ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Bannikov Konstantin Leonardovich

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Anthropologist, photographer and traveler, director and founder of the ARC (Anthropological Research Center), Helsinki. Editor-in-Chief of the ARC PRESS media group, teacher at the Higher School of Economics, member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists EASA. Author of the monograph “Anthropology of Extreme Groups” (2002) and a number of popular science books.

Baunov Alexander Germanovich

Philologist, journalist, publicist, former diplomat. From 1999 to 2003, he served in the diplomatic service of the Russian Foreign Ministry at the Russian Embassy in Greece. From 2004 to 2008, reporter, then editor of the international department of Russian Newsweek magazine. Since 2009, columnist and editor of the daily online www.slon.ru. publication Author of series of articles on international and domestic topics in the Vedomosti newspaper, Bolshoi Gorod magazine, Russian Life and other publications. In 2013, finalist for the PolitProsvet journalistic prize. In 2014, chairman of the jury of the PolitProsvet award.

Bykova Valentina Aleksandrovna

Candidate of Political Sciences, senior lecturer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Research interests: horizontal structures of society, territorial development, civic networks and self-organization of society.

Glushkova Irina Petrovna

Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief researcher at the Center for Indian Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Head of the interdisciplinary project group “Under the Sky of South Asia”; project manager and executive editor of the books “Language will bring to India. In memory of A.T. Aksenov" (2008), "Death in Maharashtra. Imagination, perception, embodiment” (2012). Author of the books “Indian Pilgrimage. Metaphor of movement and movement of metaphor" (2000), "From the Indian basket" (2003), "Mobility and asceticism. Theory and practice of Tirtha Yatra" (2008), etc.

Kitaev Vladimir Anatolievich

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Information Technologies in Humanitarian Research, Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky. Author of the books “From Fronde to Security. From the history of Russian liberal thought of the 50-60s of the 19th century" (1972); “Liberal thought in Russia (1860-1880)” (2004); “The 19th century: the paths of Russian thought” (2008).

Kostyrko Vasily Sergeevich

Graduate of the Department of Philology of the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Author of articles about traditional and modern Yakut culture, literary critic, essayist. Scientific interests: ritual and folklore, structural and functional analogues of mythological ritual schemes in modern Russian prose, cathartics.

Levontina Irina Borisovna

Candidate of Philological Sciences, senior researcher at the Russian Language Institute. V.V. Vinogradov RAS, one of the authors of the “New Explanatory Dictionary of Synonyms of the Russian Language”, ed. Yu. D. Apresyan.

Martynov Kirill Konstantinovich

Candidate of Philosophy, specialist in the field of modern political theories, analytical philosophy and sociology. Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Medvedev Sergey Alexandrovich

Professor at the Higher School of Economics, specialist in political science and historical sociology, international relations, founder and director of the international educational project Escapes from Modernity. Author of more than 100 scientific papers published in many countries around the world, ten books on world politics, including Identity Politics in Wider Europe (Berlin, 2012); EU - Russia Relations : Alternative Futures (Helsinki, 2006); Russia and the West at the Millennium (Berlin, 2004) and Mapping European Security After Kosovo (Manchester, 2002, with Peter van Ham). TV and radio presenter, columnist for Russian Forbes.

Neklyudova Maria Sergeevna

PhD in Comparative Literature, senior researcher at the Institute for Higher Humanitarian Studies. E. M. Meletinsky RSUH. Publications: “The Art of Private Life: The Age of Louis XIV” (2008), ““I call the court a country...”: the genealogy of one metaphor” (2014).

Reshetnikova Ekaterina Sergeevna

Philologist, translator, master of history, doctoral student at the Higher School of Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris), employee of the Laboratory of Historical, Social and Cultural Anthropology (Saratov).

Ekaterina Samkova

Student of class 11 “B” at the Municipal Educational Institution “Gymnasium No. 44 in Tver.”

Sdvizhkov Denis Anatolievich

Candidate of Historical Sciences, researcher at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, author of studies on the comparative history of the intelligentsia in Europe and historical semantics. Author of the monograph Das Zeitalter der Intelligenz: Zur vergleichenden Geschichte der Gebildeten in Europa bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (2006).

Skorkin Konstantin Yurievich

Writer, publicist, journalist. Published in Ukrainian and Russian periodicals. Deputy head of the board of the NGO STAN art-group (social projects in the field of contemporary art). Author of the study “Cultural Map of Lugansk” (with the support of the European Cultural Foundation). Participant of international conferences “Ukraine - Russia: dialogue”, Ukraine: Thinking Together. Fellow at the Institute for Humanity Sciences (Vienna).

Ustinov Alexey Valerievich

Literary critic, historian, journalist. Postgraduate student at Kostroma State University. N. A. Nekrasova. Scientific interests: Russian literature of the 19th century, historical novels, works of D. L. Mordovtsev. Author of a number of articles and participant in the collective monograph “Russian statehood in periods of crises, wars and revolutions: power, values, institutions” (2014).

Spaitkamp Winfried

German historian, head of the department of modern and contemporary history at the University of Kassel, author of the books Kleine Geschichte Afrikas (2 Aufl., 2009), Der Rest ist f ü r Sie ! Kleine Geschichte des Trinkgeldes (2008), Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte (2005), etc.