Online meeting

13.4.2021

The regular online meeting of the Club took place on April 9, 2021.

The Youth Discussion Club of Oriental Cultures has been operating at the Department of Oriental Languages ​​for more than 10 years. During the meetings of the Club, students acquire important competencies necessary for their professional training, further research and future employment in a market environment. The main forms of work of the discussion Club are as follows: presentations of students and teachers; discussions of cultural issues, conducting a comparative analysis of Ukrainian culture and cultural processes in Eastern countries; meetings with native speakers and leading scholars of Ukraine, China, Turkey, etc. The regular online meeting of the Club took place on April 9, 2021. Marichka Kurinna, a graduate of our university, greeted the students and teachers. She worked as a consul at the Ukrainian Embassy in Japan, and now coordinates the Hub for the development of civil society organizations and is in the personnel reserve of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for further diplomatic missions. Marichka noted that she always warmly remembers the alma mater and her native faculty of foreign languages, where there is always an atmosphere of inner freedom. Then the floor was given to Haruno Aoki, a leading specialist at the Japanese company Yum Global. She provided students-orientalists the further important information on employment in Japan.

The presentations of students were dedicated to the cultures of Eastern countries. Presentations were interesting and informative. Student K. Gladchenko spoke about the temples of China. She noted that there is no better evidence of the country’s diverse historical past than its temples, as they are a wonderful manifestation of various religious influences. Student K. Dluski dedicated her presentation to prominent Japanese writers, and V. Yevteev spoke about the recently built in Tokyo Museum of Pop Culture Kadokawa, dedicated to comics and anime cartoons. The façadeof the Kadokawa Museum is made as a windowless monolith, decorated with textured granite slabs.Head of the Department of Oriental Languages ​​N.V. Fedicheva shared her own experience of lecturing the course “Culture and Human Communication» for second-year students at the University of De Vinci in Paris. N.V. Fedicheva noted the high level of English language proficiency of French university students, future engineers, businessmen and designers. According to her, the course “Culture and Communication” is necessary for students of non-philological specialties of LNU named after Taras Shevchenko. The meeting was fruitful and interesting for all those who were present and guests of the Club.

At the end of the meeting Fedichev N.V. reminded everyone that the traditional annual international conferences “Ukraine-China: Dialogue of Cultures” and “Modern Trends in Oriental Studies” will soon be held at the Faculty of Foreign Affairs.

According to the Faculty of Foreign Languages