March
Usacheva V.V. Modern African Diaspora in India

April
Banschikova A.A. Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam: Two Capitals of German East Africa on postcards and photos

In November 2020 Valentina N. Bryndina accomplished the fourth season of field research in the United Republic of Tanzania, dedicated to the historical memory of the Arab slave trade and Сolonial rule in Zanzibar. The researcher has conducted interviews in several districts of the Island (Stone town, Mtendeni, Mbweni). Work has continued among worshippers of Anglican church in Mbweni which directly related to history of the slave trade in the island.

In August-September 2020 Anastasia A. Banshchikova, Oxana V. Ivanchenko and Valentine N. Bryndina accomplished the third season of field research in the United Republic of Tanzania, dedicated to the historical memory of the Arab slave trade. The researchers have conducted interviews in Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo and Zanzibar, with parishioners of the Anglican Church of Zanzibar. The latter interviews are of particular interest, since a significant part of the worshippers are descendants of slaves.

On July 23, 2020 the members of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology of the Institute for African Studies took part in the 16th EASA Biennial Conference “EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe”.

Laboratory of Oriental and African Studies of the Department of World History of P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University and Center for History and Cultural Anthropology

March
Shubin V.G. Is Ramaphosa South African Gorbachev?

April
Bryndina V.N. Evolution of Representation of Slavery in the 20th – 21st Centuries American Movies: Historical and Cultural Context

Yaroslavl, P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology

From 5 to 19 of November 2019 Research Fellow Dr. Nadezhda Khokholkova and a student from Russian State University for the Humanities Mariia Sergeeva conducted field research in Tanzania, supported by Russian Scientific Foundation (project №18-18-00454 "Historical Memory as the Evolutional Factor of Socio-Political Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and Mesoamerica"). The study focused on the historical memory of the slave trade and colonialism.