Russia as a Part of Global Culture: An Integral Part vs. Cancel Culture

Speakers

• Caner AkgunDirector, Istanbul State Opera and Ballet
• Pierre de GaulleDeputy Chairman of the Jury, L.N.Tolstoy International Peace Prize Foundation
• Justus FrantzPianist, Conductor; Founder, Artistic Director, Philharmonie der Nationen orchestra
• Justus Konstantin FrantzPianist, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory
• Hans-Joachim FreyFounder, The Bridge of Arts Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Directors, JSC “RK Culture and Science”
• Anton GlikinArchitect, Head, Anton Glikin Studios

  Anton Glikin is an architect, artist, designer, architecture theorist, head of the Anton Glikin Studio, and the originator of the “New Aestheticism” concept in architecture and the fine arts.
  Mr. Glikin completed his studies at the Serov Art College (now the Roerich Art College) in 1990, the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture in London in 1996, and the Department of Architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1997. In 2010, he received a PhD in philosophy from St. Petersburg State University.
  He won the competition for the “World Athletes Monument,” dedicated to the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta and the centenary of the modern Olympic movement (Atlanta, 1996). He is also co-author of the “Millennium Arch” design (2000). Mr. Glikin has received the Best Architecture Drawing award from The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1999) and the Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in Classical Tradition from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art (New York, 2003).
  He is currently working on several commissions for the Roman Catholic Church, including the reconstruction of the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Nizhny Novgorod.

• Fabio MastrangeloArtistic Director, Saint Petersburg State Musical Theatre named after F.I. Shalyapin
• Michael SturmDirector, screenwriter