On the work of the anthropological seminar “Gods, people and worlds in the past and the present — XVII” (The Dostoevsky academy, 22nd December 2023)

Annotation

On 21st-23rd December 2023, the Dostoevsky Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities held the XXVI All-Russian Research and Practice Conference involving foreign scholars. As its constituent part, the anthropological seminar entitled “Gods, People and Worlds in the past and in the present — XVII”, headed for nine years by Alexander A. Sinitsyn, Associate Professor at the Academy, contributed for its work. The seventeenth sitting was meant to commemorate D. E. Lukonin (1972–2013), a historian, philosopher, music and art expert from Saratov. Eleven speeches on the topics of history, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, historiography and art were made and discussed. Professors from St Petersburg universities and scholars from Saratov and Fresno (USA) took part in the conference. Nadezhda Novichikhina, a master’s student at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, presented her cultural and educational project “A. K. Tolstoy and S. I. Taneev: ‘John of Damascus’: a poem and cantata”.

Keywords

RChAH, The Dostoevsky Academy, history, philosophy, literature, culture, cinema, D. E. Lukonin, Kant, Socrates, reception, poetry, music, mythology, “Gods, people, and worlds in the past and the present”, poem and cantata “John of Damascus”.