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Cultural Dialogues in the Era of Global Change

17 Jun , 12:00–13:15

Protecting the Population and Quality of Life as the Main Priority

Congress Centre, zone D, conference hall D4

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In countries where art and heritage are the pillar and driving force of society, the soft power of culture makes a significant contribution to their economic growth and social development, and also serves as an effective tool for maintaining international dialogue and cooperation. Humanitarian collaboration, cultural exchanges, the ability to use a common and understandable language create a spiritual connection between different peoples and countries. How does culture affect a nation’s economic success? How does culture help shape and develop a more conscious society? How does culture become a connecting bridge in building international and interethnic relations? How can Russian culture enhance its influence globally and expand its presence on the world stage? What role does culture play in developing creativity and how what is the best way to build interaction between culture, economy, and business?

Moderator
Nataliya Loseva, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, International News Agency Rossiya Segodnya

Nataliya Loseva

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, International News Agency Rossiya Segodnya

Panellists
Yulia Golubeva, Deputy General Director, Gazprom-Media Holding
Sergey Emelyanov, Director, National Drama Theater of Russia (Alexandrinsky Theater)
Karin Kneissl, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)
Matthias Moosdorf, Cellist; Deputy of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany
Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director, The State Hermitage Museum
Hans-Joachim Frey, Artistic Director, Talent and Success Foundation
Justus Frantz, Conductor, Pianist
Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation

Yulia Golubeva

Deputy General Director, Gazprom-Media Holding

Sergey Emelyanov

Director, National Drama Theater of Russia (Alexandrinsky Theater)

Директор ФГБУК «Национальный драматический театр России (Александринский театр)».
Родился в 1993 году в Ухте, Республика Коми.
C 2011 года успешно реализует проекты в сфере культуры и искусства.
В 2015 году окончил Ухтинский государственный технический университет, специальность — «Менеджмент».
В 2017 году прошел повышение квалификации в Российской академии народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации по дополнительной профессиональной программе «Управление в сфере культуры».
В 2019 году окончил магистратуру Сыктывкарского государственного университета им. Питирима Сорокина, специальность — «Культурология».
С 2011 года — руководитель любительского объединения Муниципального автономного учреждения «Городской Дворец культуры» муниципального образования городского округа «Ухта».
С 2013 года — заместитель директора Муниципального автономного учреждения «Городской Дворец культуры» муниципального образования городского округа «Ухта».
С 2015 года — директор Муниципального автономного учреждения «Городской Дворец культуры» муниципального образования городского округа «Ухта».
С октября 2016 года по апрель 2021 года — министр культуры, туризма и архивного дела Республики Коми.
Будучи министром культуры, туризма и архивного дела Республики Коми, а также являясь председателем Координационного совета по культуре и искусству в 2019-2021 гг., С.В. Емельянов выступал инициатором и куратором знаковых проектов на Севере России.
Под руководством С.В. Емельянова Республика Коми стабильно входила в ТОП-10 регионов-лидеров по темпам развития культуры (2017 – 2019 гг.).
По инициативе С.В. Емельянова с 2018 г. (объявленного Главой Коми Годом культуры в регионе) в столице Республики Коми проводится Северный культурный форум – главная площадка Севера России для построения диалога профессионалов культурного сообщества страны и зарубежья.
С апреля 2021 года — директор ФГБУК «Национальный драматический театр России (Александринский театр)».
В статусе директора ФГБУК "Национальный драматический театр России (Александринский театр)" С.В. Емельянов запустил масштабную реновацию гастрольных проектов институции, расширив формат их проведения до культурно-делового проекта "Дни Александринского театра за рубежом и в субъектах РФ". По инициативе С.В. Емельянова творческие инициативы и задачи Александринского театра дополнены глобальной культурно-просветительской и проектно-стратегической миссией. Выступил инициатором разработки и запуска всероссийского просветительского проекта «Национальная театральная школа».
В 2022 году вошел в состав Комиссии Государственного Совета Российской Федерации по направлению «Культура».
Награжден Почетной грамотой Министерства культуры Республики Коми, Почетной грамотой Министерства национальной политики Республики Коми, Почетной грамотой Республики Коми, Благодарностью Министра культуры Российской Федерации.

