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30.05.2021
Biography Research Center AITIA now on Facebook
Dear friends, since now you can also reach out to the BRC AITIA and receive all updates via social media with Facebook. We've created Facebook group Biography Research Center AITIA meant for you who share BCR's interests and mission. We welcome your comments and encourage all of our users to express their opinions...

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26.12.2020
International Scientific-Educational Conference "The Russian Great Exodus. To the 100th anniversary of the evacuation of the army of General P.N. Wrangel and civil refugees"
International Scientific-Educational Conference "The Russian Great Exodus. To the 100th anniversary of the evacuation of the army of General P.N. Wrangel and civil refugees" was held in The Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad for two days, on December 8 and 9, 2020.    A series of meetings in three sessions titled...

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14.12.2020
Lecture "100 Years of the Great Exodus: The White Russian Emigration and Its Meaning Today," presented by Dr. Anatol Shmelev
We would like to share a well-recorded online-lecture hold by the Russian Nobility Association. This lecture focus on the contemporary meaning of the white immigration journey that considered to be started 100 years ago when the last ship left Crimea.  The original title of the presentation is "100 Years of the Great Exodus:...

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03.07.2020
10th annual conference "Expert Examination and Photography" and new issue of "Photography. Image. Document" Journal
The State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSPHOTO invites you to participate in the 10th annual conference “Expert Examination and Photography” dedicated to expert research and technical and technological analysis of historical documents and photographs. The conference will take place on 27 November 2020. Applications are accepted before 1 October 2020 at...

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29.02.2020
Materials of the fourth film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time”
On March 20, 2019 the fourth film-webinar was held where the mini-series "Our mothers, our fathers" dedicated to the events of the Second World War was watched and discussed. The film-webinar was organized with the support of the Center for Biographical Research "AITIA". The undergraduate and graduate students of the major “Cultural...

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13.12.2019
Materials of the third film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time”
The third film-webinar was held on March 7, 2019 with the support of the Center for Biographical Research "AITIA". We continued to watch and discuss the mini-series "Our mothers, our fathers" dedicated to the events of the Second World War. The undergraduate and graduate students of the major “Cultural Studies” ("Culture...

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13.12.2019
Interview with A.J.M. (Ton) Strik
A.J.M. (Ton) Strik followed a military career. He has been assigned in several national and international NATO positions. Since his retirement from military in the rank of Brigadier-General (April 2008) he took on the position as professor on Humanitarian Assistance at the University of Applied Science in Leeuwarden (NL) for 6 years. Now...

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08.12.2019
Materials of the second film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time”
On February 28, 2019 the second film-webinar was held where the mini-series "Our mothers, our fathers" dedicated to the events of the Second World War was watched and discussed. The film-webinar was organized with the support of the Center for Biographical Research "AITIA". The undergraduate and graduate students of the major...

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02.12.2019
Materials of the first film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time”
On February 21, 2019 the first film-webinar was held where the mini-series "Our mothers, our fathers" ("Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter", the film also known as Generation War), dedicated to the events of the Second World War was watched and discussed. The film-webinar was organized with the support of the Center...

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04.03.2019
Film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time" - Final part
"...sheds light on the tension between historical consciousness (of guilt) and emotional engagement (with suffering) that continues to define German memory culture"     Biography Research Centre AITIA is glad to invite you on March 7th at 18:30 to watch the final episode of the series "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" ("Our Mothers, our Fathers", the...

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25.02.2019
Film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time" - Part #2
"...sheds light on the tension between historical consciousness (of guilt) and emotional engagement (with suffering) that continues to define German memory culture"     Biography Research Centre AITIA is glad to invite you on February 28th at 18:30 to watch the second episode of the series "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" ("Our Mothers, our Fathers", the...

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15.02.2019
Film-webinar "Heroes of (Not) Our Time": Watch the first episode of the series "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter", f.d. Niko Hofman
  "...sheds light on the tension between historical consciousness (of guilt) and emotional engagement (with suffering) that continues to define German memory culture"     Biography Research Centre AITIA is glad to invite you on February 21st at 19:00 to watch the first episode of the series "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" ("Our Mothers, our...

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27.01.2019
The day of Enternal Memory
January 27 - the Day of Eternal Memory of Lifting the Blockade of Leningrad (1944) and Liberation of Auschwitz (1945)   Photo: View of the Leningrad during the Blockade of the city....

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10.12.2018
Announcement of the IV Seminar “Topology of the Cultural Memory”
Dear Friends! The Biography Research Centre “AITIA” invites you to join the seminar “Topology of the Cultural Memory” (IV seminar in the series). We are going to analyze the A. Assmann’s concept of trauma and discuss her book “The Long Shadow of the Past”. During the practical part of the...

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28.08.2018
II Seminar “Topology of the Cultural Memory”: “The Language and the Memory”
The second seminar “Topology of the Cultural Memory” was held on the April 26, 2018 in the Institute of Philosophy of the Saint Petersburg State University, with the support of the Biography Research Centre “AITIA”.     Nowadays in the context of discussions around the phenomenon of memory in cultural studies, philosophy, history, literature and...

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16.04.2018
Announcement of the project "Hour of apprenticeship"
see German version below / siehe Deutsche Version unten Biography Research Centre "AITIA" initiates a new project "The hour of apprenticeship". We want to express our gratefulness to and keep a good memory about those who have become for each of us an intellectual and spiritual mentor, an example of a...

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25.03.2018
Seminar “Topology of the Cultural Memory”. The topic: “Strategies of the Memory Formation in the Culture”
The first seminar “Topology of the Cultural Memory” was held on the 15th of February 2018 in the Institute of Philosophy of the Saint Petersburg State University, with the support of the Biography Research Centre “AITIA”.   At the seminar philosophers, historians, sociologists, philologists and cultural studies scholars discussed issues regarding the preservation...

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21.03.2018
Letters from a private archive of Bronislava Shinder
PERIOD OF THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD. Letters from a private archive of Bronislava Shinder A unique personal experience of a traumatic event should move beyond the informal family memory to become not only the contention, the base of support of individual memory but also of the collective, transnational memory.  The traumatic event...

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20.03.2018
Announcement
We have good news – the Biography Research Center  is beginning to operate. “Aitia” is a Greek word which has become the logo of the Center. It has several meanings: 1) source, foundation, the beginning of something; 2)  guilt, fault Both meanings express the essence of our work: to be the source that...

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05.02.2018
Diary of the Commune
“Diary of the Commune” (or "Journal of the Commune) is a witness of 1925.It was written by artists and sculptors of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhR), the advanced artistic association in the USSR, whose main task was the creation of a new art that would reflect the...

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