Associate Professors of the Department of Russian Language and Literature Nataliia Shlemova and Elena Kanishcheva took part in the 5th International Scientific Conference "Visual Anthropology-2024. Cultural Heritage as an Urban Driver".
The scientific event, organized by the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, brought together about 180 philosophers, cultural scientists, philologists, sociologists, and anthropologists from different cities across Russia, as well as from Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and Serbia.
The conference was devoted to the issues of interdisciplinary studies of a city as a complex dynamic system of visual signs expressing cultural and anthropological meanings, as well as local identity and practices influencing its formation. The work of 8 sections was organized, which considered issues of positioning a historical city, screen presentations of local identity, theory and practice of urban anthropology. Leading experts in urban studies in the humanities gave their presentations: D. Zamyatin (School of Economics, Moscow) "Heritage and Urban Space: From Visual Landscapes to Geocultural Branding of the City", S. Avanesov (Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod) on issues of national and cultural identity formed on the basis of urban views, M. Lurye (European University at St. Petersburg, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) on images of industrial paternalism in Russian single-industry towns, and many others.
Philologists from the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities presented the interim results of a study supported by the grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 24-28-20286 "The Image of Chelyabinsk in Narratives of Artists: Digital Tools for Reading Urban Texts"). Nataliia Shlemova and Elena Kanishcheva spoke at the "Urban Anthropology: Theory and Practice" section with their reports on the features of the formation of the image of Chelyabinsk in narratives of artists and on digital forms of representation of the symbolic codes of the city.