Orientalists and Diplomats Came to the University

12:27, November 15, 2022

They took part in conferences dedicated to the 20th anniversary of International Relations Department of Ural Institute of Humanities UrFU.

Participants of the international conference will discuss Islam in Russia, Russian-Chinese cooperation in the higher educational system, Middle East in global relations, Russia in the international area and all other aspects in this week. Conference devoted to the 20th anniversary of International Relations Department (Faculty) of the UrIH UrFU and orientated for expanding work between Russian and foreign orientalists, international relations, political and historical sciences, work in different professional fields.

“All topics, which experts will discuss, are on the edge of international relation and foreign policy. In borders of first conference issues  East and Asian directions is considered, also as a youth conference include CIS countries, but Champalov readings put guests in the history of international relations”,- says Victoria Belyaeva, Director of International Relations Department of UrFU.

Specialists in Islamic studies, orientalists, diplomats, international relations specialists will discuss the interaction of people and cultures, vectors of Russian foreign policy, perspectives of partnership with CIS countries and China, historical moments of international relations and perspectives regional safety.

So on November 14-15 there will be an International science conference “Ways and countries: West civilizations in historical dynamics”. Conference members will discuss spatial mobility, migration, travel, historical periods Asia and Africa, Russian global policy in East direction.

On November 16-18, will be held the international student science conference “Youth cooperation in CIS: perspectives and opportunities of interaction Commonwealth countries”. Russian and international students, theoretical specialists and practitioners will join it They will talk about the historical ties Commonwealth countries, open the problem of positioning of CIS countries in the international arena, will touch law actions of different organizations with of CIS countries.

The week will end with the All-Russian science conference with Champalov readings (November 17-18). University professors, employees of research organizations, archive workers, PhD students will discuss USSR’s policy in the international arena, role of changing system of international relation in world politics in XX century.

Note

In the Department of International Relations UrFU you can see full list of programs in international relation sphere on bachelor level and master. From 2023 will be open new separate major “Chinese studies”. Students learned more than 10 foreign languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and, of course, European. Also department helped develop the UN model movement in the Ural region. For example, this year passed the 10th international model UN.

Translated by Polina Patsira