Текущие проекты

The project “New Way of Life: Forms of Family Organization and Changes in the Domestic Space” is a joint Russian-Finnish project with the support of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. April 2004 - December 2006 The project plans to finish data collection in April-May 2007.

The Project aim was to create an interaction network of municipal officials, women’s NGOs and gender researchers/academicians, and to implement the gender Mapping on municipal level in St.Petersburg

The Project was aimed at developing cooperation between nongovernmental organizations and governmental institutions that deal with issues of citizens’ rights and rights of women.

The project investigates class, regional, and ethnic-based gender inequality production and reproduction of distinctions in the private sphere in contemporary Russia. It aims to study the distribution of gender roles in young families (or long-term de facto couples) and relationships between various generations.

Сексуальные и репродуктивные практики в России: свобода и ответственность (Санкт-Петербург, начало XXI века)

2004-Present Research and exhibition project, “Photo Archive of the Anskogo Expedition, 1912-1914”   2004-Present Professional retraining of EUSP students in Judaic Studies   2004-Present Field Studies of Shtetls Summer schools for field work 2004-2008 were organized in cooperation with the "Sefer" Center (Moscow) and conducted in small towns of Ukraine (Tulchin, Balta, Mogilev-Podolsk, Bershad, Gaysin, etc.). The first results of this work are presented in the volume "Shtetl, 21th century: Field Studies"   2006-Present Research and exhibition project, “Museum of Jewish Oral History”

The exhibition An Ordinary Synagogue ran at the State Museum of the History of Religion from September 21, 2010 to February 8, 2011. It introduced museum visitors to the religious culture  of Jewish communities in the Western Krai of the Russian Empire.

Sketches of Moldovan Souvenir Rugs, an exhibition at the Petersburg Jewish Community Center (ul.

The project led by distinguished professor of Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis (USA) Mario Biagioli is designed as a 28-month study of the population of Russian computer scientists (RCS henceforth) in Russia and abroad. From 2013 to 2015 extensive ethnographic fieldwork and/or oral history research was conducted in Moscow, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Vladivostok, Kazan, as well as England, Israel, France, and the USA (Boston/NYC and San Francisco areas). The main interest of the study is to understand how professionals communicate across national and professional boundaries in the dual context of an intrinsically portable form of knowledge – relatively not-sticky forms of innovations – and a politically tense status quo where emigrates are both praised for their entrepreneurship and blamed for bringing the competition within or for siphoning the brightest brains off the Russian Federation. 

  The center implemented the research project “Reassembling Res Publica: Reform of Infrastructure in Post-Soviet Russia” in 2004-2007 together with the University of Helsinki. The project participants are Oleg Kharkhordin, Olga Bychkova, Olga Kalacheva (EUSP), Risto Alapuro, Rosa Vihavainen (Helsinki University). The goal of the project is to study the development of self-governing organizations in the context of the Russian reform of municipal self-government.

 The research program consisted of three independent tasks - archaeological research (with the support of geological exploration), comparative historical analysis and examination of the results in terms of their importance for political theory (formulation of assumptions for municipal reform).

A report delivered by EUSP for the state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (ROSNANO)