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Aleksandra Kleschina
(Russia, Ekaterinburg,), researcher in the theory and history of Cultural Studies; assistant lecturer at the Ural State University, Department of Art History and Cultural Studies; Chair of Cultural Studies. Her academic interests include the problem of multiculturalism in light of the contemporary American cultural situation and with respect to the contemporary situation in Russia; inter-ethnic, inter-national and inter-cultural relationships in Russia related to globalization and the collapse of the USSR and with a focus on intercultural communication studies and the problems of intercultural sensitivity and competence development; the problem of identity, its crisis and construction, in the context of liquid modernity. She is currently teaching courses in Foundations of Intercultural Communication and American Culture: from its origins till present.
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Alexander Soloviev
Associate Professor, Chair of Cultural Studies, Department of Russian Language Studies and National Culture, Ryazan State University, Ryazan, Russia.
Courses Taught
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Philosophy of Culture
- Applied Cultural Studies
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Alexei Penzin
(Russia, Moscow), PhD, research associate in the Sector of Analytical Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. He contributes regularly to philosophy and humanities journals. His major fields of interest are the critical re-evaluation of philosophical anthropology, contemporary interpretations of Marxist thought, operaist theories of post-fordism, and the interconnections of art and political praxis. His current project is a book on cultural representations of sleep in the context of the bio-political regulations of life under late capitalism. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary group "Chto Delat / What is to be done?", which works in the space between theory, art, and political activism.
Courses:
Winter 2008 "Art and Politics: An Introduction" at Moscow institute of contemporary art;
Autumn 2008 A course on Guy Debord (exact title tba) at Russian School of Anthropology, RGGU.
Projects:
"Capitalism as Religion?" - Series of conferences and workshops at National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, spring - autumn 2008.
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Alisa Prudnikova
(Yekaterinburg, Russia), art theorist, curator, critic. Member of the Art Critics and Art Historians Association (AIS). Editor-in-Chief of ZAART, a magazine for the creators and consumers of art which is dedicated to the analysis of the cultural situation in the Ural region. As an independent and conceptual magazine ZAART serves as a forum for contemporary discourses. Works as an assistant lecturer at the Ural State Gorky University, Department of Art History and Cultural Studies. Courses taught: Introduction to Contemporary Art, History of 20th-Century Art, Project Management in Cultural Organizations. Currently working on PhD entitled “Representation and Technological Mediation of the Body in Art”.
Curator of numerous local and international art projects; organizer of and participant in more than 10 international conferences. Her academic interests include new technologies in art, the artist’s body, media, performance, bioart, new aesthetics, tolerance, problems of national and local identity, public art strategies, creative industries, and contemporary art institutions, missions, objectives and strategies of development.
Since 2005 has been the director of the Yekaterinburg Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Russia).
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Andrew Pendakis
(Toronto, Canada). Completed my Masters Degree in Critical Theory at the Centre for Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. I am presently completing my Ph.D in Cultural Studies at McMaster University. My dissertation, entitled "Tropologies of the Middle: Centrist Subjectivity and the Historical Ontology of Neoliberalism", is an attempt to chronicle the centre as a cultural nexus singularly actualized in the afterbirth of the geo-structural and institutional transformations of the 1980s. Through a close reading of The Economist from 1970-2008 my hope is to draw at a speed of decades some working picture of the convergences, reversals, and antinomies congenital to the historical inter-penetration of neoliberal economic theory and a centrist mise-en-scene it ultimately relies upon for a grammatical elan of balance, skepticism, post-positionality etc. I am particularly interested in the authority effects and near impermeable legitmacy of a transnational centrism which has the capacity to appear simultaneously objective, cynical, disciplined, colloquial, wicked, liberal, "radical", and measured. My project attempts to navigate that delicate space between critique and sympathy, a necessary Marxist intractability and a listening which tries to hears in a language that is despised the clockwork and ticking of its seductiveness. My interests lie primarily within the ambit of 20th C Marxist philosophy and experimentation; communisms past, present, and future; points of contact between political economy and cultural studies; histories of capitalist temporality and subjectivity; as well as the politics and popular social histories of Latin America, with special interests in Venezuela, Argentina, and Cuba. I spent one impossibly perfect year between Caracas and Merida in two trips to Venezuela between 2005 and 2007.
