BASEES Annual Conference 2023

Presentation

Fri 31 March

1 April

2 April

[Schedule with Streams only]

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DAY 1

Bute Hall

James Watt South Stephenson Room

James Watt South Room 355

East Quad Lecture Theatre

Senate Room

DAY 1

Main Building Room 466

McIntyre Room 201

McIntyre Room 208

Fore Hall

James Watt South Room 375

DAY 1

Gilbert Scott Room 356

Gilbert Scott Room 253

Gilbert Scott Room 250

James Watt South Room 361

Melville Room

DAY 1

Turnbull Room

Main Building Room 132

Main Building Room 134

Gilbert Scott Room 251

Robing Room

DAY 1

Hunter Hall

DAY 2

11:00

Keynote

Bute Hall

Quo vadis Area Studies amidst Russia‘s War against Ukraine?
11:00 (75 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies

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The New Soviet Person from Late Stalinism to Perestroika

Chair: Juliane Fürst
Discussant: Juliane Fürst

Bute Hall

“Knowledge to the Masses!”: Traveling Lecturers and Molding the New Postwar Soviet Subjects, 1940s-1950s.
12:30 (15 mins)
Iuliia Cherniavskaia, Rutgers State University of NJ

Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Create the New Soviet Person, 1985-1991
12:45 (15 mins)
Courtney Doucette, State University of New York at Oswego

Raising a New Soviet Person on Revolutionary Traditions: The Role of the Older Generation in Communist Upbringing in the 1960s.
13:00 (15 mins)
Alissa Klots, University of Pittsburgh

The holistic approach to male homosexuality under Brezhnev: new evidence
13:15 (15 mins)
Irina Roldugina, University of Pittsburgh

East-Central Europe after 1968

Chair: Helena Trenkic

James Watt South Stephenson Room

Normalization from Below: A Czecho-Slovak Comparison, 1968-69
12:30 (15 mins)
James Krapfl, McGill University

Future Perfect: The Strange Case of East Germany’s “Developed Social System of Socialism,” 1968-1971
12:45 (15 mins)
Alexander Petrusek, Berlin Program/Free University Berlin

Organisational ‘Heroes’ and ‘Anti-Heroes’ in State-Owned Enterprises in Czechoslovakia
13:00 (15 mins)
Anna Soulsby, Nottingham University Business School

Religion on the Margins: Roma People’s Religious Practice during the Communist Rule in Romania
13:15 (15 mins)
Manuela Marin, Lucian Blaga University

Changing Perceptions in EU-EEU Relations: A Driver for Changing Foreign and Defence Policy

Chair: Daniel Göler

James Watt South Room 355

“Zeitenwende”: Sudden Change or Tipping Point of a Long-term Trend of Changing Perceptions?
12:30 (15 mins)
Julian Plottka, University of Passau Florence Ertel, University of Passau

EU-EEU Relations and the Ukraine War – Political Risks, Changing Perceptions, and Management Responses of MNEs
12:45 (15 mins)
Hannes Meissner, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna

Normative power as a Geostrategic Challenge
13:00 (15 mins)
Daniel Göler, University of Passau

Conservativism, religion, and war in Putin's Russia

Chair: Matthew Blackburn
Discussant: Helge Blakkisrud

East Quad Lecture Theatre

Traditional values and family policy as sources of contention in church state relations in Russia
12:30 (15 mins)
Pål Kolstø, University of Oslo

The Concept of a “Just War” in the Russian Political Mainstream since 2014
12:45 (15 mins)
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen

Ecclesiastical Populism in Contemporary Russia: "the People" in the Moscow Patriarchate’s Political Discourse
13:00 (15 mins)
Bojidar Kolov, University of Oslo

Russia’s new illiberal conservatism
13:15 (15 mins)
Katharina Bluhm, Freie Universität Berlin

Energy politics and policy

Chair: Alexandr Akimov

Senate Room

Discussing Japan’s Energy Import Diversification: Can the Russia-Ukraine War be a Catalyst for Change?
12:30 (15 mins)
Kazuto Matsuda, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University

Offshore energy development in the Baltic Sea Region: the geopolitics of transnational renewable infrastructures
12:45 (15 mins)
Mary Keogh, IFZO, University of Greifswald

Russian energy power in Europe and war: positioning, preparing?
13:00 (15 mins)
Ingerid Opdahl, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, NDUC

12:30

Ethnography in the Times of Empires: resources and collections
12:30 (90 mins)

Main Building Room 466

Chair: John Bates, UK
Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, UK
Eleanor Peers, UK
Olga Topol, UK
Anna Malenova, UK

Ukrainian domestic politics

Chair: Valeriya Korablyova Korablyova

McIntyre Room 201

Creating Culture of Recilience: Institutional Composition, Political Actors and Civil Society before and during the War in Ukraine
12:30 (15 mins)
Yuliya Bidenko, Karazin Kharkiv National University

Critical youth in uncertain times: Trust, attitudes to democracy and engagement in independent Ukraine
12:45 (15 mins)
Cressida Arkwright, University of Manchester

The resilience of local elites during Russian invasion: a side effect of institutional decentralization in Ukraine?
13:00 (15 mins)
Oleksiy Bondarenko, University of Warwick

Will the multiple political transformations of Ukrainian society following the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022 help or hinder reform of Ukraine’s governance institutions, post-war?
13:15 (15 mins)
David Dalton, UCL SSEES

Eastern European Processes of Remembering Through Film: Documenting the Past, Archiving the Future

Chair: Diana Popa

McIntyre Room 208

Archiving the “Invisible”: (Dis)Remembering Hungarian Secret Police Through Film
12:30 (15 mins)
Lucy Szemetova, University of St Andrews

Filming Utopia: Soviet Ukrainian Atomohrads Before Chornobyl Accident
12:45 (15 mins)
Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Indiana University

Symbolic responsibility: Holocaust Memory and Radu Jude’s Archival Films
13:00 (15 mins)
Diana Popa, Tallinn University

Printing and Printmaking in Ukraine: Art Traditions and National Identities

Chair: Mollie Arbuthnot
Discussant: Mollie Arbuthnot

Fore Hall

Printmaking at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Early Modern Period
12:30 (15 mins)
Alice Sullivan, Tufts University

From Art Nouveau to Imaging a Nation: Heorhiy Narbut as Arts and Crafts Designer
12:45 (15 mins)
Louise Hardiman, -

Ornamental Constructivism: Elements of Ukrainian Folk Art in the Avant-Garde Experiments of Vasyl Yermilov
13:00 (15 mins)
Katia Denysova, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Intermedial Innovations: The Panfuturists' Book Experiment
13:15 (15 mins)
Lauren Warner-Treloar, Kingston University

Between Aesthetics and Politics: Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Russian Culture.

Chair: Alexandra Smith
Discussant: James Rann

James Watt South Room 375

From Kandagar to Donbass - Svoikh ne brosayem! The Evolution of Afghan Myth through the Prism of Post-Soviet film, literature and popular culture.
12:30 (15 mins)
Marina Aptekman, Tufts University

Russian Writers as Public Intellectuals: Liudmila Ulitskaya and Boris Akunin.
12:45 (15 mins)
Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh

State supervision in the field of education in the Russian Empire: reception of the European experience
13:00 (15 mins)
Mykhailo Honchar, Kherson Academy of Continuing Education

Tatyana Tolstaya in the 2000s: from Soviet Nostalgia to Pandemic Baking
13:15 (15 mins)
Mikhail Vodopyanov, University of St Andrews

12:30

Representing Poles and Jews in Theatre, Literature and Language

Chair: Agnieszka Kubal

Gilbert Scott Room 356

Ghosts, Memories, and Mnemonics: The Theatre of Jewish Absence in Poland
12:30 (20 mins)
Rachel Moss, Boston University

'Her long blanks and darknesses of abstraction were Polish': Faith and faithlessness in DH Lawrence's depictions of Poles
12:50 (20 mins)
Juliette Bretan, University of Cambridge

The Polish language in the UK – prospects and challenges.
13:10 (20 mins)
Edyta Nowosielska, University of Cambridge

From communism to post-communism: Romanian paradoxes

Chair: Stefan Bosomitu

Gilbert Scott Room 253

From one dictatorship to another: Communist Romania and the Chilean refugees crisis
12:30 (20 mins)
Mioara Anton, 'N. Iorga' Institute of History, Romanian Academy

Medical Knowledge, Nutrition and Social Change: An Inquiry into the Politics of Life in Late Socialist Romania
12:50 (20 mins)
Mara Marginean, Romanian Academy, Cluj branch

Moving from Global North to Global South. Romania as Initiator and Beneficiary of Humanitarian Aid (1970-2007)
13:10 (20 mins)
Luciana Jinga, IICCMER

Romania in post-communism: populism, nationalism and nostalgia
13:30 (20 mins)
Daniel Șandru, Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului și Memoria Exilului Românesc

Agencies of/for Democracy

Chair: Maria Chiara Franceschelli

Gilbert Scott Room 250

“Why wave the flag?”: (In)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia
12:30 (15 mins)
Mariya Levitanus, The University of Edinburgh

Stealth Resistance vs Street Protests: The Anti-war Grass-roots Movement in Russia
12:45 (15 mins)
Irina Olimpieva, CISRus

