Internship

Nanor Hovhannisian

Intern

Nanor Hovhannisian is a bachelor's student at the faculty of English and Communications of the American University of Armenia (AUA). She is interested in cinema, education, literature, translations and storytelling. Nanor joined the CSN Lab as an intern for the 2024-2025 programme.

Nyeiri Gharib

Intern

Nyeiri Gharib is a master's student in Human Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE). With a background in Political Science and French Studies, she is interested in migration, spatial politics, and socio-economic and intersectional inequalities. Nyeiri joined the CSN Lab as an intern for the 2024-2025 programme.

Svetlana Akopian

Intern

Svetlana Akopian is a master's student at the Human Rights and Social Justice Faculty of the American University of Armenia (AUA). Her areas of interest include urban studies, cultural dialogue, peacebuilding, sustainable development, and participatory projects with vulnerable communities. Svetlana joined the CSN Lab as an intern for the 2024-2025 programme.

Davit Hakobyan

Intern

Davit Hakobyan is a graduate of the American University of Armenia (AUA), holding a degree in English and Communications with a minor in Gender Studies. His academic and research interests centre on cultural studies, with a particular focus on oral (hi)stories as a methodology and research practice. Davit is engaged in the CSN Lab’s internship programme for 2024-2025.

Tatevik Ayvazyan

Intern

Tatevik Ayvazyan is a freshman at Yerevan State University’s Faculty of Geography and Archeology, Service Department. She is interested in international relations and cultural studies. Tatevik joined the CSN Lab as part of the 2024-2025 internship programme.

Nathan Brand

Intern 2019

Nathan Brand is a PhD candidate in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. His doctoral research on the rise of the right-wing in Russia focuses on the visual dimension of their mobilisation. His broader research interests lie in cultural semiotics and contemporary Russian cinema. His work with the Cultural and Social Narratives Lab will engage questions of national identity formation and postcolonialism, looking at how Armenian national identity is represented in museum exhibitions around the city of Yerevan. His work will situate exhibition spaces in direct conversation with their place in their city as he aims to construct a topography of museum exhibits relating to national and postcolonial identity.

Yana Bondar

Resident 2022

Yana Bondar is a photographer from Belarus. She is interested in archival photography, memory studies, and the environment.Yana finds it important to reflect on human rights and the manifestations of violence in the everyday life of people through her art. She participated in several workshops and exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, the Netherlands, and other countries.

Varvara Sudnik

Resident 2022

Varvara Sudnik is an artist from Belarus who participated in CSN Lab's summer art residency in 2022. She is interested in topics related to social injustice, fear, discrimination, gender inequality, and everyday life practices. Varvara mostly creates art in the formats of video art, text, installation, visuals and handcraft. She had exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Germany and other countries.

Taryn Bell

Intern 2021

Taryn Bell joined CSN Lab from the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) in 2021. As an intern, she was involved in the “Balat: Living Together” project exploring the memory of a multicultural district in Turkey. In this regard, she gathered significant archival materials such as anecdotes and stories, which were later included in a book.

Freddie Coombes

Intern 2021

Freddie Coombes is one of the interns who joined CSN Lab from the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) in 2021. As a researcher, he studied the representation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the anglophone and francophone worlds. His project resulted in a series of long-read blog posts covering the map of the conflict, a contextual study of discourses on the conflict in light of imperial legacies and geopolitical considerations in the region and an educational presentation of materials to people unfamiliar with the situation, through the use of timelines, testimony collected by other outlets, and comparisons to other post-Soviet international disputes.