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Ilya V. Utekhin
Dean of the Ethnology Department
Academic Interests
- cognitive science
- semiotic anthropology
- studies of Soviet and post-Soviet culture of everyday life
- ethnography of communication
- visual anthropology
Recently Taught Courses
- Introduction to Semiotics
- Semiotics of Behavior
- Analysis of Communicative Interaction
- Semiotics of Cognitive Processes
- Main Topics of Contemporary Linguistics
Recent Employment
- 2005 - present Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Cognitive Studies at St.
Petersburg State University
- 2002 - present Head of the Department of Ethnology, European University
at St. Petersburg
- 1996 - present Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology,
European University at St. Petersburg
- 1995 - present Visiting Lecturer at the Department of General
Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University
- also taught at: University of Helsinki (Dept. of Musicology), Institutum
Studiorum Humanitatis (Ljubljana, Slovenia), University Paris IV-la
Sorbonne, University of St. Quentin-en-Yveline (France), American University at Prague, Center for Independent
Sociological Research (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Education
- 2001 PhD in Ethnology (kandidat istoricheskih nauk) from Institute of
Anthropology and Ethnology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow);
dissertation "Everyday life of big communal apartments in Leningrad (St.Petersburg)
in 1970-90s: Stereotypes of everyday behavior"
- 1992-95 Post-graduate studies at Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology (Kunstkammer),
Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 MA from St. Petersburg State University, Department of General
Linguistics
Awards and Fellowhips
- 2005-06 Centre for International Mobility (CIMO, Finland); research
project in cognitive science, "Semiotics of visual thinking together"
- 2005 (January-February) Kone Fellow in Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies
- 2001 American Council of Learned Societies; “Poetics of Complaint”
- 1997 OSI Research Support Scheme; “Living Together: Communal Apartments
in St.Petersburg Viewed by Anthropologist”
- 1991-92 Research Institute on Social Change (Nyon, Switzerland);
research project “Semiotics of Consumer Goods”
Coordinated Projects
- “Seminar on Anthropological Fieldwork” (OSI HESP, 1998)
- “Virtual Museum of Communal Apartment” (OSI Russia Program of Electronic
Publications, 2000; see the outcome of the project at
http://www.kommunalka.spb.ru)
- Academic Exchange Program between EUSP and ISH (Ljubljana)” (HESP
Mobility Scheme, 2000-2001)
Other Professional Affiliation
- Member of Editorial Board of "HOME CULTURES" (Berg Publishers)
- Fellow, International Communicology Institute (2005)
Selected publications by Ilya Utekhin
Address:
European University at St. Petersburg
3 Gagarinskaya Str., St.Petersburg
Russia 191 187
tel.: +7 (812) 275 52 56 (office)
fax: +7 (812) 275 51 39
e-mail: utekhin(AT)eu.spb.ru
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