Карпенкина Янина Валерьевна

Education and Degrees

2018

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in PhD
HSE University

2014

Degree in History
Belarusian State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

1.“Dissertation and Thesis Development Workshop: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union” at USHMM, Washington DC, USA. 22-06-2015 – 01-07-2015

2. Summer Student Research Assistantship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, D.C., U.S.A., 5.07.2016 – 12.08.2016

3. Workshop “New Directions in the Use of Oral Testimonies: Soviet Experiences of the Holocaust” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, D.C., U.S.A., 1.08.2016 – 12.08.2016

4. International workshop “The Holocaust in the Soviet Union” at The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, 18-22 September 2016

5. International Forum for Young Scholars on East European Jewry (The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, NYU Prague, the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, the Department of History and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, the Harriman Institute and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University) hosted by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and NYU Prague (3-6 July, 2017)

7. Advanced training course "The Soviet State and Society in the 1920s-1950s: New historiographical approaches," HSE University, Russian Federation (2020)

8. Advanced training course "The Soviet History in European and Global Context," HSE University, Russian Federation (2021)

9. "Preparing a Manuscript for Publication," AWC, HSE (November, 2023). Certificate (PDF, 394 Кб)

Professional Interests

Eastern European Jews history of USSR history of Belarus perestroika in the USSR history of Russia in the 1990s

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2022
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2024)
Category "New Researchers" (2019–2020)

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
Teaching History at School in Post-Soviet Belarus (1991-2019): Constructing a National Narrative

Courses (2024/2025)

Between Stalinism and Perestroika: Soviet Society in 1953-1985 (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
Between Tradition and Transformation: Jews in Russian Empire and the USSR, 1881-1941. (Optional course (university); 1, 2 module)Rus
Russian History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2018
Y. Karpenkina Советизация еврейского населения Западной Белоруссии (1939-1941 гг.)

Conferences

2024
Международная научная конференция "Память и повседневность в культуре и искусстве" (Москва). Presentation: Память о Холокосте в современной Беларуси: сохранение или забвение?

2022
Национальные отношения в СССР: политика и повседневность (Москва). Presentation: Внешнеполитические события августа-сентября 1939 г. в восприятии граждан СССР: сотрудничество с Германией, польский вопрос и трансформация советской идентичности
II Международная научная конференция «Интеракция, интеграция, инклюзия в эпоху социальных разрывов» (Москва). Presentation: Гражданин с ордером на квартиру в позднем СССР: практики и дискурсы получения

2021
След от гвоздя: поиски "тонкой культуры" в советских и постсоветских эго-документах (Москва). Presentation: «Палестинские протоколы» как комплекс свидетельств по истории советизации польских евреев в 1939-1941 гг.
Новый мир и старые счëты: становление советско-польских отношений (Москва). Presentation: Память о войне 1919–1920 гг., Рижском мире и его последствиях в современной Беларуси
Историческое и культурное наследие евреев в Беларуси сквозь века (Минск). Presentation: Торговля, евреи и советская власть (Западная Белоруссия, 1939-1941 гг.)
XXVII Международная ежегодная конференция по иудаике (Москва). Presentation: Евреи в теневой экономике западного пограничья СССР в начале Второй мировой войны, 1939-1941 гг.

2019
От странного мира к странной войне: исторический опыт 1938-1940 годов (Москва). Presentation: Построение "советской экономики" в Западной Белоруссии в 1939-1940 гг.

2018
Violence against civilians on the Eastern front of World War II (Париж). Presentation: Polish Jews and Soviet repressions: Western Belorussia, 1939-1941
Ego-documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust (Иерусалим). Presentation: Polish Jews and Soviet repressions: Western Belorussia, 1939-1941
Deported, Exiled, Saved. History and memory of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1940-1959) (Варшава). Presentation: The Sovietization of Jews in the former Eastern Polish Borderlands
СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ РОССИИ (1990-е гг.): К НОВОМУ ОСМЫСЛЕНИЮ (Екатеринбург). Presentation: "У вас там ни вкуса, ни тонкости": телереклама в России в 1990-1995 гг. как новое культурное явление и ее восприятие старшим поколением россиян
Актуальные девяностые: региональная культура и социум в эпоху перемен (Пермь). Presentation: Советский человек и телереклама в первой половине 1990-х годов: проблемы восприятия и привыкания

2017
IX International Forum for Young Scholars on East European Jewry (Прага). Presentation: The Challenge of Sovietization: The Jews of Western Belorussia, 1939-1941
Масавыя рэпрэсіі ў СССР у гістарычных даследаваннях і калектыўнай памяці (Минск). Presentation: Габрэйскае насельніцтва Заходняй Беларусі ў 1939-1941 гг. у ролі ахвяраў і катаў
International Forum for young scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture (Москва). Presentation: «Люди с другой планеты»: советские граждане в Западной Белоруссии, 1939-1941 гг.

2016
Международная научая конференция «История советского еврейства (1918-1991): новые источники, новые подходы» (Москва). Presentation: Еврейское население Западной Белоруссии в условиях экономических преобразований советского правительства, 1939-1941 гг.
New Directions in the Use of Oral Testimonies: Soviet Experiences of the Holocaust (Вашингтон). Presentation: The Jews of Western Belarus in 1939-1941 years: the problem of Sovietization

2015
Dissertation and Thesis Development Workshop: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (Вашингтон). Presentation: The Jews of Western Belarus in 1939-1941 years: the problem of Sovietization

Grants

1. Summer Student Research Assistantship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, D.C., U.S.A., 5.07.2016 – 12.08.2016.

2. Grant from “Sefer” Fellowship program for Jewish studies (August, 2017).

3. Grant “Eshnav” from “Sefer” – grant for the research project in Jewish studies in Israel (June, 2018).

4. EHRI Fellowship for Holocaust studies at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw (July, 2018)

5. The Russian science Foundation (RSF) Fellowship " The young scientists` initiative projects" (Presidential program of the research projects implemented by leading scientists, including young scientists). (2019 - 2021)

6. The Russian science Foundation (RSF) Fellowship "The conduct of research by teams of researchers under the leadership of young scientists" (2023-2024). Project: “The material world of late Soviet society under the conditions of the Cold War: technological innovations in the production and representation of consumer goods.” №19-78-10017.

7. The Russian science Foundation (RSF) Fellowship "The conduct of fundamental scientific research and by small groups of scientists" (since 2024). Project: “The Soviet former prisoners of war of the Great Patriotic War in the post-war society (1950s-1990s).” №24-28-01232.

Employment history

2014 - 2016 - The Education Center №1311 "Thia" - history teacher.

22

Dec

2021

Trade, Jews, and the Soviet Economy in Western Belorussia, 1939–1941

The article by Yanina Karpenkina in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is out

7

Sep

2021

‘The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past’

This summer, the HSE Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences was reorganized to become the HSE Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Oleg Budnitskii, Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of the Centre and director of the Institute, talked to the HSE News Service about the new division.

8

Jul

2019

HSE Researchers Receive Grants in Russian Science Foundation Competitions

The Russian Science Foundation announced the results of its 2019 competitions for support from the Presidential Research Project Programme. One competition was for grants in support of research initiatives by early career researchers, and another was in support of research conducted by research groups headed by early career scholars.

Yanina Karpenkina