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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2011 4) 1153-1191 ~ ~ ~ УДК 009 Expert Seminar “Modern Humanities Knowledge and the Position of a Researcher as a Factor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Universities’ Integration into the Global Academic Space” (November 2, 2010) Natalya P. Koptseva* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia 1 Received 5.08.2011, received in revised form 12.08.2011, accepted 19.08.20111 Records of the Expert Seminar “Modern humanities knowledge and the position of a researcher as a factor of the Krasnoyarsk Krai universities’ integration into global academic space” that was held on November 2, 2010, at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies of the Institute for Humanities, Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk), present a discussion on the relevant problems of modern humanistic studies in Russia. The experts expressed their opinions on the relevance of the research problems defined both within specific fields of the humanities and those at the junction of philosophy, culture, psychology, philology, economics, etc. They also made proposals on future development directions of the modern humanities on the basis of universities in the Krasnoyarsk Krai and the opportunities of integrating science of Krasnoyarsk universities into global academic space. Keywords: humanities knowledge, scientific school, world academic science, subject of the humanities research, global transformations. The Expert Seminar was organised by in the Krasnoyarsk Krai based on the integration the Department of Arts and Culture Studies of of the humanistic scientific school into the world the SibFU Institute for Humanities within the community, development of the practice-oriented scientific project “Modern humanities knowledge programme of the humanistic studies related to and position of a researcher as a factor of the the needs of socio-economic development of the Krasnoyarsk Krai universities’ integration into Krasnoyarsk Krai. global academic space” supported by a grant from Objectives of the Expert Seminar: the Krasnoyarsk Krai Foundation for Support of 1) To analyse experience of universities in Research and Technology Activities in 2010. the Krasnoyarsk Krai by virtue of humanistic The goal of the Expert Seminar: development scientific schools’ work and their role in the world of innovations in the field of humanistic sciences of academic science. * Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] 1 © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved – 1153 – Natalya P. Koptseva. Expert Seminar “Modern Humanities Knowledge and the Position of a Researcher as a Factor… 2) To discuss problems and prospects of Galina Anatolyevna Kopnina, Head of formation and dynamics of a research position the Department of Philology of the Institute within the humanities studies. of Philology and Language Communication, 3) To examine the challenges and Candidate of Sciences in Philology, Associate opportunities for reproduction and development Professor. of subjects of the humanities studies under Pavel Andreyevich Mishagin, Postgraduate the conditions of global transformations and student at the Chair of Philosophy of Siberian integration of the Russian humanities into the State Technological University. world context. Yury Nikolayevich Moskvich, Director 4) To analyse the processes of social and of the Centre for Strategic Forecasting and cultural reproduction of the study subjects under Development Programmes of Krasnoyarsk the conditions of a globalized environment and State Pedagogical University named after V. P. the expansion of foreign-cultural approaches, Astafyev. methods and techniques. Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Gromyko, 5) To suggest visual models showing the Senior Lecturer of the Chair of Artificial position of a researcher in different humanistic Intelligence Systems, Head of the scientific and fields, models developed at the junction of the educational laboratory “Information Law” of humanities and natural sciences, humanities and the SibFU Institute of Space and Information engineering sciences. Technology. The target audience of the Seminar are Valentin Gennadyevich Nemirovsky, scientists, researchers in the field of humanities, Head of the Department of Sociology and Public university teaching staff, Ph.D. students. Relations of the SibFU Institute of Psychology, The Expert Seminar was held in the form of Pedagogy and Sociology, Doctor of Sciences in a focus-group discussion. Sociology, Professor. Participants of the Seminar: Anna Valentinovna Nemirovskaya, Natalia Petrovna Koptseva, Doctor of Candidate of Sciences in Sociology, Associate Sciences in Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Professor of the Chair of Sociology of the Chair of Culture Studies, Dean of the Department SibFU Institute of Psychology, Pedagogy and of Arts and Culture Studies at the SibFU Institute Sociology. for the Humanities. Elena Nikolayevna Viktoruk, Doctor Irina Anatolyevna Panteleyeva, of Sciences in Philosophy, Professor, Head Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate of the Chair of Philosophy of Siberian State Professor of the Chair of Advertising and Technological University. Socio-cultural Activities of the Department of Elena Yuryevna Khudonogova, Head of the Arts and Culture Studies at the SibFU Institute Chair of World Art Culture and Social Sciences for the Humanities, Head of the Creative and of Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute. Scientific Activities Office of Krasnoyarsk Aleksandra Sergeyevna Chernyaeva, State Art Institute. Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Liudmila Viktorovna Kulikova, Director Professor of the Chair of Philosophy of Siberian of the Institute of Philology and Language State Technological University. Communication, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Ivan Alekseyevich Pfanenshtil, Doctor of Professor. Sciences in Philosophy, Professor, Head of the – 1154 – Natalya P. Koptseva. Expert Seminar “Modern Humanities Knowledge and the Position of a Researcher as a Factor… Department of History and Philosophy, Head of Chair of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Siberian the Chair of Philosophy of the SibFU Institute of State Aerospace University. Core Undergraduate Programmes. Irina Petrovna Tsvelyukh, Head of the Viktoriya Leonidovna Pfanenshtil, Research Department of Krasnoyarsk State Ph.D. student of the Chair of Philosophy at Pedagogical University named after V.P. the SibFU Institute of Core Undergraduate Astafyev. Programmes. Natalia Sergeyevna Dureyeva, Associate Svetlana Anatolyevna Yarovenko, Professor of the Chair of Philosophy, SibFU Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Institute of Core Undergraduate Programmes. Professor of the Chair of Philosophy of Siberian Svetlana Anatolyevna Yarovenko, State Technological University. Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Nikolay Mefodyevich Churinov, Doctor of Professor of the Chair of Philosophy, Siberian Sciences in Philosophy, Professor, Head of the State Technological University. N.P. Koptseva: Good afternoon, dear experts! Welcome to our first meeting of the Expert Seminar. We think that the topic of the Seminar “Modern humanities knowledge and the position of a researcher as a factor of the Krasnoyarsk Krai universities’ integration into global academic space” is important and necessary for the scientists of the Krasnoyarsk Krai universities. We consider the format of today’s seminar as an expert discussion. We would like to hear opinions of our distinguished colleagues on the issues presented here. The records of today’s seminar will be published in the Journal of Siberian Federal University, in the “Humanities” series. I would like to identify the problems of the situation: the 21st century is coming and Russian scientists set themselves tasks that imply not only carrying out major research, but also presenting their research in the global academic community. And here, in my opinion, we get into a very interesting situation. I support the opinion stating that many research works of our local scientists without a doubt possess international status a priori. We can name such scientific disciplines where Russian scientists are the founders of these disciplines, new methods, new techniques and new approaches but, on the other hand, it is just as obvious that, for some unknown reasons, the level of representation of Russian research works in the world of science is negligible, and what concerns humanities, we are often accused of failure, negative results, etc. And now you see that we called our Seminar “the position of a researcher”, we believe that it is not so much about the shortcomings of our research, our methods and approaches, as it is about this way of presenting our research in the world academic community. And this is what I would like to discuss with you today. Because we receive a number of documents for participation in the federal target programmes, grant programmes both on national and international levels. And they have certain parameters according to which our scientists have to carry out their activities. And we see that the parameters according to which we are proposed to carry out our activities puzzle so many of our distinguished researchers, i.e. they believe that according to these parameters they have a zero result. It seems to be not true. In many ways we can talk here about the reorientation of presenting the results of our research. What do you think? It leads to creation of a whole science studied by professionals, including scientists of Siberian