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2025

36th NEFK – Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference (Turku, Finland)
Session presentation “Human-environment connections in Indigenous presence and belonging in urban areas: the case of the urban Komi homemaking and place-naming”

Urban Studies Conference “City of Narratives” (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Session presentation “A place of hope and loss: narrating Komi belonging and out-of-placeness in the city”

2024

28th International Association People-Environment Studies (IASP) (Barcelona, Spain)
Session presentation “Being urban Komi:​ Navigating identities and connections to places, environments, and people”

Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 (Bodø, Norway)
Session presentation “Being urban Komi:​ Navigating connections to places, environments, and people” 

European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2024​ (Helsinki, Finland)
Session presentation “Place as a research participant: ​Observations from a northern city” 

2023

Sustainability Science Days 2023 (Helsinki, Finland)
Participant

Ideologies and silenced voices in Finno-Ugric pasts and modernities (Helsinki, Finland)
Session presentation ”Non-“state-forming people”: on living and being of non-Russian minorities in contemporary Russia”

Finnish Anthropology Conference 2023: Relations and beyond (Rovaniemi, Finland)
Session presentation “Being Komi in the city: identities and belonging”

ISAR-7 (Tokyo, Japan)
Session presentation ”Being Komi in the city: identities and belonging”

Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 (Vienna, Austria)
Session presentation “Vitality and inclusion of the urban Komi communities”

2022

Gender Studies Conference. Feminist matterings: Indigenous and Arctic engagements (Oulu, Finland)
Session presentation “Komi women in political and societal life of the Komi Autonomy”

The 9th Annual Conference for the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences & the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Changes of the University of Helsinki: Research in the Time of Challenges: Searching for Methodological and Theoretical Horizons (Helsinki, Finland)
Member of the organizing committee, panel chair

2021

Yamal Humanitarian Readings (Salekhard, Russia)
Session presentation “The role of traditional celebrations in construction and manifestation of the ethnic identity and recognition of the ethnic group. The case of the Izhma Komi people”

IFUSCO 2021 (Riga, Latvia)
Session presentation “The Izhma Komi in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug: history and modernity”.

International Arctic Conference 8+ (Norilsk, Russia)
Session presentation “Sociocultural coexistence of the Izhma Komi and the Nenets people in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug”

2020

The 7th Annual Conference for the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences & the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Changes of the University of Helsinki: (De)naturalising Extractivism: Investigating its social orders and resistances (Helsinki, Finland)
Session presentation “Local resistance to extractive practices as a means of preserving the ethnic group identity. A case study of the Ižma Komi (the Komi Republic, Russia)”

The interregional conference “The Arctic Izhma Komi: to remember about the future” (Naryan-Mar, Russia)
Session presentation “Creation and functioning of the web-portal “Izvatas”

Summer & Winter schools

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Winter School “Crafting a Career” (participant) (Helsinki, Finland, 2023)

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Winter School “Academic Collaboration and Career Building – Benefits and Pitfalls” (participant) (Helsinki, Finland, 2020)