I started talking as soon as I started writing. I do not have photographs or materials preserved from all of my talks, but I was lucky to have a lot of people around who share my passion for documenting reality, and over the years I accrued a splendid archive that I want to share
2018
Cities of the Future: Everydayness in an Angara Village and Beyond
On the 7/18/2018, I gave the talk "Cities of the Future: Everydayness in an Angara Village and Beyond" in Irkutsk at the Center of Independent Social Research-Irkutsk. The initiative of the meeting belongs to Irkutsk entrepreneur Anna Belyanina. Director of the center Mikhail Rozhansky kindly invited me to present my book Antropologia povsendevnosti (Anthropology of Everydayness, Moscow, 2018), and talk about my research. The conversation that we had merged two themes: the methods of research and the realities that social researchers meet in the field. "Life" and "text," in other words, and their relationships. I argued for the use of the montage in anthropological writings and for the first time presented in Russian on "affective infrastructures," hard peoplemade materialities that shape the structure of our feelings as we find ourselves in different environments. A collective of people worked on this event, and I am grateful to them and the attendees.
Photographs by Ilona Tolstoukhova
Cities of the Future
(in Russian)
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Anthropology of Everydayness
My book Antropologia povsednevnosti (Anthropology of Everydayness) came out in June 2018 in Moscow, Russia, from Noocratia (Noocracy) publishing initiative. I am thankful to Stanislav Ivanov also known under his nome de plume Zoran Pitich for the idea of this book that he set out to publish. Without him, this book would not have emerged. I presented the book during my fieldwork trip to Russia at Tsiolkovsky book club in Moscow 6/14/2018. Upon the request of my readers, I made the recording of the presentation. Let me offer it to you here, as well as the text, both in Russian. Photographs were taken by Moscow literati Nestor Pilawski and Alina Vitukhnovskaya and by photographer Grigory Matveyev.
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Affective Infrastructures
Talk at New Directions in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin 3/31/2018
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Everydayness, Media, Infrastructures:
the Spectacular and the Mundane
A lecture to the Expressive Culture class at the University of Texas at Austin 2/27/2018
Below, there is an excerpt audio recorded and the text of the lecture; click to listen or download
Below, there is an excerpt audio recorded and the text of the lecture; click to listen or download
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Everydayness does not exist as such; it is always already caught in some other categories without which we cannot approach everydayness." |
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2017
2017 “Life and Death in a Siberian Village.” Writing with Light: Re-Imagining the Anthropological Photo Essay, Session I: Archives and Materialities Roundtable. American Anthropological Association Meeting. December 2. Washington D.C.
2017 “In Proximity of Ruins: Haunted Space and the Mutant Fantasy.” Summoning the Past: Contestations of Matter, Space, and Time in the Reproduction of State Power Panel. American Anthropological Association Meeting. December 1. Washington D.C.
2017 “Triggering Political Affect: Generating Identities.” Presentation. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Meeting. November 11, Chicago.
2017 “Robot: a Figure of the Future or Nostalgic Object?” Presentation. XII Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, Izhevsk, 3-6 July.
2017 “In Proximity of Ruins: The Generative Potential of the Deteriorating Space and Utopian Visions.” Presentation. New Directions in Anthropology Conference. UT. April 8.
2017 “Everyday Life, Geoengineering, and the Industrial Spectacle in Soviet Siberia.” Presentation. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages annual meeting, San Francisco, February 4.
2017 “In Proximity of Ruins: Haunted Space and the Mutant Fantasy.” Summoning the Past: Contestations of Matter, Space, and Time in the Reproduction of State Power Panel. American Anthropological Association Meeting. December 1. Washington D.C.
2017 “Triggering Political Affect: Generating Identities.” Presentation. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Meeting. November 11, Chicago.
2017 “Robot: a Figure of the Future or Nostalgic Object?” Presentation. XII Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, Izhevsk, 3-6 July.
2017 “In Proximity of Ruins: The Generative Potential of the Deteriorating Space and Utopian Visions.” Presentation. New Directions in Anthropology Conference. UT. April 8.
2017 “Everyday Life, Geoengineering, and the Industrial Spectacle in Soviet Siberia.” Presentation. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages annual meeting, San Francisco, February 4.
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I gave the talk Anthropology of the Everydayness (Антропология повседневности) in Moscow at the Izmaylovo Gallery on 6/21/2017.
