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The EU (2) – war, power, and influence
Chair: Hugh Davie
Auditorium Lounge

The European Union in the Caucasus: a Power Audit in Contested Times
09:00 (15 mins)
Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter  

The war in Ukraine and the transformation of the EU as a normative power
09:15 (15 mins)
Kamil Zwolski, University of Southampton  
Russian domestic politics (3) – governance and the state
Chair: Yahor Azarkevich
CWB Plenary Room

A decade of violence: monitoring anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in Russia in the era of aurocratization
09:00 (15 mins)
Sergey Katsuba, University College Dublin  

Challenging Russian state on its own ideological field: The Wagner Group’s domestic political PR
09:15 (15 mins)
Yahor Azarkevich, University of Warwick  

Concrete dust versus angel’s wings? Semiotic tensions of post-colonial memory politics in Latvia.
09:00 (15 mins)
Deniss Hanovs, Art Academy of Latvia/CERS PROJECT VPP-LKRVA-2023/1-0001  

Crying Over “the Killing Machine”: Redescribing Grey Zones of Decoloniality in the Baltic States
09:15 (15 mins)
Alina Jašina-Schäfer, University of Mainz  Lena Hercberga, Copenhagen Business School  

Decolonization in Lithuania? Revisiting the concept of cultural resistance under foreign rule
09:30 (15 mins)
Violeta Davoliute, Vilnius University  
Impacts of the war in Ukraine on Russian energy sector and climate policy
Chair: Andrzej Blachowicz
Discussant: Marianna Poberezhkaya
CWB Syndicate 2

Russian oil and gas sector after two years of war
09:00 (20 mins)
Tatiana Lanshina, No organization  

Scenarios for the Russian coal sector: focus on regions
09:20 (20 mins)
Anna Korppoo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute  

Climate Strategies of Russian export companies: status and prospects
09:40 (20 mins)
Oleg Pluzhnikov, Perspectives  
9:00
Cherchez la femme: looking for the women’s images in the Ukrainian Soviet cinema in the 1920s.
09:00 (15 mins)
Yana Prymachenko, Institute of history of Ukraine, NASU  

From the Elbe to Big Sur: Unveiling Cold War Narratives in Soviet Media's Portrayal of Esalen Institute
09:15 (15 mins)
Ksenija Iljina, University College London  

Press Freedom before, during and after the 1905 Revolution: Conceptions and Practices in the Mass Newspaper Press in Moscow and St. Petersburg
09:30 (15 mins)
Sophia Polek, University of Basel  

The Ьuseum of Populism or (counter) Revolution? “Great Retreat” and the State Museum of Revolution in Petrograd-Leningrad, 1920-1930s.
09:45 (15 mins)
Nikolay Sarkisyan, University of Oxford  
The Mass-Elite Attitude Congruence towards the EU in Eastern Europe
Chair: Sergiu Gherghina
Discussant: Sergiu Miscoiu
Games Room

‘Preserving the natural order’: Religious extremism and anti-LGBTQI+ activism in Romania
09:00 (15 mins)
Vlad Marginas, U. Babes-Bolyai/U. de Genève/U. libre de Bruxelles  

Dissensus or Cheap Talk? People’s Attitudes and Politicians Rhetoric about the EU
09:15 (15 mins)
Sergiu Gherghina, University of Glasgow  

Nullgaria at the gates? Elite-mass congruence of opinion on a potential termination of the Bulgarian EU membership
09:30 (15 mins)
Petar Bankov, University of Glasgow  

“The Soviet Union is like a radish: red on the outside but white on the inside” – a Historical and Philosophical analysis of National Bolshevism within its context
09:00 (15 mins)
George Bocean, Durham University  

Queer Subculture of the Post-Soviet Space: Reconsidering Identity Formation and Post-Soviet Transition
09:15 (15 mins)
Ioana Zamfir, University of Toronto  

Republic within Republic – Daily Life of a Military Plant in Soviet Estonia
09:30 (15 mins)
Ivan Lavrentjev, University of Tartu  

Dysfunctional Uses of History? Revolutionary History in the Russian Protest Art (2008-2012)
09:45 (15 mins)
Nadezda Petrusenko, Umeå University  

Orthodoxy, Velikoderzhavnost', and Civilisational Nationalism: The Political Theology of the World Russian People's Council (1993-2023)
09:00 (15 mins)
Bojidar Kolov, University of Oslo  

