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Wednesday 31 August 2022

"The Path of an Orientalist": Dmitry Maryasis

 
“A modern orientalist has three hypostases: an explanation to Dunno, expert analytics, and science,” - said Mr. Maryasis.

Dmitriy Maryasis, the Head of Israel and Jewish Communities Department (the Institute of Oriental Studies), continued a lectures series from the Young Scientists Council on Wednesday, the 31st of August 2021.

Dmitry Maryasis recalled, speaking about his professional development, that A. Fedorchenko, the outstanding researcher of the Middle East suggested that he, a graduate student who had  not planned a scientific career, should immediately write a Ph.D. thesis.  At that time there was a lack of Russian-language research papers on the Israeli economy, and under such conditions the works of the Institute of Asia and Africa students were willingly published by scientific journals. 

Mr. Maryasis accepted his supervisor's offer and defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Oriental Studies, having gone from junior researcher to the Head of Israel and Jewish Communities Department, becoming one of the leading researchers on the Israeli economy.

Dmitry Mariasis has already published three books: "Palestine and Israel: the Digital Economy as a Platform for the Future of Efficient Interaction” (co-authored with S. Yu. Babenkova), “The Experience of Building an Innovation Economy: the Israel's Example”, and “Innovation Economy as the Basis for Israel's Participation in the Modern System of International Economic Relations”.

Mr. Maryasis noted the lack of both discussions with foreign colleagues and cross-disciplinary research, speaking about the issues of the Russian-Israeli Studies. In addition, Dmitry Maryasis answered questions from the audience - on digitalization, scientific, and technical cooperation between China and Israel, the innovative economy of Israel, etc.

At the end of the meeting, D. Maryasis called for the study of Israel's modern culture, its internal problems, gender issues, as well as the problems of people with disabilities, and expressed hope that these aspects of Israeli studies would develop in the future.