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Abstract. This paper discusses the All-Russia scholarly conference with international participation entitled “The New Past–6: The Person and Society in the Transition Eras,” which took place in Rostov-on-Don on September 26–29, 2024. This conference was launched by the Institute of History and International Relations of the South Federal University. The participants of the conference represented the leading universities and
academic institutions of Moscow, Minsk, St Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Orel, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, St Petersburg, and Simferopol. The conference continued the tradition of discussing research issues raised at previous “The New Past” forums. Particular attention was paid to historical periods traditionally considered “transitional” between great events, as well as social, religious, and cultural structures that existed in the said periods, and the persons who became actors or victims of these historical circumstances. In total, about 60 papers were presented, covering a wide range of topics, from the history of Byzantine Cherson and ancient Rus’ to modern Russia, and from Ireland to Mongolia. The most popular were methodological issues related to the study of transitional eras and societies, the history of the frontiers of the Russian Empire from the Don to Mongolia, the intellectual life of Russia in the nineteenth century, the Civil War and the formation of the USSR, the Soviet Union during the Perestroika, the British studies from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and historical memory in the current period.
Keywords: scholarly conference, presentation, “transition period,” “watershed period,” Middle Ages, Modern Period, British studies, imagology, archaeology, South Federal University.