Presentations and invited talks


1.               Invited talk. Coopting conspiracy: Conspiratorial memory of the USSR’s demise in pro-Soviet and nationalist online communities in Russia. The New School, USA. December 2023.
2.               Conference ASEEES 2023. Paper (co-authored with Boris Noordenbos): “Temporalities of Disinformation: The Memory Work of Russian Propaganda during the War against Ukraine”. Philadelphia, USA. December 2023.
3.               Round table. Histories at Risk: Russia. Online. November, 2023.
4.               Conference “Achievements and Perspectives of Cultural and Social Memory Research”. Paper (co-authored with Boris Noordenbos): Disinformation as memory work: temporalities of propaganda. Berlin, Germany. October 2023.
5.               Conference “2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition”.  Paper (co-authored with Boris Noordenbos): “Temporality Reconsidered: Historical References in Russian State Media Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War”. Tallinn, Estonia. September 2023. 
6.               Conference Memory Studies Association 2023. Paper: “Digital conspiratorial memory of the USSR’s dissolution: CIA, Zionists, and other suspects”. Newcastle, UK, July 2023.
7.               Workshop “Crossing Borders: Migration, Generational Change and Historical Narratives”. ZOiS, German. June 2023.
8.               Invited talk. “Digital Conspiratorial Memory of the USSR’s Dissolution: CIA, Zionists, and Other Suspects”. Stony Brook University, USA. March 2023.
9.               Invited talk. ““Russian ‘old left,’ the global rise of illiberal memory, and conspiratorial narratives online”. Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, USA. March 2023.
10.            Invited talk. “Victims of Stalinist terror: the unclear memory”. Tula State Museum. Online. November 2022.
11.            Conference ASEEES 2021. Paper: “‘Reframing’ Repressions: Memories of the Great Patriotic War and Stalin’s Repressions in Russian Regional Museums Museums”. Online. December 2021.
12.            Conference Collective Memory in Contemporary Russia: The Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Context(s). Paper: “Surveying Russian Memory of Repressions: Method of Dilemmas”. September 2021.
13.            Conference “World War II memory - glorification, curse, accusation, justification, explanation”. Paper: “"Kolyma's contribution to victory": the history of the war in Russian expositions about repressions”. European University in Saint-Petersburg. November 2020
14.            Conference “Die Vor- und Darstellung von Täterschaft und Verantwortung in Gedenkstätten und Museen im deutsch- und russischsprachigen Raum“. Die Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen. November 2020.
15.            Round table “The phenomenon and consequences of the "war on monuments" in America and Europe. What conclusions and lessons need to be learned by Russian society?”. Memorial Society. July 2020.
16.            Conference “Study of commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Victory”. Paper: “Camp's contribution to victory: the theme of the Great Patriotic War in Russian expositions about repressions”. European University in Saint-Petersburg. June 2020.
17.            Conference “Memory as a Cultural and Historical Phenomena: Russia and the West, XX-XXI centuries”. Paper: Russian museums about repressions and the traumas of 1990s: human rights movement, nationalism, and nostalgia. November, 2019
18.            Conference MSA 2019. Paper: Putting the Stalinist Past in a Showcase: Russian Museums about Stalin’s Repressions . June, 2019.
19.            Invited Talk. “Memory of Stalin’s Repressions as a “Usable Past” to Discuss Current Russian Problems: Human Rights, Economic Crisis, and Political Apathy”. Bonn University. June, 2019.
20.            Invited Talk. “The Difficult Russian Past on Display: Museum Exhibitions on Stalin’s Purges”. Heidelberg University. May, 2019
21.            Conference ASEEES 2018. Paper: “The Difficult Russian Past on Display: Museum Exhibitions on Stalin’s Purges”. December, 2018
22.            Invited Talk. “Museum Exhibitions Dedicated to Soviet Purges: First Attempts at Classifications”. HSE, Moscow. January, 2018.
23.            Conference ASEEES 2017. Paper: “This Is Our History, We Should Accept It: Russian Local Memory Dealing with Difficult Past.” November, 2017.
24.            Conference German Studies Association 2017, Atlanta, Georgia. Paper: “Conflicting Reconciliation Strategies: Russian Fragmented Efforts to Deal with the Stalinist Past”. October 2017.