Putinism and the Russian Orthodox Church: A Parting of ways?
09:15 (15 mins)
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen  

Securing the “Civilization-State” and a “fair” global order: Russia’s evolving civilizational imaginary at home and abroad.
09:30 (15 mins)
Matthew Blackburn, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs  

The new opium of the people? State-Church civilizational discourse and the Russo-Ukraine war.
09:45 (15 mins)
Luke March, The University of Edinburgh  
Civil society under pressure
Chair: Jan Matti Dollbaum
Linnett Room

From Authoritarian Repression to Activism in Exile: Pathways of Russian Environmentalists
09:00 (15 mins)
Maria Tysiachniouk, University of Eastern Finland  

Neither Voice nor Exit: Volunteering in Russia as a Form of Protest against the War in Ukraine
09:15 (15 mins)
Irina Olimpieva, IERES, GWU  

The Value Change in the First Post-Communist Generation from the Viewpoint of Ronald Inglehart’s Theory: a Critical Analysis
09:30 (15 mins)
Laura Dauksaite, Vilnius University  
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Images of Siberian Exile and the Preservation of Cultural Memory
Chair: Daria Sinichkina
Discussant: Ben Phillips
Selwyn Diamond Suite

Breshkovskaia’s Siberian Exile as Imagined by an American Newspaper in September 1915
09:00 (20 mins)
Alison Rowley, Concordia University  

Images of Siberia in Maria Volkonskaia's Memoirs and Letters
09:20 (20 mins)
Ludmilla Trigos, Independent Scholar  

Picturing Siberia, Creating Memories: Places of Exile in Photographs of the Late 19th Century.
09:40 (20 mins)
Tatiana Saburova, Indiana University  
How to Tell Left from Right : Political Fragmentation, Hierarchization, and Exclusion in the Russian Public Sphere since the Early 1990s
09:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room
Chair: Victoria Musvik, University of Oxford
Tatiana Levina, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI
Alina Parker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Durham University

Authoritarian backsliding and forms of resistance 2
Chair: Agnieszka Kubal
Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

Judges' Strategies in Defending Judicial Independence: Insights from Poland, Hungary, and Romania
09:00 (20 mins)
Leonardo Puleo, University College Dublin  

Judicial legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change in Poland
09:20 (20 mins)
Agnieszka Kubal, University College London  

‘Sword of Damocles’: the foreign agents’ law experienced through fear
09:40 (15 mins)
Mercedes Malcomson, Birkbeck College  
Art and Culture in the Balkans
Chair: Ondřej Daniel
Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Confessions and Transgressions: Trans Life-writing in the Balkans
09:00 (15 mins)
Natalija Stepanovic, UCL, SEES  

Examining Paratextual Elements in Literary Translations to and from Macedonian
09:15 (15 mins)
Svetlana Jakimovska, University Goce Delcev  

Metaphoricity of a Cosmopolitan System - Yugoslav Polemicist Writing and its Cosmopolitan Attitude on the Example of Jovan Hristić and His Writing
09:30 (15 mins)
Marija Tepavac, Alpen Adria University  

Utopia and Nationalism in the formation of Socialist Yugoslavia
09:45 (15 mins)
Iva Dimovska, Democracy Institute  
Ukraine in Literature and Culture
Chair: Sara Nesteruk
Selwyn Walters Room

Bringing Margins to the Front: International Solidarity and Decolonial Epistemic Practices in 1920s Ukrainian Literature
09:00 (15 mins)
Rossella Caria, University of Milan  

Environmental tragedy in the novel Volodymyr Yavorivskyi, “Maria with Wormwood at the End of the Century”
09:15 (15 mins)
Mariam Mokhammad, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical Uni  

Memory and postmemory in the novel "Amadoka" by Sofia Andrukhovych.
09:00 (15 mins)
Olena Saikovska, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen  

The Image of Chornobyl in Western Graphic Narratives
09:45 (15 mins)
Tetiana Ostapchuk, University College London  
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Dispalatalization of the word-final t’ in verbs: The case of the Ukrainian recension of Church Slavonic and Southwest (Hutsul) Ukrainian
09:00 (20 mins)
Oksana Lebedivna, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy  

Paratexts in old printed Cyrillic books: quantitative and qualitative linguistic approach
09:20 (20 mins)
Ivan N. Petrov, University of Lodz, Poland  

