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Baku International Humanitarian Forum is to be held on 10-11 October 2011 under the chairmanship of the President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev and the President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev. It is supposed that they will address the Forum during the opening ceremony.

The objectives of the Baku Forum are to consider comprehensively the humanitarian aspect of new challenges of the 21st century. The organizers of the Forum, who represent natural, economic and humanitarian sciences as well as the cultural elite, set an ambitious task of formulating a new humanitarian agenda aimed at its further consideration on an international scale and more precise research.

There will be round tables within the Forum on seven directions.

The themes of the round tables are:

• Multiculturalism: achievements and problems
• Modern technologies that changed the world
• Convergence of sciences
• Biotechnologies and ethical problems
• Humanitarian aspects of economic development models
• Social journalism and high technologies
• Traditional value systems in postmodern culture

It is supposed that prominent figures of science and culture including Nobel Prize laureates will take part in the round tables.

A special publication which includes brief information about the participants and comprehensive characteristics of the issues to be discussed will be issued by the time of the Forum.

All invited persons are kindly asked to send the theses of their speeches and specify the round tables they want to take part in until 10 September 2011.

Working languages of the Forum: Azerbaijani, Russian, English.

Contacts:
Phone: 596-93-22, 596-90-67, 596-90-72
Email: bakuforum@mfa.gov.az