Department
of Cultural Studies
Position
Head of the Department
Academic Degree
Doctor of Philosophical Sciences
Academic Rank
Associate Professor
Contacts
phone: +375 (17) 209 58 92
e-mail: matsevichdukhan@bsu.by
About
Education:
Sept. 2002–June 2006 – Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Belarusian State University.
Sept. 2006–June 2007 – Honours Diploma in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Belarusian State University.
Sept. 2008–Feb. 2010 – Double Master’s Degree in European Culture, Groningen University (the Netherlands), Uppsala University (Sweden).
2007–2012 – Postgraduate programme in Social Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Belarusian State University.
March 2012 – PhD in Philosophy (Speciality: Social Philosophy). PhD thesis: “Socio-philosophical Foundations of the Creative Industries Conception and Its Development Prospects”
2018–2013 – postdoctoral programme in Social Philosophy, The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
March 2023 – Doctor of Philosophical Sciences. Doctor thesis: “Creative Society as an Object of Socio-philosophical Reflection: From Conception to Theory”
Work and professional activity:
January 2012–September 2014 – Lecturer, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy of Culture, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Belarusian State University.
October 2014–November 2018 – Head of the Humanities Department, Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
May 2023–present – Head of the Department of Cultural Studies, Belarusian State University.
Awards and honorary titles:
- 2023 – Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus
Scientific interests:
Social theory, aesthetics and cultural policy.
Publications:
3 scientific monographs and more than 100 articles in scientific journals, including articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and papers in edited volumes.
Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- Matsevich-Dukhan, I. Ja. The Ethos of Creative Space in Contemporary City / I. Matsevich-Dukhan // Urbis et Orbis. – 2023. – Vol.3. – № 2 – P. 271–283.
- Matsevich-Dukhan, I. Ja. Normativity of Creative Practice and Forms of its Institutionalisation / I. Matsevich-Dukhan // ΠΡΑΞΗΜΑ. – 2023. – №4 (38). – P. 100–119.
- Matsevich-Dukhan, I. Ja. «The creative turn» in European social theory / I. Matsevich-Dukhan // J. of the Belarus. State Univ. Sociology. – 2021. – № 2. – P. 40–49.
- Matsevich-Dukhan, I. Towards a Creative Society: European versus American Approaches / I. Matsevich-Dukhan // European Studies and Europe / ed.: J. de Jong [et al.]. – Göttingen, 2020. – P. 115–139.
- Matsevich-Dukhan, I. The Human Sciences versus the Post-Soviet Humanitarian Sciences / I. Matsevich-Dukhan // Appreciating Local Knowledge / ed.: E. Kapferer, A. Koch, C. Sedmak. – Newcastle, 2016. – P. 21–41.
- Matsevich-Dukhan, I. Mapping European Cultural Actors: Addressing the Case of Belarus / I. Matsevich-Dukhan // European Neighbourhood Policy: Geopolitics Between Integration and Security / ed.: B. Bruns, D. Happ, H. Zichner. – London, 2016. – P. 207–230.