BASEES Annual Conference 2023
Friday, 31 March 2023 to Sunday, 2 April 2023

Presentations A to Z

Programme : Presentations A to Z
Russia’s Development from Electoral to Closed Authoritarianism: Implications for Research
Sun2  Apr09:00am(90 mins)
 Dr Geir Flikke Prof Bo Petersson 
Prof Derek Stanford Hutcheson
Stream :
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
‘Greek Catholic’ as ‘anti-Orthodox’?: The Case of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Soviet-ruled Galicia
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Kateryna Budz  
Stream : Repression and dissent under socialism
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
“Land of [Caucasian] Albanians” and Albanian church in the Albanian narratives
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Kamala Imranli-Lowe  
Stream : Church, religion and state before 1914
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
“Liberal funerals, political resistance and sites of martyrdom in the late Russian Empire”
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr George Gilbert  
Stream : New perspectives on the 19th century Russia
Room: Melville Room
Capitalism and socialism on the farm: I will compare Soviet collectivization policies in Kazakhstan with the enormous expansion of the British plantation economy in Kenya in the 1930s. I will analyze the two kinds of modernity that were imposed.
Sat1  Apr02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Choi Chatterjee  
Stream : New perspectives on revolutionary Russia
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Contemporary Ukrainian Literature as a Witness of Russia's War against Ukraine.
Sat1  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Olha Voznyuk  
Stream : Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine by Cultural Means
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
The millennium of Christianity and the Croatian narrative of the origins
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Mrs Agata Domachowska  
Stream : Intellectuals as Memory Generators – Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions, and People
Room: James Watt South Room 355
"Don’t you think that something smells bad in this hotel room?" Dirtiness and subject’s hybridity in Indigenous literature of the Russian Arctic
Sat1  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Miss Eeva Kuikka  
Stream : Literatures of the Russian Arctic area I
Room: Main Building Room 132
"Every Rotten Slander": Soviet Media, the Jewish Daily Forward, and the Holodomor
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Henry H. Prown  
Stream : Media and Propaganda in Historical Research
Room: Main Building Room 466
"I'd Like to Get Beaten Up": Complexities of Living a Secure Queer Life in Georgia
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mx David Rypel Mx David Rypel  
Stream : Queer Security and Belonging in Russia and Georgia
Room: Main Building Room 132
"The end of bread, the beginning of stone": environment, tourism and the Czech reconquest of the Western Carpathians, 1867-1918
Ms Emma Nabi-Bourgois  
Stream :
Room:
"Why do I keep seeing terrible inequality?" Politicisation and invisible dissent of teenage women in the post-war USSR
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Ella Rossman  
Stream : 'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavals
Room: Main Building Room 466
"Zorved" as a Gesamtkunstwerk? Mikhail Matyushin on Sound, Colour, a Synthesis of the Arts and the Fourth Dimension
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Marina Lupishko  
Stream : Visions of the Total Artwork: the Russian, Ukrainian and Eastern European Gesamtkunstwerk
Room: Turnbull Room
#Yugoslavia: Algorithmic Peacebuilding through Commodification of Nostalgia
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Ivana Stepanovic  
Stream : Reconciliation in Post-Yugoslav Space: Digital Peacebuilding
Room: McIntyre Room 208
(In)visible resistance: Exploring independent theatre practices in today’s Russia
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Olga Nikolaeva  
Stream : Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine by Cultural Means
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
(Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Stephen Hutchings  
Stream : Translation and Translingualism
Room: Main Building Room 134
(Non) Speaking with/due to Caution: The Language of Positive Self-Censorship in the Polish Media
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Mr Roman Sacharov  
Stream : Language Strategies and Use of Terminology
Room: Robing Room
(Post)War reconstruction of Ukraine: state-society-capital complex, class, sex, gender, and national identity
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Yuliya Yurchenko  
Stream : Social foundations of the war: multiscalar accounts of conflict and political economy
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
‘Free from ice, free from Europe’. Romania’s anxieties and a national port in Southern Bessarabia (1860s–1870s)
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Constantin Ardeleanu  
Stream : Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania
Room: Melville Room
‘From Cold War to Hot War: Reflections on an Academic Life in Area Studies’ - Prof Judith Pallot in conversation with Prof Sarah Badcock.
Sat1  Apr05:45pm(15 mins)
 Prof Sarah Badcock Prof Sarah Badcock Judith Pallot 
Stream : Keynote 2
Room: Bute Hall
‘In Search of a Roof’: Urban Exclusion and Provincial Life in Dissident Lives?
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Polly Jones  
Stream : Freed with No Right to Leave: Former Gulag Prisoners and Their Lives on the Soviet Periphery
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
‘Never has any “minority” been as oppressed as this one’: Homoerots as Poles in the Empire of the Straight
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(20 mins)
 Mr Kamil Karczewski  
Stream : DIY Queers. Self-Made Gender and Sexual Identities in Interwar Poland
Room: Main Building Room 466
‘Opening one border, building a wall on the other’: Borderscaping in the Polish news media
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius  
Stream : (In)visible hierarchies of Soviet and Russia's post-Soviet colonial modernities: regional and translocal divides
Room: Turnbull Room
‘So That I Could Make Others in the Countryside Aware’: Students of the Communist Party’s Political Schools in Poland (1944–1956)
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Łukasz Bertram  
Stream : Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
‘Suslov’s 1970s: Detente or Anti-Imperialism? The Last Hurrah of Mikhail Suslov’
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(20 mins)
 Dr Alex Marshall  
Stream : Under Pressure? Nationality, Ideology and Borders in Soviet Political History and Russian Politics
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
‘The Fullness and Richness of “Man Himself”’: Diversity of the Body in the Stalin Era
Sun2  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Claire Shaw  
Stream : Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Room: Senate Room
“Always in My Hands…”: Smartphones Use by the Ukrainian Refugees children
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Natalia Khvorostianov  
Stream : 'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavals
Room: Main Building Room 466
“At the meeting of the nine roads”: Environmental and economic networks at the Karkara fair
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Jennifer Keating  
Stream : Trade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central Asia
Room: James Watt South Room 375
“Better Angola than Poland!” East German citizens’ reactions to solidarity drives with Poland, 1980-1981.
Sat1  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr George Bodie  
Stream : Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society II.
Room: McIntyre Room 201
“Every Pole has not only a right, but the duty to return to his country”: Post-war Polish Repatriation from British-occupied Germany
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Samantha Knapton  
Stream : Poles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority Politics
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
“For a European Croatia”: Miko Tripalo and the Memory of WWII, 1990-1995
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Mayuko Uno  
Stream : Memory politics and the Instrumentalisation of the past
Room: Main Building Room 134
“For Your Freedom and Ours”: Poland’s Solidarność and the British Left, 1980 – 1989
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Tom Palmer  
Stream : Developing new forms of collaborations in East-Central Europe
Room: James Watt South Room 355
“Geopolitics of Sympathy”: George F. Kennan and NATO Enlargement
Fri31  Mar03:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Kaarel Piirimae Dr Kaarel Piirimae  
Stream : The Baltic in world politics from the Early Modern to the present
Room: Senate Room
“Grey zone” research challenges in Eastern European Holocaust studies
Sat1  Apr11:00am(90 mins)
 Miss Raisa Ostapenko Dr Daria Cherkaska 
Prof Caroline Sturdy Colls
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 134
“History, folk tale, poetry everywhere”. Romantic “fashion for Scotland” in the travel memoirs of 19th-century Polish voyagers
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Aleksandra Gintowt  
Stream : Nineteenth-Century Literature and Ideas
Room: Robing Room
“I work and I exist”. Impact of (Yugoslav) gastarbaiters savings on women's emancipation in Imotska Krajina
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Ms Sara Žerić  
Stream : Gender perspectives on the Yugoslav Gastarbeiter migration
Room: McIntyre Room 201
“Imitatio Christi in Dostoevsky’s Demons”
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Katya Jordan  
Stream : New Perspectives on Dostoevsky
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
“It’s better to go to Siberia”: the exile of the Finns from the Grand Duchy of Finland
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Larisa Kangaspuro  
Stream : Empires' Multiple Peripheries
Room: Turnbull Room
“Knowledge to the Masses!”: Traveling Lecturers and Molding the New Postwar Soviet Subjects, 1940s-1950s.
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Ms Iuliia Cherniavskaia  
Stream : The New Soviet Person from Late Stalinism to Perestroika
Room: Bute Hall
“Laughter, No Laughing Matter”: Affect as Epistemic Resistance against Necropower in Poland’s Orange Alternative and Thailand’s Youth-led Pro-democracy Movement
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Assoc Prof Verita Sriratana Assoc Prof Verita Sriratana  
Stream : Unlikely Political Connection?: Asia and Central Europe
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
“Poetry vs Politics: Precarious Loyalties. Natalya Gorbanevskaya translating Czesław Miłosz from the Polish.”
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Zakhar Ishov  
Stream : Translation and Translingualism
Room: Main Building Room 134
“Protean Spirit”: Uzbekistan’s Influence on China’s Foreign Policy
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Frank Maracchione  
Stream : Foreign policy
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
“Strong family makes strong Russia.” “Good mothers” and “traditional values” in a militarizing statebstract
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Yulia Gradskova Dr Yulia Gradskova  
Stream : Contested motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
“The absorption of Evil by Good”: mental cure in Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection.
Sat1  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Natalia Borisova  
Stream : Contextualising Tolstoy: politic, literary, and religious subtexts of "War and Peace" and "Resurrection".
Room: Senate Room
“The mission to connect the East with the West”. Railroad construction projects and controversies (1850s-1860s)
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Sylvia Marton  
Stream : Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania
Room: Melville Room
“The Russians are coming!” Imperial Decline and the Emergence of a Communist Challenge in Cold War Motorcycle Speedway
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Richard Mills  
Stream : Crossing the Iron curtain: sports actors and the dynamics of sporting interactions during the Cold War
Room: Senate Room
“There is only the street:” Activist archiving, curating, and art making as response to institutional crisis in the Ukrainian East, 2014-2022
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Victoria Donovan  
Stream : The Life and Afterlife of Soviet Planning: Industrial Urbanism, Built Environments, and Geographic Politics
Room: Fore Hall
“Trollope kills me with his excellence”: Anthony Trollope’s “The Bertrams” in Leo Tolstoy’s estimates
Sat1  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Ms Irina Gnyusova  
Stream : Contextualising Tolstoy: politic, literary, and religious subtexts of "War and Peace" and "Resurrection".
Room: Senate Room
“United Russia”: Vladimir Putin’s Securitisation of the Threat to Russia’s Territorial Integrity in Domestic and Foreign Policy
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Vassily Klimentov  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – concepts and ideas
Room: James Watt South Room 375
“Was, is: Criminology, Area Studies and the Neglect of the East”
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof Laura Piacentini  
Stream : Theorising “the East” in Area Studies: reflexivity, westerncentrism, and positionality
Room: James Watt South Room 375
“We are still here”: Russian queer parents and migration
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Mx Olga Doletskaya Mx Olga Doletskaya  
Stream : Queer Security and Belonging in Russia and Georgia
Room: Main Building Room 132
“Why wave the flag?”: (In)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Mariya Levitanus Dr Mariya Levitanus  
Stream : Agencies of/for Democracy
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
“Witch-Hunting with History: A Study of Nationalism and Communism in Thailand and Czechoslovakia — Chit Phumisak and Václav Havel”
Sat1  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Assoc Prof Verita Sriratana Assoc Prof Verita Sriratana  
Stream : Memory politics and the Instrumentalisation of the past
Room: Main Building Room 134
“Young wolves” and “domestic hens”. The feminist political economy of creativity in the context of Polish socio-economic transformation.
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Aleksandra Fila  
Stream : Intersectional Feminist Practices of Everyday Creativity in Postsocialism
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
“Yugoslav immigration to France through a gender perspective, 1960s to present day”
Sat1  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Juliette Ronsin  
Stream : Gender perspectives on the Yugoslav Gastarbeiter migration
Room: McIntyre Room 201
“Zeitenwende”: Sudden Change or Tipping Point of a Long-term Trend of Changing Perceptions?
