium of NAS RA (second floor)