Elena Kochetkova

Summer schools, training, and workshops 

12.2020             Course "Soviet Society State and Societ in the 1920s-1950s: New Historiographical Approaches", HSE 

04.2019            Teaching Development Program on Digital Humanities, Management Training Center, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg 

09.2018            The course "CERGE-EI Teaching Development Program: Teaching Principles and Practes", Charles University (Prague) and Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

07.2016             International Summer School of ICOHTEC, Lisbon

09.2015            International Summer School the Tensions of Europe Summer School "Crises and Grand Challenges in European Past and Present", Stockholm

07.2015           International Summer School "Exploring Russia`s Environmental History and Natural Resources", Lake Baikal, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Russia 

08.2014           International Summer School “Social Network Analysis”, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg

06.-07.2014      International Summer School "Russian Culture in Baltic Nature", The Center for Environmental and Technological History, European University at Saint-Petersburg,  Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, University of Glazgow

04.2014           Munich Spring School Science, Environment, Infrastructure, and Technology“ History of Science in Central and Eastern Europe, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Munich 

09.2012           ESEH Summer School “Natural Resources: Historical Ideas, Exploration and Exploitation”, ESEH and Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. 

03.2012           Certificate, Methodological Workshop “Comparative Methodologies, Operationalisations and Specifics of European Studies Research”, Center for German and European Studies, Saint-Petersburg

10.2011  Training Course for PhDs “New Methods in the Humanities”, Sigtuna,

Sweden. 

10.2010           Certificate, Retraining on Academic English Communication. Center for German and European Studies, Saint-Petersburg 

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2020-2021)
Category "New Lecturers" (2015-2016)

Research projects:

2021-2022               Research Project “Green Power”: Forest Resources in the Structure of Soviet Economy, 1945-1991

2021-2024             Research Project “The History of Lake Ladoga”, Kone Foundation (Finland), project participant

2019-2021             Grant of Russian Science Foundation, Research Project “The Material World of Soviet People in the Cold War: Technological Innovations in Production and Representation of Mass Consumer Products”, project leader

2018-2019       Grant of the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research, Research Project “Industrial Innovations at the Karelia Peninsula in the 1940s-80s:  infrastructure and Resources”, project participant      

2016-2018           Grant of Russian Science Foundation "Natural resources in history of Russia: economic institutes, communities of experts and infrastructures", № 16-18-10255 (led by Julia Lajus), project participant

2011 – 2012          The Honours master programme (IRUN excellence programme) “European Political Identity”, the European Commission, the Radboud Honours Academy, the Netherlands, the European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Participant of the group project  

2019 - present      Heritage and Memory about the Cold War, HSE, project leader. Website: 

http://coldwarlegacy.tilda.ws/ 

Prizes and personal grants:

2019-Prize for the best research on the history of socialism, international competition, Estonian Institute of Historical Memory

2016-Archival grant of the European Society for Environmental History

2016-Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Helsinki

2015 - 2016-Individual research grant of the Academic Foundation of HSE, conducting research on technological innovations in the USSR (grant № 15-01-0056)

11.2012 – 12.2012-Fellowship of the Karen Johnson Freeze Foundation. 

10. 2012-Center for European Studies. European University at Saint-Petersburg. Research grant          

10.2011 – 12.2011-German Historical Institute in Moscow. Short-term grant for archival research

09.2011-Alumni Association of European University at Saint-Petersburg. Travel grant

09.2009 – 06.2010-Scholarship of the Government of the Russian Federation

2008 – 2010-Scholarship of Oxford Russian Fund 

09.2021-Round table “Researching Cold War exhibition exchange in relation to material culture studies”, University of Copenhagen. Paper: “Business of the Cold War: Finnish Industrial and Trade Fairs in the Soviet Union, late 1940s-60s” (online)

07.2021-Co-organier and participant of the round table “Technologies of State Socialism: Between Emancipation and Control”, Tension of Europe Digital Festival (online)

05.2021-Paper “Soviet-Finnish cross-border research collaboration in forestry and water protection during the Cold War”, workshop “International Academic Cooperation between the USSR/Russia and the West: late-Soviet and post-Soviet trends”, University of Birmingham (online)

05.2021-Guest lecture “Technologies and Hygiene in the Making of Soviet Food” at the international conference “Constructing the “Soviet”?”, European University at St. Petersburg (in Russian)

