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| Gilbert Scott Room 356 | Gilbert Scott Room 253 | Gilbert Scott Room 250 | James Watt South Room 361 | Melville Room |
| Turnbull Room | Main Building Room 132 | Main Building Room 134 | Gilbert Scott Room 251 | Robing Room |
| Hunter Hall | Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (LT 103) |
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| 09:00 | Media and narratives during Russia's war on Ukraine Bute Hall A spectrum of allies? Depictions of the war, the west, and Ukraine on Russian Telegram. 09:00 (15 mins) Jade McGlynn, King's College London Evolving enmity: Ukraine and Russia in each other’s strategic narratives, 2013–2022 09:15 (15 mins) Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow Nothing is True, But It Turns Out Not Everything is Possible: Putin’s Failed Attempt to Construct Strategic Narratives for the Ukrainian Invasion 09:30 (15 mins) Sarah Oates, University of Maryland The Boring War?: Normalizing the war in Russia’s domestic media 09:45 (15 mins) Paul Goode, Paul Goode When your propaganda fails: the challenge of COVID-19 dissidents and the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine 09:00 (15 mins) Ilya Yablokov, University of Sheffield Natalia Moen-Larsen, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs |
Education and research – politics and policy James Watt South Stephenson Room Chinese education for Kazakhstani students: opportunities and challenges What opportunities and challenges are arising from China’s education diplomacy in Kazakhstan? The strategic importance of Central Asia to China is clear given th 09:00 (15 mins) Gulnara Dadabayeva, KIMEP University From Universities to Telegram: Practices of Knowledge Production and Dissemination in Russian Social Sciences 09:15 (15 mins) Petr Torkanovskiy, King's College London Governmentality in British and Russian Higher Education 09:30 (15 mins) Rafig Abdullayev, University of Glasgow The narratives of non-formal educational organisations' struggle in post-Soviet Russia 09:45 (15 mins) Sofya Smyslova, University of Cambridge |
Russia(ns) in the world James Watt South Room 355 How different are the recent Russian migrants? 09:00 (15 mins) Félix Krawatzek, Centre for East European and International Studies International Order, War, and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: the Global South between Russia and the West 09:15 (15 mins) Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter Russia and the West in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Repercussions of Diverging Approaches to International Statebuilding 09:30 (15 mins) Abdullah Kesvelioglu, University of Edinburgh The Geopolitics of the Kaliningrad Oblast: Russian and European Perspectives 09:45 (15 mins) Paul Graystone, University of Birmingham USSR-GDR politics of reconciliation and it’s impact on today’s Russian profile 10:00 (15 mins) Maria Khorolskaya |
Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain East Quad Lecture Theatre ‘So That I Could Make Others in the Countryside Aware’: Students of the Communist Party’s Political Schools in Poland (1944–1956) 09:00 (15 mins) Łukasz Bertram, Polish Academy of Sciences Living under One Roof: Homes for Older People in the Late Soviet Union 09:15 (15 mins) Susan Grant, Liverpool John Moores University The “Socialist work discipline” and its impacts on everyday working and living in State-socialist Czechoslovakia 09:30 (15 mins) Lucie Dušková, GWZO Travelling of Forsytes across the Iron Curtain: Domesticity as a common value of Cold War societies 09:45 (15 mins) Johana Kłusek, Charles University |
Faith and Family in the USSR: Religious Transmission Across Borders and Generations Senate Room Globalization of minority: families networks of mennonites through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War 09:00 (20 mins) Nadezhda Beliakova, Cluster Religion, family, and samizdat in the late Cold War: The case of Georgii and Lidiia Vins 09:20 (20 mins) Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield Repression, Resistance and Revival: Three Models of Transmission of Faith within the Family in the Soviet Era 09:40 (20 mins) Barbara Martin, University of Basel |
09:00 | Media and Propaganda in Historical Research Main Building Room 466 "Every Rotten Slander": Soviet Media, the Jewish Daily Forward, and the Holodomor 09:00 (15 mins) Henry H. Prown, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta Creating the Image of the Intelligentsia in Soviet Cartoon under Stalin 09:15 (15 mins) Oksana Hela, The University of Basel The Scottish Perception of Poland and Ukraine in the second part of the 19th C 09:30 (15 mins) Iwona Sakowicz-Tebinka, University of Gdańsk WAR-NEWS-UP War News for Understanding the Propaganda: A Comparative Analysis of Media Sources on the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878 09:45 (15 mins) Aytac Yurukcu, Univ. of Eastern Finland, Turkish Hist. Society |
Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society I. McIntyre Room 201 A Vote for Solidarity. Local Referendums in Late Socialist Slovenia 09:00 (20 mins) Ana Kladnik, University of Graz Helping each other. Solidarity and local communities in late socialist Yugoslavia 09:20 (20 mins) Igor Duda, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula Solidarity in the socialist factory 09:40 (20 mins) Nina Vodopivec, Institute of Contemporary History |
Reconciliation in Post-Yugoslav Space: Digital Peacebuilding McIntyre Room 208 #Yugoslavia: Algorithmic Peacebuilding through Commodification of Nostalgia 09:00 (15 mins) Ivana Stepanovic, Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg Hashtag Memory Activism: #ŠtoTeNema in the Context of Srebrenica Genocide 09:15 (15 mins) Rimante Jaugaite, University of Bologna, DISCI Mending broken bonds: Reconciliation in documentary movies 09:30 (15 mins) Zala Pavšič, CEU Democracy Institute |
