Lectures and seminars ‘Introduction to social anthropology’
On April 21-27, 2016, the Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research organized a series of lectures and seminars themed ‘Introduction to social anthropology’ which were given by international professor of Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg) Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov.
Nikolai Vladimirovich Ssorin-Chaikov graduated from the Department of Ethnography (Lomonosov Moscow State University) and received his PhD in anthropology from Stanford University (USA). He worked at the University of Cambridge in 2001-2015. In 2016, he accepted an international professorship at National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’ and joined the HSE Department of History at Saint Petersburg. His research interests include ethnography of the state, theory of exchange and aesthetics, post-socialism and the comparative anthropology of empires. Nikolai has conducted field research in Siberia and other Russian regions as well as in the US and UK.
While in Tomsk, Nikolai gave a talk for the general public on ‘Ethnographic conceptualism: social science art’ at the State Centre of Contemporary Art (address: 3a, Nakhanovich lane), and he also held a public lecture, entitled ‘Merchants and Inorodtsy*: 100 years on’ at Tomsk State University on 25 April.
*the term introduced in the Russian Empire to denote its indigenous population
The project "Man in a Changing World. Identity and Social Adaptation: Past and Present" is funded by the Russian Government 