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DAY 1Teaching and Learning Audiotorium LT1Teaching and Learning LG03Teaching and Learning 109Teaching and Learning 118Teaching and Learning 119DAY 1Teaching and Learning M208Teaching and Learning M209Teaching and Learning M218Teaching and Learning 202Teaching and Learning 211DAY 1Teaching and Learning 212Muirhead Tower 109Muirhead Tower 112Muirhead Tower 113Muirhead Tower 118DAY 1Muirhead Tower 121Muirhead Tower 122Muirhead Tower 415Muirhead Tower 420Muirhead Tower 427DAY 1Muirhead Tower 429Extra Room 1
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2026-04-10 11:00:002026-04-10 12:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Keynote Sessionconference@basees.orgKeynote Session
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2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Making Modernity Otherwise: The Socialist World and the Globalisation of Culture in the Era of the Cold Warconference@basees.orgMaking Modernity Otherwise: The Socialist World and the Globalisation of Culture in the Era of the Cold War
Teaching and Learning Audiotorium LT1

"Latvia introduces itself": Cultural Diplomacy of Soviet Latvia During the 1970s.
12:45 (15 mins)
Marija Podzorova Biret, University of Vienna  

Circumventing Moscow: Cultural exchange between Finland, Soviet Estonia, and Soviet Latvia in the 1960s and 1970s
13:00 (15 mins)
Simo Mikkonen, University of Eastern Finland  

Culture, Society and Identity in Late Socialism: Avant-garde Art in Yugoslavia and China 1970s-1990s
13:15 (15 mins)
Mao Mao, The University of Hong Kong  

Staging the Soviet Image: Cold-War Exhibition Design and the Aesthetics of Modernity
13:30 (15 mins)
Kamila Davletshina, Durham University  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Knowledge, Techno-Optimism, and Development in Yugoslav and Soviet State Socialism, 1950s–1991conference@basees.orgKnowledge, Techno-Optimism, and Development in Yugoslav and Soviet State Socialism, 1950s–1991
Chair: Adéla Gjuričová
Discussant: Marko Zajc
Teaching and Learning LG03

Between Communicators and the Withering State: Technological Futures in Yugoslav Self-Management
12:45 (15 mins)
Marko Zajc, Institute of Contemporary History  

Development and socialist globalization: The Center for the Study and Cooperation of Yugoslavia with Developing Countries (1966–1973)
13:00 (15 mins)
Tjaša Konovšek, Institute of Contemporary Histrory  

Explaining the Scientific-Technical Revolution to the Soviet Public
13:15 (15 mins)
Ivan Sablin, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana  

Transferring development? UNIDO and the Yugoslav model
13:30 (15 mins)
Anna Calori, University of Glasgow  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, From Home Economics to Cooperative Activism: Gender, Labor, and Expertise in State Socialist Poland and Hungaryconference@basees.orgFrom Home Economics to Cooperative Activism: Gender, Labor, and Expertise in State Socialist Poland and Hungary
Chair: Szabolcs László
Teaching and Learning 109

Female Experts and Activists in the Cooperative Movement of State Socialist Poland, 1950s-1980s
12:45 (20 mins)
Mart Chmielewski, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences  

Home economics and coping with the crisis-ridden 1980s in Poland and Hungary
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KATARZYNA STANCZAK WISLICZ, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Scien  

Managing the Household, Managing Equality: Home Economics and Women’s Expertise in 1970s Poland and Hungary
13:25 (20 mins)
Annina Gagyiova, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Russian Politics – Media, Discourse, and Narrativesconference@basees.orgRussian Politics – Media, Discourse, and Narratives
Chair: TBA TBA
Teaching and Learning 118

Neo-Traditionalism and Exceptionalism: Navigating State-Society Relations in Russia through Ideology, textbook production and demographic policies
12:45 (15 mins)
PÅL KOLSTØ, University of Oslo  

Charting Putin’s Shifting Populism in the Russian Media 2000-2025
13:00 (15 mins)
Tina Burrett, Sophia University  

Enduring Legacy: Russian Political Elites and the Old-New Cold War
13:15 (15 mins)
Vassily Klimentov, University of Zurich  

Reframing the West: The Moralization and Semantic Expansion of Anti-Western Discourse in Putin’s Russia
13:30 (15 mins)
Shuhei Mizoguchi, Hosei University  

Support for Putin: Praise and Doubts among Russian Immigrants
13:45 (15 mins)
Diana Rafailova, ZOiS, Berlin  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, The Imperial Russian and Red Army through Peace and Warconference@basees.orgThe Imperial Russian and Red Army through Peace and War
Teaching and Learning 119

“Greetings from the Front”: Eastern Front Postcards from Belarus as Affective Media of War Communication
12:45 (20 mins)
Yadviha Lukashyk, Uniwersity of Warsaw  

Foreign troops vanish: The Russian army’s removal from the Baltics
13:05 (20 mins)
Andris Banka, University of Greifswald  

Soldiers' Feedback: The Perception of Propaganda in the Soviet Military Press by the Red Army Service Members, 1939-1945
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Alemzhan Arinov, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University  
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2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Russian nationalism at home and abroadconference@basees.orgRussian nationalism at home and abroad
Chair: Félix Krawatzek
Teaching and Learning M208

Being "Russian" abroad: Comparing senses of belong among migrant generations
12:45 (20 mins)
Sophia Winkler, Centre for East European and International Studies  

Love of (host-)country? Nationalism and patriotism from Germans with a background in the former Soviet Union
13:05 (20 mins)
Marlene Mußotter, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research   

National identity in educational discourse: the case of “Conversations about Important Things”
13:25 (20 mins)
Mikhail Novoselov, London Metropolitan University  

Nationalist or Normalizing? Sanctions and War in Putin's Russia
13:45 (20 mins)
Paul Goode, Paul Goode  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Diasporas and Decolonisationconference@basees.orgDiasporas and Decolonisation
Chair: TBA TBA
Teaching and Learning M209

Authoritarian Decolonisation? Russia’s Reversal of the Western Security Script
12:45 (15 mins)
Jithin Raveendran, Central University of Kerala  

Dismantling the legacies of empire past and present: decolonial transnational activism following the invasion of Ukraine.
13:00 (15 mins)
Oula Kadhum, SOAS University  

Local collective memory in the former Gulag sites in Central Kazakhstan.
13:15 (15 mins)
Aziz Burkhanov, Nazarbayev University  

Telegram as Solidarity Infrastructure for Belarusians Abroad, 2020–2025
13:30 (15 mins)
Viorica Budu, Cardiff University  

Turning out or tuning out? Motivations for and barriers to electoral participation amongst East European diasporas
13:45 (15 mins)
Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Malmö University  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Imperial Afterlives: Nation, Violence, and the Russian Politics of Rejuvenationconference@basees.orgImperial Afterlives: Nation, Violence, and the Russian Politics of Rejuvenation
Chair: Bartłomiej Kapica
Discussant: Anton Saifullayeu
Teaching and Learning M218

"Nationalism without a nation?". Russian Imperial Cultural Myths as a Challenge to the Construction of Modern Identity of Belarusians, Ukrainians and Russians
12:45 (15 mins)
Joanna Getka, University of Warsaw  

An Ecology of Everyday Violence: Russian Telegram Discourse and War Atrocities in Ukraine
13:00 (15 mins)
Ian Garner, Pilecki Institute  

From Salvation to Annihilation: Honour, Gender and Humiliation in Russia's War against Ukriane
13:15 (15 mins)
Regina Lazarenko, UCL  

Putin’s Modern-Day Fascism as the Rejuvenator of Great Russia
13:30 (15 mins)
Ian Garner, Pilecki Institute  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Russo-Norwegian Film Co-productionsconference@basees.orgRusso-Norwegian Film Co-productions
Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski
Teaching and Learning 202

"Under a Stone Sky": cultural diplomacy, historical narratives and personal memories
12:45 (15 mins)
Petia Mankova, UIT The Arctic University of Norway  

A Border Musical (2013)
13:00 (15 mins)
Lars Kristensen, University of Skövde  

Dragens fange / I na kamniakh rastut derev’ia (dir Stanislav Rostotsky and Knut Andersen, 1985)
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Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  

Fridtjof Nansen Through the Soviet Lens
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Svetlana Sokolova, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  
Informal Institutions and Elite Management in Ukraine and Russia
12:45 (90 mins)
Teaching and Learning 211
Chair: Andrew Wilson, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

12:45 1989 and the Great Transformation
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Teaching and Learning 212
Jannis Panagiotidis, Research Center for the History of Transformations
Rosamund Johnston, Research Center for the History of Transformations, University of Vienna
Anna Calori, University of Glasgow
Besnik Pula, Virginia Tech
Tobias Rupprecht, Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Rory Archer, University of Ljubljana

Policymaking in Eurasia: Powering and Puzzling in the Post-Soviet Space
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Muirhead Tower 109
Chair: Marina Khmelnitskaya, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Ellie Martus, Griffith University
Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki
Amelia Barnes, University of Kent

2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Across Borders: Displacement, Division, and Resilience in Indigenous Communities (Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan)conference@basees.orgAcross Borders: Displacement, Division, and Resilience in Indigenous Communities (Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan)
Chair: Viktoria Soyan Peemot
Discussant: Nadezhda Mamontova
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Building Resilience through Cross-Border Reconnections: Economic Activities, Buddhism, and Cultural Heritage
12:45 (15 mins)
Victoria Peemot, University of Helsinki  

Cross-Border Indigenous Identities in a Divided Arctic
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Nadezhda Mamontova, University of Birmingham  

Festival as transnational cohesive: Linguistic and cultural vitality in the Sakha diaspora (Kazakhstan)
13:15 (15 mins)
Sorcha Scarff, University of Manchester  

The Dynamics of Collective Boundaries in Kazakh Society : Focusing on Immigrants' Contributions to the Revival of Handicraft Culture
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CHIEKO HIROTA, JSPS(Hokkaido University, SRC)  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Ideology, narrative, and text in early modern Muscovyconference@basees.org Ideology, narrative, and text in early modern Muscovy
Chair: Angus Russell
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Editing Penitentials: Between Living Practice and Fixed Tradition
12:45 (15 mins)
Vera Gagarina, University of Cambridge  

Muscovy Company and medieval ideology
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Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu, Independent  

Narrative and Ideological Functions of Miracles, Visions, Dreams, and Prophecies in the Kazanskaja istorija (History of Kazan', 16th century)
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Maria Teresa Badolati, Sapienza - University of Rome  

Scripture, Polemic, and Identity in Ivan Khvorostinin’s "Tales of the Days and Tsars and Prelates of Moscow" (17th century)
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Luca Cortesi, University of Milan  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Russian Theatre in Times of Crises — From the Early Soviet Years until Post-2022conference@basees.orgRussian Theatre in Times of Crises — From the Early Soviet Years until Post-2022
Chair: Varvara Sklez
Discussant: Noah Birksted-Breen
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Departing from the Studios: Theatre for a Society in Crisis in the Early Soviet Years
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Valeriy Zolotukhin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum  

Fragile, Elusive, Sensitive: Positionality of Contemporary Russian Migrant Artists
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Varvara Sklez, Independent Scholar  
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2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Global Orthodox Masculinities in Historical Perspectivesconference@basees.orgGlobal Orthodox Masculinities in Historical Perspectives
Chair: Anna Maslenova
Muirhead Tower 121

Monastic Masculinity in the Celtic Isles: Gender and the Transnational Growth of Romanian Orthodox Monasticism
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Iona Ramsay, Cardiff University  

Remasculinisation of Orthodox Men through the Transnational Promotion of Orthodoxy
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Anna Maslenova, University of St Andrews  

Transnational Sainthood and Emergent Models of Masculinity in the Orthodox World
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Victoria Fomina, University of St Andrews  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Making and Unmaking Communist Power in Twentieth-Century Polandconference@basees.orgMaking and Unmaking Communist Power in Twentieth-Century Poland
Muirhead Tower 122

A "diabolical" ally. Soviet Union and the takeover of power in Poland by communists
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Krzysztof Kania, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń  

'Give back Father Popiełuszko': Tracing the Evolution of Public Reactions to the Abduction and Murder of Jerzy Popiełuszko
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Joanna Lastun, University of Birmingham  

Ordinary Revolutionaries: Plebeian ‘Personal Communisms’ in Poland in the First Half of the 20th Century.
13:25 (20 mins)
Łukasz Bertram, Polish Academy of Sciences  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, The City as Historical Actor: Power and Urban Heritage in the Twentieth Centuryconference@basees.orgThe City as Historical Actor: Power and Urban Heritage in the Twentieth Century
Muirhead Tower 415

Students and Their Self-Government: A Democratic Element in Dormitories of Interwar Prague
12:45 (20 mins)
Jana Kynkorová , Charles University   

The socialist city and heritage preservation: new urbanist trends in Bulgaria, 1965-1985
13:05 (20 mins)
Elitza Stanoeva, University of Warsaw  

Urban centres and World War I from the perspective of the energy crisis – the case of Central Europe
13:25 (20 mins)
Marcela Hennlichova, Prague University of Economics and Business  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Russian Foreign Policyconference@basees.orgRussian Foreign Policy
Muirhead Tower 420

From divergences to understanding: Ideological Factors in China-Russia relations in the 1990s
12:45 (15 mins)
Hanjing Wang, University of Nottingham  

Iran’s Strategic Partnership with Russia in the Middle East during the Putin Administration.
13:00 (15 mins)
Lokman Comert, Ataturk University  

Russian Arctic Development in Times of Geopolitical Upheaval
13:15 (15 mins)
Michitaka Hattori, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University  

Shaping perceptions, shifting orders: Russia’s strategic use of media in conflict management. Insights from Syria, 2015-2024
13:30 (15 mins)
Chiara Lovotti, University of Salerno  

The Union State. Integration against theories.
13:45 (15 mins)
Kacper Wańczyk, Academic Cedntre for Strategic Analysis  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Archives, Knowledge and Area Studies: Historiography in Practiceconference@basees.orgArchives, Knowledge and Area Studies: Historiography in Practice
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A Legacy in Transition: Fred Singleton, Yugoslav Studies, and the British Library’s Joint Translation Service Collection
12:45 (15 mins)
Milan Grba, The British Library  

Historical precedents and memorializations - How Great Britain shaped Polish émigré historiography
13:00 (15 mins)
Marcin Cieszkiel, University of Toronto  

Slavic Nations in Conceptions of Czech Philology and Historiography
13:15 (15 mins)
Roman Baron, Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.  
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2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Eastern Europe in the Eastern European Imagination: National and Imperial Visions since 1800conference@basees.orgEastern Europe in the Eastern European Imagination: National and Imperial Visions since 1800
Muirhead Tower 429

Europe Through the Lens of the Bulgarian Revival
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Eleonora Naxidou, Democritus University of Thrace  

The Production of “Eastern Europe“: Central European Migration in the long 19th century
13:00 (15 mins)
Klaas Anders, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen  
2026-04-10 12:45:002026-04-10 14:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Language and Identityconference@basees.orgLanguage and Identity
Chair: TBC TBC
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Belarusian Language Revival in Exile: The Seventy-Year Role of the University of Warsaw's Department of Belarusian Studies
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Politeness and Gender: a Study on Language Attitudes in Russian
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Speaking Back: Negotiating Postcolonial Subjectivities and Colonial Discourse on Kazakhstani Social Media
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2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Controlling Foreign Influence: Contemporary Challenges for Academia, Civil Society, and Human Rights.conference@basees.orgControlling Foreign Influence: Contemporary Challenges for Academia, Civil Society, and Human Rights.
Chair: Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Teaching and Learning LG03

Foreign Agents and “Undesirable Organizations”: How the Fight Against “Foreign Influence” Has Undermined Academic Freedom in Russia
14:45 (15 mins)
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Charles University  

How the Russian invasion of Ukraine declined its political influence in the South Caucasus
15:00 (15 mins)
Farid Shukurlu, University of Hull  

The Evolution of Russia’s Foreign Agent Registries, 2012–2025
15:15 (15 mins)
Arnold Khachaturov, École des hautes études en sciences sociales   

Sovereign maps for sustainable Arctic development?
15:30 (15 mins)
Olesia Ignateva, The University of Manchester  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Local elite involvement (or non involvelment) in humanitarain state-building in the Balkans (1913–2025)conference@basees.orgLocal elite involvement (or non involvelment) in humanitarain state-building in the Balkans (1913–2025)
Chair: Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics
Teaching and Learning 109

Post-war state-building in Mostar: Local Knowledge and International–Local Elite Interactions
14:45 (20 mins)
Kristóf Gosztonyi, Humboldt University  

The Albanian elite’s state-building capabilities in the light of an international humanitarian state-building experiment (1913–1914)
15:05 (20 mins)
Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities  

The Serbian Political Elite and Humanitarian State-building in Kosovo and Bosnia
15:25 (20 mins)
László Márkusz, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Socialist Milieus: Culture, Leisure and Governing the Informal in the Soviet Cold Warconference@basees.orgSocialist Milieus: Culture, Leisure and Governing the Informal in the Soviet Cold War
Teaching and Learning 118

‘From Rivne, via Olmaliq, to Vladivostok: Charting Soviet Motorcycle Speedway’s Diffuse Provincial Heartlands’
14:45 (20 mins)
Richard Mills, University of East Anglia  

'On the Good Experiences of Friends': Soviet Travelogues and Strategies for Domesticating Town Twinning Exchanges
15:05 (20 mins)
Elizaveta Zubiuk, University of Sheffield  

Soviet propaganda approaches to Western broadcasters targeting audiences in the USSR of the 1960s
15:25 (20 mins)
Ekaterina Kamenskaya, University of Manchester  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Empire, Nations, and Cultures in the Soviet History of the South Caucasus conference@basees.orgEmpire, Nations, and Cultures in the Soviet History of the South Caucasus
Chair: Polly Jones
Teaching and Learning 119

Cultural Politics in Soviet South Caucasus under Stalinism: Practices of Negotiation, Adaptation and Resistance
14:45 (15 mins)
Megi Kartsivadze, University College London  

Forging Nations in a Federation: Nation-Building in the Southern Borderlands of the Soviet Union
15:00 (15 mins)
David Jishkariani, Max Weber Stiftung - Georgian Branch Office   

Framing modern Georgian cultural history
15:15 (15 mins)
Daniel Healey, University of Oxford  
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2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane,  Education in Exile: Choices, Practices, and Didactics among Russian and Belarusian Migrant Communities? conference@basees.org Education in Exile: Choices, Practices, and Didactics among Russian and Belarusian Migrant Communities? 
Chair: Sofia Gavrilova
Teaching and Learning M208

“Exile and Education: Political Dimensions of School Choices Among Russian Migrants in Georgia.”
14:45 (20 mins)
Sofya GAVRILOVA, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography  

Schooling in Armenia among Russian Migrants after 2022: Parents’ Choice and the School Market
15:05 (20 mins)
Vlada Baranova, Universität Hamburg  

The educational strategies of Belarusian parents in exile
15:25 (20 mins)
Olga GILLE-BELOVA, University Bordeaux Montaigne  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Conscientious Objection in the Social, Political, and Intellectual History of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their Diasporasconference@basees.orgConscientious Objection in the Social, Political, and Intellectual History of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their Diasporas
Chair: Irina Gordeeva
Teaching and Learning M209

Against All Wars: Canadian Doukhobor Conscientious Objection During the First and Second World Wars
14:45 (15 mins)
Victoria Peretitskaya, Northumbria University  

Beyond Overt Pacifism: Evangelical Practices of Avoiding Military Service and Bearing Arms in the Late Soviet Union
15:00 (15 mins)
Nadezhda Beliakova, University of Bielefeld  

Conscientious Objection in the Context of Pacifist and Independent Peace Movements in the Russian Empire, the USSR, and Post-Soviet Russia
15:15 (15 mins)
Irina Gordeeva, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)  

Religious Conscience and State Pressure: Soviet Pentecostal Understandings of Pacifism
15:30 (15 mins)
Vera Kliueva, Independent researcher   
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, National security in the Baltics: Historical and contemporary perspectivesconference@basees.orgNational security in the Baltics: Historical and contemporary perspectives
Chair: Félix Krawatzek
Teaching and Learning M218

Extinguished Fire? Estonia's fractured mnemonic landscape
14:45 (20 mins)
Félix Krawatzek, ZOiS Centre for East European and int. Studies  

Public Opinion and National Defense: Estonia’s Response to Security Threats Between 2000 and 2025
15:05 (20 mins)
Kristjan Silm, University of Tartu  

The Clash of Interests: Latvian – Soviet border in the early 1920’s
15:25 (20 mins)
Kristiana Belska, Latvian War museum  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Visualising the Past: Memory, Trauma, and Visual Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaceconference@basees.orgVisualising the Past: Memory, Trauma, and Visual Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space
Chair: tbc tbc
Teaching and Learning 202

CINEMATOGRAHIC REPRESENTATION OF STALINIST REPRESSIONS AS WAYS OF DEALING WITH "INCONVENIENT” HISTORICAL PAST IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET FILM (UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVES)
14:45 (20 mins)
Alina Legeyda, University of Newcastle  

Close Encounters of the Soviet Kind: Alien Representation in the Soviet Animation “Contact”
15:05 (20 mins)
Ksenia Papazova, The University of Manchester  

Embodied Archives: Animated Testimonies from Ukraine in the Holodomor
15:25 (20 mins)
Sara Nesteruk, Manchester Metropolitan University  
EU enlargement agenda in post-February 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: between security concerns and contestation pressure
14:45 (90 mins)
Teaching and Learning 211
Vadym Zhelovskyy, University of Warsaw
Magdalena Góra, Jagiellonian University
Adrian Corpadean, Babeș-Bolyai University
Russell Foster, King’s College, London
Spasimir Domaradzki, University of Warsaw
Chair: Laura Herta, Babeș-Bolyai University

2:45: Russian Language for Researchers: Methods, Challenges, and Innovations in Postgraduate Teaching
14:45 (90 mins)
Teaching and Learning 212
Chair: Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham
Olga Kenton, University of Birmingham
Shamil Khairov, University of Glasgow, UK
Alex Krouglov, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
Natalia V. Parker, SSEES, University College London

New book roundtable discussion: Everyday Russian Politics: From Resentment to Resistance
14:45 (90 mins)
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Chair: Jeremy Morris, Aarhus Universitet
Samuel Greene, Kings College London
Svetlana Chuikina, Karlstad University
Ivan Gololobov, University of Bath
Aksana Ismailbekova, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Memory, Silence, and Moral Worlds in Post-Conflict and Post-Socialist Societiesconference@basees.orgMemory, Silence, and Moral Worlds in Post-Conflict and Post-Socialist Societies
Chair: TBC TBC
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Beyond the Ethnography of Silence: Post-secular Spaces of Traumatic Memories Among Serbs in Croatia
14:45 (20 mins)
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University  

How Far Away Am I Now? Transformations of remoteness in rural Romania
15:05 (20 mins)
Oana Borlea-Stancioi, University of Kent  

Owning the Narrative: Sex Work, Stigma, and Resilience in the Baltics
15:25 (20 mins)
Carmela Morgillo, UCL SSEES  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Transforming the Narrative: Three Russian Cases of Queer Narrative Fluxconference@basees.orgTransforming the Narrative: Three Russian Cases of Queer Narrative Flux
Chair: Matilda Hicklin
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Blurred Boundaries: The Lines between Fiction, Reality, and Bisexual/Lesbian Identity in Sveta Lukyanova’s 'I Am Not Doing Anything Wrong' (2023)
14:45 (20 mins)
Rowan Dowling, University of Oxford  

Femslash and Gender-Swap in Pushkin, Bulgakov, and Dostoevskii Fanfiction
15:05 (20 mins)
Julia Hackler, University of Bristol/Southampton  

Narrative Transformation in Online Russian News Articles: The ‘Cult of Tolerance’, Transgender Life Narratives, and Thematic Shifts through Time
15:25 (20 mins)
Xavier Rock, University of Oxford  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Crossing the Borders of Identities: Polish and Russian Intersections in the 19th Centuryconference@basees.orgCrossing the Borders of Identities: Polish and Russian Intersections in the 19th Century
Chair: Natalia Borisova
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(Un)crossable Borders, Invisible Alliances? 19th Century Polish and Russian Women Writers and the Expressibility of Same-Sex Desire
14:45 (20 mins)
Anna Dzabagina, SWPS University  

Between Russian Orthodoxy and Polish Catholicism: Complex Identities of the Orthodox Inhabitants of Congress Poland
15:05 (20 mins)
Marta Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw  

Fight for Mickiewicz. The unveiling of Adam Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw depicted in Polish and Russian narratives
15:25 (20 mins)
Joanna Piotrowska, University of Warsaw   
2:45:
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Civilizationism, satire and soft power in Russia after 2022conference@basees.orgCivilizationism, satire and soft power in Russia after 2022
Chair: Marco Biasioli
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“It’s sad when politics tries to interfere with a world that belongs to art, music and human feelings:” Intervision 2025 as ‘authoritarian cringe’
14:45 (20 mins)
Marco Biasioli, University of Manchester   Thomas Drew, The University of Manchester  

Performing Civilizationism: New Chersonesos and the Aesthetics of the Third Rome
15:05 (20 mins)
Maria Engström, Uppsala University  

Satire under Fire: Humor, Satire and Subversion at the Times of War
15:25 (20 mins)
Aleksei Semenenko, Umeå University  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Coming of Age Under Communism: Youth, Politics and Power in Socialist Europeconference@basees.orgComing of Age Under Communism: Youth, Politics and Power in Socialist Europe
Muirhead Tower 122

‘We Saw Tito’: the Yugoslav marshal’s mystical and material presence at the 1946 Brčko-Banovići youth railway
14:45 (20 mins)
Malcolm Lowe, University of East Anglia  

Internationalism, youth and agency: Brazilian participation in world youth festivals (1955-1959)
15:05 (20 mins)
Gianfranco Caterina, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil  

Misunderstanding Youth, Imperialism and Decolonisation: Bulgaria’s Summer of Contention and the Global 1968
15:25 (20 mins)
Tom Junes, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISP PAN)  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Ukrainian Politicsconference@basees.orgUkrainian Politics
Chair: TBA TBA
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“Distributional Coalitions” as Barriers to Democratization: The Selective Effectiveness of “Linkage” and “Leverage” Mechanisms in the Political Transition of Eastern Europe: the Case of Ukraine's Democracy Under War
14:45 (15 mins)
Dariia Synhaievska, NaUKMA  

Drobovych to Alfiorov: the Changing Nature of Official Memory Politics in Ukraine Following Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
15:00 (15 mins)
Ursula Woolley, King's College London  

Non-Party Channels in Political Recruitment and Cabinet Formation in Ukraine Since Its Independence
15:15 (15 mins)
Svitlana Kononchuk, Academy in Exile, TU-Dortmund  

Ukraine's national identity and foreign policy, 2004-2014
15:30 (15 mins)
Artur Nadiiev, University of Nottingham  

Variations Between Isolation and Reintegration in Ukraine's Donbas Policy: A Two-Level Game Analysis
15:45 (15 mins)
Urania Yiu Wai Chan, University of Edinburgh  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Warfare – Conventional, Cognitive, and Hybridconference@basees.orgWarfare – Conventional, Cognitive, and Hybrid
Chair: TBA TBA
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Differentiation, Decentralisation, Personalisation and Manipulation in Digital Politics: Individual Political Targeting of Users on Social Networks
14:45 (15 mins)
Laura-Diana Matei, Independent researcher  

Balancing Security and Human Rights: Ukraine’s Resilience against Russian Hybrid Narratives
15:00 (15 mins)
Margaryta Khvostova, University of Surrey  

Eastern and Western Fronts of Cognitive War: A Comparison of Russian and Chinese Strategies
15:15 (15 mins)
Chad Briggs, Asian Institute of Management  

Military Doctrines and Security Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Space: Balancing between Power and Practice
15:30 (15 mins)
Ruzan Pluzyan, University of Bath  

The Impact and Domestic Resistance to Chinese Sharp Power
15:45 (15 mins)
David Challenger, University of Birmingham   
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Visual Worlds: Art, Film and the Moving Image in Contextconference@basees.orgVisual Worlds: Art, Film and the Moving Image in Context
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Ancient Greek Landscape in the Russophone Art World – Aivazovsky, Bakst and Serov
14:45 (15 mins)
Takaaki Iwai, University of St Andrews  

Minority Activism on the Big Screen: the Cinematic Work of Wanda Wasilewska
15:00 (15 mins)
Stefan Lacny, UCL SSEES  

Revolutionary Avant-Garde or Kitsch? Western Discourses on Soviet Visual Art in the 1920s
15:15 (15 mins)
Danila Bulatov, WWU Münster  
2:45:
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Politics, memory, and emotions: How to study the “politics of history” in Central Europeconference@basees.orgPolitics, memory, and emotions: How to study the “politics of history” in Central Europe
Chair: Tadeusz Wojtych
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A past made for the present: Memory politics, new museology, and critical heritage studies in Central Europe
14:45 (20 mins)
Tadeusz Wojtych, Western University  

Beyond Discourse: Rethinking the “Politics of History” through an Infrastructural Approach
15:05 (20 mins)
Izabela Paszko, German Historical Institute Warsaw  

From Border Walls to Museum Halls: Materiality and Embodied Encounters of the Iron Curtain
15:25 (20 mins)
Rose Smith, Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Ethnology)  
2026-04-10 14:45:002026-04-10 16:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Languages in Conflict: Ukrainian and Russian in the Context of the Full-Scale Invasionconference@basees.orgLanguages in Conflict: Ukrainian and Russian in the Context of the Full-Scale Invasion
Chair: TBC TBC
Extra Room 1

Hijacking the UN Floor: A corpus-based study of Russia’s UN discourse on the Ukraine war (2022-2025)
14:45 (15 mins)


Language identity and trends of linguistic awareness: re-evaluating Surzhyk as a part of de-Russification discourse
15:00 (15 mins)


Russian TV's Legitimation of "Partial Mobilisation" to the War in Ukraine in 2022
15:15 (15 mins)


Shifting language dominance among Ukrainian child refugees in the UK
15:30 (15 mins)

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2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Illiberalism and the Far Rightconference@basees.orgIlliberalism and the Far Right
Chair: TBA TBA
Teaching and Learning LG03

"Patterns of destruction" - Official memory, contestation and iconoclasm in post-2010 Hungary
16:45 (15 mins)
Zsofia Stavri, UCL  

Call Me By Your Name: How the Catch-all Label Sexo-Marxism and Other Pseudo-Ideological Denominations Have Been Weaponized by the Extreme Right Discourse in Romania
17:00 (15 mins)
Roxana Dumitrache, NSPAS, Bucharest  

Foreign Agent Laws: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding
17:15 (15 mins)
Maximilian Hartl, IOS Regensburg   

Mirroring the East? The Far Right and the Resurgence of Ethnopolitics in the West
17:30 (15 mins)
Gustav Lundberg, Södertörn University  

Reinterpreting Slovak Wartime Anti-Fascism: From Democratic Resistance to the Support for an Illiberal Agenda
17:45 (15 mins)
Vladimír Naxera, University of West Bohemia  Adam Hudek, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Hidden Pillars of the Soviet Economyconference@basees.orgHidden Pillars of the Soviet Economy
Chair: Jeremy Morris
Discussant: Jeremy Morris
Teaching and Learning 109

Matter, labour, place and growth: Peat and the scales of Soviet economic history
16:45 (20 mins)
Katja Bruisch, Trinity College Dublin  

Mining the Periphery: Georgian Manganese and the Material Limits of Soviet Growth
17:05 (20 mins)
Tamar Qeburia, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European (IOS) Regensburg   

Toiling Away in the Far East: Why and How shabashniki Worked More than the Soviet Union Allowed
17:25 (20 mins)
Alexandra Oberländer, Osteuropa Institut an der FU Berlin  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Your Body, Our Choice: Institutions of Hygiene and Body Politics in Interwar Eastern Europeconference@basees.orgYour Body, Our Choice: Institutions of Hygiene and Body Politics in Interwar Eastern Europe
Chair: Kirill Goriachok
Discussant: Kirill Goriachok
Teaching and Learning 118

Healthy Housing and Social Modernism: The Warsaw Housing Cooperative in the Interwar Period
16:45 (15 mins)
Patritciia Semeniuk, University of Kassel  

Hygiene Propaganda and Theatrical Biopolitics in the Soviet Union in the 1920’s-40’s. The Moscow Theatre for Sanitary Culture as a Factory of the New Man.
17:00 (15 mins)
Oxana Kosenko, University of Ulm  

Sanitizing the Masses: Museums of Hygiene, Health, and Childсare in the Early USSR
17:15 (15 mins)
Sofia Michel, Georg August University of Göttingen  

Stalin`s care: reproductive policies in Soviet documentary film of the late 1930s
17:30 (15 mins)
Kirill Goriachok, University of Cambridge  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Revisiting the Myth of the Russian Intelligentsiaconference@basees.orgRevisiting the Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia
Chair: Sibelan Forrester
Discussant: Sibelan Forrester
Teaching and Learning 119

Jewish and/or Russian: The Intellectual in the Russian-Jewish prose of Late Imperial Russia.
16:45 (15 mins)
Nelly Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  

Landmarks (Vekhi): The Russian Intelligentsia at a Crossroads.
17:00 (15 mins)
Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science  

Tatyana Tolstaya as a New Intellectual and Critic of the Russian Intelligentsia.
17:15 (15 mins)
Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh  

The Russian Knights Templar: A secret Mystical Order and its Legacy
17:30 (15 mins)
Olga Partan, College of the Holy Cross  
4:45:
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, National security and the other in the Baltics: Diaspora, refugees and transnational discoursesconference@basees.orgNational security and the other in the Baltics: Diaspora, refugees and transnational discourses
Chair: Hakob Matevosyan
Teaching and Learning M208

How Russian Strategic Narratives Shape the Views on Willingness to Fight in the Baltics?
16:45 (20 mins)
Juris Pupcenoks, Marist University  

Who’s Welcome? Security, Soviet Memories, and the Estonian Refugee Dilemma
17:05 (20 mins)
Hakob Matevosyan, Centre for East European and International Studies  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, War Mobilitiesconference@basees.orgWar Mobilities
Chair: TBC TBC
Teaching and Learning M209

Assumed Identities: Intersectionality and the Ukraine Visa Schemes
16:45 (15 mins)
Eliza Robinson, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies  

