Monthly seminar

During Digital Russia Studies seminars we engaged with questions concerning Russian cultural history, contemporary media industries, digital dimensions of Russian politics, as well as East European perspective on Russia. We will also look into established and emerging methods and data practices.

7 February 2020

Teemu Oivo (UEF) “Curating Russian propaganda? Finnish ‘alternative media’ as a domestic filter for RT and Sputnik”

13 March 2020

Andrey Indukaev (UH) “Studying ideational change in Russian politics with topic models and word embeddings: the case of ‘Modernization’”

3 April 2020

TBC

15 May 2020

Mihail Kopotev (UH), Alexander Klimov (UH) Workshop on recent Russian NLP tools (syntax and context-based embedding) 

5 June 2020

TBC

Read more about our previous seminars in spring 2018, fall 2018, spring 2019, and fall 2019.