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Oleg Kobtzeff

Associate Professor

  • Department: History and Politics
  • Office: 
    G-L16
  • Office Hours: 
    Tuesdays and Fridays 14:00鈥�16:15 or by appointment
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Franco-American with family ties to many frontier regions of Russia and the Ukraine, trained at the sorbonne, first by founders of the听Annales听school (mainly Pierre Chaunu), then Fran莽ois-Xavier Coquin,听Professor Kobtzeff's pluri-disciplinary and multi-faceted work is a study of the interface of civilizations and their relationship with their natural environments. Familiarity with French, American and Slavic geographic research lead to first assignments: the CNES (French space agency), the US National Parks Service, and scientific institutions in Alaska where he lived for four years in an indigenous community, co-founded a museum, and became involved, as an educator or journalist, in the problems of
multi-cultural societies, borderlands, and management of maritime resources, discovering how a remote area becomes a crossroads of global forces. After more comparative research in Italy (as acting director of the Gogol Library) and France (faculty member of the Sorbonne and the Coll猫ge de France) he began traveling extensively across Central and Eastern Europe and the Arctic regions, producing publications and teaching on international competition or cooperation in fields ranging from war, the environment, or outer-space, to human rights and identity.



Education/Degrees

B.A. and M.A. in history, Universit茅 de Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
B.Th., Institut de Th茅ologie Orthodoxe Saint Serge (Paris)
D.E.A. in history, Universit茅 de Panth茅on-Sorbonne (Paris I)
Ph.D. in East European studies, Universit茅 de Panth茅on-Sorbonne (Paris I)

News

  • Appearances on French national radio and TV, approximately once a month, since the beginning of the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts.
  • Editor in chief (and co-author): The Geostrategic Maritime Review (published by L'Harmattan), for Issue 7 (the Arctic Ocean) and Issue 8 (the Baltic Sea).

