Julia Lajus
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Leading Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History
- Programme Head:Applied and Interdisciplinary History «Usable Pasts»
- Julia Lajus has been at HSE since 2011.
Education and Degrees
- 2004
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in History of Science and Technology
S.I. Vavilov Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Thesis Title: Development of fisheries research of the Barents Sea in the first third of the 20th century: relations between science and fisheries - 1985
Degree
Zhdanov Leningrad State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
I. Fedorova «International Geophysical Year as Part of the Soviet Science Diplomacy during the Cold War». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
E. Galyuta «High Aswan Dam and Bratsk HHP: Realisation of Soviet Hydroengineering Ideas During the Cold War». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
D. Bychenkova «Constructing the Image of an Engineer during the Period of the Thaw and an Engeneer's Role in Building of the Icebreaker “Lenin”». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
I. Fedorova «International Geophysical Year as Part of the Soviet Science Diplomacy during the Cold War». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
A. Vladimirova «The Image of Africa in the Memoirs of Soviet Scientific and Technical experts (1950s-1970s)». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2016
- Master
E. Platonova «Constructing Feminity and Masculinity during the Thaw: the Leningrad House of Models». School of Arts and Humanities, 2019
A. Sakharova «Development of Small Aviation in Transition from the Late Soviet to Post-Soviet Period in Transnational Perspective». School of Arts and Humanities, 2019
N. Adukanova «The Wilderness Frontiers: Encounters of Tourism and Nature Protection at the Kronotsky Reserve (Kamchatka), 1985-1991». School of Arts and Humanities, 2019
K. Beilmann «Garbage in the Heads. Attitudes towards Garbage and Waste Politics in Post-Soviet Estonia and North-West Russia». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
M. Olawale «The Image of Russia in Ghana (1945-2018): Legacies of Cold War Narratives». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
T. Lowe «Ocean Commotion: the World Wildlife Fund and Marine Conservation, an Historical Perspective». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
K. Venediktova «Russian-speakers on the Karelian Isthmus in the 1930s: Acculturation Strategies». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
D. Damtar «Colonial Transition in the Mine: An Environmental and Technological History of Ghana’s Gold Mining Sector (1930-1960s)». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
N. Maksimishina «Animal Stories by Ernest Thompson-Seton as a Part of Children Reading in the Soviet Union in the 1920-1930’s». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
Academic Supervision
PhD student Ekaterina Kalemeneva
PhD student Vassily Borovoy
Courses (2019/2020)
- Arctic as a Global Region: History and Politics (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Arctic as a Global Region: History and Politics (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Ecological history (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm); 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Ecological history (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm); 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- History of Arctic and Baltic Region (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2018/2019)
- History of Arctic and Baltic Region (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Introduction to Human History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Russia in Arctic Region (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Russia in Arctic Region (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2017/2018)
- Applied History in Area Studies: Circumpolar North and the Baltic Region (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- History of Historical Science (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Introduction to Human History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2016/2017)
- Applied History in Area Studies: Circumpolar North and the Baltic Region (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- History of the Arctic and the Northern Areas (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Introduction to Environmental History (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2015/2016)
- History of the Arctic and the Northern Areas (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2014/2015)
- History (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; spec. "Logistics and Supply Chain Management"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2013/2014)
- Contemporary Russian History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of History (St. Petersburg); 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Research Workshop (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of History (St. Petersburg); 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Editorial board membership
2014: Member of the Editorial Board, Environment and History.
2009–2017: Member of the Editorial Council, Историко-биологические исследования.
2007–2016: Member of the Editorial Board, Global Environment.
Grants
grant of Russian Science Foundation "Natural resources in history of Russia: economic institutes, communities of experts and infrastructures", № 16-18-10255, 2016 - 2018, project leader
Publications35
- Chapter Eklund N., Lajus J., Borovoy V., Kalemeneva E. A., Lajus D. L., Stogova D., Vlakhov A., Wråkberg U. Imageries and historical change in the European Russian Arctic, in: The Politics of Arctic Resources. Change and Continuity in the "Old North" of Northern Europe. Routledge, 2019. doi Ch. 11. P. 200-220.
- Article Kraikovski A., Lajus J. The Metropolitan Bay: Spatial Imaginary of Imperial St. Petersburg and Maritime Heritage of the Gulf of Finland // Humanities, Switzerland. 2019. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 1-12. doi
- Article Maughan N., Kraikovski A., Lajus J. Living side by side: the water environment, technological control and urban culture in the Russian and Western history // Water History. 2018. Vol. 10. No. 2-3. P. 133-140. doi
- Chapter Ekaterina Kalemeneva, Julia Lajus. Soviet Female Experts in the Polar Regions, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. doi Ch. 18. P. 267-283. doi
- Article Lajus J. Environmental History in Russia and about Russia // Environment and History. 2017. Vol. 23. No. 4. P. 627-630.
- Chapter Lajus D., Stogova D., Lajus J. Importance of Consideration of Climate Change at Managing Fish Stocks: A Case of Northern Russian Fisheries, in: The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016. Cham : , 2017. P. 127-134.
- Chapter Kraikovski Alexei, Lajus J. Living on the river over the year: The significance of the Neva to Imperial St. Petersburg, in: Rivers Lost – Rivers Regained? How cities use, abuse and adore their rivers. Pittsburgh : Pittsburgh University Press, 2017. P. 235-252.
- Article Dadykina Margarita, Kraikovski Alexei, Lajus Julia. Mastering the Arctic marine environment: organizational practices of Pomor hunting expeditions to Svalbard (Spitsbergen) in the eighteenth century // Acta Borealia. 2017. No. 1. P. 50-69. doi
- Preprint Kochetkova E., Damtar D., Boliachevets L., Slyusarchuk P., Lajus J. Soviet Technological Projects and Technological Aid in Africa and Cuba, 1960s-1980s / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2017.
- Book Дадыкина М. М., Крайковский А. В., Лайус Ю. А. Поморские промыслы на Шпицбергене в XVIII — нач. XIX в. Исследование. Документы. М., СПб. : Альянс-Архео, 2017.
- Article Евтухова К., Кочеткова Е. А., Лайус Ю. А., Мун Д. Международная конференция «Природные ресурсы, ландшафты и климат в истории России и сопредельных стран», посвящённая 200-летию академика А.Ф. Миддендорфа // Историко-биологические исследования. 2016. Т. 8. № 2. С. 160-168.
- Article Oldfield J., Shaw D., Lajus J. Conceptualizing and Utilizing the Natural Environment: Critical Reflections from Imperial and Soviet Russia // Slavonic and East European Review. 2015. Vol. 93. No. 1. P. 1-15.
- Article Lajus D., Glazkova J., Sendek D., Khaitov V., Lajus J. Dynamics of fish catches in the eastern Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea) and downstream of the Neva River during the 20th century // Aquatic Sciences. 2015. Vol. 77. No. 3. P. 411-425. doi
- Preprint Dadykina M., Kraikovski A., Lajus J. Hunting activities of Russian Pomors on Spitsbergen in the 18th century: new evidences in transnational perspective. / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2015. No. 117.
- Chapter Дадыкина М. М., Лайус Ю. А., Крайковский А. В. Природные ресурсы Шпицбергена и проекты преобразования русских морских промыслов в XVIII в. // В кн.: Экологическая история Сибирского Севера: перспективные напрвления исследований. Материалы всероссийского научного семинара 15-16 октября 2015, г. Сургут. Сургут : РИО СурГПУ, 2015. С. 74-94.
- Article Lajus J., Sorlin S. Melting the Glacial Curtain: The soft politics of Scandinavian-Soviet networks in the geophysical field sciences between two Polar Years, 1932/33-1957/58 // Journal of Historical Geography. 2014. Vol. 44. P. 44-59.
- Article Doel R. E., Friedman R. M., Lajus J., Sorlin S., Wrakberg U. Strategic Arctic science: national interests in building natural knowledge - interwar era through the Cold War // Journal of Historical Geography. 2014. Vol. 44. P. 60-80. doi
- Chapter Sorlin S., Lajus J. An Ice Free Arctic Sea? The Science of Sea Ice and Its Interests, in: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change: When the Ice Breaks. NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Ch. 4. P. 70-92.
