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Dimensions of social life: anthropological perspectives on social relations and culture.

MAE RAN, St Petersburg, Russia
October 28-30, 2013

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The exhibition “In the Mirror of Time: Dialogue of Cultures in the Russian world” was working on board of the ship “Rimsky-Korsakov” as part of the expedition “Slavic course — 2012” (Khanty-Mansiysk — Salekhard — Omsk, 20.06.2012 — 05.07.2012, expedition head — Ekaterina Lonshakova) organized by the Society of Russian Culture (Surgut) due to the support of the Government of Khanty-Mansy Autonomous Area – Yugra and with the assistance of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) Russian Academy of Sciences. A traveling exhibition crossed from north to south almost the whole of Russia.

On May, 17^th, 2012, a regular session of the seminar titled “Scientia Kunstkameras” took place in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS. Dr. Willem Mulder, a specialist in the 17^th-18^th-century medicine from the Netherlands, read his paper titled “Frederik Ruysch – a phenomena”.

On March 9, 2012 the Russian Cultural Center in Ljubljana (Slovenia) held the opening of the exhibition titled "In the Mirrors of Time. Peoples of Russia through the Eyes of Photographers at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries (from the Collections of St. Petersburg Kunstkamera)" in the city of Maribor (Slovenia) during the festival "Maribor 2012. European Capital of Culture".

On October 8, 2011 the exhibition project «In the Mirrors of Times: Dialogue of Cultures in the “Russian World”» was presented within the frames of the XI Annual Session of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations"  (Rhodes, Greece).