Ekaterina Kalemeneva
- Заместитель декана по научной работе и работе со студентами:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities
- Senior Lecturer:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Ekaterina Kalemeneva has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
- 2019
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University - 2017
Doctoral programme in History
HSE University, School of history - 2017
Doctoral programme
HSE University, School of history - 2013
Master's in History
European University in St. Petersburg, history - 2011
Degree in History
Lomonosov Northern Arctic Federal University - 2011
Degree in History
Northern Arctic Federal University, history MA, Department of History, European University at St.Petersburg, 2013
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.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
Additional Education
March - June, 2016 Visiting Researcher, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
2014 (Spring term) Venice International University, Globalization program
2013 - 2014 European University at St.Petersburg, Postgraduate program
Postgraduate Studies
Dissertation title: “Making the Arctic Comfortable: Changes in Urbanization Models
for the Soviet Far North in the 1950s-1960s”
Supevisor: Julia Lajus
Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2020)
Courses (2022/2023)
- History of Soviet Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Urban Modernization in the Soviet Union (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Urban Modernization in the Soviet Union (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- A History of the World Since 1300 (Optional course (faculty); School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Project Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1 module)Eng
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Project Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism: Between Utopia and Pragmatics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
- Political History of Russia and Foreign Countries (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2016/2017)
Grants
2016 – 2018 Collective research project “Natural Resources in History of Russia: Economic Institutes, Communities of Experts and Infrastructures”, funded by Russian Science foundation. Project leader Julia Lajus
September 2016 - field reseach on Spitzbergen in the framework of the 3rd part of the research project Sustainable Communities and the Legacies of Mining in the Nordic Arctic, funded by Nordregio and based at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
2016 participant of the collective research project "Moving of the material in history: the role of natural resource, materials and goods in institutional and infrastructural development"
2015 participant of the research project "History of technology and infrastructure in Russia and the USSR: processes and practices of standardization and their participants"
2014 - 2017 International research project "Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development - New governance for sustainable development in the european Arctic".
2011 – 2013 International Research Project "Assessing Arctic Futures: Voices, Resources, and Governance", funded by Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research MISTRA, Sweden ( project leader Sverker Sorlin).
Publications17
- Chapter Bruno A., Kalemeneva E. Creating the Soviet Arctic, 1917–1991, in: The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions. Cambridge University Press, 2023. doi Ch. 19. P. 462-486. doi
- Chapter Bekasova A., Kalemeneva E. Trans-Siberian ‘Landscapes of Transportation’ through the Lens of Travel Guidebooks in Late Imperial Russia, in: Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History / Отв. ред.: D. Moon, N. Breyfogle, A. Bekasova. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2021. Ch. 10. P. 203-230.
- Article Kalemeneva E. From New Socialist Cities to Thaw Experimentation in Arctic Townscapes: Leningrad Architects Attempt to Modernise the Soviet North // Europe-Asia Studies. 2019. Vol. 73. No. 3. P. 426-449. doi
- Chapter Eklund N., Lajus J., Borovoy V., Kalemeneva E., 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.
- Chapter Kalemeneva E. Arctic Modernism: New Urbanisation Models for the Soviet Far North in the 1960s, in: Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. doi Ch. 10. P. 213-241. 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
- Chapter Kraikovski A., Dadykina M., Kalemeneva E. Water Management in Russian Monasteries, 16th-18th cc., in: Gestione dell'acqua in Europa (XII-XVIII Secc.) / Water Management in Europe (12th-18th centuries) Vol. 49. Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2018. Ch. 15. P. 319-336.
- Article Калеменева Е. А. Смена моделей освоения советского Севера в 1950-е гг. Случай Комиссии по проблемам Севера // Сибирские исторические исследования. 2018. № 2. С. 181-200. doi
- Chapter Калеменева Е. А. Разработка нового типа поселений на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1960-е годы // В кн.: НАУКА, ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ И ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНОЕ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ. Тезисы докладов международной научно-практической конференции, профессорско-преподавательского состава, молодых ученых, 3–7 апреля 2017 г. Т. 2. М. : МАРХИ, 2017. С. 428-430.
