On February 9, 2018, the Department of World History, Historiography and Source Studies of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University held an international theoretical conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary and 50th anniversary of the scientific and pedagogical activity of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, the director of the Republic Center for the Study of World History, the Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the professor of the Goettingen University, K.T. Zhumagulov.