Educational Support to Ukrainian Youth in Kazakhstan 2022
13:00 (15 mins)
Zhamilya Utarbayeva, KIMEP University

Christian Churches and identity-building in contemporary Belarus

Chair: Nikolay Zakharov
Discussant: Paula Borowska

James Watt South Room 361

Churches in the 2020 Elections and Anti-War Protests in Belarus: Raising Voices in the Time of Repression and Turmoil
12:30 (20 mins)
Nikolay Zakharov, Södertörn University

Failure of the "National Church": the Fate of Greek Catholics in independent Belarus
12:50 (20 mins)
Aliaksei Lastouski, European Humanities University

Identity and Policy Issues in the Context of the Internal Discussions in the Belarusian Orthodox Church
13:10 (20 mins)
Sergei Mudrov, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania

Chair: Olena Palko

Melville Room

‘Free from ice, free from Europe’. Romania’s anxieties and a national port in Southern Bessarabia (1860s–1870s)
12:30 (15 mins)
Constantin Ardeleanu, New Europe College, Bucharest

“The mission to connect the East with the West”. Railroad construction projects and controversies (1850s-1860s)
12:45 (15 mins)
Sylvia Marton, New Europe College, Bucharest

Antisemitism at the Intersection of Corruption and Colonialism: Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Political Rhetoric in Interwar Romania
13:00 (15 mins)
Raul Carstocea, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania

The Fantasy of “Jewish Colonialism”: Romania, 1860-1900
13:15 (15 mins)
Andrei Dan Sorescu, New Europe College Institute of Advance Studies

12:30

Class, Gender and Protest

Chair: Rasa Kamarauskaite

Turnbull Room

Gendered Work and Socialist Pasts: Memories and Experiences of Women Repatriates in Germany
12:30 (15 mins)
Alina Jašina-Schäfer, BKGE

New perspective on elite change and elite (re)production after 1989 in Poland. Insights from a study of members of governments.
12:45 (15 mins)
Andrzej Turkowski, University of Warsaw

Music and Memory

Chair: Abby Scripka

Main Building Room 132

Michel Dimitry Calvocoressi’s Activities to Promote Modest Musorgsky’s Legacy in its Authentic Form
12:30 (15 mins)
Vasilisa Aleksandrova

Viktor Tsoi, myth, and memory: The making of an underground hero
12:45 (15 mins)
Caroline Ridler, University of Nottingham

The Acceptance of Bulgarian Voices in Japanese Music: Kenji Kawai’s Music for Science Fiction Films
13:00 (15 mins)
Kieko Kamitake, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Translation and Translingualism

Chair: Stephen Hutchings

Main Building Room 134

Russian Literature Through the English Lens
12:30 (15 mins)
Gaëtan Regniers, Ghent University

“Poetry vs Politics: Precarious Loyalties. Natalya Gorbanevskaya translating Czesław Miłosz from the Polish.”
12:45 (15 mins)
Zakhar Ishov, University of Kansas

(Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic
13:00 (15 mins)
Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester

Church, religion and state before 1914

Chair: Janek Gryta

Gilbert Scott Room 251

“Land of [Caucasian] Albanians” and Albanian church in the Albanian narratives
12:30 (15 mins)
Kamala Imranli-Lowe, University of Oxford

Science and Religion: Russian Sophiology as a New Cosmology
12:45 (15 mins)
Walter Sisto, D'Youville University

Creative use of Language

Chair: Natalia V. Parker

Robing Room

Humour in contemporary cross-media material from Ukraine
12:30 (15 mins)
Khrystyna Monastyrska, Aarhus University

The Stylistics of Horror in Gogol's Early Ukrainian Stories
12:30 (15 mins)
Antonia Pintaric, University of Zadar

Лингвистический портрет глагола « дышать » : семантика и синтаксис.
13:00 (15 mins)
Irina Thomieres, University of la Sorbonne

Subverting meaning: How Russian trolls attempted to reframe the annexation of Crimea through their use of language
13:15 (15 mins)
Maksim Markelov, University of Manchester

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Coffee/Tea in Hunter Hall and James Watt South Building

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Pluralism, Resilience and Societal Survival: Ukraine under Zelensky

Chair: Aadne Aasland
Discussant: Stephen Hall

Bute Hall

Resilience and Cohesion in the Zelensky Team
14:30 (15 mins)
Geir Flikke, University of Oslo

Politico-Military Cohesion and Resilience in Ukraine – the Effects of War
14:45 (15 mins)
Tor Bukkvoll, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Unity on the Paths Forward? Continuity and Divergence among Ukrainian Attitudes on Post-War Priorities
15:00 (15 mins)
Anna Chebotarova, University of Oslo, ILOS Cynthia Buckley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Departure during the War: Migration from Russia in 2022

