The Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies of School of Humanities and Social Sciences could not leave this anniversary date without any attention. NU in partnership with Gumilyov Eurasian National University and Buketov Karagandy State University had organised international conference “On the Periphery of Collapsing Empire: National Minorities and the 1917 Revolution”.
The conference was held on 4-5 November 2017 in Senate Hall at NU. In addition to professors and students from the organizing universities, the forum brought together leading experts in the history of Kazakhstan and Russia from the Sh. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnography, Oxford, Harvard Universities, universities of Heidelberg, Hong Kong and Finland, as well as the Higher School of Economics, the Russian History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference discussed important episodes of revolutionary events in Kazakhstan, Siberia, the Caucasus and Far East, problems of past and contemporary interpretations of the meaning and contribution of the Revolution to the further history of various nations of former Russian Empire, reactions of religious affiliations to political crisis in the country, and also the problems of violence, that accompanied the revolution.