The Life and Afterlife of Soviet Planning: Industrial Urbanism, Built Environments, and Geographic Politics Fore Hall “There is only the street:” Activist archiving, curating, and art making as response to institutional crisis in the Ukrainian East, 2014-2022 09:00 (15 mins) Victoria Donovan, University of St Andrews Infrastructuring the Soviet Nuclear Culture in Obninsk and Sarov 09:15 (15 mins) Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University London Monotowns and the 20th Century's Modernism: The Socialist Legacy of Built Environment in post-Soviet Russia 09:30 (15 mins) Irina Redkina, Universität Hamburg Remembering Pervostoiteli: Labor Migration and Identity in Soviet-Era Planned Cities 09:45 (15 mins) Victoria Fomina, University of St Andrews |
War in Ukraine: Displacement, Mobilities and Identities James Watt South Room 375 Temporary protection seekers from Ukraine navigating the welfare system in Finland: the first six months 09:00 (15 mins) Emma Rimpiläinen, IRES, Uppsala University Valkyries and Madonnas: Constructing the Ukrainian Womanhood during the Russo-Ukrainian War 09:15 (15 mins) Kateryna Boyko, Uppsala University Being Ukrainian in Poland: labour migrants' perceptions and experiences on the eve of Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 09:30 (15 mins) Anne White, UCL SSEES Reflection of Ukrainian War in Media and Social Networks. Corpus Analysis 09:45 (15 mins) Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum WorldWide |
09:00 | Strategy, conflict, and security Gilbert Scott Room 356 Examining motives of foreign fighter mobilization: Lessons from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 09:00 (15 mins) Huseyn Aliyev, University of Glasgow Intellectuals of Statecraft: Russian Arms Control Debates and Great Power Competition 09:15 (15 mins) Alexander Graef, IFSH The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region: Reconciling energy equity, security, and environmental sustainability in a transformative period 09:30 (15 mins) Mary Keogh, IFZO, University of Greifswald Strategic Choices and Sources of Political Uncertainty for the Russian IT Firms: The War in Ukraine as a Game Changer? 09:45 (15 mins) Dmitry Volkov, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations |
Russian Coal: Past, Present and Future in the context of Decarbonisation 09:00 (90 mins) Chair: Nikita Lomagin, Russian Federation Maxim Titov, Russian Federation Irina Mironova, Russian Federation Anna Korppoo, Norway |
Authoritarian Regimes and Social Values Gilbert Scott Room 250 A Rebellion with(out) a Cause? Popular Protest and Elite Transformation in Socialist Montenegro, 1988–1990 09:00 (20 mins) Bojan Baca, University of Gothenburg The Social Origins of Illiberalism in Central Europe 09:20 (20 mins) Lenka Bustikova Siroky, University of Oxford Transformation of the moral order in Soviet/Russian society (1976-1999) 09:40 (20 mins) Anna Smolentseva, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge Antigenderism as Russian soft power? Comparing discourse on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Russia and Norway. 10:00 (15 mins) Marthe Myhre, Oslo Metropolitan University |
Spatial Politics: Approaches to Knowledge and Planning James Watt South Room 361 Inclusion and exclusion errors and the implications for using spatial data in Gulag research 09:00 (15 mins) Daniel Horn, Essex University The emerging importance of the concept of NTA - theoretical considerations, recent practices and ENTAN experiences 09:15 (15 mins) Natalija Shikova, International Balkan University (IBU) The Relational Ontologies of Soviet Volumetric Cartography in the Russian Arctic and Siberia 09:30 (15 mins) Nadezhda Mamontova, Turku Institute of Advanced Studies |
New perspectives on the 19th century Russia Melville Room “Liberal funerals, political resistance and sites of martyrdom in the late Russian Empire” 09:00 (15 mins) George Gilbert, University of Southampton Between the Spiritual Booze and the Principle of Hope: a Revised Study on the Religious Cultural Heritage of Collectivism in Russian Marxist Thought 09:15 (15 mins) George Bocean, Durham University Out from the Shadows: Women and Russian Radicalism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain 09:30 (15 mins) Lynne Hartnett, Villanova University Reframing Peasant Backwardness 09:45 (15 mins) David Darrow, University of Dayton |
09:00 | The Aesthetics of Return in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture Turnbull Room Concept, Time, Discourse: Alexandre Kojève's Aesthetics of Return 09:00 (15 mins) Isabel Jacobs, Queen Mary University of London Past Modern: Theorising the Aesthetics of Return in the Late Soviet Underground 09:15 (15 mins) Katerina Pavlidi, University College Dublin Return to the Present Continuous: the Past in Contemporary Russian Popular Music 09:30 (15 mins) Marco Biasioli, University of Manchester Russian neo-rave: metamodernism and cultural recycling of the 1990s 09:45 (15 mins) Maria Engström, Uppsala University |
Literatures of the Russian Arctic area I Main Building Room 132 "Don’t you think that something smells bad in this hotel room?" Dirtiness and subject’s hybridity in Indigenous literature of the Russian Arctic 09:00 (20 mins) Eeva Kuikka, Tampere University Relationality of indigeneity in late Soviet Nenets short forms 09:20 (20 mins) Karina Lukin, University of Helsinki Urban Arctic in Contemporary Russian Graphic Novels 09:40 (20 mins) Anni Lappela, University of Helsinki |
An elusive alliance? The prospects and limitations of the Sino-Russian relationship 09:00 (90 mins) Chair: Marcin Kaczmarski, UK Natasha Kuhrt, UK Marc Lanteigne, Norway David Lewis, UK Nathaniel Choi, UK |
Russian Orthodoxy: Representations and Influences Gilbert Scott Room 251 Is it an ill bird that fouls its own nest? Critical representations of clergymen in Russian 19th-century prose 09:00 (1 mins) Marta Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw The Way of the Werefox: Reading the Alt-Spiritual in Viktor Pelevin's Sacred Book of the Werewolf 09:01 (1 mins) Kirsten Tarves, University of Toronto Iulia de Beausobre (1893-1977): cultural mediator or Orthodox missionary? 09:02 (1 mins) Ruth Coates, University of Bristol Russian Church and the Challenges of Digital Christianity in the Post-Pandemic Era 09:03 (1 mins) Anastasia Mitrofanova |