Karin Kneissl

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)

Matthias Moosdorf

Cellist; Deputy of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany

Mikhail Piotrovsky

General Director, The State Hermitage Museum

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski was born in Yerevan in 1944. His father, Boris Borisovich Piotrovski, an eminent archaeologist, was Director of The State Hermitage Museum from 1964 till 1990.
In 1967 graduated with honors from the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad State University, specializing in Arabic Studies. Underwent a study course at the Cairo University in 1965-1966. From 1967 to 1991 Mikhail Borisovich worked in the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, where he obtained his doctorate in history. In 1991 was invited to join the Hermitage staff as the First Deputy Director. In July 1992 he was appointed Director of the Museum by a decree of the Prime Minister.
Dr. Piotrovski has taken part in archaeological excavations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Yemen. He is an author of more than 250 works including catalogues of Arabic manuscripts, publications of Medieval monuments and ancient inscriptions, works on Islamic political history and Arabic culture, archeology of Arabia. Among them: series of articles devoted to the Muslim mythology in The Encyclopedia of World Mythology, series of articles about the prophet Muhammad and the monographs: The Legend of the Himyarite King As'ad al-Kamil (1977), Fundamentals of Arab-Islamic Art (1984), Southern Arabia in the Early Middle Ages (1985), Yemen before Islam and in the First Centuries of the Hijra (1987), Tales of the Koran (1991), Islam: An Encyclopaedia (a co-author, 1991). The Hermitage: Essays on the History of the Collection (a co-author, 1997); Earthy Art - Heavenly Beauty. Art of Islam (an editor, 2000); On Islamic Art (2001), The Great Collections of the Great Museum. The Hermitage (2003); The Hermitage in the Great Museums of the World series (2003); The Historical Legends of the Koran (2005), The Islamic Art. Between China and Europe (2008), The View from the Hermitage (2009, 2014), The Two Holy Sites Regained. Futuh al-Haramayn (2011), My Hermitage in Russian and English (2014, 2015), For Museums There Are No Taboos (2016).
Dr. Piotrovski is an author and a presenter of a TV series My Hermitage shown on the State Russian TV channel (250 series), My Hermitage – 250 (30 series), an author of the regular column The View from the Hermitage in the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti newspaper (two books of these articles have been issued).
Dr. Piotrovski is Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Arts. A member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art (in 2001 – 2011 was a Deputy Chairman of the Council) and the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Science and Education.
Professor of the St. Petersburg State University, were he chairs two departments - “Museology” and “Ancient Orient History”, a Dean of Oriental faculty. Honorary Doctor of the Kazan State University, Honorary Doctor of the Saratov State University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the European University in St. Petersburg.
Foreign member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, corresponding member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President of the Union of Museums of Russia, editor-in-chief of The Christian Orient magazine, the chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Imperial Russian Orthodox Palestine Society. President of the Worldwide Club of St. Petersburgers, chairman of the board of the 1st State TV channel (2001 – 2005).
In 2011 elected to the State Duma, gave up his mandate.
Has been awarded the Netherlands Order of Orange-Nassau (1996), the Russian Order of Honor (1997), the French Order of the Légion d'Honneur (1998, 2004), the Swedish Order of the Northern Star (1999), the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000, 2004), the Order of Saint Mesrop (Armenian Apostle Church, 2000), the Order of Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine, 2003), the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2004), the Order of Service to the Fatherland (Russia, 2004, 2009), the Order of Honor Al-Fahr (the Council of Muftis of Russia, 2005), the Order of the Lion of Finland (2005); the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan, 2007); the Silver Medal of Amsterdam (2009); Woodrow Wilson Award, USA (2009); the Order of the Crown (Kingdom of Belgium, 2011); medal of Anatoliy Koni (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, 2013), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (Russia, 2014); the Order of Merit for science and Arts (Austria, 2014), the Order of Service to the Republic of Tatarstan (2014), the Order of Francysk Skaryna (Belarus, 2014), the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (2015), the Order of Friendship (2016), the Medal of Argishti the First (Armenia, 2016).
In 2003 Mikhail Piotrovsky has been awarded the Presidential Prize in the Field of Art and Literature (Russia, 2003). In 2017 has been awarded the State Prize of Russia for his contribution to the preservation of national and world cultural heritage.
Winner of the public award "Sky Line".
In 1997 a minor planet was named “Piotrovski” by the Astronomical Union in joint honor of Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski and his father Boris Borisovich Piotrovski.
In May, 2011 Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski was awarded the title of Honored Citizen of Saint Petersburg.
Mikhail Borisovich is married, has two children.

Hans-Joachim Frey

Artistic Director, Talent and Success Foundation

Justus Frantz

Conductor, Pianist

Mikhail Shvydkoy

Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation

Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for international cultural cooperation (since 2008).
Ph.D. in the History of Theatre, National Institute of Art Research, Moscow (1991). Professor at Faculty of Foreign Theatre, Russian Academy of Theatre Art; Professor, Member of Academic Council, Moscow State Lomonosov-University.
Founder and Artistic director of Moscow Theatre of musical (since 2011). Moderator of several TV programs. Columnist of the “Rossiyskaya gazeta”. Author of 3 books, 10 films and more than 1000 publications on culture.
Head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (2004-2008), Minister of culture (2000-2004), Chairman of the All-Russia State TV and Broadcasting Company (1998-2000), Deputy Minister of culture (1993-1997).