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.

Biennial Conference in Seville, Spain.

April 17-18, 2019 the members of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the scientific conference with international participation “Studying the History of Africa: Problems, People, Sources. On the 90th anniversary of the First African Research Programme”, organized by the Center for African Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Within the framework of the conference presentations were made by Dr. Nadezhda E. Khokholkova (“Digitalization of African Studies: Challenges and Prospects") and Dr.

The Secretary General of the ANC E.S. Magashule's letter of gratitude to Prof. Vladimir Shubin for the memorial lecture dedicated to the late General Secretary of the South African Communist Party Moses Kotane

March 4th -7th, 2019 the 1st Social Scientists Conference “State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges” was held at the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy (MNMA). The event was organized jointly by MNMA and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 2019, the initial work on the topic “The Development of African Countries and Peoples in a Cultural-Historical Context” (2019–2021). Leaders: Corr. member of RAS, Doctor of History, Professor Bondarenko D.M., Ph.D. Gribanova V.V.