- Article Lajus J., Kraikovski A., Lajus D. Coastal Fisheries in the Eastern Baltic Sea (Gulf of Finland) and Its Basin from the 15 to the Early 20th Centuries // Plos One. 2013. Vol. 8. No. 10 doi
- Chapter Lajus J. Field Stations on the Coast of the Arctic Ocean in the European Part of Russia from the First to Second IPY, in: Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region: Norden beyond Borders. Farhnam : Ashgate, 2013. Ch. 5. P. 111-142.
- Chapter Lajus J. In search for instructive models: The Russian state at a crossroads to conquering the North., in: Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2013. Ch. 5. P. 110-136.
- Chapter Lajus J. Linking People through Fish: Science and Barents Sea Fish Resources in the Context of Russian-Scandinavian Relations, in: Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region: Norden beyond Borders. Farhnam : Ashgate, 2013. Ch. 7. P. 171-194.
- Chapter Lajus J., Pantiulin A. Soviet Oceanography and the Second International Polar Year: National Achievements in the International Context, in: Places, People, Tools: Oceanography in the Mediterranean and Beyond. (Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress for the History of Oceanography).. Napoli : Giannini Editore, 2013. P. 69-84.
- Chapter Давыдов Р. А., Крайковский А. В., Мокиевский В. О., Лайус Ю. А., Юрченко А. Ю. "Когда сколько рыбы палтосины и трески с моря привезено": мурманские промыслы // В кн.: «Море – наше поле». Количественные исследования рыбных промыслов Белого и Баренцева морей, XVII – начало XX в. (Материалы к экологической истории Русского Севера / Вып. 1) / Под общ. ред.: Ю. А. Лайус, Д. Д. Лайус. Вып. 1. Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2012. С. 112-152.
- Chapter Finstad B., Lajus J. The Fisheries in Norwegian and Russian Waters, 1850 – 2010, in: A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Ealy Twentieth-First Century. Bremen : Hauschild, 2012. Ch. 8. P. 226-237.
- Chapter Kraikovski A., Alekseeva Y., Dadykina M., Lajus J. The Organization of Pomor Hunting Expeditions to Spitsbergen in the 18th Century, in: Circumpolar Studies Issue 8. Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing, 2012. P. 1-15.
- Chapter Kraikovski A., Alekseeva Y., Dadykina M., Lajus J. The organization of Pomor hunting expeditions to Spitsbergen in the 18th century., in: LASHIPA: History of Large Scale Resource Exploitation in Polar Areas Vol. 8. Groningen : Barkhuis, 2012. Ch. 1. P. 1-15.
- Book «Море – наше поле». Количественные исследования рыбных промыслов Белого и Баренцева морей, XVII – начало XX в. (Материалы к экологической истории Русского Севера / Вып. 1) / Под общ. ред.: Ю. А. Лайус, Д. Д. Лайус. Вып. 1. Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2012.
- Article Лайус Ю. А. Николай Михайлович Книпович и становление международных исследований северных морей // Вестник МГТУ. 2012. Т. 15. № 4. С. 685-690.
- Article Кочеткова Е. А., Лайус Ю. А. Природные ресурсы: исторические идеи, изучение и эксплуатация: Летняя школа по экологической истории // Историко-биологические исследования. 2012. Т. 4. № 4. С. 118-122.
- Chapter Lajus J. Colonization of the Russian North: a Frozen Frontier, in: Cultivating the Colony: Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies. Athens Ohio : Ohio University Pres, 2011. P. 164-190.
- Chapter Kraikovski A., Lajus J. The Neva as a Metropolitan River of Russia: Environment, Economy and Culture, in: A History of Water / Series II. Т. 2: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times . Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. P. 339-364.
- Chapter Lajus J., Luedecke C. The Second International Polar Year 1932 – 1933, in: The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs) Т. XII. Springer, 2010. P. 135-174.
