On January 25, 2022, at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Theological Faculty, a roundtable discussi0on took place on “From abstract knowledge to the intuition of universality. Semyon Frank’s ‘Subject of Knowledge’ in the context of the reception and representation of epistemological ideas”. The event was part of the winter session of STOUH’s 32nd Annual Theological Conference.
On January 22, 2022, as part of the 32nd Annual Theological Conference at Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of the Humanities (STOUH), a Section in Germanic Languages was held by the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology of the Faculty of History and Philology, chaired by department head Dr. Lev Pisarev.
On January 20, 2022, as part of the 32nd Annual Theological Conference at Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of the Humanities (STOUH), Very Rev. Dr. Oleg Davydenkov, Head of Department of Eastern Christian Philology and Eastern Churches at STOUH, chaired a conference section on “History and Literature of the Christian East”.
The section took place from January 21–22 in STOUH’s conference hall in a hybrid format. All in all, 23 talks were given by scholars from Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov Veliky) and other countries (Germany, Greece, China, and Armenia).
On December 28–29, 2020, virtual sessions of an Orthodox Open Seminar organized by the German Diocese of the Russian Church Abroad were held.
From December 13–23, 2021, Prof. Maria Desiatova and lecturer Aleksandra Dykan were involved in holding in the Second Online School of Russian as a Foreign Language for students of the Catholic University of Milan.
On 29 th November 2021, the III International Festival “An Epoch in Miniature. Dante and His Path in the World Culture” in the Cathedral Chamber of the St. Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities was closed. In the year of the 700 th anniversary year of the death of Dante Alighieri, “An Epoch in Miniature” Festival was dedicated to the heritage of the great Italian poet.
4-5 November 2021 Bibilioteca Agustiniana (Buenos Aires, Argentina) hosted the VII International Patristics Conference "“Mulier, quid ploras?” (Jn 20.15). Imágenes y lecturas de lo femenino en los padres de la Iglesia".
27 October 2021, the Cathedral Chamber held the solemn opening of the III International Festival “An Epoch in Miniature”, which this year is dedicated to the legacy of Dante Alighieri.
On 26 October 2021, Irina Redkova, an Associate Professor of the General History Department of the History and Philology Faculty of PSTGU, spoke with the report «Medieval City in Latin Theology of the XII Century» at a meeting of the Medieval Seminar arranged by Ksenia Alexandrova at the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology.
27 October – 29 November 2021 the III International Festival “An Epoch in Miniature. Dante and His Path in the World Culture” will take place in Moscow, in the Cathedral Chamber of the St. Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities (Likhov lane, 6). In the year of the 700 th anniversary year of the death of Dante Alighieri, “An Epoch in Miniature” Festival is dedicated to the heritage of the great Italian poet.
On 25 October 2021, the first meeting in a long time within the framework of the PSTGU International Friendship Club Russia-Georgia took place at the St. Tikhon's Orthodox University. The guests of the club were employees, professors, students of the Faculty of Church Arts, students from Italy, as well as the president of the Georgian club MGIMO Levan Bachilava.
From 21 to 23 October 2021 the International Specialized Exhibition on Conservation, Restoration and Popularization of cultural heritage “denkmal Russia-Moscow” took place in Moscow Gostiny Dvor under the patronage of UNESCO, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Government of Moscow.
Professor of the Faculty of Church Arts Yuri Savelyev visited the capital of Bulgaria in October 2021 in connection with the work on a scientific grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research No. 19-012-00330 “History of the creation of the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia and its architect A. Pomerantsev.” Thanks to the assistance of Bulgarian colleagues, during stay in Sofia, for the first time it became possible to get acquainted with the unique archive on the creation of the cathedral and private archives. Moreover, there were meetings with colleagues from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridskiand some lectures were given.
On October 11-12, 2021 the III International Scientific and Practical Conference “Art Pedagogy and Art Psychology in the Age of Innovations” was held remotely, organized by the Moscow State Institute of Culture as part of the All-Russian Science Festival.
After restrictions on the distribution of Сovid-19, the University is readmitting foreign students. As part of the Exchange Programme between PSTGU and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), four Italian students will attend the courses this semester.
The International online conference “Storia ed Architettura del complesso monumentale della Chiesa Russa di Bari” was held on September 17, 2021. The event was organized by the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), which has been an official partner of PSTGU since 2020.
On September 6-9, 2021 the International Colloquium on Medieval Studies was held, an arrangement of which St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University takes part for the third time.
32 researchers from 10 different countries took part in the conference. Some of them were PSTGU employees; such as the Archpriest Pavel Khondzinskii and Natalia Vaganova, who presented their reports among the 12 main reports of the conference.