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Almira Ousmanova
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Barbara Falk
Dr. Barbara Falk holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Victoria, a MA and PhD from York University, and an MSL (Master of Studies in Law) from the University of Toronto. She is the Director of Academics and Head of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. Barbara has been teaching post-secondary education for the last 10 years, most recently at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, where she is a Fellow of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and teaches in the MA International Relations Programme.
Dr. Falk’s areas of research and teaching specialization include contemporary political philosophy; Cold War history; the politicization of justice; theories of war and terrorism; post-9/11 debates on international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict; comparative security and terrorism law; contemporary public policy in Canada,, the United States, and Central and Eastern Europe; paradigms of transitional justice; and debates regarding globalization and global governance. In 2002 she published the first thorough and comparative account of dissident theory and activism under communism, entitled The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe: Citizen Intellectuals and Philospher-Kings.
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Danielle Aubert
Danielle Aubert (B.A. 1998, English, University of Virginia; M.F.A. 2005, Graphic Design, Yale University) has worked as a graphic designer in New York, Moscow and Detroit. She worked at the Art.Lebedev Studio in Moscow from 2001-02. From 2006-08 she was the graphic designer for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work has been featured in various exhibitions and publications including Adbusters, Metropolis, Wired, and the Korean magazine Design. She has received a Type Director's Club award, an Art Director's Club award and two Adobe Design Achievement awards for her work. Her book, 16 Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel, was published in 2006 by Various Projects. She taught studio classes in graphic design and a history of graphic design course at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She will join the faculty of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University in Detroit in the Fall of 2008.
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Helen Petrovsky
PhD, is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. She is member of the Russian Anthropological School (Russian State University for the Humanities) and the Russian Institute for Cultural Studies. Her major fields of interest are contemporary philosophy, visual anthropology , North American literature and culture. She is author of Part of the World (1995), Eye's Delight (1997), The Unapparent. Essays on the Philosophy of Photography (2002), and Anti-photography (2003). She has edited a number of volumes, including Jacques Derrida in Moscow: The Deconstruction of a Travel (1993) and Bachelors by Rosalind Krauss (2004). She is compiler, editor and co-translator of Jean-Luc Nancy's Corpus (1999), and Gertrude Stein's selected writings (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Picasso. Lectures in America, 2001). Since 2002 she is editor-in-chief of the biannual theoretical journal Sinij Divan.
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Imre Szeman
is Senator William McMaster Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, where he has taught since 1999. He is the recipient of the John Polanyi Prize in Literature (2000), Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2003), the Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization (2004, for the Institute on Globalization), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2005-7) and the David Douglas Duncan Fellowship (2006-7). He is a co-founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). Szeman is editor (with Richard Cavell) of Cultural Spaces, a book series published by University of Toronto Press, as well as co-editor of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies and associate editor of Politics and Culture. He is the recipient of three Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grants (2001-2004; 2002-2007; 2006-2009). Szeman has been a visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo (2004), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2005-2006) and Central European University in Budapest (2006, 2007).
Dr. Szeman's main areas of research are in postcolonial studies, globalization, contemporary culture, and social and cultural theory. He is author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) and co-author of Popular Culture: A User's Guide (Nelson, 2004; second edition forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, Second edition, chosen as one the outstanding academic books of 2005 by Kirkus Review and Choice), Global-Local Consumption (Sage, forthcoming) and Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, forthcoming). He has published more than fifty articles and book chapters on globalization, cultural studies, and cultural theory, and has edited special issues of Essays on Canadian Writing (1999), Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (2002, 2007) and South Atlantic Quarterly (2001). Current projects include a second edition of Popular Culture: A User's Guide, an edited volume, Cultural Theory: An Anthology, and a book on the cultural politics of contemporary anti-Americanisms around the world.
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Jessie Labov
is n Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University in 2004. Her dissertation, "Reinventing Central Europe: Cross Currents and the Émigré Writer in the 1980s," traces an intellectual history of dissidents and writers speaking from exile in the West as they reintroduced a mythical and utopic region known as "Central Europe" located beyond the concepts of East and West. From 2004-2007 she was at Stanford in the Humanities Fellows Program, where she taught courses such as: "The Austro-Hungarian Grotesque," "In the Absence of Authority: Russian, Polish and Hungarian Cinema, 1988-2003," "Underground Literatures and Unofficial Cultures" and "The Encyclopedia as Literature." At OSU she is teaching 19th-century Polish literature and a survey course on Central European literature.
Parallel research interests have led to articles on auteurism in film and on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog, as well as a new research project on the future of European identity in film. Jessie also initiated a research group on "The Open Source Canon" which explores the possible connections between canon formation and open source systems. For the last three years, she has been a co-organizer of an international project on cross-border publishing, which culminated in the conference "From Samizdat to Tamizdat: Dissident Media Crossing Borders Before and After 1989" in September 2006 in Vienna, Austria. Ongoing publishing projects include a book manuscript entitled "Transatlantic Central Europe" and an edited volume of essays on Samizdat and Tamizdat.
