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Peter the Great Cup Rowing Competition

On June 9, 2021, a new rowing competition was conducted in the historical centre of St.Petersburg, Russia. Its main purport consisted in reviving a tradition which forms an integral part of the intangible heritage of the city of St.Petersburg. It was a rowing competition initiated by tsar Peter I about three hundred years ago, basing mainly upon the Dutch traditions, as well as the English ones. Three teams of rowers competed in rowing six-oared skiffs around the Hare Island, where the city was founded in 1703. Now the island is occupied by the historical Peter and Paul Forteress. The winners obtained Peter the Great Cup. Our Chairperson, D.Spivak, served as the head of the Organizing committee of the Competition.

The Northern Caucasus Affiliation

On March 25, 2015, the Northern Caucasus affiliation of our Chair was inaugurated in the city of Derbent, basing upon the premises of the State University of Daghestan, and the Naryn-Kala historical, architectural and artistic museum.

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UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)

  • College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center
  • Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions (Jerusalem, Izrael)

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