Topic: the perspective of the Russian regions and their part in the popular science magazine "Arctic Art & Culture '', published by the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts (ASICA) with the support of the St. Petersburg State University. The magazine also obtained the support from The Board of Governors of the Northern Forum in 2020.

Sargylana Ignatieva, Rector of the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts, will make a presentation about the magazine's prospects. The research policy concept of the leading higher educational center of Russia that specializes in the areas of the indigenous culture and arts of the Arctic – ASICA – will be presented.

Up to 2030th ASICA’s goal of research is to create a community of like-minded individuals to study the socio-cultural space of the North and the Arctic. As a result of the implementation of the 4 research activities, it is planned to increase the number of publications indexed in the international databases – Web of Science and Scopus – by 20 times. With that purpose, the magazine "Arctic Art & Culture" (published in two languages) is planned to be included in the list of scientific journals indexed in the international database Scopus (or Web of Science) simultaneously with the publication of articles in the journals "Sibirica", "Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia", "Europe-Asia Studies", etc. In that regard, it is necessary to increase the number of teachers employed in such joint projects as:

- Virtual Museum "Arctic Civilization" and the Electronic Archive based on the collections on the folklore, arts and crafts of the peoples of the North. Which were collected by the teachers of the institute from the 60s of the twentieth century. Audio and video recordings of disappearing aspects of native culture. These recordings have become a technology for adaptation to the extreme conditions of the North, and they will be introduced into the scientific and cultural circulations of the world. Digitization of the cultural heritage will be supported by partnerships of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Music Archive of Harvard University.

- Geocultural research and the brandings of the northern territories as a basis to build a strategy for their development, to introduce social and economic innovations that can transform the environment in certain locations. The Laboratory of Comprehensive Geocultural Research of the Arctic operating at ASICA was created in 2014 as part of project No. 14-38-00031 under a grant from the Russian Science Foundation. It was created in cooperation with the Institute for Humanitarian Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North (Yakutsk). It’s realization will get help from the Higher School of Urbanism based in the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), The Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), Univer of Turin (Italy).

- An interdisciplinary study of the history, development possibilities and strategies for the interaction of civilizations in the Arctic zone, based on interregional integration and Eurasian-American cooperation. These study’s partners are the Pitirim Sorokin-Nikolai Kondratieff International Institute (Moscow), faculty of the Liberal Arts and Sciences of the St. Petersburg State University, the Berkeley Center of the Georgetown University (DC, USA), the School of the Social Sciences of the University of Aberdeen (UK), the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland).

- Foundation of the Laboratory to study human capital in the North to research various aspects of the formation, protection and its use. The partners of the Laboratory are the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, St. Petersburg State University.

Research activities are supposed to be integrated with the regional authorities of the Russian Arctic, the Northern Forum, foundations and centers of Arctic research. Upcoming tasks will be realized by involving partners to ASICA’s scientific researches, by allowing ASICA’s teachers to take internships in worldwide research centers about Arctic, by cooperating with certain industrial partners (such as LLC Almazy Anabara, OJSC ALROSA and LLC Surgutneftegaz).

We invite you to discuss the possibilities of partnership within the framework of ASICA’s projects.

We’re reminding you that the conference is devoted to the discussion of the problems of modern linguistics, cognitive research, interlanguage and intercultural interaction, translation studies, as well as methods of teaching foreign languages.

For participants. from outside of Russia and the CIS countries,. the registration fee is .3,500 RUR..

For participants from Russia and the CIS countries, the registration fee is 2,500 RUR.

Each participant and their co-authors have to pay a registration fee.

Send your conference proposals and abstracts to: synergy@spbu.ru

The deadline

The deadline for registration of applicants is September 15, 2021.
Confirmation of acceptance - September 16, 2021.
Registration of applicants and payment - until September 20, 2021
The conference will take place on September 23-24, 2021.

Detailed information can be found on the conference website..

Best regards,

Program Committee of the III International Conference "Synergy of Languages and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Studies"
The head of the Panel is the Candidate of Historical Sciences in St. Petersburg State University,
Senior Researcher of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute — Kharlampieva Nadezhda Klimovna.
The moderator is Ph.D. in the St. Petersburg State University — Tyrheeva Nadezhda Sergeevna.

Distribution list:

Northern Forum - Working Group "Education"