BASEES Annual Conference 2022

Presentation

8 April

9 April

Sunday 10 April

[Schedule with Tracks only]

All times shown are GMT — There are 20 rooms - drag the view left and right to see more

DAY 2

Auditorium

CWB Plenary

JCR

Music Room

Auditorium Lounge

DAY 2

Games Room

Garden Room

Linnett Room

Umney Lounge

CWB Syndicate Room 1

DAY 2

CWB Syndicate Room 2

CWB Syndicate Room 3

Seminar Room

Teaching Room A

DAY 2

Teaching Room B

Teaching Room 4

Teaching Room 5

Teaching Room 6

Teaching Room 7

DAY 3

09:00

Roundtable: Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War and Crimean Annexation: Resolvable or Intractable?

CWB Plenary

Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War and Crimean Annexation: Resolvable or Intractable?
09:00 (10 mins)
Taras Kuzio, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy

Contemporary Russian Security: Trends and Discourses

JCR

Russia and China: the rise of global security actors
09:00 (20 mins)
Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London,

Russia as a Peacemaker? Russia's Emerging Model of Conflict Management
09:20 (20 mins)
David Lewis, University of Exeter

Debating Russia’s Exceptionalism II: Ideological Politics

Music Room

Debating Russia's exceptionalism
09:00 (20 mins)
Raymond Taras, Tulane University

Russia’s exceptionalism and politics of loneliness
09:20 (20 mins)
Sergei Akopov

Russian and American ‘Exceptionalist’ diplomacy and Revolution: Contending Interpretations under Acute Uncertainty
09:40 (20 mins)
Molly O’Neal, Baylor Universit

Postcolonial discourse in Russian-Kazakhstani relations
10:00 (20 mins)
Vera Ageeva

Populism

Auditorium Lounge

Phantom Limb Syndrome: How historical Jewish presence affects contemporary support for the populist right in Poland
09:00 (10 mins)
Sara Luxmoore, London School of Economics

Populism in Russia: Evidence from Constitutional Vote and Responses towards COVID-19
09:10 (10 mins)
Sergei Shein

“Because of your eyes, those green eyes of yours, I’ve gone mad”. The Polish populist right’s affair with Disco Polo.
09:20 (10 mins)
Marta Kotwas, UCL SSEES

09:00

Reconsidering collaboration and anti-communist opposition

Games Room

East German Ministry for State Security Guidelines and Running Secret Police Informants
09:00 (20 mins)
Alison Lewis, The University of Melbourne

Between the Left and the Washington Consensus: Bulgaria’s Transition to Democracy 1989-1992
09:20 (20 mins)
Galina Yakova, n/a

Political in Form, Cultural in Content? Civic Activism and Historic Preservation in Leningrad during Perestroika
09:40 (20 mins)
Margarita Pavlova, Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

Roundtable: Gulag Legacies and Penal Reform: The Consequences of War on the Trajectories of Change in Punishment Cultures in Eurasia'

Garden Room

Gulag Legacies and Penal Reform: The Consequences of War on the Trajectories of Change in Punishment Cultures in Eurasia'
09:00 (90 mins)
Judith Pallot, Aleksanteri Institute

Roundtable: Lost in the woods: alternative teaching and research methodologies in Slavic Studies

Linnett Room

Lost in the woods: alternative teaching and research methodologies in Slavic Studies
09:00 (10 mins)
Darya Tsymbalyuk, University of St Andrews

Translating and Reinterpreting Spiritual Ideas

Umney Lounge

Apollos Baibakov and the Popularisation of Scripture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
09:00 (10 mins)
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, University of Southern California

„Lost in Translation“? Making sense of the removal of Christian ideas in 19th-century Russian translations of German-Jewish historical novels
09:01 (10 mins)
Nicolas Dreyer, University of Bamberg

The Antichrist and His Plot Against Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Eschatology
09:02 (10 mins)
Magda Dolińska-Rydzek, University of Rzeszów

Between Displacement and Political ‘Weaponization’: Translation and Reception of First-Wave Russian Émigré Philosophers
09:03 (10 mins)
Emily Lygo, University of Exeter

Transnational Migrations / Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining region

CWB Syndicate Room 1

Writing between worlds – Polish migrant authors in Argentina in the 20th century
09:00 (20 mins)
Annelie Bachmaier, TU Dresden