Chair: Egor Sokolov

James Watt South Stephenson Room

Activism in Emigration: Emotional Experience and Collective Action
14:30 (15 mins)
Egor Sokolov, University of Oxford

Emergency migration from Russia to no-visa countries in March-April 2022: a qualitative study based on the interviews with remotely working professionals
14:45 (15 mins)
Daria Kurikhina, Freie Universität Berlin

Solidarity Between New Russian Migrants: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment
15:00 (15 mins)
Emil Kamalov, European University Institute

(In)visible hierarchies of Soviet and Russia's post-Soviet colonial modernities: Gendered and centre-periphery dynamics

Chair: Anna Kuteleva

James Watt South Room 355

Academic Hierarchies and Public Intellectuals: The Role of Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Philosophy
14:30 (15 mins)
Tatiana Levina, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI

Soviet design beyond Moscow: The professional role of women in the system of regional branches of the VNIITE (1960-80s)
14:45 (15 mins)
Alyona Sokolnikova, Independent scholar

Women in public administration and gendered institutional logics in Russia
15:00 (15 mins)
Valeriya Utkina, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Under Pressure? Nationality, Ideology and Borders in Soviet Political History and Russian Politics

Chair: Matthew Blackburn

East Quad Lecture Theatre

‘Suslov’s 1970s: Detente or Anti-Imperialism? The Last Hurrah of Mikhail Suslov’
14:30 (20 mins)
Alex Marshall, Glasgow University

Beria vs. Khrushchev: The Power Struggle over Nationality Policy and the Case of Latvia
14:50 (20 mins)
Michael Loader, University of Glasgow

The Soviet and post-Soviet borders and symbolic geography of Russian nationalism
15:10 (20 mins)
Alexander Titov, Queen's University Belfast

The Baltic in world politics from the Early Modern to the present

Chair: Charles Clarke

Senate Room

A Fortress Built on Sand: The Duchy of Courland's Engagement with Africa in the Seventeenth Century
14:30 (20 mins)
John Freeman, University of Cambridge

Commerce, neutrality and blockade: lessons from Britain’s relationship with the Baltic Sea Region, 1766-1815
14:50 (20 mins)
Hugo Bromley, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Pouring Swiss wine into an old Russian bottle? The Vilnius conflict in the League of Nations, 1920-1922
15:10 (20 mins)
Donatas Kupciunas, University of Cambridge

“Geopolitics of Sympathy”: George F. Kennan and NATO Enlargement
15:30 (15 mins)
Kaarel Piirimae, University of Helsinki

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Ukrainian Literature and Culture

Chair: Richard Gillies

Main Building Room 466

Sculpting in Time and Sound: Time, Memory, and Motion in the late-Socialist Era
14:30 (15 mins)
Richard Gillies, University of Glasgow

Sick of War: Epidemic Narratives in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
14:45 (15 mins)
Dmytro Yesypenko, University of Alberta

Lesya Ukrainka and the Medical Humanities
15:00 (15 mins)
Melissa Miller, Colby College

Ukraine’s early 20th century urban literature
15:15 (15 mins)
Uilleam Blacker, UCL

Russian Poets in Dialogue

Chair: Katherine Hodgson

McIntyre Room 201

Ida Nappelbaum’s poetic dialogue with Nikolai Gumilev
14:30 (15 mins)
Dave Weller, University of Exeter

Antiworlds: Voznesensky's dialogue with Western Poets
14:45 (15 mins)
Emily Lygo, University of Exeter

Escaping Solitude: Twentieth-Century Russian Poets Speaking to Absent Friends
15:00 (15 mins)
Katharine Hodgson, University of Exeter

Where the Good Begins: A Study of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize
15:15 (15 mins)
Yoonmin Kim, Yale University

Production of strategic narratives and audience perception

Chair: Natalia Moen-Larsen

McIntyre Room 208

Orthodoxy 2.0: Explaining the Online Activity of Religious Bloggers
14:30 (15 mins)
Dragos Samsudean, Babeș-Bolyai University

Remembering the 1993 'Black October' in Russian Documentaries: Politicisation of the Silenced?
14:45 (15 mins)
Roberto Rabbia, King's College London

The reception of Russia’s strategic narratives among Russophone youth in Latvia
15:00 (15 mins)
Emma Rönngren, IRES, Uppsala University

What some will do, others will see: production and perceptions of Russian TV documentaries in 2012-2018.
15:15 (15 mins)
Anastasia Kriachko Roeren, University of Oslo

