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  • 8 July 2019
    Anatoliy M. ALEKSEEV-APRAKSIN

    Ph.D., Dr.Sc. (cultural studies)

    Professor: Higher School of Media Technologies at the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design.Chair of Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Culture & Aesthetics, St. Petersburg State University. 
    Head of the project (RFBR) № 18-011-00977 «Cluster culture: research strategies and philosophical analytics».
    Chairman of the International Symposium W(est)-E(ast)

    Basic areas of research: 

    Theory of culture, Philosophy of Culture, West-East, Buddhism, interaction of cultures

    Basic publications: 

    • Buddhism in St. Petersburg: History and modernity. St. Petersburg.: Olearius Press, 2008. – 175 p. (in Russian).
    • Ontos of the Topos: archetypes of urban culture. Journal of East-West Humanities 2017; Vol.9, №2018.4. P. 135-154.
    • Cultural approaches to the study of intercultural contacts (scientific monograph) / Cultural approaches to the study of intercultural contacts of St. Petersburg.: Unlimited Space, 2011. 120 p. (in Russian).
    • Völlige Gleichheit Und Völlige Unterschiedlichkeit. The Wissenschaftszeitschrift Journal 2016-04, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Article ID 09A4AF78-BC1A-43FC-8BB7-5D5BEDABD64C (in German).
    • Perspectives of the Network Paradigm in the Study of Transcultural Processes/ International  Journal of Cultural Research 2018.Issue # 4 (33). P. 6-19, DOI: 10.24411/2079-1100-2018-00061 (in Russian).
    • Transformation of Leadership Through Formation of the Sociocultural Clasters Sustainable Leadership for Enterpreneurs and Academics / PRIZK 2018. ESEAL 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. P. 31-43;  Doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15495-0.
    • Ideal types of personality and leading communicative value strategies. ICSEAL 2019.  Atlantis Press. Doi.org/10.2991/icseal-19.2019.4

  • 8 July 2019
    Petr N. BAZANOV

    Ph.D., Dr.Sc. (history, pedagogy)

    Professor of St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, St. Petersburg Russia.
    Professor at St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design, St. Petersburg Russia.
    Member of the Expert Council on Russian foreign affairs under the Committee for External Relations of the Government of St. Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
    Expert of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Scientific Research Institute –Republican Research Scientific Advisory Center of Expertise” (FNBI RIICT). Moscow, Russia.
    Chairman of the organizing committee of the international scientific conference “Slepukhinsky readings: Emigrants and repatriates of the twentieth century.” St. Petersburg, Russia.

    Basic areas of research: intercultural and interfaith dialogue with Russian emigration, publishing activities of Russian emigration.

    Basic publications: 

    • On the history of the relationship between George Vernadsky and Nikolai Ulyanov // Bulletin of St. Petersburg University. – Story. – 2019. – T. 64. – Vol. 1. – С. 266-276 (in Russian).
    • Petropolsky Tacitus in Exile: The Life and Work of Russian Historian Nikolai Ulyanov. – SPb .: Vladimir Dal, 2018. – 511 p. (in Russian).
    • Le price S.S. Obolensry, biographe de Jeanne d’Arc // Le Porche: Bulletin de Jeanne d’Arc et Charles Peguy (Russie, Pologne, Finlande, Estjnie) / Association des Amis de Jeanne d’Arc et de Charles Peguy. – Orleans, 2017. – Decembre. – No. 46-47. – P. 295-316. (in French).
    • Essays on the history of Russian emigration on the Karelian Isthmus (1917-1939). – SPb: Cultural and educational partnership, 2015. – 183 p. (in Russian).
    • “The pervasive monarchist”: Prince. Ss Obolensky: Mladoross, publicist, editor // New Journal. – New York, 2015. – №280. – p. 247-267. (in Russian; The Brotherhood of Russian Truth is the most mysterious organization of the Russian Diaspora: Monograph. – Moscow: Posev, 2013. – 420 p. (in Russian).
    • We are not exile, we are in a message. “Russian emigration and St. Petersburg University / / The legacy of the Petersburg university culture in the Russian abroad. – SPb., 2012. – P.14-23. 
    • “The pervasive monarchist”: Prince S. Obolensky: young Russian, journalist, editor // New Journal. – New York, 2015. – №280. – p. 247-267. (In Russian).
    • Culture of the province of the Russian Diaspora (on the example of the Kellomyaki village, the current Komarovo) // Russian Herald of Chrys of the Ian Academy of Humanities. – 2012. – Vol. 13. – No. 4 – P.196-205. 
    • “The pervasive monarchist”: Prince S. Obolensky: young Russian, journalist, editor // New Journal. – New York, 2015. – No.280. – p. 247-267. (In Russian).
    • Kenraalimajuri Severin Tsezarevits Dobrovolski // Sotavangit ja internoidut / Kimallisarkiston artikkelikirja; toim. L. Westerlund = Prisoner of War National Archives / L. Westerlund. – Helsenki, 2008. – S. 556-567 (in Finnish).