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Jonathan Flatley
is Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Virginia, where he was director of the Modern Studies Program. He is author of Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism, co-editor of Pop Out: Queen Warhol and editor of the forthcoming Warhol in Moscow: Essays on Art and Mass Culture.
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Karoly Timari
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Kathryn Mathe
Studied and now specialises in the
design of information resources for the humanities. She is currently involved in the development of several online resources at the OSA in Budapest. One such project, which is headed by Dr. Ann Komaromi from the University of Toronto and funded
by the Canadian SSHRC, is to build an online union catalogue and digital repository of
samizdat periodicals, publications produced and circulated in underground networks in the former Eastern Bloc. The database is being developed under the aegis of the
International Samizdat [Research] Association.
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Libora Oates-Indruchova
Dr. Libora Oates-Indruchová is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno.
She has a habilitation in literature from the Szeged University, and holds a
PhD in English from the University of Lancaster, as well as an MA in
Contemporary Literary Studies from the same university, and an undergraduate
Master’s degree in English Language and Literature, and Sports Science from
Charles University in Prague.
Her
research interests include censorship, cultural representations of gender and
narrative research. She also completed a project on the body in physical
culture and sports. Her research has been funded, among others, by the Czech
Science Foundation, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Andrew
Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundation, and the British Council. She
currently holds a Marie Curie Fellowship awarded by the European Commission for
a research project on post-1989 narratives of state-socialist academic publishing
and censorship. The project focuses on the strategies of professional survival,
the relationship of researchers to the ideologised language of the time, and
the politics of memory in personal narratives.
Dr. Oates-Indruchová
published a book on the Discourses of Gender in Pre-and Post-1989 Czech
Culture and is the editor of two
anthologies of feminist thought and feminist literary theory in Czech
translation.
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Maria Whiteman
Maria Whiteman (B.A., North Carolina, M.F.A., Penn State) is an artist, photographer and writer based in Hamilton, Ontario. She has taught Multimedia and Studio Art at McMaster University, where she currently teaches Visual and Cultural Studies. She has exhibited recently at Transit Gallery (Hamilton), McMaster University Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum (Helsinki). In addition to writing several catalogue essays, she has published in Resources for Feminist Research and contributed the entry on “Visual Culture” to the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (2005). Current projects include Critical Peripateticism, a multimedia project she began in 2007 during a two-month residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
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Mikhail Uvarov
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Institute for Humanities (St. Petersburg State University, Russia). An expert in the field of the theory of knowledge, philosophical and religious anthropology, philosophy of culture, and history of music. Dr. Uvarov’s primary area of research is the relationship between Russian and European cultural paradigms. In recent years (2001-2007) he has published several works devoted to problems of ontology of culture, multicultural education, and to the role of Christianity in contemporary culture. Dr. Uvarov is a participant and organizer of many international philosophical conferences and congresses (Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Denmark, Germany, USA, Poland, Hungary, Italy). He has published more than 250 research articles in Russian, English, Finnish, and Portuguese (1983-2007) as well as 7 monographs. He is an active member of international societies and associations on aesthetics, semiotics, and Christian education.
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Olga Zaslavskaya
joined the OSA as an archivist for Slavic languages and Samizdat archives curator in 1996. From 1987-1993 she taught courses on philosophy, social sciences and aesthetics in universities of the Altai region. She has taken an active part in organizing several exhibitions, including Forced Labour Camps (GULAG), Prague 1968 and The TypeWriter Exhibition on samizdat and has participated in the organization of the Curriculum Resource Center sessions in cooperation with CEU History Department. She has been an essential contributor to the establishment of the IS[R]A network and since September 2005 has been involved in strengthening the focus of OSA on the promotion of alternative culture. Her current research interests include problems of creativity and cognition, problems of alternative culture and the samizdat phenomenon.
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Petra Rethman
is Associate professor of Anthropology at McMaster University and an Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also a faculty member with the Institute on Globallization and the Human Condition, and the Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Program at McMaster University.
Petra Rethmann focuses her research in two main areas: Russia and South Africa. Over the past decade, she has devoted her attention to thinking about a number of inter-related issues and questions concerning: the relationship between aesthetics and desire; histories of the revolution and their place in contemporary political cultures (with a special view to Russia and South Africa); the relationship between radicalism and mediation; contemporary cultures of memory and nostalgia; and theoretizations of gender.
culture.
She is the author of Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East (Penn State Press, 2001) and co-editor of Globality, Autonomy and Culture(UBS Press, in preparation, in addition to numerous articles which have appeared in journals such as American Ethnologist, Cultural Critique, Interventions and Public Culture. NeedMore yes
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Sergey Chebanov
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