The Russian Association for Anthropological American Studies, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS on June 24-25, 2020 carried out the 9th International Symposium on American studies “The History of America: man, nations, cultures”.

Due to limitations implied because of COVID-19 it was held online with no division into sections. All the participants were invited to the sequence of sessions on the subjects of the conference. The conference reports were delivered mainly in Russian, but there were also reports made in English and Spanish. The discussion was carried out both during the topical session and during the final meeting of the Symposium.

The recording of the Symposium sessions is available on YouTube

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