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‘U Stalina’: An Inquiry into the Negotiations of Communist Past in Contemporary Prague
Dr Maja Babic  
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“Vodokachka” concentration camp in the system of terror of security police and SD against civilian population of Mykolaiv general district
Dr Anatolii Pogorielov Dr Anatolii Pogorielov  
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The speech of the intelligentsia as the object of the study of Soviet linguistics
Mrs Elena Simonato Mrs Elena Simonato  
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Post-Heroic Partisan Spirit in South Slavic Literature and other Arts
Prof Miranda Jakisa Prof Miranda Jakisa  
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Explaining Russian responses to the Armenian Velvet Revolution in 2018.
Dr Andranik Israyelyan  
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Geopoetical Image of the Alien in Russian Queer and Gay Poetry in the 1990-2000-s
Mrs Kristina Vorontsova  
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The Police State on Trial: Policing and Embodiment in the Art of Pussy Riot
Miss Tatiana Efremova  
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Working in post-Soviet contexts: Methods, Challenges, and New Avenues
Mr Aleksandr Trusevich  
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Kadyrov in Chechnya: A debate of power and sovereignty
Mr Harold Chambers  
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'Everything around is nobody’s, everything around is mine’: the phenomenon of nesuny in Soviet satire
Miss Olga Nikonenko  
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Supergeroi. Adapting American Superheroe Movies in Contemporary Russian Cinema
Dr Miriam Finkelstein  
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Contemporary Warfare Discourses in Russia: Analysis of General Makhmud Gareev’s Writings
Dr Nurlan Aliyev  
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A national or religious symbol? – transreligious celebration of St. Jovan Vladimir in South East Europe
Dr Emil Hilton Saggau  
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Privileges during a humanitarian catastrophe: the urban economy of Leningrad in 1941-1944.
Mrs Alisa Amosova  
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The Caucasus Emirate: Ideology, identity and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus
Dr Mark Youngman  
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Decolonising scholarship on the Caucasus
Dr Mark Youngman  
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Digital contestations over the view of a nation: public perception of Manizha’s performance on Eurovision
Dr Guzel Yusupova  
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It's All Relative: Electoral Fraud, Protest, and Political Attitudes in Russia
Dr Hannah Chapman  
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Educational strategies of families: why parents invest in their children?
Dr Alla Varyzgina  
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Everyday media practices and 'politicization of Russian youth'.
Svetlana Chuikina  
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Varieties of Capitalism, Civil Society and Vested Interests in the Times of Populism
Mr Denis Ivanov  
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Nature in Early Russian/Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
Mrs Rafaela Bozic Mrs Rafaela Bozic  
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Popular Soviet Comedies of the Stagnation Era in the Light of Post-Folklore
Dr Olga Trukhanova  
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What happened to liberal dreamers when the history returned? Transformation of academia in Russia, Hungary and Turkey: cases of liberal backsliding (1989-2019)
Miss Yulia Taranova Miss Yulia Taranova  
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TikTok Memes as Consolidation Tool of the Protest Movement (Evidence from 2020 Khabarovsk Protest Rallies in Russia)
Dr Nikita Savin  
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“Quieter than water, lower than grass”: on silence in a former socialist city in the Baltics
Miss Marija Norkunaite  
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Professional obstetric care in an institution: the case of modern Belarus
Ms Aksana Antonchyk  
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Learning about the Soviet State: the establishment of the Soviet educational cartography in 1920–1930s
Dr Sofya Gavrilova  
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Gendered Expectations: Health and Youth in Late Brezhnev-Era Cinema
Ms Serian Carlyle  
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Russian legislation and support for the maintenance of linguistic diversity
Mr Konstantin Zamyatin  
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Avoiding Politics and Fighting the Regime: Climate Activism in Putin’s Authoritarian Russia
Dr Svetlana Erpyleva  
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‘And we are Kyrgyz feminists!’ Claiming and configuring feminism in Kyrgyzstan in the context of international development intervention
Dr Joanna Pares Hoare  
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Industrial workers, middle-class employees, and mass mobilisation: Regional employment patterns and subnational protest variation in Ukraine and Belarus
Ms Emma Mateo  
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Repressions against the Orthodox clergy in the Baltic States and North-West Russia in 1939-1953
Mr Ivan Petrov  
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A Sovereign Nation or Souvenir People: The Volatility of Titular Ethnic Groups' Electoral Behavior in Russian Regions
Mr Stanislav Shkel  
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Unintended consequences? Civil society transformation after crackdown in Azerbaijan
Mr Najmin Kamilsoy  
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Buffering Identities: Rethinking post-Socialist Gendered Identities in the Context of Invisible Subalternities.
Dr Anna Pechurina  
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Cultural change in public sector bureaucracy: sociomaterial perspective
Miss Anna Mariia Filippova  
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Informality and the change of rules: two cases from the Russian healthcare system
Ms Yulia Krasheninnikova  
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Transmitting the 1990s Wars: Populism and Cultural Industry of Memory in Contemporary Serbia
Dr Jelena Dureinovic  
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The New OVD-Info Dataset on Criminal Prosecution of Protests since 2015: Methodology and Prospects for Use
Mr Denis Shedov Mr Denis Shedov  
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Grass-roots language activism in contemporary Russia
Dr Vlada Baranova  
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Would Old Kyiv ever speak Persian?
Mr Andriy Danylenko  
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Listening to the Streets?: The Government Response to Protest in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Ms Katherine Crofts-Gibbons  
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Imagining the Georgian era: Eighteenth-Century British Writers in Stalin’s Russia
Mr Peter Budrin  
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Early Russian Cinema and Folklore: From Feature Films to Documentaries
Miss Anita Frison  
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Democratic Control or Service Delivery? The Roles of Citizen Participation in Local Decision-making Processes in Ukraine
Ms Sophie Schmäing  
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The Security Council and its Secretariat: power, policy and Patrushev
Dr Mark Galeotti Dr Mark Galeotti  
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On the post/Soviet and Eastern European queer archives
Dr Galina Miazhevich  
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“…you have little time you must give testimony…” Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish School of Reportage, and the Literary Tradition of Commemoration
Ms Aleksandra Konarzewska  
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Assembling Postsocialist University: Neoliberal Transition, Authoritarian Politics and Subjectivities of Resistance
Ms Iuliia Gataulina  
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Communist Gender Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria: A Transnational Perspective
Dr Ivan Simic Dr Ivan Simic  
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Discussions on media policy in Russia
Dr Katja Lehtisaari  
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The audience speaks back: responses to Russian soft power overtures in Estonia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine
Dr Victoria Hudson  
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Protests as Threats to Values: Use of Criminal Articles Against Gatherings
Mr Grigory Durnovo  
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When Stead Met Dillon: Russian Sexuality, New Journalism, and Polemical Networking in Late Victorian England
Miss Maria Krivosheina  
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Influence of Public Opinion on Prosecution of Protests
Miss Daria Korolenko  
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From Martyrs to Secular Martyrs and Back: churches commemorate Soviet victims in Ukraine
Mr Andriy Fert  
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The Legislative Process behind the Criminal Prosecution of Protests in Russia
Ms Nataliya Smirnova  
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Leo Tolstoy's legacy in suicidology: Analysis of the novel Anna Karenina
Miss Ksenia Chistopolskaya Miss Ksenia Chistopolskaya  
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Notes on Russian Pre-Revolutionary «Dacha Folklore» and «Dacha Literature»
Mr Emilio Mari  
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“Just an administrative offense”? The Politics of the Post-Protest Non-Criminal Processing of Opposition Protesters
Ms Renata Mustafina  
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Russian Myth in Contemporary Anglophone Children’s and YA Fiction: Identity, Representation, Reception
Ms Ekaterina Shatalova  
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Heroes, Villains, Saviors. On the Reappropriation of History in (Belarusian and Russian) Comics and Animated Films
Mrs Nina Weller  
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Divided Sarajevo? Spatial practices and multicultural legacy of the city.
Dr Justyna Pilarska  
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Lost in translation? Users’ interaction with foreign news stories on Russian RT
Johanne Kalsaas  
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Sounds and Symbols of Dissent: Laibach and Borghesia under former Yugoslavia
Mr Mitja Stefancic Mr Mitja Stefancic  
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Does the Eurasian Union Challenge the European Security? Central Asia between Security Domains
Prof Oxana Karnaukhova  
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Populist vs. Conservative Nativist Anti-politics: Latin America and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Dr Blendi Kajsiu  
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(Do not) get vaccinated or die: Discourses and practices of COVID-19 vaccination reporting in local media in Russia
Dr Olga Dovbysh  
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What’s in a Word?: Russian Prison Slang Dictionaries, an Overview
Dr Alex Maxwell  
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The Russian Coal Sector in the Face of Energy Transition
Dr Gevorg Avetikyan  
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“A Factory of Errors”: Conflicting Signals and Party Priorities in the Regional Operations of SverdTASS, 1935-1941
Dr Malcolm Spencer  
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The effects of historical politics on the collective memory of Russia's minorities.
Ms Iuliia Iashchenko  
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Post-soviet media systems facing "infodemic"
Mr Ilya Kiriya  
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The Environmental Turn in Post-Stalinist Literature
Dr Maria Hristova  
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Ghetto Registration Cards as a Source for Mapping Holocaust Topography in Lviv
Mr Taras Nazaruk  
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Trans-national and trans-local engagements of ethnic associations
Dr Veysel Erdemli  
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Commemorating the 2001 conflict in today’s North Macedonia: Major developments, patterns and actors (2002-2021)
Mr Naum Trajanovski  
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New wilderness in the context of 'third nature': the infrastructural collapse as a tourism resource
Dr Lidia Rakhmanova Dr Lidia Rakhmanova  
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Between Alliance and Confrontation: The Great Powers and the Postponement of the Bulgarian General Election in 1945
Dr Vesselin Dimitrov  
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Making sense of conflicting narratives: News reception and media trust in Russian speaking migrant’s use of political information media
Mrs Anna Ryzhova  
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Emergence of programmatic party competition in hybrid regimes: Within-case comparative analysis of Georgia
Mr Levan Kakhishvili Mr Levan Kakhishvili  
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Ipatiev House as a Historical-Revolutionary Monument: The Struggle to Preserve and Demolish
Dr Sergei Sokolov  
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Dismantling the normativity of post-socialism: the approach of conceptual history
Ms Tjaša Konovšek  
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Global Russian Literature: Reformatting the Paradigm
Prof Roman Katsman  
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The Morals of Political Trolling: How Staff at Russia’s Internet Research Agency Make Sense of Their Work
Mr Sergei Poliakov  
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The ‘leftist errors’ and the Yugoslav Partisans
Mr Ioannis Lainas  
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The afterlife of official discourses of Russia’s ethnic diversity in Kazan
Dr Leila Wilmers  
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Expertise on religion as Genre and Practice: a Study of Tablighi Jamaat Case
Dr Kristina Kovalskaya  
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Natural resources and infrastructures as drivers or barriers for sustainable tourism at the White Sea
Dr Julia Lajus  
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Cumulative deliberation: A closer-to-life approach to assessing opinion formation in online public spheres
Prof Svetlana Bodrunova  
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A self-critical public: The nature of discussions on Belarusian oppositional YouTube before the 2020 protests
Prof Svetlana Bodrunova  
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A glass wall: COVID-19 and political communication in Russia within the triangle of distrust between politics, media, and public
Prof Svetlana Bodrunova  
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The Russian face of COVID-19 denialism: Distrust, aggression, and conspiracy thinking in the anti-vaxxer communities on Telegram
Prof Svetlana Bodrunova  
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Conflict-Sensitive Communication as a Tool for Analysis and Mitigation: The Case of Public Communication surrounding COVID-19 in Slovakia
Dr Marta Lukacovic  
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Critical publics in Russian regions: comparison of local media environments
Ms Anna Litvinenko  
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Legacy of slander. The controversy of the cult of Saint Child Gabriel in contemporary orthodox memory
Mr Vitali Byl  
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Images of the Western Front Landscapes and Their Use in Russia, 1914-2014
Ms Sofya Anisimova  
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Russian brigades against Macedonia: the environmental and health factors on the Macedonian theater during the Great War
Dr Gwendal Piégais  
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In the Attraction of the Left. The Communist Movement among the Transcarpathian Hungarians in the First Czechoslovak Republic
Dr Imre Szakál  
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Russian Premiere of “Elektra” at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1913: the Common Viewpoints of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Vsevolod Meyerhold about “Modernization of Greek Tragedy”
Dr Kieko Kamitake  
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A city of two borderlines: Sovetsk in local narratives
Dr Daria Radchenko  
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War debris: the problem of creation and utilization of military waste on the Eastern Front 1914–1918
Dr Iaroslav Golubinov  
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Cynical laughter in the mass media - is it fashion or a factor in the language evolution?
