eventflo - BASEES Annual Conference 2022

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DAY 1

Auditorium

Umney Theatre

CWB Plenary

JCR

Music Room

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Auditorium Lounge

Games Room

Garden Room

Linnett Room

Umney Lounge

DAY 1

CWB Syndicate Room 1

CWB Syndicate Room 2

CWB Syndicate Room 3

Seminar Room

DAY 1

Teaching Room A

Teaching Room B

Teaching Room 4

Teaching Room 5

Teaching Room 6

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Teaching Room 7

DAY 2

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Keynote 1:

Olesya Khromeychuk, Ukrainian Institute London

Auditorium

(Ukrainian Institute London) Where is Ukraine on the mental map of the academic community?

Keynote Speaker: Olesya Khromeychuk

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Roundtable: Russia's war against Ukraine

Chair: Kataryna Wolczuk
Makku Kangaspuro
John Lough
Olesya Khromeychuk

Introduction: 5 mins

Auditorium

Russia's war against Ukraine

Markku Kangaspuro

Regional politics in Russia

Regional politics in Russia
Chair:Ben Noble
Discussant:

Umney Theatre

“Dead” and “Alive” Cities: The Calculus of Urban (Non)Protests in Russia

Irina Busygina

Political Factors of Sub-National Responses to COVID-19 in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia

Nikita Khokhlov

Regions with the Initiative: Explaining the Supply and Success of Bills Submitted to the State Duma from Russian Regional Legislatures

Ben Noble

Saving Lives or Saving the Economy? Support for the Incumbent during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia

Kirill Chmel

Z(a) Pobedu! New Nationalist Fashion in 21th century Russia.

Anna Novikov

Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science

Environmental challenges and opportunities in Eurasia: governance, economy and science
Chair:Olga Khrushcheva
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CWB Plenary

Development of geoengineering thought in Russia: historical and contemporary perspectives

Jonathan Oldfield

Forced green transformation: can the EU’s new green deal force Russia on the road to further decarbonisation?

Olga Khrushcheva

Institutional arrangements and policymaking in transition states: comparing environmental governance in Georgia & Armenia

Ellie Martus

Pilot Region Sakhalin: Window-dressing or real chance to become a trendsetter in Russian climate policy?

Benjamin Beuerle

Climate change discourses in the authoritarian vulnerable state: the case of Uzbekistan.

Alina Bychkova

Informational Influence of Post-Soviet Russia and its Media Ecosystem: Actors, Discourses, Impact

Informational Influence of Post-Soviet Russia and its Media Ecosystem: Actors, Discourses, Impact
Chair:Natasha Kuhrt
Discussant:Kevin Limonier

JCR

RT UK and its coverage of the 2019 British general elections: ambitious goals and modest results

Vitaly Kazakov

Sputnik International’s Covid coverage: audience reaction

Lucy Birge

Russia’s information influence in Sub-Saharan Africa, from international broadcasting to media outsourcing

Audinet Maxime

Russian media's digital echo chambers on the French speaking Internet : a cartography

Kevin Limonier

Contested past and mediated memory in East-European countries

Contested past and mediated memory in East-European countries
Chair:Kenneth Ward
Discussant:

Music Room

Karel Kachyňa and the Czechoslovak normalisation period: Two decades of films that were not just for children

Kenneth Ward

Building Film Industry in 1920s Soviet Ukraine: The Case of VUFKU

Yu-hsuan Hsu

A problematic media inheritance? Historic German recordings in Czechoslovak radio archives

Erica Harrison

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Explaining Orban"s Hungary

Explaining Orban's Hungary
Chair:Nigel Swain
Discussant:Chris Hann

Auditorium Lounge

Robust Christian Democracy or Orbanistan?

Nigel Swain

Strange bedfellows: Illiberalism and popular religion in Hungary

László Kürti

The National-Populist Mutation of Neoliberalism in Dependent Economies: The Case of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

Gabor Scheiring

Who can work on Sunday? Understanding flexible labour in the retail sector in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

Luca Szücs

"Pre-Modern Rus": textual and cultural traditions.

