Research & Expertise

Alisa Maximova took part in a conference on DIY cultures

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

From 21 September to 1 October, the first conference of the Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies Working Group ('PoSoCoMeS') of the Memory Studies Association

From 21 September to 1 October, the first conference of the Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies Working Group ('PoSoCoMeS') of the Memory Studies Association
Daria Khlevnyuk, a postdoc fellow of the Institute and a co-founder of the PoSoCoMeS, took an active part in the conference's organization. The conference was attended by researchers of the Institute, Alisa Maksimova and Boris Stepanov.

Discovering Russia from the Inside and Out

At the end of February, the HSE IGITI Research Centre for Contemporary Culture hosted a roundtable entitled ‘Field Studies in Russia: A Country Familiar and Foreign’. Roundtable participants talked about field work methods and standards, research challenges, and ways to solve them. The participants also discussed the extent to which it is possible to apply international experiences and approaches to field work in Russia as well as ways to study Russia from within and without.

Alexandra Kolesnik took part in a conference on Russian popular music in Berlin

Alexandra Kolesnik took part in a conference on Russian popular music in Berlin
On February 24, IGITI senior research fellow Alexandra Kolesnik participated in a conference "The industry of provocation and protest: contemporary Russian popular music", which was held in the Humboldt University of Berlin.