Presentations
A selected list of public lectures and conference papers (2004-present)
“Imagining the Frontier: Contemporary Russian Cinema and the Politics of Isolation”
BASEES national convention, Cambridge, 3-5 April 2011.
“Russia Today: Contesting Self-Representation”
‘From Central to Digital: Television in Russia’, international conference, Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities, 10-11 March 2011.
“Format vs. Language: Examining Russian Online Television Channels”
The Future of Russian 3: The Russian Internet in a Global Context international conference, Passau, Germany, 3-6 February 2011.
“Post-Shkola: Mediation of Televisual Discourses and Participatory Platforms of Runet”
‘Russia in 2010: Sources for Stability and Change’, international conference, University of Bath, UK, 11-13 June 2010
“Russia Tomorrow? Digital Television Broadcasting in and from the Federation (the Case of Russia Today)”
invited lecture, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 23 March 2010
“Constructing Identities and/in Space in Digital Film (Dave McKean’s MirrorMask 2005)”
International Conference, University of Saint Petersburg, Russia, 19 March 2010
“Being On Edge, or Studying Computer Games in a National Context“
invited lecture, Centre for Interactive Media and Game Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, 10 March 2010
“Unbound and Disconnected: Wireless Phones and the Mobile Revolution on Screen”
8th conference of Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, 8 March 2010
“Fashioning Mascu-Drama: Utility Clothing and Rationing of Morals (Sergei Ursuliak’s Liquidation, 2007)”
‘The Retro Impulse in Contemporary Russian Cinema’ lecture series, Russian Cinema Research Group, SSEES, UCL, London, UK, 1 February 2010
“Play, Modality, and Nationhood: Russian Online Gaming”
‘Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture’ workshop, University of Cambridge, UK, 11-12 December 2009
“Approaches to the Study of Visual Components of RuNet”
‘Reading and Writing Russia in 1s and 0s: Digital Culture, New Media, and the Virtual Vox Populi’ roundtable, AAASS National Convention, Boston, USA, 13 November 2009
“The Value of Failure: Andrei Zviagintsev’s ‘Banishment’”
Invited lecture, SSEES, University College London, UK, 11 May 2009
“Russian Cinema under Putin: between the Virtual and the Symbolic”
Invited lecture, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, 13 October 2008
“Is the Web a Platform for Popular Site-Specific Art?”
Locating Popular Cultures conference, University of Leeds, UK, 10 September 2008
“Digital Intelligentsia: Russian Diaspora and User Generated Media”
Invited lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 21 June 2008
“The Starets as the Figure of Authority in Pavel Lungin’s film ‘The Island’ [Ostrov] 2006”
”Spiritual Elders, Holy Fools and Authority Figures in Russian Culture” a cultural and religious studies seminar, University of Leeds, UK, 17 June 2008
“’Flash’ Narratives: Discourses of byt and bytie on the Internet”
Orality, Technology and the “Narratisation” of Everyday Life workshop, University of Manchester, UK, 23-24 May 2008
“On a New Cinematic Language: Alexander Sokurov’s ‘Russian Ark’ and the Montage of the Real”
Plenary lecture at the Screen Forms and their Reception: Interdisciplinary Perspectives workshop, University of Bristol, UK, 28 February 2008
“Body as Ritual in Sergei Paradjanov’s ‘The Colour of the Pomegranates’”
Invited lecture, University of Harvard, Cambridge, USA, 8 November 2007
“Russian Blogosphere and Theories of Fan Culture”
Invited lecture, University of Cambridge, UK, 24 October 2007
“’Ni liubvi, ni toski, ni zhalosti’: Post-Soviet Films For and About Children’
BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 31 March-2 April 2007
“New Media and Civil Society”
Invited lecture, Media Debate, University of Birmingham, UK, 16 March 2007
“Shocking, Rocking, Mocking: (Mis)Appropriation of Oleg Kulik’s Art Abroad”
AAASS National Convention, Washington, D.C., USA, 14-16 November 2006
“’Digital Tolstoevsky’: Russian Classics and the Net.Art Avant-garde”
Crossing Borders: Translations and Transpositions in Russian Culture Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 30 August-1 September 2006
“Embracing Digital Modernity, Or (De-)Regulation of the Media in Post-Soviet Russia”
Internationalising Media Studies Conference, University of Westminster, London, UK, 15-16 September 2006
“Actors and Agents: Russian Internet and Civil Society”
Invited lecture, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK, 9 June 2006
“Will the Echo Effect Bring the Bounce Back? Internet Authorship and Censorship in Post-Soviet Russia”
The Mass Media in Post-Soviet Russia International Conference,University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 6-8 April 2006
“’Death of the Mediated Author’: (Public) Domain of an Internet Celebrity, or Copyright against PR (Oleg Kuvaev)”
BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK 1-3 April 2006
“Night Watch: Neo-Baroque Cinema and Digital Imagery in Contemporary Russia”
Invited lecture, SSEES, University College London, UK, 6 March 2006
“Compression Writing: Construal and Construction”
Invited lecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 1 October 2005
“Cultural Citadels: Representations of the City in Contemporary Russian Literature and New Media”
The City and Literature International Workshop, SOAS, UCL, London, UK, 11-13 May 2005
“Digital Dynamic: Art and New Media in Contemporary Russian Culture”
BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK 2-4 April 2005
“Artificial Paradise: Russian New Media and Structures of Pleasure”
Heaven and Earth International Conference, Tate Modern, London, UK, 27-29 January 2005
“’Translated by Goblin’: Global Cultural Challenge and Local Response”
AAASS National Convention, Boston, USA, 7 December 2004
“’Brigada’, or Crime and National Imaginings in Russian Contemporary TV Series
BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 3-5 April 2004