Central and Eastern Europe as a new ‘immigration region’
17:00 (15 mins)
Anne White, UCL SSEES  

Race Hatred: The Politics of Welcoming Ukrainians in Romania
17:15 (15 mins)
Raluca Bejan, Dalhousie University  

Ukrainian Familial Trajectories in the ‘In-Between’ of Russia and Poland: The Recomposition of Kinship Networks through Their (Non-)Mobilization in Exile (2014–2024)
17:30 (15 mins)
Grégoire Le Gall, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Parliament in the Age of Europeanisation: The Czech Republic and Sloveniaconference@basees.orgParliament in the Age of Europeanisation: The Czech Republic and Slovenia
Chair: Ivan Sablin
Discussant: Martin Štefek
Teaching and Learning M218

A Tame Battle for Europe? Czech Europeanisation before EU Membership
16:45 (20 mins)
Adéla Gjuričová, Institute of Contemporary History, CAS  

Between Postsocialist Transformation and European Integration: The Czech Political Vocabulary of the Pre-Accession Period
17:05 (20 mins)
Michaela Lencesova, Institute for Contemporary History CAS, v.v.i.   

Parliament in the Age of Europeanisation - Parliament Debating the Past?
17:25 (20 mins)
Jure Gasparic, Institute of Contemporary History  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Transnational Encounters with Soviet Culture: Images, Media, Textsconference@basees.orgTransnational Encounters with Soviet Culture: Images, Media, Texts
Chair: Cara Zhao
Teaching and Learning 202

“Along a Wide and Open Road”: Socialist Realism and Reframing Chinese Socialist Art in the 1950s
16:45 (15 mins)
Huiyu Cara Zhao, Durham University   

Cosmic Bodies, National Affects: From Cognitive Inquiry to Affective Union in Sino-Soviet Science Fiction Cinema
17:00 (15 mins)
Xinlan Zeng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  

Digital Cultural Permeation: The Chinese Reception of Russian Video Games — A Case Study of PANZAR
17:15 (15 mins)
Hefeifan Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  

How Do Love Songs Forge Collective Identities?: Soviet and Chinese Romantic Melodrama in Transitional Times
17:30 (15 mins)
Yumeng Carol Song, SSEES, University College London  

Russian visual propaganda in the Soviet period and its implications for contemporary Russian propaganda
17:45 (15 mins)
Agata Krzywdzińska, Jagiellonian University  
Reflections on research on Russia
16:45 (90 mins)
Teaching and Learning 211
Chair: Cerwyn Moore, University of Birmingham
Mark Youngman, Threatologist
Derek Averre, University of Birmingham
Viktoria Kobzeva, University of Birmingham
Paul Richardson, University of Birmingham

4:45: Narratology, Memory, and Post-Soviet Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene
16:45 (90 mins)
Teaching and Learning 212
Chair: Olena Tiaglova, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Undoing the Language of the KGB Files: Indigenous Peoples of Crimea (1944–1991)
16:45 (90 mins)
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Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Chair: Larysa Bilous, University of Alberta
Andriy Kohut, State Archive Branch of the Security Services of Ukraine
Adam Hradilek, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR)

2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Energy, Environment, and Politics 1conference@basees.orgEnergy, Environment, and Politics 1
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Capital’s surplus populations: Extractivism and the limits to ‘green’ industrial policy in Uzbekistan’s clean energy ‘addition’
16:45 (30 mins)
Franco Galdini, University of Birmingham  

The dynamics of labor conflicts in the extractive industries of Kazakhstan: actors, resources, communication.
17:15 (30 mins)
Parassat Beisenova, M. Tynyshbayev ALT University  

Energy and Water as Instruments of Foreign Policy
17:45 (15 mins)
Botagoz Sariyeva, Sciences Po Bordeaux  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, From Periphery to Security Core: Central and Eastern Europe’s Transformation After Russia’s War in Ukraineconference@basees.orgFrom Periphery to Security Core: Central and Eastern Europe’s Transformation After Russia’s War in Ukraine
Chair: Tomasz Stępniewski
Discussant: OLEKSII POLEGKYI
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Between Brussels and Budapest: Czechia’s 2025 Elections and the Reconfiguration of Central European Politics
16:45 (15 mins)
Daniela Monsportova, Charles University  

Civil Society and Local Authorities in Defence of Ukrainian Cities: Who Does What and Why
17:00 (15 mins)
Ostap Kushnir, University of Portsmouth  

From Buffer State to Security Stronghold: Ukraine’s Role in Europe’s Strategic Future
17:15 (15 mins)
Oleksii Polegkyi, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin  

Poland as a security provider for NATO's eastern flank
17:30 (15 mins)
Łukasz Jureńczyk, Kazimierz Wielki University  

Rebalancing Europe’s Strategic Geography: Ukraine and the Rise of the Eastern Security Core
17:45 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Vdovychenko, University of Cambridge   

Shifting Security Dynamics in Eastern Europe: Implications in the Aftermath of Russia’s Full-Scale War Against Ukraine
18:00 (15 mins)
Tomasz Stepniewski, War Studies University in Warsaw  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Moldovan Politicsconference@basees.orgMoldovan Politics
Chair: TBA TBA
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Philological Authority, Canon Negotiation, and Identity Construction in Post-Soviet Moldova
16:45 (15 mins)
Catalina Catana, University of Manchester  

“Pro-Russian” constituencies in Moldova: a threat to Europeanisation or a misnomer?
17:00 (15 mins)
Anna Matveeva, Russia Institute King's College London  

Coaching Moldova's European Dream as Symbolic Reunification - Romania's Ideational Diplomacy across the Prut River
17:15 (15 mins)
Răzvan-Ionuț Foncea, Edge Institute  

Democracy, Truth, and Lies: Political Discourses and Media Coverage of the 2025 Moldovan Election
17:30 (15 mins)
Alexandr Voronovici, University of Manchester  

