General description:The Kyrgyz epic trilogy“Manas, Semetey, Seitek”is a set of genealogically interrelated parts of the orally transmitted story. Manasis a hero who managed to unite the fragmented and scattered tribes into a single nation – theKyrgyz, delineate the territory they inhabited as the “Kyrgyz land”, and protect his people and land from external enemies. The …
Month: March 2016
Participation of Aigine CRC in the Symposium of Altaic Communities, Antalya, 20-22 July, 2015
The Aigine Cultural Research Center consisting of manaschys (Manas epic narrators) Kubanychbek Almabekov, Salimbai Tursunbaev, Rysbai Isakov, Zamirbek Baialiev, Doolot Sydykov, Kamil Mamadaliev, Ulan Ismailov, the artist Mairamkul Asanaliev and the researchers Aida Alymbaeva, Baktygul Tulebaeva and Gulnara Aitpaeva is taking part in the International Symposium – Altay Communities, the communities that belong to the …
A presentation of Cahiers D’Asie Centrale Issue No. 24
A presentation of Cahiers D’Asie Centrale Issue No. 24 was held at the Institute of Islam Studies and Muslim Communities in 12 March, 2015 in Paris.Dr.Olivier Ferrand, head of the French Institute of Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), along with French scholars, Stéphane Dudoignon (CNRS/Cetobac), Alexandre Papas (CNRS/Cetobac), Thierry Zarcone (CNRS/Gsrl), as well as Ingeborg Baldauf …
UNESCO Expert meeting
Aigine CRC staff member, Cholponai U-G, took part in UNESCO Expert meeting in Tehran on finalizing the preparation of the Multinational Nooruz Nomination File, from 2 to 6 March 2015. Representative of 12 countries, namely, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gathered together to comlete the work on …