21.04.2025

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “THE MODERN ‘CULT OF MONUMENTS’ – POLITICAL INSTRUMENT OR LEGACY OF GENERATIONS?”

Date: April 21, 2025, 12:00 PM (MSK)

Place: Lecture Hall, General Staff Building, Hermitage Museum

Format: Hybrid (in-person and remote)

PROGRAM

  1. Mikhail B. Piotrovsky. Director General of the State Hermitage Museum, President of the Union of Museums of Russia, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Welcome Address
  2. Alexander S. Alimov. Director of the Department for MulBlateral Humanitarian CooperaBon and Cultural RelaBons, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian FederaBon. Welcome Address
  3. Leonid V. Kondrashev. PhD (Hist.), President of ICOMOS Russia. “Interpreta’on and Actualiza’on of Cultural Heritage at the Contemporary Turning Point of Epochs”
  4. Yuri G. Bobrov. Doctor of Art History, Vice-Rector for Research, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. “The ‘Cult of the Monument’: Illusions and Reality”
  5. Alexandr D. Shumilkin. Chair of the Nizhny Novgorod Branch of ICOMOS, Head of the Architectural Bureau ASGARD LLC. “Evolu’on of Value ShiZs in Russian Restora’on from the 18th to the Early 21st Century”
  6. Nina N. Shangina. D.Sc. (Tech.), Professor at PGUPS, Chairperson of the Council of the Union of Restorers of Saint Petersburg. “Monuments as Part of the Experience Economy”
  7. Evgeny V. Polyantsev, Head of the Department of “ReconstrucBon and RestoraBon in Architecture” (MArchI), PhD(Arch.), Professor, Corresponding Member of RAACS. “Student Compe»ons as a New Element in Teaching Cultural Heritage Preserva’on”
  8. Maxim B. Atayants. Honored Architect of Russia. “The Fate of Classical Monuments Beyond Europe”
  9. Timofey A. Bokov. PhD (Hist.), Lecturer at the InsBtute of Classical Orient and AnBquity, NaBonal Research University – Higher School of Economics. “Syria’s Cultural Heritage Preserva’on Policy in the 21st Century”
  10. Natalia F. Solovyova. PhD (Hist.), Director of the Rescue Archaeology Center, InsBtute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences. “Why do Monuments Need Digital Twins”