RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES
RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES
International Seminar "Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage: Russian and Indian Experience"
22.10.2020

International Seminar "Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage: Russian and Indian Experience"

The event was held October 21, 2021, as part of the Days of Student Science-2021 at RSUH. It hosted an online exhibition of creative works by students of the Art-Design Center of RSUH, dedicated to the heritage of Indian civilization, led by Dr. Tatyana Borisova, Associate Professor of the Art-Design Center, member of the Union of Designers and the Union of Designers of Russia. Works of related to architecture, national dances, costumes, flora and fauna of India were presented.

Welcome speeches were made by:

Dr. Vera Zabotkina, Acting Vice-Rector for International Cooperation

Mr. Alexander Kuznetsov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to UNESCO

Dr. Joshi Sachidanand, Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts

Mr. Alexander Sholokhov, President of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums of Russian Federation

Mr. Nikolay Nikiforov, Deputy Director, Department of State Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Ms. Olga Chistanova, Executive Director of ICOM Russia

Dr. Leonid Kondrashov, President of the National Committee of ICOMOS, Russia

Dr. Sergei Fandeev, Director, Russian Center for Science and Culture, Mumbai, India

Dr. Dmitry Bak, Director of the Vladimir Dahl Russian State Museum of the History of Russian Literature (State Literary Museum)

Dr. Irina Bakanova, Director of the Museum Center of RSUH

Dr. Anagha Bhat-Behere, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Denis Pezhemsky, Senior Researcher, Museum of Anthropology and Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of the Center for Paleo-Ethnological Research.



Section 1. Museum: Intangible Cultural Heritage. Cultural Heritage of Russia

The Section was opened by Professor Yuri Vedenin, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Presentations were made by:

1. Dr. Marta Polyakova, Department of Museology, Faculty of History of Art, RSUH.

2. Dr. Boris Zakharyin, Chair of the Department of Indian Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor Emeritus.

3. Dr. Maria Stefko, Acting Head of the Department of Museology, Faculty of History of Art, RSUH.

4. Dr. Victoria Chernenko, Department of Museology, Faculty of History of Art, RSUH.

5. Ms. Svetlana Voronova, Ph.D. student, Department of Museology Faculty of History of Art, RSUH.

6. Ms. Anastasia Peschanenko, M.A. Student.

Section 2. Cultural Heritage of Russia and India

Presentations were made by:

1. Dr. Lyudmila Khokhlova, Department of Indian Philology, Institute of Asian and African Countries, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

2. Dr. Anita Carillo-Arkas, President of the Ayurvedic Russian-Indian Association.

3. Dr. Guzel Strelkova, Department of Indian Philology, Institute of Asian and African Countries, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

4. Prof. Alexander Stolyarov, Department of Foreign Area Studies and Foreign Policy of the Faculty of International Relations of the Institute of History and Archives.

5. Dr. Indira Gazieva, Research Fellow, International Center for South Asian Studies.

Organizing bodies:

  • Department of Foreign Area Studies and Foreign Policy, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Foreign Area Studies, Institute of History and Archives, RSUH

  • Museum Center of RSUH

  • Department of Museology

  • Faculty of Art History

  • Art-Design Center, RSUH

  • International Center for South Asian Studies RSUH

  • Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums of Russian Federation (ICOM Russia)

  • Russian Center for Science and Culture (Mumbai, India)

  • Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Institute of Asian and African Countries, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

  • Center for Paleoethnological Research

  • Ayurvedic Russian-Indian Association