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Российская государственная библиотека по искусству приглашает принять участие в научной конференции Шестые Международные Михоэлсовские чтения, которые пройдут 24-25 ноября 2009 г. Конференция 2007 года продолжает рассмотрение научной проблемы «Национальный театр в контексте многонациональной культуры». Театроведы, филологи, библиографы, сотрудники библиотек, музеев, архивов, а также книговеды, редакторы и издатели, журналисты, преподаватели и другие специалисты, занимающиеся проблемами национального театра и межнациональных театральных связей, приглашаются принять участие в Чтениях.
The International conference Dialogue of generations in the context of Slavic and Jewish cultural traditionswill be held on December, 2-4, 2009 at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Organizers: Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Sefer, the Institute of Slavic studies (RAS), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Jewish Age
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The International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies held an international academic conference on the theme. History and Culture of Russian & East European Jewry: New Sources, New Approaches The conference took place on December 8-10 in Moscow. Scholars from Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, Poland, the US and Sweden participated in the proceedings. They represented the following academic institutions and universities:
Almost all of the participants in the conference hold Ph.D.’s, many are in the rank of professors or senior fellows. Even so, the academic level of the conference was certainly determined not by the listed formal characteristics. In our opinion, the merit of the conference lies in the originality of concepts, and novelty of the presented ideas and problems (See Appendix II for the conference program). As planned, the conference was interdisciplinary in nature: there were papers in history, anthropology, literary theory and history, source studies and historiography. Discussions were professional in quality and amiable in nature. They took place not only in conference halls, but in more unofficial settings as well. New ideas and projects were emerging “as we spoke”. The principal feature of that conference was that the participants spoke a “common language”. In fact, two languages were used - Russian and English, but the one in common was the language of scholarship. One of our American colleagues, who often visited Russia and participated in many academic conferences, remarked that he was used to have difficulties communicating with Russian historians in late 1980s - early 1990s. The differences in methodology, thinking, terminology were too greate. Today this kind of problems is athing of the past. The statement that scholarship knows no boundaries is a truism. This is as true of humanities and social sciences as it is of natural sciences. But this is perhaps even more characteristic of Jewish studies, given the centuries the Jews spent in diaspora, Jewish communities scattered all over the world and their multilingualism. This cooperation between scholars from different countries, different fields is all the more important; comparative studies - all the more significant. In other words, an international academic community is a prerequisite for the advancement of Jewish Studies. In our opinion, the conference, along with other activities of the Center, became another milestone in the formation of such a community. The International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies plans on making a tradition of such conferences. |
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