Russians in the Near Abroad: Preservation and Transformation of Cultural Values – Public Lecture, September 14
We invite you to a public lecture "Russians in the Near Abroad: Preservation and Transformation of Cultural Values" on September 14 at 1:00 PM.
The issue of preserving and transmitting cultural values in the context of maintaining identity when one ethnic group is in a foreign cultural majority is a significant and enduring interdisciplinary problem. As V. Galyapina writes: "After the collapse of the USSR, the peoples of Russia and the new independent states are trying to 're-identify' themselves, to comprehend their cultural and historical heritage, values, and find their place in the new system of relations." But this is also true for Russians, who, as the titular nation in the Russian Federation, are largely rethinking their identity with their ethnicity and their culture while remaining in a foreign cultural environment.
During the lecture, we will discuss the results of many years of research conducted by the author with working, self-identifying Russian pensioners born 1945-1955 living in Tashkent and Samarkand.
We will cover topics such as:
- Reflection on the past: values and goals.
- Assessment of life and professional achievements.
- The transmission of professional experience to the younger generation of ethnic Uzbeks as a solution to the problem of meaning.
- Reflection on the present and prospects for the future.
The lecture will be of interest to sociocultural anthropologists, social psychologists, sociologists, and anyone interested in the problem of the human life path, cultural transmission, and intercultural communication.
Speaker:
Natalia Vladimirovna Tkachenko – Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnopsychology and Psychological Problems of Multicultural Education, Faculty of Social Psychology; field ethnopsychologist; psychotherapist in the tradition of F.E. Vasilyuk's understanding psychotherapy.