The CYS team participated in XXVI April International Academic Conference
The researchers of the Centre participated in XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin with the results of the projects about 'student' sciences, stand-up, and creativity of the youth of the North Caucasus.
XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin organised yearly by the Higher School of Economics took place in Moscow from April 14 to April 17. Researchers from the Centre for Youth Studies presented their session reports and posters on the first two days at the 'Sociology' session.
Members from the research team for the project 'At the Start of Academic Careers: Student Participation in Scientific Communities and Initiatives as a Vector for the Development of National Science', supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Irina Lisovskaya and Ekaterina Semenova took part in a poster session which is a format unusual for sociological conferences. The idea of the format is that the key results are presented on a static stand while the researcher is placed nearby being ready to talk more in-depth about their work or to explain unclear elements. Irina and Ekaterina talked about phenomenon of 'student' sciences. The concept about how students are often distanced from the 'adult' academic worlds and thus create their own with a variety of communities and frameworks of recognition. The most valuable comments turned out to be those from 'adult' researchers at the conference who noted how they themselves not always notice such a wide world of 'student' sciences.
Dmitrii Omelchenko alse participated with a poster. He presented his research 'STAND-UP IN RUSSIA: on the intersection between leisure and profession, laughter and lifechoices'. In his report he demonstrated 7 stages of a stand‑up comedian’s development, the markers of professionalization, and the risks associated with the profession. The stand‑up scene is a 'toxic' yet free professional environment that transforms the gender order in wage disparities..
Anastasiia Andreeva and Evgenia Kuziner in two reports presented the results of the project 'Resilience and creative potential of the youth of the North Caucasian region in the context of educational and labor migration', supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, at the session 'The prospects for social mobility, transformations of local identities and rootedness in a given area'. Anastasiia on the case of Stavropol which she visited as part of research expedition addressed the issue of strengthening resilience and local identity through young people’s participation in creative industry projects and their exercise of the 'right to the city'. Evgeniia continued the topic by comparing creative practices and plans of creative youth regarding mobility in five cities under study: Vladikavkaz, Nalchik, Pyatigorsk, Stavropol, and Cherkessk. Her report demonstrated that the youth of North Caucasus does not follow a simple logic of chhosing betwen 'leaving' or 'staying'. Instead they constantly balance between rootedness and mobility. Section consisted of two sessions but even then there was not enough room for the discussion which then was moved to a separate time slot. This way Anastasiia and Evgeniia were able to talk about local identities and participate in a discussion about creativity in non-capital areas with colleagues that research Northern and Arctic regions of Russia.
Conference also became an amazing opportunity for meetings and discussions with colleagues from Moscow, Kaliningrad, Petrozavodsk, and other cities. The joy of lively academic discussion and and the feeling of being a part of a huge professional community became main emotional outcome of the trip for the team.