The two faces of music migration
09:20 (20 mins)
John Nelson, Aleksanteri Institute

Traces of the minority existence and multilingual features in the interwar Transcarpathian prose
09:40 (20 mins)
Gabriella Mádi, Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Colleg

Indigenous minorities in Russia's mining regions
10:00 (20 mins)
Anna Varfolomeeva, University of Helsinki

09:00

Roundtable: Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945

CWB Syndicate Room 2

'Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945'
09:00 (10 mins)
Celia Donert, University of Cambridge

Political Biographies: The Lives and Careers of Senior Soviet Politicians

CWB Syndicate Room 3

A Latvian on the Politburo: A Political Portrait of Arvīds Pelše
09:00 (10 mins)
Michael Loader, University of Glasgow

Petr Masherau: a case study in Soviet political leadership
09:01 (10 mins)
Natalya Chernyshova, University of Winchester

The Grey Cardinal as Soviet Boy Scout: The Early Career of M.A. Suslov
09:02 (10 mins)
Alex Marshall, Glasgow University

Roundtable: How to get published

Publishing in Academic Journals: Tips to Help you Succeed
09:00 (90 mins)
Madeleine Markey, Routledge, Taylor & Francis

Managing Knowledge: From the Late Soviet to Post-Soviet Era

Teaching Room A

The Urban Infrastructure of the Public Communication of Knowledge in the Late Soviet Union
09:00 (10 mins)
Alexey Golubev, University of Houston

“There is no bold thought”: The intellectual context of the alternative archaeology genesis in the late Soviet and early post-Soviet time
09:01 (10 mins)
Dmitrii Blyshko, University of Houston

Paper Dreams and Flat Buildings: on Architecture that Was not Meant to Be.
09:02 (10 mins)
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University

The “Demographic Crisis” in Scholarly Debates and Published Media in the 1970s
09:03 (10 mins)
Olga Smolyak, Brasenose College

09:00

Roundtable: MARKETS ITN Getting things done: informal practices as adaptive strategies in post-socialist societies

Teaching Room B

MARKETS ITN Getting things done: informal practices as adaptive strategies in post-socialist societies
09:00 (10 mins)
Alberica Camerani, Dublin City University

Roundtable: Speech identity of youth social practices in the media polylogue

Teaching Room 4

Speech identity of youth social practices in the media polylogue
09:00 (10 mins)
Liubov Ivanova

Russian @ Leeds: Innovations in Language Pedagogy

Teaching Room 5

Integration of various approaches to grammar teaching in a new spiraling teaching methodology
09:00 (10 mins)
Natalia V. Parker, University of Leeds

Corpora and Data Driven Learning in Russian Grammar Teaching
09:01 (10 mins)
James Wilson, University of Leeds

A Turn towards (Adapted) Text
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Pavel Gudoshnikov, University of Leeds

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Roundtable: Capturing Chernobyl

CWB Plenary

Capturing Chernobyl
11:00 (20 mins)
Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University London

Contemporary Social Movements in Russia & Post-Soviet Space

Music Room

Social Movements in Russia: Strategies of Mobilisation
11:00 (10 mins)
Ekaterina Hilger, UCL

Celebrity, identity and leadership processes behind issue-based movements: consensus and action in 2022 anti-war protests in Russia
11:10 (10 mins)
Ernest Reid, Aston University

Drivers of Participation in Election Monitoring Movement in the context of Electoral Autocracy
11:20 (10 mins)
Galina Selivanova, FIW, University of Bonn

Building nations, states, and peace

Auditorium Lounge

Post-conflict reconstruction: challenges and perspectives (Case of Azerbaijan)
11:00 (20 mins)
Gulshan Pashayeva, Center of Analysis of International Relations

Populism-nationalism, kin-state activism and minority reaction in an ethnic survey: Evidence from Széklerland about how two cross-directional stimuli influenced the Székler people
11:20 (20 mins)
Ionut Chiruta, University of Tartu

Agroecology, peasants and state-building in South-Eastern Europe
11:40 (20 mins)
Claudiu Craciun, National School of Political and Administrative St

