BASEES Annual Conference 2023
Friday, 31 March 2023 to Sunday, 2 April 2023
2023-03-31 09:45:002023-04-02 16:00:00Europe/LondontrueBASEES Annual Conference 2023BASEES Annual Conference 2023 Full details here: https://myeventflo.com/event.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howesconference@basees.org Print Print
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31 March
1 April
Sunday 2 April
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Bute HallJames Watt South Stephenson RoomJames Watt South Room 355East Quad Lecture TheatreHumanities Lecture Theatre 255
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Main Building Room 466McIntyre Room 201McIntyre Room 208Fore HallJames Watt South Room 375
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Gilbert Scott Room 356Gilbert Scott Room 253Gilbert Scott Room 250James Watt South Room 361Melville Room
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Turnbull RoomMain Building Room 132Main Building Room 134Gilbert Scott Room 251Robing RoomDAY 3
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2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonUrban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and AzerbaijanSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgUrban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Chair: Jo Laycock
James Watt South Stephenson Room
Between politics and poetics of social change in contemporary Baku
09:00 (15 mins)
Cristina Boboc, Ghent University  
Building Authority: Bishkek in the 1920s
09:15 (15 mins)
Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University  
Central Asian Migratory Imaginations during Russia's war on Ukraine
09:30 (15 mins)
Joni Virkkunen, University of Eastern Finland  
Challenging a Socialist Way of Life: Comrades’ Courts and Volunteers’ Militias in 1960s Soviet Tashkent
09:45 (15 mins)
Zayra Badillo Castro, School of Oriental and African Studies, London  
Remembering Baku’s oil barons
10:00 (15 mins)
Leyla Sayfutdinova, University of St Andrews  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonIntellectuals as Memory Generators – Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions, and PeopleSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgIntellectuals as Memory Generators – Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions, and People
Chair: Rigels Halili
Discussant: Adam Kola
James Watt South Room 355
The millennium of Christianity and the Croatian narrative of the origins
09:00 (15 mins)
Agata Domachowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń  
Illyrian or Pelasgian? – cementing the theory of the Albanians’ origin in communist Albania and Kosovo.
09:15 (15 mins)
Rigels Halili, University of Warsaw  
The (post)Soviet anniversaries regarding the legacy of Kievan Rus’. Change, continuity, and the influence of the intellectuals
09:30 (15 mins)
Łukasz Gemziak, Nicolaus Copernicus University  
What were the origins of the Bulgarian alphabet? Discussions around the 1100th anniversary of the Moravian Mission in socialist Bulgaria
09:45 (15 mins)
Ewelina Drzewiecka, Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre, BAS  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonRussian domestic politics – institutions and informationSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRussian domestic politics – institutions and information
Chair: David Smith
East Quad Lecture Theatre
Norilsk and Nornickel: Local Government-Business Relations in a Russian Monotown
09:00 (15 mins)
Miriam Pollock, University College London  
Russia’s ontological (in)security: domestic values versus external enemies
09:15 (15 mins)
Federica Prina, University of Glasgow  
War for children: the dynamics of militarism and anti-militarism in Russia
09:30 (15 mins)
Kasia Kaczmarska, University of Edinburgh  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonNew Directions in World War II HistorySession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgNew Directions in World War II History
Chair: Hugh Davie
Humanities Lecture Theatre 255
Fatherland or Motherland? Banat German Rural Ascriptions of National Belonging in the Romanian Banat under the Aegis of National Socialism (1940-1944)
09:00 (15 mins)
David Borchin, ULBS - ISCI  
Jan Patočka, Philosophical Production, and the Freiburg Idyll.
09:15 (15 mins)
David Aitken, McGill University  
The national motor vehicle fleet and the Red Army during the German-Soviet War 1941-1945
09:30 (15 mins)
Hugh Davie, University of Wolverhampton  
War, Fun, and the Yugoslav Partisans
09:45 (15 mins)
Iva Jelusic, Christian Michelsen Institute  
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2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/London'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavalsSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.org'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavals
Chair: Anna Shadrina
Main Building Room 466
"Why do I keep seeing terrible inequality?" Politicisation and invisible dissent of teenage women in the post-war USSR
09:00 (15 mins)
Ella Rossman, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies  
“Always in My Hands…”: Smartphones Use by the Ukrainian Refugees children
09:15 (15 mins)
Natalia Khvorostianov, Ben Gurion University, Negev  
From Infrapolitical Resistance to Political Rebellion: Trajectories of Dissent and Dynamics of Contention in Montenegro's Antibureaucratic Revolution
09:30 (15 mins)
Bojan Baca, University of Gothenburg  
From small acts of defiance to organised protests: older people exercising social, economic and political citizenship Belarus
09:45 (15 mins)
Anna Shadrina, UCL SSEES  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonSocialist and Communist Experiences of Women's Liberation in the West and the East, 1907-1930Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgSocialist and Communist Experiences of Women's Liberation in the West and the East, 1907-1930
Chair: Daria Dyakonova
McIntyre Room 201
A Liberal Feminist in an Early Soviet Working-Class Neighborhood: Medical Policing, Expertise and Gender Across the 1917 Revolutionary Divide
09:00 (15 mins)
Pavel Vasilyev  
The Zhenotdel and veiled women in 1920s Uzbekistan.
