BASEES Annual Conference 2022
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8 April
Saturday 9 April
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AuditoriumUmney TheatreCWB PlenaryJCRMusic Room
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Auditorium LoungeGames RoomGarden RoomLinnett RoomUmney Lounge
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Belarusian politics
Umney Theatre

A gendered analysis of the (self-) representation of the Belarusian pro-democracy leader of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
09:00 (10 mins)
Ruta Skriptaite, University of Nottingham  

Deepening the Societal Divide? Political Attitudes towards Constitutional Reform in Belarus among Regime Supporters and Protesters
09:01 (10 mins)
Jan Matti Dollbaum, University of Bremen  

Realisation of political performance concept during Belarussian protests-2020
09:02 (10 mins)
Yulia Ponomareva  

Belarus’ new Constitution: What do we know so far?
09:03 (10 mins)
Elizabeth Teague, formerly with UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office  

Statehood in the North Caucasus: Region Formation in the Longue Durée
09:00 (10 mins)
Ivan Ulises Kentros Klyszcz, University of Tartu  

Explaining the Absence of Jihadi Mobilisation among Georgian Azerbaijanis
09:10 (10 mins)
Aleksandre Kvakhadze, University of Birmingham  

‘No longer what you used to be’: defeats, negotiations, and compromises as challenges to patron–de facto state relations
09:00 (20 mins)
Nina Caspersen, University of York  

Commemorating contested statehood – and the loss of it: strategies for collective identification and political legitimation
09:20 (20 mins)
Sophie Gueudet, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs  

Perceptions of the past in Russia’s ‘near abroad’
09:40 (20 mins)
Kristin Bakke, University College London  

Russian political emigration: Visions and controversies after Navalny’s imprisonment
09:00 (10 mins)
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen  
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Militarising through anxiety: Russian historical textbooks in the 1990s.
09:00 (10 mins)
Allyson Edwards, Warwick University  

Be Grateful to Russia! History, Liberal Modernity, and Civilisational Justifications of Hierarchy in Post-Soviet Eurasia
09:01 (10 mins)
Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter  

Russia, Genocide and Ontological Security
09:02 (10 mins)
Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London,  

The Ukrainian crisis through the lens of the Holocaust
09:03 (10 mins)
Isabel Sawkins, University of Exeter  

Internalising International History: Russian Political Uses of the Yugoslav Wars
09:04 (10 mins)
Jade McGlynn, Middlebury Institute of International Studies  

Artificial Footnotes in Post-Soviet Russian Literature as a Tool of Rethinking the Past
09:00 (10 mins)
Dmitrii Mazalevskii, University of Debrecen  

Boris Akunin’s literary universe inside the (e-)book: vintage paratexts, the digital, and Russian book design
09:10 (10 mins)
Ksenia Papazova, The University of Manchester  

Exploring Cultural Narratives of Saint-Petersburg through a Digital Lens
09:20 (10 mins)
Antonina Puchkovskaia  

Governance in Russia: Development, Welfare and Rights in Russian Regions
09:00 (10 mins)
Marina Khmelnitskaya, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki  

Contested discourses in defining Croatian national heritage (strategies of inclusion and exclusion)
09:00 (10 mins)
Maciej Czerwinski , Jagiellonian University of Krakow  

The political dynamics of architectural symbols and ritual spaces: the case of the Victory Memorial in Riga
09:10 (10 mins)
Ksenija Iljina, University College London  

Belonging without believing? Bulgarian Orthodox identity and literary studies
09:20 (10 mins)
Ewelina Drzewiecka, Institute of Slavic Studies, PAS  

"Leaving" by Ludvik Kundera
09:30 (10 mins)
Jakub Jedounek, Faculty of Art, Masaryk University  

Cultural literacy and the functions of precedent phenomena in spontaneous speech of Russian intellectuals
09:40 (10 mins)
Anna Solomonovskaya  

Olga Tokarczuk’s “Tender Narrator” – a New Perspective on Ethics in Literature?
09:00 (10 mins)
Renata Ingbrant, Stockholms universitet  

"Neither grass nor tree". Image of the refugees in the Hungarian interwar novel
09:10 (10 mins)
Julia Vallasek, Babes-Bolyai University  
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Student Bodies, Musical Lives: Women and the St Petersburg Conservatoire, 1900-1913
09:00 (10 mins)
Sasha Rasmussen, University of Oxford  

"Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name". Provincial towns, recruitment, and militias in the early XIX c.: the impact of war on urban society (communities of Russian North-West)
09:01 (10 mins)
Mikhail Belan, Oxford University  

What’s in a Name, or a Death? The Praxis of the Revolutionary Obituary, 1870-1905
09:02 (10 mins)
George Gilbert, University of Southampton  

The development of the national style in the architecture of Poles, Balts and Finno-Ugric people in the context of the Russian Empire rules in the 19th century
09:03 (10 mins)
Marta Cyuńczyk, University of Gdansk  

The issue of minorities in the relation between Albania and Greece, in the Versailles Peace Conference 1919
09:00 (20 mins)
Laurena Kalaja, Polis University  

“It’s better to go to Siberia”: the exile of the Finns from the Grand Duchy of Finland
09:20 (20 mins)
Larisa Kangaspuro, University of Helsinki  

Establishing Ties with the Worlds of Students: Evidence-based approach to State Socialist History of Czechoslovakia
09:00 (10 mins)
Vojtech Ripka, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes  

History, Memory, Legacy: Exploring the Heritage of Communist-era Forced Labour Camps in the Czech Republic
09:01 (10 mins)
Kelly Hignett, Leeds Beckett University  

Interpreting state socialism through different media in school education
09:02 (10 mins)
Vaclav Sixta, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes  

Touch with freedom - the U(niversal) map as a tool to understand the state socialism
09:03 (10 mins)
Alžbeta Śnieżko, Pavol Jozef Safarik University   

From Art to Commodity: Czech and Polish Filmmakers’ Responses to the Marketization of the Film Industry after 1989
09:00 (10 mins)
Veronika Pehe, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences  

Stories in Transformation: Literary Shifts in Post-Socialist Poland
09:10 (10 mins)
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, RECET, University of Vienna  

Broadcasting Communist Morality: Sex Education and Mass Media in Soviet Latvia
09:00 (20 mins)
Siobhan Hearne, Durham University  

Legitimacy, Health, and Longevity in late-Soviet Political Discourse
09:20 (20 mins)
Jessica Lovett, University of Nottingham  

Popular music and Soviet cultural diplomacy in the Global South, 1975-1990
09:40 (20 mins)
Zbigniew Wojnowski, University of Roehampton  
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Cleansing the Nation: The Romani Genocide in Transnistria
09:00 (20 mins)
Cristina Stoica, Western University  

Nations Apart. Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare Under Nazi Rule
09:20 (20 mins)
Radka Sustrova, University of Cambridge  

Movers and Shakers of Local New Regionalism on Russian borders with Norway and Finland
09:00 (10 mins)
Ekaterina Mikhailova, University of Geneva  

Energy Regionalisms in Central and Eastern Europe
09:01 (10 mins)
Corey Johnson, UNC Greensboro  

Nodes, the (Re)Ordering of Energy Spaces and Regionalism: A case study of Flows from Russia to the EU
09:02 (10 mins)
Margarita Balmaceda, Harvard University  

Rubbles of Memory: The Memorial Afterlives of Communist Monuments in Postcommunist Romania
09:00 (20 mins)
Mihai Stelian Rusu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu  

Ecologies of Decay: Engaging with the post-industrial ruins of Southeast Europe
09:20 (20 mins)
Dimitra Gkitsa, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, UCL  

Commemorating Jewish History in the Western Ukrainian City of Lviv
09:40 (20 mins)
Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna  

Linguistic Strategies of Mythical Nation Construction. The Case of the Polish Law and Justice Party
10:00 (20 mins)
Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London  

Ecclesia and Rule in Rus’ and its Neighbors
09:00 (10 mins)
Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg University  

Reflexes of Late Common Slavic Palatalizations in the Language of Kyivan Rus’
09:10 (10 mins)
Oksana Lebedivna, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy  

Politicization and competitiveness of business elites in Central and Eastern Europe: a comparison of Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
09:00 (10 mins)
Istvan Kollai, OTP Travel  

The economic (policy) consequences of populism: The case of Hungary
09:10 (10 mins)
Istvan Benczes, OTP Travel  

Regime change, competition state and political changes - a Polanyian approach
09:20 (10 mins)
Gabor Vigvari, OTP Travel  
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‘This attack is intended to destroy Poland’: Biopower, conspiratorial knowledge, and the assault on reproductive rights in Poland
11:00 (20 mins)
Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius, University of Helsinki  

‘Kvir’ as discourses of decolonisation and self-colonisation in Russian LGBT and queer online media
11:20 (20 mins)
Olga Andreevskikh, Tampere University  

Media Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence Incidents in Russia during the COVID-19 Lockdown
11:40 (20 mins)
Maria Davidenko  

Gaining Voice: Exploration of Opportunities and Threats for Feminist and Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Putin’s Russia
11:00 (10 mins)
Natalia Kovyliaeva, University of Tartu  

Identity Contestation and Instrumentalization within Serbia’s LGBT Movement
11:10 (10 mins)
Meghan Poff, University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences  

Our Aim Is To Stop Existing. Strategies and Evolution of Environmental Social Movements in Contemporary Russia
11:20 (10 mins)
Maria Chiara Franceschelli, Scuola Normale Superiore  

Are voter cleavages consolidating in Russia?: Comparing the bases of party and non-party support in 2021 with previous elections
11:00 (10 mins)
Paul Chaisty, University of Oxford  

Widening access or reducing transparency? Technology and e-voting in Russian elections
11:01 (10 mins)
Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Malmö University  

Russian public opinion prior and after the 2021 election
11:02 (10 mins)
Katerina Tertytchnaya, UCL  

Failing to Create Revolutionaries: Polish POWs in Soviet Captivity, 1920-21
11:00 (10 mins)
Peter Whitewood, York St John University  

Between Moscow, Warsaw, and the Holy See: Catholic Priests amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Religious Campaign
11:01 (10 mins)
Olena Palko, Birkbeck  

The Riga Treaty of 1921 and the Long Archival Negotiation.
11:02 (10 mins)
Nataliya Borys, University of Geneva   

Making Poles Soviet: Polish National Minority as an Object of Soviet Cinema in the 1920sct
11:03 (10 mins)
Yana Prymachenko, Institute of history of Ukraine, NASU   

Church-state relations and foreign policy interests : from Perestroika to Corona
11:00 (10 mins)
‪Sophia Kotzer‬‏, Nativ - Prime Minister's Office   

Constructing ‘Eurasian’ space: Political landscapes and meta-geographies in Russian foreign policy discourse
11:01 (10 mins)
Barbara Roggeveen, University of Oxford  

The Light of Orthodoxy over the Amber Land: Church-State Relations and the 'Colonisation' of Kaliningrad.
11:02 (10 mins)
Paul Graystone, University of Birmingham  

Reimagining Regions: Russia's vision of Greater Eurasia and challenge of the Indo-Pacific
11:03 (10 mins)
Nivedita Kapoor  
11:00
What’s in a model? Space and community in north-east Siberia
11:00 (20 mins)
Eleanor Peers, Scott Polar Research Institute  

The Politics of Memory and Heritage Making in Contemporary Russia: The Relation between Politics and Orthodox Christianity
11:20 (20 mins)
Tobias Koellner, Witten/Herdecke University  

“In the beginning was the word”: minority religions and ‘socio-linguists’ in Russian courts
11:40 (20 mins)
Dmitry Dubrovskiy  

Spiritual Aspects of Street Feeding Orthodox Initiatives in Russia
12:00 (20 mins)
Anastasia Mitrofanova  

Between anti-colonialism and anti-communism. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s travel diary to Burma
11:00 (10 mins)
Michal Lubina, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski  

Academic social responsibility during the hybrid war in Ukraine
11:10 (10 mins)
Olga Gomilko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  

The critique of Kazakhstan’s postcolonial condition in Lilya Kalaus’s The Fund of Last Hope: A Post-colonial Novel (2013)A New Abstract
11:20 (10 mins)
Tamar Koplatadze, Queen Mary University of London  

Minding the Gap: Violence and Madness in Vladimir Zazubrin's Shchepka (The Chip)
11:00 (10 mins)
James Ryan, Cardiff University  

Chocolate Chip or Vanilla? Approaches to State-Sanctioned Violence in Early Soviet Literature
11:01 (10 mins)
Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter  

Warrior Women and the Soviet Literary Imagination in the 1920s and 1930s
11:02 (10 mins)
Lara Green, Erasmus University  

The Topos of the Walled-up Woman in Modernist Bulgarian Drama
11:00 (10 mins)
Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybow, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy  

Fairies, Rebels and Lovers. Transfers and Transformations of the Topos of the Immured Sacrificed Woman in Serbian and Croatian Cultures
11:01 (10 mins)
Marzena Maciulewicz, Institute of Slavic Studies, PAS  

Body and Stone. Rada's Bridge in Kratovo and Macedonian Interpretations of a Ballad about Walled-up Wife.
11:02 (10 mins)
Sylwia Siedlecka, University of Warsaw  

Beyond autochthony and through the looking glass – discussions on the “Ballad of Rozafat” and “The Building of Skadar”, and another perspective of approaching them
11:03 (10 mins)
Rigels Halili, University of Warsaw  
11:00
From Siberia to Semirechie: natural environment and colonization in writings and photographs of Vasilli Sapozhnikov.
11:00 (20 mins)
Tatiana Saburova, Indiana University  

Transport infrastructures in environmental and socio-economic transformations in the Russian North
11:20 (20 mins)
Olga Povoroznyuk, University of Vienna  

Power, Territory, and Natural Resources: Yakutia and the Far East in the Context of the Early Soviet Border-Making
11:40 (20 mins)
Aleksandr Korobeinikov, Central European University  

Naming the Arctic and Siberia: The Role of VGU in Soviet Toponymic Policy and Practice
12:00 (20 mins)
Nadezhda Mamontova  

Soviet and Eastern European Intelligence in the Global South: A Reassessment
11:00 (10 mins)
Natalia Telepneva, University of Strathclyde  

The Thrill of Azart: Recreation Trespass, Risk and St Petersburg’s Rooftops
11:00 (20 mins)
Abigail Karas, University of Oxford  

A Sense of Identity and Political Views: Comparing within Eastern Europe
11:20 (20 mins)
Félix Krawatzek, Centre for East European and International Studies  

Inside Looking Out and Outside Looking In: Re-Thinking Nationalism from Ukraine’s Cartographic Center and Peripheries
11:40 (20 mins)
Marnie Howlett, University of Oxford  

The role of British political and military missions in Latvian state-building in 1919
11:00 (10 mins)
Eriks Jekabsons, University of Latvia  

Courland and the Atlantic: The Role of Britain in the Duchy of Courland’s Extra-Baltic Ventures
11:10 (10 mins)
John Freeman, University of Cambridge  

The Anti-Appeasers in Britain and the Baltic States, 1939-1942
11:20 (10 mins)
Kaarel Piirimae, University of Tartu  

Sixty-Five Songs About Lukashenka
11:00 (10 mins)
Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  

Belarusian Popular Music under Lukashenka: A Theoretical Perspective
11:01 (10 mins)
Yngvar Steinholt, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway  

The Soviet VIA Legacy in Belarusian Popular Music
11:02 (10 mins)
David-Emil Wickström, Popakademie Baden-Württemberg  

East, West or Right Here? Belarusian Soundwaves, Post-2014
11:03 (10 mins)
Arve Hansen, UiT Arctic University of Norway  
11:00
Poverty in a Small Russian Town from the 10-year perspective: participatory approach and digital inequality
11:00 (10 mins)
Nina Ivashinenko, University of Glasgow, UNN  

"Searching for Loopholes": Cultural Narratives of Inequality and Responsibility among Russian Youth
11:10 (10 mins)
Tamara Kusimova, Central European University  

Struggle to survive: Russian universities
11:20 (10 mins)
Angelika Tsivinskaya  

Diversity and inclusion in knowledge production
11:00 (90 mins)
Madeleine Markey, Routledge, Taylor & Francis  

Reconsidering preparedness for EU accession: The integration maturity of Slovenia and Croatia
11:00 (20 mins)
Kristian Nielsen, International University of Sarajevo  

Hotel Industry in war conditions in Ukraine
11:20 (20 mins)
Angelina Nevzorova, De Montfort University  

Privatisation in Belarus and Estonia. Reflections on the ownership concept.
11:40 (20 mins)
Kacper Wańczyk, Centre for East European Studies, Warsaw University  