Language Strategies and Use of Terminology Robing Room (Non) Speaking with/due to Caution: The Language of Positive Self-Censorship in the Polish Media 09:00 (15 mins) Roman Sacharov, University of Lodz Defending Language as a Strategy of Anti-Authoritarian Resistance. Language Ideologies in Polish Metalinguistic Discourse (1970–1989 and 2015–2022) 09:15 (15 mins) Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London Discursive Construction Concerning Scientific Terms Based on the Nomenclature Used in the Gender Studies Field. Polish and Russian Cases 09:30 (15 mins) Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
09:00 | Polish Literature and Culture Hunter Hall After Failure:Utopias of the Present in Early Twentieth-century Poland 09:00 (15 mins) Krzysztof Rowinski, Trinity College Dublin Central European Palimpsest: History and Postmemory of Displacement in Polish Contemporary Fiction 09:15 (15 mins) Renata Ingbrant, Stockholms universitet Memory and/of Forced Migration During and After WWII in the Works of Polish and Yiddish Writers 09:30 (15 mins) Annelie Bachmaier, TU Dresden Multicultural literature is a window to discovering and understanding the world. 09:45 (15 mins) Dorota Hrycak- Krzyzanowska, Polish University Abroad |
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| 11:00 | Ideology and the Putin System: Before and after 2022 Bute Hall Greater Eurasia: Putinist Russia’s Latest Geo-Imaginary 11:00 (15 mins) Mark Bassin, Södertörn University Grossraum Thinking in Putin's Russia 11:15 (15 mins) David Lewis, University of Exeter It’s nationalism, stupid (?) Nationalism, foreign policy and Russia’s Ukraine policy. 11:30 (15 mins) Luke March, The University of Edinburgh Reconfigured patriotic forces and the reduction of ideological plurality in Putin’s Russia 11:45 (15 mins) Matthew Blackburn, University of Warsaw |
Her Side of The Story: Women Dissident Practices in the Soviet Union and Beyond James Watt South Stephenson Room Male and female autobiographic written and oral accounts on the 'thaw' period (Belarusian SSR, early 1960s): (in)visibility of women 11:00 (15 mins) Uladzimir Valodzin, European University Institute The unacknowledged role of Ekaterina Furtseva in Khrushchev’s defeat of the ‘Anti-Party Group’ in 1957 11:15 (15 mins) Ismene Brown, Independent researcher Women in the Jewish Movement for Emigration from the USSR: The Case of Soviet Minsk 11:30 (15 mins) Tatsiana Astrouskaya, Herder Institute Women practices and invisibility: the case of non-conformist youth groups in Leningrad in the 1960s 11:45 (15 mins) Sofia Lopatina, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
Getting Published in Academic Journals and Books 11:00 (90 mins) Chair: Tomila Lankina, UK Paul Goode, Canada Anceschi Luca, UK Regina Smyth, UK Lenka Bustikova, UK Madeleine Markey, UK James Krapfl, Canada Michael Loader, UK Stella Rock, UK Peter Sowden, UK |
Unlikely Political Connection?: Asia and Central Europe East Quad Lecture Theatre “Laughter, No Laughing Matter”: Affect as Epistemic Resistance against Necropower in Poland’s Orange Alternative and Thailand’s Youth-led Pro-democracy Movement 11:00 (15 mins) Verita Sriratana, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University First Written Representation of Siam in the Eye of an Austro-Hungarian Expeditor in János Xántus' Úti jegyzetek Sziámból 11:15 (15 mins) Thapanee Tubnonghee Havel and the Anti-Charter 11:30 (15 mins) Joshua Hayden, Anglo-American University The Quiet Changes in Czech Foreign Policy on China since 2021: Corruption Scandals and Increasing Diplomatic Exchange with Taiwan 11:45 (15 mins) Zuzana Veselá, Prague School of Economics When is a dissident not a dissident? 12:00 (15 mins) Barbara Day, Independent Scholar |
Contextualising Tolstoy: politic, literary, and religious subtexts of "War and Peace" and "Resurrection". Senate Room “The absorption of Evil by Good”: mental cure in Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection. 11:00 (20 mins) Natalia Borisova, University of Tuebingen Slavic Department “Trollope kills me with his excellence”: Anthony Trollope’s “The Bertrams” in Leo Tolstoy’s estimates 11:20 (20 mins) Irina Gnyusova Tolstoy`s anti-nihilist comedy "The Nihilist" in the historical and literary context of the 1860-s 11:40 (20 mins) Yulia Krasnoselskaya |
11:00 | Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State Main Building Room 466 After XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order 11:00 (20 mins) Yoram Gorlizki, University of Manchester Alimony and Social Control under Stalin 11:20 (20 mins) Aaron Retish, Wayne State University, Department of History From the Street to the Court (and Back) – Juvenile Delinquency in the Soviet 1950s 11:40 (20 mins) Immo Rebitschek, Friedrich Schiller University Social Control redefined: Housing Disputes in Post-Stalinist Courts 12:00 (20 mins) Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv University |
Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society II. McIntyre Room 201 “Better Angola than Poland!” East German citizens’ reactions to solidarity drives with Poland, 1980-1981. 11:00 (20 mins) George Bodie, Goldsmiths, University of London Solidary states, collective feelings: (Re)thinking solidarity from the aftermath of state socialism 11:20 (20 mins) Tanja Petrovic, ZRC SAZU Che Guevara, voluntary labour and the transition to socialism 11:40 (20 mins) Aidan Ratchford, University of Glasgow |
General Winter and the Snow Maiden: Cold in Russian Culture and History McIntyre Room 208 A Frozen State: Cold and the Idea of Russia 11:00 (20 mins) Alison Smith, University of Toronto Cold and punishment in late Imperial Russia 11:20 (20 mins) Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham Cold Water Bathing and a New Russian Masculinity 11:40 (20 mins) Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas The “Russian Catarrh” of 1782: A “Cold” Disease from a Cold Country 12:00 (20 mins) Matthew Romaniello, Weber State University |
Russia's war on Ukraine (2) Fore Hall Reflexive propaganda: polarization, political deliberation, and war in an authoritarian regime 11:00 (15 mins) Maxim Alyukov, King's College London Exploring the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine over individual geopolitical preferences in Georgia. 11:15 (15 mins) Ángel Torres-Adán, Institute for Sociology-Slovak Academy of Sciences Experiencing digital (dis)integration in transmedia environments. Russian resistance movement media strategies in times of war. 11:30 (15 mins) Denis Bilunov, Charles University |