09:15 (15 mins)
Anne McShane  
Women and Men within the Communist International: the Complex experiences of Communist Women in the East and the West, 1920-1924.
09:30 (15 mins)
Daria Dyakonova, International University in Geneva  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonRussia’s Natural Environment: Epistemologies and MaterialitiesSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRussia’s Natural Environment: Epistemologies and Materialities
Chair: TBC TBC
McIntyre Room 208
Amber crafting in Russia: informality, precarity, and temporality
09:00 (15 mins)
Daria Kurikhina, Freie Universität Berlin  
Contentious Politics in Putin's Russia: Environmental Struggles as a Key Platform and the Case of Shies
09:15 (15 mins)
Maria Chiara Franceschelli, Scuola Normale Superiore  
Vulnerability: the half-baked concept in Russia’s climate change discourse. A case study in Moscow, Russia
09:30 (15 mins)
Aliaksandr Ilyukevich, King's College London  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonThe (neo)imperial imaginaries of nature and environment in contemporary Russian mediaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgThe (neo)imperial imaginaries of nature and environment in contemporary Russian media
Chair: Kate Tomashevskaia
Fore Hall
Ecocritical Geopolitics in the Time of War: Chornobyl/Chernobyl as a Post-Humanist Site
09:00 (20 mins)
Mika Perkiömäki, University of Helsinki / Tampere University  
Snow Maidens and Cold Bodies in Sakha Horror
09:20 (20 mins)
Natalya Khokholova, Kyrgyz Aviation Institute  
The (Neo-)Imperial Imaginary of the Arctic in Recent Russian Film
09:40 (20 mins)
Adelaide McGinity-Peebles, University of Nottingham  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonReflections of Affective Experience in Latvian Poetry and Life WritingSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgReflections of Affective Experience in Latvian Poetry and Life Writing
Chair: Artis Ostups
James Watt South Room 375
Affect and Time in Inara Verzemnieks’ Memoir "Among the Living and the Dead"
09:00 (20 mins)
Artis Ostups, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia  
Accumulating Negative Affects: The Diaries of the Soviet Latvian Film Director Gunārs Piesis
09:20 (20 mins)
Janis Ozolins, Art Academy of Latvia  
Ugly Feelings of the Soviet Latvian Underground Queer Poet
09:40 (20 mins)
Karlis Verdins, University of Latvia  
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2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonQueer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and LawSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgQueer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and Law
Chair: Margarita Vaysman
Gilbert Scott Room 356
1990s Lesbian Journals and Ancient Greece: Seeking a Russian Queer Aesthetic
09:00 (15 mins)
Georgina Barker, UCL  
a cinematic experiment in russian homonationalism: desiring the ‘non-russian’ masculine body in Olga Stolpovskaya’s You I Love
09:15 (15 mins)
Misha Yakovlev, Film and Television, University of Warwick  
A Crisis of Identity: The Bisexual Russian-Ukrainian-Romany Throuple in Faina Grimberg’s Novella Mavka (2001)
09:30 (15 mins)
Charlotte Dowling, University of Oxford  
How “European” Were Imperial Russian Laws Against Homosexuality?
09:45 (15 mins)
Nick Mayhew, University of Glasgow  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonThe First World War in the Caucasus and Central AsiaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgThe First World War in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Chair: Jo Laycock
Discussant: Alexander Marshall
Gilbert Scott Room 253
Displacement, Refugees, and Russian Imperial Policies during the First World War in the Caucasus
09:00 (20 mins)
Asya Darbinyan, Clark University  
Refugee Relief and Displacement in Turkestan During the First World War
09:20 (20 mins)
Hanna Matt, University of Manchester  
What the papers said – Turkestan newspapers in the First World War years
09:40 (20 mins)
Roman Osharov, University of Oxford  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonSecurity through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in Central Eastern European and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgSecurity through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in Central Eastern European and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society
Chair: Bettina Bruns
Gilbert Scott Room 250
Assembling the war: Everyday practices of militarization before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Groningen  
Living on a Mental Frontline. The Use of War Veterans in Russian Patriotic Education
09:15 (15 mins)
Elena Racheva, University of Oxford, Department of Sociology  
The history of battles and victories: approaching the history of Russia thought the Russian National Atlas (2004-2008).
09:30 (15 mins)
Sofya Gavrilova, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonPolitics of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Self-FashioningSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPolitics of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Self-Fashioning
Chair: Benjamin Musachio
James Watt South Room 361
Evgenii Evtushenko as the Soviet Bard of Cuba
09:00 (30 mins)
Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University  
Greek literature in Mariupol in the 1930s?
