Sergei Akopov holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow. His research interests include Russia’s identity and ontological security in world politics, gendered nationalism, Russian existentialism, and the visual political anthropology of loneliness. Prior to 2022, he served as a Professor in the Department of Political Science at HSE (Saint Petersburg). Currently, he is a Walter Benjamin Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, working on The Politics of Loneliness: Demasculinizing Narratives of Russian Sovereigntism. Sergei is also affiliated with the University of Cologne/Bonn, the Independent Institute of Philosophy (Paris), and the Research Centre in Political Science (University of Minho). He has published in the Journal of Political Ideologies, Russian Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and International Political Sociology. He has also authored four books, including Development of the Idea of Transnationalism in Russian Political Philosophy and Multidimensional Man: A Transnational Model of Identification with Political Communities. Currently, Sergei is writing a book titled Reimagining International Relations as Tidepools of Loneliness.
Sergei Akopov
Guest Speaker
Walter Benjamin Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, Free University of Berlin