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Anna Eremeeva
(Russia, Krasnodar), professor in the History and Museum Studies Department at the University of Culture and Arts (Krasnodar, Russia). She received her doctoral degree in History at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences. She has written three books entitled Under the Roar of Civil Storms...; Artistic Life in Southern Russia 1917-1920 / Pod rokot grazhdanskikh bur', and Khudozhestvennaia zhizn' Iuga Rossii v 1917-1920 gody as well as several dozens articles on various subjects. Her present research interest is connected to alternative culture in late socialism. She leads a group which won the 2007 Course Development Competition (CEU, Budapest) with the project "Alternative Culture as a Space for Communication under Socialism".
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Anna Piotrowska
(Poland, Krakow) studied musicology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland and Durham University in the United Kingdom. She also pursued her post-graduate studies at the Center for American Studies at Jagiellonian University. In 2002 she defended her PhD on the idea of nationalism in American music. She is an associate professor in the Chair? of Theory and Anthropology of Music at the Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her primary interest lies in the sociological and cultural aspects of musical life. Currently she is working on a project entitled “Stereotype of Gypsy Music in European Culture”.
Anna Piotrowska has actively participated in many international conferences in Copenhagen, Vilnius, Tbilisi, Kraków, among others. She was awarded several fellowships from universities in the United Kingdom as well as from the Central European University in Budapest. She is the author of the book The Idea of National Music in the Works of American Composers of the Early Twentieth Century and has written about thirty articles (in both Polish and English) on musical culture.
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Arne Hintz
Arne Hintz is Program Director of the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. Before, he was a research fellow at the Research Centre Media and Politics at the University of Hamburg. He studied Economics, Political Science and International Political Economy at the Universities of Hamburg, Germany, and Warwick, UK, and he holds a PhD in Political Science.
He has worked as a journalist and with start-up Internet services, and he has been a media activist with alternative online media, community radio and media campaigns such as Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS). He participated as a community media expert in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and he is a Board member of the Community Media Forum Europe. Arne Hintz is a member of several international research associations and collaborations, including the OURMedia network and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and he is on the Steering Committee of the IAMCR's Global Media Policy WorkingGroup.
Arne's core research interests are media and communication policy, global governance, community/alternative/activist media, civil society and social movements.
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Balázs Bodó
(Hungary, Budapest), economist, assistant lecturer, researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communications, Center for Media Research and Education since 2001.
Fulbright visiting researcher at Stanford Law School. Non-residential fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford in 2006-2007. Project leader for Creative Commons Hungary.
His academic interests include the socio-cultural impacts of new media, media regulation, online communities, copyright piracy, peer-to-peer file sharing communities, underground libraries and digital archives. Has led the development of several commercial internet applications as well as numerous academic research projects dealing with digital archives, e-learning and online communities.
Editor and member of the board (2004-2006) of the Budapest-based community radio Tilos.
He has taught courses in Sociology and Economy of New Media, Transfer of Knowledge using Digital Media, Arts and Communications, Public art, street art, subversive uses of urban public spaces, Media Economics, Network Economics, Legal and Economic Infrastructures of Culture Production and Distribution, Intercultural Communications, History of Media and Communications.
