On 23 February 2022, an online Kick-Off Expert Meeting launched the UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust (JFiT) project “Support Silk Roads World Heritage Nomination(s) process” (Phase III). Thiseventwas co-organised by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Int
By the decision of the Fifth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee held in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on December 4-5, 2018 the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) was elected the Secretariat of the Serial Transnational Nomination of th
On August 8-10, 2019, the International Institute for Central AsianStudies(IICAS) in cooperation with the University College Londo norganized in Istanbul, Turkey, an interstate meeting of the official representativesof the member-states of the Silk Roads
The specialists of IICAS implemented a detailed photogrammetry of aseries of the sites (complex of Kasym Shaikh, mausoleum of Mir SaidBakhrom, mausoleum of Deggaron and oasis wall of Bukhara) in th eframework of the project for the nomination of the histo
InternationalConferenceonthe“ITTechnologiesfortheCulturalHeritageManagement”(IT-CHM’2019)tookplaceonMay22,2019ontheterritoryofthemosqueofUlugbek,complexofRegistan,cityofSamarkand. Thisconferencewasjointlyorganizedby: –InstituteofComputerScience,LublinUniv
ThemeetingwiththedelegationoftheSilkRoadInternationalProjectwasheld. The43rdsessionoftheUNESCOWorldHeritageCommitteeisrunningoninBaku. Withintheframeworkofthesessiontherewillbearrangedbusinessappointmentsofdelegationsfromdifferentcountriesandorganization
6thInternationalConference“SyriacChristianityinChinaandCentralAsia”organizedbySalzburgUniversityandtheInstituteofArcheologynamedafterA.Kh.MargulanwiththesupportoftheInternationalInstituteforCentralAsianStudieswasheldJune21-27,2019inAlmaty(RepublicofKazakh
FormorethantenyearstheinternationalcommunityisimplementingundertheauspicesofUNESCOahugeworkforthenominationofthehistoricalandculturalsitesoftheGreatSilkRoadsfortheUNESCOWorldHeritageList.In2014,astheresultofthiswork,33sitesfromChina,KazakhstanandKyrgyzsta
Forum“HumanitarianSecurityintheModernWorld:ChallengesandPracticesfortheConservationofHistoricalandCulturalHeritageofCentralAsianandRussia”organizedincooperationwithIICAStookplaceinKazan(Tatarstan,RussianFederation)on,26-28July2019.Themainorganizedofthefor
OnAugust8-10,2019,theInternationalInstituteforCentralAsianStudiesincooperationwiththeUniversityCollegeLondonorganizedinIstanbul,Turkey,aninterstatemeetingoftheofficialrepresentativesofthemember-statesoftheSilkRoadsCoordinationCommittee(Zaravshan-KarakumCo
InternationalInstituteforCentralAsianStudiesparticipatesinthemajorproject“ArchaeologicalLandscapesofCentralAsia”,whichismanagedbytheUniversityCollegeLondonwiththefinancialsupportofthe“Arcadia”Fund. Theprojectforeseesthecreationofadetailedmapofarchaeologic
CulturalHeritageWeek“Uzbekistan-CrossroadsofCivilizationsandRoutes:Empires,Religion,Culture”hasgatheredontheterritoryoftherepublicmorethan300guestsfromdifferentpartsoftheworld.ThemembersoftheAcademicCouncilofIICAS:ShahinMustafyevandFardaAsadovfromAzerbaij
TheworkshoponthemoderndocumentationmethodsincludingtheuseofthedroneisgoingtotakeplaceinTajikistanfrom2to9September2019.ProfessorKazuyaYamaguchi(TeikyoUniversity,Japan),professorTimWilliams(UniversityCollegeLondon),aswellastwospecialistsfromtheInternationa
ThemeetingsofthedirectoroftheInstituteofHistory,ArcheologyandEthnographynamedafterA.Donish-UbaidulloN.K.andthedirectoroftheInternationalInstituteforCentralAsianStudies-VoyakinD.A.tookplaceonSeptember3,2019inDushanbe.Thegoalofthemeetingwasthesigningoftheco
“YouthEyesontheSilkRoads”PhotoContest. Thisinternationalphotocontestisopenforsubmissionsfrom19September2019to6January2020. Thecontestisopentoyoungpeoplebetween14and25yearsold,andthephotossubmittedhavetocorrespondtooneof3followingthemesproposed: •Gas
Dearfriendsandcolleagues, IICASisgladtotellyougoodnewsaboutthesigningoftheMemorandumofUnderstandingwithShahidBeheshtiUniversity,IslamicRepublicofIran http://www.sbu.ac.ir/ MemorandumwassignedbyDr.DmitriyVoyakin,DirectoroftheInternationalInstituteforCentra
ForthfieldseasonofthearchaeologicalexpeditiononthenecropolisoftheancientsettlementofIlibalykhasended.ItwasorganizedbyIICASwiththefinancialsupportofChristophBaumer–headoftheSocietyfortheExplorationofEurAsia,aswellastheInstituteofArcheologynamedafterA.Kh.Ma
SinceOctober,2019anumberoftalksonthehistoryoftheSilkRoadaswellasonactivitiesofIICASandUNESCOintheCentralAsianregionhasbeeninitiatedintheIICAS’headoffice.BasingonagreementswithbigtouristiccompaniesanyEnglish-speakinggroupoftouristsvisitingSamarkandcanparti
OnOctober7,2019,Ms.ClaudiaChristinaHennrich,headoftheGermanFrameworkCenterinQuedlinburg(Germany),paidabriefvisittotheofficeofIICAS.Duringthemeeting,presentationsweremadetohighlighttherangeofactivitiesofbothorganizations,exchangeviewsontheprotection,manage