The Authorship of the Vita Constantini-Cyrilli
09:40 (20 mins)
Thomas Daiber, Justus-Liebig University Giessen  

The Divine Polyglot? Constantine the Philosopher against Sībawayhi and Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon
10:00 (20 mins)
Andriy Danylenko, Pace University, Modern Languages Department  
Roundtable/Masterclass: Teaching Russian and Eurasian Studies in the New Political Environment. Challenges and Prospects
09:00 (90 mins)
Teaching Room 4
Chair: Basil Bessonoff , Global Language Center
Natasha Parker, SSEES, University College London

Post-Soviet Russophone Literature 1
Chair: Natasha Rulyova
Discussant: Tamar Koplatadze
Teaching Room 5

Contemporary Russophone Poetry and the Reinvention of the Russian Language
09:00 (20 mins)
Miriam Finkelstein, University of Konstanz  

Ukrainian Russophone Poetry on the Eve of the Full-Scale Invasion: The "Ton'kie linii" Poets
09:20 (20 mins)
Alessandro Achilli, University of Cagliari  

“Cry for the lost homeland” by Borys Chichibabin: The problem of loss of a person’s national identity in the (post) Soviet era
09:00 (15 mins)
Olha Honcharova, Keele University  

A search for Ukrainian identity in Victoria Belim’s memoir The Rooster House
09:15 (15 mins)
Tetyana Lunyova, University of York  

Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Identity and Experimental Literature
09:30 (15 mins)
Mariia Pshenychna, University of Stirling  

Ukrainian self-identification and poetics of Vasyl Stus
09:00 (15 mins)
Svitlana Kryvoruchko, Institution State University of the Central West - UNICENTRO  Iaroslav Goloborodko, Horlivka Institute for Foreign Languages of Donbas State Pedagogical University  

Volodymyr Pidpalyi: “Even If We Are Not Going to Reach it – Let’s go Anyway…”: Literary Resistance of The Sixtiers And Representation of The National Code
10:00 (15 mins)
Maryna Zuyenko, PoltavaKorolenko National Pedagogical University  
9:00
Anthropology: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Chair: Cornelia Saurer
Teaching Room B

Exploring the trajectories of Slovak migrants in the UK: Towards a linguistic ethnography of negotiated identities
09:00 (20 mins)
Lenka Kast, UCL IOE  

“They owe us”: making claims in Russian-speaking towns in the Baltics
09:20 (20 mins)
Marija Norkunaite, Vilnius University  

Vanishing multilingualism in Transylvania and Banat
09:40 (20 mins)
Cora Saurer, University Babes - Bolyiai, Cluj  
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The Russia-Ukraine War and the Evolving Security Dilemmas in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Tomasz Stępniewski
Discussant: Oleksii Polegkyi
Auditorium Lounge

A Shift in the Security Paradigm in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of NATO's Eastern Flank during the Russia-Ukraine War
11:00 (15 mins)
Tomasz Stepniewski, Institute of Central Europe and KUL  

The Arctic Ramifications of Russia's War in Ukraine.
11:15 (15 mins)
George Soroka, Harvard University  

War as an Integral Element of Putin's Russia: Implications for Regime Stability and State Integrity
11:30 (15 mins)
Oleksii Polegkyi, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy Sc.  
Chaos or Control: Russian Politics in Wartime
Chair: Richard Sakwa
Discussant: Richard Sakwa
CWB Plenary Room

Growing inefficiency of Putin’s personnel system at a time of war
11:00 (15 mins)
Nikolai Petrov, German Institute for International and Security Af  

The Known Unknowns: Change and Continuity in System Performance and Legitimacy since February 2022
11:15 (15 mins)
Matthew Blackburn, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs  

The war (didn't) change that: Russia's foreign policy before and after the invasion of Ukraine
11:30 (15 mins)
Damian Strycharz, Krakow University of Economics  
Open meeting: UG degree programmes in Russian
Chair: Sarah Hudspith
CWB Syndicate 1

Politics, networks and self-fashioning in the family correspondence of Jacob and Peter von Staehlin (1760s-1780s)
11:00 (15 mins)
Vladislav Rjeoutski, German Historical Institute in Paris  

The correspondence of Catherine II with Count Burkhard Christoph Münnich
11:15 (15 mins)
Aleksandr Lavrov, Sorbonne Université  

