Liberal Education in Russia and the World

International conference "Liberal Education in Russia and the World" (58–60 Galernaya Street).

Program

9:00am Registration

10:00am Opening of the conference

11:00am Coffee break

11:15am Plenary Session "The Liberal Arts in Russia and Post-Soviet Space"

Denis Akhapkin (SPbU) "Liberal Arts in the System of Russian Higher Education"
Andrey Zorin (Oxford University, UK) "Liberal Arts Education: Problems of the Russian Context"
Ilia Kukulin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) "The Concept of Liberal Arts Education and the Choice of Career as Presented to High-School Students and Parents in Contemporary Russia"
Jerzy Axer ("Artes Liberales Institute" Foundation; University of Warsaw, Poland) "Liberal Arts Education in Eastern Europe: Chances and Challenges"
Andrew Wachtel (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) "Liberal Arts in Central Asia: Content, Form, or Both?"

1:30pm Lunch

3:00pm Panel "Networking of Liberal Arts Institutions"

Kevin Hovland (Association of American Colleges and Universities, USA) "A Century of Leadership for Liberal Education in the United States"
Thomas Rommel (Germany) "Liberal Arts Networks in Europe: For Present Comfort and for Future Good"
Valery Monakhov (SPbU) "Development of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Russian Educational Space and the Prospect of Networking"

5:00pm Coffee break

5:30pm Panel "Visions of Liberal Arts in the 21st Century"

Tatiana Chernigovskaya (SPbU) "Convergence of Science and Its Place in the Modern World"
Presentation by Sergey Zuev (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow)
Svetlana Karas (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Moscow) "Music Within the System of Liberal Education"

10:00am Panel "The Socially Responsible University"

Dmitry Dubrovsky (SPbU; Russian Museum of Ethnography) "Human Rights Education, Civil Engagement and Citizens' Responsibility"
Pavel Tereshkovich (European Humanities University, Lithuania) "Liberal Arts Education and the Belarusian Educational Landscape: The Case of EHU"
Voldemar Tomusk (International Higher Education Support Program, Hungary) "The University's Social Mission after 'Cooling-out'"
Jonathan Becker (USA) "The Civically Engaged University in the 21st Century"
Tatiana Petrova (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Moscow) "The Social Mission of the University: The Russian Tradition of Liberal Education"

Roundtable discussion. Liberal Education in Russia: Practice, Perspectives, Partnerships

Yulia Gritskevich, Svetlana Sedunova (Pskov State University) "Adult Education: Problems and Prospects of Development"
Svetlana Gusova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) "Ethical Liberalism in the Context of Liberal Education: L. Tolstoy and K. Ventzel"
Yulia Nazarova (Tula State Pedagogical University) "Liberalism as the Social and Cultural Foundation of Liberal Arts Education"
Elena Meleshko (Tula State Pedagogical University) "Innovative Trends in Liberal Education: Educational Experience of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Tula State Pedagogical University"
Vera Kolkutina, Nina Snetova (Perm State National Research University) "The Connection of Science and the Humanities and the Actualization of This Connection as a Principle of Liberal Education"
Marina Kalashnikova (SPbU) "The Third Generation of Federal State Educational Standards for Higher Professional Education in 'Arts and Humanities' (Educational Track 035300): Opportunities and Limits"

11:30am Coffee break

12:00pm Panel "Liberal Arts in the Context of Challenges to Higher Education"

Mikhail Sokolov (EUSP) "Conspicuous Consumption of Higher Learning and Creeping Liberalization of Curriculum in Russian Universities"
Patricia Graham (Harvard University, USA) "Why Liberal Arts?"
Artemy Magun (SPbU; EUSP) "Maneuvering Between Two Dangers: Post-Soviet Inertia and Neo-Liberal Reform in Russian Higher Education"
Carlin Romano (Ursinus College, USA) "Is the American University Going to Hell? Overview from a Critic-at-Large"
Alexander Semyonov (SPbU; Higher School of Economics) "Is History a Liberal Arts Discipline?"
Fried Keesen (University College Utrecht, Netherlands) "University College Utrecht: Bologna Pioneer in the Netherlands"

1:30pm Lunch

3:00pm Open Forum "Perspectives for the Collaboration of Russian Universities in the Development of Liberal Education"

4:00pm Workshop "The Smolny Approach to Liberal Arts Education: Structures and Practice"

4:00pm Panel "Liberal Arts Education in the European Academic Environment"

Antonia Gohr (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) "Liberal Arts Education in Europe—Concepts and Challenges"
Anatoliy Mikhailov (European Humanities University, Lithuania) "Challenges of Liberal Arts Education: Between Knowing and Thinking"
Orlanda Lie (University College Utrecht, Netherlands) "European Liberal Arts: Breadth and Depth at University College Utrecht"
Jan Apel (Gotland University, Sweden) "Liberal Arts Education at Gotland University"
Dimitri Mironov (Tallinn University, Estonia) "Liberal Arts as a Means of Internationalization of Education: The Experience of Tallinn University"

5:30pm Coffee break

5:45pm Roundtable discussion "Liberal Arts Partnerships"

Munther Dajani (Al-Quds University, Palestinian Territories) "What Liberal Arts and Sciences Education Is? Letting Go or Better Yet, Striking a Balance"
Andrew Wachtel (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) "Serving Two Masters: Local vs International Visions of the University"
Daria Pushkina (SPbU) "Educational R2P—Responsibility to Partnerships"
Thomas Rommel (Germany) "Your Partner in this Cause: The Benefits of Liberal Arts Partnerships from a Berlin Perspective"
Susan Gillespie (USA) "Translating Ideas into Institutional Practice: Cases and Conundrums"

6:45pm Closing of the Conference