On March 13-14, 2013, the ISAA of Moscow State University hosted the All-Russian memorial conference "Guber Readings", dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Orientalist academician A. A. Guber (1902-1971), the founder of the school of Russian specialists in the history of Southeast Asian countries. The topic of the conference "Southeast Asian countries and the West: the diversity of forms of their interaction (history and modernity)" aroused great interest among the scientific community. The conference was attended by more than 40 leading specialists of higher educational institutions and research institutions of our country, MSU, MGIMO(U)The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, RSUH, IV RAS, IMEMO RAS, IDV RAS, as well as the Russian International Affairs Council. Students of ISAA and MGIMO actively participated in the work of the readings. The conference was covered by Russian mass media. I. I. Abylgaziev, Director of the ISAA of Moscow State University, M. S. Meyer, President of the ISAA, and V. E. Smirnov, Deputy Director for Research, addressed the conference participants with a welcoming speech. They emphasized the important role of the "Huber Readings" in maintaining the traditions of Russian Oriental studies and educating a new generation of highly qualified specialists in the Southeast Asian region.- page 140The aim of the conference is to formulate an objective scientific assessment of the socio-political situation in the Southeast Asian countries and trace the genesis of modern trends in their development in all its forms. The conference addressed regional issues, the specifics of individual Southeast Asian countries in historical retrospect and at the present stage; issues of culture and literature, problems of the development of languages of Southeast Asian countries at the present stage. Participants noted that, on the one hand, in the Southeast Asian region, as in the rest of the world, globalization processes are accelerating a ... Read more