Intellectual Foundations of Modern Liberal Education

The 3rd international conference "Intellectual Foundations of Modern Liberal Education."

Program

November 14

9:00–9:30am Registration

9:30–9:45am Valery Monakhov (SPbU) "On the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Liberal Education"

Session 1. Liberal Education: From Tradition to Innovation. Moderators: Vadim Kasevich, Elena Kazakova (SPbU)

• 9:45–10:00am Philip Fedchin (SPbU) "Toward the History of Transformation of Artes Liberales: Variability of Educational Tradition and Its Importance"
• 10:00–10:15am Olga Voronina (USA) "Liberal Education in the Context of the Modern University"
• 10:15–10:30am Elena Kazakova (SPbU) "Liberal Education and Modern Pedagogical Practices"
• 10:30–10:45am Elena Varustina (SPbU) "Master Degree Programs in the Liberal Education Context"
• 10:45–11:20am Question and answer session. Open discussion

11:20–11:45am Coffee break

11:45am–1:15pm Roundtable discussion "Liberal Education in Post-Soviet Territory: Problems of Adaptation"

1:15-2:30pm Lunch

2:30–4:30pm Roundtable discussions

• "Liberal Education in Europe and in the World"
• "Technologies, New Reality and Educational Space"

4:30–5:00pm Coffee break

5:00–7:00pm Roundtable discussions

• "Developing Student Cultural Experience in the Liberal Education Environment"
• Roundtable discussion with alumni of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences

November 15

9:00–9:30am Registration

9:30–10:30am Opening of Plenary Session

• Nikolai Kropachev (Rector, SPbU)
• Olga Golodets (Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)
• Dmitry Livanov (Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation)
• Aleksei Kudrin (Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, SPbU)

9:50–10:25am Aleksei Kudrin (SPbU) "Liberal Arts and Sciences in Russian Universities"

10:30am–12:00pm Roundtable discussion "Perspectives of Development of Modern Education in Russia"

• Igor Divinsky (Vice Governor of St. Petersburg)
• Olga Golodets (Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)
• Dmitry Livanov (Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation)
• Nikolai Kropachev (Rector, SPbU)
• Aleksei Kudrin (Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, SPbU)
• Yaroslav Kuzminov (Rector, Higher School of Economics)
• Vladimir Mau (Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration)
• Lyudmila Verbitskaya (President, SPbU)

12:00–12:15pm Coffee break

Session 2. Liberal Education as a Head Start in Life

• 12:15–12:35pm Danila Raskov (SPbU) "Careers of Alumni of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences"
• 12:35–12:55pm Debra Humphreys (Association of American Colleges and Universities, USA) "Liberal Arts Education and Professional Success: Debunking Myths about What Employers Need and What the Economy Rewards"
• 12:55–1:15pm Marijk van der Wende (Amsterdam University College, Netherlands) "Global Trends in the Attainment of Excellence: The Use of Liberal Arts and Sciences Experience in the 21st Century"
• 1:15–1:35pm Andrew Wachtel (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) "Why Do Research Universities Need Liberal Arts Programs?"

1:45–3:00pm Lunch

Session 3. Cognitive Science and Modern Education

• 3:00–3:20pm Tatiana Chernigovskaya (SPbU) "Cognitive Science as the Basis for Organizing Education in the 21st Century"
• 3:20–3:40pm Svyatoslav Medvedev (Bekhtereva Institute for the Study of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences) "Brain and Creativity"
• 3:40–4:00pm Svetlana Kirdina (Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) "Interdisciplinary Studies as the Basis for Integral Knowledge of Russian Society"
• 4:00–4:20pm Yury Shelepin (Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; SPbU) "Neuro-Iconics and Its Reflection in Educational Practice"
• 4:20–4:40pm Viktor Allakhverdov (SPbU) "Conscious and Unconscious Learning"

4:40–5:10pm Coffee break

Session 4. Liberal Education and the Formation of Interdisciplinary Space

• 5:10–5:30pm Leon Botstein (USA) "Interdisciplinary Education and the Challenges of the 21st Century"
• 5:30–5:50pm Valery Monakhov (SPbU) "Liberal Education in the Paradigm of Interdisciplinary and Post-Disciplinary Knowledge"
• 5:50–6:10pm Boris Gasparov (Columbia University, USA) "Principle of Liberal Arts in Humanies Education and Russian Philological Tradition"
• 6:10–6:30pm Presentation by Isak Frumin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

6:30–6:45pm Closing of the day's session

November 16

Session 5. Liberal Education in Russian Universities

10:00–10:20am Andrey Zorin (Oxford University, UK) "Specific Problems of the Liberal Education Model in the Russian Reality and Methods of Overcoming Them"

• 10:20–10:40am Denis Akhapkin (SPbU) "On the Organization and Capacity of the Writing and Thinking Program"
• 10:40–11:00am Marina Kalashnikova (SPbU) "Liberal Arts and Sciences Within the System of Educational Standards"
• 11:00–11:20am Evgeniy Mironov (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow) "'Great Books' Curricula"
• 11:20–11:40am Evgeniya Glazanova (SPbU) "Organizing Tutorial Work"

11:40am–12:00pm Coffee break

12:00–1:30pm Roundtable discussions

• Endowments in Higher Education
• Mathematics for Non-Mathematicians

1:30–2:00pm Closing of the Conference