War and Society: Embodied Experiences, Narrated Identities James Watt South Room 375 Capturing the interaction of ethnic, regional, and national identity in Donbas amid the (un)finished war - a narrative-based case study of people with dual nationality 11:00 (15 mins) Qianrui Hu, University College London Shopping malls and the everyday urban experience of Russia’s war on Ukraine 11:15 (15 mins) Oliver Banatvala, School of Slavonic and East European Studies Warfare and the Everyday: Collective Trauma and Social Process 11:30 (15 mins) Austin Garey, University of Pennsylvania |
11:00 | Repression and dissent under socialism Gilbert Scott Room 253 ‘Greek Catholic’ as ‘anti-Orthodox’?: The Case of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Soviet-ruled Galicia 11:00 (15 mins) Kateryna Budz, The University of Edinburgh From the Wives of the ‘Enemies’ to ‘Enemies’ Themselves: Women on Trial during Stalin’s Great Terror and the Great Patriotic War 11:15 (15 mins) Liudmila Lyagushkina, University of Nottingham Living an incoherent life: homosexuality and anti-Soviet dissidence in Soviet Lithuania 11:30 (15 mins) Rasa Kamarauskaite, SSEES, UCL Religious Samizdat, Keston College, and Religious Persecution in the USSR 11:45 (15 mins) Zoe Knox, University of Leicester The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive and Ethno-Politics in the Gulag. 12:00 (15 mins) Mark Vincent, University of East Anglia |
Domestic Matriarchy vs. Public Patriarchy. Ascribing and Questioning Gender Roles in Central Europe after 1989 Gilbert Scott Room 250 CEO or mother? Executive search under public maternalism 11:00 (15 mins) Nagy Beáta, Corvinus University of Budapest Mighty Ukrainian Girls in post-1991 Children's Historical Fiction 11:15 (15 mins) Mateusz Świetlicki, University of Wrocław Precarious Femininities: Dreams of Ascent and Fears of Descent between Shame, Delusion, and Freedom in Polish Post-Socialist Literature 11:30 (15 mins) Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, RECET, University of Vienna Teaching "female virtues" or sexual rights? (Mis)conceptions about Gender in Polish sex education for youth and the counter program of NGOs 11:45 (15 mins) Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Herder Institute |
Authoritarianism and disinformation James Watt South Room 361 Autocratic Diffusion in Central Asia - Current Developments 11:00 (15 mins) Aizhan Sharshenova, OSCE Academy in Bishkek Disinformation as a Corruption Defense: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Georgia 11:15 (15 mins) Scott Radnitz, University of Washington International Origins of the Deeply Personalised Russian Political Regime 11:30 (15 mins) Atsushi Ogushi, Keio University Post-Soviet fathers and their nations: a comparison Batka Lukashenka, Papa Nazarbayev, and Niyazov-Turkmenbashi 11:45 (15 mins) Ruta Skriptaite, University of Nottingham The End of Adaptive Authoritarianism in Russia? 12:00 (15 mins) Stephen Hall, University of Bath |
New Directions in Polish Censorship Melville Room Censorship of Literature in Poland under Communism: new perspectives. 11:00 (15 mins) Kamila Budrowska, University of Bialystok, Swierkowa 20B, 15-328NIP: PL542-23-83-747 What Censorship? An Analysis of Parliamentary Discourse. 11:15 (15 mins) Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk, Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw Reasons of State and States of Mind: Ewa Lipska’s A Living Death Within and Without Censorship. 11:30 (15 mins) John Bates, Glasgow University |
11:00 | (In)visible hierarchies of Soviet and Russia's post-Soviet colonial modernities: regional and translocal divides Turnbull Room ‘Opening one border, building a wall on the other’: Borderscaping in the Polish news media 11:00 (15 mins) Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius, Polish Academy of Sciences Decolonising amateur photography: new local Soviet photo clubs of the mid-1970s and 1980s and their fate in post-Gorbachev Russia 11:15 (15 mins) Victoria Musvik, University of Oxford The paradox of the Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Aesthetics "Prometheus": a story of survival and struggle for independence in contemporary Russia 11:30 (15 mins) Daria Sorokina, École normale supérieure The state monopoly on the future: Contradictions between Russia’s quest for ‘greatpowerness’ and the development agenda in the Russian Far East 11:45 (15 mins) Anna Kuteleva, University of Wolverhampton |
Literatures of the Russian Arctic area II Main Building Room 132 Caught between the Primordial, the Modern and the Post-Modern: The Shaman as Symbol in three late Novels by Yurii Rytkheu. 11:00 (20 mins) Audun J. Mørch, University of Oslo Ecocentric tropes in Kola Sámi poetry: the case of Oktiabrina Voronova 11:20 (20 mins) Tintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki Soviet Coal Mining (Non-)Fiction on Svalbard: The Case of Sergei Kharchenko 11:40 (20 mins) Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
“Grey zone” research challenges in Eastern European Holocaust studies 11:00 (90 mins) Chair: Raisa Ostapenko, France Caroline Sturdy Colls, UK Daria Cherkaska, UK |
Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine by Cultural Means Gilbert Scott Room 251 The Image of War in Russian-speaking Ukrainian Poetry (Es Soya's Case): New Contexts 11:00 (15 mins) Kristina Vorontsova, Uniwersytet Jagielloński Shaping consciousness: people’s feelings towards the war in the monthly literary magazine ‘Знамя’ 11:15 (15 mins) Arianna Bettin, Trinity College Dublin (In)visible resistance: Exploring independent theatre practices in today’s Russia 11:30 (15 mins) Olga Nikolaeva, Musikverket Contemporary Ukrainian Literature as a Witness of Russia's War against Ukraine. 11:45 (15 mins) Olha Voznyuk, Ukrainian Free University Protest Music in Ukraine: from Decolonization to Democracy 12:00 (15 mins) Olga Gomilko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