09:30 (30 mins)
Panayiotis Xenophontos, University of Oxford  
'The Lake School' in Moscow of the 1930s: Self-fashioning and Intellectual Autonomy at IFLI (1931-1941)
10:00 (30 mins)
Peter Budrin , Queen Mary University of London  
Touring Writers and Performed Literary Personalities
10:30 (30 mins)
Angelos Theocharis, Durham University  
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonRussian domestic politics – ideas, ideology, and propagandaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRussian domestic politics – ideas, ideology, and propaganda
Chair: Ruth Deyermond
Melville Room
A Historical Catechism of the Putin Era: The Official Version of Russia’s History and Its Political Significance
09:00 (15 mins)
Marcin Skladanowski, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin NIP 712-016-10-05  
Patriotism as Populism: Memory and Identity in (non)contemporary Russia
09:15 (15 mins)
Victor Apryshchenko, Bard College  
The Dark Carnival: Bakhtin, Schmitt and Russia's War against Ukraine.
09:30 (15 mins)
David Lewis, University of Exeter  
Organizations with foreign agent status in Russia: mechanisms of repression and practice of activity (empirical research 2019-2021)
09:45 (15 mins)
Magdalena Lachowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan  
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2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonRussian migrants' anti-war activismSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRussian migrants' anti-war activism
Chair: Regina Smyth
Turnbull Room
Choosing Between Prison or Exile: Russian Activists Abroad after the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Elizabeth Plantan, Stetson University  
Democracy in Exile? Trajectories of Russian Anti-War Migrants in Eurasia
09:15 (15 mins)
Margarita Zavadskaya, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)  
Pro-democracy activism by Russian migrants in Germany and Georgia in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Tatiana Golova, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)  Tsypylma Darieva, ZOiS, Centre for East European and international studies  
 Discussing Pål Kolstø's new book Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church (Cambridge University Press 2022)
09:00 (90 mins)
Chair: Pål Kolstø, Norway
Ulrich Schmid, Switzerland
Ruth Coates, UK
Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, UK
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonCentral European Literatures and Cultures Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgCentral European Literatures and Cultures
Chair: Zsuzsanna Varga
Main Building Room 134
Peripheral Enlightenment: Reading the first Slovak novel as a world classic
09:00 (15 mins)
Dobrota Pucherova, Inst. of World Lit., Slovak Academy of Sciences  
Multilingual Pest-Buda: Hungarians, Serbs and Germans in literature in 1800
09:15 (15 mins)
Zsuzsanna Varga, Editor, Slavonica  
Between Self-Aggrandizement and Self-Deprecation: Czech and Hungarian Fin de Siècle Orientalisms in Comparative Perspective
09:30 (15 mins)
Dmitrii Kuvshinov  
 Russia’s Development from Electoral to Closed Authoritarianism: Implications for Research
09:00 (90 mins)
Chair: Matthew Blackburn, Poland
Bo Petersson, Sweden
Geir Flikke, Norway
Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Sweden
Karen-Anna Eggen, Norway
2023-04-02 09:00:002023-04-02 10:30:00Europe/LondonThe boundaries of Slavonic lexicography: new approaches to words, phrases and collocationsSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgThe boundaries of Slavonic lexicography: new approaches to words, phrases and collocations
Chair: Shamil Khairov
Robing Room
Multilingual dictionary of phraseme construcions and its didactic potential
09:00 (15 mins)
Anna Pavlova, University Mainz  
Polish ethnolinguistic lexicography: problems and methods
09:15 (15 mins)
Oleksiy Yudin, Ghent University  
Какие словари нужны изучающим славянские языки? Формат и перспективы двуязычного тематического словаря «Russian for All Occasions»
09:30 (15 mins)
Shamil Khairov, University of Glasgow  
Русский язык в международной базе данных англицизмов «GLAD»
09:45 (15 mins)
John Dunn, University of Glasgow  
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2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonWhen societies (re-)create: Youth(ful) ideas and nascent politics in the South CaucasusSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgWhen societies (re-)create: Youth(ful) ideas and nascent politics in the South Caucasus
Chair: Sofie Bedford
Discussant: Sofie Bedford
James Watt South Stephenson Room
Social media, ‘imaginary collectivity’ and individualities of political activism in Azerbaijan
11:00 (15 mins)
Najmin Kamilsoy, Charles University  
The Shame Movement in the Context of Georgia’s 30 years of Transformation: A Gramscian Analysis of Civil Society
11:15 (15 mins)
Nino Khelaia, Georgian Insitute of Public Affairs  
Bringing the lyrical to the political: The socio-political landscape in the Southern Caucasus through the lens of young people
11:30 (15 mins)
Veronika Pfeilschifter, Institute for Caucasus Studies   
Women’s Movement Perspective in Post-Revolutionary Armenia
11:45 (15 mins)
Olga Azatyan, Yerevan State University  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonPolitical partiesSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPolitical parties
Chair: TBC TBC
James Watt South Room 355
Post-Communist Far-Right under Transformation? Romanian and Bulgarian far-right since 2014
11:00 (15 mins)
George Kordas, Panteion University of Social and Political Scienc  
Troublemakers and Game Changers: Political Parties and the Halt of Democratic Backsliding in Bulgaria
11:15 (15 mins)
Sergiu Gherghina, University of Glasgow  
Singling Out the Collective: Collective Leadership, Electoral Performance and Organisational Development in the Cases of Lewica Razem in Poland and Zdruzena Levica in Slovenia
11:30 (15 mins)
Petar Bankov, University of Glasgow  
Understanding political theories and legal doctrines to justify political party prohibition
11:45 (15 mins)
Bohdan Bernatskyi, European University Institute  
 Researching in the Former Soviet Union. Stories From the Field.
