The 14th International Biological Conference will officially open at the National Library of Belarus, on April 26th.

The 14th International Biological Conference is timed to the 400th anniversary of the first Slavic “Bukvar” (“ABC-Book”). The thematic field of the conference is versatile, showing a continued interest in the book culture of Belarus and the comprehension of this phenomenon in a global context. A plenary meeting, six break-out sessions, teachers’ workshop and the opening of an exhibition "The Peoples of the World and Their Primers" are scheduled as part of the conference.

The event will be attended by researchers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian and Ukraine. The bibliopolical conference will gather more than 400 bibliographers, linguists, literary critics, cultural historians, historians and philosophers, teachers and publishers, who will present the results of the latest studies of Belarusian hand-written and printed book heritage.

At the  plenary session will speak the known bibliographers from Belarus, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine:

Alexander Susha,
the deputy director of the National Library of Belarus, PhD (Belarus)
“The Jubilee of One Book – the Jubilee of Culture: the 400th Anniversary of the First ‘Bukvar’”

Julia Shustova,
the Associate Professor of the Department of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines and Archaeography of the Russian State Humanitarian University, senior researcher of the Rare Book Department of the Russian State Library, PhD, Associate Professor (Russia)
“Cyrillic Primers of the 16th–18th Centuries, Published on the Belarusian Soil, in the Collection of the Russian State Library”

Antony Mironovich,
the Processor of the Bialystok University, Doctor Habilitat (Poland)
“Textbooks for Brotherhood Schools in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th– 18th Centuries”

Anna Mozheyko,
the doctoral student of Aberdeen University (Great Britain)
“Martyrologies and Memorial Books: the Impact of English and Scottish Jesuits on the Print culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Late 16th – early 17th Centuries”

Valentina Bochkovskaya,
the director of the Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine (Ukraine)
“The Ukrainian Book Treasures: the Presentation of the Collection of the Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine”

Yuris Tsibuls,
the author of primers, collector (Latvia)
“The Peoples of the World, Their Languages and Primers”

We invite you to the official opening, plenary meeting and break-out sessions, which will take place on April 26th and 27th, according to the agenda.

The official opening is at 10 a.m., in the Conference Hall of the National Library of Belarus (a side door on the right, 2nd floor).

Contact us: (+375 17) 293 27 82.