Multilingual Societies and Language Policies Robing Room Multilingual Tallinn: a pilot study on soundscape and linguistic landscape 11:00 (15 mins) Kapitolina Fedorova, Tallinn University Repositioning of Russian-language professionals in Kazakhstan 11:15 (15 mins) Juldyz Smagulova, KIMEP University Russian legislation and support for the maintenance of linguistic diversity 11:30 (15 mins) Konstantin Zamyatin Teaching (about) a language through declarations on its name, status, identity: Serbo-Croatian and its afterlives in a language teaching curriculum 11:45 (15 mins) Jelena Calic, University College London |
11:00 | REELIT-Sponsored Roundtable: Translation and Publishing in Periods of Great Change 11:00 (90 mins) Chair: Sarah Gear, UK Anna Maslenova, UK Cathy McAteer, UK Muireann Maguire, UK Christina Karakepeli, UK |
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12:40 | Scotland's Ukrainians - their story Gilbert Scott Room 250 A historiography of Scotland's Ukrainians over four waves of migration from 1890s to the present 12:40 (15 mins) Peter Kormylo, University of Toronto |
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| 14:00 | Ruxit: Russia and the Council of Europe from beginning to an end Bute Hall From Cooperation to Confrontation and Breakup: the European Court of Human Rights and Russian State Institutions 14:00 (15 mins) Dmitry Kurnosov, University of Helsinki How Russia Joined the Council of Europe: The Role of Values, Politics, and Law 14:15 (15 mins) Jeffrey Kahn, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law 'Only Our Traditional Values': Human Rights of Women and LGBTQI+ people in the Russia-CoE relations 14:30 (15 mins) Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki Inventing a New Justice. Lawyer's Reflection on Litigation in Russia without the ECtHR 14:45 (15 mins) Denis Shedov, University of Helsinki |
New perspectives on revolutionary Russia James Watt South Stephenson Room Critical infrastructure in Russian Cities in Troubled Times 14:00 (15 mins) Lutz Häfner, University of Bielefeld Taking a Break from Revolution: Historians at the Village Haymaking in 1917-1918 14:15 (15 mins) Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University Capitalism and socialism on the farm: I will compare Soviet collectivization policies in Kazakhstan with the enormous expansion of the British plantation economy in Kenya in the 1930s. I will analyze the two kinds of modernity that were imposed. 14:30 (15 mins) Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles |
The Soviet Red Cross 14:00 (90 mins) Chair: Joanne Laycock, UK Hanna Matt, UK Siobhan Hearne, UK Severyan Dyakonov, Switzerland Peter Whitewood, UK |
Foreign policy East Quad Lecture Theatre “Protean Spirit”: Uzbekistan’s Influence on China’s Foreign Policy 14:00 (15 mins) Frank Maracchione, University of Sheffield EU and Russian hegemony in the ‘shared neighbourhood’: Between coercion, prescription, and co-optation 14:15 (15 mins) Isabell Burmester, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva Uzbekistan's China policy in the time of Russia's war against Ukraine - deepening engagement and its policy implications 14:30 (15 mins) Elzbieta Pron, University of Silesia in Katowice A new era of narrating a Ukrainian strategy and the European Union’s foreign policy: how the former is making a measurable difference on the latter 14:45 (15 mins) Viktoriia Vdovychenko, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Aston University |
Crossing the Iron curtain: sports actors and the dynamics of sporting interactions during the Cold War Senate Room “The Russians are coming!” Imperial Decline and the Emergence of a Communist Challenge in Cold War Motorcycle Speedway 14:00 (20 mins) Richard Mills, University of East Anglia Becoming an international sports leader : trajectories of Soviet representatives in international sports organizations during the Cold War 14:20 (20 mins) Sylvain Dufraisse, Nantes université 'Society Is Watching You Very Carefully’: Smuggling, the State and Athlete Attempts to Assert Agency in People's Poland 14:40 (20 mins) Christopher Lash, Uczelnia Łazarskiego, NIP 527 02 09 936 |
14:00 | Identities in flux: engaging religion in periods of change Main Building Room 466 A Clergyman’s Daughter at the Age of Equality 14:00 (20 mins) Irina Paert, University of Tartu Post-Soviet Muslims in Europe: Recycling the National into the Religious? 14:20 (20 mins) Kristina Kovalskaya, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laicités (Paris) The Last Saint: St. Serafim of Sarov in Exile 14:40 (20 mins) Peter Flew, UCL (SSEES) |
Gender perspectives on the Yugoslav Gastarbeiter migration McIntyre Room 201 “I work and I exist”. Impact of (Yugoslav) gastarbaiters savings on women's emancipation in Imotska Krajina 14:00 (20 mins) Sara Žerić, IOS Regensburg “Yugoslav immigration to France through a gender perspective, 1960s to present day” 14:20 (20 mins) Juliette Ronsin, Ecole normale supérieure The silent returns. A gender-based analysis of the Gastarbeiter return and reintegration patterns in socialist Yugoslavia 14:40 (20 mins) Sara Bernard, University of Glasgow |
Media re(production) of socialist ideology and local past McIntyre Room 208 Gaming Tricks: The Body of the Post-Soviet Spectator in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau (2019) 14:00 (15 mins) Tatiana Efremova, Columbia University Recipes for Baking Bread: Stories from Holdomor 14:15 (15 mins) Sara Nesteruk, University of Huddersfield The Internationale Buchkunst-Ausstellung and the Ideological Development of an Internationalist Design Sensibility. 14:30 (15 mins) Claudia Lonkin, New York University |
Economics, business, and industry – politics and policy Fore Hall Putin’s Oligarchs under Sanctions 14:00 (15 mins) Ingvill Moe Elgsaas, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies The Political Economy of Transformation in Resource-Rich Countries: “Backward” Industrialisation and Relative Surplus Population in Uzbekistan 14:15 (15 mins) Franco Galdini, The University of Manchester The political imprints of Soviet industrialisation in the long run: evidence from Kazakhstan 14:30 (15 mins) Liu Peng, University of Minnesota Varieties of Capitalism: Which Model Did Russia Choose? 14:45 (15 mins) Andrey Yakovlev, Davis Center Harvard University |
