UNESCO Philosophy Day in Central Asia Report

23 November 2004

UNESCO Philosophy Day celebration in Central Asia took place in Dushanbe at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Tajik Academy of Sciences. Three representatives Professor Mansur Bekmuradov, Vice-Director of Tashkent Institute of Culture from Uzbekistan,, Professor Erkaim Zhorabekova, Chairperson of UNESCO Chair “Intercultural Dialogue and Democracy in Polyethnic Society” of Osh University from Kyrgyzstan and Professor Zhakhan Moldabekov, Chairperson, Doctor of Philosophy, Chair of History of Philosophy and Culturology, Kazakh National University after Al-Farabi from Kazakhstan were invited to participate in the event.

The audience included both senior and junior philosophers. The topic of the round table was “Place of Philosophy in the dialogue of civilizations”.