Sergei Basik | Faculty & staff bios | Conestoga College

Name	Sergei Basik
School	School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Academic and professional designations	PhD, Geography Post-Graduate Certificate, College Teacher Training Program (Honours)
Title	Professor
Courses taught	AVIA2030 - Geography and International Law LIBS1035 - Oceans LIBS1155 - Foundations of World Geography LIBS1560 - Our Domain: Geography and Human Populations LIBS1990 - Restless Planet: Understanding Natural Disasters
Areas of expertise & interest	Cultural Geography Critical Toponymy and Geo-Onomastics Historical Physical Geography Post-Soviet Realm
Industry experience, professional currency activities	Member of the Canadian Association of Geographers (Ontario Division) Member of the American Association of Geographers Member of the Canadian Society of Study of Names Editorial Board Member - Journal of Geography, Politics, and Society Topical Advisory Board Member - Social Sciences (academic journal) Topical Advisory Board Member - Urban Science (academic journal)
Major research projects, scholarly activities, and/or publications	Some recent publications Papers in leading academic journals in Geography Basik, S. 2023. Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus. Cities. Gnatiuk, O., and Basik, S. 2023. Performing geopolitics of toponymic solidarity: The case of Ukraine. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography. Basik, S. 2022. Vernacular place name as a cultural arena of urban place-making and symbolic resistance in Minsk, Belarus. Urban Geography. Vuolteenaho, J. and Basik, S. 2022. Mobilities of toponymic place branding in an autocratic post-Soviet city: The Mayak Minska (the Lighthouse of Minsk) and the Minsk-Mir (the Minsk-World) megaprojects. Eurasian Geography and Economics. Edited book Basik, S. (Ed.) 2022. Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics: Place-Names as a Political Instrument in the Post-Soviet States. London and New York: Routledge. Edited special issues (guest editor, academic journals) Basik, S. 2020. Place Names as a Political Instrument in Post-Soviet Realm. Journal of Geography, Politics and Society 10 (3). Basik, S. 2020. Urban Place Names: Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions. Urban Science 4. Conference presentations Basik, S. Vernacular Place Names as the Symbolic Battlegrounds: Toponymic Resistance in Minsk, Belarus. The Canadian Association of Geographers - Western Division Annual Conference "WDCAG-2021", University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 2021. Basik, S. Toponymic Place Branding in a Post-Soviet City: A Case of Minsk, Belarus. The Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division Annual Conference "CAGONT-2019", University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2019. Basik, S. Symbolic landscape and power: Belarusian urban toponymic system as a palimpsest. The Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division Annual Conference "CAGONT-2018", University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2018. Peer reviewer (academic journals and academic publishers) Hungarian Geographical Bulletin Sustainability Land Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica ISPRS - International Journal of Geo-Information Routledge Concordia University Press
Additional information	Sergei is passionate about Geography and Geosciences and has a strong commitment to teaching excellence and student success. He collaborates on international projects in Geography with colleagues from the University of Helsinki (Finland), the University of Gdansk (Poland), and Taras Shevchenko National University (Ukraine).

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