11:00 (90 mins)
Chair: Jasmin Dall'Agnola, United States
Andrea Peinhopf, UK
Ruta Skriptaite, UK
Rasa Kamarauskaite, UK
Abigail Karas, UK
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonPerspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet UnionSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPerspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Chair: Claire Shaw
Discussant: Susan Grant
Humanities Lecture Theatre 255
‘The Fullness and Richness of “Man Himself”’: Diversity of the Body in the Stalin Era
11:00 (20 mins)
Claire Shaw, University of Warwick  
Cinema, Psychiatry and the Neurological Gaze in the Early Soviet Union
11:20 (20 mins)
Anna Toropova, University of Warwick  
Swaddled minds: ‘National character’, Soviet babies and authority in ‘The People of Great Russia’ (1949)
11:40 (20 mins)
Hannah Proctor, University of Strathclyde  
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2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonNew perspectives on the Russian Civil WarSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgNew perspectives on the Russian Civil War
Chair: Sam Foster
Main Building Room 466
Civil War and Gossip. Monument to Judas Iscariot in Sviyazhsk, 1918
11:00 (15 mins)
Bartek Gajos, Mieroszewski Centre  
Demobilization in the Mobilizational State: The End of the Civil War Red Army, 1920-21
11:15 (15 mins)
Thomas Stevens, University of Pennsylvania  
Diverging Paths?: The South Slavic Left and Revolutionary Russia before 1922
11:30 (15 mins)
Samuel Foster, University of East Anglia  
Historical-Revolutionary Museums in Russia: Projects and Implementation before and after 1917
11:45 (15 mins)
Nikolay Sarkisyan, University of Oxford  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonConflict, communication, and politics in the CaucasusSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgConflict, communication, and politics in the Caucasus
Chair: Gulshan Pashayeva
McIntyre Room 201
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: failure to understand leading to the failure to resolve
11:00 (15 mins)
Murad Muradov, Azerbaijan Investment Holding  
The Joint Russian-Turkish Monitoring Centre in the framework of Turkey’s security policies in the South Caucasus
11:15 (15 mins)
Simona Scotti, Topchubashov Center  
Towards the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty: undeniably, challenging road ahead
11:30 (15 mins)
Gulshan Pashayeva, Center of Analysis of International Relations  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonRepresentation of gender and body in the Soviet cultureSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRepresentation of gender and body in the Soviet culture
Chair: Veselina Dzhumbeva
McIntyre Room 208
Fashioning the Social Role of Soviet Women on Stagnation Screens
11:00 (15 mins)
Natasha Vinnikova, University of the Arts London  
Images of Internationalism: Gender, Ethnicity, and Relationships at University in Vladimir Rogovoi’s Balamut (The Meddler, 1979)
11:15 (15 mins)
Serian Carlyle, UCL  
Nudity in the USSR during the Thaw:  the censorship frameworks
11:30 (15 mins)
Ekaterina Vikulina  
Screening East European sexualities. Queer time and space in 'Brothers of the Night'
11:45 (15 mins)
Izabella Wodzka, University College London  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonTransformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgTransformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Chair: Andreja Mesaric
Fore Hall
Gender Policies Towards Muslim Men in Socialist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
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Ivan Simic, Charles University  
Muslim reformism: An unexpected influence on Yugoslav communist gender discourses
11:15 (15 mins)
Andreja Mesarič, Faculty of Arts, Charles University  
Population Politics and Nation-Building: Migrations of Turkish and Muslim Populations from Bulgaria to Turkey (1925-1939)
11:30 (15 mins)
Slavka Karakusheva, Independent researcher  
Socialist Transformation of Muslim Girls Education in Yugoslavia
11:45 (15 mins)
Jelena Gajic, Charles University  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonVoting and electionsSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgVoting and elections
Chair: John Gould
James Watt South Room 375
An economic offer they cannot refuse! Economic expectations on incumbent government support in Core and Periphery European Countries
11:00 (15 mins)
Andreea Stancea, National School of Political and Administrative St  
Analysis of the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus: long-term factors, short-term triggers and key enabling mechanisms which have led to post-electoral protests.
11:15 (15 mins)
Victoria Leukavets, Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies  
Substituting the Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism: The Case of the Russian Regional Parliamentary Elections in 2021
11:30 (15 mins)
Daniil Romanov, The University of Oxford  
THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN E-VOTING AND ITS SUITABILITY FOR ELECTION
11:45 (15 mins)
Marina Gorbatiuc, The Institute of Legal,Political and Sociological   
Unity and centering as a democracy-building electoral strategy after the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election: An intersectional analysis
12:00 (15 mins)
John Gould, Colorado College  
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2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonPost-Soviet and Post-Memory Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPost-Soviet and Post-Memory
Chair: TBC TBC
Gilbert Scott Room 356
Open System, Closed Outcome?: Kitchen Debates and the Limits of the Fake in Moscow Artistic Circles, 2012 - 2020.