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Julian Plottka  
Stream : Changing Perceptions in EU-EEU Relations: A Driver for Changing Foreign and Defence Policy
Room: James Watt South Room 355
« Satire and travel writing in Vladimir Sollogoub’s Tarantass »
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Léandre Lucas  
Stream : Nineteenth-Century Literature and Ideas
Room: Robing Room
«The Russians are the largest rebus»: ideology and conflicts behind the cultural import of picture riddles (1845–1883)
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(30 mins)
 Mrs Ksenia Butuzova Mrs Ksenia Butuzova  
Stream : Presenting Western as Russian: Tactics of Appropriation in Russian Visual Culture
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
1990s Lesbian Journals and Ancient Greece: Seeking a Russian Queer Aesthetic
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Georgina Barker  
Stream : Queer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and Law
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
a cinematic experiment in russian homonationalism: desiring the ‘non-russian’ masculine body in Olga Stolpovskaya’s You I Love
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mx Misha Yakovlev  
Stream : Queer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and Law
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
A Clergyman’s Daughter at the Age of Equality
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Irina Paert  
Stream : Identities in flux: engaging religion in periods of change
Room: Main Building Room 466
A Crisis of Identity: The Bisexual Russian-Ukrainian-Romany Throuple in Faina Grimberg’s Novella Mavka (2001)
Sun2  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Miss Charlotte Dowling  
Stream : Queer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and Law
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
A Critical Assessment of Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Anti-Ukrainianism and Its Legacy since 2014
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Elisa Kriza  
Stream : Russian Nationalism and Anti-Globalism
Room: Main Building Room 134
A Fortress Built on Sand: The Duchy of Courland's Engagement with Africa in the Seventeenth Century
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(20 mins)
 Mr John Freeman  
Stream : The Baltic in world politics from the Early Modern to the present
Room: Senate Room
A fragmented state? The patron-client networks and the role of domestic economic actors in Russia's foreign policy
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Marcin Kaczmarski  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – concepts and ideas
Room: James Watt South Room 375
A Frozen State: Cold and the Idea of Russia
Sat1  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Prof Alison Smith  
Stream : General Winter and the Snow Maiden: Cold in Russian Culture and History
Room: McIntyre Room 208
A Historical Catechism of the Putin Era: The Official Version of Russia’s History and Its Political Significance
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Prof Marcin Skladanowski Prof Marcin Skladanowski  
Stream : Russian domestic politics – ideas, ideology, and propaganda
Room: Melville Room
A historiography of Scotland's Ukrainians over four waves of migration from 1890s to the present
Sat1  Apr12:40pm(15 mins)
 Mr Peter Kormylo  
Stream : Scotland's Ukrainians - their story
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
A Liberal Feminist in an Early Soviet Working-Class Neighborhood: Medical Policing, Expertise and Gender Across the 1917 Revolutionary Divide
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Pavel Vasilyev  
Stream : Socialist and Communist Experiences of Women's Liberation in the West and the East, 1907-1930
Room: McIntyre Room 201
A new era of narrating a Ukrainian strategy and the European Union’s foreign policy: how the former is making a measurable difference on the latter
Sat1  Apr02:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Viktoriia Vdovychenko Dr Viktoriia Vdovychenko  
Stream : Foreign policy
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
A Perspective for 2022-23 in Ukraine: The Russian Civil War, 1917-1920
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(90 mins)
 Evan Mawdsley Prof Geoffrey Swain 
Stream :
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
A Rebellion with(out) a Cause? Popular Protest and Elite Transformation in Socialist Montenegro, 1988–1990
Sat1  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Mr Bojan Baca  
Stream : Authoritarian Regimes and Social Values
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
A Room and a Half and the Art of Poetic Cinema.
Sat1  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Olga Sobolev  
Stream : Joseph Brodsky's Legacy
Room: James Watt South Room 361
A spectrum of allies? Depictions of the war, the west, and Ukraine on Russian Telegram.
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Jade McGlynn  
Stream : Media and narratives during Russia's war on Ukraine
Room: Bute Hall
A Tale of Three Grandmothers: Božena Němcová’s `Babička' in translation
Sun2  Apr01:30pm(15 mins)
 Ms Susan Reynolds  
Stream : Nineteenth-Century Literature and Ideas
Room: Robing Room
A Un/Bordered Nation: Ukraine’s new “flickering diaspora” and its “long-distance relationship” with the home country
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Valeria Korablyova  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe I
Room: Melville Room
A Vote for Solidarity. Local Referendums in Late Socialist Slovenia
Sat1  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Ana Kladnik  
Stream : Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society I.
Room: McIntyre Room 201
A Wildcat of Language: Yelena Moskovich's Crime Fiction
Dr Emma Crowley  
Stream :
Room:
Academic Exchanges between Romania, East Germany and West Germany during the Cold War
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Irina Nastasa-Matei  
Stream : Cold War dinamics, exchanges and mobilities within the Socialist World and beyond
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Academic Hierarchies and Public Intellectuals: The Role of Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Philosophy
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Tatiana Levina Dr Tatiana Levina  
Stream : (In)visible hierarchies of Soviet and Russia's post-Soviet colonial modernities: Gendered and centre-periphery dynamics
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Accumulating Negative Affects: The Diaries of the Soviet Latvian Film Director Gunārs Piesis
Sun2  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Janis Ozolins Dr Janis Ozolins  
Stream : Reflections of Affective Experience in Latvian Poetry and Life Writing
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Activism in Emigration: Emotional Experience and Collective Action
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Egor Sokolov  
Stream : Departure during the War: Migration from Russia in 2022
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Affect and Time in Inara Verzemnieks’ Memoir "Among the Living and the Dead"
Sun2  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Mr Artis Ostups  
Stream : Reflections of Affective Experience in Latvian Poetry and Life Writing
Room: James Watt South Room 375
After Failure:Utopias of the Present in Early Twentieth-century Poland
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Krzysztof Rowinski  
Stream : Polish Literature and Culture
Room: Hunter Hall
After XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
Sat1  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Prof Yoram Gorlizki  
Stream : Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Room: Main Building Room 466
Alimony and Social Control under Stalin
Sat1  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Prof Aaron Retish  
Stream : Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Room: Main Building Room 466
Alter-geopolitics and de-bordering Romania and Poland in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Prof Kathryn Cassidy  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe I
Room: Melville Room
Amber crafting in Russia: informality, precarity, and temporality
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Daria Kurikhina  
Stream : Russia’s Natural Environment: Epistemologies and Materialities
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Ambiguous Descent: Bronisława Staszel-Polankowa and the Queering of Highlander Identity
Fri31  Mar04:35pm(20 mins)
 Dr Katherine Lebow  
Stream : DIY Queers. Self-Made Gender and Sexual Identities in Interwar Poland
Room: Main Building Room 466
An economic offer they cannot refuse! Economic expectations on incumbent government support in Core and Periphery European Countries
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Andreea Stancea Ms Andreea Stancea  
Stream : Voting and elections
Room: James Watt South Room 375
An elusive alliance? The prospects and limitations of the Sino-Russian relationship
Sat1  Apr09:00am(90 mins)
 Prof David Lewis Dr Marcin Kaczmarski 
Dr Natasha Kuhrt
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 134
An uncanny dialogue: Lev Shestov’s philosophy as the ‘great’ art of not seeing and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic investigations of the unconscious mind
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Marina Ogden  
Stream : Visions of the Total Artwork: the Russian, Ukrainian and Eastern European Gesamtkunstwerk
Room: Turnbull Room
Analysis of the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus: long-term factors, short-term triggers and key enabling mechanisms which have led to post-electoral protests.
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Victoria Leukavets  
Stream : Voting and elections
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Anticipating the deluge: Revolted Ukraine in early-19th century French Theatre
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Georgia Tsichritzis  
Stream : Theatre and Performance
Room: Robing Room
Anti-gender campaigns in Bulgaria: Actors, tendencies, and recent developments
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Mr Shaban Darakchi Mr Shaban Darakchi  
Stream : From women and LGBTQ+ prosecution to activism and resistance
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Antigenderism as Russian soft power? Comparing discourse on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Russia and Norway.
Sat1  Apr10:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Marthe Myhre  
Stream : Authoritarian Regimes and Social Values
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Antisemitism at the Intersection of Corruption and Colonialism: Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Political Rhetoric in Interwar Romania
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Raul Carstocea  
Stream : Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania
Room: Melville Room
Antiworlds: Voznesensky's dialogue with Western Poets
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Emily Lygo  
Stream : Russian Poets in Dialogue
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Archaism as Modernism:The Design of Soviet Popular Science Books on Ancient Russian Architecture in the second half of the 1950s-1980s
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(30 mins)
 Miss Romanenkova Maria Miss Romanenkova Maria  
Stream : Presenting Western as Russian: Tactics of Appropriation in Russian Visual Culture
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Archiving the “Invisible”: (Dis)Remembering Hungarian Secret Police Through Film
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Miss Lucy Szemetova  
Stream : Eastern European Processes of Remembering Through Film: Documenting the Past, Archiving the Future
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Are we in the same boat? How did Polish exiles’ experience of British Imperialism affect their position within the Windrush Generation?
Sun2  Apr01:05pm(20 mins)
 Mr Josef Butler  
Stream : Poles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority Politics
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Arms Dealing in Normalization-era Czechoslovakia in Three Biographies
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(20 mins)
 Dr Rosamund Johnston  
Stream : Agents of Internationalism in Central and Eastern Europe during Late Socialism
Room: Fore Hall
Assembling the war: Everyday practices of militarization before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Elizaveta Gaufman  
Stream : Security through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in Central Eastern European and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Auditory Autism in Dostoevsky’s Underground Man
Fri31  Mar03:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Daniel Schümann  
Stream : New Perspectives on Dostoevsky
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Auschwitz in the popular imagination
Sat1  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Miss Alina Nowobilska  
Stream : Memory politics and the Instrumentalisation of the past
Room: Main Building Room 134
Authors Meet Critics: "Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires" by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, Cornell University Press, 2022
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(90 mins)
 Dr Alex Drace-Francis Prof Manuela Boatca 
Dr Mariya Ivancheva Prof Anca Parvulescu
Stream :
Room: Hunter Hall
Autocratic Diffusion in Central Asia - Current Developments
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Aizhan Sharshenova Dr Aizhan Sharshenova  
Stream : Authoritarianism and disinformation
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Azov and Far-Right Parties in Ukraine
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Lenka Bustikova Siroky  
Stream : Public Attitudes and Collective Mobilisation
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
BASEES-ZOiS Roundtable: What is the role of research|ers amidst Russia’s war against Ukraine?
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(90 mins)
 Prof Matthias Neumann  
Stream :
Room: Senate Room
Becoming an international sports leader : trajectories of Soviet representatives in international sports organizations during the Cold War
Sat1  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Sylvain Dufraisse  
Stream : Crossing the Iron curtain: sports actors and the dynamics of sporting interactions during the Cold War
Room: Senate Room
Beekeeping with/out borders in Moldova and Ukraine: Cooperation and Conflict in Defending Carpathian Honeybee Territory
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Tanya Richardson  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe II
Room: Melville Room
Being Ukrainian in Poland: labour migrants' perceptions and experiences on the eve of Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Prof Anne White  
Stream : War in Ukraine: Displacement, Mobilities and Identities
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Beria vs. Khrushchev: The Power Struggle over Nationality Policy and the Case of Latvia
Fri31  Mar02:50pm(20 mins)
 Dr Michael Loader  
Stream : Under Pressure? Nationality, Ideology and Borders in Soviet Political History and Russian Politics
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Between Imagination and Ethnography: Fokine’s The Polovtsian Dances
Sun2  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Miss Jordan Lian  
Stream : Imagining the Orient in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Between politics and poetics of social change in contemporary Baku
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Miss Cristina Boboc  
Stream : Urban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Between Self-Aggrandizement and Self-Deprecation: Czech and Hungarian Fin de Siècle Orientalisms in Comparative Perspective
Sun2  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Dmitrii Kuvshinov  
Stream : Central European Literatures and Cultures
Room: Main Building Room 134
Between the Balkans, Mediterranean and Central Europe. Mental Maps in the Memories of the Dalmatian Writer Enzo Bettiza
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Prof Maciej Czerwinski  
Stream : Constructing Identities: National and Transnational
Room: Senate Room
Between the Spiritual Booze and the Principle of Hope: a Revised Study on the Religious Cultural Heritage of Collectivism in Russian Marxist Thought
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mr George Bocean Mr George Bocean  
Stream : New perspectives on the 19th century Russia
Room: Melville Room
Beyond bilateralism? Economic and technical cooperation in the Non-Aligned Movement
Fri31  Mar04:35pm(20 mins)
 Ms Anna Calori  
Stream : Agents of Internationalism in Central and Eastern Europe during Late Socialism
Room: Fore Hall
Biography of an Archive: Incorporation of Soviet Photo Club Culture into the Canon of Latvian Photography
Sun2  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Miss Liga Goldberga Miss Liga Goldberga  
Stream : Illuminating Misplaced Archives: Researching Soviet and Post-Soviet Photography in Latvia
Room: Robing Room
Bisexual Belonging Online: A Case Study of ‘Bi Life Stories’ on Gay.ru
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Miss Charlotte Dowling  
Stream : Queer Security and Belonging in Russia and Georgia
Room: Main Building Room 132
Book Discussion: Alex Drace-Francis, The Making of Mamaliga (Central European University Press, 2022)
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(90 mins)
 Dr Alex Drace-Francis Constantin Ardeleanu 
Prof Cathie Carmichael
Stream :
Room: Hunter Hall
Book Discussion: Una Bergmane "Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." (OUP, 2023)
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(90 mins)
 Dr Una Bergmane Dr Mart Kuldkepp 
Egle Rindzeviciute Prof David Smith
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 134
Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Habsburg Colony (1878-1918)
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics  
Stream : Colonial Efforts and the Habsburg Monarchy: Hungarian Perspectives from the Balkans (1867-1918)
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Breaking the 'Fifth' Wall: The Role of the Translator in British and American Staged Productions of the Works of Mikhail Bulgakov
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Miss Hannah Klimas  
Stream : Theatre and Performance
Room: Robing Room
Bringing the lyrical to the political: The socio-political landscape in the Southern Caucasus through the lens of young people
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Miss Veronika Pfeilschifter  
Stream : When societies (re-)create: Youth(ful) ideas and nascent politics in the South Caucasus
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Elliot Short  
Stream : The 1990s: Societies in transition
Room: Main Building Room 132
Building Authority: Bishkek in the 1920s
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Alun Thomas  
Stream : Urban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Bureaucracy as a Tool of Colonization: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina under Habsburg Rule (1878-1918)
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Matyas Erdelyi  
Stream : Colonial Efforts and the Habsburg Monarchy: Hungarian Perspectives from the Balkans (1867-1918)
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Buying books online: a curious case of value-making by Russian readers
Dr Ksenia Papazova  
Stream :
Room:
Capturing the interaction of ethnic, regional, and national identity in Donbas amid the (un)finished war - a narrative-based case study of people with dual nationality
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mr Qianrui Hu  
Stream : War and Society: Embodied Experiences, Narrated Identities
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Catalogus Librorum Omnium: Transferring the Library Cataloguing Models to the Early Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Stepan Blinder Mr Stepan Blinder  
Stream : Trans-Regional Exchange in Motion: Cultural Fluidity in Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Caught between the Primordial, the Modern and the Post-Modern: The Shaman as Symbol in three late Novels by Yurii Rytkheu.