Theorising “the East” in Area Studies: reflexivity, westerncentrism, and positionality James Watt South Room 375 “Was, is: Criminology, Area Studies and the Neglect of the East” 14:00 (20 mins) Laura Piacentini, University of Strathclyde Reflexivity as methodological guidance for war-time research: reflections of a Ukrainian, researching Ukraine 14:20 (20 mins) Ielizaveta Rekhtman, University of Glasgow Relational Area Studies: Russia and geographies of knowledge 14:40 (20 mins) Ammon Cheskin, University of Glasgow |
14:00 | A Perspective for 2022-23 in Ukraine: The Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 14:00 (90 mins) Chair: Alex Marshall, UK Evan Mawdsley, UK Geoffrey Swain, UK Murray Frame, UK |
Social Agency in Conflict and Border Zones Gilbert Scott Room 253 CSOs providing social services in de facto borderland (Abkhazia-Georgia): When (geo)political and social dynamics meet in Samegrelo, Georgia 14:00 (15 mins) Gaëlle Le Pavic, Ghent University - United Nations University CRIS Hétérotopies of exile: discourses of disruptions, resistance and identity in the ‘How we left’ narratives of Russians after the February, 24th 14:15 (15 mins) Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova Alexei Morozov The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakah war: affective experience and the ordinary in a protracted armed conflict 14:30 (15 mins) Anita Khachaturova, Université libre de Bruxelles |
Freed with No Right to Leave: Former Gulag Prisoners and Their Lives on the Soviet Periphery Gilbert Scott Room 250 ‘In Search of a Roof’: Urban Exclusion and Provincial Life in Dissident Lives? 14:00 (20 mins) Polly Jones, University College, Oxford Culture Held Captive: The Role of Former Prisoner-Theatremakers in the Cultural and Artistic Development of Komi and Kolyma 14:20 (20 mins) Jake Robertson, University of Oxford Former Gulag Prisoners in the Soviet Periphery: A (Virtual) Literary Community? 14:40 (20 mins) Andrea Gullotta, University of Palermo |
Joseph Brodsky's Legacy James Watt South Room 361 Joseph Brodsky's Postcards 14:00 (20 mins) Natalia Rulyova, University of Birmingham A Room and a Half and the Art of Poetic Cinema. 14:20 (20 mins) Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science Joseph Brodsky’s Creative Writing Pedagogy as an Approach to his Work 14:40 (20 mins) Eugenia Kelbert Rudan, UEA (East Centre, Co-Director) Joseph Brodsky and the lives of the poet: questions of self-translation in “Tsushima Screen”, ‘24 May 1980’, and their Russian originals. 15:00 (15 mins) Andrew Reynolds, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Women’s Writing and Feminist Perspectives Melville Room Zinaida Gippius and Ekaterina Bakunina: Who Was the Better Feminist? 14:00 (15 mins) Veselina Dzhumbeva, Queen Mary University of London Negotiating illness through the second language in Izabela Morska’s Znikanie (2019). 14:15 (15 mins) Aneta Stepien, Maynooth University Unearthing Female Voices: Nastasya Kairova and Russian Journalism 14:30 (15 mins) Iris Uccello, University of Verona The Spatiality of Belarusian Revolution: Poetics of Resistance and Defeat 14:45 (15 mins) Yuliya Charnyshova Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya at 200 and the “Brontification” of the Khvoshchinskaya Sisters 15:00 (15 mins) Nora Seligman Favorov, Independant Scholar |
14:00 | Visions of the Total Artwork: the Russian, Ukrainian and Eastern European Gesamtkunstwerk Turnbull Room An uncanny dialogue: Lev Shestov’s philosophy as the ‘great’ art of not seeing and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic investigations of the unconscious mind 14:00 (15 mins) Marina Ogden, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London "Zorved" as a Gesamtkunstwerk? Mikhail Matyushin on Sound, Colour, a Synthesis of the Arts and the Fourth Dimension 14:15 (15 mins) Marina Lupishko, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum The 'Virtuosity' Argument of Kandinsky 14:30 (15 mins) Paul Weber, Saarland University, Saarbruecken |
Scientists in Socialist Countries under the Pressure of the Cold War 14:00 (90 mins) Chair: Antonie Dolezalova, Czech Republic Anna Sosnowska, Poland Zarko Lazarevic, Slovenia Volodymyr Kravchenko, Canada |
Discussions about the Russian language and culture in different countries after February 24, 2022 14:00 (90 mins) Chair: Kapitolina Fedorova, Estonia Vera Zvereva, Finland Natalia Tshuikina, Estonia Dieter Stern, Belgium Jiyeon Lee, South Korea Juldyz Smagulova, Kazakhstan |
Trans-Regional Exchange in Motion: Cultural Fluidity in Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Europe Gilbert Scott Room 251 Catalogus Librorum Omnium: Transferring the Library Cataloguing Models to the Early Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 14:00 (15 mins) Stepan Blinder, University of Cambridge Cross-cultural trajectories and forms of governance in late medieval Moscow 14:15 (15 mins) Angus Russell, University of Cambridge Relationships and Affective Language in Kyivan Rus’ Birchbark Letters, c.1100-1300 14:30 (15 mins) Amelia Gardner-Thorpe, University of Cambridge |
Theatre and Performance Robing Room Anticipating the deluge: Revolted Ukraine in early-19th century French Theatre 14:00 (15 mins) Georgia Tsichritzis, McGill University Breaking the 'Fifth' Wall: The Role of the Translator in British and American Staged Productions of the Works of Mikhail Bulgakov 14:15 (15 mins) Hannah Klimas, University of Leeds Deconstructing the Stalinist stage: The revival of avant-garde theatre during the Thaw 14:30 (15 mins) Jesse Gardiner, University of St Andrews Imposter phenomenon between Baroque and Avantgarde: Vsevolod Meyerhold’s "Revizor" and "Boris Godunov" 14:45 (15 mins) Ekaterina Grineva, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) |
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| 16:00 | War as a maker of nations? Nation-building in Ukraine as a result of Russia's war against Ukraine - discourses, identities, achievements Bute Hall Civil society as an actor in Ukraine’s nation-state building in wartime 16:00 (15 mins) Viktor Stepanenko, Institute of Sociology, Nat.Academy of Ukraine Institutional changes of the political system in Ukraine under the impact of Russian military aggression. 16:15 (15 mins) Galyna Zelenko, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies New attributes of the brand of Ukrainian democracy: democratic values as the key to the future of Ukraine. 16:30 (15 mins) Kateryna Fedoryshyna, State University of Trade and Economics War as a catalyst of nation-building with the assistance of Diaspora communities 16:45 (15 mins) Andrej N. Lushnycky, IICEE- University of Fribourg |
