Speech genres, genres of scientific life: Conference in memory of professor K. F. Sedov

The article summarizes the results of the International scientific-practical conference “Special Education and Sociocultural Integration – 2024: Current Issues in Remedial Education, Special Psychology and Psycholinguistics”, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the distinguished scholar and one of the founders of the Saratov School of Genre Studies, Professor K. F. Sedov. The conference was organized by Saratov National Research State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky, the Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical, and Special Education of the Pedagogical Institute and the Department of Speech Therapy and Psycholinguistics. The article provides an overview of the events planned within the conference format: plenary and sectional sessions, round-table discussions, workshops, and a competition od student papers. The issues of the program’s plenary and sectional reports, topics of round tables, and workshops are presented from the perspective of an interdisciplinary approach to studying related problems of communication linguistics, genre studies, psychology, general and special education.