Talks and Presentations

  • 2016 March – “Commemoration of the dead and/or social protest: spontaneous memorialization in Russia”, special seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.2015 December – Center for popular culture seminar in Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. Talk: “Commemoration of the dead and/or social protest: spontaneous memorialization in Russia”.
  • 2015 April – “Live Theory and Lived Culture: Between Concepts and Imaginations” (an annual conference of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory (CECT)). Talk: “Antichrist is between us: The new Orthodox discourse and the anxiety in modern Russian society”. Tartu, Estonia.
  • 2014 November – 2 congress of Russian religious studies scholars «Science and Religion in 21st century: traditional methods and new paradigms», Saint- Petersburg. Talk: «Novelities in funeral rite and transformation of afterlife beliefs».
  • 2014 November – The Second Memory Studies Workshop in Tartu. University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education. Talk: «From Memory To Memorialization: The Modern Funeral Rites In Russian Social And Political Context».
  • 2014 February – III Congress of Russian folklorists. Moscow. Talk: ««The whole Russia looks like Volga, / Russian tears are flow as Volga does»: poems on spontaneous shrines».
  • 20.10.2013 – Scientific Seminar of Center of typology and semiotics of folklore, Russian State University of Humanities. Talk: «Complex study of roadside memorials». (With A.B. Yudkina)
  • 2013 September – “Mythological models and ritual behavior in the Soviet and post-Soviet space”. Moscow State University of Humanities. Talk: "Politics and the funeral : the genesis of the practice of spontaneous memorialization ."
  • 2013 July - X Congress of Russian ethnographers and anthropologists. Moscow, IEA. Talk: "The practice of collective remembrance as a form of transformation of the funeral rite in an urban environment".
  • 23.01.2013 - Scientific Seminar of Center of typology and semiotics of folklore, Russian State University of Humanities, Talk: “’It was too good a team to play on this sinful earth ...’. Spontaneous collective practice of remembrance in the urban landscape : the case of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv”.
  • 2012 November - Conference on "Folklore of the XXI century ", Moscow, GRTSRF . Takl: "Spontaneous collective practice of remembrance in the urban landscape: the case of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv".
  • 27.05.2012 Research Seminar New Moscow (Bulgakov Museum). Talk: “Death in the pre-war Soviet Union”.
  • 2012 February - "Religious practice in the USSR: survival and resistance in conditions of forced secularization". Moscow. Talk: "Funeral Rite in Russian in the 20-21 centuries : from the "new life" to the present day".
  • 18.01.2012 Scientific Seminar of Center of typology and semiotics of folklore, Russian State University of Humanities, Talk: " Memorial signs in the car accidents places: typology, the origin of the practice". (With A.B. Yudkina)