CV

Academic Employment

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2020-2023

Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Department of Ethnology. 

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2019                                            

Junior Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Department of Ethnology. 

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2017-2018                                

Visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Department of Anthropology, DoRa Plus Estonia grant, Archimedes Foundation. 

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Education

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2011 - 2019

PhD degree at the University of Tartu, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Ethnology. 

Doctoral thesis “Embodied Lives, Imagined Reaches: Gendered Subjectivity and Aspirations for Belonging of Indonesian Waria”, supervisor prof Art Leete (University of Tartu), consultants dr Benjamin Hegarty (University of Melbourne), dr Dédé Oetomo (GAYa NUSANTARA, Indonesia). Opponents prof Niko Besnier (Univerisity of Amsterdam) and dr Aet Annist (University of Tartu). Defended on December 16, 2019. 

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2013-2014                                
Visiting student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S. in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Fulbright scholarship. 

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2012-2013                      
Visiting student at Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn University. 

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2008–2011                     
The University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Journalism and Communication; and Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Ethnology. 

MA degree (cum laude) in Communication Studies;
MA degree (cum laude) in Ethnology(Cultural Anthropology), G.P.A.  4.8/5;

MA-thesis on political symbols in popular culture, cultural memory studies ”Soviet Symbols in Popular Culture: A Comparative Study of their Meanings among Students in Tartu and Voronezh”, supervisor dr Kirsti Jõesalu.

2010–2011                     
University of Sanata Dharma, Indonesian language, cultural studies, Dharmasiswa scholaship. 

2009–2009                     
Voronezh State University, Russian language and culture. Voronezh State University scholarship.

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2004–2008                     
The University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics. BA-degree. 
Major: Business Administration and Marketing; 

Minor: Communication and Media. BA-thesis on cross-cultural branding. G.P.A. 4.4/5;

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2006–2006                        
Université de Montpellier 1, Economics and Business Administration, Erasmus scholarship.

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1992–2004                        

Paide Co-educational Gymnasium, honours, G.P.A. 5.0/5.

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Professional Experience

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2020-2023

Project lead of the research grant "Young Estonians Abroad" (www.eva.ut.ee) at the University of Tartu's Department of Ethnology

2020

Kahrola, H., Hoffmann, F., Paras, O., Toomistu, T.,  Wohl, E. (2020). In Between II: The name of us is Luborg. Contemporary dance performance. Writer, dramaturgist.

2019                                            
Research associate in the international researchers’ collective Burning Stories.  

2018                                            
Lecturer at The University of Warsaw, Poland, course ”Alterative youth cultures in Soviet Estonia”, 12 academic hours. 

2018                                            
Short-term field research in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia. 

2018                                            
Curator of the exhibition ”Soviet Hippies: 1970s psychedelic underground culture in Estonia and beyond” in Galerie KUB at Leipzig, Germany (co-curated with Kiwa), September 28-October 14. 

2018                                            
Artist in residence at Moks Art Center, Mooste, Estonia (August 1-23). 

2018                                            
Producer of the Soviet Hippies Original Soundtrack 12’’ LP, SH01, Cece Music. 

2018                                            
Curator of the photography exhibition ”Hippies in Soviet Estonia” (co-curated with Kiwa), Ugala theater, Viljandi, Estonia. 

2017                                            
Director and scriptwriter of the documentary film Soviet Hippies (75’ & 52’). Produced by Kultusfilm (EE), Kinomaton (GE), Mouka Filmi (FI). 

2016                                            
Curator of the multi-disciplinary exhibition ”Soviet Hippies: 1970s Underground Culture of Estonia” at Red Gallery, London, U.K. (co-curated with Kiwa)

2016 - …                                    
Cece OÜ, founder, director and member of the board. 

2015                                            
Lecturer in University of Tartu, Faculty of Philosophy. Course ”Gender, sexuality, anthropology”, 3EAP

2015                                            
Short-term fieldwork in Sorong and Timika, Papua, Indonesia. DoRa T8 scholarship

2014                                            
Selected participant of European Documentary Campus Masterschool as the director of the documentary film Soviet Hippies.

