On September 30, 2015 the Flying University launches an academic year and invites for the new series of public lectures named “The main question”.

The organizers are going to hold meetings with Belarusan intellectuals, scientists, cultural workers weekly, on Wednesday in order to discuss different humanitarian, social, and cultural problems together.

We hope that these lectures will be the time and place for putting up questions important for thinking and common search for answers to these questions; for disputes, critique, interesting intellectual and cultural inventions.

For those who were engaged in our lecture courses and seminars earlier these lectures will be conductive to testing their abilities in practicing the thinking methods that they mastered in the Flying University. New listeners will get a chance to get acquainted with the university community, with the idea of the University, as well as feel the atmosphere of intellectual surroundings.

“Main questions” will be set by the following persons: Uladzimir Matskevich, Ales Smalianchuk, Ihar Babkou, Tatiana Vadalazhskaya, Ales Razanau, Vyacheslav Bobrovich, Aksana Shelest, Michail Bayaryn, Sviatlana Karasiova, Iryna Machouskaja, Aleh Dziarnovich, and Michal Aniempadystau.

The official opening of the season of lectures will take place on September 30, 2015 in Y Gallery (37a Nezalesžnasci avenue, Minsk). Uladzimir Matskevich, philosopher and methodologist, will give a speech named “What can we know about the unpredictable, or what we know about the future?” The lecture will start at 18.30. Free admission!

Let us note that next lectures from this series require registration. It can be done by filling in the application or by writing a letter to our coordinator at the e-mail: [email protected].

You can read more detailed information about the lecture at the website of the Flying University.

You can also sign up for the digest of announcements, ask details via [email protected] or contacting the coordinator of lectures Julia Galinovskaya via phone: (+375 29) 7422040.

The schedule of the forthcoming lectures:

• October 7 — Ales Smalianchuk with “Post-war collectivization in Western Belarus in the light of oral history”;
• October 14 — Ihar Babkou with “After philosophy”;
• October 21 — Vyacheslav Bobrovich with “The opposition of fascism and liberalism at the post-Soviet area”;
• October 28 — Ales Razanau (the topic of his lecture will be determined later).

UPD. The video lectures: