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Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49

Postal address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration

Department Head – Adrian A. Selin

Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov

Public lectures by the faculty of the department of history

Public lectures

Research

About the Department

The Department of History was created in 2012. The overarching goal of the department is systematic development of the field of global, comparative, and transnational history as a potent tool of overcoming the limitations of national history canon, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of social sciences and humanities, and brining new public relevance to historical knowledge. The department mission includes the development of new type of historical undergraduate and graduate education in Russia and pioneering new research fields in Russian historiography in dialogue with the global historical profession.

Publications

Book

Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al.

L.: Routledge, 2023.

Article

The Russian Civil War after 100 Years: Within and Beyond the Historiographical Front Lines

Alexander V. Reznik.

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 3. P. 644-658.

Book chapter

The Stolbovo Treaty and Tracing the Border in Ingria in 1617–1618

Adrian Selin.

In bk.: Sweden, Russia, and the 1617 Peace of Stolbovo. Vol. 14. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024. P. 99-118.

Working paper

The Image of the Past in Ciro Spontone’s ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021

All publications

Delivered by:: Department of History

Type:: Minor

When:: 3, 4 module

Instructors

Kasatkina, Aleksandra

Masagutova, Maria

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

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Abstract

This final paper of the social anthropology minor links two themes of this course. The first is political anthropology that looks at hierarchies and relations of power. The second is the linguistic turn (‘writing culture’) of the 1980s that marked a radical shift from ‘classical’ to ‘contemporary’ anthropology. It did so by looking not just the anthropology of home, rather than far away places, but also at the social and political relations between anthropologists and the people, communities and relationships that they studied. This put forward the relations of power between the observer and the observed, and also paved the way to the current prominence of such theorists as Foucault. This course takes this ‘home’ also by looking at case studies from Russia/Eastern Europe.

Learning Objectives

This is a concluding course in the social anthropology minor. Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory and to provide a comprehensive overlook of key anthropological theories.

Expected Learning Outcomes

A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
Able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis

Course Contents

The field, the site and the scale.
Anthropology since the 1980s.
Schmitt and Agamben
Faces of surveillance (anthropology of anthropology)
Distributed personhood

Assessment Elements

attendance
project essay

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 4th module
0.5 * attendance + 0.5 * project essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558
Mihail Petrovich Ostromenskij. (2016). K. Schmitt’s Theory of Partisan: Socio - Political Eventuality of Partisan. Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, (5), 86. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.5889aed8a4a14949b9e07a50f0195069
Sherry B. Ortner. (2008). Anthropology and Social Theory : Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Duke University Press Books.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

An inquiry into modes of existence : an anthropology of the moderns, Latour, B., 2013

Authors

Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai VLADIMIROVICH
LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA

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