04.2021-Round table participant: "Environmental (Hi)stories From Home", ASEH (online)

04.2021-Seminar on industry, environment, and society in Russia, the Tyumen State University. The Paper: “‘Forest Alarmism’ and Images of Forest Resources in the Late Soviet Union” (online)

03.2021-Public guest lecture “Material Worlds of the Cold War”, German Historical  Institute in Moscow (in Russian), online

03.2021-Participant of the round table “The Green Result of Red Empire: A Regional Approach to the Studies of Environmental Mobilization in the Soviet Union”, German Historical  Institute in Moscow (in Russian), online

02.2021-Online-session CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian Science. Paper: “Green Industry”: Wood, Alternative Raw Materials and Industrial Innovations in Late USSR”.

12.2020-Online-seminar of the journal “Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta”. Paper: “Technologies, Usefulness, and Hygiene in the Making Late Soviet Food Products” (in Russian)

12.2020 -Presentation (online), Annual Conference of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. Paper: “Technological Inequality, Motivation, and Coordination of Scientific-Technical Cooperation of Soviet Institutions and Comecon countries, 1950s-80-s” (in Russian). Co-organizer of the session.

11.2020-Presentation (online), Conference VDNKH, European University at Saint-Petersburg. Paper: “Meat and Dairy Products and the Problem of Nutrition Security in Late Soviet Union” (in Russian)

11.2020-Presentation (online), Conference VDNKH, European University at Saint-Petersburg. Paper: “The Future of Technologies: Imagining Progress, Innovations, and Modernization in Soviet Science and Industry during the Cold War” (in Russian)

11.2020-Presentation (online), Conference “Friendship of Convenience: Comecon Member-States Facing the Cold War”, Chelyabinsk State University. Paper: “Cold War from Below: Individual Connections and Science and Technology Cooperation in Comecon”

11.2020-Presentation (online), Conference of the Center “Human, Nature, Technology” of the Tyumen State University “Everything is Changing: Climate, Society, Landscapes in Historical Perspective”. Paper: “Industrial Forests of Socialism: Images and Practices of Forest Exploitation in the Late USSR” (in Russian)

11.2020-Presentation (online), ASEEES, “Soviet Meat and Dairy Products and the Challenge of the Cold War”

09.2020-Lecture “Materials of Modernity: Wood, Mass Consumption, and the Problem of Ecological Production in the USSR”, the Center “Human, Nature, Technology”, Tyumen State University (in Russian)

07.2020-Commentary (online), Summer School “Transcending Nature: the Anthropocene and environmental history of Northern Eurasia”, Tyumen State University

07.2020-Presentation (online), ICOHTEC, University of Eindhoven. Paper presented: “Milk and Meat under Soviet State Socialism: Technologies of production and challenges of modernity, 1960s-1980s”

07.2020-Presentation (online) at the regular seminar of the chair for modern and contemporary history, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Paper: “Industrial Creativity and the Problem of Technological Innovations in Late Soviet Development”

05.2020-Round table (online) “Materiality of Late Soviet Production and Consumption: Institutions, Technologies and Society”. Paper presented: “Industrial Inventions and the Problem of Technological Innovations in the USSR” (in Russian)

01.2020-Round table “Economic cooperation of Comecon: Motivations, Resources, and Challenged of the Cold War”, held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. Paper Presented: Scientific-Technical Cooperation in Comecon: Networks, Transfers, and Interests (in Russian)

12.2019-Symposium “Cold War Matters: (In)visible Economies of Things”, the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. Paper presented:  “Resources for “Material Base of Communism": Wood, Wastes, and Yearly Plants in Soviet Industrial Development and Consumption, 1950's to the 1980's”

12.2019-Muzeinoe delo, International Conference of the Polytekh Museum. Paper presented: “Technologies of Bread Making and the Problem of Abundance in the Soviet Union” (co-authored by Pavel Pokidko)

11.2019--Public talks on water pollution in the USSR at INALCO and forest resources in the USSR at CERCEC, Paris

10.2019--Organizer of the session "Socialist Design and Consumer Technologies during the Cold War", presenter of paper "Biography of Milk Packages in Socialism: Materiality of Consumption and Technological Innovations in the Soviet Union during the Cold War", meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Milano

08.2019--Biannual ESEH 2019 Conference, Tallinn University. Commentary for the session "Industry, science and the birth of environmental legislation in Europe"