Publications

Editorial positions
  • Publisher, assistant 茅ditor, columnist, The Kodiak Fisherman - regional monthly 36-page magazine (tabloid format) ; circulation : 4000, 40% advertisement
  • Co-editor, Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate: London, 2012听
  • Assistant editor, Gardner, Hall, (ed.), Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.
  • Faculty supervisor, Scripta Politica et Economica, American University of Paris scholarly faculty-student publication
  • Creator of , quarterly educational magazine听 (geography,听 environment, ethnography, history)
  • Member of board of editors for 叠辞谤茅补濒别蝉 (pluri-disciplinary academic journal on Nordic studies), French Center for Nordic Studies,
  • Reviewer for Inter-Nord, Alaskan History, Revue d鈥橢tudes Slaves
  • Credited consultant for William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Cromwell, Crossroads of Continents, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988
Monographs
  • La Colonization russe en Am茅rique du Nord: 18 - 19 猫me si猫cles (Russian Colonization in North- America, 18th-19th Centuries) Paris, University of Panth茅on-Sorbonne, 1985, xxxvi + 585 pages + Illus. + Maps. (Private publication in 50 copies. New revised and augmented edition in English in preparation for release in 2022).
  • Beginning Russian. Barron's, N.Y., 1996; also published in Finnish, Spanish and 4 French editions鈥�3rd edition Initiation: russe鈥攐n Amazon.fr bestselling list for several months in 2003-2004, N掳6 of all books on tape).
Articles in peer-reviewed publications
  • 听鈥淧our une 茅tude comparative des p猫lerinages sur les tombes de Saint Germain d鈥橝laska et de Saint S茅raphim de Sarov.
    commentaires sur des notes de terrain. ", Semaine d鈥櫭塼udes Liturgiques, No. 66, Universit茅 de Fribourg, Aschendorff : M眉nster, 2020 (publication imminent)
  • "Meyendorff en tant qu鈥檋istorien", in - Sekulovsky, Goran, ed., L鈥檋茅ritage du P猫re Jean Meyendorff : 茅rudit et homme d鈥櫭塯lise, 1926-1992. Paris : Editions du Cerf (publication imminent)
  • "L鈥櫭塿锚ch茅 de Gen猫ve et d鈥橢urope occidentale", in - Allouche-Benayoun, Jo毛lle, Hermon-Belot, Rita, Obadia, Lionel & Zwilling, Anne-Laure, eds., Atlas des groupes religieux minoritaires en France, Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2018, pp. 281-290
  • "A life in the service of France, of the Pacific, and of the Arctic and Antarctica: Michel Rocard (1930-2016), Senator, Prime Minister of France, Ambassador of France for International Negotiations on Polar Regions ", The Geostrategic Maritime Review, No. 7, November 2016, pp. 167-187.
  • "Arctic Geopolitics as a Major Public Issue: the Reasons Behind a Lack of Awareness", The Geostrategic Maritime Review, No. 7, November 2016, pp. 25-63.
  • 鈥淟鈥檃ffaire des Mistral russes鈥�, in 鈥� Sur, serge, ed., Annuaire Fran莽ais de Relations Internationales, Paris: Universit茅 Panth茅on-Assas, Centre Thucydide, 2016, pp. 609-620.
  • "Russia in the Mediterranean", The Geo-Maritime strategic Review, N掳 4, Fall 2015.
  • "Les enjeux 茅nerg茅tiques de la crise ukrainienne", Confrontations Europe, No. 106, Juillet-Septembre 2014, pp. 20-21
  • "Kodiak:听 卯le am茅ricaine, 卯le russe", in Catherine G茅ry & Dominique Samson, eds., M茅langes en l鈥檋onneur d鈥橝nne-Victoire Charrin, Paris: Institut des Langues Orientales,听 (to be released in late 2013).
  • "Pour le monde mais pas de ce monde: un homme simple dans un monde compliqu茅", in-La joie du Royaume, Actes du colloque International l'h茅ritage du p猫re Alexandre Schmemann (Paris 11-14 d茅cembre 2008), sous la direction de Andr茅 Lossky, Cyrille Sollogoub et Daniel Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 2012, pp. 34-38
  • "Gwenn A. Miller: Kodiak Kreol", Cahiers du monde russe [En ligne], 51/4 | 2010
  • "General Introduction. Polemology" (co-authored with Hall Gardner), in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 1-31
  • "Age of Progress or 鈥楢ge of Extremes鈥�? The Escalation of Warfare in Modern Times and the Nature of its Mutation鈥�, in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 99-130
  • "Time of Troubles: War in an Age of Planetary Upheaval, From the End of the Middle Ages to 1648" in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp.听 229-250
  • "Totalitarian Times鈥擳otal War, Global War: the Roots of World War II and the Nature of the Conflict", in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012 , pp. 337-370
  • 鈥淏elgrade, Moscow and Washington in the War of Kosovo: Dispelling the 鈥楥lash of Civilizations鈥� Myth鈥�, in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp.听 433-442
  • 鈥淓spaces et cultures du Bassin de la Neva : repr茅sentations mythiques et r茅alit茅s g茅opolitiques, in Walter Zidaric, ed., Saint-Petersbourg : 1703-2003, Actes du Colloque international, Universit茅 de Nantes, mai 2003, Nantes:听Centre de Recherches sur听 les Identit茅s Nationales et l鈥橧nterculturalit茅, 2004
  • 鈥淓nvironmental Security and Civil Society鈥�, in- Gardner, Hall, ed., Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000, pp. 219-296.
  • 鈥淎u-del脿 de la Sib茅rie: l'Eglise Orthodoxe et les Indig猫nes de l'Alaska鈥� (Beyond Siberia : The Orthodox Church and the Indigenous People of Alaska), in - Chichlo, Boris, ed., Sib茅rie II, Paris: Institut des Etudes Slaves, 1999, pp. 133-148
  • 鈥淭he Forgotten Religion: the Geopolitics of the Orthodox world鈥�, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XIII, N掳 1, November 1996, pp. 10-11, 26.
  • 鈥淒windling democracy (The Russian presidential election)鈥�, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XII, N掳 3, March 1996, pp. 7-9.
  • 鈥淟'Ev锚que et le chamane鈥� (The Bishop and the Shaman), in - Charrin-Pochtar, Anne-Victoire, (ed.), Les Sib茅riens, special issue N掳 78 of Autrement, Paris, 1995, pp. 80-93.
  • 鈥淢ap of Russian America in the 1800s鈥�, Alaska Magazine, October 1988, vol. 54, N掳 10, pp. 20-21 (first complete map of Russian colonies in 19th century N. America).
