Sergey Avanesov

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ORCID: 0000-0002-1081-4871
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SERGEY AVANESOV
iskiteam@yandex.ru

Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Professor,
Professor of Cultural Studies Department 

Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Veliky Novgorod, Russia

BASIC INFORMATION

Born 19 December 1963. Place of birth: Iskitim, Novosibirsk region.

Graduated from Novosibirsk High School № 187 in 1981.

Career

Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
since 2019             Head of the Scientific and Educational Center “Humanitarian Urbanistics”
2018–2022             Head of the Department of Theology

Tomsk State Pedagogical University
2012–2018             Professor of the Department of Russian History, Head of the Department of Philosophical                                    and Pedagogical Anthropology

National Research Tomsk State University
2005–2012             Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy
2001–2005             Professor of the Department of Ontology, Theory of Cognition, and Social Philosophy
1996–2001             Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy
1994–1996             Assistant Professor of the Department of Philosophy

Education
Faculty of History, Tomsk State University (1986). Specialty: History. Qualification: historian, teacher of History and Social Studies.

Academic degrees and titles
Professor (2005).
Doctor of Philosophy (2001), dissertation “Fundamentals of philosophical suicidology”, 09.00.01 – Ontology and Theory of Cognition.
Associate Professor (1998).
Cand. Sci. in Philosophy (1994), dissertation “Suicide as a Philosophical Problem”, 09.00.11 – Social Philosophy.

Scientific interests
Normative ontology, philosophical anthropology (personology), theology, philosophy of religion, religious studies, axiology, ancient philosophy, Russian religious philosophy, visual anthropology, visual semiotics, suicidology, humanitarian urbanistics.

Member of editorial boards of journals

  • ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition (Scopus, Web of Science)
  • ΠΡΑΞΗΜΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics (Scopus)
  • Chelovek [Human Being] (Scopus).
  • Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology (Web of Science)
  • Siberian Journal of Philosophy (RSCI)
  • Chelovek.RU (RSCI)

Scientific and research projects

  • Personal grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists’ research – Doctors of Sciences MD–274.2003.06 “Axiological Parameters of Human Being”, 2003–2004.
  • Network project IRSS (Interregional Research in the Social Sciences), grant K017-2-01/2005 “Islam in Contemporary Russia”, 2005–2007.
  • RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) grant 07-06-06058: Organization of the All-Russian Conference “Philosophy of Science and Innovative Technologies in Science and Education”, Tomsk, 2007.
  • RFBR grant 10-06-06112: Organization of the All-Russian Philosophical (Youth) School “Social-Philosophical and Socio-Cultural Potential of Modern Anthropological Concepts”, Nizhnekamsk, 2010.
  • RFBR grant 12-06-90717-mоb_st: Internship at Tomsk State University for a young scientist from the Gorno-Altaisk State University, Tomsk, 2012. Head.
  • RFH (Russian Foundation for Humanities) grant 13-13-70001 “Visual Anthropology: Models of Sociocultural Communications”, 2013–2014. The Head.
  • RFH grant 14-13-70501: Organization of the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Visual Anthropology: Integral Models of Communication”, Tomsk, 2014. The Head.
  • RSF (Russian Science Foundation) grant 14-18-03087 “The Construction of a Non-classical Anthropology. A New Ontology of Human Being”, 2014–2016.
  • Tomsk Region Governor’s Scholarship for Professors, 2017.
  • RFBR grant 19-011-00124 “Philosophical Autobiography as a Method of Anthropological Navigation”, 2019–2021.
  • RSF grant 21-18-00103 “Human Being and New Technological Order. Anthropological Foresight”, 2021–2023.
  • RSF grant 24-18-00672 "City's cultural code: people, history, identity", 2024–2026.

Scientific supervision
6 Candidates of Philosophy and 3 Doctors of Philosophy

Scientific activity
Author of more than 250 scientific papers, including monographs:

  • Introduction to Philosophical Suicidology. Tomsk, 2000. In Russian.
  • Free Death. Part 1: Basis of Philosophical Suicidology. Tomsk, 2003. In Russian.
  • Theological Sutra. St. Petersburg, 2010. In Russian.
  • Normative Ontology: St. Petersburg Reports. Tomsk, 2013. In Russian.
  • Human in Norm. Novosibirsk, 2016. In Russian.
  • The Man at the Mirror: The Anthropology of Autobiography. St. Petersburg, 2021 (co-authors: S. Smirnov, E. Speshilova). In Russian.
  • City: In Search of Identity. St. Petersburg, 2022 (co-author: N. Fedotova). In Russian.
  • Sacred Topics of Russian Cities. Moscow, 2023. In Russian.
  • City as a Cultural Project: Principia of Humanitarian Urban Studies. Moscow, 2024. In Russian.

Major publications in journals over the past 5 years

Awards and encouragements

  • Medal of “Merit for the Tomsk University” 2003
  • Breastplate of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation “For Development of Students’ Research” 2008
  • The Russian Orthodox Church Order of St. Macarius II degree “For Spiritual Enlightenment” 2008
  • Acknowledgement of the Governor of the Tomsk Region 2008, 2010, 2020
  • Title “Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation” 2014
  • Laureate of the Tomsk Oblast Award in Education, Science, Health Care and Culture 1997, 2015

Personal page:
https://novsu.academia.edu/SergeyAvanesov