Galina Orlova
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of History
- Galina Orlova has been at HSE University since 2019.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
Rostov-on-Don State University
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.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2023–2024, 2021
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2021
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1Cultural Stratigraphy of Post-Yugoslavian Emptiness: Politics, Epistemology, and Ethics of Sparse Presence
- 2Aesthetics of Embodiment: The Enactive Impulse in Contemporary Art and Design
- 3R. Thurman Visual archeology of fashion trend forecasting: patterns, technologies, and the invention of professional analyst vision
- 4Visual and mechanical design as a formative social instrument in video games
- 5M. Kulagin The birth of the dating service in the late USSR: institutional and discursive modes of processing lonelines
- 6Technocracy of the Late Socialism Era: Institutes of Soviet Academic Cybernetics of the 1960s–1990s
Courses (2024/2025)
- Anthropological Turn in the 20th-Century History (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar "History of the Modern World" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- The Laboratory of the Historian: Professional Convention and Practices (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Anthropological Turn in the 20th-Century History (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Discourse analysis in historical research (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- The Laboratory of the Historian: Professional Convention and Practices (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Anthropological Turn in the 20th-Century History (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Discourse analysis in historical research (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Specialized Vision: Archeology, Genealogy, Ethnography (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Cultural Studies, field of study Cultural Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- The Laboratory of the Historian: Professional Convention and Practices (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Discourse analysis in historical research (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Modernity: Man and Society (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Specialized Vision: Archeology, Genealogy, Ethnography (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- The Laboratory of the Historian: Professional Convention and Practices (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Anthropological Turn in the 20th-Century History (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Discourse analysis in historical research (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Specialized Vision: Archeology, Genealogy, Ethnography (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- The Laboratory of the Historian: Professional Convention and Practices (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2019
IX Полетаевские чтения (Москва). Presentation: История для служебного пользования: расщепление ядерного прошлого
XIII Научно-практическая конференция «История науки и техники. Музейное дело» (Москва). Presentation: К технополитической археологии противогаза
Сотворение “нового человека”: научные и художественные эксперименты (Россия–СССР, 1900–1939) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Записывающее устройство социализма: антропометрические программы в Советской России в 1920–1930-е гг.
- 2018
Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union and Beyond (Тюбинген). Presentation: Short life of isotops in the USSR
О пользе и вреде культурного наследия (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Цифровое курирование: менеджмент и хореография эфемерного
- 2017
МЕДИАКОСМ-2017 Per media ad astra (Москва). Presentation: «—Горючее? — Самое современное!»: Физики-ядерщики в борьбе за право на космос
Nuclear Legacies: Community, Memory Waste and Nature (Стокгольм). Presentation: Sredmash and beyond: nuclear topology in the city of research institutes
Cultures of Secrecy in the Soviet Life (Цюрих). Presentation: Romance with Secrecy: How to keep nuclear secrets during research interview
Editorial board membership
Forms of temporality of Soviet book publishing
On October 4, 2023, the first seminar of our Laboratory this academic year was held on the topic "Editorial portfolio and other forms of temporality of Soviet book publishing: on the material of the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house of the late 1950s - early 1970s".
‘The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past’
This summer, the HSE Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences was reorganized to become the HSE Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Oleg Budnitskii, Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of the Centre and director of the Institute, talked to the HSE News Service about the new division.