25.            Conference “Market of Historic Knowledge”. Memorial Society, Moscow, Russia. Paper: “New Memory Culture and Approaches to Studying It”. January 2017
26.            Invited Talk. “Memory Wars in Social Media: Collective Memory of Stalin in Vkontakte”. Center for Comparative History and Political Studies, Perm, Russia. October 2016
27.            Council for European Studies Conference 2016. Paper “Mapping the Field of Contestation over Memory of the Soviet Past in Russia”. April 2016
28.            International Symposium: “Historical and Cultural Narratives in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus: Rivalries and Entanglements”. Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies, Tubingen University. November, 2015
29.            Conference “Translating Memory and Remembrance across the Disciplines”. Paper: “Breaking up the National Container: The Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memories”. SUNY New Paltz. October, 2015.
30.            Seminar “Russian Collective Memory: Cosmopolitan Tendencies and National Constraints”. Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies, Tubingen University. July 2015.
31.            Council for European Studies Conference 2015. Paper “Mobilizing National War Memories: Revival of WWII Memory Discourse in Russia in Light of the Conflict with the Ukraine”. July 2015.
32.            Eastern Sociological Society 2015 Conference. Paper Session. Paper (co-authored with Daniel Levy) “Breaking up the National Container: The Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memories”. March  2015
33.            The 5th International Summer Museological School “Russia – 20th Century: a Dialog Between Generations”. Lecture “Museums in a Social Context: Collective Memory and a Cultural Trauma”. (Perm, Museum “Perm-36”). June 2013.
34.            Conference “XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development” (National Research University Higher School of Economics). Paper “Observing Sacred: Methodological Issues in Studying Boundaries between Sacred and Profane”. April 2013.
35.            Conference “Representing the Past in Architecture” (Herder Institut, Vilnius Institute of History, Vilnius). Paper: “Performing Authenticity: Reconstruction of Tsaritsyno”. October 2012.
36.            Konstanzer Meisterklasse (Konstanz University, Germany). Paper: “Where Has All The Aura Gone: Emotional Experience Of Authenticity In The Modern World”. July 2012.
37.            Conference “XIII April International Academic Conference Оn Economic and Social Development” (HSE, Moscow). Paper: “A Ruin In The City: Cultural Values And Risks To Lose Them”. 3-5 April 2012.
38.            Conference “Social Studies Of Local Communities” (Sociological department of HSE, Moscow, and Sociology Of Science And Education Laboratory, HSE, St. Petersburg). Paper: “Whose History? Past Between Tourism And Community”. 18-19 November 2011.
39.            Konstanzer Meisterklasse (Konstanz University, Germany). Paper: “Performing Authenticity: Tsaritsyno Museum as a Place of Memory”, 18-26 July 2011.
40.            Summer School On Theory Of Practices (European University in St. Petersburg). Paper: “From Places Of Memory To The Objects Of Memory: ANT And Sociology Of Memory”. 3-10 July 2011
41.            Seminar “Urban Studies” (Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg). Paper: “Between “Novodel” And Authenticity: “Catherine II In The Memory Of Descendants” Exhibit And New Metaphors For Museums”. 15 April 2011.
42.            Seminar “Space, Individual, History. Socio-Cultural Transformations Of Tsaritsyno Park And Museum”. Paper (with B. Stepanov): “Tsaritsyno Museum: Historical Reconstruction and Representations of Past”. (Institute of Humanities and Historical Studies, HSE, Moscow. 14 December 2010.
43.            The Conference “Culture and the Making of Worlds” - 3rd ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture mid-term Conference. (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy). Paper: “The Construction of Places of Memory In Russia: Tsarytsyno and The Figure Of Catherine II”. 7-9 October 2010.
44.            International conference “Ways of Russia. Future as Culture: Prognosis, Representations, Scenarios” (Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences). Paper: “Cultural Sociological Perspective on Sociology Of Memory”. 29-30 January 2010.
45.            European Sociology Associations’ Congress. (Lisbon University, Portugal). Paper: «Maurice Halbwachs’ Concept of Memory: a Critical Analysis». September 2009.
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