Invited Lectures (50 mins.)
“Performative Publishing: Ad Marginem and the (Un-)Making of a Post-Soviet Canon”
(selections). Duke University. February 3, 2025.
“The Post-Soviet Scandal of Contradiction: Pasolini’s Legacy in Russia.” Brown University,
Department of Italian Studies. November 15, 2024.
“Russian Media in the 1990s, Fully Disclosed: Gore, Tabloids, and Countercultural
Nationalism.” Yale University. April 12, 2023.
“Art and Power in Post-Soviet Russia: Narrative, Performance, Political Activism.”
Harvard University. Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Webinar for the
Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship. May 11, 2022.
“Russian Politics Between Postmodernity and Authenticity.” University of East Anglia.
May 4, 2022. Delivered remotely.
“The Revolution Will Be Fictionalized: Postmodern Politics and Radical Literature in
Putin’s Russia.” University of Toronto. November 2, 2021. Delivered remotely.
“Conducting Research in Post-Soviet Culture.” Graduate training session/proseminar.
University of Toronto. November 1, 2021. Delivered remotely.
Book presentation: It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-
Soviet Russia. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Università degli Studi
di Milano, Italy. May 19, 2021. Delivered remotely (in Italian).
Book presentation: It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-
Soviet Russia. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. NYU Jordan Center for
the Advanced Studies of Russia, October 6, 2020. Delivered remotely.
“How to Conduct Fieldwork as a Humanities Scholar – and Fund It.” Graduate student
training session. Harvard University. Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
March 8-9, 2018.
“Post-Soviet Nationalism and Protest Culture.” Davidson College. November 15, 2018.
“Envisioning a Post-Historical Russian Empire: Aleksandr Dugin’s Eurasia Movement as
an Aesthetic-Political Project (selections).” Brown University. February 4, 2016.
Invited Talks (20-30 mins.)
“Russian Emigration: The Fifth Wave in Context.” Roundtable. University of Maryland,
College Park. The Fifth Wave: Contemporary Russian Culture and Exile. November 8, 2024.
“The Authenticity of Experience: Contemporary Russian Art and Radical Politics”
Understanding Authenticity in Cultural Heritage: China and Beyond. Oxford University,
22-24 June, 2022. Delivered remotely.
“Epifantsev’s Biopolitical Performance, or, Transgression as a Source of Identity.”
Performance Geographies after Communism. University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 9-
10, 2022.
“Legacies of the Left.” Roundtable. Yale University. Pointed Words: Poetry and Politics
in the Global Present. November 30, 2018.
“On Russian Conservative Postmodernism, Neo-Eurasianism, and the American Alt-
Right.” Harvard University. Cultures of Protest in Russia. March 8-9, 2018.
“Conservative Ideology or Protest Culture? National-Bolshevism as a Social Practice.”
Yale University. Russian Politics Beyond the Kremlin. November 4-5, 2016.
“Envisioning a Post-Historical Russian Empire: Aleksandr Dugin’s Eurasia Movement as
an Aesthetic-Political Project (selections).” Locating ‘Conservative Ideology’ in Today’s
Russia. Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. The George Washington
University. March 31, 2016.
“Envisioning a Post-Historical Russian Empire: Aleksandr Dugin’s Eurasia Movement as
an Aesthetic-Political Project (selections).” Yale University. Workshop: Utopia after
Utopia: Politics and Aesthetics in the Post-Socialist World. March 5, 2016.
Conference Papers and Roundtables
Left Perspectives on Cultures of Decline II: Cultural Biopolitics in
Post-Soviet Russia. Roundtable. ASEEES 56th Annual Convention. Boston, MA. November
2024.
“Anti-Globalism, Resistance, and the Paradox of Identity in Post-Soviet Russia.” In Event:
Right-Left Encounters and Russian Political Culture. Lightning Round. ASEEES 55th
Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 2023.
“Gendered Aesthetics of the Post-Soviet Far Right.” Roundtable (Virtual). ASEEES 53rd
Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA. November 18-21; December 1-3, 2021 (virtual
portion).
“The Ambivalent Charm of Bespredel: The Dream of the 1990s is Alive Among Russian
Nationalists.” ASEEES 51st Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. November 23-26,
2019.
“Geopolitical Aesthetics and Fiction in Politics of the 1990s and Beyond.” Roundtable.
ASEEES 51st Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. November 23-26, 2019.
“(Digital) Manuscripts Don’t Burn: Archiving the Post-socialist 1990s.” Roundtable.
ASEEES 49th Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. November 9-12, 2017.
“Envisioning a Post-Historical Russian Empire: The Eurasia Movement as an Aesthetic-
Political Project (selections).” ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA.
November 19-22, 2015.
“Post-Soviet Political Performance: Counterculture, State Power, and Mainstream”
(Roundtable). ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. November 19-22,
2015.
“Making post-Soviet Counterpublics: The Aesthetics of Limonka and the National-
Bolshevik Party (selections).” Utopia after Utopia: Politics and Aesthetics in the Post-
Socialist World. Faculty Seminar. Yale University. October 15, 2015.
“Making post-Soviet Counterpublics: The Aesthetics of Limonka and the National-
Bolshevik Party (selections).” ASEEES 46th Annual Convention. San Antonio, TX.
November 20-23, 2014.
“On the Relationship between French New Wave and the Soviet Cinema of the Thaw.”
ASEEES 45th Annual Convention. Boston, MA. November 21-24, 2013.
“‘Theatricality,’ Propaganda and the Emergence of Mass Media between the Wars:
Nikolai Evreinov’s ‘Samoe Glavnoe’ and Marcel L’Herbier’s ‘La Comédie du Bonheur.’”
ASEEES 43rd Annual Convention. Washington, DC. November 17–20 2011.
