1. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

Welcome Speech

2. Alexei Gloukhov, CSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Main kinds of speech in the classical philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

3. Konstantin Shevtsov, DSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Socrates and the Golden Age

4. Irina Aleksandrovna Protopopova, CSc in Culturology, Associate Professor; Platonic Research Center (Moscow, Russia), Head; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Socrates as ‘Essence’ and ‘Method’: An Elenchos, Aporia and Transcendence

5. Marina Volf, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Director

The Hypothetical Method in Plato: Is a Discussion Useful? 

1. Stefano Petrucciani, CSc in Philosophy, Professor; University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (Rome, Italy), Professor

The speech of Trasymachus and the question of political realism

2. Stefano Maria Capilupi, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Italian studies department; University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (Rome, Italy), Subject Expert at the Chair of Political Philosophy; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor of Philosophy of Institute for the Humanities

Trust in the Word as a Political and Pedagogical Path to Happiness, from Gorgias to Plato

3. Sergey Smirnov, DSc in Philosophy; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Leading Researcher

Autobiorgaphy in the Antiquity: Between Philosophy and Rhetoric. Origins of the Genre

4. Pavel Likhter, CSc in Law; Penza State University (Penza, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato’s concept of functional justice as an instrument of social stability

5. Elena Lisanyuk, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Plato vs Aristotle on deliberative argumentation

6. Lilia Leonidovna Castle, PhD, Professor; Chaminade University of Honolulu (Honolulu, HI, United States of America), Professor

Plato’s Dialogues as Educational Practice

7. Inna Romanenko, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The Formation of a New Lifestyle in the Hellenistic Paideia

8. Eugene Miroshnichenko; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Could Philosopher be addicted to Rhetoric: the Letter of Synesius of Cyrene to Hypatia about Rhetoric and Philosophy (Ep. 154)

1. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Independent scholar

The Rhetorical Intention in Plato’s Lysis

2. Irina Mochalova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Socrates in the “Apology” of Plato, or as Plato defended Socrates

3. Maria Solopova, CSc in Philosophy; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Socrates’ remark in Theaet. 174e5-175b4 and genealogy catalogues in the 5th century BC

4. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

Rhetoric in Theaetetus

5. Rostislav Dyomin; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Socrates and Zou Yan as meteorosophists

6. Alexei Romanov, Independent scholar

The Poetics of Katharsis in the Palinode of Socrates (Phaedrus, 245c ff.)

7. Elena Alymova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Socrateses of Apuleius

8. Svetlana Karavaeva , CSc in Philosophy; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Rabelais’ interpretation of Socrates the Silenus

9. Alexei Garadja; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

On the Problems of Gnostic Nomenclature

10. Alexander Rychkov, Independent scholar

Plato in the reflection of the early Christian Gnostics

11. Sergey Slobodkovsky; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Socrates is an actor, or how to write a tragedy correctly

1. Sergey Nikonenko, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The Language of Poetry in The Republic  

2. Alexander Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato, Orators and the Early Greek Writers (On Juxtapositions in the Treatise of Dionysius of Halicarnassus A Letter to Pompeius)

3. Vitaly Ivanov, Independent scholar

Interpretations of the first philosophy in Neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle

4. Dmitry Goncharko, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Women Philosophers and Women Rhetoricians in the History of the Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philosophy: from Diotima of Mantinea to Athenais of Athens

5. Igor Zaitsev, CSc in Philosophy; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

To Follow The Fate or The Law: Socrates As a Character in The Tragedy

6. Marina Egorowa; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Plato on the nature of rhetoric in the dialogues “Phaedrus” and “Gorgias”: a comparative analysis

7. Fedor Shcherbakov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Rhetoric of Allegory in the Neo-Stoic school (in the examples of Cornutus’, Heraclitus the Grammarian’s, and Hierocles the Stoic’s works)

1. Taras Shiyan, CSc in Philosophy; Foundation for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

The concept of division of labor as the basis of thinking and argumentation in Plato's "Politeia"

2. Andrej Mozhajsky, CSc in History; Institute for strategy of education development (Moscow, Russia), senior researcher

City in Late Antiquity: the reception of classical ideas in a new reality

3. Sergey Troitskiy, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Platonopolis: Space as a Rhetorical Subject

4. Anna Afonasina, CSc in Philosophy; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Ideal religion for an ideal state

5. Konstantin Shurunov; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Taliban - the regime based on principles of Plato's Republic

6. Valentine Cherednikov, CSc in Philosophy, Independent scholar

The philosophy of dandy: sophistes and platonists

7. Victoria Pichugina, DSc in Pedagogy, Associate Professor; Institute for strategy of education development (Moscow, Russia), Leading Researcher

Plato and Cicero vs Homer: Can a city be brought up on theater poetry?