  • 8 July 2019
    Gerald CIPRIANI

    Ph.D. (aesthetics)

    Philosophy, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)
    Editor in Chief, Culture and Dialogue(Brill)
    Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology(Routledge)
    General Editor, Figural – Aesthetic Aphorisms Today(Figural)
    Instigator, We Speak Therefore We Think(Language and Philosophy for Children)
    Chair, International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue (IRGCD)

    Basic areas of research:
    Cross-cultural philosophy East-West                
    Ethical phenomenology of culture 
    The Kyôto School 
    Western aesthetics
    Theory of art and design 

    Basic publications:

    • 2019 – 《自然、文化与崇高:埃德蒙伯克环境美学思想时评》[Culture and the Sublime: On Edmund Burke’s Environmental Aesthetics], trans. Liu Sijie（刘思捷）, in Environmental Aesthetics Frontiers Series《环境美学前沿》,ed. Wangheng Chen, Wuhan: Wuhan University Press（武汉大学出版社）, China.ISBN: 978-7-307-20908-4  
    • 2018 – ‘Estética Personalista na Escola de Quioto: O Esvaziamento da Natureza Dia-Formativa da Arte’, [Personalist Aesthetics in the Kyoto School: The Emptying Dia-Formative Nature of Art], trans. André Bueno, in Diverso Orientes, Rio de Janeiro / União da Vitória: Edições Sobre Ontens, pp.39-48.
    • 2018 -《自然的存在是自我的空虚》[The Presence of Nature Is my Own Emptiness], in《美丽中国与环境美学》[Beautifying China and Environmental Aesthetics] (北京：中国建筑工业出版社) [Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press], trans. Liu Si-jie (刘思捷), pp. 65-71
    • 2018 – ‘The Phenomenon of Beauty’, English translation of Le phénomène de beautéby Jean-Luc Marion, in Special Issue on French Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, London: Routledge, Volume 5.2., 85-97.
    • 2017 – ‘Once more unto the breach: On Meaning and Structure’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 42, 35-45.
    • 2017 – ‘The Way of Aesthetic Phenomena: No Delphic World to Unfasten’, inProceedings of the 20thInternational Congress of Aesthetics, The Korean Society of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea, 74-77.
    • 2016 – ‘The Touch of Meaning: Researching Art Between Text and Texture’, Janus Head – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Volume 15, Issue 2, 157-166.
    • 2016 – ‘The Visible that “Means” and the Boundless Universe: An Ethical Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience’’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 40, 1-10.
    • 2015 – ‘Wisdom in Interpretation or The Otherness of Subversion and Relativism’, in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Volume XXXVIII, Nos. 1-2, 77-84.
    • 2015 – Chinese Environmental Aesthetics (edited, Wangheng Chen, Feng Su), London: Routledge, 272 pp. 
    • 2014 – ‘Dialogue, Ethics, and the Aesthetic Worth of Life’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 39, 15-24.
    • 2014 – ‘Dwelling in the Light of the Thou, Or the Art of the Opening Space’, in International Journal of Cultural Research, No. 3 (16), St Petersburg, Russia, 74-78.
    • 2013 – Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening(edited, Wei Hsiu Tung), Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 207 pp. 

    Membership temporarily suspended.

  • 8 July 2019
    Valentina M. DIANOVA

    Ph.D., Dr.Sc., Professor (philosophy, cultural studies)

    Professor, Institute of Philosophy, State University of St.Petersburg; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Expert, Russian Science Foundation; Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Member, Editorial Boards: “Observatoria Kultury”, “Nauchno-technicheskie Vedomosti SPB GU. Gumanitarnye i Obshestvennyje Nauki”, “Vestnik SPb GU TiD”(Russia), “Sofia”(Poland).

    Basic areas of research: philosophy and theory of culture, intercultural dialogue.

