On February 5, 2023 at 14:00 in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus within the framework of the project of the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus The Science of Art and the Art of Science will be held the opening of a series of lectures by senior researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Irina Dubyanetskaya on the topic Ethnophilosophy and Belarusian Cultural Codes. The series of lectures will focus on the Belarusian traditional view of the world, its inner meanings and connections, a new science – ethnophilosophy, which explores, (re)constructs and interprets them.

Belarusian ethnophilosophy works with the traditional worldview of Belarusians reflected in numerous folklore records, explores multilevel systems of connections of various elements of national culture, examines the Belarusian world order in its internal logic, integrity and multidimensionality, and also reveals the organic connection of Belarusian and other cultural traditions. Modern ethnophilosophical studies systematize the elements of the Belarusian worldview corresponding to various spheres of life and thinking of traditional society, dividing them into several stable themes.

The first lecture in the series is devoted to the topic The Traditional Worldview of Belarusians and Ethnophilosophy as a Self-Reflection of Belarusian Culture.
Participants will be invited to:
get acquainted with the unique project of the Institute of Philosophy Belarusian Ethnophilosophy in the System of Culture, its goals and objectives;
consider the features of this approach, to get acquainted with how ethnophilosophy explores and systematizes the whole complex of ideas about the world of the traditional community (in our case, the Belarusian one), reconstructs and comprehends the spiritual and intellectual space of Belarusians;
look at the Belarusian traditional culture in a temporal and spatial context, to learn about the aesthetic and scientific value of the Belarusian folklore material, to reveal the meaning, place and functions of traditional culture in the modern high-tech world;
get acquainted with the first fruits of the academic project of ethnophilosophical research on the example of the book Трошкі бліжэй да Сонца, трошкі далей ад Месяца: беларуская народная філасофія / Т. В. Валодзіна [і інш.] ; уклад. і агул. рэд.: І. М. Дубянецкая, С. І. Санько ; Нац. акад. навук Беларусі, Ін-т філасофіі. – Мінск : Беларуская навука, 2021. – 481 с.

Pre-registration is not required. You can attend a lecture with an entrance ticket to the main building of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus at 20 Lenin Street, Minsk.

For any questions concerning the project, you can contact the curator — Doronina Svetlana Gennadievna by phone: +375 25 978-90-74 or e-mail: svetadoris@mail.ru