Mrs Lilia Duskaeva  
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The Lords of Time: Political Futurism in Contemporary Russia
Prof Victor Apryshchenko  
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“The geological turn” of the early Soviet administrative and indigenous policies in Siberia
Dr Nadezhda Mamontova  
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“The geological turn” of the early Soviet administrative and indigenous policies in Siberia
Dr Nadezhda Mamontova  
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Contested waters: role of Galician rivers in the construction of front-line environment (1914-1918)
Prof Oxana Nagornaja  
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In search for the pecking order of geopolitics: the birth and death of Lithuania in British foreign policy, 1919/1939
Dr Donatas Kupciunas  
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Комизм как свойство, формирующее образцовый жанр интернет-мема
Prof Danuta Kepa-Figura  
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Название доклада
Prof Danuta Kepa-Figura  
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The Russian Foreign Agents Law as a Challenge for Europe - an Approach to Possible Solutions
Dr Oxana Schmies  
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Проявления «циничного смеха» в полилоге в польском политическом сегменте социальной сети „Twitter”
Dr Bogumił Gasek  
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Territorial Defense Forces: World Models and Ukrainian Case
Mrs Alla Kovalova  
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Форумный комментарий как инструмент реализации циничного смеха в новой болгарской медиареальности
Ms Irina Ivanova  
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Jasenovac on film: Contested past and identity reconstructions in contemporary Croatia and Serbia
Ms Ana Krsinic Lozica  
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Из бабочки в гусеницу и обратно: речевые приемы бодишейминга и противодействия ему в русскоязычном сетевом полилоге
Mrs Tamara Pivavarchyk  
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Decision-making and tactical shifts in anti-authoritarian network movements. Telegram and the 2020 Belarus protests
Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka  
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The heroic epic in the communication network of Slavic Romantic Nationalism
Mr Dalibor Dobias  
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Home country as 'Significant other': politicization of Russian-speaking Instagram bloggers with migration background during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Anna Smoliarova  
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Filling Pipelines with Cultural Meaning: Enacting Energy Literacy Through Corporate Sponsored Museums in Russia and Beyond
Dr Gertjan Plets  
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Anxiety and identity: the issue of Russian democracy and human rights in the 21st century Russia-US relationship
Dr Ruth Deyermond  
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The Post-War Reality of Azerbaijan: Political Dialogue, Weaker Opposition and Toxic Political Environment
Mr Bahruz Samadov  
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The economic policy of the Russian empire to the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and the agricultural and cultural-industrial exhibition «Russian Riviera» (1894-1913)
Delegate Ella Saginadze  
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Are programmatic party-voter linkages exceptionally weak in (some) postcommunist countries and if so, why and what may be the political consequences?
Mr Raluca Toma  
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Lost in Translation: Mapping Cambridge through Soviet Eyes
Mr Alexander James Kent  
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Old Kyiv and Transcendental Speech Acts
Mr Thomas Dalber  
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Churches in the 2020 Elections and Political Protests in Belarus: Raising Voices in the Time of Repression and Turmoil
Mr Nikolay Zakharov  
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Failure of the "National Church": the Fate of Greek Catholics in independent Belarus
Mr Aliaksei Lastouski  
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The internal discussions in the Belarusian Orthodox Church on identity and policy issues: a contemporary perspective
Dr Sergei Mudrov  
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Negotiating a Nation through Jazz: Underground Musical Ventures in Soviet Asia
Mr Zayra Badillo Castro  
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Islamic radicalization among Uzbek migrants in Russian prisons – myth and reality
Prof Judith Pallot  
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Green colonies: the adaptations of Uzbek migrants to sub-culture in Russian prisons.
Prof Judith Pallot  
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Postgraduate Research Forum: Disrupted research in focus - adapting your PhD in light of Russia's war against Ukraine.
Prof Judith Pallot  
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External voting in Kosovo: Towards state-consolidation or fragmentation?
Dr Aida Ibričević  
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Intersectionality in the identity construction in Russian prisons
Prof Elena Omelchenko  
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No Country(side) for Old Men? Landscape Restructuring and the Emergence of New Actors in Post-Socialist, Rural Areas since 1991. A Case Study from Southern Poland.
Ms Joanna Rozmus  
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Dancing on the verge of Spring: Rock music and political change, 1986-1990 (the case of Akvarium)
Dr Polly McMichael  
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Cold War Cartography in the Classroom: The Soviet 1951 Secondary School Atlas
Mr Nick Baron  
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Friday, 8 April 2022

(Ukrainian Institute London) Where is Ukraine on the mental map of the academic community?
Fri8  Apr12:30pm(45 mins)
 Youtube Ms Olesya Khromeychuk  
Track : Keynote 1:
Room: Auditorium
“Dead” and “Alive” Cities: The Calculus of Urban (Non)Protests in Russia
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Irina Busygina  
Track : Regional politics in Russia
Room: Umney Theatre
Development of geoengineering thought in Russia: historical and contemporary perspectives
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Jonathan Oldfield  
Track : Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science
Room: CWB Plenary
RT UK and its coverage of the 2019 British general elections: ambitious goals and modest results
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Vitaly Kazakov  
Track : Informational Influence of Post-Soviet Russia and its Media Ecosystem: Actors, Discourses, Impact
Room: JCR
Karel Kachyňa and the Czechoslovak normalisation period: Two decades of films that were not just for children
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Kenneth Ward  
Track : Contested past and mediated memory in East-European countries
Room: Music Room
Robust Christian Democracy or Orbanistan?
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Nigel Swain  
Track : Explaining Orban"s Hungary
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Printed liturgical books in pre-modern Russia: power struggle over textual authority
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Olga Grinchenko  
Track : "Pre-Modern Rus": textual and cultural traditions.
Room: Games Room
The Past is NOT a foreign country: eternal presents in Central European novels and films. Organised by 'Slavonica'
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(90 mins)
 Dr Andrew Roach  
Track : Roundtable: The Past is NOT a foreign country: eternal presents in Central European novels and films. Organised by 'Slavonica'
Room: Garden Room
Jewish memory work in the 1950s and 1960s Poland. Mapping the efforts to remember the Holocaust
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Janek Gryta  
Track : Between bottom-up and top-down. New approaches to Polish history.
Room: Linnett Room
Doppelganger and Totalitarian Discourse: the case of Vysotsky
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Georgii Khazagerov  
Track : Culture under State Socialism
Room: Umney Lounge
“Affirmative action” and terror behind barbed wire?: the construction of ethnicity in the Soviet GULAG, 1930–1953
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Mikhail Nakonechnyi  
Track : Negotiating ethnicity and identity in the communist and post-communist prison – from gulag to the present day
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
V. D. Nabokov, the Constitutional Democrats and Liberal Antisemitism
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Miss Anoushka Alexander-Rose Miss Anoushka Alexander-Rose  
Track : Intellectual History across the Revolutionary Divide
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Fair and Court—Staging Economy and Vilifying Power in Socialist Bulgarian Operas
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Patrick Becker-Naydenov Dr Patrick Becker-Naydenov  
Track : Society on Stage: Opera and Ballet
Room: J8
Re-considering Czechoslovak Show Trials
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Mary Heimann Prof Mary Heimann  
Track : Communist-era Repression and its Legacy in the Czechoslovak Context
Room: Seminar Room
Revolutionary Narratives in Feminist Counter-Memory of Contemporary Russia: Resistance or Nostalgia?
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Nadezda Petrusenko  
Track : Contesting Official Discourses in Contemporary Russia
Room: Teaching Room A
The Cold War in Russia's Official Collective Memory and Identity
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Vassily Klimentov  
Track : Politics and memory
Room: Teaching Room B
Labor unions and institutional corruption: The case of Kazakhstan
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Serik Orazgaliyev  
Track : Politics and Central Asia
Room: Teaching Room 4
Heart of Darkness: Russia’s war against Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer and researcher
Fri8  Apr02:00pm(90 mins)
 Mr Alexander Smoljanski  
Track : Heart of Darkness: Russia’s war against Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer and researcher
Room: Teaching Room 7
Russia's war against Ukraine
Fri8  Apr02:05pm(90 mins)
 Prof Markku Kangaspuro  
Track : Roundtable: Russia's war against Ukraine
Room: Auditorium
Political Factors of Sub-National Responses to COVID-19 in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Nikita Khokhlov Mr Nikita Khokhlov  
Track : Regional politics in Russia
Room: Umney Theatre
Sputnik International’s Covid coverage: audience reaction
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Lucy Birge  
Track : Informational Influence of Post-Soviet Russia and its Media Ecosystem: Actors, Discourses, Impact
Room: JCR
Forced green transformation: can the EU’s new green deal force Russia on the road to further decarbonisation?
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Olga Khrushcheva  
Track : Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science
Room: CWB Plenary
Strange bedfellows: Illiberalism and popular religion in Hungary
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Prof László Kürti  
Track : Explaining Orban"s Hungary
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Building Film Industry in 1920s Soviet Ukraine: The Case of VUFKU
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Yu-hsuan Hsu  
Track : Contested past and mediated memory in East-European countries
Room: Music Room
Understanding authoritarian decentralisation and its effects: the case of post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Ilyas Yesdauletov  
Track : Politics and Central Asia
Room: Teaching Room 4
COVID memory wars on social media between populist movements: The Czech case
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Ilana Hartikainen  
Track : Politics and memory
Room: Teaching Room B
Soviet Drama-Ballet in the 1930s: The Rise of Logocentric Choreography
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Tara Wheelwright  
Track : Society on Stage: Opera and Ballet
Room: J8
Forced Labour Camps in Communist Czechoslovakia: History and Memory
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Kelly Hignett  
Track : Communist-era Repression and its Legacy in the Czechoslovak Context
Room: Seminar Room
Serafim of Sarov and Educated Russia: Liudmila Alexandrovna Fon Nol’de’s Pilgrimage to Sarov Monastery
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Peter Flew  
Track : Intellectual History across the Revolutionary Divide
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Ethnic relations in the Romanian prison system – we are all equal but some are more equal than others
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Gabriela Groza  
Track : Negotiating ethnicity and identity in the communist and post-communist prison – from gulag to the present day
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
A red crocodile in the sky: how “Krokodil” supported Lev Trotsky ‘s campaign for the Soviet airforce.
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Miss Virginia Pili  
Track : Culture under State Socialism
Room: Umney Lounge
“Workers, Women, Wothers – images of women and their socio-economic consequences in the long period of transformation in Poland”
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Johannes Kleinmann Mr Johannes Kleinmann  
Track : Between bottom-up and top-down. New approaches to Polish history.
Room: Linnett Room
Gregory Tsamblak’s Mariological Works and the Construction of Late Medieval Slavonic Festal Sermon
Fri8  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov  
Track : "Pre-Modern Rus": textual and cultural traditions.
Room: Games Room
Iurodivye in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Muscovy
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Miss Sofia Simoes Coelho  
Track : "Pre-Modern Rus": textual and cultural traditions.
Room: Games Room
Polish and Lithuanian Early Modern Catholicism in the European Context
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Mr Stanisław Witecki  
Track : Between bottom-up and top-down. New approaches to Polish history.
Room: Linnett Room
Factory Workers, Socialist Organizers, Givers of Life, Symbols of Beauty: On the Union of Czechoslovak Composers’ Attitudes Towards Women in Music
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Barbora Vacková  
Track : Culture under State Socialism
Room: Umney Lounge
The thieves in law in Georgia: Resilience, resistance or fallen myth?
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Costanza Curro  
Track : Negotiating ethnicity and identity in the communist and post-communist prison – from gulag to the present day
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Crisis and adaptation in the Editorship of Sovremennye zapiski, 1920-40
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Hannah Connell  
Track : Intellectual History across the Revolutionary Divide
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Varieties of Nostalgia and Right-Wing Populism in Poland
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Marta Kotwas  
Track : Politics and memory
Room: Teaching Room B
A problematic media inheritance? Historic German recordings in Czechoslovak radio archives
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Erica Harrison  
Track : Contested past and mediated memory in East-European countries
Room: Music Room
The National-Populist Mutation of Neoliberalism in Dependent Economies: The Case of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Gabor Scheiring Dr Gabor Scheiring  
Track : Explaining Orban"s Hungary
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Institutional arrangements and policymaking in transition states: comparing environmental governance in Georgia & Armenia
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Ellie Martus  
Track : Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science
Room: CWB Plenary
Russia’s information influence in Sub-Saharan Africa, from international broadcasting to media outsourcing
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Audinet Maxime  
Track : Informational Influence of Post-Soviet Russia and its Media Ecosystem: Actors, Discourses, Impact
Room: JCR
Regions with the Initiative: Explaining the Supply and Success of Bills Submitted to the State Duma from Russian Regional Legislatures
Fri8  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ben Noble Dr Ben Noble  
Track : Regional politics in Russia
Room: Umney Theatre
Saving Lives or Saving the Economy? Support for the Incumbent during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Kirill Chmel  
Track : Regional politics in Russia
Room: Umney Theatre
Russian media's digital echo chambers on the French speaking Internet : a cartography
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Kevin Limonier  
Track : Informational Influence of Post-Soviet Russia and its Media Ecosystem: Actors, Discourses, Impact
Room: JCR
Pilot Region Sakhalin: Window-dressing or real chance to become a trendsetter in Russian climate policy?
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Benjamin Beuerle  
Track : Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science
Room: CWB Plenary
Who can work on Sunday? Understanding flexible labour in the retail sector in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Luca Szücs  
Track : Explaining Orban"s Hungary
Room: Auditorium Lounge
In search of a better life – Finnish illegal immigrants’ letters from the Gulag
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ira Jänis-Isokangas  
Track : Negotiating ethnicity and identity in the communist and post-communist prison – from gulag to the present day
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Stalin's Scripts: Nation Building and Georgian History in Soviet Literature and Film
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Svetlana Yefimenko  
Track : Culture under State Socialism
Room: Umney Lounge
Interpolation or Invention? The bishop's prayer at the enthronement of Dimitrii Ivanovich
Fri8  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Alexandra Vukovich  
Track : "Pre-Modern Rus": textual and cultural traditions.
Room: Games Room
The authority of books in Early Rus canonical literature
Fri8  Apr03:20pm(20 mins)
 Miss Vera Gagarina  
Track : "Pre-Modern Rus": textual and cultural traditions.
Room: Games Room
Climate change discourses in the authoritarian vulnerable state: the case of Uzbekistan.
Fri8  Apr03:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Alina Bychkova  
Track : Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science
Room: CWB Plenary
Z(a) Pobedu! New Nationalist Fashion in 21th century Russia.
Fri8  Apr03:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Anna Novikov  
Track : Regional politics in Russia
Room: Umney Theatre
Authoritarian durability, prospects of change and individual behavior: Evidence from a survey experiment in Russia
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Olga Masyutina  
Track : Authoritarian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and African Decolonization: New Perspectives
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Lena Dallywater  
Track : Roundtable: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and African Decolonization: New Perspectives
Room: Auditorium
Commemoration and Amnesia: Performing State and Nationhood in Hungary and Kosovo
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Marina Vulovic  
Track : Hegemonic Mobilisations through the Politics of Time and Space in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: CWB Plenary
Rethinking Post-Soviet Identities: Belarusian civil nuclear cooperation with Russia
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Anna Davis (née Davidson) Mrs Anna Davis (née Davidson)  
Track : Energy politics
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Cinematic Landscapes and Indigenous Identity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Adelaide McGinity-Peebles  
Track : Filmmaking and construction of cultural and environmental identities
Room: JCR
Albanian-Russian collaboration: Prospects of development.
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Noela Mahmutaj Dr Noela Mahmutaj  
Track : International politics and empires
Room: Music Room
'Illuminating the chaos and obscurity': polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Sarah Hudspith  
Track : Dostoevsky in Dialogue
Room: Games Room
Theme of Poet and Poetry in Li Quinzhao and Anna Bunina’s Lyrics
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Gong Hengxing  
Track : Finding their Way: Literary Strategies of Female Writers
Room: Linnett Room
The Theatricality of Reading: Agency and Embodiment in Vladimir Sorokin’s Playscripts
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Katerina Pavlidi  
Track : Echoes from the Late-Soviet Underground: Continuations and Consequences on Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Garden Room
The Read Russia project: A cultural organisation with a soft power mission?
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Angelos Theocharis  
Track : Russian and Soviet Cultural Associations in the 20th and 21st centuries: Soft Power and the Promotion of Culture and Literature
Room: Umney Lounge
City, Ethnicity, Islam, and National Development: Negotiating Self-Identity in Baku, 1860s- 1910s
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Yelena Abdullayeva  
Track : From the Old Geographical Borders to New Social Boundaries: Azerbaijan at the Cultural crossroads.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
R.W. Seton-Watson and the ‘New Europeans’, 1906-1921: Yugoslavs, Czechoslovaks and the Limits of 'Popular Internationalism'
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Samuel Foster  
Track : Western Entanglemnts in East/Central Europe
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
State-Owned Enterprises, Local Communities and the Changing Perception of Organisational Heroes/’Heroes’: The Czech Case
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Anna Soulsby  
Track : Economic Aspect of Socialist Transformation
Room: Teaching Room A
Soviet women’s anti-colonial solidarity with Asia and Africa and the Soviet ”women of color”
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Yulia Gradskova  
Track : Gender and Coloniality in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces
Room: Teaching Room 5
Growing up in Independent Lithuania: Behavioral Strategies of 1980-2000 Cohorts
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Laima Zilinskiene  
Track : Generational Experiences of Post-Soviet Transformation in Lithuania
Room: Teaching Room 6
An Exile Journalist and his Struggle with Communism: Josef Josten and the Free Czechoslovakia Information Service (1948-1985)
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Milada Polišenská Prof Milada Polišenská  
Track : Cold War Czechoslovakia and Britain: Experiences and Perspectives from Exiles, Officials and Students
Room: J8
Book-Culture of Cyrillic Script in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16-17 cc.: To the Problems of “Confessionalisation” in the World of Orthodoxy
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Sándor Földvári Mr Sándor Földvári  
Track : Crossing Borders: Culture and Social Mobility in the 16-18th century Eastern Europe's Periphery
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Developing Advanced Language Proficiency and Expertise in Eurasian Studies for the Job Market in the Government and the Private Sector
Fri8  Apr04:00pm(90 mins)
 Prof Basil Bessonoff  
Track : Workshop: Developing Advanced Language Proficiency and Expertise in Eurasian Studies for the Job Market
Room: Teaching Room 7
Integration of Regional Elites in Early Modern Muscovy: the Case of Ryazan
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Ivan Kirpichnikov  
Track : Crossing Borders: Culture and Social Mobility in the 16-18th century Eastern Europe's Periphery
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Conceptualising Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: The British Council in Czechoslovakia and Kuwait, c.1960-70
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Gerald Power Dr Gerald Power  
Track : Cold War Czechoslovakia and Britain: Experiences and Perspectives from Exiles, Officials and Students
Room: J8
The life course of post-soviet generations in Lithuania
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Sigita Kraniauskiene  
Track : Generational Experiences of Post-Soviet Transformation in Lithuania
Room: Teaching Room 6
The Core Colonial Narratives in the Construction of Russian Masculinities
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Marina Yusupova  
Track : Gender and Coloniality in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces
Room: Teaching Room 5
Financing the People?: credits, private construction, and the materialisation of need in Hungary (1949-1956)
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Szinan Radi  
Track : Economic Aspect of Socialist Transformation
Room: Teaching Room A
Lord Peter Carrington and the Beginnings of the Bosnian Mediation Process
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Alex Cruikshanks  
Track : Western Entanglemnts in East/Central Europe
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Soviet Baku and its Minstrel: Huseyn Javid “Caught In-Between with a Fading Dream”
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Leyla Najafzada  
Track : From the Old Geographical Borders to New Social Boundaries: Azerbaijan at the Cultural crossroads.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
The Greek-Soviet Association (1945-1989): literature as soft power in Greek-Soviet relations during the Cold War era
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Miss Christina Karakepeli  
Track : Russian and Soviet Cultural Associations in the 20th and 21st centuries: Soft Power and the Promotion of Culture and Literature
Room: Umney Lounge
A Soviet rock star: Viktor Tsoi’s onstage and onscreen image
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Miss Caroline Ridler  
Track : Echoes from the Late-Soviet Underground: Continuations and Consequences on Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Garden Room
Dialogue as a creative method in the works of Russian and Chinese Female authors of the XIX century
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Dandan Zhai  
Track : Finding their Way: Literary Strategies of Female Writers
Room: Linnett Room
Nabokov through Dostoevsky’s Eyes: “Old Dusty” in Sogliadatai
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Alina Wyman  
Track : Dostoevsky in Dialogue
Room: Games Room
Threat perception and securing against Russia. The foreign policy of Estonia and Finland (2008-2018)
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Maxime Belin  
Track : International politics and empires
Room: Music Room
Animating the Real: Documentary Pedagogy and Experiment in the former Yugoslavia
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Meghanne Barker  
Track : Filmmaking and construction of cultural and environmental identities
Room: JCR
“Cheap Energy” and Putin’s “Social Contract”
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Adnan Vatansever  
Track : Energy politics
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Us-building through sports in illiberal Hungary: National-historical myths embedded in the Arena Pancho
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Katinka Linnamäki  
Track : Hegemonic Mobilisations through the Politics of Time and Space in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: CWB Plenary
Power to the People? Explaining authoritarian referendums in post-Soviet Eurasia
Fri8  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ben Noble Dr Ben Noble  
Track : Authoritarian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Examining "vote rigging" and the "bandwagon effect" in Eastern European elections: are turnout rates and diversity of outcome connected?
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mr Nikita Shalaev  
Track : Authoritarian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Spatial and temporal constitution of myths: how memory, history and the past entangle in Romania and Serbia?
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mr Ionut Chiruta  
Track : Hegemonic Mobilisations through the Politics of Time and Space in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: CWB Plenary
The main actors in Russia’s gas sector – Gazprom, Rosneft and Novatek – and their role in Russia’s limited access order: privileges and responsibilities
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Kalina Damianova  
Track : Energy politics
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Post-Maidan Films as Component of New Ukrainian Cultural Identity
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Olha Voznyuk  
Track : Filmmaking and construction of cultural and environmental identities
Room: JCR
Towards a bottom-up peacebuilding solution for the Transnistrian conflict: A review of past conflict settlement initiatives
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ana Maria Albulescu  
Track : International politics and empires
Room: Music Room
Fyodor Dostoevksy, Grand Polyphonic Novels and Compelling Short Fiction: A Comparative Study
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Jacqueline Carr-Phillips Dr Jacqueline Carr-Phillips  
Track : Dostoevsky in Dialogue
Room: Games Room
Literary Strategies of Women Writers
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Nadezhda Puriaeva  
Track : Finding their Way: Literary Strategies of Female Writers
Room: Linnett Room
The Transnational Spread of Russophone Post-Punk: The Case of Molchat Doma
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mr marco biasioli  
Track : Echoes from the Late-Soviet Underground: Continuations and Consequences on Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Garden Room
Russian cultural societies in Britain (1890–1920): What did they promote?
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Miss Anna Maslenova  
Track : Russian and Soviet Cultural Associations in the 20th and 21st centuries: Soft Power and the Promotion of Culture and Literature
Room: Umney Lounge
Fire in the Land of Oil: Symbolism of Fire, Oil, and Nation in Baku Urbanscape
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Leyla Sayfutdinova  
Track : From the Old Geographical Borders to New Social Boundaries: Azerbaijan at the Cultural crossroads.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
“A colony of alien capital.” Polish public opinion and foreign investment in 1930s Poland
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mr Jerzy Łazor  
Track : Western Entanglemnts in East/Central Europe
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
On the question of the Soviet Economic modernization of the second half of the XX century: myth or reality?