Sat1  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Audun J. Mørch  
Stream : Literatures of the Russian Arctic area II
Room: Main Building Room 132
Caught in a net of military logic. Adela Jušić`s video artwork Snajperist (The Sniper, 2007)
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(20 mins)
 Prof Zeljana Tunic  
Stream : “Sensory Afterlives of the War Violence in (Former) Yugoslavia. Artistic Responses”
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Censorship of Literature in Poland under Communism: new perspectives.
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Prof Kamila Budrowska Prof Kamila Budrowska  
Stream : New Directions in Polish Censorship
Room: Melville Room
Central Asia in Russian Foreign Policy Imagination: Before and After the Beginning of the War in Ukraine
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Kristiina Silvan  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – regional activities
Room: Fore Hall
Central Asian Migratory Imaginations during Russia's war on Ukraine
Sun2  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Joni Virkkunen  
Stream : Urban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Central European Palimpsest: History and Postmemory of Displacement in Polish Contemporary Fiction
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Prof Renata Ingbrant Prof Renata Ingbrant  
Stream : Polish Literature and Culture
Room: Hunter Hall
Centre and periphery in the production of knowledge about Central Asia in the Russian Empire
Sun2  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Mr Roman Osharov  
Stream : Imagining the Orient in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Room: James Watt South Room 361
CEO or mother? Executive search under public maternalism
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Prof Nagy Beáta  
Stream : Domestic Matriarchy vs. Public Patriarchy. Ascribing and Questioning Gender Roles in Central Europe after 1989
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Challenging a Socialist Way of Life: Comrades’ Courts and Volunteers’ Militias in 1960s Soviet Tashkent
Sun2  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Zayra Badillo Castro  
Stream : Urban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Changing Strategic Orientations in the Russian Arctic
Dr George Soroka  
Stream :
Room:
Che Guevara, voluntary labour and the transition to socialism
Sat1  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Aidan Ratchford  
Stream : Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society II.
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Children and Childhood spaces during Transformation period in Lithuania
Miss Goda Damaseviciute  
Stream :
Room:
Chinese education for Kazakhstani students: opportunities and challenges What opportunities and challenges are arising from China’s education diplomacy in Kazakhstan? The strategic importance of Central Asia to China is clear given th
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Gulnara Dadabayeva  
Stream : Education and research – politics and policy
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Choosing Between Prison or Exile: Russian Activists Abroad after the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Elizabeth Plantan  
Stream : Russian migrants' anti-war activism
Room: Turnbull Room
Churches in the 2020 Elections and Anti-War Protests in Belarus: Raising Voices in the Time of Repression and Turmoil
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(20 mins)
 Mr Nikolay Zakharov  
Stream : Christian Churches and identity-building in contemporary Belarus
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Cinema, Psychiatry and the Neurological Gaze in the Early Soviet Union
Sun2  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Anna Toropova  
Stream : Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Room: Senate Room
Civil society as an actor in Ukraine’s nation-state building in wartime
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Viktor Stepanenko  
Stream : War as a maker of nations? Nation-building in Ukraine as a result of Russia's war against Ukraine - discourses, identities, achievements
Room: Bute Hall
Civil War and Gossip. Monument to Judas Iscariot in Sviyazhsk, 1918
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mr Bartek Gajos  
Stream : New perspectives on the Russian Civil War
Room: Main Building Room 466
Classical architecture in Astana: “out of reach” or “neocolonial”?
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Federico Marcomini  
Stream : Future Spaces: Tourism, Heritage and Architecture
Room: Melville Room
Cold and punishment in late Imperial Russia
Sat1  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Prof Sarah Badcock Prof Sarah Badcock  
Stream : General Winter and the Snow Maiden: Cold in Russian Culture and History
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Cold War at the Periphery and the Legacy of the Cold War
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(90 mins)
 Dr Corina Snitar Prof Geoffrey Swain 
Stream :
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Cold War Keys: The Global Reach of Yugoslavia's UNIS-tbm typewriters
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Prof K. Ghodsee Prof K. Ghodsee  
Stream : Typewriters, Televisions, and Erotic Gadgets: The Materiality of Everyday Life in Eastern Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Cold War on Screen: The Censorship of Foreign Films in Communist Romania
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Alina Popescu  
Stream : Cold War dinamics, exchanges and mobilities within the Socialist World and beyond
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Cold Water Bathing and a New Russian Masculinity
Sat1  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Tricia Starks  
Stream : General Winter and the Snow Maiden: Cold in Russian Culture and History
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Commerce, neutrality and blockade: lessons from Britain’s relationship with the Baltic Sea Region, 1766-1815
Fri31  Mar02:50pm(20 mins)
 Hugo Bromley  
Stream : The Baltic in world politics from the Early Modern to the present
Room: Senate Room
Companies, climate adaptation and knowledge in the Russian Arctic
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Arild Moe  
Stream : Climate Adaptation and Knowledge in the Russian Arctic
Room: Fore Hall
Complimentary Assistance: Exchanges Between Mongolia, the Soviet Union, China and Poland during the Cold War
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Nikolay Erofeev  
Stream : Global Soviet Union
Room: Turnbull Room
Concept, Time, Discourse: Alexandre Kojève's Aesthetics of Return
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Isabel Jacobs  
Stream : The Aesthetics of Return in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Turnbull Room
Confronting the Holocaust. The Polish Government-in-Exile's Policy Concerning Jews 1939-1945
Sun2  Apr01:25pm(20 mins)
 Mr Piotr Długołęcki  
Stream : Poles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority Politics
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Constructing National Art of Uzbekistan in 1920-1930 in the Context of the National Policy
Fri31  Mar03:15pm(15 mins)
 Ms Alexandra Alexandrova  
Stream : Investigating "National Form" in Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1953
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Contentious Politics in Putin's Russia: Environmental Struggles as a Key Platform and the Case of Shies
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Ms Maria Chiara Franceschelli Ms Maria Chiara Franceschelli  
Stream : Russia’s Natural Environment: Epistemologies and Materialities
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Coping with the Soviet past in Russian graphic novels
Sun2  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Miss Annamaria Vass  
Stream : Post-Soviet and Post-Memory
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Creating Culture of Recilience: Institutional Composition, Political Actors and Civil Society before and during the War in Ukraine
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Yuliya Bidenko  
Stream : Ukrainian domestic politics
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Creating the Image of the Intelligentsia in Soviet Cartoon under Stalin
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Miss Oksana Hela  
Stream : Media and Propaganda in Historical Research
Room: Main Building Room 466
Criminal Matters: Exploring Human Remains in Late Imperial Russian Detective Fiction
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Miss Grace Docherty  
Stream : Crime Fiction and Prison Culture
Room: Main Building Room 132
Critical infrastructure in Russian Cities in Troubled Times
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Lutz Häfner  
Stream : New perspectives on revolutionary Russia
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Critical youth in uncertain times: Trust, attitudes to democracy and engagement in independent Ukraine
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Cressida Arkwright  
Stream : Ukrainian domestic politics
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Cross-cultural trajectories and forms of governance in late medieval Moscow
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Mr Angus Russell  
Stream : Trans-Regional Exchange in Motion: Cultural Fluidity in Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Crossing the Rubicon: Continuity and Change in Kremlin Legitimation Strategies (2020-23)
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Matthew Blackburn  
Stream : Legitimation, identity politics, and "war nationalism" in Putin's Russia: strategies and fallout
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
CSOs providing social services in de facto borderland (Abkhazia-Georgia): When (geo)political and social dynamics meet in Samegrelo, Georgia
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Gaëlle Le Pavic  
Stream : Social Agency in Conflict and Border Zones
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Culture Held Captive: The Role of Former Prisoner-Theatremakers in the Cultural and Artistic Development of Komi and Kolyma
Sat1  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Jake Robertson Mr Jake Robertson  
Stream : Freed with No Right to Leave: Former Gulag Prisoners and Their Lives on the Soviet Periphery
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Decolonial Practices and the Language of a City at War in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Sun2  Apr01:15pm(15 mins)
 Ms Viktoriia Grivina Ms Viktoriia Grivina  
Stream : Decolonial Perspectives
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Decolonising amateur photography: new local Soviet photo clubs of the mid-1970s and 1980s and their fate in post-Gorbachev Russia
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Ms Victoria Musvik  
Stream : (In)visible hierarchies of Soviet and Russia's post-Soviet colonial modernities: regional and translocal divides
Room: Turnbull Room
Deconstructing the Stalinist stage: The revival of avant-garde theatre during the Thaw
Sat1  Apr02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Jesse Gardiner  
Stream : Theatre and Performance
Room: Robing Room
Defending Language as a Strategy of Anti-Authoritarian Resistance. Language Ideologies in Polish Metalinguistic Discourse (1970–1989 and 2015–2022)
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Ms Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka  
Stream : Language Strategies and Use of Terminology
Room: Robing Room
Demobilization in the Mobilizational State: The End of the Civil War Red Army, 1920-21
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Mr Thomas Stevens  
Stream : New perspectives on the Russian Civil War
Room: Main Building Room 466
Democracy in Exile? Trajectories of Russian Anti-War Migrants in Eurasia
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mrs Margarita Zavadskaya  
Stream : Russian migrants' anti-war activism
Room: Turnbull Room
Demystifying Open Access
Sun2  Apr11:00am(90 mins)
 Mrs Madeleine Markey Mrs Madeleine Markey Dr Stella Rock 
Stream :
Room: Turnbull Room
Dependency and modernisation theory. Two paradigms of development in Visegrad Group countries
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Filip Leśniewicz  
Stream : Economic development in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Dialectal umlaut of ’a > i in Southwest Ukrainian: The case of the Kryvorivnja dialect
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Ms Oksana Lebedivna  
Stream : The Ukrainian Language Today: Bridging the Past and the Future
Room: Melville Room
Did ‘Western’ academia get the war wrong? Blindspots, learning curves and ethical futures following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(90 mins)
 Dr Stephen Hall Dr Alina Nychyk 
Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody
Stream :
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Did Traditionalist Values Help Putin Escape Term Limits in 2020?