The meeting in Kaniv (1787): the informal relationships between Russian and Polish-Lithuanian courts in Augustus Poniatowski’s private correspondence.
11:30 (15 mins)
Anastasiia Lystsova, Princeton University  
11:00
Beyond darughas and basqaqs: looking again at Mongol governance in Rus’
11:00 (15 mins)
Angus Russell, University of Cambridge  

Formal and informal canon law in Rus' of the 11-13th centuries
11:15 (15 mins)
Vera Gagarina, University of Cambridge  

Rethinking the Secular and Sacred: the Social, Religious, and Commercial Functions of Churches in Medieval Novgorod.
11:30 (15 mins)
Amelia Gardner-Thorpe, University of Cambridge  

The Wavering Faith: Paradigms and Binaries of Slavic faith in Helmold of Bosau’s Chronica Slavorum
11:45 (15 mins)
Natalia Radziwillowicz, University of Nottingham  

A Hetman for Everyone - Aleksandr Maliarevskii‘s Visions of Ukraine in 1918
11:00 (20 mins)
Immo Rebitschek, Friedrich Schiller University  

How to frame your claim? Premodern History as an argument in State Building Discourses during the First World War. Insides into a recent Data Base Project
11:20 (20 mins)
Sven Jaros, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg  

Keeping Poland Alive: Diasporan Political Agency 1848-1891
11:40 (20 mins)
Graham Cox, University of Birmingham  

(Inter)national self-determination in the Kosovo student protests 1968
11:00 (15 mins)
Helena Trenkic  Alesia Laci, University of Cambridge, Homerton College  

Lifestyle against Politics: (Sub)cultures of Czech and Russian Postsocialist Antifascism
11:15 (15 mins)
Ondřej Daniel, Charles University  

'Like A Dew On a Dry Soul'. Objects of Memory and Resistance Through Culture of Women Political Prisoners in Czechoslovakia 1948–1968
11:30 (15 mins)
Marie Koval, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University  

“Roots and Routes of ‘Siberian Hysteria’: Colonialism and Mental Disorder in Late Imperial Siberia, 1880s-1910s”
11:00 (15 mins)
Chechesh Kudachinova, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies   

Early Soviet Cinema, Psychiatry and the Problem of Neurosis
11:15 (15 mins)
Anna Toropova, University of Copenhagen  

Trauma in the Archive of the Ukrainian Republican Neurosurgical and Neuropsychiatric Hospital for Invalids of the Great Patriotic War
11:30 (15 mins)
Robert Dale, Newcastle University  

A Tale of Two Contexts: The Ukrainian and Afghan Refugee Crises in Canada and the UK
11:00 (15 mins)
Raluca Bejan, Dalhousie University  

Gender Equality and Women’s Activism in Ukraine in Times of War
11:15 (15 mins)
Tamara Martsenyuk, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy  

Instrumentalization of Citizenship during Russia-Ukraine War
11:30 (15 mins)
Lidia Kuzemska, Forum Transregionale Studien  

Race, class, ethnicity and nation: The politics of welcoming Ukrainians in Romania
11:45 (15 mins)
Raluca Bejan, Dalhousie University  

Social Capital Gaining, Loosing and Mobilizing During the Full-Scale War of Russia in Ukraine”
12:00 (15 mins)
Tetiana Kostiuchenko, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy / Leuphana University   
11:00 Games as a tool for pedagogy and outreach
11:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Diamond Suite
Chair: Emma Rimpiläinen, Uppsala University
Briana Bowen, Royal Holloway University of London
George Fforde, University of Melbourne

Kin-state minorities and media consumption
11:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room
Chair: Craig Willis, European Centre for Minority Issues
Andreea Udrea, Royal Holloway University of London
Federica Prina, University of Glasgow
Lara Sorgo, Institute for Ethnic Studies
David Smith, University of Glasgow

The Era of the Cold War: Crisis, Conflict and International Collaboration
Chair: Szabolcs László
Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

An Unlikely Friendship?: The Entangled Histories of Socialist and Middle Eastern Modernisation in the 1960s and 1970s
11:00 (15 mins)
Szinan Radi, University of Cambridge  

East European Refugees in the Vatican’s Anti-Communist Agenda in the early Cold War
11:15 (15 mins)
Katarzyna Nowak, University of Vienna  

Red light from Moscow. The Soviet Union and the Beginning of the Iran-Iraq War
11:30 (15 mins)
Dmitrii Asinovskii, Central European University  
Art History and Aesthetics
Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Books as Witness: The Chinese Translated Soviet Art Books in the 1950s
11:00 (15 mins)
Huiyu Cara Zhao, Durham University   

