Irina Sirotkina
Research interests
History of the human sciences, especially of psychiatry and psychology; history
of medicine in Russia
Academic Positions
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February 1989 - on: Research Fellow, Institute for the History of Science
and Technology, Russian Academy of Science (Moscow, Russia).
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May 1996 - May 1997: Visiting Fellow, Wellcome Institute for the History
of Medicine (London, UK).
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September 1997 – April 1998: Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology
and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Academic Degrees
- 2002: Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Manchester, UK
- 1989: Candidate of Science (Psychology) (an equivalent of Ph.D.), Moscow
State University
- 1985: Graduate Diploma in Psychology (an equivalent of M.A.), Moscow State
University
Conferences Organised
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(1995) Cross-readings in the humanities: a dialogue between Russia
and the West around the works by M. M. Bakhtin, S. L. Rubinstein and L.
S. Vygotsky, International Conference, Moscow, 22-24 May.
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(1992) 4th Conference in the History of Russian Science, Moscow, 25-26
June.
Lectures and Talks
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(1998) ‘Gogol’s madness: psychiatric stigmatization of writers reconsidered’,
Program in Science, Technology and Society, Cornell University.
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(1997) ‘Literary characters as psychiatric types: psychiatry between science
and literature’, Mind, Brain and Behavior Group, Harvard University.
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(1997) ‘Stretching the boundaries of deviance: neuropsychiatric dispensaries
and the foundation of the Soviet mental health care system’, 25th Convention
of American Association for the Advancement in Slavic Studies, Seattle.
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(1997) ‘Tolstoy’s neurosis: Literature and the development of psychotherapy
in turn-of-the-century Russia’, Work-in-Progress Seminar, Wellcome Institute
for the History of Medicine, London.
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(1996) ‘Moscow City Asylum and culture of private psychiatric clinics
in Moscow’, 3rd Triennial Conference of the Society for the History of
Psychiatry, 11-14 September, Munich.
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(1996) ‘The Pedological Decree and child studies in the Soviet Union’,
15th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Social and Behavioural
Sciences, 31 August - 3 September, Leiden.
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(1995) ‘New forms of psychiatric practice and the emergence of psychotherapy
at the turn of the century’, 14th Annual Conference of the Society for
the History of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 3-7 September, Passau.
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(1995) ‘Russian psychiatry at the turn of the century,’ History of
Science Group, University of Lancaster.
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(1995) ‘La Physiologie de la motricit? en URSS: le d?veloppement
d'une th?orie li?e au contexte sociale’, l'Equipe de recherches ?pist?mologiques
et historique sur les sciences exactes et les institutions scientifiques,
University Paris-7, 14.02.95.
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(1995) ‘Fathers and children: Russian psychiatry from Korsakov’s school
to psychoanalysis.’ 13th Annual Conference of the Society for the History
of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 7-11 September, Paris.
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(1993) ‘A genre of experimental articles in the French psychological
journals of the turn of the century.’ 3rd International Conference on the
History of Psychology, 20-22 September, Moscow.
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(1993) ‘Mikhail Bakhtine et la psychologie’, Lecture in the course
of general psychology, University Paris-8, 19 May.
Teaching experience
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(1994) ‘History of psychology’, general course for undergraduate
students at Moscow Pedagogical Academy.
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(1995) ‘History of French psychiatry and psychology’, special subject
course for the graduate students in psychology at Moscow State University.
Fellowships, Research Grants
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1996: Wellcome Trust Visiting Fellowship for a project: ‘Writing pathographies:
The public image of psychiatry in England and Russia at the turn of the
century’.
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1995: International Scientific Foundation Research Grant for a project:
‘Russian psychiatrists and Russian literature’.
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1994: Central European University Research Grant for a project: ‘Early
humanistic trends in Russian and Central European psychiatry: The case
of Nikolai Osipov (1877-1934)’.
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1993: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Research Grant for a project: ‘Genre
of experimental articles in French psychological journals at the beginning
of the twentieth century’.
Membership
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1996 - on: European Society for the History of Psychiatry.
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1992 - on: European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (former
European Society for the History of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cheiron-Europe).
Personal
Born: August 5, 1963
Fluent English and French; experience in living and studying in Great
Britain, France and USA.