Pre-Modern Rus': textual and cultural traditions.
Chair:Alexandra Vukovich
Discussant:Nick Mayhew

Games Room

Printed liturgical books in pre-modern Russia: power struggle over textual authority

Olga Grinchenko

Gregory Tsamblak’s Mariological Works and the Construction of Late Medieval Slavonic Festal Sermon

Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov

Iurodivye in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Muscovy

Sofia Simoes Coelho

Interpolation or Invention? The bishop's prayer at the enthronement of Dimitrii Ivanovich

Alexandra Vukovich

The authority of books in Early Rus canonical literature

Vera Gagarina

Roundtable: The Past is NOT a foreign country: eternal presents in Central European novels and films. Organised by 'Slavonica'

Roundtable: The Past is NOT a foreign country: eternal presents in Central European novels and films. Organised by 'Slavonica'
Chair:tbc tbc
Andrew Roach
John M. Bates
Zsuzsanna Varga
Jonathan Shepard
Mirna Solić

Garden Room

The Past is NOT a foreign country: eternal presents in Central European novels and films. Organised by 'Slavonica'

Andrew Roach

Between bottom-up and top-down. New approaches to Polish history.

Between bottom-up and top-down. New approaches to Polish history.
Chair:Ewa Ochman
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Linnett Room

Jewish memory work in the 1950s and 1960s Poland. Mapping the efforts to remember the Holocaust

Janek Gryta

“Workers, Women, Wothers – images of women and their socio-economic consequences in the long period of transformation in Poland”

Johannes Kleinmann

Polish and Lithuanian Early Modern Catholicism in the European Context

Stanisław Witecki

Culture under State Socialism

Culture under State Socialism
Chair:Svetlana Yefimenko
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Umney Lounge

Doppelganger and Totalitarian Discourse: the case of Vysotsky

Georgii Khazagerov

A red crocodile in the sky: how “Krokodil” supported Lev Trotsky ‘s campaign for the Soviet airforce.

Virginia Pili

Factory Workers, Socialist Organizers, Givers of Life, Symbols of Beauty: On the Union of Czechoslovak Composers’ Attitudes Towards Women in Music

Barbora Vacková

Stalin's Scripts: Nation Building and Georgian History in Soviet Literature and Film

Svetlana Yefimenko

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Negotiating ethnicity and identity in the communist and post-communist prison – from gulag to the present day

Negotiating ethnicity and identity in the communist and post-communist prison – from gulag to the present day
Chair:Melanie Ilic
Discussant:Melanie Ilic

CWB Syndicate Room 1

“Affirmative action” and terror behind barbed wire?: the construction of ethnicity in the Soviet GULAG, 1930–1953

Mikhail Nakonechnyi

Ethnic relations in the Romanian prison system – we are all equal but some are more equal than others

Gabriela Groza

The thieves in law in Georgia: Resilience, resistance or fallen myth?

Costanza Curro

In search of a better life – Finnish illegal immigrants’ letters from the Gulag

Ira Jänis-Isokangas

Intellectual History across the Revolutionary Divide

Intellectual History across the Revolutionary Divide
Chair:Ben Phillips
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CWB Syndicate Room 2

V. D. Nabokov, the Constitutional Democrats and Liberal Antisemitism

Anoushka Alexander-Rose

Serafim of Sarov and Educated Russia: Liudmila Alexandrovna Fon Nol’de’s Pilgrimage to Sarov Monastery

Peter Flew

Crisis and adaptation in the Editorship of Sovremennye zapiski, 1920-40

Hannah Connell

Society on Stage: Opera and Ballet

Society on Stage: Opera and Ballet
Chair:Tara Wheelwright
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Fair and Court—Staging Economy and Vilifying Power in Socialist Bulgarian Operas

Patrick Becker-Naydenov

Soviet Drama-Ballet in the 1930s: The Rise of Logocentric Choreography

Tara Wheelwright

Communist-era Repression and its Legacy in the Czechoslovak Context

Communist-era Repression and its Legacy in the Czechoslovak Context
Chair:Julia Sutton-Mattocks
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Seminar Room

Re-considering Czechoslovak Show Trials

Mary Heimann

Forced Labour Camps in Communist Czechoslovakia: History and Memory

Kelly Hignett

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Contesting Official Discourses in Contemporary Russia

Contesting Official Discourses in Contemporary Russia
Chair:TBC TBC
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Teaching Room A

Revolutionary Narratives in Feminist Counter-Memory of Contemporary Russia: Resistance or Nostalgia?

