15th International Likhachev Scientific Conference

St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences

Saint Petersburg, Russia, 14-15 May 2015

Plenary Session, St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Andrey Petrov University Concert Hall, 14 May 2015

Professor Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, delivers keynote speech on "World Order and National Interest"

At the presiding table, from right: Prof. A. S. Zapesotsky, Rector of St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences; Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz, Director, Centre for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; Prof. O. T. Bogomolov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sc. (Economics), Honorary Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies; Prof. A. A. Guseinov, Director of the Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Full text of speech: ENG RUS

Panel 1: "National Models of Politics and International Conflicts -- 'Is the West the Best?'," Radisson Royal Hotel, 15 May 2015

From right: Mr. G. Littlejohn, Economist and Sociologist, Scotland, UK; Prof. Grzegorz W. Kolodko, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland, Director, Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland; Prof. Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, Vienna, Austria; Dr. Ahmad Iravani, President, Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East, Washington DC, USA; Prof. Valur Ingimundarson, Dept. of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavik; Dr. Nourhan Elsheikh, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt; Prof. S. Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, Chairman, Department of Islamic Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran.