BASEES Annual Conference 2022

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

Belonging and Statehood of the Peoples of the North Caucasus

CWB Plenary

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

Dealing with the past under contested statehood

JCR

‘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

Roundtable: Russian political emigration: Visions and controversies after Navalny's imprisonment

Music Room

Russian political emigration: Visions and controversies after Navalny’s imprisonment
09:00 (10 mins)
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen

09:00

Reliving the past: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Russia.

Auditorium Lounge

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

Modern Russian Literature and Culture: Digital Worlds and Paratexts

Games Room

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

Roundtable: Governance in Russia: Development, Welfare and Rights in Russian Regions

Garden Room

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

Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe

Linnett Room

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

Nature and the Environment in Prose Fiction

Umney Lounge

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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Cultural and Social Innovations in the Russian Empire

CWB Syndicate Room 1

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

Eastern Europe's Minorities in a Century of Change /Finland's second penitentiary system in Siberia

CWB Syndicate Room 2

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

Experience of state socialism in the perspective of education

CWB Syndicate Room 3

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

Cultural Transformations in Central and Southeastern Europe after 1989 in Historical Perspective

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

Health and Vitality in Late-Soviet Culture

Seminar Room

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

09:00

Nazi Occupation in Eastern Europe: Resistance and Collaboration (I)

Teaching Room A

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

New Regionalisms in Eastern Europe

Teaching Room B

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

Memory and Space I: Difficult Pasts and Identities

Teaching Room 4

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

Kyivan Rus’ at a Crossroads

Teaching Room 5

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

Neotraditionalism and neopatrimonialism in Central and Eastern Europe

Teaching Room 6

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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Media coverage of gender, biopower and sexual violence

Auditorium

‘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

Protest and activism

Umney Theatre

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

2021 Duma Elections

CWB Plenary

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

Revisiting Polish-Soviet relations in the early 1920s

JCR

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

Russian foreign policy, Eurasia, and religion

Music Room

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

Person, place and community-making: religion in Russia today

Auditorium Lounge

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

Post-Colonial Narratives

Games Room

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

"Moscow doesn"t believe in tears": Violence in Early Soviet Literature

Garden Room

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

Recycling the Archaic in Southeastern European Cultures. The Case of the Walled-up Wife

Linnett Room

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

Exploring and Mapping Siberia in Imperial and Soviet Russia.

CWB Syndicate Room 1

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

Roundtable:Soviet and Eastern European Intelligence in the Global South: A Reassessment

CWB Syndicate Room 2

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

Youth in the former Soviet Union

CWB Syndicate Room 3

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

Britain and the geopolitics of the Baltic from the seventeenth century to the Second World War

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

Belarusian Popular Music Today

Seminar Room

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

Mobilities & Inequalities

Teaching Room A

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

Roundtable: Diversity and inclusion in knowledge production

Teaching Room B

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

Past and Present Economic Developments in Central and Eastern Europe

Teaching Room 4

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

Language and Social Implications

Teaching Room 5

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

Europe – law and integration

Teaching Room 6

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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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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Contemporary Ukrainian politics: Media, identities, mobilization and policy change

Auditorium

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

Reconfiguring public spheres in Russia and Belarus: New publics, platforms, and practices

Umney Theatre

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

Debating Russia"s exceptionalism I: High Politics

CWB Plenary

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

Roundtable: Academic rights for all? Rethinking students rights and freedoms in academia

JCR

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

Mediated feminism(s) in contemporary Russia

Music Room

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

Letter Writing and Petitioning in Russian/Soviet History

Auditorium Lounge

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 discourses and their policy implications in Armenia and Azerbaijan

Games Room

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

Representing Russian Women as Modern Subjects.

Garden Room

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

Roundtable: Environment Humanities in post-Soviet countries: decolonial approaches, Soviet modernity, and socialist Capitalocene

Linnett Room

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

Russia and Europe: Cross-Cultural Exchange

Umney Lounge

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

Russian Literature and LGBT Emancipation

CWB Syndicate Room 1

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

Velvet Science. The state of the Czechoslovak (Czech) science after the Velvet revolution of 1989.