Nadezda Petrusenko

Politics and memory

Politics and memory
Chair:TBC TBC
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Teaching Room B

The Cold War in Russia's Official Collective Memory and Identity

Vassily Klimentov

COVID memory wars on social media between populist movements: The Czech case

Ilana Hartikainen

Varieties of Nostalgia and Right-Wing Populism in Poland

Marta Kotwas

Politics and Central Asia

Politics and Central Asia
Chair:TBC TBC
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Teaching Room 4

Labor unions and institutional corruption: The case of Kazakhstan

Serik Orazgaliyev

Understanding authoritarian decentralisation and its effects: the case of post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Ilyas Yesdauletov

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Heart of Darkness: Russia’s war against Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer and researcher

Heart of Darkness: Russia’s war against Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer and researcher
Chair:Alexander Smoljanski
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Teaching Room 7

Heart of Darkness: Russia’s war against Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer and researcher

Alexander Smoljanski

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Coffee/tea

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Roundtable: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and African Decolonization: New Perspectives

Roundtable: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and African Decolonization: New Perspectives
Chair:tbc tbc
Discussant:

Auditorium

Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and African Decolonization: New Perspectives

Lena Dallywater

Authoritarian politics

Authoritarian politics
Chair:George Gilbert
Discussant:

Umney Theatre

Authoritarian durability, prospects of change and individual behavior: Evidence from a survey experiment in Russia

Olga Masyutina

Power to the People? Explaining authoritarian referendums in post-Soviet Eurasia

Ben Noble

Examining "vote rigging" and the "bandwagon effect" in Eastern European elections: are turnout rates and diversity of outcome connected?

Nikita Shalaev

Bromances and Authoritarian Learning? The Cases of Belarus and Russia

Stephen Hall

Hegemonic Mobilisations through the Politics of Time and Space in Central and Eastern Europe

Hegemonic Mobilisations through the Politics of Time and Space in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair:Ilana Hartikainen
Discussant:TBD TBD

CWB Plenary

Commemoration and Amnesia: Performing State and Nationhood in Hungary and Kosovo

Marina Vulovic

Us-building through sports in illiberal Hungary: National-historical myths embedded in the Arena Pancho

Katinka Linnamäki

Spatial and temporal constitution of myths: how memory, history and the past entangle in Romania and Serbia?

Ionut Chiruta

Resisting Leftist Dictatorship? Memory Politics and Collective Action Framing in the Populist Far-right PEGIDA Movement

Sabine Volk

Filmmaking and construction of cultural and environmental identities

Filmmaking and construction of cultural and environmental identities
Chair:Meghanne Barker
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JCR

Cinematic Landscapes and Indigenous Identity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia

Adelaide McGinity-Peebles

Animating the Real: Documentary Pedagogy and Experiment in the former Yugoslavia

Meghanne Barker

Post-Maidan Films as Component of New Ukrainian Cultural Identity

Olha Voznyuk

Dug in or rising from the mud: an ecocritical approach to selected new Polish films

Justyna Budzik

International politics and empires

International politics and empires
Chair:Anna Novikov
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Music Room

Albanian-Russian collaboration: Prospects of development.

