From December 12 to 13, 2013, East Kazakhstan State University named after S. Amanzholov will hold an International theoretical and practical conference "Alash Orda: the origins of Kazakh statehood and modernity".

The conference is scheduled for the plenary session, a roundtable meeting "The Heritage of Alash", presentation, exhibition of books and archival documents.

The Conference will cover the following topics:

•The philosophy of the “Alash” national idea in the present context;

•The archival documents and materials as a source of everyday life under a totalitarian regime;

•The Alash movement and ideas of Kazakh statehood;

•The personalistic и scientific heritage of national intelligence;

•The National Question and the national liberation movement of the peoples of Central Asia in the early twentieth century;

•Social, economic, political and legal views of Alash leaders;

•Intellectuals and power: from cooperation to repression.

Phone: 8 (7232) 540-585, Fax: 8 (7232) 241-471,

E-mail: alachuk@rambler.ru