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2016 |
2016 “Archeology of the Robotics: Remnants of Soviet Robots.“ Presentation. November 19th. 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota
2016 “Robot as a Subject (Object) of Ethnographic Study.“ Lecture. October 14. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. The University of Texas at Austin [Video]
2016 “Russian Literature on Bratsk Dam: the Human in People-Altered Landscapes of Soviet Industrialization.” Presentation. September 25. “The Extra-Human” 13th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature. The University of Texas at Austin [Audio]
2016 “Russia, USA, and the Islamic World: Multiplicity of Feminisms.” Talk. Feminist Society ONA (“She”). Moscow, August 14 [Audio; in Russian]
2016 “Writer’s Change of Language: Nabokov and Others.”Symposium on Language and Society. The University of Texas at Austin, April 15
2016 “ISIS: Use of Atrocity in State Formation.” Lecture, Expressive Culture. The University of Texas at Austin, April, 6
2016 “ISIS: Active Ruination and Performativity of Public Execution.” Presentation. New Directions in Anthropology Conference, the University of Texas at Austin, April 1
2016 “Late Soviet Childhood.”Futures and Ruins Workshop at Duke University, March 25
2016 “Pussy Riot: The Contest of Performances and Political Affect.” Presentation. Utopia and Reality: Latin America Confronting Globalization. Gender and Feminisms. University of Texas at Austin, March 3
2016 “Robot as a Subject (Object) of Ethnographic Study.“ Lecture. October 14. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. The University of Texas at Austin [Video]
2016 “Russian Literature on Bratsk Dam: the Human in People-Altered Landscapes of Soviet Industrialization.” Presentation. September 25. “The Extra-Human” 13th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature. The University of Texas at Austin [Audio]
2016 “Russia, USA, and the Islamic World: Multiplicity of Feminisms.” Talk. Feminist Society ONA (“She”). Moscow, August 14 [Audio; in Russian]
2016 “Writer’s Change of Language: Nabokov and Others.”Symposium on Language and Society. The University of Texas at Austin, April 15
2016 “ISIS: Use of Atrocity in State Formation.” Lecture, Expressive Culture. The University of Texas at Austin, April, 6
2016 “ISIS: Active Ruination and Performativity of Public Execution.” Presentation. New Directions in Anthropology Conference, the University of Texas at Austin, April 1
2016 “Late Soviet Childhood.”Futures and Ruins Workshop at Duke University, March 25
2016 “Pussy Riot: The Contest of Performances and Political Affect.” Presentation. Utopia and Reality: Latin America Confronting Globalization. Gender and Feminisms. University of Texas at Austin, March 3
2015
2015 “On Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology: Production of Ethnography Through Observation, Recollection, and, Occasionally, Forgetting.” Talk. Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at University of Texas at Austin, October 21
2015 “Debris of Utopia: Reflection on Ruination in the USSR and Post-Soviet Spaces.” Presentation. New Directions in Anthropology Conference, the University of Texas at Austin, March 27-28
2015 “Debris of Utopia: Reflection on Ruination in the USSR and Post-Soviet Spaces.” Presentation. New Directions in Anthropology Conference, the University of Texas at Austin, March 27-28
2014
2014 Russian Language in the New World. Talk. Society for Social and Religious Studies, Moscow, Russia.
2013
A number of poetry readings in Austin, Texas, and Moscow, Russia: to be concretized
2012
2012 New Reformation: a Fate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the XXI Century. Talk. Society for Social and Religious Studies, Moscow, Russia. (via Skype).
2012 Pussy Riot and the Russian Orthodox Church. Society for Social and Religious Studies, Moscow, Russia.
2012 Pussy Riot and the Russian Orthodox Church. Society for Social and Religious Studies, Moscow, Russia.
2008
2008 Author’s Presentation: the launch of Quartet (Vagrius, Moscow). Moscow International Book Fair, Moscow, Russia.
2007
2007 “Russian Language in the Developing World.” Russia — India: Dialog of Civilizations in the Globalization Context, Delhi, India.
2006
2005. Author’s Presentation. Moscow International Book Fair, Moscow, Russia.
2004
Moscow Book Fair, 2004. I am reading from of my poetry book Barefoot, the book that earned me The Anton Delvig Award
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Moscow Book Fair, 2004. I am reading from of my poetry book Barefoot, the book that earned me The Anton Delvig Award
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2003 |
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2003 “The Density of the Text.” Lomonosov-2003 Conference, section “Philosophy, Cultural and Religious Studies”, Moscow, Russia.
This is by no means the full list of presentations and readings that I gave.
I will add more photographs and links,
as well as the material in textual,
video, and audio forms
I will add more photographs and links,
as well as the material in textual,
video, and audio forms