1. Vadim Mursky, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Thales und Parmenides über den Gegensatz von Leben und Tod, von Sein und Nichtsein

2. Gleb Sergeevich Zemlyakov; St Alexius College of humanitarian and socio-pedagogical disciplines (Tolyatti, Russia), The teacher

Journey to the end of the world as a traditional epic plot in Parmenides' poetics

3. Nikita Minyuk; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Justice: Plato vs. Aristotle?

4. Dmitry Kovalev; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Interpretation of Plato's approach to ideas

5. Aleksandr Grigorevich Tarabanov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Master degree student in Philosophy

Justice and Rhetoric in the dialogue of Plato "Gorgias"

6. Valeria Udalova ; Pushkin Leningrad State University (Vyborg Institute) (Vyborg, Russia), Lecturer

The Existence of Thought in the Dialectical Socrates’ Method.

7. Pavel Fedotov; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Place of idyll in the rhetorical horizon of Plato’s dialogues

8. Igor Nikolaevich Shtembeliuk; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Plotinus on the method of ascent to the One

9. Ruslan Mazaev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Second Sophisty’s Influence on the rhetoric of Christian apologists of the 2nd century

10. Daria Sergeevna Zaikina; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Alisher Khamidov; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Socratic Dialogue in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

11. Anna Khakhalova; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Independent scholar

The Body of Word in Socrates and Gorgias

1. Oksana Goncharko, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Aporia statements and self-contradictions from Parmenides to Theodoros Prodromos

2. Michael Prasolov, DSc in Philosophy; Voronezh Theological Seminary (Voronezh, Russia), prorector

Hypothetical Logoi of Dionysius the Areopagite

3. Igor Khmara; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Concepts of time and eternity in Plotinus' and Cappadocian Fathers' works

4. Nadezhda Gaevskaya; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), undergraduate

The Cynical Life of Tatian the Assyrian as a Source of Information About Early Holy Fools

5. Eugene Anatolievich Makovetsky, DSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The origin of force from force, expressed in the metaphors of radiance, vapor, breath, heat

6. Konstantin Bandurovsky, CSc in Philosophy, Independent scholar

The Transformation of School Rhetoric in Augustine’s Cassiciac Dialogues

7. Oleg Nogovitsin; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Physics and Christology in dogmatic polemic of the first half of the 6th century: the sun as an example of unique composite nature in the dispute between Monophysites and Diophysites on the nature of Christ  

1. Larisa Tonoyan, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

St. John of Damascus: logic and rhetoric

2. Andrey Kurbanov, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Lydia Spyridonova, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Neoplatonic tradition in Theodore Prodromos’ commentary on the Posterior Analytics

3. Oksana Goncharko, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

From Parmenides to M.Karagatsis – Why must Truth be a circle?

4. Lydia Spyridonova, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Andrey Kurbanov, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Theaetetus 156a as a guide for court encomiast: Michael Psellos’ letter to Nicholaos Skleros

5. Dmitri Chernoglazov, CSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

11th c. Byzantine neoplatonist: some notes on the new critical edition of Michael Psellos’ letters

6. Elena Chelnokova, DSc in Philosophy; Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

The influence of Plato's philosophy on the anthropology of Saint Gregory of Nyssa

7. Timur Shchukin; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Apostle Paul vs. Plato and Aristotle: 'Viae dux' by Anastasius of Sinai as an antiphilosophical project

8. Maxim Prikhodko, CSc in Philosophy; The Parish of St. Nicolas Russian Orthodox Church (Seville, Spain), priest

Philo of Alexandria on laughter: between allegory and reality

9. Oleg Kuliev, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

On the humorous in the exegetic of Origen of Alexandria

10. Dmitri Chernoglazov, CSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Platonic and Lucianic dialogue in Theodore Prodromos’ oeuvre

11. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Humorous passages of Plato’s dialogues in the commentaries of Proclus Lycaeus

1. Valery Vorobyev, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Ethos, pathos and logos in a historical perspective

2. Rano Safiulina, CSc in Philology; Moscow Financial and Industrial University “Synergy” (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Iris Murdoch, Oxford University Philosophy Professor and novelist, on Plato as a critic of literature

3. Oleg Albertovich Donskikh, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (Novosibirsk, Russia), Head of Department; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Professor

Creation of Philosophy as the Literary-Scientific Genre (from Homer to Plato)

4. Alexander Shevtsov, DSc in Psychology, Professor, Independent scholar

Rhetoric of a fairy tale

5. Timur Murmanovich Artemev, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

How to Master Oratory Excellence

6. George Tigranovich Khubyan; Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (Dnepr, Ukraine), Student

Rhetoric in Elizabethan drama in the tragedy “Tamburlaine the Great” by Christopher Marlowe and "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare

7. Marina Grishunina; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Student

Plato's "Myth of the Cave" in the сontext of George Orwell's "1984": towards the truth. 

1. Igor Evlampiev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The concepts of “order” and “chaos” in ancient Greek thinking and in modern philosophy and science

2. Farida Tagirovna Akhunzianova, CSc in Culturology, Associate Professor; Kostroma State Universaty (Kostroma, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato's ideas in the religious reflection of the beginning of the 20th century: speculatio as a cognition of real existence

3. Eugene Malyshkin, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Creation as Mutilation: How to Read Plato’s “Banquet” After Nancy?