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Benjamin Cope
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Brian Willems
Brian is assistant professor of literature at the University of Split, Croatia. brianwillems@gmail.com
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Camelia Craciun
studied literature and history at Brasov, Bucharest and Budapest. She was previously teaching assistant at the University of Brasov and a cultural journalist working for various publications in Romania. She is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis on Jewish Romanian intellectual history in the interwar period and for the 2006 / 2007 academic year she has been Chevening Scholar at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. She is also a contributor to the The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Jeffrey Edelstein and Gershon David Hundert, editors, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and McGill University, Yale University Press, 2009. Currently she is junior fellow at CAS, Sofia (within the project Regimes of Historicity) and teaching Eastern European Jewish Culture at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.
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Christiana Mauro
(Hungary) is pursuing graduate studies in Comparative Constitutional Law on fellowship from Central Eastern University. She studied Philosophy (BA) and Fine Arts (BFA) at Concordia University and holds a BA in Psychology and Humanistic Studies from McGill University. She completed her MA in International Relations & European Studies at the Institute for Social & European Studies (Corvinus University of Budapest). Her current interests are centred on the attitudinal theory of expressive law as it relates to the perception of immigrants and security threats in Europe. She has been involved in advocacy on behalf of migrants, diversity and privacy protection. She works as coordinator of the IACC and is assisting with projects at the Open Society Archives.
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Dzmitri Korenko
(Belarus), cultural theorist in mind, social activist at heart; doctoral student at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Warsaw);
Academic background:
- graduate degree in Cultural Studies at the European Humanities University (Minsk)
- M.A. degree in Culture and Society from the Center for Social Studies (Lancaster-Warsaw)
- In 2004-2006, participant in the HESP project “Re-Thinking Cultural and Visual Studies” (www.viscult.by.com)
- Over 2006-2007, visiting researcher at Southwestern College (Winfield, Kansas) while assisting in setting up the Center for Belarusian Studies
Academic interests include the problematic of mobility within contemporary social theory; the interconnections between new media studies, critical investigations of social space, visual studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory; the development of alternative political communication in the contemporary Belarusian socio-cultural context.
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Ekaterina Taratuta
(Russia, St.Petersburg), PhD, philosopher, philologist, writer; senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Political Sciences at the St. Petersburg State University since 2004; docent in the Department of Communication Technologies at the Nevskii Institute of Language and Culture since 2004. She is the author of academic books: The Y City. Semantics and Mythology of a Soviet Heliopolis (in progress, to be published by the Ibidem Verlag, Germany, in 2007-2008) (In English); Philosophy of Virtual Reality. St.Petersburg State University Publishing, 2007 (in Russian); and fiction books: Hundred and One Minutes. Publishing House “Krasnyj Matros”, St. Petersburg, 2007 (In Russian); Sasha Sauv (pseudonym). The General Hygiene by Dr. Andreas (forthcoming, Publishing House “Vector”, St. Petersburg) (In Russian); Fishes and Frogs (forthcoming in 2007) (in Russian). Her academic interests include the social philosophy of virtual reality, technologies and communications; languages of communications; social philosophy of cities and city semiotics.
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Elena Golovneva
(Russia, Ekaterinburg) graduated from the Omsk State University in 2000. She completed post-graduate studies and teaching work in the Philosophy Department at the Omsk State Technical University 2001-2004. In 2004 she defended her thesis “Phenomenon of Ethnic Self-Consciousness and It's Structure”. Currently she works at the Ural State Technical University (Ekaterinburg) in the Cultural Studies and Design Department. Her scientific interests include ethnic and regional identity, cross-cultural research, theories of cultural analysis. Her current work is concerned with the contemporary subculture panorama with a case-study of non-traditional religious groups and, stemming from this, novel forms of culture in Western Siberia. She has thirteen published scientific papers (articles and abstracts) and was a contributor to a published text book for students. She is a participant in many international science conferences in Novosibirsk, Kazakhstan, etc., including a conference at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany in December 2006.
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Friederike Kind-Kovács
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Gorkem Akgoz
is a Ph. D. candidate at State University of New York at Binghamton, Departmen of Sociology. She received her Master's degree from the same university in 2005. She got her bachelor's degree from Middle East Technical University, Department of Sociology in 2003.
