ORGANISED WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES:
Rajagopalan, S. (organiser along with Dina Fainberg at City University, London, and Tal Zalmanovich at the University of Haifa). (16/17-6-2022). "Spaces of Transnational Solidarities during the Cold War." June 2022 (with the generous support of the Amsterdam centre for European Studies).
Rajagopalan, S. (organiser). (31-1-2022) "Rethinking New Media Studies from the East and the South." Held under the aegis of 'Participatory Cultures: New Media Practices' research group in ARTES, and with the support of ARTES,
Rajagopalan, S. (organiser) (18-5-2018). Conference "Media Systems under Pressure: RecentDevelopments in Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe", Amsterdam. Co-organised with Mariëlle Wijermars, this workshop is organized by ARTES research group ‘Participatory Cultures: Post-Socialist New Media Practices’ (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
Rajagopalan, S. (organiser) & Lajosi-Moore, K. K. (organiser) (6-7-2017). Political Feelings in Participatory Media, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
Rajagopalan, S. (organiser) & Amico, S. (organiser) (11-6-2015). Past the “-Post”, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...)
CONFERENCE PAPERS, INCLUDING INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Rajagopalan, S. "Incidental Soviet Objects: Geopolitical Liminality in India during the Cold War." Conference on Soviet Materialities. Jesus College. University of Cambridge. April 2022.
Rajagopalan, S. Keynote plenary speaker. "Decolonising media studies: an East European perspective." European Communication ResearchandEducationAssociation (ECREA)conference. September 2021.
Rajagopalan, S. "Domestic Spaces: Soviet Objects and Geopolitical Imagination in India and Cuba." The Wende Museum (California), May 2021.
Rajagopalan, S. Plenary talk on 'Consumption and Participation'. Launch of Global Digital Cultures, University of Amsterdam, October 2020.
Rajagopalan, S. "Tales of Solidarity: Soviet Objects, Personal Biographies, and Cold War Memories in Cuban Homes.” Conference on Poetic Justice: Narrating Personhood, Solidarity, and Citizenship. University of Utrecht, May 2020.
Rajagopalan, S. 'The “Cultural Cold War”:, Munchen. Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War entanglements in Cuban homes (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). 22-24 October 2019
Rajagopalan, S. Socialist World, "Third World", Media Worlds: an exploratory workshop, University College London. 6 November 2018
Rajagopalan, S. "Affective Solidarity on Russian New Media: the case of Diana Shurygina." Conference "Media Systems under Pressure: RecentDevelopments in Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe", Amsterdam. 18 May, 2018
Interview/talk on Stalinist terror in Soviet and post-Soviet memory, followed by film screening, De Balie, October 23, 2017.
“Imagination and citizenship”, a talk on memory on Russian new media in the workshop Forum on post-Soviet culture, UvA, 2016
“Competing imaginaries on digital platforms in Russia” in the forum “Licht op Rusland. Russische digitale revolutie: vrijheid en isolatie, Organised with the Nederlands Instituut Petersburg (NIP). Spui 25, December 2016
“Inclusive Narratives: Participation and Plurality in Russian New Media”, at “The Future of Independent Russian media” forum, organised by the University of Amsterdam, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken and Free Press Unlimited, April 2016.
'The performance of boredom: experiences on Russia's other new media', 'Bland, Boring, Banal' symposium, UvA, December 2015.
“Unspectacular politics: Television, internet and everyday political habits in Russia”, at the Past the “-Post”: Theorizing the Post-Post-Soviet via (New) Media and Popular Culture, UvA, June 2015.
'Affect in Soviet encounters with India: cinema, celebrity and emotion in international relations', International workshop on Soviet Encounters with India, RANEPA, Moscow, December 16-17, 2013.
'Shoppers and dupes: the TV audience in Russian discourses', International Communication Association annual conference, June 2013, London.
‘Cinema in an earlier time: sites of cultural memory on the Runet’, Roundtable participant at a conference on ‘Seeing Socialism(s) in Eastern Europe: Visual Cultures and the Writing of History,’ Centre for International Studies and Research, Paris, December 2012.
“Cultural Citizens , not Couch Potatoes: the participatory world of Russian online fandoms,” CEELBAS (Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies) conference, University College London, June 2011.
“Hyperlinked: Shahrukh Khan’s celebrity in the affective spaces of Russian online fandom,” Department of Ethnology, University of Vienna, September 2010.
“Sartorial Citizens: the interactive web audience for Russian Makeover Television,” CEELBAS workshop “Deterritorialised Cultures,” Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Manchester, May 2010.
“Stars in their Eyes: Fandom and the making of Indian film celebrity in Soviet movie culture,” The Centre for Comparative Social Studies and the Institute for Culture & Values, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, February 2010.
“Not Just Spooky: the collaborative aesthetics of Supernatural Fandom on Runet (Russian-language internet),” School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, October 2009.
“Supernatural Fandom on Runet,” European Association for Social Anthropology (online seminar), November 2009.
“The Construction of Celebrity: Indian movie Stars in the Soviet Everyday”, CEELBAS, “Whose Culture?,” Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, March 2008.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Manuscript peer-review for Slavic Review, Kritika: Explorations in Russian History, and New Media and Society.
