Laura Yerekesheva

Laura Yerekesheva teaches and researches at Oriental Faculty, al-Farabi KazNU. She is also a Leading Research Fellow at the Centre for the Rapprochement of Cultures (UNESCO 2 Category). She contributed to UNESCO programmes as a consultant, expert, coordinator of UNESCO Chair “Science and Spirituality”. Currently she is ICCR Visiting Research Fellow at the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology (New Delhi, India).

The project

Religious Symbolism in the Central Asian Art (III millennium BCE – I millennium CE).

Hosting institutions: BULAC (Paris), Centre Gilles Gaston Granger, Aix-Marseille Université.

Selective bibliography

• 2023 Yerekesheva Laura. Religious Flows and Shaping Cultural Milieu in Central Asia: The Artistic Expressions of Solar Cult (III-I Millennia BCE) In “Motion: Migrations”, Conference Proceedings of the 35th CIHA World Congress, São Paulo, Brazil, 17-22 January 2022. (forthcoming)
• 2022 Yerekesheva, Laura. “Spatiality and Symbolic Characteristics: Dynamics of Collective Religious Rituals among Sunni Muslims and Russian Orthodox Christians in Kazakhstan during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Religions 13, no. 8: 685.
• 2021 Yerekesheva Laura. Religiia i iskusstvo representatshii: simvolism zoomorfnogo stila v Tsentral’noi Azii [Religion and the Art of Representation: Symbolism of Zoomorphic Style in Central Asia] // Novye issledovaniya Tuvy [The New Research of Tuva]. 2021, № 1. С. 6-29.
• 2021 Laura Yerekesheva. Ways of Living along the Silk Roads: Representation of the “Other” and Cross-Cultural Encounters During the Second Half of First Millennium CE. In Art, Design & Society. Global Perspectives. Pande A., S. Kumari (Eds). New Delhi: National Museum Institute, Macmillan Education, 2021, pp. 340-350. CIHA International Colloquium Proceedings. 
• 2020 Yerekesheva Laura. Functions of Religion and Dynamics of Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The Muslim World, 110, 1 (2020): 64-88.
• 2020 Yerekesheva Laura, Anupa Pande (Eds.) Polotno Kultur [Canvas of Cultures]. Edited Volume. Almaty: Publishing house “MIR”, 2020. 216 p. with illustrations. 
• 2019 Yerekesheva Laura. Syncretism of Religious Beliefs in Western Himalayas’s Lahoul. Südasien-Chronik/South Asia Chronicle, 9 (2019): 83-117.

Agenda

• June 28, 2023: Migration of Symbols and Religious Semiosphere: Solar abd Zoomorphic Representations in Ancient Central Asia