FRRESH Spring Seminar 2018

 
15.03.2018
 
Центр исследований модернизации

14-16 марта в Европейском университете проходят открытые лекции в рамках FRRESH Spring Seminar 2018 (Finnish-Russian Network for Russian and Eurasian Studies in Social Science and Humanities), семинара молодых ученых из России, Финляндии и Германии по исследованиям России и Евразии.

 

Wednesday, 14 March 14:00-16:00
Keynote: "The Russian Revolution: New Politics, New Space, New History?"
Professor Jane Burbank, New York University

Jane Burbank is Collegiate Professor and Professor of History and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. She is a historian of Russia and, more generally, of law and empire. She is the author of Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922; Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917; and, with Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. She co-edited two studies of Russian empire: Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, and Russian Empire: Space, People, Power 1700-1930. At present she is writing a monograph about imperial law and Russian sovereignty from 1870 to 1917, viewed from the province of Kazan. She is also working with Tatiana Borisova on a history of the Russian legal tradition.

 

Thursday, 15 March 09:30-12:30
Inside Late Imperial Russia's Laws and Trials
Associate Professor Tatiana Borisova, Higher School of Economics, SPb

Tatiana Borisova is an Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg. She holds PhD in History from Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences and PhD in Law from University of Turku, Finland. Currently she is working on a monograph entitled: ‘For my enemies, the law’: A Social History of Law, Justice, and Terror in Russia, 1860-1918. Her most recent articles include: “Public Meaning of the Zasulich Trial 1878: Law, Politics, and Gender,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 43:4 (2016) and “Russia’s Legal Trajectories,” with Jane Burbank, forthcoming in Kritika. Dr. Borisova has been granted fellowships from Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the Centre for Socio-Legal Research, Oxford University. Recently she has been appointed Davis Fellow 2018-2019 under theme ‘Law and Legalities’ at Princeton University.

 

Friday, 16 March 09:30-12:30
Performing one's identity in public in Late Soviet society: "Revue"by Sergei Loznitsa
Discussion on the documentary led by Professor Ilya Utekhin

Ilya Utekhin is a Professor in the Anthropology Department of the European University, St.Petersburg. His research interests include the study of Soviet and post-Soviet culture of everyday life, ethnography of communication, conversation analysis, anthropology of digital technology and anthropological study of disability. He works in visual anthropology and ethnographic film, and also teaches this subject. He is author of a monographic study of life in shared apartments in Soviet and post-Soviet cities, which is also made available to public in form of a virtual museum of Soviet everyday life (http://kommunalka.colgate.edu ).