Moscow Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2014
Striking a Chord Between the East and the West
(Moscow; September 25th - 27th, 2014)
| Thursday, September 25th, 2014 | |
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| 18:00-20:00 | Welcome Reception Host: The Hon. Dr. Vladimir Filippov, Rector, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia |
| Friday, September 26th, 2014 | |
| 9:00 | Registration for Participants |
| 10:00 | Welcome & Keynote Address The Hon. Dr. Vladimir Filippov (Rector, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; Former Minister of Education of Russia) Mark C. Donfried (Director General, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) |
| 10:30 | “The Clicheworld. How they Occupied our Territories, and What Can we do to win our Land Back.” Prof. Aleksey L. Nikolov, Managing Director of Russia Today |
| 11:00 | Keynote Address Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moscow Center |
| 11:30 | Coffee-Break |
| 12:00 | “The Cultural Complexity and How it should be Perceived and Managed” Prof. Dr. Valery Tishkov, Professor, Ethnology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences; Former Minister for Nationalities of the Russian Federation |
| 12:30 | “Culture and Diplomacy in the Runaway World” Prof. Dr. Alexey Gromyko, Professor, Faculty of International Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; |
| 13:00 | “Soft Power" of the Russian Federation: Institutions, Problems and Prospects” Prof. Dr. Alexander O. Naumov Associate Professor, Department of Political Science MSU Lomonosov |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 | “Cultural Platform of Latvian - Russian Relations and Future Perspective” H. E. Amb. Astra Kurme, Ambassador of Latvia to the Russian Federation |
| 15:30 | Keynote Address Maria Morozova, Director, the Timchenko Fondation |
| 16:00 | “Valorization of Rural Cultural Potentials: Association of The Most Beautiful Villages of Russia” Dr. Alexander Merzlov, Head of Sustainable Rural Development Center, Timiryazev Agricultural State University |
| 16:30 | “A Human Being - Individual and Person - and his World Order: the Culture and Identifications vs the Culture of Identification” Prof. William Schmidt, Professor, Department of Ethnic and Federative Relations, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
| 16:50 | “An Interactive Discussion on the Power of Arts & Music as Cultural Diplomacy” Ivan Ozhogin, Russian Actor & Opera Singer |
17:10 | “Cultural Trends in Youth Policy of Moscow” Liudmila Tsoy, Director of Moscow Youth Multifunctional Center |
| 17:30 | “Cultural Diplomacy - Objective or Instrument?” Andrash Barani, Director, Balassi Institute - Hungarian Cultural Centre in Moscow |
| 17:50 | “India and Russia - Centuries of Interconnectivity “ Rahul Shrivastava, Political Counselor, Embassy of India to Russia |
| 18:15 | Concluding Remarks & Closing of Symposium The Hon. Dr. Vladimir Filippov (Rector, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; Former Minister of Education of Russia) Mark C. Donfried (Director General Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) |
| Saturday, September 27th, 2014 | |
| 10:00 - 13:00 | Group Excursion in Moscow (Meeting Point: In front of the University main building. Address: Building 6, Miklukho-Maklaya Street) |