11:00

The politics of education and theatre

Games Room

Raising citizen soldiers in Donbas: Russia’s role in promoting patriotic education programmes and history teaching in the ‘Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics’
11:00 (10 mins)
Jaroslava Barbieri, University of Birmingham

Skills of cooperation: the role of student organizations in the process of institutional change in Russia
11:01 (10 mins)
Alexander Kalgin, IOS Regensburg, Free University of Berlin

Theatre and Politics – The Relation Between the Government and Theatrical Sphere in Hungary
11:02 (10 mins)
Daniel Beck, Corvinus University of Budapest

Islamic education in the North Caucasus: challenges and prospects
11:03 (10 mins)
Alisa Shishkina

Creating an Education Act in Romania. Comparing the 19th century and the 21st century way of editing and applying the act of public educational policy
11:04 (10 mins)
Cora Saurer, University Babes - Bolyiai, Cluj

Feeble party-voter linkages and lasting organisational constraints? Revisiting how political parties practice and shape democracy in Eastern Europe.

Garden Room

Patterns of Intra-Party Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
11:00 (10 mins)
Mihail Chiru, University of Oxford

Party System Closure and Liberal Democracy in Post-communist Europe and Beyond: A Double-edged Sword
11:10 (10 mins)
Fernando Casal Bertoa, University of Nottingham

Are Preferences Linked to Money? Electoral Volatility and Clientelism in Romania
11:20 (10 mins)
Sergiu Gherghina, University of Glasgow

Roundtable: Private museums and vulnerable communities in the Russian Federation: new frameworks and practices of collaboration

Umney Lounge

Private museums and vulnerable communities in the Russian Federation: new frameworks and practices of collaboration
11:00 (10 mins)
Katerina Suverina

Anniversary Celebrations in Central and Eastern Europe

CWB Syndicate Room 1

Cyrillo-Methodian anniversaries in the context of socialism (Ideological functions, national uses, and research perspectives)
11:00 (10 mins)
Ewelina Drzewiecka, Institute of Slavic Studies, PAS

The change in public attitude towards religion in the Soviet Union prior to the celebrations of the millennium of Christianity. The influence of Soviet intellectuals
11:01 (10 mins)
Łukasz Gemziak, Nicolaus Copernicus University

‘The voices from below’: the local communities and the celebration of the Thirteen Centuries of Christianity among the Croats
11:02 (10 mins)
Agata Domachowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

11:00

The Silver Age and its Legacies

CWB Syndicate Room 2

Poetics of horror in Symbolist literature: Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Leonid Andreyev (a brief summary)
11:00 (10 mins)
Elena Tchougounova-Paulson, None

The Magic Word in Mandelstam
11:01 (10 mins)
Rolf Hellebust, The Brilliant Club

On children of the Silver Age: Lev and Nikolay Gumilev and Ida Nappelbaum in two photographs and one letter, 1921-1986.
11:02 (10 mins)
Alexander Titov, Queen's University Belfast

Soviet Women: Feminism, Protest and Dissent from the 1960s to the 1980s

CWB Syndicate Room 3

The Critique of Soviet Women’s Lives by the Leningrad Women’s Movement (1979-1982)
11:00 (10 mins)
Anna Sidorevich, SciencePo

Growing up as a dissident feminist in the late USSR: subjectivity in the diaries of Alla Sariban
11:01 (10 mins)
Ella Rossman, SSEES, University College London

Female Activism in Soviet Evangelical Christian-Baptists Communities in the 1970s
11:02 (10 mins)
Nadezhda Beliakova

Transforming the Role of Cultural Institutions in East/Central Europe

Memory machines: what happens when Czech museums are exhibiting contemporary history?
11:00 (10 mins)
Vaclav Sixta, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

The Slavonic Library - Nearly 100 Years of Enabling Research in Slavonic Studies
11:10 (10 mins)
Juergen Warmbrunn, Herder Institute, Research Library

Beyond the exhibition: “Additional” activities of museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
11:20 (10 mins)
Tadeusz Wojtych, University of Cambridge

Grey Zones: Ambiguous Legacies of State Socialism

Seminar Room

Social Capital and Authorship in Czech Academic Press during Normalization
11:00 (10 mins)
Libora Oates-Indruchova, University of Graz

Grey zone as an unintended outcome of the real socialist conception of culture
11:01 (10 mins)
Jan Mervart, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian regimes