    Basic publications:

    • Post-modernist Philosophy of Art: Sources and Present-Day State. –St.Petersburg: Petropolis, 1999 (in Russian);
    • Cultural Studies: Basic Concepts. – St.Petersburg: State University of St.Petersburg, 2005 (in Russian);
    • Russia-Mongolia: Cultural Identity and Intercultural Contacts. – Moscow-Berlin: Direct-Media, 2014 (in Russian);
    • Communicative Strategies and Cultural Practices in Times of Sociocultural Transformations. – St.Petersburg: BBM, 2018 (in Russian).

  • 8 July 2019
    Dmitriy A. IVASHINTSOV

    Ph.D., Dr.Sc., Professor, Honoured worker of science of Russia.

    Editor-in-Chief, ‘Russian World’ Almanac (St.Petersburg, Russia); Editor-in-Chief, Web portal ‘Space and Time of Russian Culture’ (St.Petersburg, Russia); Deputy Director, Institute of Present-Day Diasporas’ (Moscow, Russia)

    Basic areas of research: 

    Basic issues in interaction between technosphere and culture; intercultural dialogue with Russian emigration.

    Basic publications:

    • Theory of Intellectual and Spiritual Continuum // International Readings in Theory, History, and Philosophy of culture. Issue 10. St.Petersburg, Philosophical and Cultural Research Centre EIDOS, 2001, p.148-186 (in English and Russian).
    • Beyond Evolution of Homo Sapiens // International Readings in Theory, History, and Philosophy of culture. Issue 17. St.Petersburg, Philosophical and Cultural Research Centre EIDOS, 2003, p.90-105 (in Russian).
    • Technological Singularity and Culture // Fundamental Issues in Cultural Studies. Vol.4. – St. Petersburg, Aleteia, 2008, p.110-120 (in Russian).


  • 8 July 2019
    Efim A. REZVAN

    Ph.D., Dr.Sc., Professor.

    Editor-in-chief, International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research “Manuscripta Orientalia”; Director, International Center for Islamic Studies; trainer/expert of the UNESCO/ICOM project Running a Museum: 21st Century.

    Basic areas of research: Islamic studies; Qur’anic studies; history and ethnography of the peoples of the Near and Middle East; history and ethnography of the peoples of Central Asia; visual anthropology; ethnic museology; historiography, Source studies and Methodology of Ethnography diversity of Islamic world.

    Basic publications:

    • Sufun rusiya fi l-Khaleej al-‘Arabi. 1899–1903. Mavad min arshif al-dawla al-markazi li-l-ustul al-bahri al-harbi. Dar at-Takaddum, Musku, 1990 [Russian Ships in Persian Gulf. 1899–1903. Materials of the State Central Archive of the Russian Navy. M.: Progress, 1990] (in Arabic)]; 
    • The Qur’an. Translated by D.N. Boguslavsky (together with A.N. Weirauch). Saint-Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 1995; 
    • The Qur’an and Its Interpretations. Saint-Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2000; 
    • The Qur’an and Its World. Saint-Petersburg, Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2001; 
    • The Qur’an of ‘Uthman (Katta-Langar, Saint-Petersburg, Bukhara, Tashkent). Saint-Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2004 (a Russian-English edition); 
    • Rezvan E. Russian Ships in the Gulf, 1899–1903. London: Ithaca Press, 1999; 
    • Hajj qabla mi’a sana. Rihla sirriya li-l-dabit rusi ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Davletshin ili-l-Makka al-Mukarrama, 1898. Bairut: Dar at-takrib baina mazahib islamiya. 1993 (Hajj a Hundred Years Ago. The Secret Mission of Captain ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Davletshin to the Sacred Mekka. 1898. Beirut, 1898) (In Arabic)]; 
    • Al-hisan al-‘arabi fi rusiya. Dubai: Markaz Juma’’al-Madjid li-t-turath va-thaqafa, 2005 (Arab Horse in Russia. Dubai, 2005) (in Arabic)]; 
    • Al-Qur’an al-karim fi Rusiya. Dubai: Markaz Juma’ al-Madjid li-l-turath va-thaqafa, 2005 (The Qur’an in Russia) (In Arabic)]; 
    • The Qur’an and its world. Saint-Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2012 (Manuscripta Orientalia Electronic book series; Vol. 1);
    • Oriental Manuscripts of Karl Fabergé. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2012. (Manuscripta Orientalia Electronic book series; Vol. 2);
    • The Qur’an and Muslim Manuscript Tradition. Selected articles (together with M. Rezvan). St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2013 (Manuscripta Orientalia Electronic book series; Vol. 3);
    • An Introduction to Qur’anic Studies. Kazan: Kazan University Press, 2014; 
    • Turkestan. Saint-Petersburg – Almaty: KMBH (My World of Islam Series; Vol. 1); 
    • Man in the Qur’an and Pre-Islamic Poetry. Monograph. SPb.: President’s Library (co-authored with A.Y. Kudryavtseva).