06.2019--Tensions of Europe Conference, Luxembourg. Paper: “Automation, Forestry and Modernity in the USSR”

05.2019--Vse idet po planu? – Unwrapping the (un)planned Soviet economy, German Historical Institute in Moscow. Paper (co-author Pavel Pokid`ko): "Industrial Innovation in the Planned Economy – The Case of the Soviet Timber Industry, 1945-1991" 

03.2019--International conference "BALTIC CONNECTIONS: Conference in Social Science History". University of Helsinki. Paper: "Soviet Economic Development, Natural Resources, and Technology Transfer during the Cold War"

11.2018--International Forum for Young Scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture (second session), International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Paper: "Forest Power": Forest, Industry, and Modernization in the USSR, 1945-80s" (in Russian).

11.2018--International Conference "Soviet Encounters with West and East", International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Paper: "Displaying the Cold War: Finnish Trade and Industrial Fairs in the USSR, 1945-1964"

10.2018--18th Aleksanteri Conference, "Soviet Environment and Engineers, 1945-1980s: Views and Values"

09.2018--Public lecture in the Museum of Soviet Slot Machines, St. Petersburg, ""Red Technologies": The Problem of Innovations in the USSR, 1940s-1960s" 

06.2018--Lecture at the Faculty of History of EUSPb "From Capitalism to Socialism: Vectors of Modernization in Russia on the Example of the Karelian Isthmus" (co-authored by Pavel Pokid`ko)

01.2018--Lecture at the STS Center of EUSPb "Innovations in the Post-War USSR: Power, Engineers, and Resources" (co-authored by Pavel Pokid`ko)

09.2017--8th Tensions of Europe Conference, Athens, Greece, Paper: "Soviet Natural Resources and Technological Development, 1940s-1980s" (skype)

06.2017--Conference "Water, Culture, and Society in Global Historical Perspective", Ohio State University. Paper: "Struggling for Pure Water: Biological Water Treatment  in the USSR, 1950s-70s" (skype)

05.2017--Workshop "Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond", Aarhus University. Paper: "Soviet Natural Resources and Technological Development, 1940s-1980s"

04.2017--International Conference "Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes", Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki. Paper presented: "Water as Sacrifice? Industrial Water Treatment and Engineers in the USSR, 1940s-1960s"

12.2016--Collogium,  Faculty of Sciences, University of Aarhus. Paper presented: "Rivers as Sacrifice? Pulp Production and Water Pollution in the Soviet Union, 1940s-1960s" 

10.2016--International workshop "Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond", Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. Paper presented: "Natural resources in the Soviet Union, 1940s-1980s: between devastation and protection"   

09.2016--International workshop "Resources and Economies of Knowledge in Anthropocene", Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Paper presented: "Natural Resources in the Soviet Union, 1940s-1980s: between Devastation and Protection" 

08.2016--Public lecture "The Saimaa Canal and Finnish-Soviet Relations in 1960s-1980s", The State Museum "Vyborsky Castle" (in Russian)

07.2016--43rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting, Porto, Portugal. Paper presented: "Recycling and soviet forestry Industry, 1950s-1960s"

05.2016--The Graduate Conference "BRICS Societies in a Multi-Polar World", commentary on the panel "BRICS Corporate Sector: Useful Comparisons"

04.2016--International conference "Not just Chernobyl. The Ecological Dimension of the History of Communism", The Center of Science of the Polish Academy of Science, Poznan. Paper presented: "Soviet Environmental Politics in the 1950s–60s and the Cold War"

11.2015--International conference “Natural Resources, Landscape and Climate in History of Russia and Neighbouring Countries”. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg. Paper presented: " Forests, timber and wood wastes in the Soviet Union, 1950s-1960s"

11.2015--15th Annual Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki. Paper presented: "Soviet Engineers, Finland, and the Iron Curtain, 1955-1964"

10.2015--International Conference “Resistance, Protest and Criticism in the Name of Nature: USSR and Post-Soviet States, 1950-2010”, EcoGlobReg, German Historical Institute in Moscow, and Franco-Russian Center, Moscow. Paper presented: “Between Pollution and Protection in the Soviet Context: the Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Factory in the mid-1950s-1960s”

