Presentations

• “Presenting the research findings on artists with a migratory background in post-migrant and post-Soviet contexts: key ethical dilemmas.” Institutskolloquium. Institut für Kulturanthropologie / Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 06.07.2022.
• ‘Why (Don’t) Our Children Care about Their Homeland?’: Narratives on the Second-Generation Migrants among Central Asian Diasporic Activists in Russia. Panel on Second Generation Transnationalism: Trajectories of Mobility and Belonging. Eurasia and Global Migration Aleksanteri Conference. University of Helsinki, 27.10.2021.
• Manizha’s Challenge to Russia’s ‘Friendship of Peoples’ Legacy at Eurovision 2021. Keynote speech at VERA Conference: Conflicting Il/liberalisms. Dividing states and societies in Russia and beyond. University of Eastern Finland, 20.05.2021.
• Representing Cultural Diversity in Russia. The Eurovision contest and Manizha’s “Russian Woman” Performance. Lecture at the Central Asia Program (CAP), George Washington University, 05.05.2021.
• Natives of Central Asia in the cultural infrastructure of Moscow: to the problem of marginality. Regular simar on Transnationalism and Migration Studies. European University at St. Petersburg, 26.06.2020.
• Navruz at VDNKh: immigrants from Central Asia in the cultural infrastructure of Moscow. Regular seminar on Migration Studies held by the Institute of Social Policy (HSE), 16.04.2020.
• Authentic Siberian Sound? The Institutional Environment of the Shamanic Rock Scene in Tuva and Sakha. Round table “Siberian Rock: Cultural appropriation and authenticity in the deep Soviet Union,” ASEEES 49th Annual Convention, Chicago, 12.11.2017.