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Prof Maria Ponomareva  
Track : Economic Aspect of Socialist Transformation
Room: Teaching Room A
Who was the Soviet woman and what happened to her After? On the Coloniality of Gendered Order
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Diana T Kudaibergenova  
Track : Gender and Coloniality in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces
Room: Teaching Room 5
Lithuanians born from 1980 to 2000: conceptualization of family life and mobility strategies in the times of global migration
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Prof Irena Juozeliūnienė  
Track : Generational Experiences of Post-Soviet Transformation in Lithuania
Room: Teaching Room 6
The Formation of an Exile Mind: Dr Frank Uhlir in London, 1949-1951
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Jiří Kašný Dr Jiří Kašný  
Track : Cold War Czechoslovakia and Britain: Experiences and Perspectives from Exiles, Officials and Students
Room: J8
Tradition and Innovation in the Engravings of the Early Romanian Primers (Second Half of the 18th Century - Beginning of the 19th Century)
Fri8  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Anca Elisabeta Tatay  
Track : Crossing Borders: Culture and Social Mobility in the 16-18th century Eastern Europe's Periphery
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
British post-graduates in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic as part of the bi-lateral cultural exchange agreements of the 1960s-1980s
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Barbara Day Dr Barbara Day  
Track : Cold War Czechoslovakia and Britain: Experiences and Perspectives from Exiles, Officials and Students
Room: J8
Social policy and life course regimes: post-Soviet transformations in Lithuania
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Jekaterina Navickė  
Track : Generational Experiences of Post-Soviet Transformation in Lithuania
Room: Teaching Room 6
The British Roots of Soviet Racism
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Thom Loyd  
Track : Western Entanglemnts in East/Central Europe
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Siberian Conceptual Irony from Perestroika to Putin
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Thomas Drew  
Track : Echoes from the Late-Soviet Underground: Continuations and Consequences on Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Garden Room
Opera, Birds, and Romantic Encounters in Dostoevsky’s "Poor Folk" (1846) and Goethe's Werther
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Inna Tigountsova  
Track : Dostoevsky in Dialogue
Room: Games Room
Post-colonial Emotions in Never-colonized States: Turkey and Russia as Subaltern Empires
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Melike Akkaraca Kose  
Track : International politics and empires
Room: Music Room
Dug in or rising from the mud: an ecocritical approach to selected new Polish films
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Justyna Budzik  
Track : Filmmaking and construction of cultural and environmental identities
Room: JCR
Russian SOEs as Foreign Policy Tools? The Case of Rosneft in Venezuela
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Karel Svoboda  
Track : Energy politics
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Resisting Leftist Dictatorship? Memory Politics and Collective Action Framing in the Populist Far-right PEGIDA Movement
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Sabine Volk Mrs Sabine Volk  
Track : Hegemonic Mobilisations through the Politics of Time and Space in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: CWB Plenary
Bromances and Authoritarian Learning? The Cases of Belarus and Russia
Fri8  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Stephen Hall  
Track : Authoritarian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
The God Given Freedom of Being A Pawnbroker
Fri8  Apr05:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Octavian Gabor  
Track : Dostoevsky in Dialogue
Room: Games Room
'War, Memory and Gender' Professor Andrea Pető (Central European University)
Fri8  Apr05:45pm(15 mins)
 Youtube Prof Andrea Pető  
Track : Keynote 2
Room: Auditorium

Saturday, 9 April 2022

A gendered analysis of the (self-) representation of the Belarusian pro-democracy leader of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Miss Ruta Skriptaite Miss Ruta Skriptaite  
Track : Belarusian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Statehood in the North Caucasus: Region Formation in the Longue Durée
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Ivan Ulises Kentros Klyszcz Mr Ivan Ulises Kentros Klyszcz  
Track : Belonging and Statehood of the Peoples of the North Caucasus
Room: CWB Plenary
Militarising through anxiety: Russian historical textbooks in the 1990s.
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Allyson Edwards  
Track : Reliving the past: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Russia.
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Russian political emigration: Visions and controversies after Navalny’s imprisonment
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Prof Mikhail Suslov  
Track : Roundtable: Russian political emigration: Visions and controversies after Navalny's imprisonment
Room: Music Room
‘No longer what you used to be’: defeats, negotiations, and compromises as challenges to patron–de facto state relations
Sat9  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Prof Nina Caspersen Prof Nina Caspersen  
Track : Dealing with the past under contested statehood
Room: JCR
Artificial Footnotes in Post-Soviet Russian Literature as a Tool of Rethinking the Past
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Dmitrii Mazalevskii  
Track : Modern Russian Literature and Culture: Digital Worlds and Paratexts
Room: Games Room
Governance in Russia: Development, Welfare and Rights in Russian Regions
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Marina Khmelnitskaya  
Track : Roundtable: Governance in Russia: Development, Welfare and Rights in Russian Regions
Room: Garden Room
Contested discourses in defining Croatian national heritage (strategies of inclusion and exclusion)
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Prof Maciej Czerwinski  
Track : Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe
Room: Linnett Room
The issue of minorities in the relation between Albania and Greece, in the Versailles Peace Conference 1919
Sat9  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Mrs Laurena Kalaja  
Track : Eastern Europe's Minorities in a Century of Change /Finland's second penitentiary system in Siberia
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Student Bodies, Musical Lives: Women and the St Petersburg Conservatoire, 1900-1913
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Sasha Rasmussen  
Track : Cultural and Social Innovations in the Russian Empire
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Olga Tokarczuk’s “Tender Narrator” – a New Perspective on Ethics in Literature?
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Ms Renata Ingbrant Ms Renata Ingbrant  
Track : Nature and the Environment in Prose Fiction
Room: Umney Lounge
Ecclesia and Rule in Rus’ and its Neighbors
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Christian Raffensperger  
Track : Kyivan Rus’ at a Crossroads
Room: Teaching Room 5
Politicization and competitiveness of business elites in Central and Eastern Europe: a comparison of Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Istvan Kollai  
Track : Neotraditionalism and neopatrimonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 6
Movers and Shakers of Local New Regionalism on Russian borders with Norway and Finland
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Ekaterina Mikhailova  
Track : New Regionalisms in Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room B
Rubbles of Memory: The Memorial Afterlives of Communist Monuments in Postcommunist Romania
Sat9  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Mihai Stelian Rusu  
Track : Memory and Space I: Difficult Pasts and Identities
Room: Teaching Room 4
Broadcasting Communist Morality: Sex Education and Mass Media in Soviet Latvia
Sat9  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Siobhan Hearne  
Track : Health and Vitality in Late-Soviet Culture
Room: Seminar Room
Cleansing the Nation: The Romani Genocide in Transnistria
Sat9  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Miss Cristina Stoica  
Track : Nazi Occupation in Eastern Europe: Resistance and Collaboration (I)
Room: Teaching Room A
Establishing Ties with the Worlds of Students: Evidence-based approach to State Socialist History of Czechoslovakia
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Vojtech Ripka Mr Vojtech Ripka  
Track : Experience of state socialism in the perspective of education
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
From Art to Commodity: Czech and Polish Filmmakers’ Responses to the Marketization of the Film Industry after 1989
Sat9  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Veronika Pehe  
Track : Cultural Transformations in Central and Southeastern Europe after 1989 in Historical Perspective
Room: J8
History, Memory, Legacy: Exploring the Heritage of Communist-era Forced Labour Camps in the Czech Republic
Sat9  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Kelly Hignett  
Track : Experience of state socialism in the perspective of education
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Energy Regionalisms in Central and Eastern Europe
Sat9  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Prof Corey Johnson  
Track : New Regionalisms in Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room B
"Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name". Provincial towns, recruitment, and militias in the early XIX c.: the impact of war on urban society (communities of Russian North-West)
Sat9  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Mr Mikhail Belan  
Track : Cultural and Social Innovations in the Russian Empire
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Be Grateful to Russia! History, Liberal Modernity, and Civilisational Justifications of Hierarchy in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Sat9  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Kevork Oskanian  
Track : Reliving the past: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Russia.
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Deepening the Societal Divide? Political Attitudes towards Constitutional Reform in Belarus among Regime Supporters and Protesters
Sat9  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Jan Matti Dollbaum  
Track : Belarusian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Realisation of political performance concept during Belarussian protests-2020
Sat9  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Mrs Yulia Ponomareva  
Track : Belarusian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Russia, Genocide and Ontological Security
Sat9  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Dr Natasha Kuhrt  
Track : Reliving the past: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Russia.
Room: Auditorium Lounge
What’s in a Name, or a Death? The Praxis of the Revolutionary Obituary, 1870-1905
Sat9  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Dr George Gilbert  
Track : Cultural and Social Innovations in the Russian Empire
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Nodes, the (Re)Ordering of Energy Spaces and Regionalism: A case study of Flows from Russia to the EU
Sat9  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Mr Margarita Balmaceda  
Track : New Regionalisms in Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room B
Interpreting state socialism through different media in school education
Sat9  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Mr Vaclav Sixta  
Track : Experience of state socialism in the perspective of education
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Touch with freedom - the U(niversal) map as a tool to understand the state socialism
Sat9  Apr09:03am(10 mins)
 Dr Alžbeta Śnieżko  
Track : Experience of state socialism in the perspective of education
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
The development of the national style in the architecture of Poles, Balts and Finno-Ugric people in the context of the Russian Empire rules in the 19th century
Sat9  Apr09:03am(10 mins)
 Miss Marta Cyuńczyk  
Track : Cultural and Social Innovations in the Russian Empire
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
The Ukrainian crisis through the lens of the Holocaust
Sat9  Apr09:03am(10 mins)
 Miss Isabel Sawkins  
Track : Reliving the past: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Russia.
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Belarus’ new Constitution: What do we know so far?
Sat9  Apr09:03am(10 mins)
 Dr Elizabeth Teague  
Track : Belarusian politics
Room: Umney Theatre
Internalising International History: Russian Political Uses of the Yugoslav Wars
Sat9  Apr09:04am(10 mins)
 Dr Jade McGlynn  
Track : Reliving the past: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Russia.
