| Tomsk State University Institute of Arts and Culture Department of Theory and History of Culture Lenina st. 36 Tomsk, Russia 634050 Telephone: (7-3822) 426-206 |
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| Dmitry Galkin was a visiting scholar at The George Washington University during the 2002-2003 academic year. His stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. His field of interest is Public Policy and Cultural Studies, or as he likes to describe it, “a marriage of cultural studies and political science, primarily in the house of public policy.” His curriculum development goals include courses on the Sociology of Culture and Comparative Cultural Policy (including policy analysis and the economy of arts and culture). His scientific advisor was Reba Carruth, from the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy.
Dmitry is a senior teacher at Tomsk State University, in the Department of Theory and History of Culture. He has taught the following courses: Introduction to Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, and Theory of Virtual Culture. His scientific interests include interdisciplinary cultural studies, particularly comparative cultural policy, the virtualization of experience, the psychoanalytical approach, visual culture, cultural issues of globalization, and the practice of creativity. He has created a website that elaborates on some of these ideas. My American Experience I like DC. I do. Everything cool in pop- and high-cultural life is available here. The only regret I have is that the Joshua Tree National Park in Arizona is so far away. This is my discovery and even obsession. There are a lot of desert-inspired cultural influences in the US, and not only in the US, for example U2’s Joshua Tree album or the work of Jim Morrison. GW is great. It is. There is not a strong sense of a University and that’s ok, because the atmosphere is more important. The atmosphere in DC is less conservative and more dynamic. I have a good impression of GW. The American academic environment is really impressive, even if it doesn’t look friendly. Maybe I myself also do not come across as friendly. But it was striking for me to meet people with great intelligence and personality, commitment to science and scientific life and friendly enough! I used to be fond of US style scientific machine. Certainly still I am. By the way, be careful traveling with Greyhound. Consider instead air transportation! Conferences Traditions and Innovations in Education and Educational Policy, Tomsk, annually, 1998-2000. Social Research in Education, European University in St. Petersburg, Spencer Foundation, 2000. Russian Sociological Congress, St. Petersburg, 2000. 8th Annual Conference of the Russian Psychological Association, Moscow State University, Moscow, Spring 2002. Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Global Economics of Art and Entertainment, Roanoke, VA, Virginia Tech, October 2002. Publications “Virtual Discourse in Postmodern Culture,” Critics & Semiotics, Issue 1/2, 2000, Novosibirsk. The following are entries in the Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, Interpresservice, Minsk, Knizhnii Dom, 2001: “Autocommunication,” pp. 14.
“Baudrillard,” pp. 83-86.
“Virilio” pp. 118-121.
With Gricianov A. Karpenko, “Virtual Reality,” pp. 122-124.
Encyclopedia of Sociology and Social Philosophy, articles on “Raymond Williams,” “Zigmund Bauman,” “Amitai Etzioni,” “Arthur Kroker,” “New Media” and “Interactiviy,” Summer 2003. Issues of Educational Policy Galkin D. “Why is Expertise Evaluation Necessary in Regional Policy Making?” Traditions and innovations in education, Tomsk, 1999. Galkin D. “The Art of Expert Evaluation: Practical Methods for Experts,” Traditions and innovations in education, Tomsk, 1999. Galkin D. “What Should We Expect from our Municipal Representatives?” Newspaper Tomskii vestnik, No. 47, 1996. Galkin D. “Public Policy Effectiveness of Regional Legislative Processes: an Evaluation,” Newspaper Krasnoie Znamia, No. 83, 1997. Galkin D. “Concepts of Civil Society and Open Society: Philosophical Roots,” Materials of the regional conference ‘Future of Civil Society in Russia,’ Tomsk, 1995. |
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