Research Centre for Contemporary Culture

Our research centre is a small interdisciplinary unit within the Poletaev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, which is part of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Sociologists, historians, and scholars from different areas of cultural studies are working here together on various themes concerning contemporary culture: on participatory cultures and fandoms, sociology of popular imagination, popular music, contemporary urban cultures, popular history and memory, changing museum cultures, etc. We are united by the interest (and even passion) for contemporary culture and its multiple forms, as well as by the task of developing new theoretical approaches to fast-changing cultural phenomena.

Participatory Culture and Fan Studies

Urban Culture

Culture of History

Memory Studies

Popular Music Studies

Museum Studies

Staff

Boris Stepanov

Leading Research Fellow

Alexandra Kolesnik

Senior Research Fellow

Daria Khlevnyuk

Research Fellow

Lizaveta Lysenka

Research Assistant

Золотухина Анастасия Игоревна

Research Fellow

Andrei Kozaredov

Research Assistant

Kirill Molotov

Research Assistant

Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva

Research Assistant

Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities

News

Article by Poletayev Institute research intern Elizaveta Lysenko was published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies

The article "Soviet music heritage as a discursive middle ground in Belarusian political conflict" is dedicated to the Soviet-Belarusian VIA "Pesnyary". The article deals with the perception of VIA as a cultural heritage and the redefinition of the Soviet cultural heritage in the context of the political conflict in modern Belarus.

May 05, 2022

Alisa Maximova took part in a conference on DIY cultures

Junior Research Fellow Alisa Maximova took part in a conference "Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges". The conference was held on July 7-10 and took place both online and in Porto, Portugal.

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July 11, 2021

Lizaveta Lysenka took part in the Graduate Student Conference on the Late Soviet Union at The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

On April 30, Lizaveta Lysenka, a research assistant at IGITI, spoke at a conference organized by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies on Belarusianness in the Songs and Visuals of the Soviet VIA Pesniary.

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May 14, 2021

IGITI Research Fellows took part in the international online conference «Worlds of Imagination: Media, place and tourism in today’s global world»

IGITI Senior Researcher Alexandra Kolesnik, Research Fellow Alisa Maksimova, and Research Assistant Elizaveta Lysenko took part in the international conference "Worlds of Imagination: Media, place and tourism in today's global world", organized online on April 7-9, 2021 by Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

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April 10, 2021

Alisa Maximova took part in symposium on museums and public participation

IGITI Junior Research Fellow Alisa Maximova took part in international online symposium “Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums”. The event took place on 15 December 2020 and was organised by The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).

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December 17, 2020