The three-day international conference "East-West: Cultural Mediators (Literature, Music, Dance, Theater, Painting, Graphics, Architecture, Sculpture, Cinema)" kicked off at the National Library of Armenia. The conference was organized in cooperation with the Division of Armenology and Social Sciences of the NAS RA, the M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of the NAS RA, the Gorky Institute of World Literature, and the National Library of Armenia.

For centuries, Armenia's location at the intersection of roads, ideas, and the arts has made it a natural site for cultural mediation between the East and the West. The conference's central concept was "mediation" as a means of intercultural communication. A translation school's tradition, a publishing policy, a theater experience, a musical or visual language, a scientific archive, or a digital platform could all serve as mediators. The scope of the conference reports covered the theoretical and practical manifestations of cultural mediation, the challenges posed by modern digitalization processes, the transformations of collective memory, as well as various forms of cultural communication. The reports focused on media technology and semiotic approaches, as well as digital culture tools (such as graphic novels, encyclopedias, and digital archives) that served as creative platforms for cultural mediation

The conference was led by co-chairs Academician, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Armenian Studies and Social Sciences of the NAS RA Yuri Suvaryan, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the M.A. Gorky Institute of World Literature Vadim Polonsky, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Director of the M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of the NAS RA, PhD Heriknaz Vorskanyan, and Director of the National Library of Armenia, PhD Anna Chulyan. The "East-West: Cultural Mediators" conference provided a valuable forum for interdisciplinary scientific discourse and the advancement of intercultural and intercivilizational communication.