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Explaining the Absence of Jihadi Mobilisation among Georgian Azerbaijanis
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Mr Aleksandre Kvakhadze  
Track : Belonging and Statehood of the Peoples of the North Caucasus
Room: CWB Plenary
"Neither grass nor tree". Image of the refugees in the Hungarian interwar novel
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Mrs Julia Vallasek  
Track : Nature and the Environment in Prose Fiction
Room: Umney Lounge
The political dynamics of architectural symbols and ritual spaces: the case of the Victory Memorial in Riga
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Ms Ksenija Iljina  
Track : Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe
Room: Linnett Room
Boris Akunin’s literary universe inside the (e-)book: vintage paratexts, the digital, and Russian book design
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Ms Ksenia Papazova  
Track : Modern Russian Literature and Culture: Digital Worlds and Paratexts
Room: Games Room
Stories in Transformation: Literary Shifts in Post-Socialist Poland
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Dr Magdalena Baran-Szołtys Dr Magdalena Baran-Szołtys  
Track : Cultural Transformations in Central and Southeastern Europe after 1989 in Historical Perspective
Room: J8
The economic (policy) consequences of populism: The case of Hungary
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Ms Istvan Benczes  
Track : Neotraditionalism and neopatrimonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 6
Reflexes of Late Common Slavic Palatalizations in the Language of Kyivan Rus’
Sat9  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Ms Oksana Lebedivna  
Track : Kyivan Rus’ at a Crossroads
Room: Teaching Room 5
Regime change, competition state and political changes - a Polanyian approach
Sat9  Apr09:20am(10 mins)
 Mr Gabor Vigvari  
Track : Neotraditionalism and neopatrimonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 6
Ecologies of Decay: Engaging with the post-industrial ruins of Southeast Europe
Sat9  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Dimitra Gkitsa  
Track : Memory and Space I: Difficult Pasts and Identities
Room: Teaching Room 4
Nations Apart. Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare Under Nazi Rule
Sat9  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Mrs Radka Sustrova  
Track : Nazi Occupation in Eastern Europe: Resistance and Collaboration (I)
Room: Teaching Room A
Legitimacy, Health, and Longevity in late-Soviet Political Discourse
Sat9  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Miss Jessica Lovett  
Track : Health and Vitality in Late-Soviet Culture
Room: Seminar Room
Exploring Cultural Narratives of Saint-Petersburg through a Digital Lens
Sat9  Apr09:20am(10 mins)
 Dr Antonina Puchkovskaia  
Track : Modern Russian Literature and Culture: Digital Worlds and Paratexts
Room: Games Room
Belonging without believing? Bulgarian Orthodox identity and literary studies
Sat9  Apr09:20am(10 mins)
 Dr Ewelina Drzewiecka Dr Ewelina Drzewiecka  
Track : Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe
Room: Linnett Room
“It’s better to go to Siberia”: the exile of the Finns from the Grand Duchy of Finland
Sat9  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Larisa Kangaspuro  
Track : Eastern Europe's Minorities in a Century of Change /Finland's second penitentiary system in Siberia
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Commemorating contested statehood – and the loss of it: strategies for collective identification and political legitimation
Sat9  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Sophie Gueudet  
Track : Dealing with the past under contested statehood
Room: JCR
"Leaving" by Ludvik Kundera
Sat9  Apr09:30am(10 mins)
 Mr Jakub Jedounek  
Track : Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe
Room: Linnett Room
Cultural literacy and the functions of precedent phenomena in spontaneous speech of Russian intellectuals
Sat9  Apr09:40am(10 mins)
 Mrs Anna Solomonovskaya  
Track : Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe
Room: Linnett Room
Popular music and Soviet cultural diplomacy in the Global South, 1975-1990
Sat9  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski  
Track : Health and Vitality in Late-Soviet Culture
Room: Seminar Room
Commemorating Jewish History in the Western Ukrainian City of Lviv
Sat9  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Mrs Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair Mrs Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair  
Track : Memory and Space I: Difficult Pasts and Identities
Room: Teaching Room 4
Perceptions of the past in Russia’s ‘near abroad’
Sat9  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Prof Kristin Bakke  
Track : Dealing with the past under contested statehood
Room: JCR
Linguistic Strategies of Mythical Nation Construction. The Case of the Polish Law and Justice Party
Sat9  Apr10:00am(20 mins)
 Mrs Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka  
Track : Memory and Space I: Difficult Pasts and Identities
Room: Teaching Room 4
Reconsidering preparedness for EU accession: The integration maturity of Slovenia and Croatia
Sat9  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Kristian Nielsen  
Track : Past and Present Economic Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 4
Diversity and inclusion in knowledge production
Sat9  Apr11:00am(90 mins)
 Mrs Madeleine Markey  
Track : Roundtable: Diversity and inclusion in knowledge production
Room: Teaching Room B
Poverty in a Small Russian Town from the 10-year perspective: participatory approach and digital inequality
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Nina Ivashinenko Dr Nina Ivashinenko  
Track : Mobilities & Inequalities
Room: Teaching Room A
Trapped in a world you cannot understand – memories of the post-war period in the Polish People’s Republic according to the language biographies of the German minority
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Barbara A. Janczak  
Track : Language and Social Implications
Room: Teaching Room 5
Russia, Alexei Navalnyy, and Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Prof Jeffrey Kahn  
Track : Europe – law and integration
Room: Teaching Room 6
Sixty-Five Songs About Lukashenka
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Prof Andrei Rogatchevski  
Track : Belarusian Popular Music Today
Room: Seminar Room
The role of British political and military missions in Latvian state-building in 1919
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Eriks Jekabsons  
Track : Britain and the geopolitics of the Baltic from the seventeenth century to the Second World War
Room: J8
The Thrill of Azart: Recreation Trespass, Risk and St Petersburg’s Rooftops
Sat9  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Miss Abigail Karas  
Track : Youth in the former Soviet Union
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
The Topos of the Walled-up Woman in Modernist Bulgarian Drama
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Mrs Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybow Mrs Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybow  
Track : Recycling the Archaic in Southeastern European Cultures. The Case of the Walled-up Wife
Room: Linnett Room
Minding the Gap: Violence and Madness in Vladimir Zazubrin's Shchepka (The Chip)
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr James Ryan  
Track : "Moscow doesn"t believe in tears": Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Garden Room
What’s in a model? Space and community in north-east Siberia
Sat9  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Eleanor Peers  
Track : Person, place and community-making: religion in Russia today
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Between anti-colonialism and anti-communism. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s travel diary to Burma
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Michal Lubina  
Track : Post-Colonial Narratives
Room: Games Room
Soviet and Eastern European Intelligence in the Global South: A Reassessment
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Natalia Telepneva  
Track : Roundtable:Soviet and Eastern European Intelligence in the Global South: A Reassessment
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
From Siberia to Semirechie: natural environment and colonization in writings and photographs of Vasilli Sapozhnikov.
Sat9  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Tatiana Saburova  
Track : Exploring and Mapping Siberia in Imperial and Soviet Russia.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Are voter cleavages consolidating in Russia?: Comparing the bases of party and non-party support in 2021 with previous elections
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Prof Paul Chaisty  
Track : 2021 Duma Elections
Room: CWB Plenary
Gaining Voice: Exploration of Opportunities and Threats for Feminist and Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Putin’s Russia
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Miss Natalia Kovyliaeva  
Track : Protest and activism
Room: Umney Theatre
‘This attack is intended to destroy Poland’: Biopower, conspiratorial knowledge, and the assault on reproductive rights in Poland
Sat9  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius  
Track : Media coverage of gender, biopower and sexual violence
Room: Auditorium
Failing to Create Revolutionaries: Polish POWs in Soviet Captivity, 1920-21
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Peter Whitewood  
Track : Revisiting Polish-Soviet relations in the early 1920s
Room: JCR
Church-state relations and foreign policy interests : from Perestroika to Corona
Sat9  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Ms ‪Sophia Kotzer‬‏  
Track : Russian foreign policy, Eurasia, and religion
Room: Music Room
Constructing ‘Eurasian’ space: Political landscapes and meta-geographies in Russian foreign policy discourse
Sat9  Apr11:01am(10 mins)
 Ms Barbara Roggeveen  
Track : Russian foreign policy, Eurasia, and religion
Room: Music Room
Between Moscow, Warsaw, and the Holy See: Catholic Priests amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Religious Campaign
Sat9  Apr11:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Olena Palko Dr Olena Palko  
Track : Revisiting Polish-Soviet relations in the early 1920s
Room: JCR
Widening access or reducing transparency? Technology and e-voting in Russian elections
Sat9  Apr11:01am(10 mins)
 Prof Derek Stanford Hutcheson  
Track : 2021 Duma Elections
Room: CWB Plenary
Chocolate Chip or Vanilla? Approaches to State-Sanctioned Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Sat9  Apr11:01am(10 mins)
 Prof Muireann Maguire Prof Muireann Maguire  
Track : "Moscow doesn"t believe in tears": Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Garden Room
Fairies, Rebels and Lovers. Transfers and Transformations of the Topos of the Immured Sacrificed Woman in Serbian and Croatian Cultures
Sat9  Apr11:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Marzena Maciulewicz  
Track : Recycling the Archaic in Southeastern European Cultures. The Case of the Walled-up Wife
Room: Linnett Room
Belarusian Popular Music under Lukashenka: A Theoretical Perspective
Sat9  Apr11:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Yngvar Steinholt  
Track : Belarusian Popular Music Today
Room: Seminar Room
The Soviet VIA Legacy in Belarusian Popular Music
Sat9  Apr11:02am(10 mins)
 Prof David-Emil Wickström Prof David-Emil Wickström  
Track : Belarusian Popular Music Today
Room: Seminar Room
Body and Stone. Rada's Bridge in Kratovo and Macedonian Interpretations of a Ballad about Walled-up Wife.
Sat9  Apr11:02am(10 mins)
 Mrs Sylwia Siedlecka  
Track : Recycling the Archaic in Southeastern European Cultures. The Case of the Walled-up Wife
Room: Linnett Room
Warrior Women and the Soviet Literary Imagination in the 1920s and 1930s
Sat9  Apr11:02am(10 mins)
 Dr Lara Green  
Track : "Moscow doesn"t believe in tears": Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Garden Room
Russian public opinion prior and after the 2021 election
Sat9  Apr11:02am(10 mins)
 Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya  
Track : 2021 Duma Elections
Room: CWB Plenary
The Riga Treaty of 1921 and the Long Archival Negotiation.
Sat9  Apr11:02am(10 mins)
 Mrs Nataliya Borys Mrs Nataliya Borys  
Track : Revisiting Polish-Soviet relations in the early 1920s
Room: JCR
The Light of Orthodoxy over the Amber Land: Church-State Relations and the 'Colonisation' of Kaliningrad.
Sat9  Apr11:02am(10 mins)
 Mr Paul Graystone  
Track : Russian foreign policy, Eurasia, and religion
Room: Music Room
Reimagining Regions: Russia's vision of Greater Eurasia and challenge of the Indo-Pacific
Sat9  Apr11:03am(10 mins)
 Dr Nivedita Kapoor Dr Nivedita Kapoor  
Track : Russian foreign policy, Eurasia, and religion
Room: Music Room
Making Poles Soviet: Polish National Minority as an Object of Soviet Cinema in the 1920sct
Sat9  Apr11:03am(10 mins)
 Ms Yana Prymachenko  
Track : Revisiting Polish-Soviet relations in the early 1920s
Room: JCR
Beyond autochthony and through the looking glass – discussions on the “Ballad of Rozafat” and “The Building of Skadar”, and another perspective of approaching them
Sat9  Apr11:03am(10 mins)
 Dr Rigels Halili  
Track : Recycling the Archaic in Southeastern European Cultures. The Case of the Walled-up Wife
Room: Linnett Room
East, West or Right Here? Belarusian Soundwaves, Post-2014
Sat9  Apr11:03am(10 mins)
 Dr Arve Hansen  
Track : Belarusian Popular Music Today
Room: Seminar Room
Courland and the Atlantic: The Role of Britain in the Duchy of Courland’s Extra-Baltic Ventures
Sat9  Apr11:10am(10 mins)
 Mr John Freeman  
Track : Britain and the geopolitics of the Baltic from the seventeenth century to the Second World War
Room: J8
Propaganda vs. Anti-totalitarian Language Ideology. The Fight for Liberal Democracy in Polish Metalinguistic Reflection (1970–1989 & 2015–2021)
Sat9  Apr11:10am(10 mins)
 Mrs Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka  
Track : Language and Social Implications
Room: Teaching Room 5
"Searching for Loopholes": Cultural Narratives of Inequality and Responsibility among Russian Youth
Sat9  Apr11:10am(10 mins)
 Mrs Tamara Kusimova  
Track : Mobilities & Inequalities
Room: Teaching Room A
Academic social responsibility during the hybrid war in Ukraine
Sat9  Apr11:10am(10 mins)
 Prof Olga Gomilko  
Track : Post-Colonial Narratives
Room: Games Room
Identity Contestation and Instrumentalization within Serbia’s LGBT Movement
Sat9  Apr11:10am(10 mins)
 Miss Meghan Poff  
Track : Protest and activism
Room: Umney Theatre
The European Court of Human Rights as a factor in the Russian domestic politics
Sat9  Apr11:10am(10 mins)
 Dr Dmitry Kurnosov  
Track : Europe – law and integration
Room: Teaching Room 6
Our Aim Is To Stop Existing. Strategies and Evolution of Environmental Social Movements in Contemporary Russia
Sat9  Apr11:20am(10 mins)
 Ms Maria Chiara Franceschelli Ms Maria Chiara Franceschelli  
Track : Protest and activism
Room: Umney Theatre
‘Kvir’ as discourses of decolonisation and self-colonisation in Russian LGBT and queer online media
Sat9  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Ms Olga Andreevskikh  
Track : Media coverage of gender, biopower and sexual violence
Room: Auditorium
The Politics of Memory and Heritage Making in Contemporary Russia: The Relation between Politics and Orthodox Christianity
Sat9  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Mr Tobias Koellner  
Track : Person, place and community-making: religion in Russia today
Room: Auditorium Lounge
The critique of Kazakhstan’s postcolonial condition in Lilya Kalaus’s The Fund of Last Hope: A Post-colonial Novel (2013)A New Abstract
Sat9  Apr11:20am(10 mins)
 Dr Tamar Koplatadze  
Track : Post-Colonial Narratives
Room: Games Room
Transport infrastructures in environmental and socio-economic transformations in the Russian North
Sat9  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Mr Olga Povoroznyuk  
Track : Exploring and Mapping Siberia in Imperial and Soviet Russia.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Struggle to survive: Russian universities
Sat9  Apr11:20am(10 mins)
 Ms Angelika Tsivinskaya  
Track : Mobilities & Inequalities
Room: Teaching Room A
Albania part of Europe, Standpoints and Assessments!
