On February 19-20, 2015 at the University of Helsinki, was held the conference ” A Meeting of Scholars and Scholarships: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Helsinki and St. Petersburg”. The conference was organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies  (HCAS) and the Research Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Processes, St. Petersburg State University.  The conference was designed and organized by the Head of the Laboratory Alexander D. Knysh.
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A Meeting of Scholars and Scholarships: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Helsinki and St. Petersburg

Venue: The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), The University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 24

Dates: February 19-20, 2015
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On October 29–31, 2014 the Kazan Federal University hosted the Fourth Kazan International Academic Forum “Islam in the Multicultural World”. Every year the Forum has a different central theme. This year it explored the adaptation and integration of Muslim minority communities in various European countries. The Forum has already established itself as an important major academic venue for discussion of current issues in the field of Islamic studies and other academic disciplines devoted to the study of Muslim societies. Participants arrived in Kazan from different countries: Finland, the USA, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Germany, Russia.
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A conference of young Arabists held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts on September 25 was attended by students and graduates of SPSU and other educational institutions of St. Petersburg. It is interesting to note that the conference was conducted in Arabic. Laboratory staff Vladimir Rozov and Oleg Sokolov took part in the conference with the following presentations:

• “The place of the Arabic language in the typological classification of languages​​” (Vladimir Rozov)
• “The historical novel in the literature of Yemen” (Oleg Sokolov)

Here is the link to the conference program

September 25, 2014, the Head of the Laboratory, Alexander Knysh, held the seminar “Virtual Jihad in the XXI century: the Caucasus Emirate” at the European University. At the beginning of the seminar Professor A. Knysh gave a lecture on the stated topic followed by a lively discussion. In addition to the scientific community the seminar was attended by a large number of students and postgraduate students from various educational institutions of St. Petersburg.
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On September 24, the Laboratory held an open lecture of Alexander Knysh “Quran and Quran studies today.” The lecture was delivered within the frame of the training course “Quran” for students of the 4th year of study on the profile of “Economics of the Middle East.” Among the audience there were students and postgraduate students of various areas of training, as well as teachers.

A series of conferences with the participation of the members of the Laboratory of analysis and modeling of social processes took place in September this year.
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