Her areas of interests are historical sociology and political economy of culture. Right now, she is conducting archival research at International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam for her dissertation project titled 'Rethinking Proletarianization through the Turkish Case: A Social History of Proletarianization under Etatism.' The project aims to shed light on the social history of the proletarianization process during the early Republican era in Turkey by linking two fields of study: political economy and cultural studies.
Classes taught at SUNY Binghamton include Social Problems in the US and Social Inequality. She plans to teach two courses in near future. The first course is titled "Contesting Modernities: History, Historiography and the Novel in Twentieth Century Turkey" and it discusses selected Turkish novels as constituents of alternative narrations of modernity in twentieth century Turkey.
The second course is tentatively titled as "Conceptualizing the Emergence of Working-Class as a Forming and Formative Process: The Case of Turkey in the 1930s and 40s." She has been working on this course project lately.
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György Tury
(Hungary), Ph.D. in Literary Studies, a graduate of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in English (M.A.) and Aesthetics (M.A.), he is currently employed in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Pécs (assistant professor) and at the Institute of Journalism and Media Studies of the Budapest College of Communication and Business Studies (associate professor). He has been a visiting fellow at the following institutions: the British Library, the J.F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin, the University of Oklahoma (Fulbright), UC Irvine, Columbia University (Fulbright) and Cornell University. His publications include book chapters and journal articles, both in English and in his native Hungarian.
In the framework of the project Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization, I intend to focus on recent phenomena in the culture and arts scenes in the ECE region with special emphasis upon Hungary. Specifically, I will examine the ethical and political implications of contemporary alternative cultures. The key questions and problems to be addressed are: in the disorganized, disaggregated worlds of globalization, can we now speak of alternative culture in the singular what new understanding might be had of the phenomena of commodification and cooptation? what are the basic differences between the alternative cultures of the ECE region and North America? what part do the anti- and alternative globalization movements play today in the way we construe alternative cultures? in what ways are contemporary alternative cultures embedded in their historical context, especially in the ECE region? how and to what extent are today's alternative cultures politicized and activist?
In this academic year I have taught various courses related to alternative culture. At the University of Pecs I have had an introductory course to Cultural Studies, and a graduate class on "The Culture of Neoliberalism." At the Budapest College of Communication and Business Studies I have taught the following courses related to our work in the project: "Intercultural Communication," "Cross-Cultural Communication," and "Cultural Studies, Communication, and the Media."
In the next academic year (2008/09) I plan to create and teach new classes as well, partly based on the work that we are to carry out in the spring and summer period.
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Hajrudin Hromadzic
(Slovenia), received PhD in the Anthropology of Everyday Life and Media Studies in 2004. Currently, he collaborates as a teacher with the Department of Media Studies at the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH) / Graduate School of Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia and with the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Art, Zagreb, Croatia. He has published numerous scientific articles in the fields of media and cultural studies. His fields of academic interest include media anthropology and new media technologies, the anthropology of consumerism, the anthropology of everyday life, and cultural studies.
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Heidi Johansson
(Finland), coordinator and lecturer for the Masters Program in Intercultural Encounters at the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland; freelance lecturer in literary studies; freelance journalist and columnist for various cultural magazines. She studied at the University of Helsinki as well as at colleges and universities in the United States and Australia and attended courses at universities in China, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
She has worked as a project coordinator for a project on arts in healthcare as well as an EU-sponsored project concerning diversity in the field of arts. She also worked for the indigenous university "kawsay" in Ecuador 2002.
Her academic interests include ideologies of "multiculturalism" and diversity; multiethnic (youth) slang and code-switching; "the immigrant author"/diversity questions in the field of literature and media; suburban movements and development; life-narratives and nationalism; and tourism.
