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 - to the present

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)

2014-2016, Co-Director of the International Research Project "Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism"

2009-2014 Member of the Editorial Board of the international project "Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: A Centennial Reappraisal," Co-editor of the volume "Empire and Nationalism at War"

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  

• 132nd American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, 7–10 января, 2018. Theme: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective. Chair of the Panels: "Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire" & "Globalizing Russia’s Imperial Turn: Perspectives from Kritika and Ab Imperio"
• International Workshop "Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism". October 26th – 28th, 2017, University of Turin. Paper "Dilemmas of Liberalism in the Russian Imperial Context"
• 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 “Diversity Management and the Russian Empire: Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis, 1905–1924” (with Ivan Sablin), June 19–21, 2016
• The 130th American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA January 7–10, 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).

2018-2020, co-director together with Prof. Matthias Koenig and Prof. Jeremy Smith of the Era.net Plus Rus Research Consortium (HSE, Geottingen University, University of Eastern Finland) “Post-Imperial Diversities -- Majority-minority Relations in the Transition from Empires to Nations-States”

2016-2018, co-director of the research project “Living together. Questions of diversity and unity in contemporary Russia: historical legacy, modern state, and society” supported by the Kudrin Foundation

2014-2016, co-director (with Ronald Suny) of the HSE University International Research Project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism” 

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" Volkswagenstiftung grant, 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"

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.

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

2016, March, visiting professor at the Department of History and Ethnology, Jyvaskyla University, Finland

2010-2013, visiting professor at the European University in St. Petersburg

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 

2007, Research fellow at the Center for European Studies, Rutgers University

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

2003 - 2017,  Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Saint Petersburg State University)

2003 - 2012, Assistant Professor in History and Political Science, 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?