Marian Prefigurations in the Church of St Georg at Pološko
11:15 (15 mins)
Ana Popova, Independent Researcher  

On the Shared Idea of "Vision" In the Poetry of Osip Mandel'shtam and Ol'ga Sedakova
11:30 (15 mins)
Yuchun Lan, University of Oxford  

Re-defining twentieth-century image culture: Aby Warburg and Wassily Kandinsky on symbols
11:45 (15 mins)
Marina G. Ogden, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London  
Behind the iron Curtain. Economic Historians During the Cold War, 1945–1989. Palgrave Studies in Economic History new book presentation.
11:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Walters Room
Chair: Antonie Dolezalova, Charles University, Prague
Catherine Albrecht, .
Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw
Zarko Lazarevich, .
Bogdan Murgescu, .

11:00
Slavonic Languages in Politics and (New) Media
Chair: Andrii Smytsniuk
Seminar Room

Media Text Genres in Selected Slavic Languages
11:00 (15 mins)
Roman Sacharov, University of Lodz  

Method of Psycholinguistic Analysis for Identification of Manipulative and Indirect Hate Speech in Media (Case Study)
11:15 (15 mins)
Yuliya Krylova-Grek, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy  

The argumentative strategies of the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in relation to ethos
11:30 (15 mins)
Anna Semenova, Sorbonne Université  

О лингвистической креативности в интернет-дискурсе (на материале русского и хорватского языков)
11:00 (15 mins)
Nika Zoričić, University of Zadar  Marina Radchenko, University of Zadar  
Russia-Ukraine War: music and sculpture
Chair: Ana Diaconu
Teaching Room 4

Narrating home in times of war: Ukrainian popular music after the Russian full-scale invasion
11:00 (15 mins)
Anna Glew, The University of Liverpool  

Never Ever Can We Be Brothers and Sisters: Wartime Sculpture in Ukraine, Belarus and Russian Federation
11:15 (15 mins)
Pavel Voinitski, Montenegro European Art Community  

Russian Musicians' Anti-War Poetical Manifestoes: Zemfira, Shevchuk, Aigel, etc.
11:30 (15 mins)
Kristina Vorontsova, Jagiellonian University  

Subversive Femininities in Ukrainian Popular Music in the Aftermath of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
11:45 (15 mins)
Iryna Shuvalova, University of Oslo  
Post-Soviet Russophone Literature 2
Chair: Klavdia Smola
Discussant: Miriam Finkelstein
Teaching Room 5

“Strangers Everywhere:” Hybridity in Post-Soviet Russophone Autofiction
11:00 (20 mins)
Alexey Shvyrkov, Columbia University   

Ecocriticism and Central Asia's Postcolonial Culture
11:20 (20 mins)
Tamar Koplatadze, University of Oxford  

Identity and Diversity in Post-Soviet Russophone Literature: Guzel Yakhina, Alisa Ganieva and Khamid Ismailov
11:40 (20 mins)
Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham  
Soviet Literature and Culture
Chair: Marina Korneeva
Teaching Room 6

"I apply Marxism when it’s needed, and don’t apply it when it’s not": Aleksei Losev and Marxism
11:00 (15 mins)
Egor Sokolov, University of Oxford  

“Mom, shall we die together?” Motherhood and Death in Takyr by Andrej Platonov
11:15 (15 mins)
Giuseppina Larocca, University of Macerata (Italy)  

Ahead of the Curve: Mathematics and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Zamiatin’s My and Kaverin’s Bochka
11:30 (15 mins)
Emma Baxter, University of Oxford  

Ecopoetry & Elena Shvarts’ Leningrad Samizdat Publications
11:45 (15 mins)
Sarah Matthews, University of Southern California  
Parties and elections
Chair: Sergiu Gherghina
Teaching Room 7

Does ideology matter? Voter-party mismatch and the success of new parties in Central and Eastern Europe
11:00 (15 mins)
Jan Goedeking, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  

Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists: a case study of conservative ‘radical left’ populism?
11:15 (15 mins)
Luke March, The University of Edinburgh  

Informality, corruption, and rivalry: how political party interactions in Moldova and Georgia impact democracy reforms
11:30 (15 mins)
Amy Eaglestone, University of Birmingham  