Sat9  Apr11:20am(10 mins)
 Mr Dritan Axhami Mr Dritan Axhami  
Track : Europe – law and integration
Room: Teaching Room 6
Hotel Industry in war conditions in Ukraine
Sat9  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Miss Angelina Nevzorova  
Track : Past and Present Economic Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 4
The Anti-Appeasers in Britain and the Baltic States, 1939-1942
Sat9  Apr11:20am(10 mins)
 Mr Kaarel Piirimae  
Track : Britain and the geopolitics of the Baltic from the seventeenth century to the Second World War
Room: J8
A Sense of Identity and Political Views: Comparing within Eastern Europe
Sat9  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Mr Félix Krawatzek  
Track : Youth in the former Soviet Union
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Inside Looking Out and Outside Looking In: Re-Thinking Nationalism from Ukraine’s Cartographic Center and Peripheries
Sat9  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Marnie Howlett  
Track : Youth in the former Soviet Union
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Privatisation in Belarus and Estonia. Reflections on the ownership concept.
Sat9  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Mr Kacper Wańczyk  
Track : Past and Present Economic Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 4
Power, Territory, and Natural Resources: Yakutia and the Far East in the Context of the Early Soviet Border-Making
Sat9  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Mr Aleksandr Korobeinikov  
Track : Exploring and Mapping Siberia in Imperial and Soviet Russia.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
“In the beginning was the word”: minority religions and ‘socio-linguists’ in Russian courts
Sat9  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Dmitry Dubrovskiy  
Track : Person, place and community-making: religion in Russia today
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Media Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence Incidents in Russia during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Sat9  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Maria Davidenko  
Track : Media coverage of gender, biopower and sexual violence
Room: Auditorium
Spiritual Aspects of Street Feeding Orthodox Initiatives in Russia
Sat9  Apr12:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Anastasia Mitrofanova  
Track : Person, place and community-making: religion in Russia today
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Naming the Arctic and Siberia: The Role of VGU in Soviet Toponymic Policy and Practice
Sat9  Apr12:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Nadezhda Mamontova  
Track : Exploring and Mapping Siberia in Imperial and Soviet Russia.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Russian-Ukrainian contradictions on the Nord Stream 2.
Sat9  Apr12:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Dmitry Ponomarev  
Track : Past and Present Economic Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: Teaching Room 4
Sat9  Apr12:45pm(60 mins)
 Meeting of the Eurasian Regions Study Group and Study Group for Minority History Room:
CWB Plenary
Sat9  Apr12:45pm(60 mins)
 BASEES Annual General Meeting Room:
Auditorium
Dual Exceptionalism: Putin’s Legitimation Strategies under Pressure
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Bo Petersson  
Track : Debating Russia"s exceptionalism I: High Politics
Room: CWB Plenary
Academic rights for all?: rethinking students’ rights and freedoms in Academia
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Dmitry Dubrovskiy  
Track : Roundtable: Academic rights for all? Rethinking students rights and freedoms in academia
Room: JCR
Media use in the borderlands: Explaining engagement with local, national and cross-border news sources in peripheral regions of Ukraine
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Joanna Szostek Dr Joanna Szostek  
Track : Contemporary Ukrainian politics: Media, identities, mobilization and policy change
Room: Auditorium
Reddit à la Russe: how sociotechnical alliances in user-driven media cultivate critical publics in Russia
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Olga Dovbysh  
Track : Reconfiguring public spheres in Russia and Belarus: New publics, platforms, and practices
Room: Umney Theatre
Petitioning the Soviet President: Mikhail Kalinin’s Reception Office, 1919-46
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Lara Douds  
Track : Letter Writing and Petitioning in Russian/Soviet History
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Neoliberal feminism during wartime
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Daniil Zhaivoronok  
Track : Mediated feminism(s) in contemporary Russia
Room: Music Room
(MARKETS) Breaking the wheel: Corruption and informal governance in former socialist Republics
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(90 mins)
 Mr Piotr Majda Mr Piotr Majda  
Track : Roundtable:   (MARKETS) Breaking the wheel: Corruption and informal governance in former socialist Republics
Room: Teaching Room B
“Shadows of Empire: contesting territorial imaginations and borders in modern Europe”: Digital map-tool
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Olena Palko Dr Olena Palko  
Track : Digital mapping as a tool of historical research and teaching
Room: Teaching Room 5
From ‘liking’, ‘sharing’, and ‘commenting’ to experiencing participation: How civic engagement mediates the contributions of new media to political participation
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Mr Yerkebulan Sairambay Mr Yerkebulan Sairambay  
Track : Politics and (social) media
Room: Teaching Room 4
Soviet and Post-Soviet Memory. The Case of The Young Guard
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Ms Olga Gradinaru  
Track : Media, war and politics;Digital Media and politics;Audience studies;Media and activism
Room: Teaching Room 6
The Ethics of Cyborg Technology: A Russian Sophiological Perspective
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Walter Sisto  
Track : Towards the New History of Russian Orthodoxy
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Rhetorical Strategies of the Networked Navalny: A Case-Study of Digitally Mediated Political Communication
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Michael Gorham  
Track : Languages and communication strategies of digital politics and diplomacy
Room: J8
Voenno-Narodnoe Upravlenie and its discontents in Tsarist Central Asia
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Alexander Morrison Dr Alexander Morrison  
Track : Military Bureaucracy and its forms of Knowledge in Russian Turkestan
Room: Teaching Room A
British Intervention in Soviet Russia and Percieved German Military and Political Objectives, 1918-1920
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Mr Patrick Stickland  
Track : Reassessing the Origins and Impact of the First World War
Room: Seminar Room
The Velvet Revolution and the Jan Hus Educational Foundation
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Barbara Day Dr Barbara Day  
Track : Velvet Science. The state of the Czechoslovak (Czech) science after the Velvet revolution of 1989.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Hamsun in Wonderland: Knut Hamsun and Russia
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Ms Susan Reynolds  
Track : Russia and Europe: Cross-Cultural Exchange
Room: Umney Lounge
Gay Heritage and Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Nick Mayhew  
Track : Russian Literature and LGBT Emancipation
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Post-war reconstruction or authoritarian reinforcement in Karabakh
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Ms Firuza Nahmadova  
Track : Post-War discourses and their policy implications in Armenia and Azerbaijan
Room: Games Room
Environment Humanities in post-Soviet countries: decolonial approaches, Soviet modernity, and socialist Capitalocene
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Ms Darya Tsymbalyuk  
Track : Roundtable: Environment Humanities in post-Soviet countries: decolonial approaches, Soviet modernity, and socialist Capitalocene
Room: Linnett Room
Reimagining Odintsova in the 21st century: Avdotya Smirnova's Fathers and Sons (2008).
Sat9  Apr02:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Alexandra Smith Dr Alexandra Smith  
Track : Representing Russian Women as Modern Subjects.
Room: Garden Room
The Aesthetics of Queer Life-Writing: The Case of Andrei Dittsel'
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Dr Connor Doak  
Track : Russian Literature and LGBT Emancipation
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
A Tale of Two Cities
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Doubravka Olšáková  
Track : Velvet Science. The state of the Czechoslovak (Czech) science after the Velvet revolution of 1989.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
The making of a skilled orientalist. N.S. Lykoshin and his Letters from Native Tashkent series (1894-1896)
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Mr Roman Osharov  
Track : Military Bureaucracy and its forms of Knowledge in Russian Turkestan
Room: Teaching Room A
The Balkan Wars (1912-1913): Reshaping Alliances - Reconstructing the Image of the "National Other".
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Stamatia Fotiadou  
Track : Reassessing the Origins and Impact of the First World War
Room: Seminar Room
Discourse and communication strategies of Russian digital diplomacy
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Dr Vera Zvereva  
Track : Languages and communication strategies of digital politics and diplomacy
Room: J8
George Williams, Proctor of King’s College (Cambridge), and the British and Russian Interfaith Relations in the Mid-19th Century
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Irina Smirnova  
Track : Towards the New History of Russian Orthodoxy
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Soviet Subprime: Petitions, Poverty and Rural Post-war Reconstruction
Sat9  Apr02:01pm(10 mins)
 Mr Robert Dale  
Track : Letter Writing and Petitioning in Russian/Soviet History
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Complaints to the Authorities in Russia: Instrumental emotionality of the Soviet and post-Soviet social contract
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Ms Elena Bogdanova  
Track : Letter Writing and Petitioning in Russian/Soviet History
Room: Auditorium Lounge
The Old Believers in the 20th Century as the Middle Ages Alive: the heritage of Pre-Petrine Russia in the religious doctrine of the Siberian denomination “Third Israel”
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Dr Andrey Korenevskiy  
Track : Towards the New History of Russian Orthodoxy
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Speaking with numbers. Communication strategies through “open data” in Russia
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Françoise Daucé  
Track : Languages and communication strategies of digital politics and diplomacy
Room: J8
Something New on the Eastern Front: the ‘Balkanization’ of the Franco-Russian Alliance and the New Historiography of the Origins of the First World War
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Mr Teodoras Zukas Mr Teodoras Zukas  
Track : Reassessing the Origins and Impact of the First World War
Room: Seminar Room
Chasing fraudulent papers: imperial subjecthood and identity documents in Russian Turkestan
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Miss Malika Zekhni Miss Malika Zekhni  
Track : Military Bureaucracy and its forms of Knowledge in Russian Turkestan
Room: Teaching Room A
A Velvet Economics
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Antonie Dolezalova  
Track : Velvet Science. The state of the Czechoslovak (Czech) science after the Velvet revolution of 1989.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Post-Soviet queer through the prism of samizdat
Sat9  Apr02:02pm(10 mins)
 Miss Irina Roldugina Miss Irina Roldugina  
Track : Russian Literature and LGBT Emancipation
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Green Velvet: How Environmental Experts Became Politicians and How Economics Ruled Ecology
Sat9  Apr02:03pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Doubravka Olšáková  
Track : Velvet Science. The state of the Czechoslovak (Czech) science after the Velvet revolution of 1989.
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Letter Writing and Late Soviet Democracy
Sat9  Apr02:03pm(10 mins)
 Ms Courtney Doucette  
Track : Letter Writing and Petitioning in Russian/Soviet History
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Russian Nihilists in Grant Allen’s Under Sealed Orders
Sat9  Apr02:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Katya Jordan  
Track : Russia and Europe: Cross-Cultural Exchange
Room: Umney Lounge
Representation of Female Scientists in Post-War Soviet Cinema
Sat9  Apr02:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Olga Sobolev  
Track : Representing Russian Women as Modern Subjects.
Room: Garden Room
Non-Conforming Anti-War Discourses in Azerbaijan: Emotions and Resilience
Sat9  Apr02:10pm(10 mins)
 Mr Cesare Figari Barberis  
Track : Post-War discourses and their policy implications in Armenia and Azerbaijan
Room: Games Room
The Kalashnikovs of the information war: Mobile phones and communication rules of the Eastern Ukrainian frontline
Sat9  Apr02:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Roman Horbyk  
Track : Media, war and politics;Digital Media and politics;Audience studies;Media and activism
Room: Teaching Room 6
News, Media Credibility, and Political Crisis in an Autocratic State
Sat9  Apr02:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Maxim Alyukov Dr Maxim Alyukov  
Track : Politics and (social) media
Room: Teaching Room 4
Mapping the century-long Balkan studies
Sat9  Apr02:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Dorian Jano Dr Dorian Jano  
Track : Digital mapping as a tool of historical research and teaching
Room: Teaching Room 5
Personal stories vs. expert views: Analysing coverage of the Covid19 pandemic in Slovakia.