4. Yuriy Romanenko, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato’s Teaching and its Assessment in the Works of Russian Philosophers

5. Alexei Krioukov, CSc in Philosophy; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The meaning of term eidos in Husserl’s phenomenology

6. Ivan Protopopov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

On understanding dialectics in Plato and Hegel

7. Sergey Katrechko, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian (Moscow, Russia), Head of Department

Abduction as a dialectic (Plato), rhetoric (Aristotle), and transcendental arguments (Kant)

8. Peter Neshitov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; St Petersburg State University for Telecommunications (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Metaphysical reflection of the social experience, or a journey to disappointment

1. Anastasia Igorevna Zolotukhina, CSc in Philology; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Plato as an inspirer of the XVII century French rhetoricians

2. Svetlana Marchukova, DSc in Pedagogy; Research Pedagogical Centre J. A. Comenius German gymnasium “Peterschule” (Saint Petersburg, Russia), prorector

On the pedagogical aspects of Neoplatonism in the legacy of Y. A. Comenius (1592 – 1670)

3. Ilya Guryanov, CSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Ficino's influence on Early Modern concepts of nature

4. Ekaterina Gogleva; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Disputes over the status of "ideas" in Early Modern philosophy

5. Maria Semikolennykh, CSc in Culturology; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Niccolo Perotti’s contribution to the Plato-Aristotelian Controversy: Refutatio deliramentorum Georgii Trapezuntii Cretensis

6. Evgeniy Slozhenikin; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

From Plato's χώρα through Aristotle's τόπος to the sfumato Leonardo.

1. Tatiana Litvin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Dean of Faculty

On the order of the soul: a rhetorical narrative in the cosmologies of late antiquity

2. Anna Stepanova, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Image of rhetoric in Hellenism and late Antiquity (Stoics, Sceptics and Middle Academy)

3. Alexey Bogomolov, CSc in Philosophy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato's doctrine of non-being. On the problem of reconstruction of historical and philosophical foundations

4. Maria Varlamova, CSc in Philosophy; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Soul as a form of body in Alexander of Aphrodisias

5. Elena Sobolnikova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Leningrad State University named after A. S. Pushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The ideas of Plato's Parmenides in Christian mysticism

6. Vyacheslav Minak; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Rhetorical elements of Neoplatonic commentaries

7. Igor Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair

The Qumran Creationistic Concept and Plato’s Cosmogony

8. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Criticism of Sceptics by Neoplatonists of the 4-6th Centuries CE

9. Karine Dilanian, Independent scholar

Plato's cosmology and its reflection in the theory and practice of Hellenistic astrology: the doctrine of horoscope sect division

1. Dmitry Biriukov, DSc in Philosophy; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Associate Research Fellow; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Does the Byzantine-Slavic world prefer Platonism? A Research of Sources and Context of Ivan Kireyevsky’s Narrative about Byzantium

2. Anna Shiyan, CSc in Philosophy; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), associate professor; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

An appeal to Plato as a way of justifying philosophy by Gustav Shpet

3. Ksenia Goncharova; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA student

Pavel Florensky’s interpretation of Platonism

4. Sergey Ryapolov; Shuya Branch of Ivanovo State University (Shuya, Russia), Postgraduate

Platonism in the philosophical anthropology and psychology of Archimandrite Theophan (Avsenev)

5. Gleb Likhachev; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), MA or MSc

Plato in the philosophical reflection of Lev Shestov 

6. Raisa Shchekotova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Independent scholar

Influance of Plato's philosophy in Chicherin's Universalism

7. Tinatin Merabovna Do Egito; Orthodox St. Tikhon University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), master of religious studies

The Trickster archetype in Platonism and in Russian folklore

8. Dmitry Biriukov, DSc in Philosophy; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Leading Researcher; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

Sophiological and non-sophiological Palamism in the communication between Sergei Bulgakov and Georgy Florovsky in the 1920s

1. Igor Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair

Etiology of universal opposites, world conflicts and interpersonal contradictions and conflicts according to the Teaching of two spirits and two paths, attested in the Qumran Community Rule (1QS 3:13–4:26)

2. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

Polemic strategies of early Christian apologetes in the context of Middle Platonism

3. Uri Gershowitz, PhD, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Denis Kuzyutin, CSc in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The resistance to philosophy in Jewish culture: game-theoretical analysis of the conflict around Maimonides' manuscripts in XIII-th century

4. Igor Evlampiev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Ekaterina Gromova, DSc in Physics and Mathematics, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The game as a model of human behavior in ancient philosophy and in modern science

5. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Oksana Buzmakova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA student

Early Christian asceticism and Neoplatonism on the dialectics of unity

1. Daniil Dorofeev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Rhetoric of the Image: Plato in medieval Orthodox painting

2. Sergey Avanesov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), Head of Chair

Parmenides Autobiographical Rhetoric

3. Aleksey Panteleev, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Oksana Kulishova, DSc in History, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Christian Martyrs in the World of the Second Sophistic: Rhetoric and Performative Practices