Andrian Vlakhov

Senior Lecturer:Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
Junior Research Fellow:Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Linguistic Conflict Resolution Studies and Contemporary Communicative Practices

Andrian Vlakhov has been at HSE since 2018.

Education

2013
Master's in Anthropology and Ethnology
European University in St. Petersburg
2012
Master's
Saint Petersburg State University
2010
Bachelor's
Saint Petersburg State University

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2013–2016: PhD program in Anthropology at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

Professional Interests

sociolinguistics language policy social/cultural anthropology industrial anthropology Arctic urban anthropology Svalbard Russian-nordic connections

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2019)

Professional Associations Membership

2017 – present: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

2014 – present: International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)

2013 – present: Association of Polar Early Career Researchers (APECS)

Field Research

Courses (2018/2019)

Applications of Linguistics to the Studies of Language, Society and Media (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design; programme "Journalism"; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
Communicative management: storytelling in professional discourse (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Interdisciplinary Methods of Language and Culture Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; programme "Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Key Concepts of the Russian Linguistic Worldview (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Language in the Uneverse of Culture: The Russian Communicative Style (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective"; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Language policy in USSR State Language and in contemporary Russia (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Language Policy in the Context of Ethnocultural Diversity"; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Linguistic Antropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Linguistic Theory and Language Description"; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
Linguistic Antropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Research Seminar "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; programme "Sociology"; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Linguistic Theory and Language Description"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Sociolinguistics 2 (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Linguistic Theory and Language Description"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Past Courses

Courses (2017/2018)

Key Concepts of the Russian Linguistic Worldview (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Language in the Uneverse of Culture: The Russian Communicative Style (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective"; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Linguistic Theory and Language Description"; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Russian for Academic Purposes (Bachelor’s programme; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Publications

2019¹

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.

2018²

Preprint Grabovskaya M., Gridneva E., Vlakhov A. Politeness strategies of Russian school students: Quantitative approach to qualitative data / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018.
Chapter Vlakhov A., Gnatenko A. Political Regime Influences in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region, in: Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. doi Ch. 8. P. 165-187. doi

2017¹

Article Влахов А. В. Рец. на кн.: JAN-ODDVAR SØRNES, LARRY D. BROWNING, JAN TERJE HENRIKSEN (eds.). CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT AND PETROLEUM: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE HIGH NORTH. Oxford; N.Y.: Routledge, 2015. 244 p. // Антропологический форум. 2017. № 32. С. 217-226.

2014³

Chapter Влахов А. В. Региональная идентичность в российской части Баренцева Евро-Арктического региона // В кн.: Сделано в Европе: взгляд российских исследователей / Под общ. ред.: Е. В. Белокурова, М. В. Ноженко. Т. 2: Идентичности в Европе и России. СПб. : НОРМА, 2014. С. 151-190.
Chapter Влахов А. В. Ресурсы в российской части Баренцева Евро-Арктического региона как маркер идентичности // В кн.: Сибирский сборник—4. Грани социального: антропологические перспективы исследования социальных отношений и культуры. СПб. : МАЭ РАН, 2014.
Article Влахов А. В. Рец. на: А. А. Сирина. Эвенки и эвены в современном мире: самосознание, природопользование, мировоззрение. М.: Восточная литература, 2012. 604 с., ил. // Антропологический форум. 2014. № 23. С. 269-276.

Conferences

2019
Arctic Frontiers 2019: Smart Arctic (Тромсё). Presentation: Online at the world's end: how the advancing telecom technologies impact Svalbard communities
2018
NSF Arctic-FROST Annual Conference: Co-constructing Sustainability in the Arctic: Collaboration among regional and local governments, Indigenous organizations and researchers in sustainable development in the Arctic (Juneau, AK). Presentation: Challenges of post-industrial tourism development in the Arctic company towns: the case of Barentsburg, Svalbard
2017
17th Annual Aleksanteri Conference Russia’s choices for 2030 (Helsinki). Presentation: Resource extraction in the Russian-Nordic borderland: how the Arctic extractive companies develop sustainable approaches
International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences IX (ICASS IX) (Умео). Presentation: Symbolic boundaries in the borderless space: mobility and telecommunication in Svalbard
International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences IX (ICASS IX) (Умео). Presentation: Barentsburg, a Russian town in Svalbard: new input for Arctic social science?
International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences IX (ICASS IX) (Умео). Presentation: Barentsburg, a Russian town in the Norwegian land: from decay to success
Svalbard and the Humanities (Tromsø). Presentation: Russian Settlements on Svalbard in Transition: A Longitudinal Community Study (2013-17)
2016
16th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference: Life and Death in Russia (Helsinki). Presentation: When Wars Go North: Refugee Crisis in the Russian Arctic
24th World Congress of Political Science of International Political Science Association (IPSA) (Познань). Presentation: When Ice Thickens: Cross-Border Cooperation Between Russian and Norwegian Arctic Communities in the New Political Conditions
Arctic Circle Assembly (Рейкьявик). Presentation: The 2014–2016 Refugee Flows in the Russian Arctic: How the Global Impacts the Local

Conferences before 2018

Employment history

Has been at HSE since 2018.

2014–2017: Junior Research Fellow, European University at St. Petersburg, Dept. of Anthropology

2016 – present: Associate Research Fellow, RAS Institute of Sociology

Timetable for today

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