Feminism in the Grey Zone in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s
11:02 (10 mins)
Zsofia Lorand, University of Cambridge

War Veterans and The Reshaping of Post-War Eastern Europe

Teaching Room A

Voting Rights for Rebels: Rehabilitation and Retribution in 1920s Soviet Tambov
11:00 (10 mins)
Thomas Stevens, University of Pennsylvania

A protest, coup d’état or party power struggle: What motivated Croatian war veterans to hit the streets?
11:01 (10 mins)
Sven Milekic, Maynooth University

From Peasants to Guardsmen. Autobiographical Narratives of the Officers of the Polish Security Forces, 1944–1956
11:02 (10 mins)
Łukasz Bertram, Polish Academy of Sciences

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Gender, Digitality and Reactionary Institutions

Teaching Room B

Queer parenthood in Russia: surviving in a hostile state
11:00 (10 mins)
Olga Doletskaya, UCL

The Istanbul Convention Ratification in Eastern Europe: Fuelling a Culture War
11:10 (10 mins)
Olena Lytovka, University of Bedfordshire

Informality in Health Care: from Compensation to Innovation & Change

Teaching Room 4

Informal coordination in the context of rigid formalities: Manual management in Russian healthcare
11:00 (10 mins)
Anastasia Novkunskaya

Constructing access to medicines through informal: patient organisations in Russia
11:10 (10 mins)
Olga Temina, Maastricht University

Innovation as a survival mode: exploring the informal-epistemic work of private clinics in Russia
11:20 (10 mins)
Mariia Denisova, Maastricht University

Roundtable: Are there World Russians? Russian speakers outside Russia: problems of language and identity

Teaching Room 5

Are there World Russians? Russian speakers outside Russia: problems of language and identity
11:00 (10 mins)
Kapitolina Fedorova, Tallinn University

New Models and New Tools in East European Linguistics

Teaching Room 6

Old books - new research possibilities: Towards a digital edition of Croatian pre-standard grammars
11:00 (10 mins)
Sanja Perić Gavrančić, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Typology of Foreign Accent in the domain of Russian Coronal Obstruents and its Application in Teaching Pronunciation Online
11:10 (10 mins)
Daria Dashkevich

New Models and New Tools for East European and former USSR Languages

Teaching Room 7

A North Caucasian Diaspora in Turkey - Anatolian Ossetians and their Language
11:00 (10 mins)
Emine Sahingöz, Goethe University Frankfurt

Avzag - Linking the Languages of the Caucasus
11:10 (10 mins)
Magomed Magomedov

“Well-known phrase, but I don’t remember the film”: usage of winged phrases from Soviet films in contemporary spoken Russian
11:20 (10 mins)
Natallia Kabiak, The University of Melbourne

Что, где и как « слышится » ? Об особенностях глагола "слышаться/ послышаться" в русском языке.
11:30 (10 mins)
Irina Thomieres, University of la Sorbonne

Macedonian alternatives to the English epicene ‘singular they’
11:40 (10 mins)
Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska, Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje

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Representations of Foreigners in Soviet Culture, 1917-1953

CWB Plenary

Creating "Otherness" in the Western Borderlands: the Image of the Pole in Soviet Cinema, 1925-1941
12:45 (10 mins)
Stefan Lacny, MMLL Faculty, University of Cambridge

Robert Robinson’s “Black Skin” in Soviet Visual Culture
12:46 (10 mins)
Christina Kiaer, Northwestern University

Representing the Foreign in the Moment of Anti-Imperialism: Film Criticism and the Critique of the Exotic
12:47 (10 mins)
Michael Kunichika, Amherst College

Keeping up with the Western Cityscape: Models of Modernity in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s
12:48 (10 mins)
Pavel Stepanov, University of Cambridge, MMLL

Ukrainians and Ukrainian politics

JCR

The Intercompany Ukrainian Workers Trade Union in Poland- The Description of Activism.
12:45 (20 mins)
Karolina Zioło-Pużuk, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Universuty in Warsaw

Russian politics and policy – institutions and strategies

Music Room

Criticism of the foundations of Western liberal democracy: Ideological evolution of Russian strategic documents between 2000 and 2021
12:45 (10 mins)
Marcin Skladanowski, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