  • 鈥淩uling Siberia: the imperial power, the Orthodox Church and the Native people鈥�, Siberica, British Siberian Studies Seminar, vol. II, 1984, pp. 6-15. (favorably reviewed by David Collins in Siberia: A Select, Annotated Bibliography of English Language Works Relating to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, Oxford, Denver, Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1991).
  • 鈥淟a Colonisation russe en Am茅rique du Nord : 18-19猫me si猫cles鈥�, 叠辞谤茅补濒别蝉, N掳 36-37, 1985, pp. 75-78.
  • 鈥淓nvironmental Security and Civil Society鈥�, in- Gardner, Hall, ed., Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000, pp. 219-296. Favorably reviewed in Marek Payerhin, "Transitions and Environment in Poland鈥�, An Annotated Bibliography for the Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Project prepared for the University of Michigan鈥檚 Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, .
  • 鈥淎u-del脿 de la Sib茅rie: l'Eglise Orthodoxe et les Indig猫nes de l'Alaska鈥� (Beyond Siberia : The Orthodox Church and the Indigenous People of Alaska), in - Chichlo, Boris, ed., Sib茅rie II, Paris: Institut des Etudes Slaves, 1999, pp. 133-148 favorably reviewed in James Forsyth, Reviewed work(s): Siberie II: Questions siberiennes: Histoire, cultures, litterature by Boris Chichlo, Slavic Review, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 660-661. Article Stable:听 鈥渙ne of the most interesting essays [of the volume]鈥�).
  • 鈥淗olocauste en URSS: un h茅ritage sanglant鈥�, Enqu锚te sur l'Histoire, N掳 22, Ao没t-Sept., 1997, pp. 14-17.
  • 鈥淭he Forgotten Religion: the Geopolitics of the Orthodox world鈥�, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XIII, N掳 1, November 1996, pp. 10-11, 26.
  • 鈥淒windling democracy (The Russian presidential election)鈥�, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XII, N掳 3, March 1996, pp. 7-9.
  • 鈥淟'Ev锚que et le chamane鈥� (The Bishop and the Shaman), in - Charrin-Pochtar, Anne-Victoire, (Ed.), Les Sib茅riens, special issue N掳 78 of Autrement, Paris, 1995, pp. 80-93.
  • "Les Chiffres du Goulag. Un r茅visionnisme rampant鈥�, Enqu锚te sur l'Histoire, N掳 9, Ao没t-Sept., 1994, pp. 46-48.
  • 鈥淩uling Siberia: the imperial power, the Orthodox Church and the Native people鈥�, Siberica, British Siberian Studies Seminar, vol. II, 1984, pp. 6-15. (favorably reviewed by David Collins in Siberia (A Select, Annotated Bibliography of English Language Works Relating to Siberia and the Soviet Far East), Oxford, Denver, Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1991.
  • 鈥淟a Colonisation russe en Am茅rique du Nord : 18-19猫me si猫cles鈥�, 叠辞谤茅补濒别蝉, N掳 36-37, 1985, pp. 75-78.
Manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals
  • "From the shores of America to the shores of the Baltic: the extreme frontiers of Russia"
  • 鈥� 鈥楥r茅oles鈥�. From the Gulf of Mexico to Far North Pacific: the Surprising Migration of a Word", Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris.
  • 鈥� How Russian Colonization Works: the Case of Russian America鈥�
  • 鈥� Emmigration and Historic Methodology: the Diasporas from Russia, in Paris and Other Places鈥�
Editorials and journalistic publications
  • "City in a Park, city by the sea : my Helsinki" Nature & Cultures, May 2020,
  • "La deuxi猫me guerre de Cor茅e aura-t-elle lieu?", Huffington Post-francophone edition,听 2013
  • "Quel avenir pour le Parti R茅publicain?", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 7 Nov. 2012
  • 听"De la "dictature de la m茅diocrit茅" 脿 une intensification de la vie politique am茅ricaine. Ce qui a d茅j脿 chang茅 en 2012 脿 la veille des r茅sultats", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 6 Nov. 2012 (bilan de la campagne pr茅sidentiuelle US 脿 la veille des r茅sultats; pr茅dit une victoire d'Obama gr芒ce 脿 l'茅lectorat des swing states).
  • "The Arctic: A New Mediterranean?", Nature and Cultures, issue 1, Spring 2013
  • "Zoos: Who Needs Them?" (co-茅crit sous le pseudonyme "Alan Aftonfalker", avec l'assistance de Yaroslav Rovenskih ),听 Nature and Cultures, issue 1, Fall 2012
  • "Obama: l'heure du bilan", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 6 Sept. 2012
  • "Fin de la convention r茅publicaine: 脿 Tampa, une Am茅rique morose", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 31 Ao没t 2012
  • "L'affaire Pussy Riot: un simple chahut qui d茅g茅n猫re en intifada juridique et culturelle", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 18 Ao没t 2012
  • "Les Hirondelles font-elles le printemps russe"? Huffington Post-francophone edition, 14 f茅vrier 2012
  • 鈥淗olocauste en URSS: un h茅ritage sanglant鈥�, Enqu锚te sur l'Histoire, N掳 22, Ao没t-Sept., 1997, pp. 14-18
  • "Les Chiffres du Goulag. Un r茅visionnisme rampant", Enqu锚te sur l'Histoire, N掳 9, Ao没t-Sept., 1994, pp. 46-48.
  • "Pr茅face", Mike Rostad & Larry Matfay, Time to Dance, Anchorage, 1988.
  • 鈥淢ap of Russian America in the 1800s鈥�, Alaska Magazine, October 1988, vol. 54, N掳 10, pp. 20-21 (first map ever published, showing all Russian settlements from Siberia to California).
Translations
  • From French and Russian into English: Script + interviews and dialogue, English version of Reflets de la danse: le Kirov (The Kirov ballet theater), French national TV channel TF1 production, nominated for Emmy award鈥攂est foreign documentary.
  • From French into English: Rupnik, Jacques: 鈥淚n Search of Central Europe: Ten Years Later鈥�, in Gardner, Hall, (ed.), Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.
  • From English into French: Khodarkovsky, M., 鈥淒茅couverte, invasion, rencontre鈥�, in - Charrin-Pochtar, Anne-Victoire, ed., Les Sib茅riens, special issue N掳 78 of Autrement, Paris, 1995, pp. 64-80.
  • Theodore S. Greenberg, Linda M. Samuel, Wingate Grant, & Larissa Gray, Stolen Asset Recovery: A Good Practices Guide for Non-Conviction Based Asset Forfeiture, Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2009. (co-translator with Gleb Store)
  • Plus free-lance journalistic assignments for various employers including NBC-News Anchorage, Alaska Magazine, and major American, French, and Russian periodicals, corporate publications and audio-visual media (complete list upon request).

