Alexander Semyonov

Appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies of the Ludwig Maximilian University and the University of Regensburg, 2016

2017 - Project “Comparative Modern Constitutional History” (in collaboration with University of Göttingen)

2017 - Basic Research project “Transformation of Regimes of Governing Diversity: Continuity of Imperial Practices and Ruptures of Post-imperial Political Imaginaries in the History of Russia” (supported by the HSE)

2016-2017 - Project “Living together. Questions of diversity and unity in contemporary Russia: historical legacy, modern state, and society” (supported by the Foundation for Support of Liberal Arts)

2016-2019 - Project “Transformation of Regimes of Governing Diversity: The Russian Empire and the USSR” (in collaboration with the Karelian Institute, the University of Eastern Finland)

2014-2016 - International project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism” 

2016 - Basic Research Project "Transformation of regimes of governing diversity: War. Reforms and Revolutions in Russian Empire" (supported by the HSE)

2015-2016 - Project “History of the End of the Cold War, the Diaries of Teymuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze” (supported by the Yeltsin Center Foundation)

2015 - Basic Research Project "Making territorial character in diversity managing regimes: inside and outside borders in Russian History" (supported by the HSE)

2000-2014, co-founder and co-editor of "Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space"

2014-present, Co-Director of the International Research Project "Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism"

2009- Editor of the volume "Empire and Nationalism at War" in the project "Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: A Centennial Reappraisal"

2010, Mellon Foundation European Scholar Fellow and Associate Visiting Professor, University of Chicago (USA)

2009, Associate Visiting Professor, History Department, University of Michigan (USA)

2008-09, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "The Program for the Advancement of Religious (Muslim) Education"

2006-2008, Research fellow of the collaborative project "Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire" Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2006-07, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "Innovative Educational Ecology in a Classical University"

2007, Research fellow at the Center forEuropean Studies, Rutgers University (USA)

2004-2005, Academic director of the “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies” Project of the US Department of State’s Freedom Support Educational Partnerships Program, Rutgers University (US), Kazan State University (Russia), on a rotating basis.

2001-2003, Bibliography expert, History of the Russian Empire in Comparative PerspectiveProject (The Central European University, the Open Society Institute)

1999-2000, Visiting Scholar at the W. Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia University (USA)

Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the international quarterly Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space  

• Workshop: “Imperial Revolution of 1917: Post-Imperial Imaginaries and Revolutionary Politics in the Context of Diversity,” Ab Imperio, Center for Historical Research, HSE St. Petersburg, Foundation for Support of Liberal Arts, 09-10.06.2017
• Joint seminar of the Center for Historical Research and the Copenhagen University “Contested Global history”, St. Petersburg, June 7, 2017
• Far Eastern Federal University, August 21-28, 2016. Teaching at the summer school "The Problem and Politics of Diversity: The Russian Empire and Soviet Union in Comparative Perspective"
• Conference "Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History" (Heidelberg University, Germany)

paper theme: “Diversity Management and the Russian Empire: Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis, 1905–1924” (with Ivan Sablin)