2014                                            
Curator of the multi-disciplinary exhibition ”Soviet hippies: The Psychedelic Underground of 1970s Estonia” at Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (co-curated with Kiwa)

2014                                            
Curator of the multi-disciplinary exhibition ”Soviet hippies: The Psychedelic Underground of 1970s Estonia” at Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden (co-curated with Kiwa)

2013                                            
Curator of the multi-disciplinary exhibition ”Soviet hippies: The Psychedelic Underground of 1970s Estonia” at Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (co-curated with Kiwa)

2013                                            
Curator of the multi-disciplinary exhibition ”Soviet hippies: The Psychedelic Underground of 1970s Estonia” at Estonian National Museum (co-curated with Kiwa)

2011- …                                     
Anthropological research and directing of the cross-media project on alternative youth cultures in Soviet Estonia (1968-1982)

2011-2012                                 
Anthropological field research with waria (transgender women) in Java, Sulawesi and Papua, partnering with Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, and NGO GAYa Nusantara, DoRa T6 scholarship

2011                                            
Filming, editing, and releasing documentary film ”WARIAZONE” on transgender community in Indonesia (co-directed with Kiwa)

2005–…                                     
Freelance writer, collaboration for Eesti Ekspress, Sirp, Postimees, Keskus, Delfi, magazines AnneStiil, Mari, Trend, GoTravel

2009                                            
Publishing a novel ”Seitse maailma” (Seven worlds) (co-written with Berit Renser) about spiritualities in South America; marketing activities

2008                                            
Media agency Trendmark, Assistant               

2005–2010                                
Sisalik Meedia OÜ, Member of the Board, (responsible for marketing and finance) 

2008-2010                                 
NGO SENT, member, trainings on management, marketing and communication for youth

2006–2007                                
Tartu Forselius Gymnasium, Tartu Vocational Education Centre, Lecturer of Business Management and Marketing Courses 

2006–2007                                
Tartu Forselius Gymnasium, Supervisor for student companies 

2005                                            
Land Equity Ltd (London, UK), Assistant 

2002–2004                                
Järva Teataja, journalist

Skills

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Estonian / Mother tongue

English / Fluent

French / Beginner

Russian / Intermediate

Indonesian / Intermediate

Spanish / Beginner

Good command of MS Office, Adobe Lightroom, Final Cut Pro X. Hold an international driving license since 6/2003. 

Academic Activities and Selected Publications

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2022

Thinking through the s(k)in: Indonesian waria and bodily negotiations of belonging across religious sensitivities. Indonesia and The Malay World, 1−23. DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2022.2015187.

2022

The Hippie Quest For Freedom: Lessons from the Soviet Hippie Movement. Public talk at the Night of Ideas. May 20, Brooklyn Public Library, New York City. 

2/2022

Piiritaguse põlvkonna panusest [On the contribution of the generation beyond the border]. Postimees, 15−15, 14.02.2022.

2021

Piiritud lennud paigalseisus [Boundless flights from stillness]. Vikerkaar, 1-2/2021, 137−155.

2021

Beauty and belonging in West Papua. Inside Indonesia, 144 (Apr-Jun 2021).

2021

Homonatsionalismi kriipiv visioon [The gravelly vision of homonationalism]. Sirp, 19 (3841), 20−21, 14.05.2021.

2021

Ida-Euroopa mentaliteet välismaal elavate noorte kujutlustes [Eastern European mentality as envisioned by the young people living abroad]. Postimees Nädal, 616, 4, 25.09.2021.

2021

Kagu-Aasia püha sugu kodutunde igatsuses [The Sacred Gender of South-East Asia in a Homing Desire]. Alan Proosa: Armastuse, õitsengu, hurma ja kaduviku lood / Alan Proosa: Stories of Love, Bloom, Lust and Loss. Tartu Kunstimuuseum.

2021

Protesti ja eskapismi pingeväljas: kuidas hipid päästavad maailma [In tension between protest and escapism: how hippies save the world]. Edasi.org : innustav ja hariv ajakiri, 9 (Suvi), 74−75.

2021

Hindamatu panus feministlikku antropoloogiasse. Arvustus Margaret Meadi teosele "Sugu ja sundus kolmes primitiivses ühiskonnas" [A priceless contribution to feminist anthropology. Review of Margaret Mead's "Sex and temperament in three primitive society"]. Sirp. 02.07.2021.

2020

Toomistu, Terje; Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka (2020). Transformation Through Connection? Insights From a Pilot Study of Story Sharing Cubes at Burning Man Events. Dancecult, 12 (1). DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2020.12.01.07.

