XI All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference «State ethno-national policy: legal and cultural aspects in the conditions of Southern Ukraine»

On October 8-9, 2015, in the premises of Zaporizhzhia National Technical University, the Department of Ukrainian Studies and General Language Training of ZNTU, with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies named after I.F. Kuras of the NAS of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration and the Zaporizhzhia Regional Museum of Local Lore, held the traditional XI All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference «State Ethno-National Policy: Legal and Cultural Aspects in the Conditions of Southern Ukraine», dedicated to the 115th anniversary of ZNTU. In addition to scientists from Zaporizhzhia, the conference was attended by representatives of scientific centers of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv, Crimea, Odessa, Kherson and Khmelnytsky regions. In total, more than ninety scientific articles and materials were submitted to the conference.

The following persons addressed the conference participants with welcoming remarks on behalf of its organizers: Director of the Department of Culture, Tourism, Nationalities and Religions of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, Candidate of Historical Sciences V.V. Moroko; Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of ZNTU, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Yu.M. Vnukov; Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of ZNTU, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor M.V. Dedkov.

The plenary session traditionally welcomed the first scientist who applied for participation in the conference and the first registered participant of this scientific gathering. Then the following presented their works: Candidate of Historical Sciences, Director of the Department of Culture, Tourism, Nationalities and Religions of the Regional State Administration of Ukraine V.V. Moroko «Civil Society and Modern Challenges»; Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Slavic Philology of the Berdyansk University of Management and Business O.M. Sukhomlynov «»Post Homo Sovieticus«: the Problem of Identity Formation»; Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Classical Private University, Director of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Center, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine N.M. Torkut «The Idea of ​​the University in the Context of the Search for Ukrainian Identity: the Dictate of Pragmatism as a Path to Nowhere»; Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Political Science of the Pridneprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture L.E. Chernova «Motivation and Forms of Participation of National Minorities in the Work of Cultural and National Organizations of Ukraine»; Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Interethnic Relations and Religions of the Department of Culture, Tourism, Nationalities and Religions of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration P.I. Malo «The Genesis of Executive Bodies Responsible for the Sphere of Interethnic Relations in Ukraine: Analysis of Current Problems» and Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine of the Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical Institute of the State Higher Educational Institution «Kryvyi Rih National University» N.M. Tovstolyak «Materials on the History of the Ukrainian National Elite in the Kachaniv Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities of V.V. Tarnovsky».

In the afternoon, after a lunch break and informal communication, the conference participants took part in a meeting of 5 sections («The Role of Civil Society in the Formation of Ethno-National Policy in Ukraine»» (section heads: Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Slavic Philology of the Berdyansk University of Management and Business O.M. Sukhomlynov and Candidate of Historical Sciences, employee of the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine L.L. Kovach), «Ethnic Groups of the Region: History and Culture» (section heads: Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine and Teaching Methods of Kherson State University S.G. Vodotyka and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine, Regional Studies and Tourism Studies of the Kyiv National Linguistic University V.M. Vasylchuk), «Legal Aspects of State Ethnopolitics: Evolution and Modernity» (section heads Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Studies and ZMP ZNTU, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Museum of Local Lore G.I. Shapovalov and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of MEV ZNTU O.P. Sarnatsky), «Intellect and Spirituality: National Dimension» (section heads Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy ZNTU O.V. Bondarenko and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of History of the Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University Yu.V. Kotlyar) and «Language Policy and Education: International and National» (section heads Doctor of Political Sciences, Research Fellow of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Problems of Political Science of the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the NAS of Ukraine T.M. Lyashenko and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Ukraine of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University I.I. Lyman)) and the round table «Taking into account the ethnocultural features of the South of Ukraine when developing and implementing state ethnopolicy» (leaders: Head of the Department of Nationalities and Religions of the Department of Interethnic Relations and Religions of the Department of Culture, Tourism, Nationalities and Religions of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration V.M. Bobylev and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of ZNTU, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Studies and ZMP M.V. Dedkov). The participants of the Round Table, among other things, noted the not overestimated role of these traditional scientific and practical conferences in the life of both Southern Ukraine and the state as a whole. The further holding of such annual scientific meetings, according to the participants of the round table, is justified and expedient.

The conference ended with a final plenary session. The speakers and section leaders noted the high level of scientific novelty and practical significance of the results of the speeches of scientists and representatives of national communities. The conference participants noted that despite the difficult times for our country, creative ties between scientists of different generations, scientific schools and regions of Ukraine (including temporarily occupied ones) continue to be maintained.

The conference organizers also provided a cultural and entertainment program for its participants, which consisted of a visit to the Zaporizhzhia Regional Museum of Local Lore, a trip to the island of Khortytsia, an excursion to the historical and ethnographic complex «Zaporizhzhia Sich» (Khortytsia Island) and visiting the performance of the Equestrian Theater of Zaporizhzhia Cossacks «Herts».

Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Studies and ZMP ZNTU B.A. Brovko.