The chief topic of the panel discussion is to be literature as a versatile language that allows members of differing civilizations to understand one another’s value foundations. What determines the interest in historical plots in popular literature? To what extent do writers shape collective ideas about the past? Can the fictitious realms created by writers be regarded as part of the national historical heritage?
Moderator: Vladimir Grigoryev, director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.
Speakers:
- Claude Marc Kaminsky, Writer (France);
- Ruslan Gagkuev, Chairman Board of the Russian Historical Society, Executive Director of the History of the Motherland Fund (Russia);
- Yuri Nosov, General director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (Russia);
- Akbar Ryskulov, People's Poet of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan);
- Sandro Teti, Publisher and political scientist (Italy);
- Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation (Russia);
- Maxim Zamshev, Editor-in-Chief of "Literary Gazette";
- Alexander Nitzberg, Translator.