Europe-Asia Lecture 2000

Lecture cancelled Due to Visa trouble it is not possible for mr. Oushakine to travel to the Netherlands. He will be able to go to Glasgow, where on May 22, he will deliver his lecture in the University of Glasgow.

Serguei Oushakine, In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia: Symbolic Development in Contemporary Russia

Lecture on May 22, 2000 at the University of Glasgow

Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Tomsk, 1966) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of World and Russian History of Culture at Altai State Technical University (Barnaul, Altai Region, Russian Federation). He graduated from the Department of World History at Altai State University in 1988 and then worked on his dissertation on political dimensions of institutes of higher education at St. Petersburg State University, School of Philosophy (Department of Politology). In 1995 he received the degree of Candidate of Political Science. Currently, Oushakine works on his Doctoral thesis at Columbia University, Department of Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

In the scope of Oushakine's research interests are issues of mechanisms and processes of national/gender identity production in post-Soviet Russia. S. Oushakine is the leader of the group research project The Brains of Nations: Belorussian, Russian and Ukrainian Intelligentsia and the Fall of Communism funded by Research Support Scheme (OSI-Budapest). He also participates in a collective research project on The Country in Mind: Identity Development of Adolescents in Eastern Europe and Austria organized by the University of Vienna (Clinic of the Departments of Psychology and Psychotherapy).

Oushakine published about twenty articles on issues of political theory, sociology of consumption, and sociology of gender in Russian academic journals. His article on 'The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat' is forthcoming in Public Culture.