Russian-Ukrainian contradictions on the Nord Stream 2.
12:00 (20 mins)
Dmitry Ponomarev  

Trapped in a world you cannot understand – memories of the post-war period in the Polish People’s Republic according to the language biographies of the German minority
11:00 (10 mins)
Barbara A. Janczak, Instytut Slawistyki PAN, NIP 525-00-12-159  

Propaganda vs. Anti-totalitarian Language Ideology. The Fight for Liberal Democracy in Polish Metalinguistic Reflection (1970–1989 & 2015–2021)
11:10 (10 mins)
Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London  

Russia, Alexei Navalnyy, and Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights
11:00 (10 mins)
Jeffrey Kahn, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law  

The European Court of Human Rights as a factor in the Russian domestic politics
11:10 (10 mins)
Dmitry Kurnosov, University of Helsinki  

Albania part of Europe, Standpoints and Assessments!
11:20 (10 mins)
Dritan Axhami, Academia “Evolucion”  
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12:45 BASEES Annual General Meeting
12:45 (60 mins)
Meeting of the Eurasian Regions Study Group and Study Group for Minority History
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Media use in the borderlands: Explaining engagement with local, national and cross-border news sources in peripheral regions of Ukraine
14:00 (20 mins)
Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow  

Post-Revolutionary Flux: Ukrainian History in the Classroom
14:20 (20 mins)
Anastasiya Byesyedina, The University of Sydney  

Progressive Attitudes or Empty Promises? Post-Revolutionary Order and Gender Policy Reforms in Tunisia and Ukraine
14:40 (20 mins)
Kateryna Marina, University of Oxford  

Reddit à la Russe: how sociotechnical alliances in user-driven media cultivate critical publics in Russia
14:00 (20 mins)
Olga Dovbysh, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute  

Political news consumption on Russian Telegram: Navigating through the “chaos of narratives”
14:20 (20 mins)
Anna Litvinenko, Freie Universitaet Berlin  

Politicization of science journalism: How Russian journalists covered the COVID-19 pandemic
14:40 (20 mins)
Anna Litvinenko, Freie Universitaet Berlin  

Commenting on news in different discourse architectures: Comparison of discursive practices across eight social media platforms in Russia
15:00 (20 mins)
Anna Litvinenko, Freie Universitaet Berlin  

Alternative Television: The role of YouTube in Russia's authoritarian elections
15:20 (20 mins)
Anna Litvinenko, Freie Universitaet Berlin  

Dual Exceptionalism: Putin’s Legitimation Strategies under Pressure
14:00 (20 mins)
Bo Petersson, Malmö University  

Mission Narrative in Russian Foreign Policy. The Comparative Perspective
14:20 (20 mins)
Alicja Curanović, University of Warsaw  

Power as Hierarchy: Conceptualising Russia as a ‘Hybrid Exceptionalist’ Empire.
14:40 (20 mins)
Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter  

“Destroyer of the Towers of Babel”: Messianism and the Regime Ideology of Putinism
15:00 (20 mins)
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen  

Academic rights for all?: rethinking students’ rights and freedoms in Academia
14:00 (10 mins)
Dmitry Dubrovskiy  

Neoliberal feminism during wartime
14:00 (20 mins)
Daniil Zhaivoronok, Tampere University  

Online celebrity Feminism in Russia
14:20 (20 mins)
Saara Ratilainen, Tampere University  

Discourses on masculinities and violence in feminist media in Russia
14:40 (20 mins)
Olga Andreevskikh, Tampere University  

Feminists themes and personalities in Russian traditional media
15:00 (20 mins)
Galina Miazhevich, Cardiff University  
14:00
Petitioning the Soviet President: Mikhail Kalinin’s Reception Office, 1919-46
14:00 (10 mins)
Lara Douds, Northumbria University  

Soviet Subprime: Petitions, Poverty and Rural Post-war Reconstruction
14:01 (10 mins)
Robert Dale, Newcastle University  

Complaints to the Authorities in Russia: Instrumental emotionality of the Soviet and post-Soviet social contract
14:02 (10 mins)
Elena Bogdanova  

Letter Writing and Late Soviet Democracy
14:03 (10 mins)
Courtney Doucette, State University of New York at Oswego  