09.2015--7th Tensions of Europe Conference "Technology and Environment". Papers presented: "Technological change and Soviet environmental policy in the mid-1950s - 1960s" and (co-authored by Julia Lajus) "Soviet technological aid and environment in Africa in the late Cold War"

08.2015--XVIIth World Economic History Congress “Diversity in Development”. Paper presented: “Finnish-Soviet trade in the 1950s-60s: interests and tools of Cold War actors”

06.-07.2015--8th Conference of the European Society of Environmental History. Paper presented: “Between Pollution and Protection in the Soviet Context: the Soviet Environmental Policy in the mid-1950s - 1960s”

06.2015--Interdisciplinary research seminar “Historical Models and Modern Economy”, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg. Paper presented “Modernization of Soviet Forestry as a Large Technical System, the mid-1950s-1960s”

05.2015--International conference "Waterscapes and Historic Canals as Cultural Heritage". Paper presented: “A Sign of Good Neighborhood”: The Saimaa Canal in the Soviet-Finnish Relations”, the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari 

03.2015--Conference "Close Encounters: East and West in Cold War Interactions and Imagination", University of Amsterdam. Paper presented: "Soviet-Finnish technological cooperation, 1955-1964: Engineers and the Iron Curtain"

02.2015--Seminar of young researchers of economic history, Finnish Economic History Association (in Finnish)

12.2014--First Annual Conference of the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change. Paper presented:"Technological Change, Innovations and Technology Transfer: The Case of Soviet Pulp and Paper Industry in the late 1940s – 1950s"

11.2014--Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. Dearborn, USA. Paper presented: "Overcoming the Reverse Salients: The Soviet Forestry Modernization and Technology Transfer in the mid-1940s–1960s"

10.2014--Tensions of Europe, Technology and Democracy: Quo Vadis?, interdisciplinary research seminar held by Tensions of Europe and the University of Capodistria, Chios, Greece. Paper presented: "Soviet Forestry, Modernization and Technology Transfer in 1955-1964"

07-08.2014--The 41st ICOHTEC Symposium, Technology in Time and Transition, Brasov, Romania. Paper presented: “The Soviet Forestry in 1953 ‐ 1964: Transfer and Implementation of Western Technologies”

07.2014--The Second world congress of Environmental History, Guimarães, Portugal. Paper presented: “Between Pollution and Protection in the Soviet Context: The Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Factory in Mid-1950s – 1960s”

04.2014--XV Апрельская конференция "Модернизация экономики и общества", НИУ - Высшая школа экономики, Москва. Доклад: "Советская модернизация и технологический трансфер в 1953-1964 гг.: Случай целлюлозно-бумажной промышленности"

03.2014--Открытый семинар Германского исторического института в Москве, Россия. Доклад: "Модернизация советской лесной отрасли и трансфер технологий"

10.2013--Capitalism, State and Society Research group, research seminar, University of Helsinki. Paper presented: “Technologies though the Border: Finnish Technologies in the Soviet Forestry in 1950s – 1960s”. 

09.2013--11th Annual T2M Conference, Kuovola, Finalnd, Saint-Petersburg,  Russia . Paper presented: “Technology Transfer through “the Iron Curtain”: the Case of the Finnish-Soviet Border Region in 1950s – 1960s” 

09.2013--Democracy and Technology. Europe in Tension from the 19th to the 20th Century, Sorbonne, France. Paper presented: “What and Whom Can Technology Transfer Change: Western Technologies in the Soviet Modernization in 1950s – 1960s” 

08.2013--ESEH 2013 biennial conference ‘Circulating Natures: Water-Food-Energy’, The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Paper presented: “The Soviet Forestry in 1953–1964: Technologies, experts and resources”

06.2013--International conference "Project of Modernity", Perm State National Researh University. Paper presented: "Western Factors in Soviet modernization: Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Plant, the 1950s-1960s" (in Russian)  

01.2013--Relocating Borders: a comparative approach, Humboldt University, Berlin. Paper presented: “How technologies cross the border  Soviet-Finnish forestry cooperation in the near-border area in  1953 – 1964”

11.2012--Aleksanteri 12th Conference, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Paper presented: “East – West Competition and Forestry Cooperation in 1953 – 1964”. 

10.2012--Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. Copenhagen, Denmark.  Paper presented: "The Soviet Forestry  in  1953 – 1964: Transfer and  Implementation of Western Technologies"

05.2012--Third Interdisciplinary Workshop “Culture, Society and Memory: The Challenges of Historical and Sociological Research on Russia, Germany and the US”, the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Germany. Paper presented: “The Soviet Timber Industry in 1953 – 1964: Technology Transfer”. 