CWB Syndicate Room 2

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
14:02 (10 mins)
Antonie Dolezalova, Charles University

Green Velvet: How Environmental Experts Became Politicians and How Economics Ruled Ecology
14:03 (10 mins)
Doubravka Olšáková, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Towards the New History of Russian Orthodoxy

CWB Syndicate Room 3

The Ethics of Cyborg Technology: A Russian Sophiological Perspective
14:00 (10 mins)
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

Languages and communication strategies of digital politics and diplomacy

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
14:01 (10 mins)
Vera Zvereva, University of Jyväskylä

Speaking with numbers. Communication strategies through “open data” in Russia
14:02 (10 mins)
Françoise Daucé, EHESS

Reassessing the Origins and Impact of the First World War

Seminar Room

British Intervention in Soviet Russia and Percieved German Military and Political Objectives, 1918-1920
14:00 (10 mins)
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
14:02 (10 mins)
Teodoras Zukas, Vilnius University

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Military Bureaucracy and its forms of Knowledge in Russian Turkestan

Teaching Room A

Voenno-Narodnoe Upravlenie and its discontents in Tsarist Central Asia
14:00 (10 mins)
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
14:02 (10 mins)
Malika Zekhni, University of Cambridge

Roundtable: (MARKETS) Breaking the wheel: Corruption and informal governance in former socialist Republics

Teaching Room B

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

Politics and (social) media

Teaching Room 4

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
14:10 (10 mins)
Maxim Alyukov, King's College London

Personal stories vs. expert views: Analysing coverage of the Covid19 pandemic in Slovakia.
14:20 (10 mins)
Zuzana Podracká, LEAF Academy

Digital mapping as a tool of historical research and teaching

Teaching Room 5

“Shadows of Empire: contesting territorial imaginations and borders in modern Europe”: Digital map-tool
14:00 (10 mins)
Olena Palko, Birkbeck

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

Media, war and politics;Digital Media and politics;Audience studies;Media and activism

Teaching Room 6

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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Roundtable: Book Talk: Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale, 2022), by Geoffrey Roberts

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Book Talk: Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale, 2022), by Geoffrey Roberts
16:00 (10 mins)
James Ryan, Cardiff University

The politics of security in Ukraine

Umney Theatre

Defence reforms in Ukraine: the potential and limits of international cooperation
16:00 (10 mins)
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

Roundtable: Disrupted Research in Focus: Adapting Research in Light of Dynamic Global Events

CWB Plenary

Conducting Research During a Pandemic: Reflections from Early-Career Female Scholars
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Jasmin Dall'Agnola, EECES WAF

Russia and Its Two Shared Neighbourhoods

JCR

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
16:20 (20 mins)
Alena Vieira, CICP/University of Minho

Evolution of China’s Central Asia Policy: Implications for Russia
16:40 (20 mins)
Elena Soboleva

The global turn in Russian studies: Conceptualisation of a new paradigm

Music Room

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
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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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Roundtable: Peripheral Histories: Regions, Localities, and Borderlands in Eurasia in Historical Perspective

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Peripheral Histories: Regions, Localities, and Borderlands in Eurasia in Historical Perspective
16:00 (90 mins)
Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University

Russian-English Literary Translation, History and Practice through the 20th and 21st Centuries

Games Room

Translating Politics – Simplification vs. Obfuscation in Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of The Oprichnik and Zakhar Prilepin’s Sankya
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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

Voices at War: Research From Rising Stars in Ukraine

Garden Room

Ukrainian identity and the civil society cohesion before and during the war
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Yuliya Bidenko

Ukrainian-Russian War and Storytelling
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Mariia Shuvalova

Western human rights organizations and Soviet believers in the Cold War

Linnett Room

Beyond the Bête Noire?: Keston College and the Cold War
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Mark Hurst, Lancaster University

The Russian Student Christian Movement’s Assistance to Soviet Believers (1960s-1980s)
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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

Women and symbolism in late Soviet cultural production

Umney Lounge

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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Roundtable: Book discussion: Tomila V. Lankina,

CWB Syndicate Room 1

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

Licensing and interpreting null arguments in East European languages

CWB Syndicate Room 2

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

Internationalising the Socialist Bloc

CWB Syndicate Room 3

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

Economy and Empire in Russian History

Property and Equality in Stolypin’s Siberian Reforms
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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

Visual Art and Artistic Networks

Seminar Room

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

New Perspectives on Latvian Communism

Teaching Room A

‘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

Roundtable: A century and half of Czechoslovakism

Teaching Room B

A century and half of Czechoslovakism
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Adam Hudek, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Migrants in Polish society

Teaching Room 4

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

Migrant learners of Polish or seven cases of belonging
16:10 (10 mins)
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

Gender on the Prowl: Women and Decision-Making in the Russian Federation

Teaching Room 6

The Failed Promise: Transitions in Egypt and Hungary
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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

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Policies and practices in the digital age

Teaching Room 7

Reception of Russia by Young Chinese Internet Users: A Case Study on Danmu Comments
16:00 (10 mins)
Rui Wang, University of Manchester

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

Survivalists, anti-collectors and post-capitalists: online piracy as ideological, aesthetic and identity-oriented project
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Kateryna Boyko, Uppsala University

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Keynote 3

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Keynote: Sarah Rainsford (BBC) In Conversations with Judith Pallot (BASEES Vice-President)
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Sarah Rainsford, BBC

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