Cher.e.s collègues, Les 11 et 12 décembre 2025, avec le soutien du GDR AREES, le GSRL aura le plaisir de recevoir Tatiana Vagramenko, anthropologue, de University College Cork (Irlande), qui effectuera deux présentations dans deux séminaires au format hybride (voir informations ci-dessous). Le premier séminaire aura lieu le jeudi 11 décembre de 15h à 17h, en salle 5.067, du bâtiment Nord du Campus Condorcet, dans le cadre des activités de l'Axe « Interactions et créativité religieuses : perspectives anthropologiques » du GSRL, coordonné par Detelina Tocheva et Virginie Vaté. Tatiana Vagramenko fera une communication en anglais intitulée :

Soviet Ghosts, Secret Archives: Religion and Memory in Wartime Ukraine

Résumé From Soviet-era secret police operations and agent infiltration of religious groups to religious life under full-scale war in Ukraine, this presentation traces how the Soviet legacy continues to shape faith, memory, and power in the region. Decades of surveillance, infiltration, and repression left deep marks on religious communities, and the current war has laid these legacies bare, revealing how the ghosts of the Soviet past still haunt the present. Russia’s failure to reckon with its authoritarian history – and Putin’s weaponization of history – have fueled “memory wars,” in which competing narratives of history become instruments of contemporary conflict. Drawing on newly declassified secret police (KGB) archives and ethnographic fieldwork in wartime Ukraine, this talk follows the return of stories once buried in secret files to the very communities that were watched and controlled by the Soviet state. These official archives of repression stand in stark contrast to counter-archives – memories, letters, and hidden collections that communities have preserved against all odds. Amid the war, as archives are stolen, smuggled, burned, lost in war or opened, they have become weapons in their own right – tools of resistance by other means. Unearthing them is no longer about studying history; it is about reclaiming it. Pour y assister en ligne : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89556137811?pwd=rGZE6UfmrkZifZIdv982eFF9ffEaFP.1

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La seconde présentation aura lieu le vendredi 12 décembre de 10h à 12h en salle 5.067, du bâtiment Nord du Campus Condorcet, dans le cadre du séminaire des études sibériennes / Siberian Studies Seminar, organisé par Dmitriy Oparin (UMR Passages) et Virginie Vaté (GSRL). Tatiana Vagramenko fera une communication en anglais intitulée :

Indigenous Christianity: Missionaries, Modernity, and Marginality in the Siberian Tundra

Résumé This talk presents the author’s forthcoming book, based on long-durée fieldwork in Northwestern Siberia. It traces the story of a Nenets nomadic indigenous community and the transformations brought by religious conversion in post-Soviet and contemporary Russia. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research in a region now largely closed to outsiders, the presentation offers an intimate account of faith, power, and endurance in one of the Arctic’s most marginalized communities. The Nenets, long shaped by Russian colonialism and Soviet modernization, experienced widespread conversions in the mid-1990s, culminating in the establishment of a tundra church linked to a radical evangelical movement. Against the backdrop of Putin’s tightening control—when indigenous peoples and minority faiths faced renewed surveillance and harassment—the talk follows Nenets and missionaries whose encounters across the tundra sparked tensions between converts and non-converts, faith and state. Through stories of hope, loss, and resilience, it examines how global evangelical Christianity intersects with local traditions, reshaping kinship, belonging, and notions of modernity in the Siberian tundra.   La discussion sera assurée par Laur Vallikivi, de l’Université de Tartu (en ligne)   Pour y assister en ligne :  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85210920587?pwd=rcLLocEg4jqSvSjbNs7CmYAHWqeFd7.1   -------------- Lieu : Campus Condorcet - 14 cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers Bâtiment de recherche nord, salle 5.067 (sauf en juin) Métro Front Populaire (Ligne 12) ou RER B La Plaine – Stade de France Vous munir d’une pièce d’identité pour obtenir un badge au comptoir, au rez-de-chaussée du bâtiment Nord, afin de pouvoir accéder aux étages.