Experts are to discuss the paradoxes of shaping up and developing cultural heritage in contemporary world, amid an increasing demand for addressing the phenomena of the past that are conceptualized as reference points of national and social identity confronting the challenges of globalism, while at the same time the possibilities for interpreting tradition and its adaptation in a modern fashion are expanding.
Cultural heritage as a set of results, experiences and values of the past specifies the system of today's values, regulates our conduct, and serves as the basis for the implementation of numerous topical tasks. The modern multicultural situation practically dismisses the habitual contradiction between the old and the new, in revealing the essence of tradition as a dynamic process in which age-old phenomena are revamped by new artistic practices, technical capabilities, to reappear as innovations.
Bringing the examples from various fields of activity, speakers will analyze the continuity and contradictions of cultural heritage as a process that transforms in the course of an organic connection with new phenomena in the economy and culture and reflects the realities of the present through the eyes of the future.
Moderator: Natalia Sipovskaya, Doctor of Arts, Director of the State Institute of Art Studies.
Speakers:
- Igor Duhan, Professor, Doctor of Philosophy, Candidate of Architecture, Head of the Art Department at Belarusian State University;
- Cholpon Tentieva, Founder of the International Residence “Solar Sign” Art & Science Residence, Director of the “Dubovy Park” Gallery of the Union of Artists of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan);
- Emmanuel Amatwi, President of the National Committee of ICOM Zambia, Head of Museum Education at the Choma Museum and Crafts Center (Zambia);
- Ekaterina Chukovskaya, Senior Researcher at the Department of State Cultural Policy and Art Economics at the State Institute of Art Studies, Associate Professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School, Director of Digital IP, Vice-President of the Federation of Intellectual Property;
- Valentina Muzychuk, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Department of State Cultural Policy and Art Economics at the State Institute of Art Studies, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Member of the Presidium of the Culture Council under the President of the Russian Federation;
- Ekaterina Khaunina, Head of the Producer Faculty Program at the Moscow Art Theatre School, Senior Researcher at the Department of State Cultural Policy and Art Economics at the State Institute of Art Studies, Leading Expert of the Working Group for Preparing the Cultural Policy Development Strategy for the Ulyanovsk Region;
- Yulia Bychkova, Curator, Architect, Director of Art Park "Nikolo-Lenivets," Producer and Curator of the "Archstoyanie" and "Archstoyanie Children's" Festivals;
- Louisa Nnenna Onuoha, President of the National Committee of ICOM Nigeria (Nigeria);
- Mutoni Thang'wa, Speaker of National Committees of ICOM Kenya (Kenya).