Climate Adaptation and Knowledge in the Russian Arctic

Chair: Jonathan Oldfield
Discussant: Oleg Anisimov

Fore Hall

Companies, climate adaptation and knowledge in the Russian Arctic
14:30 (15 mins)
Arild Moe, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Official knowledge - Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations
14:45 (15 mins)
Erdem Lamazhapov, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Societal knowledge - perceptions on origins and impacts of climate change in Murmansk
15:00 (15 mins)
Anna Korppoo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

The Uncertain Future of Arctic science - Russian scientific participation in the Arctic Council
15:15 (15 mins)
Serafima Andreeva, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Russian foreign policy – concepts and ideas

Chair: Ruth Deyermond
Discussant: Ruth Deyermond

James Watt South Room 375

“United Russia”: Vladimir Putin’s Securitisation of the Threat to Russia’s Territorial Integrity in Domestic and Foreign Policy
14:30 (15 mins)
Vassily Klimentov, European University Institute

A fragmented state? The patron-client networks and the role of domestic economic actors in Russia's foreign policy
14:45 (15 mins)
Marcin Kaczmarski, University of Glasgow, CEES

Information and Culture as national security policy: evolutions in the rhetoric and reality of Russian foreign policy under Putin
15:00 (15 mins)
Precious Chatterje-Doody, The Open University

The Impact of Neo-Eurasianism on Russia’s Foreign Policy
14:30 (15 mins)
Joachim Diec, Uniwersytet Jagielloński/Jagiellonian University NIP 6750002236

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“East of the West, West of the East”: Narrating Identity and Difference in Modern and Contemporary Polish Prose

Chair: Justyna Budzik

Gilbert Scott Room 356

The Accident of Presence: Zbigniew Herbert’s Polish Traveller in Western Europe
14:30 (15 mins)
Marianna Leszczyk, University of Oxford

Prismatic Emigration in Stefan Themerson and Maria Kuncewicz
14:45 (15 mins)
Ola Sidorkiewicz, University of Oxford

Reimagining the Past Through Literature: Narratorial Creativity and Story-Building in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Dom dzienny, dom nocny” and Artur Daniel Liskowacki’s “Eine kleine”
15:00 (15 mins)
Olga Grochowska, University of Oxford

Investigating "National Form" in Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1953

Chair: Mollie Arbuthnot
Discussant: Claire Roosien

Gilbert Scott Room 253

Redefining Ukrainian National Form after the Soviet Annexation of Western Ukraine, 1939-1941
14:30 (15 mins)
Stefan Lacny, MMLL Faculty, University of Cambridge

Oil and Wool: Handicrafts and “Nationalist in Form, Socialist in Content” in Early Soviet Culture, 1921-1953
14:45 (15 mins)
Sohee Ryuk, Columbia University

Lessons in Revolution on the Western Border: Uprisings in Ukraine and Belarus in 1920s-1930s Soviet Film
15:00 (15 mins)
Pavel Stepanov, University of Cambridge, MMLL

Constructing National Art of Uzbekistan in 1920-1930 in the Context of the National Policy
15:15 (15 mins)
Alexandra Alexandrova

New Perspectives on Dostoevsky

Chair: Marta Łukaszewicz

Gilbert Scott Room 250

The “Comedic Coefficient” in Dostoevsky: Tragicomedy in The Idiot
14:30 (15 mins)
Alina Wyman, New College of Florida

“Imitatio Christi in Dostoevsky’s Demons”
14:45 (15 mins)
Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University

The Problem of Deification in Crime and Punishment
15:00 (15 mins)
Octavian Gabor, Methodist College

Dostoevsky's idea of Russianness: a decolonial critique
15:15 (15 mins)
Sarah Hudspith, University of Leeds

Auditory Autism in Dostoevsky’s Underground Man
15:30 (15 mins)
Daniel Schümann, University of Cologne

Colonial Efforts and the Habsburg Monarchy: Hungarian Perspectives from the Balkans (1867-1918)

Chair: Matyas Erdelyi

James Watt South Room 361

Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Habsburg Colony (1878-1918)
14:30 (15 mins)
Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, Research Centre for the Humanities

Bureaucracy as a Tool of Colonization: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina under Habsburg Rule (1878-1918)
14:45 (15 mins)
Matyas Erdelyi, University of Vienna

From Soft Imperialism to Colonization: Hungary in the Balkans (1867-1914)
15:00 (15 mins)
Gabor Demeter, Research Centre for the Humanities, HAS

Future Spaces: Tourism, Heritage and Architecture

Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova

Melville Room

Classical architecture in Astana: “out of reach” or “neocolonial”?
14:30 (15 mins)
Federico Marcomini, University of Florence, dpt. of Architecture