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Kitty Brandon-James, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL  
Buying books online: a curious case of value-making by Russian readers
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Ksenia Papazova, The University of Manchester  
Global Campaigning: The anti-Comics Debate in 1950s Poland
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Ewa Stanczyk, University of Amsterdam  
The Holocaust’s as Ontological Legacy. Polish Jewish writing of the 21 st century
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Katarzyna Zechenter, UCL SSEES  
Coping with the Soviet past in Russian graphic novels
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Annamaria Vass, Debreceni Egyetem (Adószám:17782218)  
 The Future of Ukrainian Children's Literature
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Viktoriia Medvied, UK
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonSecurity through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in CEE and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society (II)Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgSecurity through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in CEE and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society (II)
Chair: Gavrilova Sofia
Gilbert Scott Room 250
How Russian Patriotic Education Was Changed to Support War: Military Masculinity as a Hegemonic Discourse and Practices of Resistance
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Jonna Alava, University of Helsinki  
Forging Frontline Russians: Militarized Patriotism and Identity Policy in Occupied Ukraine
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Håvard Bækken, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)  
The power of belonging for (para)military security production in Poland
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Bettina Bruns, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonImagining the Orient in the Russian Empire and the Soviet UnionSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgImagining the Orient in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Chair: Angus Russell
Discussant: Vera Tolz
James Watt South Room 361
Between Imagination and Ethnography: Fokine’s The Polovtsian Dances
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Jordan Lian, University of Cambridge  
Centre and periphery in the production of knowledge about Central Asia in the Russian Empire
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Roman Osharov, University of Oxford  
Relics of Orientalism: imperial and anti-imperial museology in early Soviet Tashkent
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Mollie Arbuthnot, Jesus College  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonBorder in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe ISession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgBorder in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe I
Chair: Kristine Beurskens
Discussant: Sabine von Loewis
Melville Room
A Un/Bordered Nation: Ukraine’s new “flickering diaspora” and its “long-distance relationship” with the home country
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Valeria Korablyova, Charles University  
Alter-geopolitics and de-bordering Romania and Poland in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Kathryn Cassidy, Northumbria University  
Peripheral geopolitical orientations: Borderland views on geopolitical questions in Georgia and Hungary
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Gela Merabishvili, ELTE (Eotvos Lorand University)  
Projecting and Experiencing Informational Borders in Eastern Ukraine pre-2022
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Ekaterina Mikhailova, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European   
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Chair: Madeleine Markey, UK
Stella Rock, UK
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonQueer Security and Belonging in Russia and GeorgiaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgQueer Security and Belonging in Russia and Georgia
Chair: Nick Mayhew
Main Building Room 132
"I'd Like to Get Beaten Up": Complexities of Living a Secure Queer Life in Georgia
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David Rypel, UCL SSEES  
“We are still here”: Russian queer parents and migration
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Olga Doletskaya, UCL  
Bisexual Belonging Online: A Case Study of ‘Bi Life Stories’ on Gay.ru
11:30 (15 mins)
Charlotte Dowling, University of Oxford  
Waiting for the revolution: Russian LGBTQ+ activism and belonging in Georgia
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Talia Kollek, University of Oxford, St Catherine's College  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonSocial Values and Norms in the Contemporary RussiaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgSocial Values and Norms in the Contemporary Russia
Chair: Cristian Collina
Main Building Room 134
Growing dependency: changes in public perception of poverty coping strategies in Russia 2011-2021
11:00 (20 mins)
Nina Ivashinenko, University of Glasgow  
Knowledge production about Russia: changes in the center-periphery relations, 1990-2020
11:20 (20 mins)
Katerina Guba  
Tobacco and alcohol consumption and military service over the life course in Russia
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Jamie Edwards, University of Oxford  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonHistory, Reproductive Rights, Social Change. Polish Society in Images and on StreetsSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgHistory, Reproductive Rights, Social Change. Polish Society in Images and on Streets
Chair: Janek Gryta
Gilbert Scott Room 251
New Polish Film and Photography Engaged in the World in Conflict
11:00 (20 mins)
Justyna Budzik, University of Silesia in Katowice  
'The politics of street renaming, the legacies of transition and the material heritage of communist dictatorship in Poland'
11:20 (20 mins)
Ewa Ochman, The University of Manchester  
Women’s Complaint as a window into the Polish society. Legal mobilization against authoritarian backsliding following the Abortion Law
11:40 (20 mins)
Agnieszka Kubal, University College London  
2023-04-02 11:00:002023-04-02 12:30:00Europe/LondonIlluminating Misplaced Archives: Researching Soviet and Post-Soviet Photography in LatviaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgIlluminating Misplaced Archives: Researching Soviet and Post-Soviet Photography in Latvia
Chair: Janis Ozolinš
Discussant: Artis Ostups
Robing Room
Biography of an Archive: Incorporation of Soviet Photo Club Culture into the Canon of Latvian Photography
11:00 (20 mins)
Liga Goldberga, Art Academy of Latvia  
Inherited ways of looking: A Case Study of Aivars Liepiņš photography series "Children's Carehome No. 2. Baldone"
11:20 (20 mins)
Agnese Zviedre, Art Academy of Latvia  
Through the Lens of an Architect: Representation of Modernist and Postmodernist Architecture in Soviet Latvian Photography
11:40 (20 mins)
Ineta Done, Art Academy of Latvia  
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2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonPoles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority PoliticsSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPoles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority Politics
Chair: Alina Nowobilska
James Watt South Stephenson Room
“Every Pole has not only a right, but the duty to return to his country”: Post-war Polish Repatriation from British-occupied Germany
12:45 (20 mins)
Samantha Knapton, University of Nottingham  
Are we in the same boat? How did Polish exiles’ experience of British Imperialism affect their position within the Windrush Generation?