- Article Калеменева Е. А. Северный климат как «враг» и как ресурс в советских урбанистических проектах арктических городов 1940-х гг. // Вестник Сургутского государственного педагогического университета. 2017. Т. 51. № 6. С. 89-95.
- Article Калеменева Е. А. Советская политика освоения Крайнего Севера и критика жизненных условий арктических городов в нарративах хрущевского времени // Quaestio Rossica. 2017. Т. 5. № 1. С. 153-170. doi
- Article Evgenii V. Anisimov, Alexandra Bekasova, Ekaterina Kalemeneva. Books That Link Worlds: Travel Guides, the Development of Transportation Infrastructure, and the Emergence of the Tourism Industry in Imperial Russia, Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries // The Journal of Tourism History. 2016. Vol. 8. No. 2. P. 184-204. doi
- Chapter Калеменева Е. А. Город под куполом: советские архитекторы и освоение Крайнего Севера в 1950-1960-е годы // В кн.: Bulletin des Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau Вып. 7: Конструируя «советское»? Доклады научной конференции студентов и аспирантов, 20 - 21 апреля 2012 года, Санкт-Петербург. М. : [б.и.], 2013. С. 93-108.
- Chapter Калеменева Е. А. «Земля будущего»: проекты строительства крытых городов на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1950-1960-е годы // В кн.: Конструируя "советское"?: Политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности: Материалы научной конференции студентов и аспирантов 20 – 21 апреля 2012 г. СПб. : Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 2012.
- Chapter Калеменева Е. А. Трансформация образа интеллигенции в советской официальной пропаганде 1920-1930—х годов // В кн.: Ars Historica. Сборник научных статей Вып. 3-4. Архангельск : ИПЦ САФУ, 2012. С. 31-35.
- Chapter Калеменева Е. А. Скандал в «благородном семействе»: к дискуссии вокруг сборника «Вехи» в 1909 году // В кн.: Власть и общество в России: жизнь и государственная деятельность П.А. Столыпина: материалы и доклады межрегиональной научно-практической конференции (Самара, 21 апреля 2011 г.). Самара : Издательство «Самарский университет», 2011. С. 296-304.
- Chapter Калеменева Е. А. Понятие «интеллигенция» в художественной литературе и публицистике конца XIX – начала ХХ века // В кн.: Ars Historica. Альманах научного студенческого общества исторического факультета ПГУ Вып. 2. Архангельск : Издательство ПГУ, 2010. С. 7-10.
Conferences
- 2019Общероссийская конференция ВДНХ XIII (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: “Обычные города” в необычном пространстве: дискуссии ленинградских архитекторов о создании городов на Крайнем Севере в годы Оттепели
- 2018Пространства и общества арктического побережья России накануне новой эпохи развития Северного морского пути (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Смена моделей освоения советского Севера в 1950-е гг. Случай Комиссии по проблемам Севера АН СССР
- Полярные Чтения - 2018 (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Модернизм в арктическом ландшафте: разработка экспериментальных принципов создания жилой среды в северных городах в 1960-е гг.
- Transformations of the Urban. Global Perspectives on the History of Industrial Cities (Moscow). Presentation: From the “conquest of the land of snow“ to the “happy cities of youth“: transformations of the urban models in the Soviet Far North in the 1960s
- 2017Архитектурные аспекты освоения Крайнего Севера (Москва). Presentation: Разработка нового типа поселений на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1960-е годы
- High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues (Crans-Montana). Presentation: Remoteness and infrastructure: knowing, living and imagining the environments of polar and alpine regions
- ASEEES Annual Convention (Chicago). Presentation: Living Urban in the Soviet Arctic
- 2016Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The Thaw in the Soviet Arctic: constructing ‘a new Soviet city’ in the Far North (the case of town of Mirnyi)
- 2015Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe (Будапешт). Presentation: Changes in Urbanization models in the Soviet Arctic, 1950-1970s
- 7th Plenary Tensions of Europe Conference "Technology – Nature – Environment" (Стокгольм). Presentation: Colonizing, Exploiting, Domesticating: Changes of the Discourses and Practices of the Soviet Arctic urban development, 1930-1970
- Waterscapes and Historic Canals as a Cultural Heritage (Венеция). Presentation: Adapting Northern Nature: the Development of the Canal System of Solovetsky Monastery through centuries
- Living Cities of the Second World (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Making the Arctic Comfortable: Leningrad Architects in Search of Northern Urban Planning
- Natural resources, Landscape and Climate in History of Russia and Neighboring countries (Saint Petersburg). Presentation: Climate as an enemy and as a resource: Soviet northern urbanism
- 9th Annual conference VDNKh (Выставка достижений научного хозяйства) (Saint Petersburg). Presentation: Arctic Utopias: Modernism on the Frozen Edge