  • 8 July 2019
    Roman V. SVETLOV

    Ph. D., Dr.Sc., Professor.

    Director of the Institute of philosophy of man, Herzen University
    Head of Russian Plato Society.

    Basic areas of research: Plato and Platonism, ancient philosophy and culture, religion studies, contemporary theology.

    Basic publications:

    • Plato. Statesman. Study, Translation, commenary by Roman Svetlov. SPb, 2019. (In Russian).
    • The grammatical treatise De Analogia and linguistic conservatism of Julius Caesar in the context of the ancient language policy. // Schole. Vol. 13, N 1, 2019, P. 315-329 (in co-operation with Denis Fedorov) (In Russian)
    • Svetlov Roman. Pietro il Grande come «Nuovo Costantino» alcuni aspetti della politica religiosa del suo regno. // Nuova Rivista Storica, 2018, 2, Р. 789-798. 
    • The Concept of Natural Law: from Plato to Philo // Schole. 2018. V. 12. № 2. С. 643-658 (in co-operation with Elena Alymova) (In Russian)
    • Ideology and history: the history of Russia as a subject of ideological competition. SPb, 2017. (In Russian)
    • Julian the Apostate and his “Letter to the Jewish Community”// Voprosy filosofii№ 3 P. 154-162. (In Russian)
    • Socrates in the context of the ancient imagination. // ΣΧΟΛΗ Vol. 9. 1 (2015), С. 169-184.(In Russian)
    • Plato and Euhemerus: “Egyptian Logos” and “Sacra Historia” // Gosudarstvo, religiya, Cerkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom. 2015, V. 33 № 3, P. 382-396. (InRussian)
    • Anguage and indivisibility in the philosophy of Plato. // Voprosy filosofii. 8, 2014. P. 128-137. InRussianThe Essenes as the Pythagoreans: Predestination in Pythagoreanism, Platonism and the Qumran theology. // ΣΧΟΛΗ Vol. 8. 1 (2014). P. 50-53, (in co-operation with Igor Tantlevsky) 

  • 8 July 2019
    Laura YEREKESHEVA

    Ph.D., Dr.Sc. (History)
     

    Professor, al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), Oriental Faculty; Faculty of History, Archaeology and Ethnology (Almaty, Kazakhstan): Leading Research Fellow, Centre for Rapprochement of Cultures (UNESCO Category 2 Centre), Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

    Basic Areas of Research:

    Identity, the “Other”, Cross-Cultural and Religious Encounters, Social Cohesion in Central and South Asia (explored within the fields of theoretical sociology, anthropology of religion, history, art).

    Recent Publications:

    2021

    • Yerekesheva Laura. Ways of Living along the Silk Roads: Representation of the “Other” and Cross-Cultural Encounters During the Second Half of First Millennium CE. In Art, Design & Society. Global Perspectives. Pande A., S. Kumari (Eds). New Delhi: National Museum Institute, Macmillan Education, 2021. p. 340–350.
    • Yerekesheva L. G. Religion and the Art of Representation: Symbolism of Zoomorphic Style in Central Asia. NewResearchofTuva, 2021, no. 1, pp. 6–29. (InRuss.) DOI:https://www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2021.1.1

    2020

    • Yerekesheva L. Functions of Religions and Dynamics of Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan // The Muslim World, Vol. 110, Issue 1 (2020): 64–88. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/muwo.12319
      https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12319

    2019

    • Yerekesheva L. Syncretism of Religious Beliefs in Western Himalayas’s Lahoul. In Südasien-Chronik – South Asia Chronicle, Vol 9 (2019): 83–119. Berlin: Humboldt University. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/21749

    2017

    • Yerekesheva L. Sufism and Religious Syncretism in the History of Central Asia. In N.R. Khan (Ed). Sufism in India and Central Asia. NewDelhi: ManakinPress, 2017. p. 141–148.

  • 1 March 2019

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.

Partners


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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