Party Members and Digitalization: Evidence from Romania
11:45 (15 mins)
Sergiu Gherghina, University of Glasgow  
11:00
"Imperial" and "national" ethnic mapping – practices, goals and reliability of ethnic mapping in the Balkans (1840s-1910s)
11:00 (20 mins)
Gabor Demeter, Research Centre for the Humanities, HAS  

In the Service of Power and Science. Ethnic maps in Hungary at the beginning of the 20th century
11:20 (20 mins)
Margit Kőszegi, Eötvös Loránd University  

Siberian Geographical Imaginations: The Creation of the Birobidzhan Project
11:40 (20 mins)
Diego Repenning, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile  
Anthropology: Contested Memory and Narratives
Chair: Cornelia Saurer
Teaching Room B

Counter-narrating the State: The Politics of Citizenship in the Margins of the Georgian State
11:00 (15 mins)
Mariam Shalvashvili, Ilia State University  

From Parents to Children: The Narratives of Homeland in Georgian Families in Moscow
11:15 (15 mins)
Maria Sakirko, The University of Cambridge  

Mnemonic Populism in Central and Eastern Europe: Everyday Memory Practices and Populist Sentiments in the Silesian Borderland
11:30 (15 mins)
Johana Wyss, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences  

Was Dagestan ever conquered? Defeat, grief and submission to Russia in the narratives of modern Dagestani.
11:45 (15 mins)
Grigory Grigoryev, University of Helsinki  
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And Eastern Europe Shall Lead Them: Small Power Support for Taiwan
13:00 (15 mins)
Jonathan Ludwig, Oklahoma State University  

Challenging the Past, Building a 'Shared Future'? China's Strategic Visions in Central and Eastern Europe and in Central Asia: A Comparative Study.
13:15 (15 mins)
Maryia Danilovich, Uppsala University, Göttingen University  Andreea Budeanu, IFRAE-INALCO (Paris)  

The Logic of the Belt and Road Initiative for Connectivity in the South Caucasus: Practical Content and Correspondence to Local Policy
13:30 (15 mins)
Jing Shi, Tsinghua University  

Realization of budget deficit concepts in Ukraine: Evidence from the State budget for 2022-2023
13:00 (15 mins)
Olha Haponenko, University of Southampton  

The energy component in the Russian Federation’s hybrid aggression against Ukraine
13:15 (15 mins)
Tetiana Kurbatova, University of Sussex  

Rising from war as a Green Phoenix : Challenges and Prospects of Ukraine’ Green Reconstruction and Recovery
13:30 (15 mins)
Ievgeniia Kopytsia , University of Oxford   

Environmental peacebuilding and reparations: How to make Russia pay for environmental damage in Ukraine
13:45 (15 mins)
Nataliia Slobodian, Canterbury Christ Church University  

Social activism for peace during the war in Ukraine in the Baltic States in a comparative perspective
14:00 (15 mins)
Magdalena Lachowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University   

“The Burns Connection”: the Scotland-USSR Society and Cold War cultural diplomacy
13:00 (15 mins)
Niall Gray, University of Strathclyde  

British Colony in Moscow: A Century of Impact (1825-1920)
13:15 (15 mins)
Elena Watson, Independent researcher  

British Travellers in 19th-Century Russian Ukraine
13:30 (15 mins)
Iwona Sakowicz-Tebinka, University of Gdańsk  

James Baker: a Bristolian and Bohemia
13:45 (15 mins)
Julia Sutton-Mattocks, University of Bristol  
Telegram and political communication
Chair: Sergiu Gherghina
CWB Syndicate 2

Mapping the pro-war/pro-Russian Telegram channels: Continuities, contradictions, and transformations
13:00 (15 mins)
Alina Parker, University of Massachusetts Amherst  

Online government communication in wartime Ukraine: A computational network analysis of political actors on Telegram
13:15 (15 mins)
Anastasiya Kosyk, University of Munster  

Pro-war mobilisation on Telegram: A case study of Russian-speaking migrants in Germany
13:30 (15 mins)
Tatiana Golova, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)  Liliia Sablina, Central European University  
1:00
"Calling on a Tsar and not on Stalin": Soviet Ultranationalism and its Nazi Observers
13:00 (15 mins)
Philip Decker, Princeton University  

"Inspired by the Fascist example": Race policies as a means of italian power politics in south-eastern Europe, 1937-1939
13:15 (15 mins)
Luca Fiorito, Università degli Studi di Genova  