Noela Mahmutaj

Threat perception and securing against Russia. The foreign policy of Estonia and Finland (2008-2018)

Maxime Belin

Towards a bottom-up peacebuilding solution for the Transnistrian conflict: A review of past conflict settlement initiatives

Ana Maria Albulescu

Post-colonial Emotions in Never-colonized States: Turkey and Russia as Subaltern Empires

Melike Akkaraca Kose

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Energy politics

Energy politics
Chair:Michael Denison
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Auditorium Lounge

Rethinking Post-Soviet Identities: Belarusian civil nuclear cooperation with Russia

Anna Davis (née Davidson)

“Cheap Energy” and Putin’s “Social Contract”

Adnan Vatansever

The main actors in Russia’s gas sector – Gazprom, Rosneft and Novatek – and their role in Russia’s limited access order: privileges and responsibilities

Kalina Damianova

Russian SOEs as Foreign Policy Tools? The Case of Rosneft in Venezuela

Karel Svoboda

Dostoevsky in Dialogue

Dostoevsky in Dialogue
Chair:Sarah Hudspith
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Games Room

'Illuminating the chaos and obscurity': polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante

Sarah Hudspith

Nabokov through Dostoevsky’s Eyes: “Old Dusty” in Sogliadatai

Alina Wyman

Fyodor Dostoevksy, Grand Polyphonic Novels and Compelling Short Fiction: A Comparative Study

Jacqueline Carr-Phillips

Opera, Birds, and Romantic Encounters in Dostoevsky’s "Poor Folk" (1846) and Goethe's Werther

Inna Tigountsova

The God Given Freedom of Being A Pawnbroker

Octavian Gabor

Echoes from the Late-Soviet Underground: Continuations and Consequences on Post-Soviet Culture

Echoes from the Late-Soviet Underground: Continuations and Consequences on Post-Soviet Culture
Chair:Maria Engström
Discussant:Maria Engström

Garden Room

The Theatricality of Reading: Agency and Embodiment in Vladimir Sorokin’s Playscripts

Katerina Pavlidi

A Soviet rock star: Viktor Tsoi’s onstage and onscreen image

Caroline Ridler

The Transnational Spread of Russophone Post-Punk: The Case of Molchat Doma

marco biasioli

Siberian Conceptual Irony from Perestroika to Putin

Thomas Drew

Finding their Way: Literary Strategies of Female Writers

Finding their Way: Literary Strategies of Female Writers
Chair:Alexander Ledenev
Discussant:Natalia Blichsh

Linnett Room

Theme of Poet and Poetry in Li Quinzhao and Anna Bunina’s Lyrics

Gong Hengxing

Dialogue as a creative method in the works of Russian and Chinese Female authors of the XIX century

Dandan Zhai

Literary Strategies of Women Writers

Nadezhda Puriaeva

Russian and Soviet Cultural Associations in the 20th and 21st centuries: Soft Power and the Promotion of Culture and Literature

Russian and Soviet Cultural Associations in the 20th and 21st centuries: Soft Power and the Promotion of Culture and Literature
Chair:George Bocean
Discussant:Christina Karakepeli

Umney Lounge

The Read Russia project: A cultural organisation with a soft power mission?

Angelos Theocharis

The Greek-Soviet Association (1945-1989): literature as soft power in Greek-Soviet relations during the Cold War era

Christina Karakepeli

Russian cultural societies in Britain (1890–1920): What did they promote?

Anna Maslenova

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From the Old Geographical Borders to New Social Boundaries: Azerbaijan at the Cultural crossroads.

From the Old Geographical Borders to New Social Boundaries: Azerbaijan at the Cultural crossroads.
Chair:Yelena Abdullayeva
Discussant:Alexander Morrison

CWB Syndicate Room 1

City, Ethnicity, Islam, and National Development: Negotiating Self-Identity in Baku, 1860s- 1910s

Yelena Abdullayeva

Soviet Baku and its Minstrel: Huseyn Javid “Caught In-Between with a Fading Dream”

Leyla Najafzada

Fire in the Land of Oil: Symbolism of Fire, Oil, and Nation in Baku Urbanscape

Leyla Sayfutdinova

Western Entanglemnts in East/Central Europe

Western Entanglemnts in East/Central Europe
Chair:TBC TBC
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CWB Syndicate Room 2

