Scientific seminar at the Department of Philosophy

On 15th of April, a scientific seminar was held at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Social Sciences by associate professor Ulbolsyn Sandybayeva. The topic of the report is “Representation of traumatic memory in the public spaces of Kazakhstan”. The research problem posed by U. Sandybayeva is how the memory policy is built, how the infrastructure of traumatic memory is created, how history is constructed using memorial representations, and how the search for identity is reflected in them.
          The speaker talked about the research field of trauma, about the memorialization of traumatic memory in the public spaces of Kazakhstan on the example of museums of conscience and memorial cemeteries.
The report is based on studies conducted in the framework of the project “Places of memory” in the modern culture of Kazakhstan: the processes of commemoration in public spaces. ”

The seminar was attended by teachers of the Department of Philosophy and other departments of ENU, director of the Department of Science and Innovation D. Orynbekov, city activists.