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August-December 2016:
August-November: reading secondary sources;
September: short research trip to St. Petersburg;
November 7: presentation on the use of new materialism in Soviet design studies at Cultural Transformations research programme, Aarhus University;
November 17-18: talk ‘From Nature-Style to Environmental Objects: Visions of Ecology in Leningrad Design, late 1970s-1980s’ at the annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies in Washington, DC
January – July 2017:
January 23: talk “Overcoming the Chaos of Forms: Some Remarks on Researching Soviet Product Design”at the Russian Studies seminar at Aarhus University;
February-March: two-month research trip to Moscow and St. petersburg.
Februar 23-25: participation in the conference All Things Living And Not: An Interdisciplinary Conference On Post-Anthropocentric Perspectives In Slavic Studies at The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, paper ""Portraits of Things and Bio-Plasticity: Materialities of the 1970s Soviet Decorative Art"";
May 9: paper “Soviet-Nordic design connections in the 1960s-1970s: forgotten history” at the department of Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University.
August 2017 – January 2018
August-November: completion of modules I and II of Teacher Training Course at Aarhus University.
September 7-9: participation in the Design History Society annual conference Making and Unmaking the Environment at the University of Oslo with the paper ""Environmental Design Pedagogy in Leningrad in the 1980s"".
October 11: guest lecture “Moscow Avant-Garde” in the course Urban Space and Representation in Russia, taught by Birgitte Pristed at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University
October 12: guest lecture ‘Late Soviet Design and Environmentalism’ in the course Culture and Nature in Russia: Between Ecology and Apocalypse, taught by Birgitte Pristed at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University.
October 13: informal talk on the Soviet debate about the principles of decorative art and design at the Friday seminar at School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University
November 13: open lecture “Common Principles? Visions of a socialist object in soviet industrial design and decorative art in the 1960s-70s” at the Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark.
November 21- December 5: second research trip to Moscow and Petersburg.
February- July 2018
March 8-9: with Birgitte Pristed (Aarhus University) and Olga Gurova (Aalborg University), convening an international interdisciplinary conference “The Body of Things: Gender, Design and Material Culture in Late Soviet Russia.”
March 17 – 30: final research trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
May-July: preparing two chapters for collective volumes.
Late July: signing the contract with Manchester University Press for Open Access book Comradely objects: Design and material culture In Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s.
To sum up: within the 24 months I gathered a large amount of textural and visual materials, gave six public lectures and two guest instructor lectures to students, organized and convened an international conferences, prepared two volume chapters that are forthcoming in print and that will be published as pre-proof versions at my academia.edu pages and promoted on other social media, and, finally, prepared the first draft of a monograph.
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