Conference program

GENERAL INFORMATION

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Scientific Conference «PERISHABLE AND ETERNAL: mythologies and social technologies of digital civilization-2021». The conference is organized by the Institute of Humanities at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University and will be held in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, on November 22-23, 2021.

The aim of the conference is to unite the efforts of specialists in various fields of modern knowledge about man and society to study the origins, current state and prospects of digital civilization, as well as related anthropological expectations and scenarios of their mythologization in the context of global problems and challenges of the time.

The upcoming conference is aimed at sharing experience and combining research efforts of scholars studying theoretical and applied issues of the humanities. Summarizing the conference results, a special issue of a journal indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) will be published.

Official languages of the conference are Russian, English.

Conference Program:

Sessions:

Session 1. Image, word, number: language and literature in the context of digitalization.

Session 2. Language and cross-cultural communication: from traditional to digital contexts.

Session 3. Mythologies of the digital world: social, cultural, and political aspects.

Session 4. Geopolitics in modern media mythologies.

Session 5. Digital pedagogy as a social technology.

Session 6. Culture and art in the mazes of digital mythologies.

Session 7. Digitalization as a factor of transformation of identity models.

Session 8. Historical roots of modern media mythologies.

CONFERENCE PROCEDURE

 Contribution format:

Oral presentation /  poster presentation.

For oral reports, there goes the following procedure:

• Speaker presentation – 10 minutes;
• Discussion – 5 minutes.

All presentations will be provided with:

• Lap top;
• Multimedia projector.

Your presentation should be saved to a flash drive, and should appear in PowerPoint 2007.

Note: For regulation of technical problems, consult the assistants for technical support of the sessions. Poster presentations should be sent to the conference 3 days before the session beginning.

Official languages of the conference: Russian, English.

DETAILED PROGRAM

22 November, 2021

09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Participant registration / check-in (Institute of Humanities, Antonovo 1)

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Official opening. Plenary meeting

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Scientific sessions

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Lunch break

2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Scientific sessions

5:00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – Excursion to monastery complex "Antonovo"

23 November, 2021

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Scientific sessions

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Lunch break

2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Scientific sessions

5:00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Close of the conference. Discussion and closing remarks

Coffee break: for 15 minutes every 2 hours.