April 11 - 12, 2023 Conference "The nature and characteristics of multiculturalism in the context of the crisis of world civilization and the high speed of information exchange"

On April 11 – 12, 2023, the All-Russian Scientific and Research Conference “The Nature and Features of Multiculturalism in the Conditions of the Crisis of World Civilization and the High Speed of Information Exchange” was held at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at which about 60 reports were presented. The organizer of the conference is the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the research program "Diversity".ment as a phenomenon of the politics of memory".

Range of issues open for discussion:
• multiculturalism in the countries of the East
• new tools for understanding multi-layered images of the world
• thematic diversity of the latest multiculturalism
• inadequacy of benevolent multiculturalism in regulating the attitude of Western autochthons towards Eastern migrants
• the value necessity of a planetary approach to multiculturalism
• multicultural ideas about the broad horizons of the future
• verbal, visual, auditory, and musical aspects of multiculturalism
• multicultural consonances and conjugations in different genres of art
• visualization of multidimensional relationships to the world: cartoons, anime, clips
• difficulties in verifying new cultural realities, and artificial mechanisms of manipulation
• prospects for connecting the Internet of Things with inanimate nature
• new hybrid inter-civilizational interdependence
• regional identity of the current multicultural network spaces
• situational connection and disunity in a multicultural environment
• forms of communicative network individualization and reformatting of micro communities according to interests
• tablet smart classrooms and the multiculturalism of school networks in the Middle East
• intercultural realities in automated translation and their expert editing by language connoisseurs
• Eastern psychosomatics, neuroplasticity, and models of self-knowledge in digitalized multidimensional medicine.

The conference was attended by the head of the "North-South" group of the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Neklessa in the work of the section “Complex problems of perception of the planetary nature of common being”, where he presented the report “Three globes of the Oikumene. The evolutionary trajectory of the anthropological cosmos”, answered questions and took part in the discussion that unfolded on the report.