Ethnic and national groups, and migration James Watt South Stephenson Room Romanian or Moldovan? Romania’s Kin-state Politics Vis-à-vis the Moldovan Minority in Ukraine 16:00 (1 mins) Andreea Udrea, Royal Holloway University of London Turkey as a kin state: Turkish policy towards Muslim minority in Bulgaria under AKP 16:01 (15 mins) Yana Volkova, Queen's University Belfast Family Narratives on Unfulfilled Migration Intentions: Insights from the Post-Communist Context 16:16 (15 mins) Zuzanna Brunarska, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw |
Institutions in Perestroika James Watt South Room 355 Institutionalization of national independent life in the USSR during perestroika. Jewish organizations and associations in Moscow after 1985 16:00 (20 mins) Evgenii Kriakin Institutionalization of the environmental movement in Ukraine during perestroika in the Soviet Union 16:20 (20 mins) Tetiana Perga, Institute of World History of National Academy of Science of Ukraine Perestroika as Mission: The ‘Voice[s] of Orthodoxy’ between Moscow and Berlin, 1985-1991 16:40 (20 mins) Franziska Schedewie, University of Heidelberg, Historical Institute |
Intersectional Feminist Practices of Everyday Creativity in Postsocialism East Quad Lecture Theatre “Young wolves” and “domestic hens”. The feminist political economy of creativity in the context of Polish socio-economic transformation. 16:00 (15 mins) Aleksandra Fila, University of Graz Spatial Creativity as a Method: Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Collective Memories of Trauma 16:15 (15 mins) Vera Sokolova, Charles University, Prague Textile Ways of Knowing: Postsocialist Struggle with Women's Authorship 16:30 (15 mins) Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Charles University, Faculty of Humanities Toward a Prefigurative Politics of Care and Feminist Commons The Potential of (Re)Politicizing Analyses of Prague Community Gardens: A Critical Literature Review 16:45 (15 mins) Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Graz |
BASEES-ZOiS Roundtable: What is the role of research|ers amidst Russia’s war against Ukraine? 16:00 (90 mins) Chair: Matthias Neumann, UK Viktoria Sereda, Germany Anastasiya Leuhkina, Germany Yuliya Bidenko, Ukraine Victoria Vdovychenko, UK |
16:00 | Elites, Activism and Political Participation Main Building Room 466 The role of institutional and interpersonal trust in Belarusian societal mobilisation 2020-2021 16:00 (15 mins) Nadja Douglas, Centre for East European and International Studies Why Young Russians and Kazakhstanis Use or Do Not Use New Media in Political Participation 16:15 (15 mins) Yerkebulan Sairambay, Suleyman Demirel University Not a Threat? Russian Elites’ Disregard for the “Islamist Danger” in the North Caucasus in the 1990s 16:30 (15 mins) Vassily Klimentov, European University Institute |
Interwar population politics McIntyre Room 201 Minority policy of interwar Poland in historical syntheses. 16:00 (15 mins) Barbara Klassa, University of Gdańsk Non-Territorial Minority Arrangements in Interwar Soviet Ukraine 16:15 (15 mins) Olena Palko, University of Basel Reform in the education system and the attitude of the Greek state towards the schools of the Albanian (Cam) minority 16:30 (15 mins) Laurena Kalaja, Polis University The contribution of the Albanian Immigration Societies to the Albania minority rights during the interwar period 16:45 (15 mins) Deona Çali, Active Learning Lab 'The More You Oppress Them...': Seto Hyperfecundity and Eugenic Anxiety in Interwar Estonia 17:00 (15 mins) Paris Pin-Yu Chen, University College London |
Russian nationalism and de-Russification through the prism of media McIntyre Room 208 Imperial Russia as an Alternative to Bolshevism in Nazi Cinema 16:00 (15 mins) Philip Decker, Princeton University Russian Digital Nationalism amid the Invasion of Ukraine: Mobilisation of Nationalist Organisations and Discourse 16:15 (15 mins) Alexandra Brankova, Uppsala University, IRES The Battle of Spectacles over Monuments in Ukraine: Multimodal Analysis of Ukrainian and Crimean Telegram channels 16:30 (15 mins) Anastasiya Pshenychnykh, Loughborough University The Caucasus in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Cinema. Between Ethnography and Orientalism 16:45 (15 mins) Martina Morabito, Università degli Studi di Padova The Honest, Faithful, Eternal Nation: Shortparis’ music video ‘Strashno’ as critique of far-right Russian nationalism in mainstream Russian popular culture. 17:00 (15 mins) Thomas Reid, University of St Andrews |
Petroimaginations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture Fore Hall The post-socialist transition road novel 16:00 (20 mins) Myka Tucker-Abramson, University of Warwick Late Soviet Petrocinema: Farman Salmanov in Aleksandr Proshkin’s «Risk Strategy» (1978) 16:20 (20 mins) Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway PetroArt: Oil in Contemporary Russian Visual Arts 16:40 (20 mins) Maria Engström, Uppsala University |
Lessons for Scholars of Russian Foreign and Security Policy from Russia's War in Ukraine 16:00 (90 mins) Chair: Bettina Renz, UK Katarzyna Kaczmarska, UK Kevork Oskanian, UK David Lewis, UK Alexander Graef, Germany |
16:00 | Cold War at the Periphery and the Legacy of the Cold War 16:00 (90 mins) Chair: Geoffrey Swain, UK Corina Snitar, UK Mark Kramer, United States Andrea Peto, Austria Ksenia Wesolowska, UK |
Typewriters, Televisions, and Erotic Gadgets: The Materiality of Everyday Life in Eastern Europe Gilbert Scott Room 253 Cold War Keys: The Global Reach of Yugoslavia's UNIS-tbm typewriters 16:00 (20 mins) K. Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania In Search of Socialist Erotica. An Alternative Archive of the Polish Sexual Revolution 16:20 (20 mins) Anna Dobrowolska, Geneva Graduate Institute The Kingdom of Antique Televisions: Reparability and the Afterlives of Socialist Electronics 16:40 (20 mins) Julia Mead, University of Chicago |
