Conferences
Conferences 2022
13-14th MAY 2022 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
THE RISE AND FALL OF PETRINE-PUSHKIN'S RUSSIA: FROM THE SILVER AGE TO PROLETCULT
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
The organizers of the conference proposed for discussion a problem that has not lost its significance even today. The deeds of Peter the Great glorified by A. S. Pushkin in the year of the 350th anniversary of his birth became an intellectual reason for comprehending reformism in the processes of cultural identification of the Russian state and choosing the trajectory for the development of Russian culture. For world cultural history, 350 years is a short time. However, for Russia this period was a time of great speed. The legacy of Peter was realized: a powerful start, the development of culture in the century of Catherine II, its heyday in the 19th century, the decadence of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. This development, which included Russia in the general movement of European culture, was stopped and destroyed in 1917. The power of the Bolsheviks, completely destroying the 'old world', which was barely 200 years old, faced the question of 'socialist' cultural construction. The first proposed project of Proletkult (A. A. Bogdanov and others) did not find the support of the leader of the revolution.
Has the 'Petrine turn' remained in the cultural memory of the country? Academic discussions do not exhaust the answer; what is important is reflection on the comprehension and retention of historical experience. In this context, it is understandable to address such issues as: attitude to heritage and the phenomenon of violence; understanding of connections and gaps in cultural traditions and innovations; identifying grounds for creating a different education system; awareness of the cultural identification of the new state system and the definition of social guarantees for the artistic and intellectual activity of a person.
Schedule (in Russian), Video Day 1, Video Day 2.
Conferences 2021
16-17, 23th APRIL 2021 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND EUROPEAN CULTURE. TO THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN WRITER
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
The organizers of the conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), proposed to discuss the problem that is obviously topical even today. For a hundred years of active and, as a rule, enthusiastic attitude to the work of the great Russian writer, both the European intellectual elite and readers of his works, viewers of theatrical performances and films based on his novels have always given a variety of interpretations of his work. The name of Dostoevsky has been associated with some mythologems, some ideologems of Russian life, and there are enough reasons for this in his texts. Numerous variants of academic literary interpretations were developed; the reception of ideas and images of Russian writers entered the European literature of the twentieth century. Through Dostoevsky, people learned about Russia and Russian philosophers such as Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov and others who discovered their great compatriot to the world.
By proposing to comprehend the ideas, interpretations, understanding or misunderstanding of the writer's ideas in the ongoing Russian-European literary, ideological, and philosophical dialogue with Dostoevsky and his works, which have preserved the writer's feelings and hopes for the Christian future of the cultures of Russia and Europe, the organizers hope that the designated range of topics will be of interest to both Russian and foreign colleagues.
Schedule (in Russian), Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4, Video Part 5, Video Part 6.
12th, 19-20th NOVEMBER 2021 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
RUSSIAN-GERMAN FORUM From the Enlightenment project to the Modernity project: Russian-German intellectual dialogue.
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics' in cooperation with the Center for Central and Eastern Europe of the Institute of Slavic Studies of Dresden University of Technology.
For the first time, Russian and German universities are holding a scientific forum as a dialogue on a topical issue for the humanities, related to a common research interest: the transformation of the Enlightenment project into the Modernity project from the end of the 18th century until the beginning of the 20th century.
A special place in this project is occupied by the figure of the writer and thinker Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose 200th birthday is celebrated in 2021. Meetings at Dresden University are devoted to his work. Another equally significant figure is Friedrich Nietzsche, whose ideas will be discussed at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, including in connection with Dostoevsky's texts. The scale of the topic determines the appeal to other names of intellectuals, both in Germany and Russia, who developed and carried out educational tasks in their countries, later abandoned them, created new intellectual spaces, dressing their creativity in modern forms. Equally important for the discussion of the problem is the context of general ideas, institutions and significant events in which the main ideas of the enlighteners and their critics found their place. We hope that this experience of mutual dialogue will give a new impetus to the development of cooperation between Russian and German humanitarians in the near future.
Dr., Prof. Holger Kusse,
Dr., Prof. Vladimir Kantor
Schedule, Nov. 12.