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Helena Popovic
(Croatia) graduated from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb (2004) and holds an M.A. in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Central European University in Budapest (2005). She also completed a one-year programme at the Centre for Women's Studies in Zagreb (2003). She is a PhD candidate at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Communication in Slovenia, where she works on her thesis Audience, Text, Context: Television Comedy and Social Critique. Helena is currently employed as a teaching assistant at the Department of Journalism in the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She is involved in the courses Introduction to Media Systems and Media Genres of Popular Culture. She also works on the project Media Culture in Contemporary Croatia: Pluralism of the Media and Media Policies, which is financed by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports in Croatia. She was previously employed as a research fellow at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for International Relations on the project Media, Communication and the Cultural Aspects of Civil Society (2004-2007). In this period, she also worked on several research projects on media policy in Croatia.
Her research interests, in a broad sense, include media and communication studies, and more specifically, audience reception, media genres, visual communication and gender representation in the media.
Helena is a member of the CEU Alumni Association, Croatian Sociological Association. European Communication Research and Education Association and International Communication Association.
Foreign languages: English, Swedish, German.
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Ilya Budratskis
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Ivor A Stodolsky
Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute
Doctoral Candidate Dep. of Russian (Prof. Pesonen), Helsinki University
Aleksanteri Conference Organiser
http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2007/
Co-Curator, "Raw Materials", Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma
MRes (London) BA (Bristol),
Expertise: Recent Russian creative intelligentsia history and art; socio-cultural theory; identity- and geopolitics; philosophy.
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Justin Sully
(Hamilton, Canada) Graduate student in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. My current research and dissertation examines how population aging exposes new and familiar contradictions in the social reproduction of capitalism. Research interest that are sutured in various ways to this problem are histories of demography and population control, crises of reproduction in science fiction films, the epic genealogical novel and a host of topics in Marxist and materialist feminist thought. Other, unrelated areas of interest that are currently shelved, but remain seeds for future projects include experimental documentary film from the Dziga Vertov Group to the present, a narratology of twentieth century prison writing, and all manner of topic emerging out of the coupling of new media and contemporary social movements. Alongside my academic life, I spend time fiddling with software and collecting unusual media.
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Kate Coyer
Kate Coyer is post-doctoral research fellow with the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University (CEU). She teaches course in global media, civil society and resistance at both universities. Kate received her PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2006, Her PhD research was a comparative study of community radio in Britain and the US, and she is currently examining community broadcasting policies across Europe.
She is an occasional contributor to the alternative news site Indymedia.org and London’s Resonance FM, and has conducted radio production workshops and trainings in many parts of the world. She has been producing radio and organising media campaigns for the past twenty years and has helped build community radio stations in the US and Tanzania with the Prometheus Radio Project. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Radio Studies Network. Her recent publications include the Handbook of Alternative Media (co-edited, Routledge, 2007), chapters in Battleground: the Media (Greenwood Press, 2007), Global Media, Global Activism (Pluto, 2005), and News Inc: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy (co-authored with Pete Tridish), and a policy brief on community radio in the journal Global Media and Communications. You can read her journal account of the station-building project in Tanzania at: www.prometheusradio.org/tanzania.shtml.
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Ksenia Golovko
(1979), PhD student, researcher in the Saint-Petersburg State University, the philosopher faculty.
Her academic interests include philosophy of Postmodern, cultural aspects of media. Academic research projects dealing with the problem of the author in the postmodern cultural, visual codes in the new media.