- Article Лайус Ю. А. История изучения природных ресурсов как «общая территория» истории биологии и экологической истории (вместо введения) // Историко-биологические исследования. 2010. Т. 2. № 4. С. 7-12.
- Article Лайус Ю. А. Конец природы и перспективы экологической истории. Рецензия на книгу Nature’s End. History and the Environment / eds. Sverker Sorlin & Paul Warde. // Историко-биологические исследования. 2010. Т. 2. № 4. С. 93-96.
Julia Lajus`s public lecture at the Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum
Julia Lajus, associate professor of the department of history and Head of Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History of the Center for Historical Research gave a public talk at the Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum in October, 30th.
Technology Historians from HSE St. Petersburg Take Part in International Network Projects
In July, an international network project involving the Centre for Historical Research Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History was granted the support of two international research funds.Julia Lajus, Head of the Laboratory, told HSE News Service what environmental and technology history is all about, and what role HSE researchers play in the Tensions of Europe international research network.
Technology Historians from HSE St. Petersburg Take Part in International Network Projects
In July, an international network project involving the Centre for Historical Research Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History was granted the support of two international research funds. Julia Lajus, Head of the Laboratory, told HSE News Service what environmental and technology history is all about, and what role HSE researchers play in the Tensions of Europe international research network.
Round table in Paris 22/12/17.
22th of December there was a round table «Shipping, fisheries, and maritime identities in 15th-19th centuries: perspectives from Russia and France» in University Paris Diderot. The round table was orginized by common efforts of Irina Gouzévitch (Centre Maurice Halbwachs), Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (University Paris Diderot / EHESS) and Alexei Kraikovski (HSE SPb).
Joost Schokkenbroek at HSE SPb!
In April 2017 Prof. of VU University Amsterdam Joost Schokkenbroek invited by Julia Lajus spent one week at the Department of History presenting a brief course of lectures and seminars in the framework of the Usable Pasts program.
Ambassadors for Interdisciplinary and Applied History
Samrat Sil is a recent graduate of the English-taught Master's programme in Applied and Interdisciplinary History ‘Usable Pasts’ at HSE St. Petersburg. David Datmar, a native of Ghana, decided to join the programme to help him prepare for eventual study at the PhD level, which he plans to undertake soon at the University of Oxford. Both gentlemen were recently awarded certificates of recognition for their role as ambassadors contributing to the university’s internationalization agenda.
Meeting on water resources
On March 2, 2017 the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History of HSE – St. Petersburg hosted a group of employees and students of the School of Management of the Radboud University of Nijmegen.
Technology, Natural Resources and Crises in the Past and Present of Europe and Beyond
From October 21st – 22nd, 2016, an international workshop on ‘Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond’ took place at HSE in St. Petersburg. The event was organized by the HSE Centre for Historical Research, Aarhus Univerisity (Denmark), and Tensions of Europe (TOE), an international scientific network.
The project led by Julia Lajus was supported by Russian Science Foundation
The project “Natural Resources in History of Russia: Economic Institutes, Communities of Experts and Infrastructures”led by Julia Lajus (Associate Professor, Department of History and Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Historical Research) was supported by Russian Science Foundation.
European Society for Environmental History Conference
From June 30 – July 3, 2015, Julia Lajus, Alexandra Bekasova, Marina Loskutova, Margarita Dadykina, and Elena Kochetkova, researchers from the Department of History and Center of Historical Studies, took part in the 8th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. The event took place at University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.
Participation in a Project 'Oceans Past Platform' of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Framework COST
Julia Lajus, Associate Professor at the History Department and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Historical Research of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, became a participant from Near Neighbour Countries in the project of the European network COST – Action IS1403 'Oceans Past Platform (OPP)'.
Participation in a project “Oceans Past Platform” of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Framework COST
Julia Lajus, an Associate Professor at the History Department and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Historical Research of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, became a participant from Near Neighbour Countries in the project of the European network COST - Action IS1403 “Oceans Past Platform (OPP)”.
HSE St. Petersburg and University of Jyväskylä to Launch International Mobility Cooperation
The Department of History at the Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) will begin student and teacher international mobility cooperation for the 2015/2016 academic year.
