hosq and the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) explore how rituals work, what they are made of, and how their social magic operates. Rather than treating ritual as something archaic or exclusively religious, this talk approaches it as a complex form of communication involving words, bodies, objects, and space — a powerful means of organizing collective experience and producing social realities. Speakers: Jeanne Kormina — Anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of religion and post-Soviet transformations, Director of YCIE. Sergei Shtyrkov — Anthropologist specializing in religion and nationalism, Director of Anthropology programs at YCIE. Event language: Russian. Free entry with registration.