INVITED LECTURES
“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
“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
“Gendered Aesthetics of the Post-Soviet Far Right.” Roundtable (Virtual). ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA. November 18-21; December 1-3 (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.
PANELS CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED
“Naming the Enemy: Conspiracy Theories in Post-Soviet Russia.” ASEEES 50th Annual Convention, Boston, MA. December 6-9, 2018 (Panel discussant).
“Radical Politics, Radical Selves IV: Global Trends and Nationalist Discourses in Post- Soviet Art and Politics.” ASEEES 48th Annual Convention, Washington, DC. November 17-20, 2016 (Panel discussant and organizer).
“Imagined Empires: Art, Ideology, and the Post-Soviet Quest for the Russian Idea.” ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. November 19-22, 2015 (Co- organizer).
“Post-Soviet Political Performance: Counterculture, State Power, and Mainstream.” ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. November 19-22, 2015 (Roundtable organizer).
“Post-Soviet Political Performance I: Ballet.” ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. November 19-22, 2015 (Co-organizer).
“Post-Soviet Political Performance II: Theater.” ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. November 19-22, 2015 (Co-organizer).
“Post-Soviet Political Performance III: Performance Art.” ASEEES 47th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. November 19-22, 2015 (Co-organizer).
“Postsocialist Publics and Counterpublics I: Disengagement and Radicalism.” ASEEES 46th Annual Convention. San Antonio, TX. November 20-23, 2014 (Co-organizer).
“Postsocialist Publics and Counterpublics II: Challenges to Western
Democracy.” ASEEES 46th Annual Convention. San Antonio, TX. November 20-23, 2014 (Co-organizer and chair).
“Postsocialist Publics and Counterpublics III: The Everyday Life of Discourse.” ASEEES 46th Annual Convention. San Antonio, TX. November 20-23, 2014 (Co-organizer).
“Challenges in Film Historiography III: Writing History of ‘Other’ Cinematic Modes.” ASEEES 45th Annual Convention. Boston, MA. November 21-24, 2013 (Chair).