The lecture on ancestral memory will help to understand why conversations about ancestors have become an important part of modern spiritual practices. Using ethnographic research, it will show how family history, psychology, and esoteric ideas connect in the search for personal grounding, self-understanding, and answers to today's anxieties. Interest in family history has long gone beyond archival searches and home conversations. For many people, genealogy becomes a way to explain their own decisions, fears, habits, and relationships with loved ones. In this lecture, ancestral memory is examined through the lens of modern anthropology-as a phenomenon where personal experiences meet cultural myths, self-help practices, and new forms of spirituality. At the center of the discussion will be the idea of "kin" as a special community uniting several generations. This perspective changes the usual understanding of family: the past begins to be perceived as a source of strength, trauma, prohibitions, or hidden scenarios. The lecturer will explain how genealogical imagination is formed-a way to think about oneself through ancestors, family ties, inherited stories, and symbolic obligations to those who lived before. Find other events in Yekaterinburg on KudaGo.