Research project
"The layered cake of neighborness"

Russia, Finland, and neighboring relations at different scales

"Multi-species neighborness: constructing the social together"

On February 22 - 26, 2022, the Center for Independent Social Research, with the support of the Kone Foundation (Finland), is holding an international conference dedicated to understanding the phenomenon of human neighboring with non-human others.

Conference program

Main events

as a part of the Russian-Finnish research project

International conference

"The layered cake of neighbourness: the neighbourness so close, so distant, and so diverse"
April 18-20, 2019

Exhibition

"If your iron has broken..."
At Kunsthalle Nummer Sieben gallery (B. Zelenina, 21)
April, 19th — May, 14th 2019

Subprojects

Everyday neighborness of the borderlands

This subproject focuses on neighboring at borders, political and cultural

Neighborship in the metropolis

The study of the everyday culture of neighboring in St. Petersburg

Neighborness as co-presence

"Finns" in St. Petersburg and "Russians" in Helsinki

Our smaller neighbors

Beginning spring of 2019, a new direction has been added to the project devoted to the study of the coexistence of people and non-humans in the space of modern cities

With support of

University of Eastern Finland

Joensuu

* By decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the CISR is included in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent (7-FL "On non-profit organizations")

Research project"The layered cake of neighborness"

Main events

Research project
"The layered cake of neighborness"