Masha Sokolova University of Ljubljana

Masha Sokolova is a PhD candidate at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. She has an MA degree in Russian, Romance and Germanic Philology, and Applied Linguistics. Her current research is an interdisciplinary study and a contemplative ethnographic observation that forms a collage of personal stories, an ekphrasis of various memorial collections and an attempt to grasp the nostalgic feelings triggered by everyday objects as well as the effect that they have on our relationship with the past.