Schedule, Nov. 19-20.
Conferences 2020
15-23th MAY 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
RUSSIAN EXILED INTELLECTUALS IN 1919-1945: PRAGUE, SOFIA, BELGRADE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics"
The exiled scientists, writers, philosophers, artists, and journalists who fled from destroyed Russia were aware of what Bunin described as the mission of the Russian emigration. Although, of course, it is difficult to call this event emigration, the meaning of Bunin's word "mission" is accurate.
The conference is dedicated to the discussion of the dialogue between Russian exiles and intellectuals of the European Slavic world that took place after the First World War. The chosen locus of the three capitals is symbolic and partly explained by the trajectory of Russian refugees in the Slavic world, but does not at all rule out the importance of contacts being made in other cities of Europe. The problem of understanding the mission of the Russian exiles is proposed to be considered in the questions that they themselves raised:
- What to do? Consideration by Russian emigrants of the problems of preserving the intellectual heritage of Russian culture in the conditions of forced emigration;
- Who is guilty? Emigration's understanding of the causes of the catastrophe in Russia;
- How to pass the experience? Russian catastrophe as a warning to all of Europe;
- Can Christianity be an antithesis to totalitarianism? Christianity in the Slavic world and the experience of Russian emigration;
- Is the Slavic world real? Self-determination of Russian exiles and their identification in Western Europe as Displaced Persons (DP).
Many aspects of the issues discussed by Russian emigrants are still relevant today in the intellectual dialogue between Russia and Europe.
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3.
25-26th SEPTEMBER 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
SLAVISM AS A PROBLEM IN THE TEXTS OF SLAVIC AND RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS OF THE 17th-20th CENTURIES
National Research University "Higher School of Economics"
Culture begins with the birth of mythology, and Slavic mythology, as in other cultures, formed the basis of great literature. And here the internal relationship is obvious. It is known that Hoffman relied on Polish mythology, as well as Mickiewicz, and Gogol. Zhukovsky and Pushkin literally bathed in the mythological stories of the Slavs. And finally, the most powerful intellectual movement of the nineteenth century in Eastern Europe – Slavophilism – had its roots in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Serbia. There was a self-affirmation of Slavic Europe. Today, Western researchers see its creation as a result of Western efforts. Recall the book by the American Larry Wolff "Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment" (1994), which proclaims the need to civilize the semi-wild population of these territories. The Slavs' own initiative is not taken into account. Awareness of this initiative is one of the goals of this conference.
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3.
Conferences 2019
25-26th APRIL 2019 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AS BASIS OF RUSSIA'S BEING (from the Peter-Pushkin era and further)
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508.
Offering for reflection the theme “Russian as the basis of being in Russia”, the organizers see several problems that have not only scientific but also pragmatic significance. Russian, like any other language, is a living phenomenon: it has a time of birth, it is developing in all sorts of connections and relations of society, culture, and history, but it can die under certain social conditions. In order for the Russian language not to become “dead”, and with it Russian culture, we believe it is necessary to constantly reflect cultural, historical, socio-philosophical, sociolinguistic and other knowledge about the Russian language.
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4, Video Part 5.
20th SEPTEMBER 2019 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
CHADAEV AND THE ORIGIN OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508.
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2.
18th OCTOBER 2019
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY IN THE POSTSECULAR AGE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508.
International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue and Master's Programme "Philosophical Anthropology"
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the religious life of Russian society received a new impetus. In the Soviet Union belonging to the Church had a form of dissidence, in the 90s such a necessity disappeared. The task of social and institutional posing of the Church in public life has become relevant again. Russian society got over a unique experience of secularization, and the Church was forced to look for a way of its survival. The problem of post-secular society, in which again, after a long process of secularization, the religious factor begins to play an increasingly important role, is relevant both for the whole world, faced with the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, and for Russia, where relations between secular and religious become more and more ambiguous. One hundred years ago, Russian religious philosophy tried to find a middle way for the development of society, to become a synthesis between two principles, keeping society from the temptations of fundamentalism. The discussion at the event is planned to be built around the question: Can Russian philosophy complete this task today and become the tool that would make it possible to comprehend the changes taking place?Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, Video Part 1,Video Part 2, Video Part 3.
