Svetlana Gorshenina

Svetlana Gorshenina (also spelt Svetlana Goršenina;[3] born Svetlana Michajlovna Gorshenina in 1969) is an Uzbek historian, art historian, historiographer and specialist on Central Asia, Associate Lecturer at Collège de France where she held the Chair of History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia.[4][5] Her works appear mostly in French language.

Svetlana Gorshenina
Born
Svetlana Michajlovna Gorshenina[1]

1969 (age 50–51)
NationalityUzbekistani[2]
OccupationHistorian, art historian of Central Asia
Websitewww.svetlana-gorshenina.net

Career

Under the direction of Galina Pugachenkova and Valery Germanov, Svetlana Gorshenina has defended her dissertation on the epistemology of archaeology and art history of Central Asia.[6]

Gorshenina has been a researcher at the Institute of Fine Arts and Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, and of the Swiss National Science Foundation at University of Lausanne and University of Manchester. An associate researcher in the team "Hellenisms of Asia and Oriental Civilisations" of the CNRS at École Normale Supérieure. Director of the "Central Asia" programme of the Réseau Asie-IMASIE (Asia-IMASIE Network), maître de conférence at the University of Tashkent.[5]

She was invited to present her research as a researcher-teacher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, and organised a photography exhibition on Western travellers in Central Asia at the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève.[6] She also organised several symposia, study sessions, roundtables and panels in Paris, Lausanne, Geneva, Samarkand and Manchester.[5]

Selected publications
  • La route de Samarcande : l'Asie centrale dans l'objectif des voyageurs d'autrefois, Geneva: Olizane, 2000
  • Explorateurs en Asie centrale : Voyageurs et aventuriers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, Geneva: Olizane, 2003
  • The Private Collections of Russian Turkestan in the 2nd Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2004
  • L'invention de l'Asie centrale : Histoire du concept de la Tartarie à l'Eurasie, coll. "Rayon Histoire" (nº 4). Geneva: Droz, 2014
Collaborative works
  • With Claude Rapin, De Kaboul à Samarcande : Les archéologues en Asie centrale, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 411), série Archéologie. Paris: Gallimard, 2001
  • With Aymon Baud and Philippe Forêt, La Haute-Asie telle qu'ils l'ont vue : Explorateurs et scientifiques de 1820 à 1940, Geneva: Olizane, 2003

See also

References
  1. "Gorchenina, Svetlana". isni.org. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. "Goršenina, Svetlana (1969-....)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  3. "Goršenina, Svetlana (1969-....) : The private collections of Russian Turkestan in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century [Texte imprimé] / Svetlana Gorshenina". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  4. "Svetlana Gorshenina will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in February 2018". www.universiteitleiden.nl. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  5. "Svetlana GORSHENINA : Biographie". www.svetlana-gorshenina.net (in French). Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  6. Gorshenina, Svetlana; Rapin, Claude (2001). De Kaboul à Samarcande : Les archéologues en Asie centrale. Collection “Découvertes Gallimard” (in French). 411. Paris: Éditions Gallimard. p. 160. ISBN 978-2-070-76166-1. About the author
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