ILSIR staff took part in organizing the XIII International Film Festival about the lives of people with disabilities, "Cinema Without Barriers."
From November 7 to 10, 2025, the 13th International Film Festival about the lives of people with disabilities, "Cinema Without Barriers," was held in Moscow. Organized by the Russian Society of Disabled People "Perspektiva" with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture, the event attracted a record number of applications—over 950 filmmakers from 70 countries. The event became an important platform for discussing contemporary issues of disability inclusion. The team of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research provided organizational support for the event: they drafted and widely distributed invitations to audiences, updated the feedback form, and, most importantly, moderated discussions with audiences after the film screenings. ILSIR research interns share their impressions of the festival.
Roman Karikh spoke at the II International Educational Forum (IEF)
From November 26–29, the 2nd International Educational Forum (IEF) was held at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) in Moscow with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Research intern Roman Karikh of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research gave a presentation at the Forum.
Natalia Bulchenko moderated a section at the III All-Russian Youth Scientific Conference "The Position of Women in Business in Russia and the World"
On November 24, 2025, at MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation), Natalia Vasilievna Bulchenko, a second-year postgraduate student at the Graduate School of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, a research intern at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, and a participant in the regular project group "Social Order in the Transforming Social Sphere: Macro- and Micro-Analysis," moderated a section at the III Youth All-Russian Scientific Conference "The Position of Women in Business in Russia and the World," which was organized by members of the MGIMO Student Club at the Department of World Economy "Women in Science."
Elena Iarskaya-Smirnova and Igor Novikov spoke at the session "Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment of People with Disabilities: Realities and Opportunities" as part of the "Open for All" Forum!
On November 25, the Cyberdom space in Moscow hosted a session titled "Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment for People with Disabilities: Realities and Opportunities," organized as part of the All-Russian Inclusive Forum "Open for All." Among the participants were Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova, head of our laboratory, and Igor Novikov, research intern at ILSIR and head of Everland.
The staff of the Moscow Institute of Sociology organized a round table at the VII All-Russian Sociological Congress
From November 12 to 14, 2025, the 7th All-Russian Sociological Congress "Sociology and Society: The Formation and Functioning of Public Memory" was held in Moscow. On November 13, as part of the congress, staff from the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (ILSIR) held Roundtable Discussion #13, "Are Outsiders Allowed? Definitions and Challenges of an Inclusive Society."
The almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community:1" was shortlisted for the Grushin Prize.
On Sociologist's Day, November 14, the Shaninka Library hosted the awards ceremony for the BA Grushin Book Sociology Prize. Among this year's nominees was the almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community: 1," published following the conference "What Does It Mean to Be Deaf: New Challenges for the Community," edited by Nikita Bolshakov, leading research fellow at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, and Vlad Kolesnikov, curator of the GES-2 Community Center.
Natalia Bulchenko participated in the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine"
On October 31, 2025, Natalia Vasilievna Bulchenko, a research intern at the Moscow Literary Institute for Social Studies and a second-year postgraduate student at the HSE Graduate School of Sociological Sciences, presented a paper at the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine," organized by the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, the HSE Faculty of Humanities, the HSE Ronald Franklin Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, the Student Research Society of the Department of History of the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, and the HSE Research and Study Group "History of Russian Psychiatry: New Approaches to Study."
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference "Exploring the Deaf Community – 2025: On the Periphery of Attention" was held at the GES-2 Community Center.
From October 17-19, 2025, the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference "Studying the Deaf Community – 2025: On the Periphery of Attention" was held at the GES-2 Community Center. It was organized with the participation of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research. Speakers from 20 countries participating, presenting over 90 papers on the culture, languages, and experiences of the deaf community. The RDC-2025 laboratory team also presented four studies prepared over the past year. These studies focused on the social structure of deaf society, the formation of deaf identity in bilingual education based on the archives of a Moscow gymnasium, sign singing in deaf culture and its perception by deaf and hard of hearing people, and clubs as a center for the development of deaf culture.
Tatyana Larkina received a grant to write a manuscript from the Khamovniki Foundation for Historical and Cultural Studies.
Starting November 1, 2025, with the support of the Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research, a project will begin. As a result, our laboratory's junior research fellow, Tatyana Larkina, will describe the daily work routines of Russian teachers, reveal the social drama of teaching, and demonstrate how employees of general education organizations repeatedly make numerous choices in situations of value conflicts and contradictory and uncertain demands on their professional roles.
