Director of the Institute of Philosophy Anatoly Lazarevich and the staff took an active part in the fifth meeting of the conference "Transformations in Culture as a Consequence of Civilizational Choice: Philosophical and Ideological Aspects of Analysis", as well as in the fifth meeting of the philosophical and methodological seminar "Dialectics and Moral Self-Determination of Person". Participants could exchange views on socio-cultural issues, mechanisms of cultural, educational, social, moral and environmental transformations of modern society.