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.

From November 20 to November 24, 2019 Principal Research Fellow of the Centre ofr History and Cultural Anthropology Prof. Vladimir Shubin was in Maputo to participate in the Symposium on the topic "Mozambique’s foreign policy and diplomacy: from the origin to to the present." At this symposium, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Joaquim Chissano, who served as president of this country in 1986-2004, he was invited as an honored guest along with former presidents of neighboring countries of Mozambique.

On October 1, 2019, the round table "New Trends in African Studies: Historical, Anthropological, and Gender Aspects" was held at the Institute for African studies. The event was organized by the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology in cooperation with the Center for Sociological and Political Sciences. The round table was arranged to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Institute for African Studies and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Group of Gender Studies.

Russian Scientific Foundation "Historical Memory as the Evolutional Factor of Socio-Political Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and Mesoamerica")

Center for History and Cultural Anthropology and Center for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies

July 2-6, 2019 13th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia was held in Kazan. The central theme of the Congress was "Systems of kinship, connections, and communications in the history of mankind: the anthropological aspect". More than 800 researchers attended the Congress, Research Fellow of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dr. Nadezhda E. Khokholkova was one of them.

June 19-21, 2019 the members of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the XXX International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Academician Vasily V. Barthold (1869-1930). Within the framework of the conference presentations were made by Senior Research Fellow, Head of Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology Dr. Valentina V. Gribanova; Research Fellow, Dr. Nadezhda E. Khokholkova; Senior Research Fellow, D.Sc. Irina G. Tatarovskaya; Research Fellow, Dr.

From May 12 to May 31, the head of the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology Ph.D. Gribanova V.V., Doctor of History prof. Shubin V.G. in the framework of the project “Russians in Africa”, carried out by the Institute for African Studies RAS, made a research trip to Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.