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 on the theme: "World history and international relations in Eurasia in the light of modern integration and modernization."

The reports by more than 100 domestic and foreign scientists from Germany, Italy, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, China,were considered at the conference. Among them there were investigations by Professor Fabio Grassi (Rome, La Sapienza University), Professor Misha Meyer (Tübingen University, Germany), Prof. Mehmet Arslan (Istanbul University, Turkey), etc. Also, topical issues of studying world history in Kazakhstan;  problems of the methodology of modern history in the post-Soviet space; issues of national history in Kazakhstan were discussed. Leading academic historians exchanged views on the problems of forming the national identity of states, critical rethinking and overcoming the totalitarian past in the conditions of the democratization processes

The second part of the conference was dedicated to the work of Kalkaman Tursunovich Zhumagulov, the first Kazakh historian-medieval scholar, who went a long way - from the assistant to the professor, the founder of the department of the history of the ancient world and the Middle Ages and its first head, a great scientist and organizer of historical science in Kazakhstan.

In the solemn part of the conference the rector of the Kazakh National University, G.M. Mutanov and prominent figures of education and science, colleagues and students of the scientist appreciated the great contribution of Professor K.T. Zhumagulov in the development of national science and education and wished further successes in the life and work of the famous scientist.

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