Lecture by Concordia University researcher A. Issieva at the Center for Regional Studies

The Center for Regional Studies at the Turan University Graduate School of International Relations and Regional Studies hosted a lecture by Dr. Adalyat Issiyeva, a researcher at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), on the topic “Music in the Service of the State: The Representation of Central Asian Ethnic Groups in Late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.”

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The lecture examined the activities of scientific and musical institutions of the Russian Empire that represented the ethnic groups of Central Asia through the presentation of their musical art. This process was analyzed in the context of Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism.

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The role of the state in representing socialist nations was traced through the example of the development of the musical art of the peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, which took place within the framework of nation-building, taking into account the priorities of domestic and foreign policy.

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Dr. Issiyeva is the author of the book “Representing Russian Orientalism: From Ethnography to Art Song” (Representing Russia’s Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song), published in 2020 by the University of Oxford. She is also a research intern at the Center for Regional Studies.