December 11, Friday
10.00 - 15.00 Registration
15.40 - 18.30 Opening Plenary Session. Presentation of a new book by
Eduard Batalov “Russian Idea and American Dream”
(Moscow, Progress-Tradition, 2009)
18.30 - 20.00 Tea and Pirozhki
December 12 , Saturday
10.00 - 13.00 Section 1. Journalism and Cultural Pluralism in the USA
10.00 - 13.30 Section 3. Development of Pluralism in the USA of the 20th Century
10.00 - 13.30 Section 7. Gender Aspects of Cultural Pluralism
13.30 - 14.00 lunch break
14.00 - 16.00 Round Table Discussion "Imprints: Image of Russia and Image of America"
16.30 - 19.00 Section 8. Fantastic in the Arts: Ways o Create Tolerance
17.00 - 19.00 Section 4. American Drama
December 13 , Sunday
10.00 - 19.00 Section 6. Ethnic Aspect of Pluralism
13.00 - 14.00 lunch break
14.00 - 16.00 Round Table Discussion: «Translation from the American»: Cultural Aspects of Translation and
Establishing a Reciprocal Contemporary Book Series
16.30 – 17.00 Presentation of Graphic Art by PhD Marina Knyazeva, Poetess and Culturologist
“Outlines of Cultures”
17.00 - 19.00 Section9. Interaction of American and World Culture
18.00 – 20.00 Round Table Discussion «American Literature and Universities in the USA
(joint session with Section 5. American Poetry)
December 14 , Monday
11.00 - 13.00 Section 2. Pluralism in the Making in American Culture of the 18-19th Centuries
13.00 - 17.00 Section 10. Canadian Mozaic as a Phenomenon of Cultural Self-Awareness in a
GlobalizedWorld
18.00 - 19.00 PlenaryClosingSession. Reports of Section coordinators.
Determining the theme of the next year conference.
19.30 - 22.00 Farewell Party