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Conferences & Lectures

Organizer of conferences, steering committee positions
  • 2016: organizer "The Geopolitics of the Arctic鈥�, International Geostrategic Maritime Observatory round-table event on
    Geostrategy of the Mediterranean Sea, Paris, December, in conjunction with Maision de l鈥橧ndustrie (a chamber of commerce), Paris
  • 2011: co-organizer Premi猫re of French-language version of documentary of 鈥淕ulag: the Secret Story鈥� (public screening, press conference and debate), American U. of Paris
  • 2007: initiator, organizer: Panel: 鈥淭he Geopolitics of Extreme Environments. Part 2: The Arctic regions鈥�, held in November at the American Universtity of Paris. Guest speakers: Jim Bitterman, CNN Paris bureau chief, Jo毛lle Robert-Lamblin, Arctic explorer, etc.
  • 2007: initiator, organizer: Panel: 鈥淭he Geopolitics of Extreme Environments. Part 1: Outer Space鈥�, held in October at the American Universtity of Paris. Guest speakers: various representatives of Air and space industries and science
  • 2004: Steering committee member for March 25-27, University of Nantes international conference on 鈥淏roken Borders鈥�: border regions 鈥� crucible of identities
  • 2001: chair panel on Central and Eastern Europe, New World, New Europe, New Threats: NATO andthe European Union in the New Millennium, conference organized by NATO and the American U. of Paris, December 7-8, French Senate.
  • 1998: Location coordinator, Mickiewicz, la France, l鈥橢urope bicentennial conference and celebrations, Coll猫ge de France and Polish Library of Paris, Dec. 17-19.
  • 1998: Moderator, The forgotten victims: refugees in camps in Bosnia, panel discussion with Said Zulficar (UNESCO) and Claire Boulanger (M茅decins du Monde), American U. of Paris, November 16.
  • 1997: Initiator , organizer, chair, public lecture and debate with Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of St. Petersburg, Russia; American University of Paris, March 10th.
  • 1996: Initiator , organizer, chair, 鈥�1945-1995: a Half-century of Geopolitics in the North Pacific鈥�, conference, American University of Paris, April 1.
  • 1996: 60掳 N: Alaska-Car茅lie, personal exhibit of photos from geographic and ethnographi expeditions, l鈥橝strolabe Gallery (oldest geographic bookstore Latin Quarter), Paris.
  • 1996: member of steering committee, co-author of catalog and exhibit contributor, From Moscow to Constantinople international conference and exhibition, Nov. 14 to Dec.15, Hellenic Foundation, London; (organized by Byzantine Society, Oxford University).
  • 1995: member of steering committee, translator, panel, The Past, Present and the Future of the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, American University of Paris, May 11.
  • 1993: Initiator , organizer, chair, panel, The Environment in the ex-USSR: University of Paris, December 10.
  • 1988: member of steering committee, first international conference on the history and anthropology of the Koniag people, Kodiak Area Native Association, Kodiak, Alaska.
  • 1985: Initiator , organizer, Grand opening of Veniaminov Institute Museum, July, Kodiak, Alaska, followed by series of lectures and slide shows (approximately 50) for tourists and locals (covered statewide by radio and TV).
speaking engagements
regular radio & TV political talk-show panelist (numerous televised appearances available on internet, see )
  • On France 24 T茅l茅vision and Radio France-International (average: once every two months), and Radio Alg茅rie (channel 3 鈥� average: monthly); appeared occasionally on half of French and Russian national TV channels, Radio Alg茅rie-International, France Culture, France Inter and (shows available online at or by searching 鈥淜obtzeff鈥� 鈥� 鈥渧ideos鈥� through any internet search motor). Debated with leading journalists and government members (including French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Fran莽ois Deniau)
conference papers or panelist

