Mongolia Web News, Ulaanbaatar. On February 25th the National Museum of Ethnology, in Osaka Japan will organize an International
Symposium on the Collected Works of
Andrei Dmitriyevich SIMUKOV: Socialist Modernization
in Mongolia -
A Reappraisal of A.D. SIMUKOV and His Works.
Andrei
Dmitriyevich SIMUKOV (1902-1942?) was a Russian geographer who became famous for his work in Mongolian Studies and as the grandfather of influential politicians as S. Zorig and S. Oyun.
Simukov visited
Mongolia initially as a researcher on the archeological team led by P.
K. KOZLOV. This visit indicated the start of his activities in Mongolian
Studies and in 1926 he started to live in Mongolia and became a chief
of the department of Geography what later developed into a department
of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. He got deeply involved in determining
the country borders, formulation of administrative centers in countryside
and devoted much of his time to making maps and the founding of the
meteorological institute and its observation points. His many activities
served both the public administration in Mongolia as well as academic
research culminating in the foundation of the current Mongolian Academy
of Sciences. As foreign scholar he played a vital role in the process
of socialist modernization of Mongolia. In the light of his significance
in this period, the National Museum of the Ethnology, Japan will soon
complete publishing his collected works in 3 volumes. At this symposium,
we look forward to discuss the value of his achievements for the study
of modernization under socialism.
Date and Time:
Feb. 25, 2007, Sunday, 10:00-16:30
Venue: Seminar
Room No.4, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Language: Russian,
Mongolian, Japanese, English (simultaneous translation:
JP-MN, JP-RU)
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-1005 Welcome
Remarks Makio MATSUZONO (Director, National Museum of Ethnology)
10:05-10:10
Opening Address Yuki KONAGAYA(National Museum of Ethnology)
10:10-10:20 Complimentary
Address Sanjaasurengiin Oyun (Member of Parliament of Mongolia) On behalf of B.CHADRAA
(Director, Mongolian Academy of Sciences)
Presentations
(10:20-12:10, 13:30-14:50)
10:20-10:50 “The
life of Simukov” Natalia SIMUKOVA
(Daughter of Simukov)
10:50-11:10 “The
out line of the collected works of Simukov” Sanjaasurengiin
BAYRAA
(Zorig Foundation, visiting fellow of the National
Museum of Ethnology)
11:10-11:40 “The
overall significance of Simukov” Vladimir V. GRAIVORONSKY
(Director, Institute of
Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg)
11:40-12:10 “A
report from the perspective of public administration” Udo BARKMANN
(National University of Mongolia)
12:10-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-14:00
“A report from the perspective of
archeology” Bayr B.DASHIBALOV
(Institute
of Mongol, Buddhism and Tibetan Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Buriyatia)
14:00-14:30
“A report from the perspective of
ethnology” Ichinhorloo LKHAGVASUREN
(Mongolian University of Technology and Sciences)
14:30-14:50
“A report from the perspective of
meteorology” Zamba
BATJARGAL
(World Meteorological Organization,
Liaison Office in New York)
14:50-15:00
Tea Break
Discussion (15:00-16:00)
Commentators : Morris ROSSABI
(Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Colombia University)
Katsuhiko TANAKA
(Hitotsubashi University)
16:00-16:10 Closing
Address Yuki KONAGAYA
16:30-18:00
Reception
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