Seminar: Gulzat Alagoz: Esimde Research and Discussion Platform: Why is Citizen Science Important?

Seminar in the series Digital History in/of Central Asia<https://www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de/institut/digital-history-central-asia/> as part of the seminar of the Chair of Modern and Eastern European History<https://www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de/>, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

The seminar is held in collaboration with the German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO)<https://dgo-online.org/>

The second seminar will be held on January 11, 14:15 CEST (14:15 Berlin / 18:15 Tashkent / 19:15 Bishkek and Almaty) online in Zoom and onsite: Erlangen, Bismarckstr. 12.

Topic: Esimde Research and Discussion Platform: Why is Citizen Science Important?

Invited expert: Gulzat Alagoz, researcher at the Esimde research and discussion platform, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Gulzat’s projects include a database of dispossessed and exiled people from Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine (1927-1944).

Esimde is a research platform that studies and comprehends the processes, events and „white spots“ in the people’s memory and history of Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia in the 20th – 21st centuries. Esimde consists of representatives of various professions who deal with history and memory in one way or another. In its work, Esimde relies on an interdisciplinary approach and actively uses digital methods, including creating historical databases.

Language: presentation: Russian, questions: English, German, Russian.

For registration and Zoom-link please write to Dinara Gagarina (dinara.gagarina@fau.de).
More information: https://www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de/veranstaltungen/gulzat-alagoz/