Svetlana Gorshenina


Svetlana Gorshenina 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. Her works appear mostly in French language.

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.
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, Academic ranks in France at the University of Tashkent.
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. She also organised several symposia, study sessions, roundtables and panels in Paris, Lausanne, Geneva, Samarkand and Manchester.

Selected publications

; Collaborative works