The proceedings bring together papers and articles presented at the All-Russian Research Conference with International Participation ‘Facets of Culture in the Age of Social Transition’, which took place in Yekaterinburg, March 23–24, 2018, at the Department of Art History and Socio-Cultural Technologies (Ural Institute of Humanities of the Ural Federal University). Among the participants of the conference were authors from Russia, Hungary, and China, with the widely distributed geography: Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Saint-Petersburg, Budapest, Skan, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Omsk, Samara, Chelyabinsk, etc. Among the authors were researchers and academic authors, professors of Russian and foreign universities, as well as postgraduate students and master’s students of Ural Federal University.

Conference topics: The conference consists of five sections presenting a variety of approaches to cultural research, including historical as well as contemporary aspects. Both the conference and the resulting collection of articles highlight the dialogue between the cultural worlds: Russia – East–West; the constants and the transitions in the evolution of Russian culture in the XXth and XXIst centuries; state cultural policy and the development of ethnic and regional cultures; cultural diversity in the era of globalization and mediatization; culture and education.

Conference date: 23–24 March 2018
Location: Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation 
Editor: Kirillova Natalia Borisovna – Doctor of cultural studies, professor Ural Federal University, Russia Federation
Organizer: Department of Art History and Socio-Cultural Technologies, Ural Institute of Humanities of the Ural Federal University
Sponsors: Ural Federal University and Ural Institute of Humanities
Published: 23 December 2018
ISSN: 2518-6841