  • 2020: "Le pacifisme de Tolsto茂 dans son contexte historique", Table ronde " Faire la paix avec Tolsto茂 ", Conf茅rence
    Catholique des Baptis茅-e-s Francophones, January 30.

  • 2019: "De la pol茅mologie comme grille de lecture des grands conflits contemporains et instrument de paix: pour une
    red茅couverte de Gaston Bouthoul et d'Erich Fromm". Conference "Faire Paix" hosted by Ecole de Management de Normandie (also co-sponsor) organized by Universit茅 de Caen. Sponsored by R茅gion Normandie. November, 15.

  • 2019: "D茅fense de la nature : les origines de l'茅cologie en France et dans le monde francophone." organized by FfIRE
    (Forum francophone interd茅partemental de recherches et d'enseignement) - a partnership between 黑料正能量 and OIF (l'Organisation
    Internationale de la Francophonie), OIF headquarters, September 26

  • 2019 : 鈥淪ur les traces du Transsib茅rien鈥�. Individual presentation organized by Association Linguarik, Universit茅 populaire de Poissy. September 22.

  • 2019 : 鈥淧our une 茅tude comparative des p猫lerinages sur les tombes de Saint Germain d鈥橝laska et de Saint S茅raphim de
    Sarov. commentaires sur des notes de terrain. " Conference 鈥淟iturgies de p猫lerinages, 66e Semaine d鈥櫭﹖udes liturgiques鈥�, organized by Institut Saint-Serge, Paris, July 1-4

  • 2017 : comments and discussion in the roundtable 芦 le Si猫cle Arctique 禄 with Mika Mered and St茅phane Dugast, Institut
    Libre des Etudes en Relations Internationales, 30 June

  • 2016: "The Geopolitics of the Arctic鈥�, International Geostrategic Maritime Observatory round-table event on Geostrategy of the Mediterranean Sea, Paris, December

  • 2015: "Russia in the Mediterranean", International Geostrategic Maritime Observatory round-table event on Geostrategy of the
    Mediterranean Sea, Paris, June

  • 2014: Panelist, round-table discussion organized by Confrontations Europe think tank, 鈥淐omment consolider les
    relations de l'Union europ茅enne avec l'Ukraine ? Comment relancer le dialogue avec la Russie ? ("How to consolidate
    the relations of the EU with the Ukraine? How to restore dialogue with Russia?")

