St Petersburg State University Dr Valery Timofeev is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Western Literature, Saint-Petersburg State University.His major publications relate to the theory and history of literature and culture with special attention to the twentieth and twenty first century literary processes, Modernism and Post-Modernism. A focus of his research is also the problem of historical memory and local self-identity.On 17th of October Dr Valery Timofeev gave a research seminar at the Dashkova Russian Centre entitled ‘Historical Memory and Local Self-Identity in Kaliningrad and Vyborg’. This article was published on 2024-08-13