The Council on Foreign and Defense Policy: From Politics to the Public Sphere
12:55 (10 mins)
Alexander Graef, IFSH

Civil-Military Relations and Russia’s Post-Soviet Military Culture: A Belief System Analysis
13:05 (10 mins)
Kirill Shamiev, Central European University

The Political Participation and Representation of East European Migrants

Auditorium Lounge

Returnees’ Proxy Politics. Expressing Voice through Civil Society Activism in Romania
12:45 (10 mins)
Remus Gabriel Anghel, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration (cf 9510194)

Migrants and the Political Parties from their Home Countries: What Happens Between Elections?
12:45 (10 mins)
Sorina Soare, University of Florence

Returnee MPs’ attitudes to emigrants and immigrants: The cases of Turkey and Romania
12:45 (10 mins)
Vladimir Bortun, Autonomous University of Barcelona

12:45

Social Institutions: Loyalties and Care

Games Room

The social and political production of the ageing subject during COVID-19 pandemic in Belarussian state-run news media outlets
12:45 (10 mins)
Anna Shadrina, UCL SSEES

Military service and male health outcomes in Russia
12:55 (10 mins)
Jamie Edwards, University of Oxford

The Sharing Economy and Social Capital: The Fictional Expectations of Sociality in a Time Bank
13:05 (10 mins)
Mayya Shmidt, Uppsala University

Politics in Russia – elections and parties

Garden Room

How loyal is the ‘loyal opposition’? The case of the Communist party of Russia and the growing centre-periphery divide
12:45 (10 mins)
Oleksiy Bondarenko, University of Kent

When Voters Care about Candidate Disqualifications from (Authoritarian) Elections? Results of a Survey Experiment from Russia
12:55 (10 mins)
Stas Gorelik, George Washington University

No enemies to the left: Liberal tactics from Miliukov to Navalny
13:05 (10 mins)
Paul Robinson, University of Ittawa

Spatial Geography and Identity

Umney Lounge

Belarusian National Identity: Navigating the Soviet Period with Yakub Kolas' "New Land" (1923)
12:55 (10 mins)
Céleste Pagniello, Princeton University

Belarusian Spatiality: The Loci of Memory and Resistance in Mort, Cimafiejeva and Zamirovskaya
13:05 (10 mins)
Yuliya Charnyshova

New Perspectives on Soviet Centre-Periphery Relations

CWB Syndicate Room 1

Food for Oil: Contextualizing Soviet Oil Exports and the Great Famine in Baku – 1932 to 1933
12:45 (20 mins)
Jonathan Sicotte

Land reform in early Soviet Uzbekistan: a NEP of its own?
13:05 (20 mins)
Beatrice Penati, Department of History, University of Liverpool

Stalin’s Cult in Georgian Colours: The Development of the First Official History Textbook of Georgia and the Emergence of Georgian Stalinism
13:25 (20 mins)
Megi Kartsivadze, University of Oxford

Socialist Legality and Returning to Dzerzhinskii’s system: how Soviet criminological reformers of the 1950s interpreted the 1920s.
13:45 (20 mins)
Alexandra Day, Trinity College Dublin

Legacies of the correctional labour colony of Khoni, Georgia in the 1980s
14:05 (20 mins)
Vokhtang Kekoshvili

12:45

Experts and Knowledge in Constructing Eastern Europe

CWB Syndicate Room 2

(Un)equality in the Soviet scientific community of the 1920s.
12:45 (10 mins)
Evgeniya Dolgova

Sociologists in the Factory: Soviet Industrial Sociology in the 1960s-1970s.
12:46 (10 mins)
Sheila Pattle, Durham University

Salomon Czortkower, anthropological studies as a discipline in interwar Poland and the representations of Middle Eastern Jewry
12:47 (10 mins)
Magdalena Kozłowska, University of Warsaw

What Democracy in 1989?

CWB Syndicate Room 3

Revolution of 1989 in Poland: Pre-Emptive Thermidorianism and its Consequences
12:45 (10 mins)
Piotr Wciślik, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

From Revolution to Establishment. Impasses of Democracy in Slovakia after 1989.
12:55 (10 mins)
Matej Ivančík, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts

Faith in Transition: Catholicism in Slovakia before and after 1989
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Agata Sustova Drelova, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences

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