2020

Vello Vinn ja (nõukogude) hipide psühhedeelne maailm [Vello Vinn and the psychedelic world of the (Soviet) hippies]. Kumu ajaveeb – Kumu kunstimuuseumi blogi.

2020

Perversne poliitika. Sugu ja seksuaalsus poliitiliste tööriistadena [Perverse politics. Gender and sexuality as political tools]. feministeerium.ee.

2020

Tartu maagia [The magic of Tartu]. Vikerkaar (120−123). 

2020

Toomistu, Terje; Lauren, Ave (2020). Eesti noorte rände tulevik [The future of mobility of young Estonians]. Postimees, 277(7288), 15, 27.11.2020.

2020

Lend rämeparadiisis [Flight in a rough paradise]. feministeerium.ee.

2020

Malinowski maagia ja teadus [The magic and science of Malinowski]. Sirp (16−18). 12.06.2020.

2019                                            
Doctoral thesis “Embodied Lives, Imagined Reaches: Gendered Subjectivity and Aspirations for Belonging of Indonesian Waria”, Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 207 p.

2019                                            
Between abjection and world-making: Spatial dynamics in the lives of Indonesian waria. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Volume 13, No. 2, pp. 90-107. 

12/2019                                      
Burning Man: Transformatsioonid kõrbetuultes [Burning Man: Transformations in the desert winds]. Müürileht, 05.12.2019. https://www.muurileht.ee/burning-man-transformatsioonid-korbetuultes/

10/2019                                      
TED-talk “A brief history of Soviet hippies” at TEDxLambeth in London, October 11.  

9/2019                                         
Embodied notions of belonging: Practices of beauty among waria in West Papua, Indonesia.Asian Studies Review, Volume 43, No. 4.1, pp. 581-599. 

9/2019                                         
Oral presentation “Spectacularity, visibility and belonging of waria in Indonesia” at the EuroSEAS conference at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 10-13 September.

7/2019                                         
Presentation of Soviet Hippies documentary and a talk at Tallinn University Summer School “Soviet Otherwise: Affects, Margins, and Imaginaries in the Late Soviet Era” 27.07.2019

4/2019                                         
Minu keha on minu vabadus [My body is my freedom]. Eesti Ekspress (44), 17.04.2019.

3/2019                                         
Sugu, rahvus ja urbanism Indoneesia wariade kehadel [Gender, nation and urbanism on the bodies of Indonesian waria]. Vikerkaar 4-5/2019: 105-112.

1/2019                                         
Playground love: Sex work, pleasure, and self-affirmation in the urban nightlife of Indonesian waria. Culture, Health & Sexuality, Volume 21. No. 2, pp. 205-218.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2018.1459847

11/2018                                      
Such a Strange Vibration: Rock Music as the Affective Site of Divergence among the Soviet Estonian Nonconformist Youth. Res Musica, nr 10, pp. 11-27. 

11/2018                                      
“Nõukogude hipide passiivne protest.” (The passive protest of the Soviet hippies). Essay in Vikerkaar 10-11/2018: 108-119.  

09/2018                                      
“Psühhedeelia renessansist: Intervjuu Stanislav Grofiga” (On the psychedelic renaissance: Interview with Stanislav Grof). Müürileht, September 20. https://www.muurileht.ee/psuhhedeelia-renessansist-intervjuu-stanislav-grofiga/

06/2018                                      
Film and oral presentation “Soviet Flower Power: How an oral history of Soviet hippies became a documentary film” at XX International Oral History Association 2018: Memory & Narration at University of Jyväskylä, June 18-21, 2018

03/2018                                      
Guest lecture in the course “Visual anthropology: Ethnographic research as multimedia practice” in the University of Amsterdam – the methods of depicting the ‘transcendental’ on the screen. 

12/2017                                      
“Kirglikud katsed vabaneda iseendast” (The passionate experiments to free oneself). Book review in Vikerkaar 12/2017:103-107. 

09/2017                                      

“Transuuringute pöörised” (The twists of transgender studies) – Interview with prof. Susan Stryker, Sirp, 15.09.2017

04/2017                                      

Keynote lecture “Toward the Imaginary Elsewhere: The Performative Power of the Soviet Hippies“at seminar "Gender and sexualities in (post)Soviet/ (post)Socialist music, theatre and visual art", April 19-20, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts

03/2017                                      

“Kuidas olla, jäädes seejuures ka iseendaks?” (How to exist, while being also yourself?) Book review in Vikerkaar 3/2017:124-128.  