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Henry Hale  
Stream : Legitimation, identity politics, and "war nationalism" in Putin's Russia: strategies and fallout
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Discursive Construction Concerning Scientific Terms Based on the Nomenclature Used in the Gender Studies Field. Polish and Russian Cases
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska  
Stream : Language Strategies and Use of Terminology
Room: Robing Room
Discussing Japan’s Energy Import Diversification: Can the Russia-Ukraine War be a Catalyst for Change?
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Kazuto Matsuda Mr Kazuto Matsuda  
Stream : Energy politics and policy
Room: Senate Room
Discussing Pål Kolstø's new book Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Sun2  Apr09:00am(90 mins)
 Mr Pål Kolstø Dr Ruth Coates 
Mr Ulrich Schmid Prof Vera Tolz
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 132
Discussions about the Russian language and culture in different countries after February 24, 2022
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(90 mins)
 Prof Kapitolina Fedorova Ms Natalia Tšuikina 
Dr Vera Zvereva
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 134
Disinformation as a Corruption Defense: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Georgia
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Prof Scott Radnitz  
Stream : Authoritarianism and disinformation
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Displacement, Refugees, and Russian Imperial Policies during the First World War in the Caucasus
Sun2  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Asya Darbinyan  
Stream : The First World War in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Diverging Paths?: The South Slavic Left and Revolutionary Russia before 1922
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Samuel Foster  
Stream : New perspectives on the Russian Civil War
Room: Main Building Room 466
Dostoevsky's idea of Russianness: a decolonial critique
Fri31  Mar03:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Sarah Hudspith  
Stream : New Perspectives on Dostoevsky
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
E.H. Carr as Nationalities Scholar
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Timothy Blauvelt  
Stream : History writing between East and West
Room: Main Building Room 132
Ecclesiastical Populism in Contemporary Russia: "the People" in the Moscow Patriarchate’s Political Discourse
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Bojidar Kolov  
Stream : Conservativism, religion, and war in Putin's Russia
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Ecocentric tropes in Kola Sámi poetry: the case of Oktiabrina Voronova
Sat1  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Tintti Klapuri  
Stream : Literatures of the Russian Arctic area II
Room: Main Building Room 132
Ecocritical Geopolitics in the Time of War: Chornobyl/Chernobyl as a Post-Humanist Site
Sun2  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Mika Perkiömäki Dr Mika Perkiömäki  
Stream : The (neo)imperial imaginaries of nature and environment in contemporary Russian media
Room: Fore Hall
Educational Support to Ukrainian Youth in Kazakhstan 2022
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Zhamilya Utarbayeva  
Stream : Agencies of/for Democracy
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Emergency migration from Russia to no-visa countries in March-April 2022: a qualitative study based on the interviews with remotely working professionals
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Daria Kurikhina  
Stream : Departure during the War: Migration from Russia in 2022
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Encountering other pasts in Russian post-imperial tourism
Dr Alena Pfoser  
Stream :
Room:
Escaping Solitude: Twentieth-Century Russian Poets Speaking to Absent Friends
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Katharine Hodgson  
Stream : Russian Poets in Dialogue
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Ethnography in the Times of Empires: resources and collections
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(90 mins)
 Dr Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia Dr John Bates 
Dr Eleanor Peers Dr Olga Topol
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 466
EU and Russian hegemony in the ‘shared neighbourhood’: Between coercion, prescription, and co-optation
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Ms Isabell Burmester  
Stream : Foreign policy
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
EU-EEU Relations and the Ukraine War – Political Risks, Changing Perceptions, and Management Responses of MNEs
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Hannes Meissner  
Stream : Changing Perceptions in EU-EEU Relations: A Driver for Changing Foreign and Defence Policy
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Eurovision, queer visibility, and political transition in post-Soviet Europe
Sat1  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mr Evgeny Gurin  
Stream : From women and LGBTQ+ prosecution to activism and resistance
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Evgenii Evtushenko as the Soviet Bard of Cuba
Sun2  Apr09:00am(30 mins)
 Mr Benjamin Musachio  
Stream : Politics of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Self-Fashioning
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Evolving enmity: Ukraine and Russia in each other’s strategic narratives, 2013–2022
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Joanna Szostek Dr Joanna Szostek  
Stream : Media and narratives during Russia's war on Ukraine
Room: Bute Hall
Examining motives of foreign fighter mobilization: Lessons from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Huseyn Aliyev  
Stream : Strategy, conflict, and security
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Expectations and Delays: Soviet Mass Housing, Privatization and the Post-Socialist City
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Lois Kalb  
Stream : Politics of Waiting. Narratives beyond Wasting Time, and Linear Progression
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Experiencing digital (dis)integration in transmedia environments. Russian resistance movement media strategies in times of war.
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Denis Bilunov  
Stream : Russia's war on Ukraine (2)
Room: Fore Hall
Exploring the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine over individual geopolitical preferences in Georgia.
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Ángel Torres-Adán  
Stream : Russia's war on Ukraine (2)
Room: Fore Hall
Failure of the "National Church": the Fate of Greek Catholics in independent Belarus
Fri31  Mar12:50pm(20 mins)
 Mr Aliaksei Lastouski  
Stream : Christian Churches and identity-building in contemporary Belarus
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Family Narratives on Unfulfilled Migration Intentions: Insights from the Post-Communist Context
Sat1  Apr04:16pm(15 mins)
 Dr Zuzanna Brunarska Dr Zuzanna Brunarska  
Stream : Ethnic and national groups, and migration
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Fashioning Jewish gay self-identities in interwar Poland
Fri31  Mar04:55pm(20 mins)
 Mr Piotr Laskowski  
Stream : DIY Queers. Self-Made Gender and Sexual Identities in Interwar Poland
Room: Main Building Room 466
Fashioning the Social Role of Soviet Women on Stagnation Screens
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mrs Natasha Vinnikova Mrs Natasha Vinnikova  
Stream : Representation of gender and body in the Soviet culture
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Fatherland or Motherland? Banat German Rural Ascriptions of National Belonging in the Romanian Banat under the Aegis of National Socialism (1940-1944)
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Mr David Borchin  
Stream : New Directions in World War II History
Room: Senate Room
Female Crime Writers in Late Imperial Russia: The Cases of Aleksandra Sokolova and Kapitolina Nazar’eva
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Claire Whitehead  
Stream : Crime Fiction and Prison Culture
Room: Main Building Room 132
Fighting for a Country: Who was willing to fight for Russia?
Fri31  Mar04:45pm(15 mins)
 Prof Roman David  
Stream : Russia's war on Ukraine (1)
Room: Bute Hall
Fighting for the New East: Soviet international law and self-determination in the Rif War (1921-1926)
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Alexandra Day Ms Alexandra Day  
Stream : Global Soviet Union
Room: Turnbull Room
Filming Utopia: Soviet Ukrainian Atomohrads Before Chornobyl Accident
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Stanislav Menzelevskyi  
Stream : Eastern European Processes of Remembering Through Film: Documenting the Past, Archiving the Future
Room: McIntyre Room 208
First Written Representation of Siam in the Eye of an Austro-Hungarian Expeditor in János Xántus' Úti jegyzetek Sziámból
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Miss Thapanee Tubnonghee Miss Thapanee Tubnonghee  
Stream : Unlikely Political Connection?: Asia and Central Europe
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Forced-labour Camp as a Site of the Nation Building? Bamlag’s Cultural-Education Department and Ethnic Minority Prisoners, 1930-1934.
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Mikhail Nakonechnyi  
Stream : From Bamlag to Ukraine: Intersections of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Context of Punishment, 1930S - 2023.
Room: Main Building Room 134
Forging Frontline Russians: Militarized Patriotism and Identity Policy in Occupied Ukraine
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Mr Håvard Bækken  
Stream : Security through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in CEE and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society (II)
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Former Gulag Prisoners in the Soviet Periphery: A (Virtual) Literary Community?
Sat1  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Andrea Gullotta  
Stream : Freed with No Right to Leave: Former Gulag Prisoners and Their Lives on the Soviet Periphery
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
French economic policy in interwar Central and Eastern Europe. A reconsideration of Impérialisme du pauvre in Poland
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Jerzy Łazor  
Stream : Developing new forms of collaborations in East-Central Europe
Room: James Watt South Room 355
From Art Nouveau to Imaging a Nation: Heorhiy Narbut as Arts and Crafts Designer
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Louise Hardiman  
Stream : Printing and Printmaking in Ukraine: Art Traditions and National Identities
Room: Fore Hall
From 'Chocolate' to 'Darkness at Noon': Recognizing the Soviet Carceral System in Inter-War Europe
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Muireann Maguire Prof Muireann Maguire  
Stream : Revisiting Room 101: Understanding State Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
From Cooperation to Confrontation and Breakup: the European Court of Human Rights and Russian State Institutions
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Dmitry Kurnosov  
Stream : Ruxit: Russia and the Council of Europe from beginning to an end
Room: Bute Hall
From Infrapolitical Resistance to Political Rebellion: Trajectories of Dissent and Dynamics of Contention in Montenegro's Antibureaucratic Revolution
Sun2  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Bojan Baca  
Stream : 'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavals
Room: Main Building Room 466
From Kandagar to Donbass - Svoikh ne brosayem! The Evolution of Afghan Myth through the Prism of Post-Soviet film, literature and popular culture.
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Marina Aptekman  
Stream : Between Aesthetics and Politics: Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Russian Culture.
Room: James Watt South Room 375
From one dictatorship to another: Communist Romania and the Chilean refugees crisis
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(20 mins)
 Ms Mioara Anton  
Stream : From communism to post-communism: Romanian paradoxes
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
From small acts of defiance to organised protests: older people exercising social, economic and political citizenship Belarus
Sun2  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Anna Shadrina  
Stream : 'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavals
Room: Main Building Room 466
From Soft Imperialism to Colonization: Hungary in the Balkans (1867-1914)
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Gabor Demeter  
Stream : Colonial Efforts and the Habsburg Monarchy: Hungarian Perspectives from the Balkans (1867-1918)
Room: James Watt South Room 361
From the Street to the Court (and Back) – Juvenile Delinquency in the Soviet 1950s
Sat1  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Immo Rebitschek  
Stream : Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Room: Main Building Room 466
From the Wives of the ‘Enemies’ to ‘Enemies’ Themselves: Women on Trial during Stalin’s Great Terror and the Great Patriotic War
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Mrs Liudmila Lyagushkina  
Stream : Repression and dissent under socialism
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
From Universities to Telegram: Practices of Knowledge Production and Dissemination in Russian Social Sciences
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mr Petr Torkanovskiy  
Stream : Education and research – politics and policy
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Future Perfect: The Strange Case of East Germany’s “Developed Social System of Socialism,” 1968-1971
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Alexander Petrusek  
Stream : East-Central Europe after 1968
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Gaming Tricks: The Body of the Post-Soviet Spectator in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau (2019)
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Tatiana Efremova  
Stream : Media re(production) of socialist ideology and local past
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Gender Policies Towards Muslim Men in Socialist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Ivan Simic Dr Ivan Simic  
Stream : Transformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Room: Fore Hall
Gendered Work and Socialist Pasts: Memories and Experiences of Women Repatriates in Germany
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Alina Jašina-Schäfer  
Stream : Class, Gender and Protest
Room: Turnbull Room
Germany's Attempts at Organising an Uprising of Oppressed Peoples of Russia in 1915-1916
Fri31  Mar04:35pm(20 mins)
 Dr Mart Kuldkepp  
Stream : Alternative scenarios for a future Russia across 1917
Room: Turnbull Room
Getting Published in Academic Journals and Books
Sat1  Apr11:00am(90 mins)
 Dr Paul Goode Prof Regina Smyth 
Prof Tomila Lankina Prof Luca Anceschi
Stream :
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Ghosts of the Gulag: Negotiating Specters of the Penal Past in Northern Russia
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Gavin Slade  
Stream : From Bamlag to Ukraine: Intersections of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Context of Punishment, 1930S - 2023.
Room: Main Building Room 134
Ghosts, Memories, and Mnemonics: The Theatre of Jewish Absence in Poland
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(20 mins)
 Dr Rachel Moss  
Stream : Representing Poles and Jews in Theatre, Literature and Language
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Global Campaigning: The anti-Comics Debate in 1950s Poland
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Ewa Stanczyk  
Stream : Post-Soviet and Post-Memory
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Global Russian Literature in the Time of War: Reformatting the Paradigm
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Roman Katsman  
Stream : Revising the Russian Canon
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Globalization of minority: families networks of mennonites through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War
Sat1  Apr09:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Nadezhda Beliakova Dr Nadezhda Beliakova  
Stream : Faith and Family in the USSR: Religious Transmission Across Borders and Generations
Room: Senate Room
Governance, ethnicity, and language in Baltic prisons.