Post-war reconstruction or authoritarian reinforcement in Karabakh
14:00 (10 mins)
Firuza Nahmadova, King's College London,  

Non-Conforming Anti-War Discourses in Azerbaijan: Emotions and Resilience
14:10 (10 mins)
Cesare Figari Barberis, Graduate Institute of Geneva  

Imagining Enemies: War Rhetoric of Aliyev and Pashinyan, and the construction of the Otherness
14:20 (10 mins)
Naira Sahakyan, Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute  

Reimagining Odintsova in the 21st century: Avdotya Smirnova's Fathers and Sons (2008).
14:00 (10 mins)
Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh  

Representation of Female Scientists in Post-War Soviet Cinema
14:10 (10 mins)
Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science  

Russian Women Writers in the French and Chinese Emigrations: Depicting a Modern Female Identity
14:20 (10 mins)
Carol Ueland, Drew University  

Modernizing Chekhovian Womanhood: Michael Mayer's 2018 Screen Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
14:30 (10 mins)
Olga Partan, College of the Holy Cross  

Environment Humanities in post-Soviet countries: decolonial approaches, Soviet modernity, and socialist Capitalocene
14:00 (10 mins)
Darya Tsymbalyuk, University of St Andrews  

Hamsun in Wonderland: Knut Hamsun and Russia
14:00 (10 mins)
Susan Reynolds, British Library  

Russian Nihilists in Grant Allen’s Under Sealed Orders
14:10 (10 mins)
Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University  

Особенности фланирования рассказчиков в романах Гайто Газданова "Вечер у Клэр" и "Ночные дороги"
14:20 (10 mins)
Maria Turgieva, Sorbonne Université  
14:00
Gay Heritage and Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
14:00 (10 mins)
Nick Mayhew, University of Oxford  

The Aesthetics of Queer Life-Writing: The Case of Andrei Dittsel'
14:01 (10 mins)
Connor Doak, University of Bristol  

Post-Soviet queer through the prism of samizdat
14:02 (10 mins)
Irina Roldugina, University of Pittsburgh  

The Velvet Revolution and the Jan Hus Educational Foundation
14:00 (10 mins)
Barbara Day, Independent Scholar  

A Tale of Two Cities
14:01 (10 mins)
Doubravka Olšáková, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic  

A Velvet Economics
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Antonie Dolezalova, Charles University  

Green Velvet: How Environmental Experts Became Politicians and How Economics Ruled Ecology
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Doubravka Olšáková, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic  

The Ethics of Cyborg Technology: A Russian Sophiological Perspective
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Walter Sisto, D’Yvouille University   

George Williams, Proctor of King’s College (Cambridge), and the British and Russian Interfaith Relations in the Mid-19th Century
14:01 (10 mins)
Irina Smirnova  

The Old Believers in the 20th Century as the Middle Ages Alive: the heritage of Pre-Petrine Russia in the religious doctrine of the Siberian denomination “Third Israel”
14:02 (10 mins)
Andrey Korenevskiy  

Rhetorical Strategies of the Networked Navalny: A Case-Study of Digitally Mediated Political Communication
14:00 (10 mins)
Michael Gorham, University of Florida  

Discourse and communication strategies of Russian digital diplomacy
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Vera Zvereva, University of Jyväskylä  

Speaking with numbers. Communication strategies through “open data” in Russia
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Françoise Daucé, EHESS  

British Intervention in Soviet Russia and Percieved German Military and Political Objectives, 1918-1920
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Patrick Stickland, York St John University  

The Balkan Wars (1912-1913): Reshaping Alliances - Reconstructing the Image of the "National Other".
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Stamatia Fotiadou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece  

Something New on the Eastern Front: the ‘Balkanization’ of the Franco-Russian Alliance and the New Historiography of the Origins of the First World War
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Teodoras Zukas, Vilnius University  
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Voenno-Narodnoe Upravlenie and its discontents in Tsarist Central Asia
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Alexander Morrison, New College, Oxford  

The making of a skilled orientalist. N.S. Lykoshin and his Letters from Native Tashkent series (1894-1896)
14:01 (10 mins)
Roman Osharov, University of Oxford  

Chasing fraudulent papers: imperial subjecthood and identity documents in Russian Turkestan
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Malika Zekhni, University of Cambridge  

