International Conferences & Papers


2013, July 8-9
International Conference "The Public Image"
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Oksana Zaporozhets – “«Sticky Signs»: Nomadic Place Making in PostSoviet Cities (the case of Tsoi Walls)”
Natalia Samutina – An invisible community of vision: graffiti writer Oz and the production of (different) Hamburg

2013, July 2-4
International Conference on Analysing Popular Music
The University of Liverpool, UK
Alexandra Kolesnik – "Popular Music as the Form of Knowledge about the Past"

2013, June 7-8
International Conference “Street Art in Changing City: Theoretical Perspectives”
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Natalia Samutina – “Always Already Lost”: Street Art and Other Archives of Ephemeral
Oksana Zaporozhets – Tsoi Walls: Unfolding Post-Soviet Cities
Boris Stepanov – Graffiti, Street Art, Historicity in Metropolis
Roman Abramov – Graffiti as a Tool of Political Struggle: An Introduction
Ekaterina Riise – Rediscovering the Abandoned: Street Art in the Ghost Cities
Alisa Maximova – City of Ambiguous Images: the Liminal Properties of Street Art Objects
Varvara Kobyshcha – Encounter with Graffiti: Breach and Normalization

2013, May 22
International Workshop "The Artist and Art within Urban Change"
Oksana Zaporozhets – “Street Art and the Re-invention of the Public”
Natalia Samutina – The artist of Urban Invisibility: a Case of Oz (Hamburg)

2012, October 19
International Conference “Prof. G.Belaya memorial readings ("White readings")”
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Oksana Zaporozhets – “London subway: corporeography of transit space”
 
2012, October 2
Andrey Poletayev Memorial Readings in Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Natalia Samutina – “Vision exerciser: street art in the context of visual studies”
Oksana Zaporozhets – “Micro urbanism: a trap for ephemeral city”

2012, September 5-7
Culture, Communication and Creativity Conference
The European Sociological Association Research Network “Sociology of Culture” in cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), Berlin, Germany
Varvara Kobyshcha – "Protest Posters as Street Art & Political Action as Performance of Urban Creativity"
Kobyshcha - abstract - Culture, communication and creativity 2012
Alise Maximova – "Street Art in the Making"
Maximova - abstract - Culture, communication and creativity 2012

2012, June 28
Return to the Street Conference
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, London, UK
Oksana Zaporozhets – "Unattended Items: Cooperation vs. Anxiety"Goldsmith_Lavrinec_Zaporozhets2012, May 26
International Conference "Complex Gaze at a Complex World: Challenges of Comparison in Social Research"
The Centre for Independent Social Research, St.-Petersburg, Russia
Oksana Zaporozhets – "Immersion into the city: (non)institutional experiences"
 
2012, April 19
Student Conference “Public Spaces: history and modernity”
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Elena Melnikova – “Graffiti and street art as the sources for urban space change”
 
2012, April 17
Conference “Contemporary Methods of Cultural Studies”
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Oksana Zaporozhets – “Scenography of urban communication. Web 2.0” (in collaboration with E. Lavrinets, Vilnius Gediminas   Technical  University)
Natalia Samutina  – “Street Art from Internet Street”

2012, March 1
Student Conference “Sociology in Action”
Higher School of Economics, St.-Petersburg, Russia
Alisa Maximova – “Characters in Street Art: What Do Drawn Urbanites Tell?”

2012, January 27
International Conference “City: between Experience and Theory”
The New Literary Observer, Moscow