Fri31  Mar04:45pm(15 mins)
 Olga Zeveleva  
Stream : From Bamlag to Ukraine: Intersections of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Context of Punishment, 1930S - 2023.
Room: Main Building Room 134
Governmentality in British and Russian Higher Education
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Rafig Abdullayev  
Stream : Education and research – politics and policy
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Greater Eurasia: Putinist Russia’s Latest Geo-Imaginary
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Prof Mark Bassin  
Stream : Ideology and the Putin System: Before and after 2022
Room: Bute Hall
Greek literature in Mariupol in the 1930s?
Sun2  Apr09:30am(30 mins)
 Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos  
Stream : Politics of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Self-Fashioning
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Grossraum Thinking in Putin's Russia
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Prof David Lewis  
Stream : Ideology and the Putin System: Before and after 2022
Room: Bute Hall
Growing dependency: changes in public perception of poverty coping strategies in Russia 2011-2021
Sun2  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Nina Ivashinenko  
Stream : Social Values and Norms in the Contemporary Russia
Room: Main Building Room 134
Hashtag Memory Activism: #ŠtoTeNema in the Context of Srebrenica Genocide
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Ms Rimante Jaugaite  
Stream : Reconciliation in Post-Yugoslav Space: Digital Peacebuilding
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Havel and the Anti-Charter
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Joshua Hayden  
Stream : Unlikely Political Connection?: Asia and Central Europe
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Helping each other. Solidarity and local communities in late socialist Yugoslavia
Sat1  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Prof Igor Duda  
Stream : Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society I.
Room: McIntyre Room 201
'Her long blanks and darknesses of abstraction were Polish': Faith and faithlessness in DH Lawrence's depictions of Poles
Fri31  Mar12:50pm(20 mins)
 Ms Juliette Bretan  
Stream : Representing Poles and Jews in Theatre, Literature and Language
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Hétérotopies of exile: discourses of disruptions, resistance and identity in the ‘How we left’ narratives of Russians after the February, 24th
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova  
Stream : Social Agency in Conflict and Border Zones
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Historical-Revolutionary Museums in Russia: Projects and Implementation before and after 1917
Sun2  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Mr Nikolay Sarkisyan  
Stream : New perspectives on the Russian Civil War
Room: Main Building Room 466
How “European” Were Imperial Russian Laws Against Homosexuality?
Sun2  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Nick Mayhew  
Stream : Queer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and Law
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
How different are the recent Russian migrants?
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Mr Félix Krawatzek  
Stream : Russia(ns) in the world
Room: James Watt South Room 355
How Russia Joined the Council of Europe: The Role of Values, Politics, and Law
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Jeffrey Kahn  
Stream : Ruxit: Russia and the Council of Europe from beginning to an end
Room: Bute Hall
How Russian Patriotic Education Was Changed to Support War: Military Masculinity as a Hegemonic Discourse and Practices of Resistance
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Jonna Alava Ms Jonna Alava  
Stream : Security through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in CEE and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society (II)
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
How to feed the body of your own nation (and to starve the body of another)? Polish women and the National Democratic Party at the beginning of the 20th century
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez  
Stream : Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in East-Central Europe before 1939
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Humour in contemporary cross-media material from Ukraine
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Miss Khrystyna Monastyrska  
Stream : Creative use of Language
Room: Robing Room
Ida Nappelbaum’s poetic dialogue with Nikolai Gumilev
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Dave Weller  
Stream : Russian Poets in Dialogue
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Identity and Policy Issues in the Context of the Internal Discussions in the Belarusian Orthodox Church
Fri31  Mar01:10pm(20 mins)
 Dr Sergei Mudrov  
Stream : Christian Churches and identity-building in contemporary Belarus
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Illyrian or Pelasgian? – cementing the theory of the Albanians’ origin in communist Albania and Kosovo.
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Rigels Halili  
Stream : Intellectuals as Memory Generators – Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions, and People
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Images of Internationalism: Gender, Ethnicity, and Relationships at University in Vladimir Rogovoi’s Balamut (The Meddler, 1979)
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Ms Serian Carlyle Ms Serian Carlyle  
Stream : Representation of gender and body in the Soviet culture
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Impact of service quality on economic development and trade
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Valery Kuzmenok  
Stream : Economic development in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Imperative constructions in Russian everyday speech: a corpus-based pragma-semantic analysis.
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(20 mins)
 Ms Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto Ms Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto  
Stream : Language as Ever-Changing Phenomenon
Room: Robing Room
Imperial Russia as an Alternative to Bolshevism in Nazi Cinema
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Philip Decker  
Stream : Russian nationalism and de-Russification through the prism of media
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Imposter phenomenon between Baroque and Avantgarde: Vsevolod Meyerhold’s "Revizor" and "Boris Godunov"
Sat1  Apr02:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Ekaterina Grineva  
Stream : Theatre and Performance
Room: Robing Room
In Search of Socialist Erotica. An Alternative Archive of the Polish Sexual Revolution
Sat1  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Anna Dobrowolska  
Stream : Typewriters, Televisions, and Erotic Gadgets: The Materiality of Everyday Life in Eastern Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
In Search of the Third Way: The British Left and Yugoslav Self-Management in the 1960s and 1970s
Fri31  Mar04:45pm(15 mins)
 Vladimir Unkovski-Korica  
Stream : Developing new forms of collaborations in East-Central Europe
Room: James Watt South Room 355
In Solidarity: Cross-regional Socialist Artistic Connections between Countries of the “Socialist Second World”
Fri31  Mar04:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Caterina Preda  
Stream : Cold War dinamics, exchanges and mobilities within the Socialist World and beyond
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Inclusion and exclusion errors and the implications for using spatial data in Gulag research
Sat1  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Daniel Horn  
Stream : Spatial Politics: Approaches to Knowledge and Planning
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Information and Culture as national security policy: evolutions in the rhetoric and reality of Russian foreign policy under Putin
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – concepts and ideas
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Infrastructuring the Soviet Nuclear Culture in Obninsk and Sarov
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Egle Rindzeviciute  
Stream : The Life and Afterlife of Soviet Planning: Industrial Urbanism, Built Environments, and Geographic Politics
Room: Fore Hall
Inherited ways of looking: A Case Study of Aivars Liepiņš photography series "Children's Carehome No. 2. Baldone"
Sun2  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Mrs Agnese Zviedre  
Stream : Illuminating Misplaced Archives: Researching Soviet and Post-Soviet Photography in Latvia
Room: Robing Room
Institutional changes of the political system in Ukraine under the impact of Russian military aggression.
Sat1  Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Galyna Zelenko  
Stream : War as a maker of nations? Nation-building in Ukraine as a result of Russia's war against Ukraine - discourses, identities, achievements
Room: Bute Hall
Institutionalization of national independent life in the USSR during perestroika. Jewish organizations and associations in Moscow after 1985
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Evgenii Kriakin  
Stream : Institutions in Perestroika
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Institutionalization of the environmental movement in Ukraine during perestroika in the Soviet Union
Sat1  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Tetiana Perga  
Stream : Institutions in Perestroika
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Intellectual confrontation with Mečiarism in Slovakia during the 1990s
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Dirk Dalberg  
Stream : The 1990s: Societies in transition
Room: Main Building Room 132
Intellectuals of Statecraft: Russian Arms Control Debates and Great Power Competition
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Alexander Graef  
Stream : Strategy, conflict, and security
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Intermedial Innovations: The Panfuturists' Book Experiment
Fri31  Mar01:15pm(15 mins)
 Ms Lauren Warner-Treloar Ms Lauren Warner-Treloar  
Stream : Printing and Printmaking in Ukraine: Art Traditions and National Identities
Room: Fore Hall
International Order, War, and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: the Global South between Russia and the West
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Kevork Oskanian  
Stream : Russia(ns) in the world
Room: James Watt South Room 355
International Origins of the Deeply Personalised Russian Political Regime
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Prof Atsushi Ogushi  
Stream : Authoritarianism and disinformation
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Inventing a New Justice. Lawyer's Reflection on Litigation in Russia without the ECtHR
Sat1  Apr02:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Denis Shedov Mr Denis Shedov  
Stream : Ruxit: Russia and the Council of Europe from beginning to an end
Room: Bute Hall
Investigating Space Heritage for Tourism and Environmental Preservation: A Case Study of Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Guillaume Tiberghien  
Stream : Future Spaces: Tourism, Heritage and Architecture
Room: Melville Room
Is it an ill bird that fouls its own nest? Critical representations of clergymen in Russian 19th-century prose
Sat1  Apr09:00am(1 mins)
 Dr Marta Łukaszewicz  
Stream : Russian Orthodoxy: Representations and Influences
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Is Ukrainian a Pluricentric Language?
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Andriy Danylenko  
Stream : The Ukrainian Language Today: Bridging the Past and the Future
Room: Melville Room
It’s nationalism, stupid (?) Nationalism, foreign policy and Russia’s Ukraine policy.
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Luke March  
Stream : Ideology and the Putin System: Before and after 2022
Room: Bute Hall
Iulia de Beausobre (1893-1977): cultural mediator or Orthodox missionary?
Sat1  Apr09:02am(1 mins)
 Dr Ruth Coates  
Stream : Russian Orthodoxy: Representations and Influences
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Jan Patočka, Philosophical Production, and the Freiburg Idyll.
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mr David Aitken  
Stream : New Directions in World War II History
Room: Senate Room
John Erickson: a historian between East and West
Sat1  Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Mr Niall Gray  
Stream : History writing between East and West
Room: Main Building Room 132
Joseph Brodsky and the lives of the poet: questions of self-translation in “Tsushima Screen”, ‘24 May 1980’, and their Russian originals.
Sat1  Apr03:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Andrew Reynolds  
Stream : Joseph Brodsky's Legacy
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Joseph Brodsky’s Creative Writing Pedagogy as an Approach to his Work
Sat1  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Eugenia Kelbert Rudan  
Stream : Joseph Brodsky's Legacy
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Joseph Brodsky's Postcards
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Natalia Rulyova  
Stream : Joseph Brodsky's Legacy
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Khrushchev's Carnival: Overcoming Fear Through a Political Ritual
Sat1  Apr04:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Raphaëlle Auclert  
Stream : Soviet Culture and its Evolution
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Knowledge production about Russia: changes in the center-periphery relations, 1990-2020
Sun2  Apr11:20am(20 mins)
 Miss Katerina Guba  
Stream : Social Values and Norms in the Contemporary Russia
Room: Main Building Room 134
Landscapes of Jewish Memory in Poland. Jewish Agency and Memoryscape in Gierek’s Poland.