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(10 mins)
 Dr Zuzana Podracká  
Track : Politics and (social) media
Room: Teaching Room 4
Imagining Enemies: War Rhetoric of Aliyev and Pashinyan, and the construction of the Otherness
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(10 mins)
 Dr Naira Sahakyan  
Track : Post-War discourses and their policy implications in Armenia and Azerbaijan
Room: Games Room
Russian Women Writers in the French and Chinese Emigrations: Depicting a Modern Female Identity
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(10 mins)
 Dr Carol Ueland  
Track : Representing Russian Women as Modern Subjects.
Room: Garden Room
Особенности фланирования рассказчиков в романах Гайто Газданова "Вечер у Клэр" и "Ночные дороги"
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(10 mins)
 Miss Maria Turgieva  
Track : Russia and Europe: Cross-Cultural Exchange
Room: Umney Lounge
Online celebrity Feminism in Russia
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Saara Ratilainen  
Track : Mediated feminism(s) in contemporary Russia
Room: Music Room
Political news consumption on Russian Telegram: Navigating through the “chaos of narratives”
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Anna Litvinenko  
Track : Reconfiguring public spheres in Russia and Belarus: New publics, platforms, and practices
Room: Umney Theatre
Post-Revolutionary Flux: Ukrainian History in the Classroom
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Miss Anastasiya Byesyedina Miss Anastasiya Byesyedina  
Track : Contemporary Ukrainian politics: Media, identities, mobilization and policy change
Room: Auditorium
Mission Narrative in Russian Foreign Policy. The Comparative Perspective
Sat9  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Alicja Curanović  
Track : Debating Russia"s exceptionalism I: High Politics
Room: CWB Plenary
Modernizing Chekhovian Womanhood: Michael Mayer's 2018 Screen Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
Sat9  Apr02:30pm(10 mins)
 Prof Olga Partan  
Track : Representing Russian Women as Modern Subjects.
Room: Garden Room
Power as Hierarchy: Conceptualising Russia as a ‘Hybrid Exceptionalist’ Empire.
Sat9  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Kevork Oskanian  
Track : Debating Russia"s exceptionalism I: High Politics
Room: CWB Plenary
Progressive Attitudes or Empty Promises? Post-Revolutionary Order and Gender Policy Reforms in Tunisia and Ukraine
Sat9  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Miss Kateryna Marina Miss Kateryna Marina  
Track : Contemporary Ukrainian politics: Media, identities, mobilization and policy change
Room: Auditorium
Politicization of science journalism: How Russian journalists covered the COVID-19 pandemic
Sat9  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Anna Litvinenko  
Track : Reconfiguring public spheres in Russia and Belarus: New publics, platforms, and practices
Room: Umney Theatre
Discourses on masculinities and violence in feminist media in Russia
Sat9  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Olga Andreevskikh  
Track : Mediated feminism(s) in contemporary Russia
Room: Music Room
Feminists themes and personalities in Russian traditional media
Sat9  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Galina Miazhevich  
Track : Mediated feminism(s) in contemporary Russia
Room: Music Room
Commenting on news in different discourse architectures: Comparison of discursive practices across eight social media platforms in Russia
Sat9  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Anna Litvinenko  
Track : Reconfiguring public spheres in Russia and Belarus: New publics, platforms, and practices
Room: Umney Theatre
“Destroyer of the Towers of Babel”: Messianism and the Regime Ideology of Putinism
Sat9  Apr03:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Mikhail Suslov  
Track : Debating Russia"s exceptionalism I: High Politics
Room: CWB Plenary
Alternative Television: The role of YouTube in Russia's authoritarian elections
Sat9  Apr03:20pm(20 mins)
 Ms Anna Litvinenko  
Track : Reconfiguring public spheres in Russia and Belarus: New publics, platforms, and practices
Room: Umney Theatre
Defence reforms in Ukraine: the potential and limits of international cooperation
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Prof Bettina Renz  
Track : The politics of security in Ukraine
Room: Umney Theatre
Book Talk: Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale, 2022), by Geoffrey Roberts
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Youtube Dr James Ryan  
Track : Roundtable: Book Talk: Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale, 2022), by Geoffrey Roberts
Room: Auditorium
Conducting Research During a Pandemic: Reflections from Early-Career Female Scholars
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Jasmin Dall'Agnola  
Track : Roundtable: Disrupted Research in Focus: Adapting Research in Light of Dynamic Global Events
Room: CWB Plenary
Sharing the Neighbourhoods: Russia, China, and the EU in the Post-Soviet Eurasia
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Irina Busygina  
Track : Russia and Its Two Shared Neighbourhoods
Room: JCR
Global Russian Studies: Quantitative Methodologies and the Production of Academic Knowledge
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Angelika Tsivinskaya  
Track : The global turn in Russian studies: Conceptualisation of a new paradigm
Room: Music Room
Working Title: Women as Amateur Photographers: Clubs, Professionalism and the 'Industry' in the Late Soviet Period
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Jessica Werneke  
Track : Women and symbolism in late Soviet cultural production
Room: Umney Lounge
Peripheral Histories: Regions, Localities, and Borderlands in Eurasia in Historical Perspective
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(90 mins)
 Dr Alun Thomas  
Track : Roundtable: Peripheral Histories: Regions, Localities, and Borderlands in Eurasia in Historical Perspective
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Translating Politics – Simplification vs. Obfuscation in Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of The Oprichnik and Zakhar Prilepin’s Sankya
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Sarah Gear  
Track : Russian-English Literary Translation, History and Practice through the 20th and 21st Centuries
Room: Games Room
Ukrainian identity and the civil society cohesion before and during the war
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Yuliya Bidenko  
Track : Voices at War: Research From Rising Stars in Ukraine
Room: Garden Room
Beyond the Bête Noire?: Keston College and the Cold War
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Mark Hurst  
Track : Western human rights organizations and Soviet believers in the Cold War
Room: Linnett Room
Book discussion: Tomila V. Lankina, The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(90 mins)
 Prof Tomila Lankina  
Track : Roundtable: Book discussion: Tomila V. Lankina,
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
The features of null subjects: A case study in Czech
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Ms Ludmila Veselovska  
Track : Licensing and interpreting null arguments in East European languages
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Combining (in)compatible identities: contemporary Poland as a country of ‘immigration’ and ‘emigration’
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Prof Anne White  
Track : Migrants in Polish society
Room: Teaching Room 4
Main constraints to migrant entrepreneurship in Russia: The case of Central Asian migrant entrepreneurs in St. Petersburg and Moscow
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Miss Ekaterina Vorobeva  
Track : Mobilities & Migration
Room: Teaching Room 5
A century and half of Czechoslovakism
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Dr Adam Hudek  
Track : Roundtable:   A century and half of Czechoslovakism
Room: Teaching Room B
‘To protect our Lenin’: Mnemonic Activism and Reactionism of the Communist Party of Latvia in the Defence of Lenin Monuments (1990–1991)
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Mr Dmitrijs Andrejevs  
Track : New Perspectives on Latvian Communism
Room: Teaching Room A
Concrete Totality: Alexandre Kojève and the Avant-Garde
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Ms Isabel Jacobs  
Track : Visual Art and Artistic Networks
Room: Seminar Room
Property and Equality in Stolypin’s Siberian Reforms
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Mr Alberto Masoero  
Track : Economy and Empire in Russian History
Room: J8
Cold War in Neutral Spaces of International Organizations: The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of the Red Cross in 1950-1991.
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Mr Severyan Dyakonov  
Track : Internationalising the Socialist Bloc
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
The Failed Promise: Transitions in Egypt and Hungary
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Marwa Mamdouh-Salem Dr Marwa Mamdouh-Salem  
Track : Gender on the Prowl: Women and Decision-Making in the Russian Federation
Room: Teaching Room 6
Reception of Russia by Young Chinese Internet Users: A Case Study on Danmu Comments
Sat9  Apr04:00pm(10 mins)
 Miss Rui Wang  
Track : Policies and practices in the digital age
Room: Teaching Room 7
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright": Latvians and Communism in a Long-Term Perspective
Sat9  Apr04:01pm(10 mins)
 Dr Matthew Kott  
Track : New Perspectives on Latvian Communism
Room: Teaching Room A
Subject realization in Bulgarian, a consistent Null Subject language
Sat9  Apr04:01pm(10 mins)
 Mr Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke  
Track : Licensing and interpreting null arguments in East European languages
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
NATO models, Ukrainian realities: The Politics of Reforming Civil-Military Relations
Sat9  Apr04:01pm(10 mins)
 Dr Sarah Whitmore  
Track : The politics of security in Ukraine
Room: Umney Theatre
Civil society and the politics of emergency in Ukraine
Sat9  Apr04:02pm(10 mins)
 Miss Bohdana Kurylo Miss Bohdana Kurylo  
Track : The politics of security in Ukraine
Room: Umney Theatre
The concept of the Null Subject and typologies of NSLs
Sat9  Apr04:02pm(10 mins)
 Mr Jacek Witkos  
Track : Licensing and interpreting null arguments in East European languages
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Latvian National Communism and Dissidence: The Domestic and International Impact of the 1972 Tamizdat ‘Protest Letter’
Sat9  Apr04:02pm(10 mins)
 Dr Michael Loader  
Track : New Perspectives on Latvian Communism
Room: Teaching Room A
Null and overt pronouns in East Slavic
Sat9  Apr04:03pm(10 mins)
 Mr Egor Tsedryk  
Track : Licensing and interpreting null arguments in East European languages
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Licensing 3SG null arguments in Hungarian
Sat9  Apr04:04pm(10 mins)
 Prof Gréte Dalmi  
Track : Licensing and interpreting null arguments in East European languages
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Cubists play with Czech poetism
Sat9  Apr04:10pm(10 mins)
 Ms Vladimira Derkova  
Track : Visual Art and Artistic Networks
Room: Seminar Room
“Butter Biographies: V. F. Sokul'skii, A. N. Balakshin & Siberian Butter Production”
Sat9  Apr04:10pm(10 mins)
 Prof David Darrow  
Track : Economy and Empire in Russian History
Room: J8
The Socialist Bloc and the Internationalization of Children's Rights, 1978-1990.