• The 130th American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA 7–10 января, 2016, paper theme: “Critics of Democracy in the Russian Empire: Residual Political Culture or Alternative Political Imagination for Pluralistic Space”
• Conference in the Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, “XX- the beginning of XXI century: research paradigm», December 1-2, 2015, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), plenary speech: “Modern approaches to study the history of Empire as a regime of diversity management”
• International Conference “47th Annual ASEEES Convention”, Philadelphia, the United States, November 19-22, 2015, chairman on the round table “Race, Nation, and State on the Imperial Periphery: Siberian and Far Eastern Imperial Situations”
• Conference «Poletaev readings», Moscow, October, 9, 2015, paper theme «Historians «social» и historians «political»: describing the experience of the modernizing empires»
• International Congress “IX ICCEES World Congress”, Mukuhari, Japan, August, 3-8, 2015, Presentation: “Buddhism, Socialism, and Nationalism in Post-Imperial North Asia, 1905–1924” and “The Concept of Minority and Its Making in the Russian Empire of the Duma Period”
• Conference “XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development”, Moscow, April 7-10, 2015, Session Moderator: “New methodological approach in history”-1, “New methodological approach in history”-2
• Conference «Local Impacts of Changing International Borders», Berlin, December 2-4, 2014, Presentation «The End of Empires: The Russian Empire».
• Conference “Nordic Exploratory Workshop I”, Jyväskylä, October 17-19, 2014. Presentation: “Imperial Subjecthood, the Redefinition of Political Belonging, and Constitutional Reform in the Romanov Empire in the Early 20th Century”.
• Conference «Deutsche und Russen im Dialog - Kompetenz, Erfahrung, Kontinuität», Berlin, September 26-29, 2014, Discussant at the Workshop „Bildungschancen in der Russischen Föderation“.http://www.go-east-generationen.de/0-aktuelles/forum2014.html
• International Conference “Patriotic Cultures During the World War I” European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, June 11-13, 2014, Discussant at the panel: “The Patriotism of Occupied Nations” 
• Association for the study of nationalities (ASN), 19th Annual World Convention, Columbia University, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York City, April 24-26, paper: "Imperial Revolution and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire in Early Twentieth Century". 
• International Conference "US-Russia Dual Degree Partnership Network" Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, SUNY Global Center, New York City, January 30- February 1, 2014, Moderators' panel: "Recommendations for Governments, Unviversity Administrators, Faculty, and Students." 
• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 45^th Convention, Boston, USA, November 21-24, 2013, panel “Imperial and Anti-Imperial Revolutions and the Russia’s City of the Early Twentieth Century”, paper: “Russianness-Non-Russianness, Center-Periphery, and Federalism and Anti-Federalism: Contexts of the Russian Imperial Revolution”
• International Symposium "Imperial Legacies of the Russian Empire and the USSR: Nations, Territories, and Ideologies" Asia-Pacific Research Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 7-8, 2013, paper: "Imperial Legacy and the Imperial Revolution in the Russian Empire of the Early Twentieth Century"
• International Research Workshop "Tales of Two Empires: Ottoman and Russian Imperial Studies Compared" Amherst College, USA, November 1-2, 2013, paper: "Empire as a Context Setting Category"
• International Research Workshop "When Postcolonial Meets Postimperial: Sovereignty, Politics of Difference, and Composite Society in Comparative Perspective," National Research University-Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, May 27-28, 2013, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Paper: "Invisible Empire? Languages of Rationalization of Imperial Diversity"
• International Conference “In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov” Columbia University, New York (USA), February 14^th-16^th 2013, paper: “‘Conservative’ and ‘Revolutionary’ Monarchy: Reflections on the Institutions of the Russian Monarchy in the Age of Mass Politics"
• International conference “Empire and Nationalism in World War I”, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences,  June 8-9, 2012. Chair of the organizing commitee, participant, paper title: “Imperial Revolutions of the Early Twentieth Century”  
• International Conference “Making Sense of Exceptionalism and Diversity in Composite Polities and Societies: Past and Present,” Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire-Ab Imperio, Kazan, Russia Казань, May 17-21, 2012,  paper: “Exceptionalism as a Normative Concept”
• IX Sino-Soviet Summer Archive Workshop, Stanford University, Hoover Institution of War Peace and Revolution, US, July 17-31 2011, paper: "Imperial Sovereignty and Political Representation"

2000: Member of the Editorial Board, Ab Imperio* (Ab imperio).

2016 - Visiting Research Fellow and Honorary Research Associate, the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, the University of Regensburg 

2010 - Associate Visiting Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of History, University of Chicago 

2009 - Associate Visiting Professor, History Department, University of Michigan 

2006-2008 - Research fellow of the collaborative project "Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire" Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2003 - to the present -  Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Saint Petersburg State University) 

1999-2000 - Visiting Scholar at the W. Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia University 

• Guest at the program “The War That Changed the World”, BBC, theme: “St. Petersburg: Revolution”
• Talk show of the Radio Echo of St. Petersburg: The Crimea, Ukraine, and Russia, A View from History
• Talk show of the Radio Echo of Moscow: Wither Nationalism in Russia?