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The Institute of Hungarian Research recently signed a cooperation agreement with Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, one of the largest state universities in Kyrgyzstan, announced the institute. Within the framework of the university established by Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye, research on Central Asian and Turkic civilization and language is a priority discipline in education. The overall aim of the cooperation is to link the key points of Hungarian and Kyrgyz history and identity through academic research, with particular emphasis on history, linguistics, archaeology, ethnography, and ethnomusicology.
As part of the cooperation, the Institute of Hungarian Research and the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University will launch joint research programs in the future and will have the opportunity to participate in each other’s programs. The two institutes commit to inviting each other to their events, cooperate in the organization of events, and to assist one other in their professional programs. In addition, they will seek joint participation in national, international, and other public scientific competitions. They will also delegate experts to research teams for the implementation of their programs, provide each other with technical support, and contribute to the preparation and publication of scientific works.
Cooperation will cover linguistics, history, and ethnography, with particular emphasis on folklore and folk music.
In the field of historical linguistics, it will include studies of Ural-Altaic typology at different linguistic levels, language planning, and the extension of the Institute’s research on the comparative study of European language strategies to the states of the post-Soviet space. In the field of historical sciences, the focus will be on organizing translations of Kyrgyz fiction, philosophy, or spirituality into Hungarian, and Hungarian fiction, philosophy, or spirituality into Kyrgyz.
The parties have agreed to carry out comparative studies in the field of history and archaeology on the process and problems of ethnogenesis in Hungary and Kyrgyzstan and the transition from the Soviet era. They will also cooperate in the field of archaeology in the excavation, research, and publication of archaeological material from the Scythian, Saka, Hun, Turkic and Kyrgyz eras, and will hold joint conferences.
Since the Scythian, Saka, Hun, and Turkic archaeological heritage is also relevant to Hungarian prehistory,
the archaeogenetic analysis of the human remains from the heritage of these cultures can be carried out by the Research Center for Archaeogenetics at the Institute of Hungarian Research,
subject to the approval of the archaeologists who excavated them.
The processing and publication of these materials will be carried out by mutual agreement and in cooperation with archaeologists from both countries.
Via mki.gov.hu, Featured image: Facebook/Manas University