April turned to be packed with scientific conferences, and students of the Department of Russian and International History of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities snatched this opportunity. Thanks to serious support of student science at SUSU, the students tested themselves at guest venues, where they successfully presented results of their research studies.
The Conference on Humanities Research by Young Scientists of South Ural was held at Chelyabinsk State University on April 17th. The Historical Faculty was represented by students of Group СГ-306 Amir Biesov, Tatiana Smakova and Zhanna Utispaeva, who presented their scientific works under “History of Russia” Section.
Amir Biesov shares on the results of the conference work, anecdotal situations, and his impressions: “Most part of the presentations were devoted to the history of the USSR, what, I believe, can be explained not only by the accessibility sources, but also by personal interest of students in this topic. The ChelSU students demonstrated very good level of working with sources. However, I thought that some of the presentations lacked interpretation or well-worded conclusions. Most of the works were devoted to social, military, economical and political history. Very few presentations touched the currently topical filed of cultural history: only 4 out of 17, including our presentations. In general I have positive impressions from the conference. What was important to me personally was that it helped reveal drawbacks in my work, and I’m planning to work hard on them in the future.”
Also, this spring SUSU students debuted beyond the Chelyabinsk scientific community.
Master’s student Eduard Meyer shares on participating in Lomonosov International Youth Scientific Forum, which was held at Lomonosov Moscow State University April 9th through 13th of 2018: “It was a very fruitful trip, and a very friendly atmosphere. A pleasant and open-hearted team and good organization of the event created a home-like atmosphere during the conference. I really liked the presentations by the participants, and I was able to see the level of training of students from other universities and to talk to professors of MSU. I’ll try to keep participating in such events in the future since here you can not only test this or that aspect of your research, but also do scientific networking. Such events strengthen the interaction and integrity within the community of young medievalists of Russia.”
Besides Eduard, student of Group СГ-306 Stanislav Dmitriev also participated in the forum by delivering a presentation on Nietzsche and Modern Historical Policy of Russia.
April 20th through 21st of 2018, student of Group СГ-406 Tatiana Petrova took part in the 12th Conference for Young Scientists on Constructing Soviet? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities held at European University at St. Petersburg. Her presentation on Visual Representation of the Trip by N.S. Khrushchev to the USA (based on materials of Ogonek and Sovetsky Soyuz magazines) was delivered under “Visual Spaces of the Soviet” Section.
According to Tatiana, her presentation excited real interest among the Section participants and a heated discussion.
“Participation in the conference has become not only a great opportunity to test the research case from my qualification work, but also allowed to expand my contacts with the scientific community,” summarizes the results of her trip Tatiana Petrova.
The cultural capital of our country provides an opportunity to test the results of research work not only to history students, but to those studying archaeology as well. April 2nd through 5th of 2018 at the RAS Institute of History of Material Culture and with the support from The State Hermitage Museum and St Petersburg University, an International Scientific Conference for Young Scientists on Topical Archaeology 4: Comprehensive Research in Archaeology was held. Among the conference participants was SUSU’s Master’s student of Group СГ-136 Sofya Suleimanova, who presented the results of her research on Miniature Vessels in Burial Complexes of the Bronze Age in the Areas beyond South Ural.
Within the frameworks of the conference a training block was organized for the participants featuring lectures on the Theory of Archaeology by L.S. Klein, E.M. Kolpakov, V.A. Trifonov with visiting The State Hermitage Museum and master class by L.B. Vishnyatsky on the method of writing scientific articles on archaeology.
“It was an incredible experience! The conference turned to be a sort of scientific-and-research intensive work, which allowed to make many new interesting acquaintances with young scientists from Russia and the neighbouring countries, to considerably broaden our worldview, gain a number of new skills, to look at our own research themes at a different angle, and simply to get inspired. A pleasant surprise for me was a heated discussion of my presentation. Many scientists showed sincere interest in the performed trace evidence analysis of artifacts. Also the possibilities of experimenting in archaeology and correct interpretation of data and finds were widely discussed. I couldn’t be happier about such a broad range of issues since it demonstrates a growing interest of the scientific community to the problem of studying archaeology by means of using interdisciplinary natural-science methods,” Sofya shares her emotions.