Identities of Cities and Within Cities

On November 15, 2013, at Tomsk State University, in the framework of the project “The Individual in a Changing World: Identity and Social Adaptation in History and Modernity”, the Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research together with the European Union Centre in Siberia (EUCES) will hold first methodological seminar on theoretical problems of identity research in urban space.

Key issues to be discussed at the seminar:

contemporary theoretical vectors of urban anthropology;
construction and transformation of individual and collective identities in urban space;
specifics of formation and maintaining social and ethnic identity of urban citizens coming from indigenous small peoples of the North.

Leading scholars, experts in anthropology and urban studies to take part in the seminar:

· Hugh Beach*, Doctor of Ethnology, Professor of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the Uppsala University (Sweden).
· Peter Schweitzer*, Professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna (Austria).
· Elena Trubina*, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Department of Social Philosophy at the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).
· Sergey Sokolovsky*, Doctor of History, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Russian Academy of Sciences), Chief Editor of the “Ethnographical Review” (Moscow, Russia).
· Elena Miskova, Candidate of History, Associate Professor of the Department of Ethnology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia).
Sergey Pirogov, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Tomsk State University.

* Members of International Research Advisory Board for the Project “The Individual in a Changing World: Identity and Social Adaptation in History and Modernity”.

Seminar moderator – Dmitriy Funk, Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Project “The Individual in a Changing World: Identity and Social Adaptation in History and Modernity”.

Schedule for November 15th:

10:00 – 16:15 – Seminar: “Identities of Cities and Within Cities: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Social and Anthropological Research”,
16:40 – 18:40 – Round table, topics for discussion: opportunities for organizing international field research; concept of a textbook / anthology on urban anthropology of Northern territories.

The seminar will be of interest to researchers, lecturers, professors of social sciences and the humanities, to students and postgraduate students as well as to everyone interested in social and cultural anthropology issues, problems of identity and urban anthropology.

Venue:

Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin Ave., TSU Main Building, Conference Hall.

Entrance is free.

Seminar Program