03/2017                                      

“Inimese ja mitte-inimese ühisloovusest” (On the common creativity of human and the non-human), Sirp 12 (3632), 24.03.2017

01/2017                                      

Winter School of the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts: New natures, entangled cultures: perspectives in environmental humanities. Science slam “The Spaces of Embodied World-Making”, January 23-27, Tallinn University

12/2016                                      

“The Imaginary Elsewhere of the Hippies in Soviet Estonia” – Chapter in “Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc." Editors Juliane Fürst and Josie McLellan, Lexington Books. 

10/2016                                      

The experimental documentary “Archaeology of Ayahuasca” at the exhibition “Promised Light”, curator Tanel Rander, at Tartu Art House, 20.10-13.11.2016

10/2016                                      

“Kohtumine teisega” (Meeting the Other) Public lecture for Ööülikool, with Sergei Põlme. 

09/2016                                      

“Лайф v Кайф ehk Trippida Nõukogude Liidus” (Laif in Kaif – Tripping in USSR) Müürileht 12.09.2016

05/2016                                      

“Mustus ja kord” (Dirt and order), review for the Estonian translation of Mary Douglas’ “Purity and order”, Sirp 27.05.2016

03/2016                                      

“Transsoolisuse mitu nägu” (The many faces of transgender phenomena), Sirp 11.03.2016

01/2016                                      

“Revolutsioon kahel rattal” (Revolution on two wheels), Müürileht 28.01.2016

09/2015                                      

Psühhodisko conference in Genklubi, Tartu, Estonia. Talk “The Magic Trip: On travels and the psychedelic underground of the Soviet hippies”

07/2015                                      

“Psühhedeelia vastutustundlik lubadus“ (The responsible promise of psychedelia), Sirp 31.07.2015

05/2015                                      

Seminar/workshop „Stop and Go: nodes of transition and transformation“, May 20-21 in Culture Cauldron, Tallinn, Estonia. Oral presentation “The magic trip: travels and the imaginary elsewhere of the hippies in Soviet Estonia”

04/2015                                      

International conference“Open Embodiments: Locating Somatechnics in Tucson“, April 15-18 in University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona USA. Oral presentation “To Belong to a Nation, toBelong to a World: Warias in Papua and the Axes of Imagination”

04/2015                                      

“Neoonmust meedium kui sõnum“ (Neon black medium as a message), Sirp 10.04.2015

04/2015                                      

Public talk “Keha väljal” (Body on the field) at Semiosalong HIA6107, April 1, Tallinn

03/2015                                      

Counterculture Forum hosted by Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Oral presentation “Cosmic, global and rocking: hippies in Soviet Estonia“

01/2015                                      

Ladyfest forum discussion with Airi Triisberg “We support lesbian divorce!”

12/2014                                      

University of Tartu European College talk event “Bridging Culture.” Oral presentation “Seeing Beauty, Sensing Gender in The Transnational World"

11/2014                                      

“The unbearable grasp of the unspoken: Notes from fieldwork” in LOVA journal Ethnographies of Gender and the Body, No. 35-2014

07/2014                                      

3rd International Conference of Netherland’s Association of Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology (LOVA) Ethnographies of Gender and Body, July 9-11 in VU Amsterdam. Oral presentation “ “Miss Angola” in Papua: (Global) Beauty and (National) Belonging among the Warias in Papua, Indonesia”

06/2014                                      

International workshop “Dropping out of Socialism”, June 5-7 in University of Bristol, UK. Oral presentation “Cosmic, global, rocking: hippies in Soviet Estonia” 

05/2014                                      

Interdisciplinary symposium “Art and Science” May 29-31, organized by Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia. Oral presentation “Art and anthropology”

04/2014                                      

Guest lecture “Performing the phantasm, playing for love: Street night-life of the waria in Indonesia” in University of Arizona, U.S.

04/2014                                      

Guest lecture in University of California Riverside, U.S. 

03/2014                                      

Guest lecture in San Francisco State University, U.S. 

02/2014                                      

Screening of Wariazone and public lecture “Playground love” at UC Berkeley, U.S. 

