PROGRAMME
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
«DIALOGUE OF CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
IN CONDITIONS OF GLOBALIZATION»
October 25th-27th, 2007

Venue:

Minsk Diocesan Administration,

Minsk, Osvobozhdeniya-St., 10

Tel.: +375 (17) 209 42 99

Length of addresses:

- reports: up to15 minutes,

- greeting words: up to 5 minutes

Working languages:

Russian, English

(simultaneous interpretation)

Minsk 2007

October 25th 2007, Thursday

15:00 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

• opening address of Metropolitan of Minsk and Sluzk Philaret, Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus

• greetings of guests and participants of the conference

• reports:

- Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazada, Chairman of Administration of the Muslims in Caucasus, co-chairman of Interreligious Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Azerbaijan)

- Archbishop-Metropolitan of Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar (Serbia)

- Andrey Danilov, professor, director of Institute for Religious Dialogue and Interconfessional Communications by Synod of Belarusian Orthodox Church

- Mireille Musso, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Belarus

18:00 closing of the first working day

October 26th 2007, Friday

79:30-10:45 working session

Theme of the session: Dialogue of Christianity and Islam: theory, theology, limits

• reports:

- El-Vadia Ibrahim Mustafa, head of Palestinian Community in Belarus (Belarus)

- Bishop Antony Demyanko, Apostolic Administrator of Minsk and Mogilev Archdiocese, Secretary of Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Belarus (Belarus)

- Taivan Leon, head of the chair for Asian studies of the department for modern languages, University of Riga (Latvia)

- Sinasi Gunduz, professor, head of the chair for philosophy and religious studies, Istanbul University (Turkey)

- Kanapatsky Mustafa, member of the Board of Muslim Religious Union in the Republic of Belarus (Belarus)

11:10-12:30 working session

Theme of the session: Dialogue of Christianity and Islam in conditions of globalization: role of dialogue, understanding of globalization, image of religions

• reports:

- Msgr Khaled B.Akasheh, head officer for Islam, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (Vatican)

- Joseph Ellul, o.p., professor at the Pontifical University San Tommaso d’Aquino (Angelicum) in Rome (Italy)

- Abdalla M. Almagravi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of People’s Bureau of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to Belarus

- Filonenko Alexander, associate professor of Department of Philosophy of Kharkov National University (Ukraine)

- Levin Leonid, Chairman of Union of Belarusian Jewish Organizations and Communities (Belarus)

- Alexandrovich Elena, post-graduate student at Institute of History of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)

Summing up of the session

15:00 -16:15 working session

Theme of the session: Dialogue of Christianity and Islam in conditions of globalization: obstacles, possibilities, religious self-consciousness

• reports:

- Harry Norris, professor, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (Great Britain)

- Olyunin Sergey, head of the department of document examination and acknowledgment of National Institute of Higher Education (Belarus)

- Loy Irina, master of arts (Belarus)

Theme of the session: History of Christian-Muslim Dialogue:

Europe and Asia

• reports:

- Maximov Yury, lecturer of Moscow Theological Academy (Russia)

- Yugai Irina, head of the chair for oriental studies and international relations of Ural Academy of Labour and Social Relations (Kazakhstan)

- Risto Cantell, Executive Director of the Department for International Relations of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Finland)

16:40-18:00 continuation of the session.

Theme of the session: History of Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Belarus

• reports:

- Kanapatskaya Zorina, associate professor of Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after M.Tank

- Odinochenko Viktor, associate professor of the chair for Belarusian culture of Gomel State University named after F.Scoryna

- Priest Alexander Shimbalev, senior lecturer of Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after M.Tank

- Synkova Irina, staff of the department of rare books of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)

Summing up of the session

18:15 departure for Belarusian State Concert Hall

19:30-21:00 concert of spiritual and classical music «Voices of Creation»

October 27th 2007, Saturday

8:00-8:45 breakfast at the hotel for nonresident participants of the conference

9:00 departure from the hotel

9:30-11:00 working session

Theme of the session: Fundamentalism, radicalism and violations of human rights in religious context

• reports:

- Arjakovsky Antoine, director of Institute of Ecumenical Studies (Ukraine)

- Korotkaya Tatiana, professor, leading researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)

- Ruppert Rolf-Diter, President of German-Belarusian House (Germany)

- Ageyenkova Catherine, associate professor of the chair for psychology of the department of philosophy and social sciences in Belarusian State University (Belarus)

- Sheveleva Marina, associate professor of the chair for international relations of the department of international relations in Belarusian State University (Belarus)

11:10 -12:30 ROUND TABLE: Violence and terrorism under the mask of religion in conditions of globalization

12:30 -12:45 summing up of the conference

13:20 –15:30 sightseeing in the city-centre, visit to the churches

October 28th 2007, Sunday

8:00-9:00 breakfast in the hotel for nonresident participants of the conference

DEPARTURES

Accommodation of the participants:

• hotel «Oktyabrskaya»:

Engelsa St., 13,

Tel. +375 017 222 32 89

(subway station «Oktyabrskaya»)

• hotel «Europe»,

Internacionalnaya St., 28

Tel.: +375 017 229 83 33

(subway station «Oktyabrskaya»)

• hotel «Minsk»,

Pr-kt Nezavisimosti, 11

Tel.: +375 017 209 90 78

(subway station “Ploshad Lenina”)

Organizational committee:

IPA «Saints’ Methodius and Cyrill Christian

Educational Centre»

Pr-kt Nezavisimosti, 24, Minsk

Tel: +375 172 27 75 28

+375 29 329 98 76 (Dmitry Shilo)

+375 29 575 96 96 (Katherine Pastukhova)

+375 29 669 08 25 (Vladimir Pikoulik)