The civil war in Slovenia during the Second World War: explaining the post-war extra-judicial killings of the collaborationist armed forces by the Slovene Partisans.
13:30 (15 mins)
Zala Pochat Križaj, King's College London  
Transformation of Second World War Memory after the Russian Aggression
Chair: Hanna Bazhenova
Discussant: Aliaksei Lastouski
Garden Room

(Un)Recognized Genocide: Changing the War Memory in Belarus
13:00 (15 mins)
Aliaksei Lastouski, European Humanities University  

“In Storms of Steel”. Is there a Normalisation of Collaboration with the Nazis in Ukraine?
13:15 (15 mins)
Yurii Latysh, European Humanities University  

Lithuanian history policy in the context of Russian aggression against Ukraine
13:30 (15 mins)
Rasa Cepaitiene, Lithuanian institute of History  

Ukraine’s Second World War Memoryscape in the Context of Russian Aggression
13:45 (15 mins)
Hanna Bazhenova, Institute of Central Europe  
Russia as exceptional: second thoughts?
13:00 (90 mins)
JCR
Chair: Raymond Taras, Tulane University
Bo Petersson, Malmo University
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen
Peter Duncan, University College London
Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter


Academic freedom for scholars in exile in Europe
13:00 (15 mins)
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Charles University  

Academic rights and wrongs: who protects students' freedoms?
13:15 (15 mins)
Elizaveta Potapova, PPMI  

Alternative Academia as a Place of Resistance: Russian Para-Academic Projects Two Years After the Invasion of Ukraine
13:30 (15 mins)
Petr Torkanovskiy, King's College London  

Constructing (Dis)Trust in Polls: Public Opinion Research in Today's Russia
13:45 (15 mins)
Arsenii Verkeev, Ruhr University Bochum  

Dynamics of trust and distrust in Russian universities at the beginning of the war
14:00 (15 mins)
Lidia Yatluk, University of Groningen  
1:00
Decolonising Stalin's Cult of Personality: Stalinism through Soviet Georgian Literature
13:00 (15 mins)
Megi Kartsivadze, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies  

Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency in Stalin’s Exile: “Siberian Diary” by Arpenik Aleksanyan (1949-1954)
13:15 (15 mins)
Ella Rossman, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies  

Women and the Prison Microcosm: Freedom and Gendered Power Relations in Gulag Memoirs and in US Prison Literature
13:30 (15 mins)
Elisa Kriza, Bamberg University  
The Struggle for the Past: History, Heritage and Historiography
Chair: Natalia Radziwillowicz
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

“Augusterlebnis” and “the Spirit of 1914”? Reconsidering the Historiography on the Reaction to the Outbreak of the First World War
13:00 (15 mins)
Teodoras Zukas, Vilnius University  

Development and the Drive to Closure: Overlapping Layers of the Authoritarian Temptation in Romanian History
13:15 (15 mins)
Victor Rizescu, University of Bucharest  

Galician Conservatives' attitudes towards Pan-Slavism (1863-1914).
13:30 (15 mins)
Piotr Hennel, Uniwersytet Łódzki   

Laws of war and cultural heritage. Slavonic manuscripts of the Romanian Academy under German protection (1917) ?
13:45 (15 mins)
Claudiu-Lucian Topor, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University  

Inside the black box of Europeanization. Analysing the European Commission’s leverage to drive the Europeanization of post-communist administrations. A case study of Romania, Serbia and Moldova between 2000-2020.
14:00 (15 mins)
Claudia Badulescu, Institut d'études européennes (IEE-ULB)  
Constructing Ukrainian Cultural Identity
Chair: Tetiana Ostapchuk
Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Evolution of contemporary art institutions in Ukraine (early 1990-s – 2020)
13:00 (15 mins)
Anna Luhovska, University of Basel  

Instrumentalization of Nikolai Gogol (a brief outline of Gogol’s existence on the border of two identities and cultures)
13:15 (15 mins)
Mykyta Grygorov, The Institute for Ideas and Imagination  

Rethinking Ukrainian Culture: Decolonized Implication of Maria Pryimachenko’s Art
13:00 (15 mins)
Olga Gomilko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  

Ukrainian Modernism on the Global Map of International Avant-gardes. “Critical Art Geography” versus Post-colonial Studies
13:45 (15 mins)
Marina Dmitrieva, Independent researcher  
Gender and feminism: regional approaches
Chair: Olga Chumicheva
Selwyn Walters Room