21-22th NOVEMBER 2019 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
MEMORY AS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENON - RUSSIA AND THE WEST: 20 AND 21 CENTURIES
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508.
In the past two decades, such concepts as «historical memory», «culture of memory», «culture of history», «memory and commemoration practices» are included into the popular topics of the interdisciplinary research. The interest in memorial researches and commemorative practices is very wide. The appearance of public history was directly related to the cultural processes of the second half of the 20th century and with the revival of interest in the historical memory. Under the name of Public history, there is a wide range of new knowledge or new interpretations of documents and artifacts that occur beyond the boundaries of academic history. Journalists, politicians, media commentators, film directors, artists, bloggers have access to the past and often interpret it in the unusual and original form. The main idea of the conference is to show how people perceive the past in Europe and in Russia, what is the difference, how national aspects could influence our perception of history, and how to avoid the ideologization of history, or it is impossible, and why?
Conferences 2018
27-28th APRIL 2018 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University Higher School of Economics
THREE CENTURIES OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN RUSSIA: BECOMING OF RUSSIAN EUROPEANISM
(from reforms of Peter the Great to neo-religious Renaissance of the XX century)
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
Schedule, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4 , Video Part 5.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
DE PROFUNDIS, OR REQUIEM FOR PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
Russian religious thought of the first third of the twentieth century still amazes us with collections of thoughtful texts. The best - "Vehi" and "Iz Glubiny." The idea of creating the collection was proposed by P. Struve in 1918. S. Frank's essay 'De profundis" filled this idea with philosophical pathos. Europeans got acquainted with the collection only in 1921.
Schedule , News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2 , Documentary film dedicated to the centenary of "Iz glubiny".
NOVEMBER 22-23, 2018
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
DOWNFALL OF THE EMPIRES, 1918
The projectdeals with substantial and currently insufficiently developed theme of the collapse of European empires after the First World War and the formation of new sociocultural and political components of Europe’s existence. An important aspect is an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes and consequences of the death of the largest empires at the beginning of the 20th century. At the conference, not only historians but also philosophers, sociologists, literary critics and art historians will present their research results. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the thesis that the collapse of empires is a natural process that took place more than once in history, starting with Alexander the Great.
Program Committee, Organizing Committee, Schedule , Video Part 1, Video Part 2 , Video Part 3, Video Part 4.
Conferences 2017
APRIL 27-28, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 3 Krivokolenny Side Street, Room K-327
RUSSIA A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1917: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
The conference was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the most important socio-political event - the Russian Revolution of 1917, which has changed the course of Russian and world history. The leading Russian and European philosophers, historians, sociologists and jurists took part in the conference. The spiritual and cultural and socio-political causes of the emergence of the revolutionary situation in Russia, as well as its historical and civilizational consequences for the fate of Russia, Europe and the world were discussed.
Schedule, Announcement, News Video April 27th Part 1, Video April 27th Part 2, Video April 27th Part 3 , Video April 27th Part 4, Video April 28th Part 1, Video April 28th Part 2 , Video April 28th Part 3, Video April 28th Part 4.
SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
F. A. STEPUN: RUSSIAN THINKER BETWEEN TWO REVOLUTIONS
The conference was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which was a turning point and a landmark event not only for life, but also for all the subsequent creative work of F.A. Stepun. It is his works that contain the first sensible attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of the Russian Revolution, which seemed unprecedented in its destructiveness for its contemporaries.
Schedule, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2 , Video Part 3, Video Part 4.
NOVEMBER 23-24, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
S. L. FRANK: POSTREVOLUTIONARY DOWNFALL OF IDOLS
The conference is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the most important political event of the twentieth century - the Russian Revolution. Leading scientists from Russia, Italy, Germany, Ukraine and the UK will talk about the work of an outstanding Russian thinker (a real witness to the events of 1917), dedicated to the reception and analysis of the revolution. Schedule, Announcement , News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4.
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