Investigating Space Heritage for Tourism and Environmental Preservation: A Case Study of Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
14:45 (15 mins)
Guillaume Tiberghien, University of Glasgow

Projecting the Future: Novel Technologies of Spectacle in Astana, Kazakhstan
15:00 (15 mins)
David Gogishvili, University of Lausanne

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Transformations of LGBTQ Politics and Cultures in the Post-socialist Baltic States

Chair: Rasa Navickaite
Discussant: Uladzimir Valodzin

Turnbull Room

Emergence of gay and lesbian community and human rights in Estonia from 1988–1993
14:30 (20 mins)
Rebeka Põldsam, University of Tartu

Retroactive Queerness of Soviet Film in Post-Soviet Lithuania
14:50 (20 mins)
Natalija Arlauskaite, Vilnius University

Transformation and/or revelation of the self in post-socialist Lithuanian queer life-narratives
15:10 (20 mins)
Rasa Navickaite, University of Vienna

Peripheral Histories?: Decolonisation in Eurasian Regions since Spring 2022
14:30 (90 mins)

Main Building Room 132

Chair: Hanna Matt, UK
Olena Palko, Switzerland
Timothy Blauvelt, Georgia
Sophie Qiaoyun Peng, UK
Maria Chiara Franceschelli, Italy
Steve Swerdlow, United States

Book Discussion: Una Bergmane "Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." (OUP, 2023)
14:30 (90 mins)

Main Building Room 134

Chair: Una Bergmane, Finland
David Smith, UK
Mart Kuldkepp, UK
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, UK
Diana Kudaibergenova, UK

Economic development in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe

Chair: Victoria Vdovychenko

Gilbert Scott Room 251

Dependency and modernisation theory. Two paradigms of development in Visegrad Group countries
14:30 (15 mins)
Filip Leśniewicz, Inalco

Impact of service quality on economic development and trade
14:45 (15 mins)
Valery Kuzmenok, Individual entrepreneur

Public debt expectations: the more you know about public debt, the less optimistic you are
15:00 (15 mins)
Andreea Stancea, National School of Political and Administrative St

The New Institutional Economics and Belarus
15:15 (15 mins)
Kacper Wańczyk, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego

Language as Ever-Changing Phenomenon

Chair: Natalia V. Parker

Robing Room

Imperative constructions in Russian everyday speech: a corpus-based pragma-semantic analysis.
14:30 (20 mins)
Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto, Tallinn University School of Humanities

Migrant families in Estonia: Family language policies, Ideologies and Beliefs
14:50 (20 mins)
Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Tallinn University

Историческое развитие русских слов на фоне иноземних влияний
15:10 (20 mins)
Atmoja Bose, University of Delhi

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Authors Meet Critics: "Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires" by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, Cornell University Press, 2022
14:30 (90 mins)

Hunter Hall

Chair: Alex Drace-Francis, Netherlands
Manuela Boatca, Germany
Anca Parvulescu, United States
Mariya Ivancheva, UK
Redi Koobak, UK
Giovanni Picker, UK

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Russia's war on Ukraine (1)

Chair: Yuliya Bidenko

Bute Hall

Modification of the Ukrainians’ image in Polish-language social media after February 24, 2022
16:15 (15 mins)
Bartosz Hordecki, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Andrzej Stelmach, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Where are Russia's soldiers' mothers now?
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Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University

Fighting for a Country: Who was willing to fight for Russia?
16:45 (15 mins)
Roman David, Lingnan University

Studying the Baltic States in Britain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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James Watt South Stephenson Room

Chair: David Smith, UK
Michael Loader, UK
Siobhán Hearne, UK
Rasa Kamarauskaite, UK
John Freeman, UK
Dmitrijs Andrejevs, UK

Developing new forms of collaborations in East-Central Europe

Chair: Sara Zeric

James Watt South Room 355

“For Your Freedom and Ours”: Poland’s Solidarność and the British Left, 1980 – 1989
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Tom Palmer, University of Oxford

French economic policy in interwar Central and Eastern Europe. A reconsideration of Impérialisme du pauvre in Poland
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Jerzy Łazor, Warsaw School of Economics

In Search of the Third Way: The British Left and Yugoslav Self-Management in the 1960s and 1970s
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Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, University of Glasgow

The view of Bosnian (Muslim) diaspora magazines on the state of affairs in Yugoslavia from the 1950s and 1960s
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Omer Merzić, Dobra knjiga

Cold War dinamics, exchanges and mobilities within the Socialist World and beyond