02.2012-First Princeton Young Scholar`s Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science and Technology “The Great Experiment Revisited”, Princeton, the USA. Paper presented: “Technology Transfer to the Soviet Forestry in 1953 – 1964” 

September 2021 –joint Russian-Norwegian summer school “Historical Memory and Narratives of Identity”, The Arctic University of Norway and Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, invited lecturer on heritage and memory (8 a.h. online teaching)

July 2021 – course “Russian History, Art, and Culture in the 20th century”, International Summer School at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (16 a.h. online teaching)

September-October 2020 – lecturing on environmental history for Bachelor`s students, Tyumen State University (8 a.h.)

August 2020 -- two-week intensive course “Russia in the Age of Transformations” at the International Summer School at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (40 a.h. online teaching)

February-May 2020 – teaching a course “Russian History II: the Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia” to American visiting students, The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), HSE St. Petersburg, 46 a.h. (20 a.h. on-site, 26 a.h. distant teaching)

January 2020 – visiting lecturer, course taught: “Forest Empire’: Soviet Environmental and Technological Development during the Cold War”, University of Eastern Finland, funded by Aleksanteri Institute (Expertise in Russian and Eastern European Studies, ExpREES), 16 a.h.

September 2019 – guest lecturer at the department of history and ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Teaching the course on the history of Cold War science and technology (8 a.h)

November 2019 – lecturing on water pollution in the USSR at INALCO and forest resources in the USSR at CERCEC (4 a.h.)

December 2019 – guest lecture on Cold War science and technology at the HSE International Model United Nations (in Russian) (2 a.h.)

July 2019 – two-week intensive course “Russia in the Age of Transformations” at the International Summer School at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (40 a.h.)

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05.2020 - Organizer of round table (online) “Materiality of Soviet production and consumption"

01.2020 - Organizer of round table on the history of economic cooperation of Comecon,  held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

02-12.2019 - Co-organizer of the symposium “Cold War Matters: (In)visible Economies of Things”, held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

09.2018-07. 2019 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium ICOHTEC (Katowice, July 2019)

10.2018-06.2019 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the Summer School “Towards Digital Science and Technology Studies: Challenges and Opportunities” (Luxemburg, June 2019)

09.2017 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the Summer School "Borders and Crises in European Past and Present - angles from the history of technology", Athens (the Capodistrian University and Tensions of Europe Network)

10.2016 - Organizer of the international workshop "Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond", National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (in the partnership with the Tensions of Europe and the University of Aarhus)

06-09.2015  Member of the Organizing Committee of the Tensions of Europe Summer School, Stockholm

05-06.2015  Coordinator of Interdisciplinary research seminar "Historical Models and Modern Economy", National Research University Higher School of Economics

01-04.2015  Member of the Organizing Committee, the 8h Annual Conference “Constructing the “Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia

02.-04.2014 Member of the Organizing Committee, the 8h Annual Conference “Constructing the “Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia

02.-03.2014 Participating in organization of the conference “A Usable Past: New Trends in Applied and Interdisciplinary History”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

01.-04.2013 Member of the Organizing Committee, the 7h Annual Conference “Constructing the “Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia

08.2012  Participating in organization of the ESEH Summer School “Natural Resources: Historical Ideas, Exploration and Exploitation”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

08.-09.2012 Organization of the Round Table “Circulation of Knowledge in the Divided World: Confrontation, Attraction, Cooperation”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

02.-04.2012 Member of the Organizing Committee, the 6th Annual Conference “Constructing the “Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities”, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia 

                                               English – proficient

                                               Finnish – proficient

                                               Swedish – functional

                                               German  – basic

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2011-Present European Society for Environmental History

2012-Present Society for History of Technology

2012-Present Tensions of Europe 

02.2015 – Present  Member of the Management Committee of the Tensions of Europe of the Foundation for the History of Technology

2018-2019 Member of the Next Generation Group of the ESEH  (NEXTGATe).

2018-2019 Member of the Dissertation Committee for ESEH

2019-2021 Secretary of the European Society for Environmental History

2019-2021 Member of the Website/Digital Committee of the ESEH

2020 - onward, Member of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)