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The meeting of the Northern Caucasus affiliation of the Chair

On June 28, 2019, in Makhachkala, at the Dagestan State University, as part of the meeting of the Academic Council, a renewal ceremony was held for the affiliation of the UNESCO Chair for comparative studies of spiritual traditions, the specifics cultures and interreligious dialogue in the North Caucasus, based on the basis of Dagestan State University, Derbent Historical and Architectural and the Art Museum-Reserve and the Museum of the History of World Cultures and Religions in 2015.
The ceremonial scientific event was held by the Scientific Secretary of the UNESCO Chair Mikhail Stepanov and the Head of the Department of the UNESCO Chair in the North Caucasus Gulchohra Seidova.
The department’s activities are aimed at studying the cultural heritage of the North Caucasus region, selecting and testing the best practices of world culture in a multinational region.

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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