13:05 (20 mins)
Josef Butler, King's College London  
Confronting the Holocaust. The Polish Government-in-Exile's Policy Concerning Jews 1939-1945
13:25 (20 mins)
Piotr Długołęcki, Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych   
Landscapes of Jewish Memory in Poland. Jewish Agency and Memoryscape in Gierek’s Poland.
13:45 (20 mins)
Janek Gryta, University of Wales Trinity Saint David  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonPractices of Inclusion and Exclusion in East-Central Europe before 1939Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPractices of Inclusion and Exclusion in East-Central Europe before 1939
Chair: Paris Pin-Yu Chen
James Watt South Room 355
How to feed the body of your own nation (and to starve the body of another)? Polish women and the National Democratic Party at the beginning of the 20th century
12:45 (15 mins)
Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez, Instytut Slawistyki PAN  
Making something new out of the old? Dilemmas and strategies of the Slovak authorities in the transition period (1919-1920)
13:00 (15 mins)
Etienne Boisserie, Inalco  
School for democracy: co-operation movement as a platform for democratic opposition in Estonia in 1934–1940
13:15 (15 mins)
Liisi Veski, University of Tartu / University of Glasgow  
The Image of Women in the Romanian Sports Press in the Interwar Period
13:30 (15 mins)
Cosmin-Ștefan Dogaru, University of Bucharest  
The missing phase of psychiatric institutionalization and the early attempts at providing care for the mentally ill in nineteenth-century Hungary
13:45 (15 mins)
Janka Kovács, Research Centre for the Humanities  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonPolitics of Waiting. Narratives beyond Wasting Time, and Linear ProgressionSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgPolitics of Waiting. Narratives beyond Wasting Time, and Linear Progression
Chair: Claudia Eggart
East Quad Lecture Theatre
Expectations and Delays: Soviet Mass Housing, Privatization and the Post-Socialist City
12:45 (15 mins)
Lois Kalb, European University Institute  
The (Geo)politics of Waiting and Boredom of Café Routine in Southern Mitrovica (Kosovo)
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Rozafa Berisha, University of Prishtina  
The ‚Not-Yet’ Memorial: Negotiating the Past and Making the City of Tbilisi (Georgia)
13:15 (15 mins)
Laura Maffizoli, University of Manchester  
Waiting as a Way of Living Geopolitics at the Border Triangle between Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania
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Claudia Eggart, Centre for East European and International Studies  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonConstructing Identities: National and Transnational Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgConstructing Identities: National and Transnational
Chair: Sam Foster
Humanities Lecture Theatre 255
Between the Balkans, Mediterranean and Central Europe. Mental Maps in the Memories of the Dalmatian Writer Enzo Bettiza
12:45 (15 mins)
Maciej Czerwinski , Jagiellonian University of Krakow  
Tengrism as a Lived Religion in Kazakhstan and its Role in National Identity Building
13:00 (15 mins)
Abigail Scripka, University of Glasgow  
Memory, Identity, Belonging in Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Autobiographical Novel Warm Arctic Nights (2019)
13:15 (15 mins)
Tetiana Ostapchuk, University College London  
Rethinking Soviet selfhood in the era of the Anthropocene: self, body, environment
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Epp Annus, Tallinn University / Ohio State University  
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2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonGovernment and governanceSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgGovernment and governance
Chair: Yuliya Bidenko
Main Building Room 466
Populist and Liberal Mythology in Polish Political Discourse. In Search of Linguistic Indicators of Mythologisation
12:45 (15 mins)
Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London  
Shift in emphasis: changes in the composition of the Hungarian government 2010-2022
13:00 (15 mins)
Ványi Éva, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (HU-19156972)  
The reconstruction of the Hungarian theatrical sphere – A case study
13:15 (15 mins)
Daniel Beck, Corvinus University of Budapest  
Russian Organized Corrupt Network under Putin regime.