Presenting Western as Russian: Tactics of Appropriation in Russian Visual Culture Gilbert Scott Room 250 «The Russians are the largest rebus»: ideology and conflicts behind the cultural import of picture riddles (1845–1883) 16:00 (30 mins) Ksenia Butuzova, Oxford University Archaism as Modernism:The Design of Soviet Popular Science Books on Ancient Russian Architecture in the second half of the 1950s-1980s 16:30 (30 mins) Romanenkova Maria Peter the Great, Bacchus and the Cossack. Origins and Iconography of the Seal of Don Cossack Host (1704) in the context of Russian Visual Culture of the Peter I Era 17:00 (30 mins) Ilia Malakhov Possessing Antiquity: Soviet Art History’s Reinvention of the National Cultural Heritage 17:30 (30 mins) Rashel Zemlinskaya |
From women and LGBTQ+ prosecution to activism and resistance James Watt South Room 361 Anti-gender campaigns in Bulgaria: Actors, tendencies, and recent developments 16:00 (20 mins) Shaban Darakchi, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Eurovision, queer visibility, and political transition in post-Soviet Europe 16:20 (20 mins) Evgeny Gurin, University of Oxford, St Antony's College Not only NGOs and Protest Movements: Everyday activism in today’s Poland 16:40 (15 mins) Piotr Goldstein, ZOiS Berlin |
The Ukrainian Language Today: Bridging the Past and the Future Melville Room Is Ukrainian a Pluricentric Language? 16:00 (15 mins) Andriy Danylenko, Pace University, Modern Languages Department The Morphosyntax of Northeast (Polissian) Ukrainian 16:15 (15 mins) Salvatore Del Gaudio, Institute of Philology, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University Dialectal umlaut of ’a > i in Southwest Ukrainian: The case of the Kryvorivnja dialect 16:30 (15 mins) Oksana Lebedivna, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
16:00 | Empires' Multiple Peripheries Turnbull Room “It’s better to go to Siberia”: the exile of the Finns from the Grand Duchy of Finland 16:00 (15 mins) Larisa Kangaspuro, University of Helsinki Matter of Taste: On Coloniality of Dietary Discourses in the 18th century Ethnographic Texts from Siberia 16:15 (15 mins) Olga Trufanova, Lüdwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Imperial Policy on the Native Language Education in Private Schools of the Polish and Baltic Provinces at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 16:30 (15 mins) Yoko Aoshima, Hokkaido University |
History writing between East and West Main Building Room 132 E.H. Carr as Nationalities Scholar 16:00 (15 mins) Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils / Ilia State University Jeremy Smith, University of Eastern Finland John Erickson: a historian between East and West 16:15 (15 mins) Niall Gray, University of Strathclyde Memories and Myths in the Knowledge Production on the Polish-Ukrainian War for Former Eastern Galicia (1918–1919) 16:30 (15 mins) Martin Rohde, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies Jagoda Wierzejska, University of Warsaw Negotiating a shared past: How historical commissions affect textbooks in Central Europe and North America (1972-present) 16:45 (15 mins) Tadeusz Wojtych, University of Cambridge The Role of Nationalism in the Recent Historiography of the Origins of the First World War: Serbia and the Great Powers 17:00 (15 mins) Teodoras Zukas, Vilnius University |
Memory politics and the Instrumentalisation of the past Main Building Room 134 “For a European Croatia”: Miko Tripalo and the Memory of WWII, 1990-1995 16:00 (20 mins) Mayuko Uno, The University of Tokyo “Witch-Hunting with History: A Study of Nationalism and Communism in Thailand and Czechoslovakia — Chit Phumisak and Václav Havel” 16:20 (20 mins) Verita Sriratana, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Milada Polisenska, Anglo-American University Auschwitz in the popular imagination 16:40 (20 mins) Alina Nowobilska, The Pilecki Institute Romani Holocaust Memory in Modern-day Romania 17:00 (20 mins) Cristina Stoica, Western University The choices and the legacy of Dagestani leaders of the Russian Civil war: heroic narratives and ethnic identity in modern Dagestan 17:20 (20 mins) Grigory Grigoryev, University of Helsinki |
Soviet Culture and its Evolution Gilbert Scott Room 251 Valentin Kataev's "Time, Forward": Portraying "Asia" and “Asian” in Soviet Production Novels 16:00 (15 mins) Kate Tomashevskaya, USC Ploughing the "red virgin soil": a study in "Krasnaja Nov'" first year. 16:15 (15 mins) Virginia Pili, Roma Tre University Revolution and Emotion 16:30 (15 mins) Rafaela Bozic, University of Zadar Khrushchev's Carnival: Overcoming Fear Through a Political Ritual 16:45 (15 mins) Raphaëlle Auclert, ICES (Catholic Institute of Higher Studies) The Four Colors of Soviet Propaganda: Observing the Evolution of the Soviet Language and Aesthetics 17:00 (15 mins) Georgii Khazagerov, Self Employed |
Life-creation (Zhiznetvorchestvo) as a Driving Force in Inter-cultural Mediation Robing Room Life-Creation in Anti-Communist Martyrologies: Retelling the Life of Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa (1925-2006) 16:00 (20 mins) Iona Ramsay, Universoity of Exeter Max Lawton and the Sorokinaissance - Zhiznetvorchesto in the Digital Age 16:20 (20 mins) Sarah Gear, University of Exeter The Lives of Archpriest Avvakum and Patriarch Nikon in English: Translators’ Life-Creation Strategies 16:40 (20 mins) Anna Maslenova, University of Exeter Mikhail Zenkevich, Translator of British Authors. 17:00 (15 mins) Svetlana Cheloukhina, Queens College, CUNY |
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| 17:45 | Keynote 2 Bute Hall ‘From Cold War to Hot War: Reflections on an Academic Life in Area Studies’ - Prof Judith Pallot in conversation with Prof Sarah Badcock. 17:45 (15 mins) Keynote Speaker: Judith Pallot, Christ Church Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham |
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| 19:00 | Drinks reception in Hunter Hall. All delegates welcome | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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