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Alaina Lemon

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Alaina Lemon

Alaina Lemon is a socio-cultural and linguistic anthropologist who works in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.  She is interested in how debates about aesthetic techniques and communicative forms relate to struggles over political change or social hierarchies.  She has conducted ethnographic research in directing schools, in theaters and backstage, on film sets, with journalists and press analysts, in the Moscow Metro, and, of course, sitting with people in kitchens and in front of television sets. She also sifts through archives and internet, broadcast, and print media texts.  She has written a book about ways Roma in Russia are racialized through performance--even as they also produce social value through meta-communication around performance encounters.

She has published articles that connect racial discourses (with emphasis on non-referential ways to index race) in post-Soviet Russia to Cold War narratives, to counterfeit currency, to public transit, and to institutionalized forms of performance.  Recent publications address the training of cultural producers in Russia, critically exploring categories of practice such as  "Verbal Terror," "Empathy," and "Hybrid Chronotopes."  Forthcoming work includes a study of ways people address both anxieties about mental influence as well as utopian hopes for a world of mental communion by linking theatrical practice with the spectacular techniques of paranormal science.

 

Lectures:

 

8 mars 2023 -  « Tangled collaborations in ethnographic filmmaking », Séminaire de Carole Damiens (Université Nanterre Paris X), « Culture visuelle et anthropologie des images », 10h30-13h30

16 mars 2023 - "The emotional lives of Soviet things", Séminaire "L'univers des choses soviétiques", EHESS, Salle 515, 17h-9h

20 mars 2023 - « Ideologies of breakdown and decay through the Cold War and after: the matter of race and class », Séminaire central du Cercec, Centre de Colloque, S. 3.07, 16h30-18h30

29 mars 2023 - « The ‘Robot Slot’: de-animation and Cold War », Séminaire de Juliette Cadiot « ‘Cold War’ ? la guerre froide, communisme, capitalisme, perspectives croisées » (CERCEC), Cercec s. 502, 9h30-11h30

17 avril 2023 - « The metapragmatics of "form" vs. "function" in making standard Soviet Stage Romani », Séminaire de Mena B. Lafkioui « La prédication non-verbale/Non-verbal predication » (LIER-FYT), 14h-18h

21 avril 2023 - « Soviet language policy, literary Romani and stage Romani », Séminaire d’Ilsen About «  Mobilités et contacts dans les mondes romani : histoire, linguistique et anthropologie » (IRIS)

 

 

 

 

 

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