Transnistria’s Engagement without Recognition: How did Interactions with the Outside World Shape the Trajectory of the Conflict?’
17:45 (15 mins)
Ana Maria Albulescu, University of Tartu  
4:45:
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Strategies of Russia's Сonscientious War against Ukraine: Modern Experienceconference@basees.orgStrategies of Russia's Сonscientious War against Ukraine: Modern Experience
Chair: Antonina Berezovenko
Discussant: Nadiia Honcharenko
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Mazepa’s Traitor Syndrome”: How Russia Uses History to Manipulate Consciousness
16:45 (15 mins)
Antonina Berezovenko, Igor Sikorski Kyiv Polytechnic Institute  

Cognitive Warfare: The Fake versus Truth
17:00 (15 mins)
Olga Gomilko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  

Narration as a weapon: Russian historical deviations in wartime communication
17:15 (15 mins)
Antonina Berezovenko, Igor Sikorski Kyiv Polytechnic Institute  

Witnesses to the War: Memory and Testimonial Literature in Contemporary Ukraine
17:30 (15 mins)
Lada Kolomiyets, Dartmouth College  

Cognitive Warfare: The Simulacrum versus Truth
17:45 (15 mins)
Olga Gomilko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Soviet Enlightenmentsconference@basees.orgSoviet Enlightenments
Chair: Ekaterina Zadirko
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Against Schematicism: The Techenie and Enlightenment Thought in 1930s Soviet Criticism
16:45 (20 mins)
Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London  

Inventing the Russian Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature, the Concept of Prosveshchenie, and Soviet Literary Criticism
17:05 (20 mins)
Oleg Larionov, University of Oxford  

Who Was the Reincarnation of Mikhail Lomonosov? Andrei Bely and the Reception of Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature in the 1920s
17:25 (20 mins)
Melaniia Kalinina, University of Oxford  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Symbolic Politics and Institutional Power in the Russian and Ukrainian National Imaginationsconference@basees.orgSymbolic Politics and Institutional Power in the Russian and Ukrainian National Imaginations
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Beyond Militarisation: The Armed Forces Cathedral in the genealogy of Russian symbolic cities
16:45 (15 mins)
Alexandra Lindqvist, Independent Scholar  

Debates around the Legacy of the Russian Empire in Ukraine before 2022: Foregrounding Decolonisation
17:00 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Svyrydenko, The University of Manchester  

Radicalization, polarization, violence. Influence of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on Ukrainian diaspora in the United States in the 1930s
17:15 (15 mins)
Magdalena Gibiec, University of Wroclaw  

The Concept of “Holy War” in Russia: Past and Present
17:30 (15 mins)
Evgenii Matveev, Friedrich Schiller University Jena  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Transcending the boundaries: Women Writers in Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian Cultures in the second half of the 19th centuryconference@basees.orgTranscending the boundaries: Women Writers in Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian Cultures in the second half of the 19th century
Chair: Marta Łukaszewicz
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Of Monsters and Individuals: Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia’s Pervaia Bor’ba. “Struggle” for Permanence of Identity and New Strategies of Survival in Post-Reform Russia.
16:45 (20 mins)
Anastassia Kostrioukova, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich  

Triple Marginalisation: Gender, Empire, and Canon in Ukrainian Women’s Writing
17:05 (20 mins)
Dasha Nepochatova, University of Oxford  

Women's Fate: Narratives about women in post-reform Polish literature.
17:25 (20 mins)
Natalia Borisova, University of Tuebingen Slavic Department  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Decolonizing Ukrainian Identity during the Russia-Ukraine War conference@basees.orgDecolonizing Ukrainian Identity during the Russia-Ukraine War
Chair: tbc tbc
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Decolonization, Conflictogenicity, and Deconstruction: The Media-Cultural Text as a Manifestation of the Catharsis of Ukrainian Art in the Instagram Content of Cultural Media (2022–2025)
16:45 (15 mins)
Yana Hladyr, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sci  

Naming Women in Kyiv: Linguistic Landscape, Gender Visibility, and Post-Soviet Urban Change
17:00 (15 mins)
Nataliia Voitsekhivska, Vinnytsia Humanities Pedagogical College  

The Reaching Arm of Memory.
17:15 (15 mins)
John Nelson, Aleksanteri Institute  

Ukrainian popular music after the Russian full-scale invasion: narrating the role of language in times of war
17:30 (15 mins)
Anna Glew, The University of Liverpool  
4:45:
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Environment, Science, and Technology in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasiaconference@basees.orgEnvironment, Science, and Technology in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia
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Beneath the surface: Tracing the historical roots of Russia's resource dependence (1880-2023)
16:45 (20 mins)
Aleksandra Parshina, Public University of Navarre  

Collapse and Containers: Radioactive Waste in Kazakhstan, 1989-1995
17:05 (20 mins)
Rebecca Hawkins, University of Cambridge  

From Imperial Climate Futures to the Anthropocene: Soviet Arctic Engineering in the Thaw and its Legacies
17:25 (20 mins)
Sarah Evison, Department of History, University of Basel  
2026-04-10 16:45:002026-04-10 18:15:00Europe/LondonBASEES Annual Conference 2026Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2026 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2548OnlineJustin Crane, Languages in Contact: Literary Translations and Linguistic Innovationsconference@basees.orgLanguages in Contact: Literary Translations and Linguistic Innovations
Chair: TBC TBC
Extra Room 1

Green, verde, zelionyi - the notion of sustainability in English, Portuguese and Russian podcasts
16:45 (15 mins)


Gulliver’s Travels to Ukrainian Linguistic Landscapes of the 20th Century
17:00 (15 mins)


Mapping Intertextuality in the Hungarian Translations of Joyce’s Ulysses: A Digital Database of Shakespearean References and Translational Creativity
17:15 (15 mins)


Word-formation processes in Russian and Croatian: evaluative derivatives of English origin
17:30 (15 mins)

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