Chair: Irina Nastasa-Matei
Discussant: Alexey Kotelvas

East Quad Lecture Theatre

Academic Exchanges between Romania, East Germany and West Germany during the Cold War
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Irina Nastasa-Matei, University of Bucharest

Cold War on Screen: The Censorship of Foreign Films in Communist Romania
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Alina Popescu, Univeristy of Bucharest

In Solidarity: Cross-regional Socialist Artistic Connections between Countries of the “Socialist Second World”
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Caterina Preda, University of Bucharest

Solidarity Exhibitions in Socialist Romania
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Irina Carabas, University of Bucharest

Literary responses to the Russian Revolution, c. 1905-1930s

Chair: George Gilbert

Senate Room

Memory and fact: Revolution in Marc Aldanov’s novels and essays
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Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, British Library

Political violence in Russian literature, 1905-1914
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Ben Phillips, University of Exeter

'We are socialists. The Russian side is our side': G. B. Shaw on the Russian Revolution
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Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science

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DIY Queers. Self-Made Gender and Sexual Identities in Interwar Poland

Chair: Kamil Karczewski
Discussant: Hadley Renkin

Main Building Room 466

‘Never has any “minority” been as oppressed as this one’: Homoerots as Poles in the Empire of the Straight
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Kamil Karczewski, Institute of Historical Research

Ambiguous Descent: Bronisława Staszel-Polankowa and the Queering of Highlander Identity
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Katherine Lebow, University of Oxford

Fashioning Jewish gay self-identities in interwar Poland
16:55 (20 mins)
Piotr Laskowski, University of Warsaw

Did ‘Western’ academia get the war wrong? Blindspots, learning curves and ethical futures following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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McIntyre Room 201

Chair: Natasha Kuhrt, UK
Stephen Hall, UK
Precious Chatterje-Doody, UK
Ruth Deyermond, UK
Anna Chebotarova, Norway

“Sensory Afterlives of the War Violence in (Former) Yugoslavia. Artistic Responses”

Chair: Zala Pavšič
Discussant: Katarina Ristic

McIntyre Room 208

Caught in a net of military logic. Adela Jušić`s video artwork Snajperist (The Sniper, 2007)
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Zeljana Tunic, Martin Luther Unversity of Halle-Wittenberg

The Memorial Centre “Lipa Remembers”: Metamusealogical strategies in narrating the history
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Nataša Jagdhuhn, KontextSchule

'We might fall through.' Stuck in the Abyss of the Past
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Linda Paganelli, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität

Agents of Internationalism in Central and Eastern Europe during Late Socialism

Chair: James Krapfl
Discussant: Angela Romano

Fore Hall

Arms Dealing in Normalization-era Czechoslovakia in Three Biographies
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Rosamund Johnston, Research Center for the History of Transformations

Beyond bilateralism? Economic and technical cooperation in the Non-Aligned Movement
16:35 (20 mins)
Anna Calori, University of Vienna

Shades of ‘Red’: Solidarity with the Native American Sovereignty Movement in Late Cold War Central Europe
16:55 (20 mins)
Gyorgy Toth, University of Stirling

The European Union – politics, policy, and law

Chair: Victoria Vdovychenko

James Watt South Room 375

Reassessing Post-Socialist Legal Development: The Politics of Unevenness, Imitation, and Re-Traditionalization
16:15 (15 mins)
Cristian Collina, Department of Law University of Turin

Securitization of the Neighbourhood: From Discourse Creation to Narrative Contestation on European Neighbourhood Policy: EU Driven Framing Projections on Partner Countries in South and East
16:30 (15 mins)
Tamar Gamkrelidze, College of Europe

Strategic Sovereignty, Strategic Autonomy, and the EU - Towards Federalization or a Union of States?
16:45 (15 mins)
Galina Yakova, Freelance Researcher & Lecturer

War in Ukraine and the Death of Normative Power Europe
17:00 (15 mins)
Kamil Zwolski, University of Southampton

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Revising the Russian Canon

Chair: Isabel Jacobs

Gilbert Scott Room 356

Global Russian Literature in the Time of War: Reformatting the Paradigm
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Roman Katsman, Bar-Ilan University

Publications in Russian Literature over 1990-2020: Authors, Topics and Figures
16:30 (15 mins)
Angelika Tsivinskaya

The history of Russian literature between the Golden and Silver ages: the chrononyms issue
16:45 (15 mins)
Anastasia Kozyreva, Inalco

Взросление в романах Гайто Газданова «Вечер у Клэр» и «Полёт»
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Maria Turgieva, Sorbonne Université

Revisiting Room 101: Understanding State Violence in Early Soviet Literature

Chair: Muireann Maguire
Discussant: James Ryan

Gilbert Scott Room 253

From 'Chocolate' to 'Darkness at Noon': Recognizing the Soviet Carceral System in Inter-War Europe
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Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter

Marx’s White Shirt: Vladimir Zazubrin’s The Chip (1923) and the Boundaries of Early Soviet Literature
16:30 (15 mins)
James Ryan, Cardiff University

Revisiting the Warrior Women of Early Soviet Literature: Gender, Violence, and Revolution
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Lara Green, Erasmus University

Sanatoriina Zona as a panopticon of state violence in early Soviet Ukrainian literature
17:00 (15 mins)
Olena Palko, University of Basel

Public Attitudes and Collective Mobilisation

Chair: Hugh Davie

Gilbert Scott Room 250

Azov and Far-Right Parties in Ukraine
16:15 (15 mins)
Lenka Bustikova Siroky, University of Oxford

Should all Russians be blamed for Russia’s war in Ukraine? Public opinion in Norway on relations with Russia and Russians
16:30 (15 mins)
Aadne Aasland, NIBR, Oslo Metropolitan University

Negationism of international crimes. Official Russian response to reports of war crimes committed by the Russian army or occupation authorities in Ukraine.
16:45 (15 mins)
Lukasz Adamski, Mieroszewski Centre

The urgency of contemporary post-Soviet popular music: Politics and aesthetics
16:15 (90 mins)

Melville Room

Chair: David-Emil Wickström, Germany
Ann Werner, Sweden
Elizaveta Gaufman, Netherlands
Ekaterina Ganskaya, Italy
Ondrej Daniel, Czech Republic

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Alternative scenarios for a future Russia across 1917

Chair: Virginia Pili

Turnbull Room

Searching for a New Identity? Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945.
16:15 (20 mins)
Zbynek Vydra, University of Pardubice

Germany's Attempts at Organising an Uprising of Oppressed Peoples of Russia in 1915-1916
16:35 (20 mins)
Mart Kuldkepp, UCL (University College London)

Laughing at “the Enemies of the People:” Narratives of Denunciation in Krokodil (1928-1929)
16:55 (15 mins)
Alina Amvrosova, Boston University

Crime Fiction and Prison Culture

Chair: Juliette Bretan

Main Building Room 132

Criminal Matters: Exploring Human Remains in Late Imperial Russian Detective Fiction
16:15 (15 mins)
Grace Docherty, Russian Department, University of St Andrews

Female Crime Writers in Late Imperial Russia: The Cases of Aleksandra Sokolova and Kapitolina Nazar’eva
16:30 (15 mins)
Claire Whitehead, University of St Andrews

What’s in a Word?: Russian Prison Slang Dictionaries, an Overview
16:45 (15 mins)
Alex Maxwell, University of Virginia

From Bamlag to Ukraine: Intersections of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Context of Punishment, 1930S - 2023.

Chair: Yuliya Brin

Main Building Room 134

Ghosts of the Gulag: Negotiating Specters of the Penal Past in Northern Russia
16:15 (15 mins)
Gavin Slade, Nazarbayev University

Forced-labour Camp as a Site of the Nation Building? Bamlag’s Cultural-Education Department and Ethnic Minority Prisoners, 1930-1934.
16:30 (15 mins)
Mikhail Nakonechnyi, University of Helsinki

Governance, ethnicity, and language in Baltic prisons.
16:45 (15 mins)
Olga Zeveleva, University of Helsinki

Prisons, Patriotism and State formation in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
17:00 (15 mins)
Judith Pallot, Christ Church

Economic development in Russia

Chair: Alexandr Akimov

Gilbert Scott Room 251

Russian SOEs abroad after February 2022 – sanction evasion strategies
16:15 (30 mins)
Karel Svoboda, Charles University

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Interests of the GCC Hydrocarbon Producers
16:45 (30 mins)
Nikolay Kozhanov, Qatar University

Language Pedagogy and Linguistics

Chair: Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, Anna

Robing Room

Teaching winged phrases from Soviet films in the Russian-as-a-foreign-language classroom: challenges and opportunities
16:15 (20 mins)
Natallia Kabiak, The University of Melbourne

The Corpus-Based Russian Economics Word List: Technical Vocabulary in Languages for Special Purposes
16:15 (20 mins)
Mikhail Kamrotov Ekaterina Talalakina, Tampere University

The Role of Gender in the Acquisition of Russian Case
16:55 (20 mins)
Natalia V. Parker, University College London

4:15:

Book Discussion: Alex Drace-Francis, The Making of Mamaliga (Central European University Press, 2022)
16:15 (90 mins)

Hunter Hall

Chair: Alex Drace-Francis, Netherlands
Cathie Carmichael, UK
Constantin Ardeleanu, Romania

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