Sun2  Apr01:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Janek Gryta  
Stream : Poles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority Politics
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Late Soviet Petrocinema: Farman Salmanov in Aleksandr Proshkin’s «Risk Strategy» (1978)
Sat1  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Prof Andrei Rogatchevski  
Stream : Petroimaginations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Fore Hall
Laughing at “the Enemies of the People:” Narratives of Denunciation in Krokodil (1928-1929)
Fri31  Mar04:55pm(15 mins)
 Miss Alina Amvrosova  
Stream : Alternative scenarios for a future Russia across 1917
Room: Turnbull Room
Lessons for Russian Foreign and Security Policy from Russia's War in Ukraine
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(90 mins)
 Dr Marcin Kaczmarski Dr Kevork Oskanian 
Dr Natasha Kuhrt Dr Ruth Deyermond
Stream :
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Lessons for Scholars of Russian Foreign and Security Policy from Russia's War in Ukraine
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(90 mins)
 Dr Kasia Kaczmarska Dr Kevork Oskanian 
Dr Alexander Graef Prof Bettina Renz
Stream :
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Lessons in Revolution on the Western Border: Uprisings in Ukraine and Belarus in 1920s-1930s Soviet Film
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Pavel Stepanov Mr Pavel Stepanov  
Stream : Investigating "National Form" in Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1953
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Lesya Ukrainka and the Medical Humanities
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Melissa Miller  
Stream : Ukrainian Literature and Culture
Room: Main Building Room 466
LGBTQ-rights activism and digital media strategies: A gendered perspective
Dr Olga Andreevskikh  
Stream :
Room:
Libraries Bracing Themselves for a New Ice Age - The Russian War against Ukraine and its Consequences for the Acquisition and Accessibility of Media for Research on Russia and Eastern Europe
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Juergen Warmbrunn  
Stream : Research challenges, ethics and data in the time of war
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Life scenarios of the 1990-2000 cohorts during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Lithuaniastract
Ms Laima Zilinskiene  
Stream :
Room:
Life-Creation in Anti-Communist Martyrologies: Retelling the Life of Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa (1925-2006)
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(20 mins)
 Iona Ramsay  
Stream : Life-creation (Zhiznetvorchestvo) as a Driving Force in Inter-cultural Mediation
Room: Robing Room
Living an incoherent life: homosexuality and anti-Soviet dissidence in Soviet Lithuania
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Ms Rasa Kamarauskaite  
Stream : Repression and dissent under socialism
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Living on a Mental Frontline. The Use of War Veterans in Russian Patriotic Education
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mr Elena Racheva  
Stream : Security through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in Central Eastern European and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Living under One Roof: Homes for Older People in the Late Soviet Union
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Prof Susan Grant  
Stream : Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Making something new out of the old? Dilemmas and strategies of the Slovak authorities in the transition period (1919-1920)
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Etienne Boisserie  
Stream : Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in East-Central Europe before 1939
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Male and female autobiographic written and oral accounts on the 'thaw' period (Belarusian SSR, early 1960s): (in)visibility of women
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Uladzimir Valodzin  
Stream : Her Side of The Story: Women Dissident Practices in the Soviet Union and Beyond
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Marx’s White Shirt: Vladimir Zazubrin’s The Chip (1923) and the Boundaries of Early Soviet Literature
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr James Ryan  
Stream : Revisiting Room 101: Understanding State Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Maternalism old and new: redefining ‘good-motherhood’ through state awards for Lithuanian mothers of many children
Sun2  Apr01:05pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ieva Bisigirskaitė  
Stream : Contested motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Matter of Taste: On Coloniality of Dietary Discourses in the 18th century Ethnographic Texts from Siberia
Sat1  Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Olga Trufanova  
Stream : Empires' Multiple Peripheries
Room: Turnbull Room
Max Lawton and the Sorokinaissance - Zhiznetvorchesto in the Digital Age
Sat1  Apr04:20pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Sarah Gear  
Stream : Life-creation (Zhiznetvorchestvo) as a Driving Force in Inter-cultural Mediation
Room: Robing Room
Medical Knowledge, Nutrition and Social Change: An Inquiry into the Politics of Life in Late Socialist Romania
Fri31  Mar12:50pm(20 mins)
 Dr Mara Marginean  
Stream : From communism to post-communism: Romanian paradoxes
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Memories and Myths in the Knowledge Production on the Polish-Ukrainian War for Former Eastern Galicia (1918–1919)
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Martin Rohde Dr Jagoda Wierzejska 
Stream : History writing between East and West
Room: Main Building Room 132
Memory and fact: Revolution in Marc Aldanov’s novels and essays
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia  
Stream : Literary responses to the Russian Revolution, c. 1905-1930s
Room: Senate Room
Memory and/of Forced Migration During and After WWII in the Works of Polish and Yiddish Writers
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Annelie Bachmaier  
Stream : Polish Literature and Culture
Room: Hunter Hall
Memory, Identity, Belonging in Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Autobiographical Novel Warm Arctic Nights (2019)
Sun2  Apr01:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Tetiana Ostapchuk  
Stream : Constructing Identities: National and Transnational
Room: Senate Room
Mending broken bonds: Reconciliation in documentary movies
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Zala Pavšič  
Stream : Reconciliation in Post-Yugoslav Space: Digital Peacebuilding
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Michel Dimitry Calvocoressi’s Activities to Promote Modest Musorgsky’s Legacy in its Authentic Form
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Vasilisa Aleksandrova  
Stream : Music and Memory
Room: Main Building Room 132
Mighty Ukrainian Girls in post-1991 Children's Historical Fiction
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Mateusz Świetlicki  
Stream : Domestic Matriarchy vs. Public Patriarchy. Ascribing and Questioning Gender Roles in Central Europe after 1989
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Migrant families in Estonia: Family language policies, Ideologies and Beliefs
Fri31  Mar02:50pm(20 mins)
 Prof Anastassia Zabrodskaja Prof Anastassia Zabrodskaja  
Stream : Language as Ever-Changing Phenomenon
Room: Robing Room
Migrant mothers from post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and Caucasus region in Sweden – Practices, values and challenges
Sun2  Apr01:25pm(20 mins)
 Dr Soheyla Yazdanpanah  
Stream : Contested motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Mikhail Zenkevich, Translator of British Authors.
Sat1  Apr05:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Svetlana Cheloukhina  
Stream : Life-creation (Zhiznetvorchestvo) as a Driving Force in Inter-cultural Mediation
Room: Robing Room
Militarised civil society and the informal economy of war in Ukraine since 2014
Sun2  Apr01:05pm(20 mins)
 Dr Taras Fedirko  
Stream : Social foundations of the war: multiscalar accounts of conflict and political economy
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Minority policy of interwar Poland in historical syntheses.
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Barbara Klassa  
Stream : Interwar population politics
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Modification of the Ukrainians’ image in Polish-language social media after February 24, 2022
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Bartosz Hordecki  
Stream : Russia's war on Ukraine (1)
Room: Bute Hall
Monotowns and the 20th Century's Modernism: The Socialist Legacy of Built Environment in post-Soviet Russia
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Ms Irina Redkina  
Stream : The Life and Afterlife of Soviet Planning: Industrial Urbanism, Built Environments, and Geographic Politics
Room: Fore Hall
Moving from Global North to Global South. Romania as Initiator and Beneficiary of Humanitarian Aid (1970-2007)
Fri31  Mar01:10pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Luciana Jinga  
Stream : From communism to post-communism: Romanian paradoxes
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Moving through mountains: Pamir and its mobile subjects under imperial rule
Sun2  Apr01:05pm(20 mins)
 Miss Malika Zehni Miss Malika Zehni  
Stream : Trade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central Asia
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Multicultural literature is a window to discovering and understanding the world.
Sat1  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Mrs Dorota Hrycak- Krzyzanowska  
Stream : Polish Literature and Culture
Room: Hunter Hall
Multilingual dictionary of phraseme construcions and its didactic potential
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Mrs Anna Pavlova  
Stream : The boundaries of Slavonic lexicography: new approaches to words, phrases and collocations
Room: Robing Room
Multilingual Pest-Buda: Hungarians, Serbs and Germans in literature in 1800
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Zsuzsanna Varga  
Stream : Central European Literatures and Cultures
Room: Main Building Room 134
Multilingual Tallinn: a pilot study on soundscape and linguistic landscape
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Prof Kapitolina Fedorova  
Stream : Multilingual Societies and Language Policies
Room: Robing Room
Muslim reformism: An unexpected influence on Yugoslav communist gender discourses
Sun2  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Andreja Mesarič  
Stream : Transformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Room: Fore Hall
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya at 200 and the “Brontification” of the Khvoshchinskaya Sisters
Sat1  Apr03:00pm(15 mins)
 Nora Seligman Favorov  
Stream : Women’s Writing and Feminist Perspectives
Room: Melville Room
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: failure to understand leading to the failure to resolve
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mr Murad Muradov  
Stream : Conflict, communication, and politics in the Caucasus
Room: McIntyre Room 201
National Innovation (Eco)Systems of Bulgaria and Kazakhstan
Dr Radostina Schivatcheva  
Stream :
Room:
Negationism of international crimes. Official Russian response to reports of war crimes committed by the Russian army or occupation authorities in Ukraine.
Fri31  Mar04:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Lukasz Adamski  
Stream : Public Attitudes and Collective Mobilisation
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Negotiating a shared past: How historical commissions affect textbooks in Central Europe and North America (1972-present)
Sat1  Apr04:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Tadeusz Wojtych  
Stream : History writing between East and West
Room: Main Building Room 132
Negotiating illness through the second language in Izabela Morska’s Znikanie (2019).
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Aneta Stepien  
Stream : Women’s Writing and Feminist Perspectives
Room: Melville Room
Neo-Gothic of Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s "Nomer Odin" (2004) and "Chernaia Babochka" (2008) in the Postcolonial Eastern European Context and Intersections with the Ukrainian Example of Andrii Liubka’s "Karbid" (2015).
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Inna Tigountsova  
Stream : Decolonial Perspectives
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
New attributes of the brand of Ukrainian democracy: democratic values as the key to the future of Ukraine.
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Kateryna Fedoryshyna  
Stream : War as a maker of nations? Nation-building in Ukraine as a result of Russia's war against Ukraine - discourses, identities, achievements
Room: Bute Hall
New perspective on elite change and elite (re)production after 1989 in Poland. Insights from a study of members of governments.
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Andrzej Turkowski  
Stream : Class, Gender and Protest
Room: Turnbull Room
New Polish Film and Photography Engaged in the World in Conflict
Sun2  Apr11:00am(20 mins)
 Dr Justyna Budzik  
Stream : History, Reproductive Rights, Social Change. Polish Society in Images and on Streets
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
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  
Stream :
Room:
No peninsula is an island: Aksyonov’s Crimea as a symbolic land
Sun2  Apr01:30pm(15 mins)
 Miss Annamaria Vass  
Stream : Russian Nationalism and Anti-Globalism
Room: Main Building Room 134
Non-Territorial Minority Arrangements in Interwar Soviet Ukraine
Sat1  Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Olena Palko Dr Olena Palko  
Stream : Interwar population politics
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Norilsk and Nornickel: Local Government-Business Relations in a Russian Monotown
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Miriam Pollock  
Stream : Russian domestic politics – institutions and information
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Normalization from Below: A Czecho-Slovak Comparison, 1968-69
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr James Krapfl  
Stream : East-Central Europe after 1968
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Normative power as a Geostrategic Challenge
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Daniel Göler  
Stream : Changing Perceptions in EU-EEU Relations: A Driver for Changing Foreign and Defence Policy
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Not a Threat? Russian Elites’ Disregard for the “Islamist Danger” in the North Caucasus in the 1990s
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Vassily Klimentov  
Stream : Elites, Activism and Political Participation
Room: Main Building Room 466
Not only NGOs and Protest Movements: Everyday activism in today’s Poland
Sat1  Apr04:40pm(15 mins)
 Dr Piotr Goldstein Dr Piotr Goldstein  
Stream : From women and LGBTQ+ prosecution to activism and resistance
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Notes towards “precarious” terminology: What do we talk about when we talk about Russia’s Post-Soviet condition?
Dr Danijela Lugaric Vukas  
Stream :
Room:
Nothing is True, But It Turns Out Not Everything is Possible: Putin’s Failed Attempt to Construct Strategic Narratives for the Ukrainian Invasion
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Prof Sarah Oates  
Stream : Media and narratives during Russia's war on Ukraine
Room: Bute Hall
Nudity in the USSR during the Thaw:  the censorship frameworks
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Miss Ekaterina Vikulina  
Stream : Representation of gender and body in the Soviet culture
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Official knowledge - Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Erdem Lamazhapov  
Stream : Climate Adaptation and Knowledge in the Russian Arctic
Room: Fore Hall
Offshore energy development in the Baltic Sea Region: the geopolitics of transnational renewable infrastructures
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Mary Keogh  
Stream : Energy politics and policy
Room: Senate Room
Oil and Wool: Handicrafts and “Nationalist in Form, Socialist in Content” in Early Soviet Culture, 1921-1953
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Sohee Ryuk  
Stream : Investigating "National Form" in Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1953
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
'Only Our Traditional Values': Human Rights of Women and LGBTQI+ people in the Russia-CoE relations
Sat1  Apr02:30pm(15 mins)
 Prof Marianna Muravyeva  
Stream : Ruxit: Russia and the Council of Europe from beginning to an end
Room: Bute Hall
Open System, Closed Outcome?: Kitchen Debates and the Limits of the Fake in Moscow Artistic Circles, 2012 - 2020.
