Бессмертная Ольга Юрьевна

Responsibilities

Education and Degrees

2000

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Theory and History of Culture
Russian State University for the Humanities

1976

Degree
Lomonosov Moscow 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.

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Engagement with External Customers’ — 2023

Courses (2024/2025)

Muslims, society, and authority in Russian Empire and USSR (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Muslim history in Russian Empire and USSR: debate topics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar Approaches and methods in studies of the Muslim communities in contemporary Russia (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Conferences

2019
2019 ASEEES Summer Convention (Загреб). Presentation: Culture Lies: “Solving” the Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia through Double-dealing (the Case of M.-B. Hadjetlaché)
антропология страха (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Мотивы страха в мемуарах двух советских медиевистов–противников и образы советского прошлого (Е.В. Гутнова и А.Я. Гуревич)
Вторые романовские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Письмо как капля воды: конспирология в повседневности Бобруйска в первые годы 20 в. (не без восточных мотивов)

2018
X Мелетинские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Литература и жизнь: конструирование автобиографического нарратива самозванцем (случай Хаджетлаше)
50th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Boston). Presentation: Trickster Live: Political Double-Dealing and Identity Performance in Late Imperial Russia (Maghomet-Bek Hadjetlaché)

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
"Self–care" in the Muslim progressivist discourse of the late XIX - early XX centuries Russian Empire: interpretations of illness and health.

Employment history

27.07.1994 - 11.09. 2017:	Senior Researcher: Centre for Comparative Studies of the Cultures of East and West,Institute for Oriental Cultures and Antiquity (before 2005 – Institute for Oriental Cultures), Russian State University for the Humanities;
2012 –August 2015	Assistant Professor: National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Dept. of History (part-time);
2001-2003:	Senior Researcher (part-time): Centre for the History of Everyday Life, Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
1990-94:	Researcher: Dept. of Comparative Cultural Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
1990-93:	Research Fellow & Lecturer in African Language Literatures: Dept. of African Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University.
1988-90	Editor: Dept.of Oriental Literatures and Cultures,"Nauka Publishers", Moscow.
1983-88	Assistant: Dept. of African studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University.
1979-83	Assistant professor in Hausa language and culture: Dept. of African studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University.
1978-79	Editor: Dept. of World History, "Soviet Encyclopedia Publishers", Moscow.

24

Jul

2024

‘We Pay Special Attention to Postcolonial Studies and Problems of Decolonisation’

The Master's Programme 'Muslim Worlds in Russia (History and Culture)' trains specialists in the history and culture of the Muslim peoples of Russia, as well as their relations with the state and other peoples at home and abroad. Admissions are open until July 25, 2024. Below, Olga Bessmertnaya, Academic Supervisor of the programme, speaks about the admission process, the courses, and the career prospects for the programme graduates.

Olga Bessmertnaya