Project events

See our past events from the global book launch here.

Volume 3 Global Book launch

February 2024 onwards

For photo reports click here [link to the new series of events like the one in the bottom of the page].

World Economic Forum Informality Map

July 2022

Thanks to the collaboration with the World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence team and input of the MARKETS researchers, we have published the Informality map.

Debate on The Russian Private Sector organised by the Harriman Institute

21 April 2021

Professor Ledeneva participated in the online debate The Russian Private Sector Today: Challenges and Prospects in a Post-Pandemic World organised by the Harriman Institute of the Colombia University. The full debate can be seen at this link via the YouTube video at the bottom of the page.

Interview for the Mint Magazine

28 March 2021

Professor Ledeneva has been interviewed by the Mint Magazine on informality, corruption, and the unwritten rule of Russian politics. The full interview can be consulted at this link.

Interview for the portal European Western Balkans (EWB)

26 October 2020

Professor Ledeneva has been interviewed by the portal Western Balkans on the nature of informal practices in the region. The full interview can be consulted at this link.

Virtual event

15 July 2020

Alena participated in (Cyber)PiraMMMida, a transdisciplinary and transmedia project, with three new art pieces – Straw Man, Double-edged and Incriminating Evidence that all use the pyramid as a shape and concept to reflect on the nature of informal power. The project that brings together artists, architects, scholars and activists was curated by Denis Maksimov, Masha Mileeva, Michał Murawski and David Roberts, conceived by the PPV collective, co-realised by the Avenir Institute and co-funded by the FRINGE Centre and the UCL European Institute, among others.

Moscow, Russia

3 July 2020: Moscow, Russia

Alena has given a virtual keynote lecture entitled Silence of Systems: Invisible Domination or Motivational Ambivalence at the workshop organised by the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (NRU HSE). The workshop on The Varieties of Power in the Economy took place from 3–4 July 2020. A recording of the talk is available.

Stanford, USA

2 March 2020: Stanford, USA

Alena has given a talk on Global Corruption versus National Isolationism at the University of Stanford, Global Studies Division. The talk addressed the multiple challenges that corruption presents to governments, businesses, academics, and the public and the EU policy's shift away from perception-based measurement methodologies and top-down policy design and toward approaches integrating complexity, big data, and context-sensitive policy advice.

With Veronica Anghel, Fulbright Fellow, Stanford University & Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins University - SAIS Bologna

Santa Barbara, USA

26 February 2020: Santa Barbara, USA

Alena has presented the Global Informality Project at the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Photo on the right: With Mayfair Yang, author of guanxi entry.

Venice, Italy

9-11 May 2019: Venice, Italy

The patterns of informal power acquired a non-textual mode in Alena's art displayed at the Palace of Ritual exhibition on the fringes of the 58th Venice Biennale. Three art pieces – Inner Circle, Scapegoat and Suspended Punishment – supported the dissemination of the Encyclopaedia. The exhibition was organised by Arts Territory, together with Avenir Institute, co-funded by the FRINGE Centre and co-curated by FRINGEr Michał Murawski.

Past events

See our past events from the global book launch here.