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Kitty Brandon-James  
Stream : Post-Soviet and Post-Memory
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Organisational ‘Heroes’ and ‘Anti-Heroes’ in State-Owned Enterprises in Czechoslovakia
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Anna Soulsby  
Stream : East-Central Europe after 1968
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Organizations with foreign agent status in Russia: mechanisms of repression and practice of activity (empirical research 2019-2021)
Sun2  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Magdalena Lachowicz  
Stream : Russian domestic politics – ideas, ideology, and propaganda
Room: Melville Room
Ornamental Constructivism: Elements of Ukrainian Folk Art in the Avant-Garde Experiments of Vasyl Yermilov
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Katia Denysova  
Stream : Printing and Printmaking in Ukraine: Art Traditions and National Identities
Room: Fore Hall
Orthodoxy 2.0: Explaining the Online Activity of Religious Bloggers
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Dragos Samsudean Dr Dragos Samsudean  
Stream : Production of strategic narratives and audience perception
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Out from the Shadows: Women and Russian Radicalism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Lynne Hartnett Dr Lynne Hartnett  
Stream : New perspectives on the 19th century Russia
Room: Melville Room
Past Modern: Theorising the Aesthetics of Return in the Late Soviet Underground
Sat1  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Ms Katerina Pavlidi  
Stream : The Aesthetics of Return in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Turnbull Room
Patriotism as Populism: Memory and Identity in (non)contemporary Russia
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Prof Victor Apryshchenko  
Stream : Russian domestic politics – ideas, ideology, and propaganda
Room: Melville Room
Perestroika as Mission: The ‘Voice[s] of Orthodoxy’ between Moscow and Berlin, 1985-1991
Sat1  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Franziska Schedewie  
Stream : Institutions in Perestroika
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Create the New Soviet Person, 1985-1991
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Courtney Doucette Dr Courtney Doucette  
Stream : The New Soviet Person from Late Stalinism to Perestroika
Room: Bute Hall
Peripheral Enlightenment: Reading the first Slovak novel as a world classic
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Ms Dobrota Pucherova  
Stream : Central European Literatures and Cultures
Room: Main Building Room 134
Peripheral geopolitical orientations: Borderland views on geopolitical questions in Georgia and Hungary
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Gela Merabishvili  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe I
Room: Melville Room
Peripheral Histories?: Decolonisation in Eurasian Regions since Spring 2022
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(90 mins)
 Dr Siobhan Hearne Dr Olena Palko Dr Olena Palko 
Dr Naira Sahakyan Ms Sophie Qiaoyun Peng
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 132
Personal epistemology on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2021: constructing and deconstructing knowledge
Ms Evija Djatkovica  
Stream :
Room:
Peter the Great, Bacchus and the Cossack. Origins and Iconography of the Seal of Don Cossack Host (1704) in the context of Russian Visual Culture of the Peter I Era
Sat1  Apr05:00pm(30 mins)
 Mr Ilia Malakhov Mr Ilia Malakhov  
Stream : Presenting Western as Russian: Tactics of Appropriation in Russian Visual Culture
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
PetroArt: Oil in Contemporary Russian Visual Arts
Sat1  Apr04:40pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Maria Engström  
Stream : Petroimaginations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Fore Hall
Ploughing the "red virgin soil": a study in "Krasnaja Nov'" first year.
Sat1  Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Miss Virginia Pili  
Stream : Soviet Culture and its Evolution
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Polish ethnolinguistic lexicography: problems and methods
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Mr Oleksiy Yudin  
Stream : The boundaries of Slavonic lexicography: new approaches to words, phrases and collocations
Room: Robing Room
Political violence in Russian literature, 1905-1914
Fri31  Mar04:35pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ben Phillips  
Stream : Literary responses to the Russian Revolution, c. 1905-1930s
Room: Senate Room
Politico-Military Cohesion and Resilience in Ukraine – the Effects of War
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Tor Bukkvoll  
Stream : Pluralism, Resilience and Societal Survival: Ukraine under Zelensky
Room: Bute Hall
Population Politics and Nation-Building: Migrations of Turkish and Muslim Populations from Bulgaria to Turkey (1925-1939)
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Slavka Karakusheva  
Stream : Transformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Room: Fore Hall
Populist and Liberal Mythology in Polish Political Discourse. In Search of Linguistic Indicators of Mythologisation
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka  
Stream : Government and governance
Room: Main Building Room 466
Possessing Antiquity: Soviet Art History’s Reinvention of the National Cultural Heritage
Sat1  Apr05:30pm(30 mins)
 Ms Rashel Zemlinskaya Ms Rashel Zemlinskaya  
Stream : Presenting Western as Russian: Tactics of Appropriation in Russian Visual Culture
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Post-Communist Far-Right under Transformation? Romanian and Bulgarian far-right since 2014
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mr George Kordas  
Stream : Political parties
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Post-Soviet fathers and their nations: a comparison Batka Lukashenka, Papa Nazarbayev, and Niyazov-Turkmenbashi
Sat1  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Miss Ruta Skriptaite Miss Ruta Skriptaite  
Stream : Authoritarianism and disinformation
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Post-Soviet Muslims in Europe: Recycling the National into the Religious?
Sat1  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Dr Kristina Kovalskaya  
Stream : Identities in flux: engaging religion in periods of change
Room: Main Building Room 466
Pouring Swiss wine into an old Russian bottle? The Vilnius conflict in the League of Nations, 1920-1922
Fri31  Mar03:10pm(20 mins)
 Dr Donatas Kupciunas  
Stream : The Baltic in world politics from the Early Modern to the present
Room: Senate Room
Precarious Femininities: Dreams of Ascent and Fears of Descent between Shame, Delusion, and Freedom in Polish Post-Socialist Literature
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Magdalena Baran-Szołtys Dr Magdalena Baran-Szołtys  
Stream : Domestic Matriarchy vs. Public Patriarchy. Ascribing and Questioning Gender Roles in Central Europe after 1989
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Printmaking at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Early Modern Period
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Alice Sullivan  
Stream : Printing and Printmaking in Ukraine: Art Traditions and National Identities
Room: Fore Hall
Prismatic Emigration in Stefan Themerson and Maria Kuncewicz
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Ms Ola Sidorkiewicz  
Stream : “East of the West, West of the East”: Narrating Identity and Difference in Modern and Contemporary Polish Prose
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Prisons, Patriotism and State formation in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Fri31  Mar05:00pm(15 mins)
 Judith Pallot  
Stream : From Bamlag to Ukraine: Intersections of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Context of Punishment, 1930S - 2023.
Room: Main Building Room 134
Pro-democracy activism by Russian migrants in Germany and Georgia in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine
Sun2  Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Tatiana Golova Dr Tatiana Golova Dr Tsypylma Darieva Dr Tsypylma Darieva 
Stream : Russian migrants' anti-war activism
Room: Turnbull Room
Projecting and Experiencing Informational Borders in Eastern Ukraine pre-2022
Sun2  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Ekaterina Mikhailova  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe I
Room: Melville Room
Projecting the Future: Novel Technologies of Spectacle in Astana, Kazakhstan
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr David Gogishvili  
Stream : Future Spaces: Tourism, Heritage and Architecture
Room: Melville Room
Protest Music in Ukraine: from Decolonization to Democracy
Sat1  Apr12:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Olga Gomilko  
Stream : Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine by Cultural Means
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Providing water and power across front lines : the actors, practices and limits of operating critical infrastructure in conditions of insecurity in the war Ukraine (2014-present).
Sun2  Apr01:05pm(20 mins)
 Mrs Sophie Lambroschini  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe II
Room: Melville Room
Public debt expectations: the more you know about public debt, the less optimistic you are
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Andreea Stancea Ms Andreea Stancea  
Stream : Economic development in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Publications in Russian Literature over 1990-2020: Authors, Topics and Figures
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Ms Angelika Tsivinskaya  
Stream : Revising the Russian Canon
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Putin’s Oligarchs under Sanctions
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Ingvill Moe Elgsaas  
Stream : Economics, business, and industry – politics and policy
Room: Fore Hall
Queering Russian cinema as a strategy of LGBTQ community building
Dr Olga Andreevskikh  
Stream :
Room:
Quo vadis Area Studies amidst Russia‘s War against Ukraine?
Fri31  Mar11:00am(75 mins)
 Prof Gwendolyn Sasse  
Stream : Keynote
Room: Bute Hall
Raising a New Soviet Person on Revolutionary Traditions: The Role of the Older Generation in Communist Upbringing in the 1960s.
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Alissa Klots  
Stream : The New Soviet Person from Late Stalinism to Perestroika
Room: Bute Hall
Reasons of State and States of Mind: Ewa Lipska’s A Living Death Within and Without Censorship.
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr John Bates  
Stream : New Directions in Polish Censorship
Room: Melville Room
Reassessing Post-Socialist Legal Development: The Politics of Unevenness, Imitation, and Re-Traditionalization
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(15 mins)
 Mr Cristian Collina  
Stream : The European Union – politics, policy, and law
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Recipes for Baking Bread: Stories from Holdomor
Sat1  Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Sara Nesteruk  
Stream : Media re(production) of socialist ideology and local past
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Reconfigured patriotic forces and the reduction of ideological plurality in Putin’s Russia
Sat1  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Matthew Blackburn  
Stream : Ideology and the Putin System: Before and after 2022
Room: Bute Hall
Redefining Ukrainian National Form after the Soviet Annexation of Western Ukraine, 1939-1941
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Stefan Lacny Mr Stefan Lacny  
Stream : Investigating "National Form" in Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1953
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
REELIT-Sponsored Roundtable: Translation and Publishing in Periods of Great Change
Sat1  Apr11:00am(90 mins)
 Miss Anna Maslenova Mrs Sarah Gear 
Dr Cathy McAteer Dr Cathy McAteer Miss Christina Karakepeli
Stream :
Room: Hunter Hall
Reflection of Ukrainian War in Media and Social Networks. Corpus Analysis
Sat1  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Mr Alexander Smoljanski  
Stream : War in Ukraine: Displacement, Mobilities and Identities
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Reflexive propaganda: polarization, political deliberation, and war in an authoritarian regime
Sat1  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Maxim Alyukov Dr Maxim Alyukov  
Stream : Russia's war on Ukraine (2)
Room: Fore Hall
Reflexivity as methodological guidance for war-time research: reflections of a Ukrainian, researching Ukraine
Sat1  Apr02:20pm(20 mins)
 Miss Ielizaveta Rekhtman  
Stream : Theorising “the East” in Area Studies: reflexivity, westerncentrism, and positionality
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Reform in the education system and the attitude of the Greek state towards the schools of the Albanian (Cam) minority
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Laurena Kalaja  
Stream : Interwar population politics
Room: McIntyre Room 201
Reframing Peasant Backwardness
Sat1  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Prof David Darrow  
Stream : New perspectives on the 19th century Russia
Room: Melville Room
Refugee Relief and Displacement in Turkestan During the First World War
Sun2  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Ms Hanna Matt  
Stream : The First World War in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Regional Security in Northeast Asia: Responses and Trends in Russian Foreign Policy
Sun2  Apr01:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Nivedita Kapoor Dr Nivedita Kapoor  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – regional activities
Room: Fore Hall
Reimagining the Past Through Literature: Narratorial Creativity and Story-Building in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Dom dzienny, dom nocny” and Artur Daniel Liskowacki’s “Eine kleine”
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Ms Olga Grochowska  
Stream : “East of the West, West of the East”: Narrating Identity and Difference in Modern and Contemporary Polish Prose
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Relational Area Studies: Russia and geographies of knowledge
Sat1  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Ammon Cheskin  
Stream : Theorising “the East” in Area Studies: reflexivity, westerncentrism, and positionality
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Relationality of indigeneity in late Soviet Nenets short forms
Sat1  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Mrs Karina Lukin  
Stream : Literatures of the Russian Arctic area I
Room: Main Building Room 132
Relationships and Affective Language in Kyivan Rus’ Birchbark Letters, c.1100-1300
Sat1  Apr02:30pm(15 mins)
 Miss Amelia Gardner-Thorpe  
Stream : Trans-Regional Exchange in Motion: Cultural Fluidity in Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Europe
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Relics of Orientalism: imperial and anti-imperial museology in early Soviet Tashkent
Sun2  Apr11:40am(20 mins)
 Dr Mollie Arbuthnot  
Stream : Imagining the Orient in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Religion on the Margins: Roma People’s Religious Practice during the Communist Rule in Romania
Fri31  Mar01:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Manuela Marin  
Stream : East-Central Europe after 1968
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Religion, family, and samizdat in the late Cold War: The case of Georgii and Lidiia Vins
Sat1  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Miriam Dobson  
Stream : Faith and Family in the USSR: Religious Transmission Across Borders and Generations
Room: Senate Room
Religious Samizdat, Keston College, and Religious Persecution in the USSR
Sat1  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Zoe Knox  
Stream : Repression and dissent under socialism
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Remembering Baku’s oil barons
Sun2  Apr10:00am(15 mins)
 Dr Leyla Sayfutdinova  
Stream : Urban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Remembering Pervostoiteli: Labor Migration and Identity in Soviet-Era Planned Cities
Sat1  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Victoria Fomina  
Stream : The Life and Afterlife of Soviet Planning: Industrial Urbanism, Built Environments, and Geographic Politics
Room: Fore Hall
Remembering the 1993 'Black October' in Russian Documentaries: Politicisation of the Silenced?
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Roberto Rabbia  
Stream : Production of strategic narratives and audience perception
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Repeated Learning Failure? Putin’s Recurrent Ukrainian Mistake
Dr Stephen Hall  
Stream :
Room:
Repositioning of Russian-language professionals in Kazakhstan
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Juldyz Smagulova  
Stream : Multilingual Societies and Language Policies
Room: Robing Room
Repression, Resistance and Revival: Three Models of Transmission of Faith within the Family in the Soviet Era
Sat1  Apr09:40am(20 mins)
 Mrs Barbara Martin  
Stream : Faith and Family in the USSR: Religious Transmission Across Borders and Generations
Room: Senate Room
Researching in the Former Soviet Union. Stories From the Field.
