UNESCO CHAIR IN COMPARATIVE STUDIES
OF SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS, THEIR SPECIFIC CULTURES
AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

The Saint-Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute of Cultural Research
UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Republic of Moldova and Russian Federation

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UNESCO chairs workshop "CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE"

03.07.09

UNESCO chairs' workshop "CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE"
(St. Petersburg, June 2-3, 2009)


On the 2nd and 3rd of June 2009, in the room of St. Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences and on the facilities of the UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue at the St.Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research, there was held the Russian-Lebanese UNESCO Chairs Workshop dedicated to deliberation of the joint collective monograph "Christianity and Islam in the Context of the Contemporary Culture", which is being written by Russian and Lebanese researchers with support of the UNESCO Moscow Office and the UNESCO Beirut Office within the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Interreligious Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding.
The participants of the Workshop were: Ms Frances Albernaz (Programme Specialist, Culture Sector, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France), Ms Liubava Moreva (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, and the Russian Federation), Mr Joseph Kreidi (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, Focal Point for Recovery and Reconstruction, UNESCO Regional Bureau in Beirut, Lebanon), Mr Edward Tropp (Principal Scientific Secretary, St. Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Mr. Vladimir Zhidkov (Head of the Sector for Humanities and Social Sciences at Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Moscow, Russia); UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research was represented by: Mr Sergey Horujy (Professor, Head of the Institute of Synergetic Anthropology, Moscow, Russia), Mr Efim Rezvan (Professor, Deputy Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography "Kunstkamera", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Igor Kotin (Senior Researcher at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography "Kunstkamera", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Alexey Khismatulin (senior researcher, Sector of the Middle East of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Alexander Melikhov (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, "Neva" journal, St. Petersburg, Russia), Ms Svetlana Makhlina (Professor, St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia), Ms Ekaterina Endoltseva (researcher, St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Russia), Mr Dimitri Spivak (Director of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in St. Petersburg, Russia); UNESCO Сhair of Сomparative Study of Religions, Mediation and Dialogue at St. Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, was represented by: Mr Louis Boisset, Professor, St. Joseph University; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair of comparative study of religions, mediation and dialogue, Beirut, Lebanon), Mr Fadi Daou (Associate General Secretary, Responsible for relations with Islam at Middle-East Council of Churches (MECC); President of Adyan-Lebanese foundation for interfaith studies and spiritual solidarity, Beirut, Lebanon), Ms Nayla Tabbara (Coordinator of programs in Science of religions, Faculty of Religious sciences, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon).

Photographs of the Participants of the UNESCO Chairs' Workshop




Participants of UNESCO chairs' workshop "CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE" (St. Petersburg, June 2-3, 2009). From Left to right:


Mr Dimitri Spivak (Director of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Igor Kotin (Senior Researcher at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography "Kunstkamera", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Ms Irina Pronasenko (Professor, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Alexander Melikhov (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, "Neva" journal, St. Petersburg, Russia)



Participants of UNESCO chairs' workshop "CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE" (St. Petersburg, June 2-3, 2009). From Left to right:


Ms Liubava Moreva (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, and the Russian Federation), Mr Efim Rezvan (Professor, Deputy Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography "Kunstkamera", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Joseph Kreidi (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, Focal Point for Recovery and Reconstruction, UNESCO Regional Bureau in Beirut, Lebanon)



Mr Dimitri Spivak (Director of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in St. Petersburg, Russia) presenting his report



Participants of UNESCO chairs' workshop "CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE" (St. Petersburg, June 2-3, 2009). From Left to right:



Mr Igor Kotin (Senior Researcher at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography "Kunstkamera", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Ms Ekaterina Endoltseva (researcher, St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Russia), Ms Frances Albernaz (Programme Specialist, Culture Sector, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France), Ms Nayla Tabbara (Coordinator of programs in Science of religions, Faculty of Religious sciences, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon), Mr Fadi Daou (Associate General Secretary, Responsible for relations with Islam at Middle-East Council of Churches (MECC); President of Adyan-Lebanese foundation for interfaith studies and spiritual solidarity, Beirut, Lebanon), Mr Louis Boisset, Professor, St. Joseph University; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair of comparative study of religions, mediation and dialogue, Beirut, Lebanon), Ms Svetlana Makhlina (Professor, St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia), Mr Sergey Horujy (Professor, Head of the Institute of Synergetic Anthropology, Moscow, Russia), Mr Joseph Kreidi (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, Focal Point for Recovery and Reconstruction, UNESCO Regional Bureau in Beirut, Lebanon), Ms Liubava Moreva (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, and the Russian Federation), Mr Edward Tropp (Principal Scientific Secretary, St. Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Mr Dimitri Spivak (Director of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Evgeniy Lunyaev, (Ph.D., Academic Secretary, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, Ph.D., St.Petersburg, Russia)



Participants of UNESCO chairs' workshop "CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE" (St. Petersburg, June 2-3, 2009). From Left to right:


Ms Frances Albernaz (Programme Specialist, Culture Sector, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France), Mr Louis Boisset, (Professor, St. Joseph University; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair of comparative study of religions, mediation and dialogue, Beirut, Lebanon), Mr Sergey Horujy (Professor, Head of the Institute of Synergetic Anthropology, Moscow, Russia), Ms Valentina Dianova (Professor, St.Petersburg State University), Ms Liubava Moreva (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, and the Russian Federation), Mr Dimitri Spivak (Director of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Joseph Kreidi (Programme Officer, Culture Sector, Focal Point for Recovery and Reconstruction, UNESCO Regional Bureau in Beirut, Lebanon), Mr Edward Tropp (Principal Scientific Secretary, St. Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Mr Igor Kotin (Senior Researcher at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography "Kunstkamera", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mr Fadi Daou (Associate General Secretary, Responsible for relations with Islam at Middle-East Council of Churches (MECC); President of Adyan-Lebanese foundation for interfaith studies and spiritual solidarity, Beirut, Lebanon)

 

 
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PARTNERS



UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)



PARTNERSHIPS

College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center



Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University
(Brussels, Belgium)



Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee
(Wisconsin, USA)


European Society for Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) - Lund university, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
(Lund, Sweden)



The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions
(Jerusalem, Izrael)