09/2013                                      

Public youth seminar on sub-cultures in Tartu, September 21. Oral presentation “Kosmos ja gloobus: hipid nõukogude Eestis” (“Cosmos and the globe: hippies in Soviet Estonia”)

09/2013                                      

Publication of a selection from fieldwork diary in Indonesia “Mis on, ei ole; mis ei ole, on” (“What is, is not; what is not, is”)at Värske Rõhk, Estonian literature magazine

07/2013                                      

International Society of Ethnology and Folklore SIEF 11thCongress with the theme “Circulation”, University of Tartu, 30thJune-4thof July. Oral presentation “Desire axes: Dunia waria in migration”

06/2013                                      

International conference Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century, Cyprus Sociological Association, University of Nicosia, Cypros, 7-10thJune. Oral presentation “Trans-contextualized Selves: Street Nightlife and Dunia Waria in Indonesia” 

05/2013                                      

Annual conference of Media and Communication Institute, University of Tartu, 31stof May. Oral presentation “Sharing is Caring: The Independent Dependence of the Creative Professionals”

05/2013                                      

An Interdisciplinary Conference Dharma in Change: Process and Development of Buddhism in Baltic Sea Area. University of Tartu, Estonia, 23-24thof May 2013. Oral presentation “Hippie Dharma in Soviet Estonia”

04/2013                                      

Conference of young ethnologists and folkorists “The Voice of Youth”in Estonian National Museum, Tartu, 24-25th April. Poster presentation“Indoneesia waria’de ööelu ja eneseväljendus” (Nightlife and self-expression of the waria in Indonesia) 

04/2013                                      

Conference and gathering of Viru businessmen from 1970s, 13thof April, Hotel Viru, Tallinn. Presentation: “Kahtlased pikajuukselised ja “väärastunud Lääne mood”: esituse olulisusest ja globaalsest maailmatunnetusest nõukogude lillelaste näitel (“Suspicious long-haired” and “degenerated western fashion”: On the importance of performance and the sense of the global based on the example of Soviet hippies)

03/2013                                      

Article of popular anthropology “Warias: Transfrauen mit großer tradition” (Warias: Trans-women with great tradition), German Queer Travel Magazine, 01/2013 [http://www.queer-travel.net/pdf/queer_travel_01_13.pdf]

02/2013                                     

 International intensive seminar Playgrounds and Battlefields, Tallinn University, Tallinn, 20-22nd February 2013. Oral presentation “Playground love: Street-nightlife and self-expression of the waria in Indonesia”

01/2013                                      

International conference Re-locating borders: A Comparative Approach in University of Humboldt, Berlin, 11-13th January 2013. Oral presentation: “Introducing the world of the waria in Papua: Community and Self-Expression”

11/2012                                      

The Non-Places of non-Augé. Material World Blog [http://www.materialworldblog.com/2012/11/non-places-of-non-auge/]

11/2012                                      

Mitte-Augé mittekohad. Sirp, 02.11.2012 

10/2012                                      

Film screening of Wariazone and public talk at Tallinn University, Estonia 

09/2012                                      

Participant at David and Judith MacDougall’s 7-day film workshop in visual anthropology in Sardinia and guest in consequent Sardinian Ethnographic film festival

2012                                            

Academic article "Nõukogude sümboolika tähendustest siirdepõlvkonna hulgas Eestis ja Venemaal" (On the meanings of Soviet symbols among the generation of transition in Estonia and Russia)- ERMi aastaraamat 55

4/2012                                         

Conference Trans rights as human rights- the implications for trans health (care)' at Linköping University, Sweden, 8-10 May 2012. Presentation "Performance, Community, Sex work"

10/2011                                      

Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights 21.10.2011 in Yogyakarta, Indoneesia. Presentation “Social Construction of Gender: Warias in Wariazone”

2011                                            

MA thesis ”Soviet Symbols in Popular Culture: A Comparative Study of their Meanings among Students in Tartu and Voronezh", Department od Ethnology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tartu

2010                                            

Meedia ja pluralism (Media and pluralism), Sirp 28.05.2010 

2010                                            

Conference of young ethnologists and folklorists “The voice of Youth”, in Estonian National Museum. Presentation “On meanings of Soviet symbols among Estonian and Russian youth”, 21.04.2010

2009                                            

International Student Conference 2009 “Marketing and Changing World” Presentation “Cross-cultural branding – opportunities and constraints”

2008                                            

BA thesis “Perception of Nokia brand within the youth in Estonia and selected countries in South America", Institute of International Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Tartu

Selected Social Activities

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2019-...