13:30 (15 mins)
Serguei Cheloukhine, John Jay College, CUNY  
 Lessons for Russian Foreign and Security Policy from Russia's War in Ukraine
12:45 (90 mins)
Chair: Kevork Oskanian, UK
Marcin Kaczmarski, UK
Natasha Kuhrt, UK
Ruth Deyermond, UK
Isabell Burmester, Switzerland
Bettina Renz, UK
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonResearch challenges, ethics and data in the time of warSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgResearch challenges, ethics and data in the time of war
Chair: Victoria Hudson
McIntyre Room 208
Libraries Bracing Themselves for a New Ice Age - The Russian War against Ukraine and its Consequences for the Acquisition and Accessibility of Media for Research on Russia and Eastern Europe
12:45 (20 mins)
Juergen Warmbrunn, Herder-Institut Forschungsbibliothek  
Visual Regimes of the Russo-Ukrainian War: From "The Soldiering Self" to Arrested War, and Beyond
13:05 (20 mins)
Roman Horbyk, Örebro University  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonRussian foreign policy – regional activitiesSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRussian foreign policy – regional activities
Chair: Cristian Collina
Fore Hall
Russian Foreign Policy and ontological vectors: a case study of the reversal of priorities as a result of the Euromaidan
12:45 (15 mins)
Eric Pardo Sauvageot, Deusto University   
Central Asia in Russian Foreign Policy Imagination: Before and After the Beginning of the War in Ukraine
13:00 (15 mins)
Kristiina Silvan, Finnish Institute of International Affairs  
Regional Security in Northeast Asia: Responses and Trends in Russian Foreign Policy
13:15 (15 mins)
Nivedita Kapoor  
Russia in the South Pacific
13:30 (15 mins)
Jonathan Ludwig, Oklahoma State University  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonTrade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central AsiaSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgTrade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central Asia
Chair: Tatiana Saburova
James Watt South Room 375
“At the meeting of the nine roads”: Environmental and economic networks at the Karkara fair
12:45 (20 mins)
Jennifer Keating, University College Dublin  
Moving through mountains: Pamir and its mobile subjects under imperial rule
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Malika Zehni, University of Cambridge  
Rivers of the Empire and Land of the Rivers: Waterscape of Semirechie in Russian Exploration and Colonization.
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Tatiana Saburova, Indiana University  
Short Stops and Excursions: Anglo-American Expeditions along the Trans-Caspian Railway up to 1920
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Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University  
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2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonSocial foundations of the war: multiscalar accounts of conflict and political economy Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgSocial foundations of the war: multiscalar accounts of conflict and political economy
Chair: Lisa Gaufman
Discussant: Volodymyr Artiukh
Gilbert Scott Room 356
(Post)War reconstruction of Ukraine: state-society-capital complex, class, sex, gender, and national identity
12:45 (20 mins)
Yuliya Yurchenko, University of Greenwich   
Militarised civil society and the informal economy of war in Ukraine since 2014
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Taras Fedirko, University of Glasgow  
Russian everyday political economy: libidinal perspectives in wartime
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Jeremy Morris, Aarhus Universitet  
Vibes: Political attitudes and media consumption practices of young Russians (prior to the full-scale invasion)
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Armen Aramian, SSEES UCL  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonLegitimation, identity politics, and "war nationalism" in Putin's Russia: strategies and fallout Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgLegitimation, identity politics, and "war nationalism" in Putin's Russia: strategies and fallout
Chair: Mikhail Suslov
Discussant: Pål Kolstø
Gilbert Scott Room 253
Crossing the Rubicon: Continuity and Change in Kremlin Legitimation Strategies (2020-23)
12:45 (15 mins)
Matthew Blackburn, University of Warsaw  
Did Traditionalist Values Help Putin Escape Term Limits in 2020?
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Henry Hale, IERES  
Russia's New "War Nationalism": How Official Nationalist Rhetoric Contributed to Legitimising the Invasion of Ukraine
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Jules-Sergei Fediunin, EHESS  
Traditional Values and Civic Activism
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Regina Smyth, Indiana University  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonContested motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgContested motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)
Chair: Melanie Ilic
Discussant: Melanie Ilic
Gilbert Scott Room 250
“Strong family makes strong Russia.” “Good mothers” and “traditional values” in a militarizing statebstract
12:45 (20 mins)
Yulia Gradskova, Södertörn University  
Maternalism old and new: redefining ‘good-motherhood’ through state awards for Lithuanian mothers of many children
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Ieva Bisigirskaitė, Philology Department, Vilnius University  
Migrant mothers from post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and Caucasus region in Sweden – Practices, values and challenges
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Soheyla Yazdanpanah, Genusvetenskap, Södertörns högskola  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonJoggling with the Transnational: Romanian Humanitarian Networks after Ceausescu's Nationalist TurnSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgJoggling with the Transnational: Romanian Humanitarian Networks after Ceausescu's Nationalist Turn
Chair: Luciana Jinga
James Watt South Room 361
Romania and the Scholarships Programs for African Students during the 1980s
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Stefan Bosomitu, IICCMER  
Romanian Policy in the United Nations towards the Humanitarian Aid in the 80s
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Daniel Filip-Afloarei, New Europe College, IICCMER  
Solving the National-Transnational Paradox in Ceausescu’s Romania: Humanitarian Networks and East-West Relations after 1971
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Dalia Bathory, IICCMER  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonBorder in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe IISession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgBorder in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe II
Chair: Sabine von Loewis
Discussant: Kristine Beurskens
Melville Room
Beekeeping with/out borders in Moldova and Ukraine: Cooperation and Conflict in Defending Carpathian Honeybee Territory
12:45 (20 mins)
Tanya Richardson, Wilfrid Laurier University  
Providing water and power across front lines : the actors, practices and limits of operating critical infrastructure in conditions of insecurity in the war Ukraine (2014-present).