(MARKETS) Breaking the wheel: Corruption and informal governance in former socialist Republics
14:00 (90 mins)
Piotr Majda, UCL SSEES  

From ‘liking’, ‘sharing’, and ‘commenting’ to experiencing participation: How civic engagement mediates the contributions of new media to political participation
14:00 (10 mins)
Yerkebulan Sairambay, The University of Cambridge  

News, Media Credibility, and Political Crisis in an Autocratic State
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Maxim Alyukov, King's College London  

Personal stories vs. expert views: Analysing coverage of the Covid19 pandemic in Slovakia.
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Zuzana Podracká, LEAF Academy  

“Shadows of Empire: contesting territorial imaginations and borders in modern Europe”: Digital map-tool
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Olena Palko, Birkbeck  

Mapping the century-long Balkan studies
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Dorian Jano, Center for Southeast European Studies, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ  

Soviet and Post-Soviet Memory. The Case of The Young Guard
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Olga Gradinaru, Babes-Bolyai University  

The Kalashnikovs of the information war: Mobile phones and communication rules of the Eastern Ukrainian frontline
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Roman Horbyk, Södertörn University  
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Book Talk: Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale, 2022), by Geoffrey Roberts
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James Ryan, Cardiff University  

Defence reforms in Ukraine: the potential and limits of international cooperation
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Bettina Renz, The University of Nottingham  

NATO models, Ukrainian realities: The Politics of Reforming Civil-Military Relations
16:01 (10 mins)
Sarah Whitmore, Oxford Brookes University  

Civil society and the politics of emergency in Ukraine
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Bohdana Kurylo, UCL  

Conducting Research During a Pandemic: Reflections from Early-Career Female Scholars
16:00 (10 mins)
Jasmin Dall'Agnola, EECES WAF  

Sharing the Neighbourhoods: Russia, China, and the EU in the Post-Soviet Eurasia
16:00 (20 mins)
Irina Busygina   

Russia-Belarus alignment in the context of sanctions
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Alena Vieira, CICP/University of Minho  

Evolution of China’s Central Asia Policy: Implications for Russia
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Elena Soboleva  

Global Russian Studies: Quantitative Methodologies and the Production of Academic Knowledge
16:00 (20 mins)
Angelika Tsivinskaya  

Russophone Readers United: Book clubs and the Formation of a Global Russophone Community
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Angelos Theocharis, Durham University   

Global Russian Queer Drama: Genealogies and Disciplinary Shifts
16:40 (20 mins)
Tatiana Klepikova, U of Potsdam  

“What happens when the symbols shatter?”: Global Russophone Identities and Cultural Resistance among Post-Soviet Greeks
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Kataiftsis Dimitris, University of Macedonia  
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Peripheral Histories: Regions, Localities, and Borderlands in Eurasia in Historical Perspective
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Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University  

Translating Politics – Simplification vs. Obfuscation in Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of The Oprichnik and Zakhar Prilepin’s Sankya
16:00 (20 mins)
Sarah Gear, University of Exeter  

Female Creative Minds in Twentieth-Century Russian Literary Translation
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Cathy McAteer, University of Exeter  

Literary Diversity and Translation: A study of Foreign Literature Journal
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Natalia Rulyova, University of Birmingham  

Translation thinking in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s: diverse ideas and choice of text type
17:00 (20 mins)
Suzanne Eade Roberts, University of Bristol  

Ukrainian identity and the civil society cohesion before and during the war
16:00 (20 mins)
Yuliya Bidenko   

Ukrainian-Russian War and Storytelling
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Mariia Shuvalova  

Beyond the Bête Noire?: Keston College and the Cold War
16:00 (20 mins)
Mark Hurst, Lancaster University  

The Russian Student Christian Movement’s Assistance to Soviet Believers (1960s-1980s)
16:20 (20 mins)
Barbara Martin, University of Basel  

"Glaube in der zweiten Welt" as a Cold War actor: between anticommunism and human rights defense
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Nadezhda Beliakova  

Working Title: Women as Amateur Photographers: Clubs, Professionalism and the 'Industry' in the Late Soviet Period
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Jessica Werneke, Habib University  

Searching for the Ideal: Fluidity of Women’s Social Role Through the Lens of Fashion on Soviet Screens (Stagnation, 1964-1985)
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Natasha Vinnikova, University of the Arts London  