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Ksenia Polouektova
received her undergraduate degree in philology from the joint program of Moscow State University and the University of Colorado at Denver. She has an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University (CEU) and an MA in Judaic Studies from the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on the history and theory of travel and travel writing in Russia at the History dept. of the CEU. As a Dorot Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington D.C., she collaborated on the center's Encyclopedia of Camps, Ghettos and other Detention Sites in Nazi-Dominated Europe. As a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest, she has written on the XXth c. narratives of exile and homecoming for an anthology of East Central European literary exile. Her work on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Russian-Jewish history 200 Years Together has just been published at the Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antsemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Liliana Milkova
Liliana Milkova is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently completing a dissertation on the connection between painting and photography in Soviet underground art in the 1970s. Her academic interests include art and propaganda, East European visual cultures, artistic forms of Samizdat, as well as global museum and curatorial practices. She organized the first US conference and workshop on Samizdat and alternative culture in the former Soviet bloc countries and is the co-editor of an upcoming volume on the topic. She has curated several exhibitions and published on post-socialist Bulgarian art.
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Maria Romashova
(Russia, Perm), PhD, assistant lecturer at Perm State University, Department of History and Political Science; member of Perm Regional Branch of the Russian Society of Intellectual History. The area of her academic interest embraces cultural studies, film studies, history of childhood, oral history, memory issues research. Now she is participating in several projects on the anthropology of Soviet childhood.
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Nadezhda Orlova
(Russia, St.Petersburg), Dr., professor (full time) in the Department of Cultural Studies at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She is an expert in the fields of philosophical and religious anthropology, bioethics, psychology, gender studies, and demographics and graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at St. Petersburg State University. Dr. Orlova's work is particularly concerned with the interrelation of Russian and European culture. Her research is devoted to problems of sex, gender, family, demography, and the role of Christianity in contemporary culture.
Dr. Orlova has participated in several international conferences and congresses on philosophy, cultural studies, and gender research held in Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Finland, and Poland. She has published more than 70 research works (1998-2008), including one monograph, and is a member of international associations on psychology, demography, bioethics, and political education.
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Natalia Melekhova
(Russia), post-graduate student and lecturer in the Theory of Communication and Advertising Department in the Faculty of Philology at Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. She is a member of the Russian Association of Researchers, University Lecturers and Teachers of Rhetoric. Her academic interests include the socio-cultural impact and specificity of mass media; mass and elite cultures; propaganda and audience manipulation; the problem of trust and evaluation of media information; media in the context of globalization; reality TV and the private sphere on television. At the moment she is working on the dissertation “Private and Public in Television Discourse”.
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Nina Sosna
(Russia, Moscow), researcher in the Department of Modern Philosophy at the Russian State Academy of Science); assistant lecturer at the Media Branch of the Russian State Humanitarian University; Rotary Scholar 2005-2006 at Frankfurt-am-Main Media Institute. Her academic interests lie in the sphere of visual studies, media and image theory. She is the author of numerous publications on contemporary art and theory.
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Ovidiu Tichindeleanu
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Sarah Blacker
is a PhD student in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. While my general research interests include cultural theory, globalization studies, and science studies, my dissertation project, “The 'Optimization' of Life and its Consequences: The Political Economy of Biotechnology,” identifies biology as the terrain upon which new markets for growth under late capitalism are envisioned. In this project, I look at the ways in which the biotech industry works to create an “optimized” form of life for maximal production. This project considers the worker’s body as a source of value generation and knowledge production in a late capitalist information economy. It looks, too, at globalization as a narrative legitimating a political economic project directed towards biology itself, thus resulting in significant epistemological transformations, including the redefinition of “life itself” as synonymous with market interests. I also examine how the cultural nature of the biotech industry escapes recognition, resulting in a widely-held understanding of the techniques and practices of biotechnology as benign applications of scientific knowledge and fact.
