I have organized ground breaking confences and conference sessions as well as presented my own research at multiple international conferences and invited lectures across the globe.
States in Between: Architecture and Empire in East Europe and North Eurasia
EAHN Thematic Conference Helsinki
I was the General Chair of this ground breaking and field defining conference.
organized at the University of Helsinki, the National Archives of Finland and the National Library of Finland, June 7–11, 2023.
Richard Anderson on the conference in Architectural Histories
Christina Crawford´s review in Architectural Histories
Translational Histories of Architecture:
A London Symposium in Honour of Jean-Louis Cohen
University College London, November 27, 2023
Co-organized with Mihcal Murawski.
Architecture History Lectures
A series of lectures by world's leading architectural historians, organized at the University of Helsinki, Department of Cultures by Markus Lähteenmäki and Anna Ripatti
Voices from Ukraine: War, heritage, reconstruction
Plenary session I conceived for EAHN biannual conference in Madrid, 19.6.2022
Schwerpunkte 8: Online Debates On Architecture Research Practices
19 May: "Audience & Relevance" Cynthia Davidson;
26 May: "Mechanics & Practices" Mark Jarzombek;
2 June: "References & Collaboration" Caitlin Mueller Co-Organizer. Eth Zurich. Mau-June 2020.
Co-organized with Matthew Critchley, Mark Tam & Inés Ariza
Architecture of the imagination: creativity in exile during the Soviet period
A mini-symposium at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.
Organized by me in relation to the exhibition 101st km: Further Everywhere,
The event was a joint operation with Pushkin House London. 20 October, 2017.
Architectural Drawings Symposium
organized by University of Technology Sydney, Drawing Matter Trust, Victoria & Albert Museum, Courtauld Institute of Art and Royal Institute of British Architects, in London and Somerset. 2016, April 23–25.
Co-organized with Desley Luscombe, Niall Hobhouse, Olivia Horsfall-Turner, Robin Schuldenfrei
New Academy Lecture Series
Co-organizer of public lecture series on architecture and urbanism at Kulttuurisauna, Helsinki. Speakers included leading international architects and academics. Funded by Aalto University, Kone Foundation, Kordelin Foundation and Kulttuurisauna. 2015–2018. Speakers included Adam Caruso & Helen Thomas, Piervittorio Aureli, Elia Zenghelis, Shumi Bose, Fabrizio Ballabio and Michal Murawski
Conference papers, invited lectures etc.
(selected)
“Monuments of Empire and Revolution”,
Courtauld Institute, A Lecture for BA3 students, 23 November, 2023.
“The city in between material and represented”, University College London, A lecture for MA students in “European Studies”, 5 december, 2023.
“Images of Soviet Leningrad: Transformations of Urban Form, Text and Imagery in the 1920s and 1930s” at session ““Images of Soviet Leningrad: Transformations of Urban Form, Text and Imagery in the 1920s and 1930s”, ASEEES 2022, Chicago.
"Stones of St. Petersburg: granite and material reconstructions of the space and myth of the city," at "Soviet Materialities" conference, Jesus College, Cambridge, 11 April, 2022.
"Rethinking monumental affinities: in revolutionary Petrograd with Lev Rudnev's Monument to the Victims of the Revolution in St. Petersburg (1917–1919)," lecture at Architectural Association MA History and Critical Thinking & PhD Debates, London, 11.3.2022.
"The Stones of Leningrad: Granite, Tarmac and appropriation of space in Revolutionary Petersburg", at Midwest Slavic Conference, Ohio State University, 17.4.2021.
"Politics of space in an age of revolution". A lecture at Aalto University architectural theory seminar, 25.3.2020.
"Blagoustroistvo: Urban Infrastructure and the Construction of Welfare in (Post-) Soviet Moscow, 1917-2019." joint paper with Dr Michał Murawski at " Welfare state workshop" at St Catherine's College / Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, 24.1.2020.
"Notes on Exhibiting Architecture" at the symposium "Architectural Exhibitions: Strategies and means of presentation" at State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 25.11.2019
"Bodies in Motion – The New Man Projected by the New Architecture"
at conference "Making the New Man: Scientific and Cultural Experiments in the Russian Empire and the
Soviet Union, 1900–1939" May 16–18, 2019
St. Petersburg State University, co-sponsored by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada.
"Moving Bodies of the Avant-garde"
29.11.2018. Lecture at the Kharkiv School of Architecture.
"Dance of a Figure who Enters at Some Doors and
Exits at Others: Rhythm, Movement and Experience
of Poetry and Architecture".
20.9.2018 Paper at conference: What Is To Be Done? Jacobs University, Bremen.
"Bodies in Motion: Architecture of the Russian
Avant-garde and the Metamorphosis of the Body"
Lecture at Helsinki New Academy. 25.9.2018
"Konstantin Melnikov", Aalto University, School of Architecture, 60 min lecture in the series Studia Generalia: Russian Avant-garde, 5.2.2018.