Overindulgence in the Time of Exile: Channeling Transgressive Eroticism through Exilic Filmmaking in Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie
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Toni Juricic, Durham University  
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Book discussion: Tomila V. Lankina, The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class (Cambridge University Press 2022)
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Tomila Lankina, LSE  

The features of null subjects: A case study in Czech
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Ludmila Veselovska, Palacky University,  

Subject realization in Bulgarian, a consistent Null Subject language
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Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke, University of Oldenburg  

The concept of the Null Subject and typologies of NSLs
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Jacek Witkos, Adam Mickiewicz University  

Null and overt pronouns in East Slavic
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Egor Tsedryk, Saint Mary's University  

Licensing 3SG null arguments in Hungarian
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Gréte Dalmi, Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies Hamburg University  

Cold War in Neutral Spaces of International Organizations: The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of the Red Cross in 1950-1991.
16:00 (10 mins)
Severyan Dyakonov, The Graduate Institute Geneva  

The Socialist Bloc and the Internationalization of Children's Rights, 1978-1990.
16:10 (10 mins)
Elizabeth White, University of the West of England  

Transnational communism or transnational feminism: International Network of the Communist Women's Movement in the 1920s
16:20 (10 mins)
Daria Dyakonova, International University in Geneva  

Property and Equality in Stolypin’s Siberian Reforms
16:00 (10 mins)
Alberto Masoero, University of Turin  

“Butter Biographies: V. F. Sokul'skii, A. N. Balakshin & Siberian Butter Production”
16:10 (10 mins)
David Darrow, University of Dayton  

Concrete Totality: Alexandre Kojève and the Avant-Garde
16:00 (10 mins)
Isabel Jacobs, Queen Mary University of London  

Cubists play with Czech poetism
16:10 (10 mins)
Vladimira Derkova, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University  

Cultural networks of artistic exchange: the Hungarian contacts and members of the Cobra group
16:20 (10 mins)
Imre Jozsef Balazs, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu  
16:00
‘To protect our Lenin’: Mnemonic Activism and Reactionism of the Communist Party of Latvia in the Defence of Lenin Monuments (1990–1991)
16:00 (10 mins)
Dmitrijs Andrejevs, University of Manchester  

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright": Latvians and Communism in a Long-Term Perspective
16:01 (10 mins)
Matthew Kott, Uppsala University  

Latvian National Communism and Dissidence: The Domestic and International Impact of the 1972 Tamizdat ‘Protest Letter’
16:02 (10 mins)
Michael Loader, University of Glasgow  

A century and half of Czechoslovakism
16:00 (10 mins)
Adam Hudek, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences  

Combining (in)compatible identities: contemporary Poland as a country of ‘immigration’ and ‘emigration’
16:00 (10 mins)
Anne White, UCL SSEES  

Migrant learners of Polish or seven cases of belonging
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Karolina Rosiak, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań  
Mobilities & Migration
Teaching Room 5

Main constraints to migrant entrepreneurship in Russia: The case of Central Asian migrant entrepreneurs in St. Petersburg and Moscow
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Ekaterina Vorobeva, The Research Centre for East European Studies  

‘Georgian Migrants in Germany: The Impacts of Social Remittances on Forms of Inequality in the Country of Origin’
16:10 (10 mins)
Diana Bogishvili, ZOIS - Center for East European and International  

The Failed Promise: Transitions in Egypt and Hungary
16:00 (20 mins)
Marwa Mamdouh-Salem, American University in Cairo  

"Our Gender is Female": Women in Decision-Making Position on Gender, Power and Political Participation
16:20 (20 mins)
Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki  

Career strategies of women in public administration of Russia and Finland
16:40 (20 mins)
Valeriya Utkina  
16:00
Reception of Russia by Young Chinese Internet Users: A Case Study on Danmu Comments
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Rui Wang, University of Manchester  

Trust and data reliability under conditions of authoritarianism: Practices of data journalism in Russian newsrooms
16:10 (10 mins)
Mariëlle Wijermars, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki  

Survivalists, anti-collectors and post-capitalists: online piracy as ideological, aesthetic and identity-oriented project
16:20 (10 mins)
Kateryna Boyko, Uppsala University  
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