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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Alexandra Kolesnik and Alisa Maksimova presented the results of a field study of musical geography and heritage in Yekaterinburg. Alexandra made a presentation “Musical heritage in Yekaterinburg: Memory of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club”, Alisa - “Popular music heritage in Ekaterinburg, Russia: From local 'Ural Rock' to international popstars”. Elizaveta in her paper “Soviet popular music and heritage discourses in contemporary Belarus” discussed how the history of the popular Soviet VIA “Pesnyary” is constructed and considered in modern Belarus.

 

 

Worlds of Imagination Conference Programme-1 (PDF, 745 Кб)