Member of Tallinn Creative Space (Estonian Burner community). 

08/2019                                      

Curator of lectures at Vilsandi Trance festival, Estonia.

11/2017                                      

Press at IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam, Holland

08/2017                                      

Curator of lectures at Vilsandi Trance festival, Estonia. 

03/3017                                      

Delegate at Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

11/2015                                      

Press representative of the independent journal Müürileht at IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam, Holland

08/2015                                      

Curator of lectures at Vilsandi Trance festival, Estonia.

04-05/2013                                

Assistant of a Buddhist monk and scholar Chipamong Chowdhury’s meditation course, Tartu, Estonia

03/2013                                      

Worldfilm festival, voluntary critic, Tartu, Estonia

12/2012                                      

Delegate at ILGA World Conference, Stockholm, Sweden

11/2012                                      

Press representative of the independent journal Müürileht at IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam, Holland

04/2010                    

Worldfilm festival, voluntary critic, Tartu, Estonia

2009                                            

University of Tallinn, course on music criticism

9/2009                                         

Estonian Theatre Festival, voluntary critic, Tartu, Estonia

04/2006                    

Youth Conference “Cultural differences in Europe”, Brussels

12/2004                    

Youth Symposium “Mobil in Europe”, Stuttgart

9/2004                                         

Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Alumni Conference, Vilnius

3/2004                                         

Estonian Active Youth Association's session, Chief Organizer, Paide

11/2003                                      

Council of Europe’s Symposium “Young people and democratic institutions”, Participant, Strasbourg

8/2003                                         

North Europe Youth Forum (NEYF), Delegate, Öckerö, Sweden

2002–2003                                

Student Company STAFF, Managing Director, awarded as the I Best Student Company in Estonia, III Best Student Company at the Final European Competition, London

2000–2004                               

Youth Parliament of Paide, Member, Paide

1999–2003                                

Students’ Council of School, President, Paide Co-educational Gymnasium

Filmography

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• Homing Beyond [Põlvkond piiri taga], 2022. Documentary film. Director, screenwriter, producer. 

• Veins of the Amazon, 2021. Documentary film. Director (with Alvaro Sarmiento and Diego Sarmiento), cinematographer (with Diego Sarmiento), screenwriter (with Alvaro Sarmiento). 

• Soviet Hippies, 2017, 75’ & 52’, documentary. Directing, scriptwriting. Produced by Kultusfilm (EE), Kinomaton (DE), Moukka Filmi (FI). 

• Symphonia P.I.X.A. 2017, 14’, experimental documentary. Cinematographer. Produced by HDPeru (PER). 

• Archaeology of Ayahuasca, 2016, 14’, experimental documentary. Directing, editing, camera. Produced by Cece Films. 

• The Gray of Utopia, 2012, 5’, short film, schoolwork. Camera, directing, editing. 

• Wariazone, 2011, 58’, independent documentary. Directing and producing (with Kiwa). 

Membership

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The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), since 2022  

Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), since 2022  

American Anthropological Association (AAA), member, since 2021  

LOVA Network (Netherland’s Association of Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology), since 2014

Estonian Documentary Guild, since 2015 

Film Awards

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Soviet Hippies, 2018. UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany. The Main Jury Award.  

Soviet Hippies, 2018. Estonian Film Academy Award EFTA. The Best Film Editor, Martin Männik. 

Soviet Hippies, 2018. Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Nomination for the Best Documentary Award. 

Soviet Hippies, 2018. Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy. The Winner of Art&Sound Competition. The Sky Award by Sky Arte HD.

Soviet Hippies, 2017. Estdocs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada. The Main Jury Prize. 

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Academic awards

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2020, 1st prize at the national contest for university students in the area of Humanities and Arts in 2020 for doctoral thesis "Embodied lives, imagined reaches: Gendered subjectivity and aspirations for belonging among waria in Indonesia".

2020, Asian Studies Association of Australia's Wang Gungwu prize for the best article in Asian Studies Review in 2019 for “Embodied Notions of Belonging: Practices of Beauty among Waria in West Papua, Indonesia” published in Asian Studies Review Volume 43, Issue 4. 

2013, Fulbright scholarship

Hobbies

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Music, creative writing, photography, traveling, arts, yoga, dancing.