Personality and Society in Contemporary Belles-lettres

Regulations:

1. Our mission:

Organization of a scientific forum discussing the problem "Personality and Society in Contemporary Belles-lettres".

2. Our goals:

1. To find out who study this problem.
2. To develop http://www.apdavydov.com as a site for a broad discussion of this problem.

3. Our recent agenda:

1. To analyze the contemporary writers' contributions into the problem "Personality and Society".
2. To discuss the religious thesis "personality makes sense if only serving God" first, the populist thesis "personality makes sense if only serving the people" second, and the alternative thesis "serving myself" (A. S. Pushkin - Russia, M. Zhumabaev - Kazakhstan) last as a way of creativity and formation of a society of individuals.
3. How synthesize all three concepts into a single one?
4. How do the two notions, "personality" and "other", position to each other today?

4. Form, participants, time and follow-up:

Forms: The texts can be any volume.
Participants: Participants should register on the website via "Registration". Invited theses should be submitted by e-mail contacts@apdavydov.com. Discussion on the main subject and theses published is invited to be conducted on "DISCUSSION". All who wants to participate in the discussion are very welcome. No restrictions to the layout of comments. No offensive or inappropriate remarks will be tolerated. Selected departments (divisions) of the Universities in the United States and Canada will be informed about the seminar.
Time: The deadline for theses submission is December 1, 2006. The invited theses will be presented online not later then February 1, 2007.
Follow-up: The thesises and selected comments from the discussion of the seminar will be offered to relevant journals as round table discussion papers.

5. List of the reporters - authors of thesises:

Galina Petkevich - professor, PhD, Head of the Department of Daugavpils University (Daugavpils, Latvia)

Valentina Maslova - professor, PhD, Belorusskiy State University (Vitebsk, Belorussia)

Auezkhan Kodar - poet, president of Kazakhstan association "Golden Age", editor of the literary and culturelogical journal "Tamyr", PhD (philosophy), academician (Almaty)

Beket Nurzhanov - professor, PhD (philosophy), Head of the Dpt. of History of Philosophy of the Kazakhstan National University named after Al Farabi (Almaty)

Nicolai Scherbanov - writer, professor, PhD (philology), Head of the Dpt. of Philology of the Kazakhstan National University named after Al Farabi (Almaty)

Aslan Zhaksylykov - writer, professor, PhD (philology), Head of the Dpt. of Philology of the Kazakhstan National University named after Al Farabi (Almaty)

Andrew Golubev - professor, PhD (philosophy), director of the Social Fund "Eurasian Union of Scientists" (Uralsk, Kazakhstan)

Ayurzana Gun-Aajav - poet, writer, filologist, winner of many national and international awards, a board member of Mongolian Writers’ Union. (Mongolia)

Lidia Skorodumova - professor, PhD (philology), the Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow)

Igor Kondakov - professor, PhD (philosophy), the Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow)

Andrew Kolegov - pastor, Christian Counselor (Chelyabinsk)

Marina Riabova - professor, PhD (philosophy), Mordovian State University named after N. Ogarev (Saransk)

 Olga Osmukhina - professor, PhD, dept. of the Russian and Foreign Literature, Mordovian State University named after N. Ogarev (Saransk)

Oleg Osovskiy - professor, PhD, Head of the dept. of the Russian and Foreign Literature, Mordovian State University named after N. Ogarev (Saransk)

Helen Yarkova - professor, PhD (philosophy), Tumen State University (Tumen)

Iren Mikailova - professor, PhD (philosophy), the Center of Humanitarian Education (St. Petersburg)

Ekaterina Dais - PhD, Director of the website Fund "Liberal Mission"

Uldanai Bahtikireeva - professor, PhD (philology), the Russian University of Peoples' Friendship (Moscow)

Vadim Rozin - professor, PhD, the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow)

Iren Sizemskaja - professor, PhD (philosophy), the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow)

Alexander Ahiezer - professor, PhD (philosophy), the Institute of Economy Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow)

Alexey Davydov - professor, PhD (philosophy), the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow)

 

The journals interested to publish the papers of the seminar are welcome to contact contacts@apdavydov.com