On February 18-19, 2002, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the next annual scientific conference on the problems of modern development of Southeast Asia, organized by the Department of Southeast Asia of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Employees of academic institutes and higher educational institutions of Moscow, employees of practical organizations participated in its work. The conference was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician A. A. Huber, the founder of the direction in Russian Oriental studies - the study of Southeast Asia.
In the opening speech of the Deputy. Director of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences N. Z. Yegorin emphasized the importance of A. A. Huber's works for Southeast Asian studies. He also noted the scientific and practical relevance of the conference topic: links of regional and country issues with global problems and assessments of the current state and prospects for the development of relations between Russia and the Southeast Asian countries.
The contribution of A. A. Huber to the formation and development of research in the Southeast Asian region was discussed in the speeches of A. Yu. Drugov (IB RAS) and Yu. N. Gavrilov (Vostochny University at IB RAS). For the outside world, Drugov said, A. A. Guber is an academician, professor, director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, member of various scientific councils, deputy academician-Secretary of the Department of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, etc.For most of us, he is a Teacher, the founder of the branch of science that we serve. All Indonesian scholars "came out of the works" of A. A. Huber, he became the discoverer of the planet called "Indonesia" in our country, and many of his works remain unsurpassed in the richness of material and breadth of generalizations. The same can be said by those of us who d ...
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