On September 8, 2022, at 10.00, the 12th annual scientific conference «Traditions and current state of culture and arts».

The purpose of the conference is to discuss the role of scientific research in the field of architecture, fine and decorative arts, theater studies, music, photography, cinema, screen arts in solving urgent problems of the modern culture; discussion of topical problems in the study of the ethno-cultural traditions, folklore, anthropology; search for systematic approaches to solving urgent problems of preserving national cultures and historical and cultural heritage in the context of globalization.

The organizers of the conference are the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, State Scientific Institution «Center for Research of Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus» (branch of the « K. Krapiva Institute of Art History, Ethnography and Folklore of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus»).

Leading specialists from the Republic of Belarus and the CIS countries – the Russian Federation and the Republic of Azerbaijan are invited to participate in the conference. Scholars from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the V.V.Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language of the RAS, Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS, Institute of Philosophy and Law SB of the RAS, Ganja Branch of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg State University, Pskov State University, Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, St. Petersburg University of Industrial Technologies and Design, M. E. Evseviev Mordovian State Pedagogical University, Orenburg State University, Far Eastern Federal University, N. P. Ogarev Mordovia State University, Lipetsk State Technical University, Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, Kemerovo State Institute of Culture, Khakassian Research Institute of Language, Literature and History, Kemerovo State Institute of Culture, L. N. Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University and others.