- 2014Urban Environment and Technological control in History (Венеция). Presentation: Arctic climate and the Soviet architects
- 2013Седьмая общеуниверситетская конференция "Выставка достижений научного хозяйства" (ВДНХ-7) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Возможна ли северная архитектура? Разработка нового типа поселений на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1960-е годы
- 11th Annual meeting of the Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility (T2M ) “Transport and borders” (Коувола). Presentation: Broadening the borders of human-built environment in the Soviet North: new architectural designs and city planning in the second half of the 20 century
- 6th Plenary Tensions of Europe Conference “Democracy and Technology: Europe in Tension from 19th to 21st Century” (Париж). Presentation: Encounters of central and local experts' vision on city planning in the Soviet Arctic in the middle of the 20 century
- Annual conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Мюнхен). Presentation: The Land of the Future: Changes in urban planning at the Soviet Arctic in the 1960s
- 2012Выставка достижений научного хозяйства (ВДНХ-VI) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Выступление на Круглом столе "История технологий: современные направления исследований"
- Арктическая зона Российской Федерации: Северо-Восточный вектор развития (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Урбанистическое будущее Крайнего Севера: советские градостроительные проекты
- 55th Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (Копенгаген). Presentation: Technology Design, City Planning, and Northern Environment at the Soviet Arctic
- Science-fiction across media. Alternative Histories, Alien Futures (Умео). Presentation: Domed cities: between sci-fi and reality?
- «Конструируя «советское»? Политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности». (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: «Земля будущего»: проекты строительства крытых городов на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1950-1960-е годы
- 2011Власть и общество в России – жизнь и государственная деятельность П.А.Столыпина (Самара). Presentation: Скандал в ”благородном семействе”: причины дискуссии вокруг сборника «Вехи» в 1909 году
Employment history
2016 - till present - Senior Lecturer, Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2015 - till present - junior researcher, Laboratory for environmental and technological history, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2013 - 2015 - research assistant, Centre for Historical Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2007 - 2014 tour-guide, Solovetsky state museum
Popular publications and presentations
- Какими могли быть арктические города. Материал для проекта Arzamas
- Vague Borders: Blurred But Still There: Review on the book: Alan Barenberg, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale University Press, 2014)
- «Марсианские хроники» советского Заполярья: какими могли быть арктические города будущего». Выступление в Норильском музее
Seminar of the Laboratory for the Environmental and Technological History and the presentation of the recently published book:
Moon, David, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: The White Horse Press, 2021.
26 March 2021, 18:00 at the seminar of the Laboratory for the Environmental and Technological History (St. Petersburg School of Arts and Humanities HSE SPb) – the presentation of the recently published book: Moon, David, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: The White Horse Press, 2021.Presenters: Alexandra Bekasova, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Ekaterina Kalemeneva, Elena Kochetkova, Julia Lajus, David Moon and other authors. This collective monograph is one of the results of a networking project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (UK) carried out in 2013-2016, in which many researchers of the Laboratory participated. The project team carried out several research trips to different parts of Russia that are important for studying the history of the relationship between people and nature: the Solovetsky Islands, Lake Baikal, the Perm region and the Urals.
International Opportunities Online: Joint Courses Bring HSE’s and International Students Together
Call for Applications for the development and delivery of joint online courses with international partner universities completed at HSE University — St. Petersburg at the end of December. Now students of five educational programmes can take courses developed by lecturers from HSE and partner universities. Students of partner universities will take the courses along with students of HSE University — St. Petersburg.
Turning times: Russia and Germany, 1980 – 2000”: a joint course organized by the Department of History and Humboldt University
In the first weeks of May and June the Department of History, Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg and Humboldt University in Berlin will organize a joint course “Turning times: Russia and Germany, 1980 – 2000” for students from both Universities.