R.W. Seton-Watson and the ‘New Europeans’, 1906-1921: Yugoslavs, Czechoslovaks and the Limits of 'Popular Internationalism'

Samuel Foster

Lord Peter Carrington and the Beginnings of the Bosnian Mediation Process

Alex Cruikshanks

“A colony of alien capital.” Polish public opinion and foreign investment in 1930s Poland

Jerzy Łazor

The British Roots of Soviet Racism

Thom Loyd

Crossing Borders: Culture and Social Mobility in the 16-18th century Eastern Europe's Periphery

Crossing Borders: Culture and Social Mobility in the 16-18th century Eastern Europe's Periphery
Chair:TBC TBC
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CWB Syndicate Room 3

Book-Culture of Cyrillic Script in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16-17 cc.: To the Problems of “Confessionalisation” in the World of Orthodoxy

Sándor Földvári

Integration of Regional Elites in Early Modern Muscovy: the Case of Ryazan

Ivan Kirpichnikov

Tradition and Innovation in the Engravings of the Early Romanian Primers (Second Half of the 18th Century - Beginning of the 19th Century)

Anca Elisabeta Tatay

Cold War Czechoslovakia and Britain: Experiences and Perspectives from Exiles, Officials and Students

Cold War Czechoslovakia and Britain: Experiences and Perspectives from Exiles, Officials and Students
Chair:Milada Polišenská
Discussant:

An Exile Journalist and his Struggle with Communism: Josef Josten and the Free Czechoslovakia Information Service (1948-1985)

Milada Polišenská

Conceptualising Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: The British Council in Czechoslovakia and Kuwait, c.1960-70

Gerald Power

The Formation of an Exile Mind: Dr Frank Uhlir in London, 1949-1951

Jiří Kašný

British post-graduates in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic as part of the bi-lateral cultural exchange agreements of the 1960s-1980s

Barbara Day

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Economic Aspect of Socialist Transformation

Economic Aspect of Socialist Transformation
Chair:TBC TBC
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Teaching Room A

State-Owned Enterprises, Local Communities and the Changing Perception of Organisational Heroes/’Heroes’: The Czech Case

Anna Soulsby

Financing the People?: credits, private construction, and the materialisation of need in Hungary (1949-1956)

Szinan Radi

On the question of the Soviet Economic modernization of the second half of the XX century: myth or reality?

Maria Ponomareva

Gender and Coloniality in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces

Gender and Coloniality in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces
Chair:Guzel Yusupova
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Teaching Room 5

Soviet women’s anti-colonial solidarity with Asia and Africa and the Soviet ”women of color”

Yulia Gradskova

The Core Colonial Narratives in the Construction of Russian Masculinities

Marina Yusupova

Who was the Soviet woman and what happened to her After? On the Coloniality of Gendered Order

Diana T Kudaibergenova

Generational Experiences of Post-Soviet Transformation in Lithuania

Generational Experiences of Post-Soviet Transformation in Lithuania
Chair:Melanie Ilic
Discussant:Laima Zilinskiene

Teaching Room 6

Growing up in Independent Lithuania: Behavioral Strategies of 1980-2000 Cohorts

Laima Zilinskiene

The life course of post-soviet generations in Lithuania

Sigita Kraniauskiene

Lithuanians born from 1980 to 2000: conceptualization of family life and mobility strategies in the times of global migration

Irena Juozeliūnienė

Social policy and life course regimes: post-Soviet transformations in Lithuania

Jekaterina Navickė

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Workshop: Developing Advanced Language Proficiency and Expertise in Eurasian Studies for the Job Market

Workshop: Developing Advanced Language Proficiency and Expertise in Eurasian Studies for the Job Market in the Government and the Private Sector.
Chair:Basil Bessonhoff
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Developing Advanced Language Proficiency and Expertise in Eurasian Studies for the Job Market in the Government and the Private Sector

Basil Bessonoff

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Keynote 2

Professor Andrea Pető (Central European University)

Auditorium

'War, Memory and Gender' Professor Andrea Pető (Central European University)

Keynote Speaker: Andrea Pető

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