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:

— Виртуальный музей «Арктическая цивилизация» и Электронный архив на основе коллекций по нарративному, музыкальному, танцевальному фольклору и декоративно-прикладному искусству народов Севера, собранных преподавателями института, начиная с 60-ых годов ХХ века. Аутентичные аудио- и видеозаписи исчезающих пластов культуры, ставших технологией адаптации к экстремальным условиям Севера, будут введены в мировой научный и культурный оборот. Партнерами по цифровизации культурного наследия являются Национальная библиотека Республики Саха (Якутия), Музыкальный архив Гарвардского университета.

— Геокультурные исследования и брендинг северных территорий как основа для выстраивания стратегии их развития, внедрения социальных и экономических инноваций, способных преобразовать среду в конкретном селе, городе, районе. Действующая в АГИКИ Лаборатория комплексных геокультурных исследований Арктики была создана совместно с Институтом гуманитарных исследований и проблем малочисленных народов Севера СО РАН (г. Якутск) в 2014 году в рамках выполнения проекта № 14-38-00031 по гранту Российского научного фонда. Данное направление будет реализовано совместно с Высшей школой урбанистики Высшей школы экономики (г. Москва), Международной лабораторией исследований воображения Севера, зимы и Арктики Университета Квебека в Монреале (Канада), Университетом Турина (Италия).

- 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"