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Sophie Lambroschini, Centre Marc Bloch  
Sensuous Nostalgia: Insecurity in the Borderlands of the Fergana Valley
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Asel Murzakulova, University of Central Asia  
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2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonGlobal Soviet UnionSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgGlobal Soviet Union
Chair: Claudia Lonkin
Turnbull Room
Complimentary Assistance: Exchanges Between Mongolia, the Soviet Union, China and Poland during the Cold War
12:45 (15 mins)
Nikolay Erofeev, University of Oxford  
Fighting for the New East: Soviet international law and self-determination in the Rif War (1921-1926)
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Alexandra Day, Trinity College Dublin  
The Birth of the Soviet Proxy War: International Red Aid, Comintern and Transatlantic Internationalist Movements
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Yevhenii Monastyrskyi, Yale University  
Under the shadow of Aswan: perspectives of economic and technical cooperation between Brazil and the USSR (1962-1964)
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Gianfranco Caterina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonThe 1990s: Societies in transitionSession at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgThe 1990s: Societies in transition
Chair: TBC TBC
Main Building Room 132
Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina
12:45 (15 mins)
Elliot Short, Zinc Network  
Intellectual confrontation with Mečiarism in Slovakia during the 1990s
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Dirk Dalberg, Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Acade  
No Country(side) for Old Men? Landscape Restructuring and the Emergence of New Actors in Post-Socialist, Rural Areas since 1991. A Case Study from Southern Poland.
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Joanna Rozmus, University of Vienna  
The Chimera Parliament: Analysing the Russian Congress of People's Deputies from 1990-1993.
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Jeffrey Hawn, LSE  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonRussian Nationalism and Anti-Globalism Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgRussian Nationalism and Anti-Globalism
Chair: Elisa Kriza
Main Building Room 134
Textual Paratexts in Post-Soviet Russian Literature as a Tool of Representing Russian National Thinking
12:45 (15 mins)
Dmitry Mazalevsky, University of Debrecen HU17782218  
A Critical Assessment of Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Anti-Ukrainianism and Its Legacy since 2014
13:00 (15 mins)
Elisa Kriza, Bamberg University  
The West as Russia's Enemy. Anti-Western and Anti-liberal Narratives in the Prose of Alexander Prokhanov
13:15 (15 mins)
Michał Kołakowski, University of Warsaw  
No peninsula is an island: Aksyonov’s Crimea as a symbolic land
13:30 (15 mins)
Annamaria Vass, Debreceni Egyetem (Adószám:17782218)  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonDecolonial Perspectives Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgDecolonial Perspectives
Chair: Sarah Hudspith
Gilbert Scott Room 251
Neo-Gothic of Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s "Nomer Odin" (2004) and "Chernaia Babochka" (2008) in the Postcolonial Eastern European Context and Intersections with the Ukrainian Example of Andrii Liubka’s "Karbid" (2015).
12:45 (15 mins)
Inna Tigountsova, The Brilliant Club/Researchers in Schools  
Towards a “colonialism without colonies”? Constructing ‘black Africa’ in late Imperial Russia
13:00 (15 mins)
Anita Frison, University of Padua  
Decolonial Practices and the Language of a City at War in Kharkiv, Ukraine
13:15 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Grivina, St Andrews University  
The Russo-Harlem Renaissance: Searching for a Black Voice in Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923), Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Dorothy West's The Living is Easy (1948)
13:30 (15 mins)
Saffy Mirghani, University College London  
2023-04-02 12:45:002023-04-02 14:15:00Europe/LondonNineteenth-Century Literature and Ideas Session at BASEES Annual Conference 2023 https://www.myeventflo.com/eventflo.asp?evID=2462OnlineCharlie Howes, Suzy Howes Associatesconference@basees.orgNineteenth-Century Literature and Ideas
Chair: Aleksandra Gintowt
Robing Room
« Satire and travel writing in Vladimir Sollogoub’s Tarantass »
12:45 (15 mins)
Léandre Lucas, Lille University   
“History, folk tale, poetry everywhere”. Romantic “fashion for Scotland” in the travel memoirs of 19th-century Polish voyagers
13:00 (15 mins)
Aleksandra Gintowt, University of Wrocław  
Transformation in Perception of Knowledge: How Specialization Influenced Mid-19th-Century Russian Intellectual History
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Po-yi Chen, University of Texas, Austin  
A Tale of Three Grandmothers: Božena Němcová’s `Babička' in translation
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Susan Reynolds, British Library  
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