The Meme History of Russia
Schedule
Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Bailey Hall 1440 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS | Lawrence, KS
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Join CREES for a brown bag lecture by Dr. Alex Kalinin (Center for Cyber Social Dynamics) on February 10 at 22pm. Dr. Kalinin’s talk is titled “The Meme History of Russia.”Who doesn’t love a good meme? Beyond humor, memes can reveal surprising insights into social norms, collective memory, and political sentiment. This talk offers a historical journey through Russian meme culture—from Soviet-era anecdotes to contemporary internet memes—highlighting how informal humor reflects broader social and cultural change.
Alex is a linguist specializing in syntax, with a focus on the comparative analysis of Russian and Germanic languages. He received his MA in Linguistics from the Russian State University for the Humanities and completed his PhD in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London.
His research interests include syntactic theory, corpus linguistics, and the linguistic dimensions of large language models, with particular attention to Slavic languages in comparative and computational perspectives.
He integrates computational methods into his research, working primarily with Python and Java for corpus analysis and data-driven linguistic inquiry.
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