Research Assistants of the Laboratory Took Part in the International Conference 'Vectory'

On April 18-21, 2024, three research assistants of the International Laboratory attended the XXII International Conference of Young Scientists 'Vectors' held at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka)

On April 19-20 within the framework of the conference, Sergey Medakin and Arina Gornostaeva (Savinova) organized and held the thematic pannel 'Popular Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: the Transformation of the Boundaries of "Mass" and "Elite"', which took place both offline in Shaninka and online in Zoom. The section was devoted to the problem of blurriness of 'mass' and 'elite' concepts in different types of art, sports, digital environment, etc.

Sergey Medakin was the head of this pannel and moderator of its subsection 'Theories, Practices and Boundaries of Popular Culture', Arina moderated the subsection '(Un)Lost Boundary: Metamorphoses of Modern Culture' and the round table in which well-known Russian cultural researchers took part (Alexandra Kolesnik from the University of Bielefeld, Alexander Markov from RSUH, Nikola Lechich, Anna Ganzha, Daniil Nebolsin and Ksenia Romanenko from the Higher School of Economics, Alexey Savinov from the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation).

In addition to organizing the event, the research assistants of the laboratory took part in a scientific discussion: Sergey Medakin made the presentationg 'Soviet Propaganda Posters and Political Cartoons as a Component of Modern Art Exhibitions and Art Auctions' and Arina Gornostaeva (Savinova) presented the work 'Politicization of Aesthetics in the Cinema of the Stalin Period'. As part of the subsection on the theory of popular culture, Vladimir Anisimov, a research assistant of the laboratory and a graduate student at the HSE School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, made the report 'Interpretations of the term "Monoculture" and its place in the digital state', in which he offered his own research concept.

Program_in Russian (PDF, 4.11 Mb)