International Symposium «Sacred Delphi in the context of world culture: Greek-Slavic-Turkic interactions»

9 December 2022 Greek Language and Culture Centre «ELLAS», UNESCO Chair for the Study of World Culture and Religions KRSU, Russian Language Chair, Faculty of Humanities KRSU they do International Symposium «Sacred Delphi in the context of world culture: Greek-Slavic-Turkic interactions», dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Professor M. Lazaridi.

The conference program includes work in the following areas: 

• The role of Greek civilization in the development of world culture
• The connection between the spiritual culture of the East (Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Khorezmi, Biruni, Nizami, Rustaveli, Mahmoud Kashgari, Yusuf Balasaguni, etc.) and Hellenism.
• Ancient Hellas as the basis of Byzantine culture
• Byzantium – cultural crossroads (East and West). Architecture and art of Byzantium (urban planning, architecture, icon painting, fresco, mosaic, cloisonne enamel). Religious question in the Byzantine Empire.
• The influence of Byzantium on the formation of statehood of the Orthodox peoples
•  Literature and writing as high art. Works of the Fathers of the Church (John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory the Nausian, Grigol Narekatsi, etc.)
• Ancient Greek – language of the Holy Scriptures
• Creators of Slavic writing – St. Kirill and St. Methodius

• Rus' and Byzantium: the interweaving of two cultures. The influence of the Orthodox traditions of Byzantium on the culture and spiritual development of peoples
• The role of the Likhud brothers in the formation of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy.
• Art of Ancient Rus': architecture of a Russian temple; Russian icon painters (Andrey Rublev, Simon Ushakov, etc.)

• Manas – brilliant epic of the Kyrgyz people
• Problems of small epics of Kyrgyzstan
• Heroic epics of the peoples of the world (Manas, Alpamysh, David of Sassun, Kalevala, epics (Ilya Muromets, etc.), epics of the peoples of the Caucasus, etc.)

• Main directions and prospects for the development of linguistics and literary criticism
• Creative quests and achievements of modern writers, poets, playwrights of Kyrgyzstan (Ch. Aitmatova, M. Baidzhieva, V. Shapovalova, A. Nikitenko, S. Suslova, R. Prizhivoiti, etc.)
• Creative quests and achievements of philologists of Kyrgyzstan (E. Polivanova, I. Batmanova, K. Sartpayeva, A. Imanova, T. Akhmatova, M. Rudova, E. Ozmitel, F. Krasnova, G. Zenkova, A. Vasilyeva, M. Zadorozhny, V. Yantsen, etc.)
• Current problems of classical education in Kyrgyzstan: ancient Greek and Latin in the system of university basic education.

Venue: Bishkek, main building of KRSU (Kyivskaya St. 44), room. 212

Start: 11.00