Marina Tolmacheva recently attended a roundtable on teaching social sciences in Central Asia. It was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Pictured is Tolmacheva (left) with roundtable participant from Kazakhstan Tatiana Ruyatkina.

(Bishkek, 2003)

Marina Tolmacheva (seated, in the middle) with participants of the International Faculty Development Seminar on "Post-Mandela South Africa"

(Pretoria, June 2000)

Professor Tolmacheva with Africanist colleagues at Moscow State University

(September 1999)