Veronica Simonova, research fellow of Institute for Comparative Studies of Modernity participated in the international conference "Human-environment relations: skills, knowledge, emotions and politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Even peoples)" which was held at the University of Versailles (France) on January 11-13, 2013. Veronica Simonova was a member of the organizing committee and made a report "Abandoned places and their dwellers: the agency of spirits and memories in Evenki taiga landscapes in the north Baikal, Siberia".