The International Scientific Conference in Cultural Studies will be held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 16-19  March, 2016, hosted by Ural Federal University - named after the First President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin - and Yekaterinburg History Museum.

International Conference organized by:

• Center of Cultural Studies Teaching in Technical Universities in Russian Federation
• Cultural Studies and Design Department (Ural Federal University)
• Yekaterinburg History Museum
• The scientific group of Ural Federal University “Open City: from theoretical issues towards innovative projecting” 

The event is open to all topics related to Cultural Studies and includes some session formats:

1. International Scientific Conference “Communicative Reality of Postmodernity: Challenges and Perspectives”
2. Youth International Scientific Conference “Open City as a Space of Contacts: Economy, Communication, Design”
3. Workshop “The role of museum in the contemporary urban communications”
4. Art exhibition “Yekaterinburg and its suburbs”
5. Scientific Conference “Folklife Culture in the ХХI century: Outcomes and Perspectives”

The conference committee also invites papers related to the following themes:

1. Ethical aspects of communicative reality
2. The role of visual communication in the cultural practices
3. The updated realias of intercultural communications
4. Urban culture in the context of intercultural communications

All submissions will be reviewed and volume will be published. There is no registration fee. Participants themselves will cover their own round-trip travel expenses and accommodation.

Scientists, postgraduate students, candidates, students (in co-authorship with scientific advisers), as well as any specialists interested in the problem described, are invited to take part in the conference.

If you are interested in participating in the international academic conference, please submit your application by 10th of February, 2016 via email to [email protected] or [email protected]

Conference languages: Russian, English

The application should include the following information:

• the title of the proposed paper;
• an  extended  abstract consists of 3000 characters;
• personal contact details (full name, job title, institutional affiliation, current position, postal address, contact phone, fax, and e-mail address).

Ural Federal University

Russia, Yekaterinburg,

Mira St. 19.

Contacts: [email protected] or [email protected]

+7-343 375-93-24