In the course of the discussion, it is expected to debate on the issue of upholding and restoring cultural heritage sites amid wars and disasters.
Exemplified by the world-renowned Amber Room, stolen by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, and the historical monuments of Palmyra that suffered from the terrorist organization "Islamic State", experts will try to develop the principal approaches that allow professional restorers and archaeologists to bring lost monuments back from oblivion. Besides, special attention to be paid to contemporary threats to spiritual heritage and conceivable ways of its protection.
Moderator: Konstantin Mogilevsky, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Co-Chair of the Russian Historical Society.
Speakers:
- Vu Hung Cuong, Director of the Institute of Social Sciences Information, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Vietnam);
- Vadzim Lakiza, Director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus);
- Binod Singh Ajatshatru, Director of the BRICS Institute (India);
- Natalia Solovieva, Deputy director of Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of department of Rescue Archaeology of Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia);
- Olga Taratynova, director of Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site (Russia);
- Vladimir Tsoy, Deputy Chairman, Government of the Leningrad Region; Chairman, Committee for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Leningrad Region (Russia);
- Arnaud Frilley, Producer, President of the Russian Musical Society in France, Director of the Sergei Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris (France).