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Recherche

2019 – 2021. ‘Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders’, various institutions. Dr. Mikhailova led the book project as the lead co-editor.

2020 – 2021. "Cross-Border Urbanism: Comparison of Urban Forms and their Connectivity at the State Margins", �����˴�ý. The project is carried out within the 2020-2021 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.

2018 - 2019. “The Transformation of Soviet Republic Borders to International Borders”, �����˴�ý of Eastern Finland, PI Prof. Dr. Jeremy Smith. As a member of the research team I was responsible for assessing dynamic relations in the Russia-Belarus-Ukraine triangle.

2015 - 2019. “Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time”, various institutions. I co-edited an international edited volume with a prominent British Urban Historian Dr. John Garrard. In addition to my scholarly and editorial input, I led communications with the 30-chapter authors, managed the book’s marketing campaign and book launch at three international conferences, and presented its findings during invited lectures at the �����˴�ý of Delhi (India) and Pompeu Fabra �����˴�ý (Spain).

2012 - 2014. FP7 EUBORDERREGIONS project, Barents Institute – Arctic �����˴�ý of Norway. As a research assistant, I was identifying and interviewing key actors of the Russian-Norwegian local and regional cross-border cooperation.

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Borders, cross-border governance, sustainable development of border regions and border cities, city diplomacy, global cities, critical toponymy, symbolic landscape

Enseignements

September 2020 and 2021 – gave lectures ‘International Borders and Transboundary Dynamics Seen at Different Scales and in Different Spheres’ for BA students within the course T406067 ‘Territoires et frontières’, �����˴�ý.

March-April 2021 – gave lectures ‘The Russian Arctic’ and ‘Cross-Border Twin Cities along Russia's Borders’ for MA students within the Program on Russia and Central Europe, Global Studies Institute, �����˴�ý.

Projets

2021 – 2022. involved in preparation of funding applications within UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Toponymy ‘Naming the World’, �����˴�ý.

2021. initiated and coordinated the research consortium ‘City Diplomacy in Times of COVID-19: Pandemic Response and the Future of Urban Sustainability’ with nine academic partners for the funding application to the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS).

2020 – 2021. "Cross-Border Urbanism: Comparison of Urban Forms and their Connectivity at the State Margins", �����˴�ý. The project is carried out within the 2020-2021 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.

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2021, November 18-21 53rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, USA. Presentation: ‘Development and Decay in Post-Partitioned Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island and its Urban Vicinity’

2021, August 16-20 34th International Geographic Congress “Geography: Bridging the Continents” (virtual). Presentations: ‘Twin Cities as Complex Urban Systems and the State-of-the-Art in Twin-City Research’ and ‘To Bridge or not to bridge? Connectivity on the Sino-Russian border’

2021, June 28-July 1 EUGEO congress 2021. Presentations: ‘Place Names and (Re)naming at Borderlands: Reflection on Cross-Border Urban Areas along Swiss and Russian Borders’ (with F.��Giraut), ‘The State-of-the-Art in Twin-City Research: Editorial Notes to the Two Edited Volumes of “Twin Cities…” ’

2021, June 17-18 Journées d’étude du GDRus, ���Ծ������������é Grenoble Alpes. Presentation: ‘Performing Slavic (Dis)Unity at the Russia-Belarus-Ukraine tri-border point over time’

2019, Nov 20. VERA Annual conference ‘From Deconstructing to Constructing Walls: 30 years after Berlin’, Finland.
Presentation: ‘Ukrainian-Belarusian border co-operation in securitised times’

2019, Sept 13. Monthly Digital Russian Studies webinar, Aleksanteri Institute, �����˴�ý of Helsinki.
Presentation: ‘The image of the ‘Slavic Unity’ festival in the media space’

2019, June 27. International Conference ‘Urban Identities: Past and Present’, �����˴�ý of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Presentation: ‘International Twin Cities and Identity’

2018, Oct 4-5. International Conference ‘BoMoCult/CultChange conference: Methods, Approaches, Ethics’, �����˴�ý of Eastern Finland.
Presentations: a) ‘Media and Social Media Analysis for Investigating Cross-border Festivals: An Example of the Slavic Unity Festival in 2012-2018’, b) Book Launch of ‘Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships Over Time’

2018, July 10-14. Association for Borderlands Studies World Conference, Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary.
Presentations: a) ‘To Bridge or not to bridge? (Absence of) Infrastructure on the Sino-Russian border’ (with C.-T. Wu), b) Chapter presentation ‘Are Refugees Welcome to the Arctic?’ within the Book Launch ‘Europe as a continent of dreams’

2016, May 17-20. 15^th International ‘Border Regions in Transition’ (BRIT) conference ‘Cities, States and Borders: From the Local to the Global’, Hamburg, Germany and Sønderborg, Denmark.
Presentations: ‘Collaborative Problem Solving in the Cross-Border Context: Learning from Paired Local Communities along the Russian Border’