  • 2012: 鈥淛ohn Meyendorff: his significance for historiography鈥�, international conference on John Meyendorff, St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris, February
  • 2010: 鈥淭he Equal Rights Amendment: Why it is Just and Necessary鈥�, Democrats Abroad conference in Paris, held at the American U. of Paris
  • 2009: 鈥淎lexander Schmemann:鈥�, international conference on Alexander Schmemann, St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris, december.
  • 2007: Keynote speech, panel on 鈥淭he Geopolitics of Extreme Environments. Part 1: Outer Space鈥� held in October at the American Universtity of Paris.
  • 2004: 鈥淔rom the shores of America to the shores of the Baltic: the extreme frontiers of Russia鈥�, March 25-27, University of Nantes international conference on 鈥淏roken Borders鈥�: border regions 鈥� crucible of identities.
  • 2003:听 鈥淪pace and cultures of the Neva Basin : mythical representations and geopolitical situations鈥�, University of Nantes 300th anniversary conference and Nantes-St. Petersburg twinning ceremonies, May 16-19.
  • 2003:听 鈥淭he geography of the Saint Petersburg region鈥�, Parsons School of design
  • 2003:听 鈥淔rances鈥檚 culture of the outdoors鈥�, Annual conference of the Royal Geographic Society, London, September 3-5.
  • 2001:听 鈥淓migration and Historic Methodology: the Diasporas from Russia, in Paris and Other Places鈥�, 150th Anniversary of the Turgenev Library in Paris Conference (Paris et l鈥檌mmigration russe), French Senate, Jan. 18-20, 2001.
  • 1999:听 鈥淭he Russian Orthodox Church as a multi-national Church: the experience of Russian America鈥�, Sept. 10, 3rd International Conference on Russian America, Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
  • 1999:听听 鈥淩ussia鈥檚 involvement in Kosovo鈥�, Russia in the 21st century, Conference, American University of Paris, April 13.
  • 1998:听听 鈥淩eligion in the Former Peoples鈥� Republics鈥�, Reformed Church of Paris academic circle, rue de Grenelle (diplomatic quarter of Paris), March 17.
  • 1996:听 鈥淭he Geopolitics of the Pacific North-West鈥�, 1945-1995: a Half-century of Geopolitics in the North Pacific, conference, American University of Paris, April 1.
  • 1995: Anchorman: Paris City Hall music festival, live broadcast on France-Musique (French national radio)
  • 1993:听 鈥淓nvironmental Problems as a Political Issue in Eastern Europe Today鈥�, The Environment in the ex-USSR: debate, American University of Paris, December 10.
  • 1993: 鈥淩ussian America鈥�, informal assembly of students and professors organized by Russian Academy of Sciences Prof. Emelyanov, Moscow, Aug. 20.
  • 1991: TESTIMONIAL: St. Paul Basilica, Rome (sharing microphone with Pope John-Paul II), February
  • 1989: TESTIMONIAL: St. Paul Basilica, Rome (sharing microphone with Pope John-Paul II), broadcast live on Italian national television, February
  • 1988:听 鈥淭he Koniag鈥檚 Russian Heritage鈥�, first international conference on the history and anthropology of the Koniag people, Kodiak Area Native Association, Kodiak, Alaska.
  • 1987:听 鈥淗ow Russian Colonization Works: the Case of Russian America鈥�, 2nd International conference on Russian America, August, Sitka, Alaska, (organized by the US National Parks Service & the State of Alaska).
  • 1986:听 鈥淚van-Innokentiiy Veniaminov and the Russian Frontier鈥�, 13th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, March, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
  • 1985:听 鈥淩uling Siberia: the Imperial Power, the Orthodox Church and the Native People鈥�, British Siberian Studies Seminar annual conference, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, March.
  • 1983:听 鈥淎u-del脿 de la Sib茅rie: L鈥橢glise Orthodoxe et les indig猫nes de l鈥橝laska鈥�, First International Conference on Siberia, Institut d鈥橢tudes Slaves, Paris, May 24-27.
  • 1982:听 鈥淩uling Siberia: the imperial power, the Orthodox Church and the Native people鈥�, British Siberian Studies Seminar conference, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge

Affiliations

Nature & Cultures: the American University of Paris online
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Waters of the Globe:

Research Areas

Regions studied (deep immersion field experience)
  • St. Petersburg and Carelia
  • Russian, frontiers and borders: Finland, Alaska,Ukraine
  • Nordic and Arctic regions
  • Mordova Autonomous Republic
  • Ukraine
  • Black Sea
  • Britanny
  • The Alps
  • Paris
Research interests
  • Russian, French and Anglo-Saxon history of social sciences (particularly geography and anthropology
  • Ethnic and religious diversity, identities
  • Geopolitics of extreme environments (marine, polar, air & space)
  • Geopolitics of the environment
  • Human rights

Curriculum Vitae