Sun2  Apr11:00am(90 mins)
 Miss Ruta Skriptaite Miss Ruta Skriptaite Dr Jasmin Dall'Agnola Dr Jasmin Dall'Agnola 
Ms Rasa Kamarauskaite Dr Andrea Peinhopf
Stream :
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Resilience and Cohesion in the Zelensky Team
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Geir Flikke  
Stream : Pluralism, Resilience and Societal Survival: Ukraine under Zelensky
Room: Bute Hall
Rethinking Soviet selfhood in the era of the Anthropocene: self, body, environment
Sun2  Apr01:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Epp Annus  
Stream : Constructing Identities: National and Transnational
Room: Senate Room
Retroactive Queerness of Soviet Film in Post-Soviet Lithuania
Fri31  Mar02:50pm(20 mins)
 Prof Natalija Arlauskaite  
Stream : Transformations of LGBTQ Politics and Cultures in the Post-socialist Baltic States
Room: Turnbull Room
Return to the Present Continuous: the Past in Contemporary Russian Popular Music
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Marco Biasioli  
Stream : The Aesthetics of Return in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Turnbull Room
Revisiting the Warrior Women of Early Soviet Literature: Gender, Violence, and Revolution
Fri31  Mar04:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Lara Green  
Stream : Revisiting Room 101: Understanding State Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Revolution and Emotion
Sat1  Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Rafaela Bozic Mrs Rafaela Bozic  
Stream : Soviet Culture and its Evolution
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Rivers of the Empire and Land of the Rivers: Waterscape of Semirechie in Russian Exploration and Colonization.
Sun2  Apr01:25pm(20 mins)
 Dr Tatiana Saburova  
Stream : Trade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central Asia
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Romani Holocaust Memory in Modern-day Romania
Sat1  Apr05:00pm(20 mins)
 Miss Cristina Stoica  
Stream : Memory politics and the Instrumentalisation of the past
Room: Main Building Room 134
Romania and the Scholarships Programs for African Students during the 1980s
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(20 mins)
 Mr Stefan Bosomitu  
Stream : Joggling with the Transnational: Romanian Humanitarian Networks after Ceausescu's Nationalist Turn
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Romania in post-communism: populism, nationalism and nostalgia
Fri31  Mar01:30pm(20 mins)
 Prof Daniel Șandru  
Stream : From communism to post-communism: Romanian paradoxes
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Romanian or Moldovan? Romania’s Kin-state Politics Vis-à-vis the Moldovan Minority in Ukraine
Sat1  Apr04:00pm(1 mins)
 Dr Andreea Udrea  
Stream : Ethnic and national groups, and migration
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Romanian Policy in the United Nations towards the Humanitarian Aid in the 80s
Sun2  Apr01:05pm(20 mins)
 Mr Daniel Filip-Afloarei  
Stream : Joggling with the Transnational: Romanian Humanitarian Networks after Ceausescu's Nationalist Turn
Room: James Watt South Room 361
Russia and the West in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Repercussions of Diverging Approaches to International Statebuilding
Sat1  Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Abdullah Kesvelioglu  
Stream : Russia(ns) in the world
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Russia in the South Pacific
Sun2  Apr01:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Jonathan Ludwig  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – regional activities
Room: Fore Hall
Russia’s new illiberal conservatism
Fri31  Mar01:15pm(15 mins)
 Prof Katharina Bluhm  
Stream : Conservativism, religion, and war in Putin's Russia
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Russia’s ontological (in)security: domestic values versus external enemies
Sun2  Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Dr Federica Prina  
Stream : Russian domestic politics – institutions and information
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Russian Church and the Challenges of Digital Christianity in the Post-Pandemic Era
Sat1  Apr09:03am(1 mins)
 Prof Anastasia Mitrofanova  
Stream : Russian Orthodoxy: Representations and Influences
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Russian Coal: Past, Present and Future in the context of Decarbonisation
Sat1  Apr09:00am(90 mins)
 Mr Maxim Titov Prof Anna Korppoo 
Prof Nikita Lomagin Mrs Irina Mironova
Stream :
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Russian Digital Nationalism amid the Invasion of Ukraine: Mobilisation of Nationalist Organisations and Discourse
Sat1  Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Miss Alexandra Brankova  
Stream : Russian nationalism and de-Russification through the prism of media
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Russian energy power in Europe and war: positioning, preparing?
Fri31  Mar01:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Ingerid Opdahl  
Stream : Energy politics and policy
Room: Senate Room
Russian everyday political economy: libidinal perspectives in wartime
Sun2  Apr01:25pm(20 mins)
 Prof Jeremy Morris  
Stream : Social foundations of the war: multiscalar accounts of conflict and political economy
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 356
Russian Foreign Policy and ontological vectors: a case study of the reversal of priorities as a result of the Euromaidan
Sun2  Apr12:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Eric Pardo Sauvageot  
Stream : Russian foreign policy – regional activities
Room: Fore Hall
Russian legislation and support for the maintenance of linguistic diversity
Sat1  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Mr Konstantin Zamyatin  
Stream : Multilingual Societies and Language Policies
Room: Robing Room
Russian Literature Through the English Lens
Fri31  Mar12:30pm(15 mins)
 Mr Gaëtan Regniers Mr Gaëtan Regniers  
Stream : Translation and Translingualism
Room: Main Building Room 134
Russian neo-rave: metamodernism and cultural recycling of the 1990s
Sat1  Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Mrs Maria Engström  
Stream : The Aesthetics of Return in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Room: Turnbull Room
Russian Organized Corrupt Network under Putin regime.
Sun2  Apr01:30pm(15 mins)
 Prof Serguei Cheloukhine  
Stream : Government and governance
Room: Main Building Room 466
Russian SOEs abroad after February 2022 – sanction evasion strategies
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(30 mins)
 Mr Karel Svoboda  
Stream : Economic development in Russia
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Russian Writers as Public Intellectuals: Liudmila Ulitskaya and Boris Akunin.
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Alexandra Smith Dr Alexandra Smith  
Stream : Between Aesthetics and Politics: Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Russian Culture.
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Russia's New "War Nationalism": How Official Nationalist Rhetoric Contributed to Legitimising the Invasion of Ukraine
Sun2  Apr01:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Jules-Sergei Fediunin  
Stream : Legitimation, identity politics, and "war nationalism" in Putin's Russia: strategies and fallout
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
Sanatoriina Zona as a panopticon of state violence in early Soviet Ukrainian literature
Fri31  Mar05:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Olena Palko Dr Olena Palko  
Stream : Revisiting Room 101: Understanding State Violence in Early Soviet Literature
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 253
School for democracy: co-operation movement as a platform for democratic opposition in Estonia in 1934–1940
Sun2  Apr01:15pm(15 mins)
 Dr Liisi Veski  
Stream : Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in East-Central Europe before 1939
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Science and Religion: Russian Sophiology as a New Cosmology
Fri31  Mar12:45pm(15 mins)
 Dr Walter Sisto Dr Walter Sisto  
Stream : Church, religion and state before 1914
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Scientists in Socialist Countries under the Pressure of the Cold War
Sat1  Apr02:00pm(90 mins)
 Prof Antonie Dolezalova Dr Zarko Lazarevic 
Dr Volodymyr Kravchenko
Stream :
Room: Main Building Room 132
Screening East European sexualities. Queer time and space in 'Brothers of the Night'
Sun2  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Dr Izabella Wodzka Dr Izabella Wodzka  
Stream : Representation of gender and body in the Soviet culture
Room: McIntyre Room 208
Sculpting in Time and Sound: Time, Memory, and Motion in the late-Socialist Era
Fri31  Mar02:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Richard Gillies  
Stream : Ukrainian Literature and Culture
Room: Main Building Room 466
Searching for a New Identity? Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945.
Fri31  Mar04:15pm(20 mins)
 Mr Zbynek Vydra Mr Zbynek Vydra  
Stream : Alternative scenarios for a future Russia across 1917
Room: Turnbull Room
Securitization of the Neighbourhood: From Discourse Creation to Narrative Contestation on European Neighbourhood Policy: EU Driven Framing Projections on Partner Countries in South and East
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Tamar Gamkrelidze Dr Tamar Gamkrelidze  
Stream : The European Union – politics, policy, and law
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Sensuous Nostalgia: Insecurity in the Borderlands of the Fergana Valley
Sun2  Apr01:25pm(20 mins)
 Dr Asel Murzakulova  
Stream : Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe II
Room: Melville Room
Shades of ‘Red’: Solidarity with the Native American Sovereignty Movement in Late Cold War Central Europe
Fri31  Mar04:55pm(20 mins)
 Dr Gyorgy Toth  
Stream : Agents of Internationalism in Central and Eastern Europe during Late Socialism
Room: Fore Hall
Shaping consciousness: people’s feelings towards the war in the monthly literary magazine ‘Знамя’
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Miss Arianna Bettin  
Stream : Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine by Cultural Means
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 251
Shift in emphasis: changes in the composition of the Hungarian government 2010-2022
Sun2  Apr01:00pm(15 mins)
 Mrs Ványi Éva  
Stream : Government and governance
Room: Main Building Room 466
Shopping malls and the everyday urban experience of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Sat1  Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Mr Oliver Banatvala  
Stream : War and Society: Embodied Experiences, Narrated Identities
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Short Stops and Excursions: Anglo-American Expeditions along the Trans-Caspian Railway up to 1920
Sun2  Apr01:45pm(20 mins)
 Dr Alun Thomas  
Stream : Trade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central Asia
Room: James Watt South Room 375
Should all Russians be blamed for Russia’s war in Ukraine? Public opinion in Norway on relations with Russia and Russians
Fri31  Mar04:30pm(15 mins)
 Dr Aadne Aasland  
Stream : Public Attitudes and Collective Mobilisation
Room: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Sick of War: Epidemic Narratives in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
Fri31  Mar02:45pm(15 mins)
 Mr Dmytro Yesypenko  
Stream : Ukrainian Literature and Culture
Room: Main Building Room 466
Singling Out the Collective: Collective Leadership, Electoral Performance and Organisational Development in the Cases of Lewica Razem in Poland and Zdruzena Levica in Slovenia
Sun2  Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Dr Petar Bankov Dr Petar Bankov  
Stream : Political parties
Room: James Watt South Room 355
Slide show of monochrome photographs, 1991-2021.
Sat1  Apr01:00pm(120 mins)
 Dr Shamil Khairov Dr Shamil Khairov  
Stream : My Tatars in Mordovia and other stories
Room: Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (LT 103)
Snow Maidens and Cold Bodies in Sakha Horror
Sun2  Apr09:20am(20 mins)
 Dr Natalya Khokholova Dr Natalya Khokholova  
Stream : The (neo)imperial imaginaries of nature and environment in contemporary Russian media
Room: Fore Hall
Social Control redefined: Housing Disputes in Post-Stalinist Courts
Sat1  Apr12:00pm(20 mins)
 Dr Dina Moyal  
Stream : Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Room: Main Building Room 466
Social media, ‘imaginary collectivity’ and individualities of political activism in Azerbaijan
Sun2  Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Mr Najmin Kamilsoy  
Stream : When societies (re-)create: Youth(ful) ideas and nascent politics in the South Caucasus
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Socialist Transformation of Muslim Girls Education in Yugoslavia
Sun2  Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Ms Jelena Gajic  
Stream : Transformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Room: Fore Hall
Societal knowledge - perceptions on origins and impacts of climate change in Murmansk
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Prof Anna Korppoo  
Stream : Climate Adaptation and Knowledge in the Russian Arctic
Room: Fore Hall
'Society Is Watching You Very Carefully’: Smuggling, the State and Athlete Attempts to Assert Agency in People's Poland
Sat1  Apr02:40pm(20 mins)
 Dr Christopher Lash  
Stream : Crossing the Iron curtain: sports actors and the dynamics of sporting interactions during the Cold War
Room: Senate Room
Solidarity Between New Russian Migrants: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment
Fri31  Mar03:00pm(15 mins)
 Mr Emil Kamalov  
Stream : Departure during the War: Migration from Russia in 2022
Room: James Watt South Stephenson Room
Solidarity Exhibitions in Socialist Romania
Fri31  Mar05:00pm(15 mins)
 Dr Irina Carabas  
Stream : Cold War dinamics, exchanges and mobilities within the Socialist World and beyond
Room: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Solidarity in the socialist factory