Kristina Tanis
- Associate Professor, Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
- Kristina Tanis has been at HSE University since 2019.
Education and Degrees
State Institute for Art Studies
Thesis Title: Trophy Films in the USSR during the 1940s and 1950s: History, Ideology, Perception
European University in St. Petersburg
St Petersburg State University
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.
Awards and Accomplishments
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2024
Courses (2024/2025)
- Economics of the Soviet Film Industry (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Economics of the Soviet Film Industry (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Economics of the Soviet Film Industry (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- New Cinema History: Soviet Film Distribution and Its Audience (1940-1991) (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Economics of the Soviet Film Industry (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Economics of the Soviet Film Industry (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Economics of the Soviet Film Industry (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- New Cinema History: Soviet Film Distribution and Its Audience (1940-1991) (Minor; Research Departments; 1, 2 module)Rus
- New Cinema History: Soviet Film Distribution and Its Audience (1940-1991) (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Contemporary Popular Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Experimental Cinema (Optional course (faculty); 4 module)Rus
- Experimental Cinema (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 4 module)Rus
- Film Industry in Soviet and Modern Russia: Production, Distribution, Viewership (Master’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
- New Cinema History: Soviet Film Distribution and its Audience (1940-1991) (Minor; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Film Industry in Soviet and Modern Russia: Production, Distribution, Viewership (Master’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Art as a way of personality's autonomization in mass society: from Modernism to Postmodernism (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 2 module)Rus
- Culture of Everyday Life (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Culture of Everyday Life (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Formation of a new aesthetic paradigm: modernism and the idea of autonomic art (1880-1950) (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1 module)Rus
- Homo Sovieticus (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Soviet Cultural Politics and Cultural Revolutions (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Urban Modernization in the Soviet Union (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2024
New Europe College Seminar (Бухарест). Presentation: Translocations of the Second World War: The Case Study of Trophy Films in the USSR
Художественная культура советского периода: советское искусство за рубежом – зарубежное искусство в советской России (Москва). Presentation: К исследованию кинопамяти советских зрителей о зарубежном кино
- 2023
Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going. Epistemological and Methodological Issues (Париж). Presentation: Spending Free Time in Postwar Moscow: Patterns and Time Scales of Film Exhibition (1946-1955)
- 2022
HoMER 2022 Annual Conference (Рим). Presentation: POPSTAT and Film-Programming in Moscow Cinema Theaters (1947-1950)
- 2021
2021 ASEEES Virtual Convention (ZOOM). Presentation: POPSTAT vs Box Office: How to Measure the Popularity of Trophy Films in Moscow Cinema Theatres (1947-1950)
2021 ASEEES Virtual Convention (ZOOM). Presentation: Chair and Discussant of the panel "Contemporary and Popular Culture in Russia and the Former Yugoslavia"
- 2020
Cultures Visuelles: Histoire Croisee Du Regard Sovietique (Париж). Presentation: Tarzan, Trophy Films and Soviet History: from De-Stalinization to Perestroika
Movie Theatres in Wartime: Comparative Research on Film Distribution and Exhibition During World War II (ZOOM). Presentation: Moscow Film Distribution in Wartime
- 2019
Устная история Великой Отечественной войны: практики создания и интерпретации (Москва). Presentation: К реконструкции советской кино-культуры 1940-1950-х годов: методы и перспективы устной истории в киноведении
Graduate Student Seminar in Soviet History (Москва). Presentation: “This Film Was Captured as a Trophy…»”: to the International Context of Trophy Films
V Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference. Cooperation and Co-creativity in/between Cinemas of the Baltic Sea Region (Вильнюс). Presentation: Soviet Spectators and "Trophy Films" after WWII: Western cinematic products through the Soviet optics
Translocations. Historical Enquiries into the Displacement of Cultural Assets (Берлин). Presentation: Screening of the film "Geheimnis Tibet"
- 2018
The Afterlives of National Socialist Film (Потсдам). Presentation: Perception of National Socialist Films in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
Эго-документы и личные архивы: от индивидуального к коллективному (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Феномен трофейного кино: ‘вопиющий документ’ и ‘окно во внешний мир’
Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption in the Second World War (Лёвен). Presentation: Secret Tibet in the USSR after World War II: between Nazi and Soviet Propagandas
Young Russian Scholars in Helsinki (Хельсинки). Presentation: Trophy Films in the USSR in the 1940s and 1950s: History, Ideology and Perception
Международный форум молодых исследователей советской и постсоветской истории и культуры (Москва). Presentation: Рецепция трофейного кино в советском и постсоветском пространстве: к вопросу о культурной памяти
- 2017
VI Международная научная конференция «Кино и капитал» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Трофейное кино в контексте советско-американских стратегий кино-экспорта: между кассой и идеологией
Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (Вашингтон). Presentation: Trophy Films in the USSR in the 1940s and 1950s: History, Ideology and Pereception
Grafting the Self (Нью-Джерси). Presentation: Hollywood Pictures and Shaping the Self during Late Stalinist Era
Новый взгляд на соприкосновение и взаимодействие германской и российской истории 19-20 веков в глобальном контексте (Гейдельберг). Presentation: Трофейное кино в контексте советской и немецкой моделей кинопроката: сравнительный анализ
- 2016
Культура и власть в СССР: 1920-е–1950-е гг. (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: "Кинотеатр стал не формой воспитания, а коммерческой увеселительной организацией": послевоенная система кинопроката, трофейное кино и советский зритель
Professional Experience
2018: European University at Saint Petersburg, research assistant
2019-2020: GULAG History Museum, research fellow (SMM)
2019-2023: Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, research fellow
‘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.
Inane Things with a Taste of Freedom
Hollywood movies during the Cold War
Russian and French Scholars Present Research on Soviet History at Graduate Seminar
The International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences at HSE University held a Graduate Student Seminar in Soviet History together with Sciences Po (France) on June 17 – 18, 2019. HSE News Service spoke with participants and instructors of the seminar, which examinedthe impact of WWII on the Soviet Union and surrounding regions, as well as aspects of the Soviet system from Stalin up to the 1980s.