Dr. Aleksei Kamenskikh

Visiting Scholar
Hans Koschnick Special Scholarhip

 

E-Mail: kamen.septem@gmail.com

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Current scholar project: The work on editing and preparing for publication the camp diary (1960-1964) of the Soviet writer Kirill Uspensky (Kostsinsky)

 

Research areas
 

• History of political repressions in the USSR

• Politics of memory in Russia

• Conflicts and reconciliations of memories

• Morphology of historical imagination

• History of philosophy

 

Short CV
 

Education

Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences), History of Philosophy, Ural State University (Ekaterinburg, Russia), 2004

B.S., World History, Perm State University, 1998


Professional Employment

2023-present Hans Koschnick Special Scholar, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen

2013-2022 Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’ (Perm branch)

2008-2017 Associate Professor, History of Philosophy Department, Perm State University

2005-2008 Senior Teacher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Study, Perm State Technical University

2004-2005 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Study, Perm State Technical University

1998-2004 Teacher of History and Social Sciences in the municipal school № 104, Perm, Russia


Selected Publications

Books

2012 The “Sophia-principle” in Culture of Late Antiquity. Perm: Perm State University Press. In Russian.


Edited Volumes

2017 Gumanitarnaia nauka v Rosii I perelom 1917 goda: ekzistentsial’noe izmerenie [Humanities in Russia and the Break of 1917: An Existential Dimension]. Aleksey Kamenskikh & Oksana Dovgopolova, eds. Saint-Petersburg: Aletheia, 2017. In Russian.


Refereed Journal Articles

2023 “«Antiquising Imagination» in the Service of Political Expansion: On the Eve of the “Great Greek Project” of Catherine II”, Konstantinove Listy, under peer-review process.

2020 “«Pol’skie perebezhchiki iz Zapadnoi Belarusi v «pol’skoi operacii» NKVD 1937-1938 godov v Permi”. [““Polish Refugees” from the Western Belarus in the 1937-38 NKVD “Polish Operation” in Perm’], Vestnil Permskogo Universiteta: Istoria / Perm University Herald. History 3 (2020), 76-88, doi. In Russian.

2020 “Constructing the Image of Byzantium in the 20th Century: the Russian Theme in the Greek «Neo-Byzantine» Project”, Konstantinove Listy 13.1 (2020), 187-196. doi.

2019 “Some Notes on the Schemes of Temporal Logics in Late Neoplatonism and in the Works of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa”, Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 15.1 (2019), 178-192. doi.

2015 ‘Gli studi umanistici in Russia e la svolta del 1917(Humanities in Russia and the Break of 1917: An Existential Dimension)’, ENTHYMEMA 13 (2015), 259-269. [In co-authorship with Oksana Dovgopolova]. In Italian.

(Ukrainian version: ‘Творча еволюцiя гуманiтарiя у свiтi, що руйнується (стратегiї історико-філософського дослідження)’ [In co-authorship with Oksana Dovgopolova and Inna Golubovich], Sententiae 33.2 (2015), 197-201)

2015 “Origen in Russian philosophy: From Gregory Skovoroda to Nikolai Berdyaev”, Schole 9.2 (2015), 446-459.

2013 ‘The Tragedy of Cosmogonic Objectivation: The Valentinian Gnosis, Vladimir Solovyov, Lev Karsavin, Nikolay Berdyaev’, Forum Philosophicum 18.2 (2013), 209-232.


Book Chapters

2017 “Politicheskii platonizm kak predmet intellektual’noi kontrabandy: kazus A.F. Loseva [Political Platonism as a Subject of ‘Intellectual Contraband’: a Case of Aleksey Losev]”, in: Aleksey Kamenskikh & Oksana Dovgopolova, eds, Gumanitarnaia nauka v Rosii I perelom 1917 goda: ekzistentsial’noe izmerenie [Humanities in Russia and the Break of 1917: An Existential Dimension]. Saint-Petersburg: Aletheia 66-74. In Russian.

2015 “Voina pamiatei v gorodskom prostranstve: permskii variant [The Conflict of Memories in the Urban space: the Case of Perm]”, in: Oksana Dovgopolova, ed., Культура примирення: нова історична свідомість в Україні (Одеса: Фенiкс), 199-210. In Russian.