Developing a Gender Lens for Social Science Research Ethics in Central Asia
13:00 (15 mins)
Almira Tabaeva, Nazarbayev University  

Learning and transmission of gender norms in contemporary Russia: a study of pedagogical programmes at gender holidays
13:15 (15 mins)
Vincent Exiga, Université de Genève  

The "Queer Lens" on Migration in Kazakhstan
13:30 (15 mins)
Elliot Napier, University of Glasgow  

What's Left of Feminism in Eastern Europe?
13:45 (15 mins)
Grazina Bielousova, University College London  
1:00
Languages in Contact: Slavonic Languages and English
Chair: Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka
Seminar Room

English Language Morphological Neologisms Reflecting the War in Ukraine
13:00 (20 mins)
Nadiya Ivanenko, University of Oxford   

Patterns of unretranslatability in the Hungarian (re)translations of James Joyce's Ulysses
13:20 (20 mins)
Árpád Mitruly, Babeș–Bolyai University  

To copy-paste or not to copy-paste?
13:40 (20 mins)
Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska, UKIM - Filološki fakultet 'Blaže Koneski'   
Russian Theatre and Performance
Chair: Hannah Klimas
Teaching Room 4

Aleksandr Sumarokov’s ‘Dimitri Samozvanets’: a New Type of Villain and the Transformation of Neo-Classical Tragedy
13:00 (15 mins)
Margarita Kildiusheva, University of Oxford  

Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” as a Political Emblem
13:15 (15 mins)
Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University  

The Feminization of the Soviet-Russian Post-Stalin Opera
13:30 (15 mins)
Magdalena Marija Meašić, University of Rijeka  

Tragicomedy on the Soviet periphery: a decolonial perspective on Aleksandr Vampilov
13:45 (15 mins)
Jesse Gardiner, University of St Andrews  
Transnational and Multilingual Cultural Exchange
Chair: Ola Sidorkiewicz
Teaching Room 5

Andrei the 'Red Cat'?: The Beats’ Initial Adoption of Andrei Voznesenskii
13:00 (15 mins)
Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University  

Remizov, Mirsky, Harrison, and Woolf: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Literary Collaboration Between Russian Émigrés and British Elites in 1920s Paris
13:15 (15 mins)
Maria Teresa Badolati, Sapienza University of Rome  

Speaking (many) languages in Early Rus’ annals
13:30 (15 mins)
Ines Garcia de la Puente, Boston University/University of Cambridge  
Ukraine – policy and politics
Chair: Daryna Dvornichenko
Teaching Room 6

“Away from Moscow!” And other lines in Ukraine’s strategic narrative, 2014-2022
13:00 (15 mins)
Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow  

Democratization, Civic Society, and the New Ukrainian School during the Acute Phase of War
13:15 (15 mins)
Carl Mirra, Adelphi University  

Nation Building and Identity Branding: How to Be Brave Like Ukraine
13:30 (15 mins)
Andrii Smytsniuk, Slavonic Studies, MMLL, University of Cambridge  

Ukraine's national identity and its foreign policy, 1994-2004
13:45 (15 mins)
Artur Nadiiev, University of Nottingham  
Russia-Ukraine War: prose and poetry
Chair: Matilda Hicklin
Teaching Room 7

Deixis as a marker of subjectivity in contemporary Ukrainian and Russian poetry
13:00 (20 mins)
Olga Sokolova  

Exploring the War Narratives in Social Media and Literature: A Psycholinguistic Study of Stories by War Witnesses Bohdan Lepkyi and Present-Day Ukrainians
13:20 (20 mins)
Serhii Zasiekin, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University; University College London  

Reading on the Frontline in the Russo-Ukrainian War
13:40 (20 mins)
Iryna Kovalchuk, UCD  
1:00
Anthropology: Epistemology and Knowledge Production
Chair: Mariam Shalvashvili
Teaching Room B

“Doubt as a way to truth”: techniques of discerning truth among natural scientists in Western Siberia
13:00 (20 mins)
Roosa Rytkönen, University of Birmingham  

How and When Should We (Not) Speak?: Ethical Knowledge Production About the Russian War Against Ukraine
13:20 (20 mins)
Valeria Lazarenko, Humboldt University of Berlin  

The Traumatized Body: Varlam Shalamov’s Ethics of Testimony in the Philosophy of Valery Podoroga
13:40 (15 mins)
Boris Podoroga, University of Lille  
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