Sat9  Apr04:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Elizabeth White  
Track : Internationalising the Socialist Bloc
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Migrant learners of Polish or seven cases of belonging
Sat9  Apr04:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Karolina Rosiak  
Track : Migrants in Polish society
Room: Teaching Room 4
‘Georgian Migrants in Germany: The Impacts of Social Remittances on Forms of Inequality in the Country of Origin’
Sat9  Apr04:10pm(10 mins)
 Frau Diana Bogishvili  
Track : Mobilities & Migration
Room: Teaching Room 5
Trust and data reliability under conditions of authoritarianism: Practices of data journalism in Russian newsrooms
Sat9  Apr04:10pm(10 mins)
 Dr Mariëlle Wijermars  
Track : Policies and practices in the digital age
Room: Teaching Room 7
Survivalists, anti-collectors and post-capitalists: online piracy as ideological, aesthetic and identity-oriented project
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(10 mins)
 Ms Kateryna Boyko  
Track : Policies and practices in the digital age
Room: Teaching Room 7
"Our Gender is Female": Women in Decision-Making Position on Gender, Power and Political Participation
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Prof Marianna Muravyeva  
Track : Gender on the Prowl: Women and Decision-Making in the Russian Federation
Room: Teaching Room 6
Transnational communism or transnational feminism: International Network of the Communist Women's Movement in the 1920s
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(10 mins)
 Mrs Daria Dyakonova  
Track : Internationalising the Socialist Bloc
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Cultural networks of artistic exchange: the Hungarian contacts and members of the Cobra group
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(10 mins)
 Mr Imre Jozsef Balazs  
Track : Visual Art and Artistic Networks
Room: Seminar Room
Ukrainian-Russian War and Storytelling
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mariia Shuvalova  
Track : Voices at War: Research From Rising Stars in Ukraine
Room: Garden Room
Female Creative Minds in Twentieth-Century Russian Literary Translation
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Cathy McAteer Dr Cathy McAteer  
Track : Russian-English Literary Translation, History and Practice through the 20th and 21st Centuries
Room: Games Room
Searching for the Ideal: Fluidity of Women’s Social Role Through the Lens of Fashion on Soviet Screens (Stagnation, 1964-1985)
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Natasha Vinnikova Mrs Natasha Vinnikova  
Track : Women and symbolism in late Soviet cultural production
Room: Umney Lounge
The Russian Student Christian Movement’s Assistance to Soviet Believers (1960s-1980s)
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Barbara Martin  
Track : Western human rights organizations and Soviet believers in the Cold War
Room: Linnett Room
Russia-Belarus alignment in the context of sanctions
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Alena Vieira  
Track : Russia and Its Two Shared Neighbourhoods
Room: JCR
Russophone Readers United: Book clubs and the Formation of a Global Russophone Community
Sat9  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Angelos Theocharis  
Track : The global turn in Russian studies: Conceptualisation of a new paradigm
Room: Music Room
Global Russian Queer Drama: Genealogies and Disciplinary Shifts
Sat9  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Ms Tatiana Klepikova  
Track : The global turn in Russian studies: Conceptualisation of a new paradigm
Room: Music Room
Evolution of China’s Central Asia Policy: Implications for Russia
Sat9  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Elena Soboleva  
Track : Russia and Its Two Shared Neighbourhoods
Room: JCR
"Glaube in der zweiten Welt" as a Cold War actor: between anticommunism and human rights defense
Sat9  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Nadezhda Beliakova Dr Nadezhda Beliakova  
Track : Western human rights organizations and Soviet believers in the Cold War
Room: Linnett Room
Overindulgence in the Time of Exile: Channeling Transgressive Eroticism through Exilic Filmmaking in Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie
Sat9  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mr Toni Juricic  
Track : Women and symbolism in late Soviet cultural production
Room: Umney Lounge
Literary Diversity and Translation: A study of Foreign Literature Journal
Sat9  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Natalia Rulyova  
Track : Russian-English Literary Translation, History and Practice through the 20th and 21st Centuries
Room: Games Room
Career strategies of women in public administration of Russia and Finland
Sat9  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Valeriya Utkina  
Track : Gender on the Prowl: Women and Decision-Making in the Russian Federation
Room: Teaching Room 6
Translation thinking in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s: diverse ideas and choice of text type
Sat9  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Suzanne Eade Roberts  
Track : Russian-English Literary Translation, History and Practice through the 20th and 21st Centuries
Room: Games Room
“What happens when the symbols shatter?”: Global Russophone Identities and Cultural Resistance among Post-Soviet Greeks
Sat9  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Kataiftsis Dimitris  
Track : The global turn in Russian studies: Conceptualisation of a new paradigm
Room: Music Room
Keynote: Sarah Rainsford (BBC) In Conversations with Judith Pallot (BASEES Vice-President)
Sat9  Apr05:45pm(15 mins)
 Youtube Sarah Rainsford  
Track : Keynote 3
Room: Auditorium

Sunday, 10 April 2022

Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War and Crimean Annexation: Resolvable or Intractable?
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mr Taras Kuzio  
Track : Roundtable: Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War and Crimean Annexation: Resolvable or Intractable?
Room: CWB Plenary
Russia and China: the rise of global security actors
Sun10  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Natasha Kuhrt  
Track : Contemporary Russian Security: Trends and Discourses
Room: JCR
Debating Russia's exceptionalism
Sun10  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Prof Raymond Taras Prof Raymond Taras  
Track : Debating Russia’s Exceptionalism II: Ideological Politics
Room: Music Room
Phantom Limb Syndrome: How historical Jewish presence affects contemporary support for the populist right in Poland
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Ms Sara Luxmoore Ms Sara Luxmoore  
Track : Populism
Room: Auditorium Lounge
East German Ministry for State Security Guidelines and Running Secret Police Informants
Sun10  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Prof Alison Lewis  
Track : Reconsidering collaboration and anti-communist opposition
Room: Games Room
Lost in the woods: alternative teaching and research methodologies in Slavic Studies
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Ms Darya Tsymbalyuk  
Track : Roundtable: Lost in the woods: alternative teaching and research methodologies in Slavic Studies
Room: Linnett Room
Gulag Legacies and Penal Reform: The Consequences of War on the Trajectories of Change in Punishment Cultures in Eurasia'
Sun10  Apr09:00am(90 mins)
 Prof Judith Pallot  
Track : Roundtable: Gulag Legacies and Penal Reform: The Consequences of War on the Trajectories of Change in Punishment Cultures in Eurasia'
Room: Garden Room
'Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945'
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Celia Donert  
Track : Roundtable: Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Apollos Baibakov and the Popularisation of Scripture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Kelsey Rubin-Detlev  
Track : Translating and Reinterpreting Spiritual Ideas
Room: Umney Lounge
Writing between worlds – Polish migrant authors in Argentina in the 20th century
Sun10  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Mrs Annelie Bachmaier  
Track : Transnational Migrations / Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining region
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Speech identity of youth social practices in the media polylogue
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mrs Liubov Ivanova Mrs Liubov Ivanova  
Track : Roundtable: Speech identity of youth social practices in the media polylogue
Room: Teaching Room 4
Integration of various approaches to grammar teaching in a new spiraling teaching methodology
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Mrs Natalia V. Parker  
Track : Russian @ Leeds: Innovations in Language Pedagogy
Room: Teaching Room 5
MARKETS ITN Getting things done: informal practices as adaptive strategies in post-socialist societies
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Ms Alberica Camerani  
Track : Roundtable: MARKETS ITN Getting things done: informal practices as adaptive strategies in post-socialist societies
Room: Teaching Room B
Publishing in Academic Journals: Tips to Help you Succeed
Sun10  Apr09:00am(90 mins)
 Mrs Madeleine Markey  
Track : Roundtable: How to get published
Room: J8
The Urban Infrastructure of the Public Communication of Knowledge in the Late Soviet Union
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Alexey Golubev  
Track : Managing Knowledge: From the Late Soviet to Post-Soviet Era
Room: Teaching Room A
A Latvian on the Politburo: A Political Portrait of Arvīds Pelše
Sun10  Apr09:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Michael Loader  
Track : Political Biographies: The Lives and Careers of Senior Soviet Politicians
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
Petr Masherau: a case study in Soviet political leadership
Sun10  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Natalya Chernyshova  
Track : Political Biographies: The Lives and Careers of Senior Soviet Politicians
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
“There is no bold thought”: The intellectual context of the alternative archaeology genesis in the late Soviet and early post-Soviet time
Sun10  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Mr Dmitrii Blyshko  
Track : Managing Knowledge: From the Late Soviet to Post-Soviet Era
Room: Teaching Room A
Corpora and Data Driven Learning in Russian Grammar Teaching
Sun10  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Dr James Wilson  
Track : Russian @ Leeds: Innovations in Language Pedagogy
Room: Teaching Room 5
„Lost in Translation“? Making sense of the removal of Christian ideas in 19th-century Russian translations of German-Jewish historical novels
Sun10  Apr09:01am(10 mins)
 Dr Nicolas Dreyer  
Track : Translating and Reinterpreting Spiritual Ideas
Room: Umney Lounge
The Antichrist and His Plot Against Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Eschatology
Sun10  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Dr Magda Dolińska-Rydzek  
Track : Translating and Reinterpreting Spiritual Ideas
Room: Umney Lounge
A Turn towards (Adapted) Text
Sun10  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Mr Pavel Gudoshnikov  
Track : Russian @ Leeds: Innovations in Language Pedagogy
Room: Teaching Room 5
Paper Dreams and Flat Buildings: on Architecture that Was not Meant to Be.
Sun10  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Prof Serguei Oushakine  
Track : Managing Knowledge: From the Late Soviet to Post-Soviet Era
Room: Teaching Room A
The Grey Cardinal as Soviet Boy Scout: The Early Career of M.A. Suslov
Sun10  Apr09:02am(10 mins)
 Dr Alex Marshall  
Track : Political Biographies: The Lives and Careers of Senior Soviet Politicians
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 3
The “Demographic Crisis” in Scholarly Debates and Published Media in the 1970s
Sun10  Apr09:03am(10 mins)
 Ms Olga Smolyak  
Track : Managing Knowledge: From the Late Soviet to Post-Soviet Era
Room: Teaching Room A
Between Displacement and Political ‘Weaponization’: Translation and Reception of First-Wave Russian Émigré Philosophers
Sun10  Apr09:03am(10 mins)
 Dr Emily Lygo  
Track : Translating and Reinterpreting Spiritual Ideas
Room: Umney Lounge
Populism in Russia: Evidence from Constitutional Vote and Responses towards COVID-19
Sun10  Apr09:10am(10 mins)
 Dr Sergei Shein  
Track : Populism
Room: Auditorium Lounge
“Because of your eyes, those green eyes of yours, I’ve gone mad”. The Polish populist right’s affair with Disco Polo.
Sun10  Apr09:20am(10 mins)
 Ms Marta Kotwas  
Track : Populism
Room: Auditorium Lounge
Russia’s exceptionalism and politics of loneliness
Sun10  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Sergei Akopov  
Track : Debating Russia’s Exceptionalism II: Ideological Politics
Room: Music Room
Russia as a Peacemaker? Russia's Emerging Model of Conflict Management
Sun10  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Mr David Lewis  
Track : Contemporary Russian Security: Trends and Discourses
Room: JCR
The two faces of music migration
Sun10  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr John Nelson  
Track : Transnational Migrations / Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining region
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Between the Left and the Washington Consensus: Bulgaria’s Transition to Democracy 1989-1992
Sun10  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Galina Yakova Dr Galina Yakova  
Track : Reconsidering collaboration and anti-communist opposition
Room: Games Room
Traces of the minority existence and multilingual features in the interwar Transcarpathian prose
Sun10  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Ms Gabriella Mádi  
Track : Transnational Migrations / Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining region
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Russian and American ‘Exceptionalist’ diplomacy and Revolution: Contending Interpretations under Acute Uncertainty
Sun10  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Molly O’Neal  
Track : Debating Russia’s Exceptionalism II: Ideological Politics
Room: Music Room
Political in Form, Cultural in Content? Civic Activism and Historic Preservation in Leningrad during Perestroika
Sun10  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Miss Margarita Pavlova  
Track : Reconsidering collaboration and anti-communist opposition
Room: Games Room
Postcolonial discourse in Russian-Kazakhstani relations
Sun10  Apr10:00am(20 mins)
 Ms Vera Ageeva  
Track : Debating Russia’s Exceptionalism II: Ideological Politics
Room: Music Room
Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining regions
Sun10  Apr10:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Anna Varfolomeeva  
Track : Transnational Migrations / Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining region
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Cyrillo-Methodian anniversaries in the context of socialism (Ideological functions, national uses, and research perspectives)
Sun10  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Ewelina Drzewiecka Dr Ewelina Drzewiecka  
Track : Anniversary Celebrations in Central and Eastern Europe
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 1
Private museums and vulnerable communities in the Russian Federation: new frameworks and practices of collaboration
Sun10  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Ms Katerina Suverina  
Track : Roundtable: Private museums and vulnerable communities in the Russian Federation: new frameworks and practices of collaboration
Room: Umney Lounge
Poetics of horror in Symbolist literature: Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Leonid Andreyev (a brief summary)
Sun10  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Elena Tchougounova-Paulson  
Track : The Silver Age and its Legacies
Room: CWB Syndicate Room 2
Raising citizen soldiers in Donbas: Russia’s role in promoting patriotic education programmes and history teaching in the ‘Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics’
Sun10  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Miss Jaroslava Barbieri Miss Jaroslava Barbieri  
Track : The politics of education and theatre
Room: Games Room
Patterns of Intra-Party Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Sun10  Apr11:00am(10 mins)
 Dr Mihail Chiru  
Track : Feeble party-voter linkages and lasting organisational constraints? Revisiting how political parties practice and shape democracy in Eastern Europe.
Room: Garden Room
Social Capital and Authorship in Czech Academic Press during Normalization
Sun10  Apr11:00am(10 mins)