2015 “The Dialectic of the Other: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Late Neoplatonist Communities”, in: V.R. Gouschin, P.J. Rhodes, eds., Deformations and Crises of Ancient Civil Communities (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015), 183-192.

2015 “Aleksey Losev on Religious Essence and Generative Power of Platonism”, in: Tereza Obolevich et al., eds., Overcoming the Secular: Russian Religious Philosophy and Post-Secularism (Krakow: The Pontifical University in Krakow Press, 2015), 149-155.


Translations

2023 Mueggler, Erik. The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China [translated into Russian]: Мюгглер Э. Время диких призраков: Память, насилие и место в юго-западном Китае. СПб.: Библиороссика/Academic Studies Press, 2023.


Media Publications

2022 “Rusija plaukia dviem laivais [Russia sails in two ships]”: an interview to prof. Rasa Čepaitienė. Komentaras TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sITTGyCYTQg

2022 “Время повседневности, время событий [Time of everyday-life, time of events]”. – Liberal Mission Foundation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-GFV8KNtXk

2021 «‘Вечный мир’ Иммануила Канта и послевоенное международное право [Immanuel Kant’s ‘Eternal peace’ and after-war international law]». Kyiv Summer Theological Institute, June 2021. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bBBisSlB6o

2021 «Визуализация памяти о политических репрессиях и история «сталинской баннерианы»: Пермский кейс (2014-2015) [Visualization of memory about political repressions and history of “the Stalin’s banneriana: Perm, 2014-2015]», January 15, 2021. Perm museum of contemporary art “RERMM”. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWiYc59O5qY

2020 “Russian and Ukrainian fields of memory: is reconciliation possible?” A lecture given for PoSoCoMeS conference «Post-Socialist Memory in Global Perspective: Postcolonialism, Post-transition, Post-trauma» (September 2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPBZ3yXSYOc

2020 «Историческая аллюзия как «замещающая аналогия» в российско-украинском конфликте: 2014 [Historical allusion as an substitutive analogy in Russian-Ukrainian conflict: 2014]». – Human dignity and challenges of “post-truth”. Kyiv, September 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNZS3WVhOU0

2015 "Историческая травма: между концепциями коллективной вины и ответственности [A historical trauma: between the concepts of collective guilt and responsibility]". A lecture given for the seminar "Kultur der Versöhnung – Neues Geschichtsbewusstsein in der Ukraine / Культура примирення: нова історична свідомість в Україні", Odessa, Sept. 28, organized by prof. Oksana Dovgopolova. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-pRTV1H_VE


Selected Fellowships, Research Grants, and Awards

2022 December – 2023 February. The Memory Studies Association Fellowship Program “Memory Scholars at Risk”, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

2022, June – December. Gerda Henkel Foundation’s grant within the “Temporary Funding Initiative for Threatened and Refugee Researchers” for participation in the DFG Project “Crisis and Transformation of an Old Regime: Circulation of Ideologies and Institutions between Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1768–1774” (headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Kusber), Institute for Slavic, Turkic and Circum-Baltic Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

2022, April–May Hans Koschnik Special Scholarship for refugee researchers from Ukraine and researchers at risk from Russia and Belarus (The Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen)

2020-2022 Grant of the Russian Science Foundation, Nr. 20-68-46021, “Slavophilism in the religious-philosophical dialogue. 1836–1917” (the head of the project is prof. Basil Lourié)

2019 Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia), Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Certificate for the fellowship in academic mobility program (a series of lectures on temporal logics in late Antiquity)

2018 MEMORIAL Deutschland e.V., the certificate in recognition of successful organization of the international project «Remembering past conflicts, thinking about the future — writing history together» (June-December 2018).

2016- A member of board of the Perm branch of The International Memorial society

2016-18 Grant of the Russian Science Foundation, Nr. 16-18-10202, “History of the Logical and Philosophical Ideas in Byzantine Philosophy and Theology” (the head of the project is prof. Basil Lourié)

2013 Diploma of University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), for contribution to the development of international collaboration in the area of scientific research and academic mobility

2012 Participation in the program of academic mobility “Contemporary Britain” (Oxford University, St. Anthony College)

2012 A membership of the International Association for the Humanities

2007-2008 Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research № 07-06-96022: «Digital library “Russian Philosophy in Editions of the XVIII – beg. XX”» (http://relig-library.pstu.ru)