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Svetlana Chashchina
(Russia, Kirov), PhD, art historian, assistant professor in the Department of Design at the Kirov Branch of the Moscow Institute of Humanities and Economic Sciences. Her academic interests include both history of design and modern art in the second half of the twentieth century, and the practical aspects of developing contemporary art in contemporary conditions, primarily in the post-communist space. In spring 2008 she teach following courses in her Institution:
1. Expressive means of the screen;
2. History of Design, Science and Technology: the first half of XX century;
3. Culture and art history of the second half of XX century;
4. History of culture and art: ancient civilization of the Middle East;
5. History of culture and art: Byzantium and ancient Russia;
6. Culture and art history of of the Renaissance;
7. Culture and art history of the XVIII century.
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Svetlana Poleschuk
received her BA in cultural studies at the European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus. Now she is a doctorate student at the Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland, and her research is dedicated to art photography. She also works as a lecturer at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Arts and History of Culture. Her academic interests include semiotics and visual communication; history and theory of photography; sociology of art and cultural studies. Since February 2004 she has been an assistant in the HESP project Rethinking Visual and Cultural Studies, Minsk-Vilnius, www.visvult.ehu.lt. She is a member of Warsaw Visual Group at Collegium Civitas. Some texts on photography written by her can be found at http://svetapoleschuk.blogspot.com/
Courses taught:
“History and Theory of Photography” 2006/2007, 2007/2008
“(English) Terminology in Media and Communicative Design”,2006/2007, 2007/2008
“(English) Terminology in Arts”, 2007/2008
“(English) Terminology in Cultural Studies”, 2003/2004
Courses intended to teach:
“History and Theory of Photography” (approved)
“(English) Terminology in Arts” (approved)
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Tim Kaposy
Tim Kaposy (Bonn U., Germany). In 2003 I began my doctoral studies in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. My recently completed dissertation "An Ensemble of Need: On the Scale and Visual Culture of Dispossession" examines the ways in which (a) contemporary organizations of space and scale play a central role in the management of social, economic and political needs, and (b) histories and practices of visual culture are a necessary way of "making public" the processes whereby needs are expropriated from bodies and populations. Currently I am Visiting Assistant Professor in the North American Studies program at Bonn University where I am teaching courses pertaining to visual culture, critical theory, Canadian cultural theory and weltliteratur.
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Vahe Sahakyan
(Armenia, Erevan), sociologist, assistant professor, and senior researcher at the Laboratory for Applied Sociological Research at Yerevan State University; he has been teaching at the Department of Sociology of YSU since 2000.
His academic interests include ethnic identities; Armenian Sociology; globalization and nationalism; and sociology of education.
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Viktor Radchenko
Viktor Radchenko (European Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Donetsk, Ukraine) journalist, assistant professor and senior lecturer at EISES. He teaches Alternative Media, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Policy.
He has got his master degree in Economics from Donetsk National University (Ukraine) in 1997. He has also got his MA in Public Policy from Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (USA) in 2004.
Viktor works as a consultant on several media projects. Viktor works as a journalist with international magazine EON, writes for other online and offline magazines.
Among his interests are alternative media, public policy, economics, activism, new media etc.
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Yuriy Vulkovsky
(Bulgaria) is a cultural policy researcher and university teacher. Since 1994 he has been involved in a number of research and applied projects in the field of cultural policy; cultural management; mapping of the cultural sector; civic participation in policy making; the social impact of the arts; and more. Among these are “Mapping of the Bulgarian Cultural Sector” (2006); “The Social Impact of the Art and New-Media Festival in the Village of Bela Rechka” (2006); “Civic Support for Transparent and Effective Cultural Policy” (2006-2007); “Cultural Policy and Legislation: A New Approach to Sharing Responsibilities” (2003); “Technological Park Culture” (2001-2003); “Research on the Arts and Culture Sections of the Political Texts for Parliamentary Elections 1994” (1994). Since 1996 Yuriy Vulkovsky has taken part in international conferences and seminars on culture, cultural policy and general problems in the non-governmental sector held in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. His articles on cultural policy have been published in Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Romania and Russia. In 2005 he created the first Bulgarian website for cultural policy http://culturalpolicy.dir.bg/
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Zhanetta Cigankova
Hi everyone,
Here is my skype account – zhanettat. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about your trip in august to Split.
Cheers,
Zh
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