BASEES Annual Conference 2024

Presentation

Fri 5 April

6 April

7 April

[Schedule with Streams only]

There are 22 rooms - drag the view left and right to see more

DAY 1

Auditorium

Auditorium Lounge

CWB Plenary Room

CWB Syndicate 1

CWB Syndicate 2

DAY 1

CWB Syndicate 3

Games Room

Garden Room

JCR

Linnett Room

DAY 1

Selwyn Diamond Suite

Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Selwyn Walters Room

DAY 1

Seminar Room

Teaching Room 4

Teaching Room 5

Teaching Room 6

Teaching Room 7

DAY 1

Teaching Room A

Teaching Room B

DAY 2

11:00

Plenary Session

Auditorium

Professor Olga Onuch,'Ukraine Rises & We Must Too: An Analytical Call to Action'
11:00 (60 mins)
Olga Onuch, University of Manchester

11:00

11:05

11:10

11:15

11:20

11:25

11:30

11:35

11:40

11:45

11:50

11:55

12:00

12:05

12:10

12:15

Lunch from 12:00

12:15

12:20

12:25

12:30

12:35

12:40

12:45

A Victory for Ukraine: International context and implications

Chair: Mykola Kapitonenko
Discussant: Viktor Konstantynov

Auditorium

Defining Ukraine’s Victory in a War against Russia
12:45 (15 mins)
Mykola Kapitonenko, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

Postcolonial and de-colonial approaches to the explanation of Ukraine’s victory aspirations
13:00 (15 mins)
Olena Khylko, Fac.of Social & Econ.Sciences, Comenius University

A final battle: will Ukraine’s victory set the natural borders of Single Europe?
13:15 (15 mins)
Viktor Konstantynov, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

A Victory of Ukraine and Beyond. Reinventing World Order after the Russian-Ukrainian War.
13:30 (15 mins)
Yaroslava Shvechykova-Plavska, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Energy politics

Chair: Victoria Hudson

Auditorium Lounge

‘Playing with fire’: implications of Russia’s occupation of Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plants for the global nuclear order
12:45 (15 mins)
Anna Davis (née Davidson), University of Oxford

The Distributional Effects of the EU’s Climate Policy in Central Asia
13:00 (15 mins)
Morena Skalamera, Leiden University

The Evolution of Russia's Discursive Politics of Energy: Identity and Normative Shifts in the Aftermath of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
13:15 (15 mins)
Anna Kuteleva, University of Wolverhampton

Between Peripheries and Frontiers: Moral Communities and Historical Imagination on the Social Margins

Chair: Victoria Fomina
Discussant: Victoria Donovan

CWB Plenary Room

Enclaves, peripheries, margins: Urban policies and Romani social exclusion
12:45 (20 mins)
Ana Chiritoiu, Uppsala University

Frontier Eradications and Terraforming in the Siberian Arctic
13:05 (20 mins)
Anastasia Ulturgasheva, IRES, Uppsala University

Severed Roots: Contested Memories and Historical Imagination on the Amur River
13:25 (20 mins)
Victoria Fomina, University of St Andrews

The Many Legacies of Antisemitism

Chair: Alya Legeyda

CWB Syndicate 1

"I could read every piece of literature on the Holocaust and still not have the comprehensive understanding that I have gained from this trip": The Performance of Memory and Spatial Encounters with Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1955-2000
12:45 (15 mins)
Beatrice Leeming, University of Cambridge

Continuity of Anti-Jewish Violence in Galicia Before and After the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, 1918
13:00 (15 mins)
Jan Kutilek, University of Pardubice

From a Broken to a Hostile Neighbourship: German-Jewish relations in Timişoara during the Second World War
13:15 (15 mins)
David Borchin, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu - ISCI

Polish-Jewish Émigrés and the Making of Cold War Soviet Studies: The Parallel Lives of Richard Pipes and Moshe Lewin
13:30 (15 mins)
Kai Johann Willms, University of Basel

Art and Culture Post Stalin

Chair: Marina Korneeva

CWB Syndicate 2

Between Orientalism and Universalism: A Global Perspective on the Popularization of Body-Oriented Yoga Practices in the People's Republic of Poland 1956-1970
12:45 (15 mins)
Ulrike Lang, TU Dresden, Institute of Slavic Studies

Between Suppression and Empowerment: The Paranormal in Socialist Poland
13:00 (15 mins)
Monika Bednarczuk, University of Bialystok

Make It Polemical: The Literary Debates in the Official Soviet Press of the 1960s
13:15 (15 mins)
Elizaveta Dvortsova, University of Southern California

Rehabilitating the Avant-Garde: The Legacy of Soviet Modernist Photography in the 1950s and 1960s
13:30 (15 mins)
Jessica Werneke, The University of Iowa

Музыка А. Г. Шнитке к пушкинской трилогии А. Ю. Хржановского: синтез прошлого и настоящего
13:45 (15 mins)
Megumi Hanya, Personal capacity

12:45

Looking Forward, Moving Forward – Decoloniality, Being, and Imagining Alternative Futures for Central Asia
12:45 (90 mins)

CWB Syndicate 3

Selbi Durdiyeva, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps University Marburg
Elmira Kakabayeva, Independent Researcher
Nodira Kholmantova, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge
Olga Mun, University of Oxford
Almira Tabaeva, Nazarbayev University

Economic and Industrial Exchanges During and After the Cold War

Chair: Alexei Kojevnikov

Games Room

Financing foreign policy: UK banks’ involvement in Central and Eastern Europe during the development of the 1981–82 sovereign debt crisis
12:45 (15 mins)
Catherine Lefevre, University of Glasgow

Joint construction projects of Comecon member-countries: industrial complex in Darkhan, Mongolia, 1962-1970
13:00 (15 mins)
Nikolay Erofeev, University of Kassel

No Country(side) for Old Men? Landscape Restructuring and Doing Business in Post-Socialist, Rural Areas since the 1990s. A Case Study from Southern Poland.
13:15 (15 mins)
Joanna Rozmus, University of Vienna

The ‘Ural’ Moskvich: the Soviet military-industrial complex’s Udmurt car factory
13:30 (15 mins)
John Kennedy, European University Institute

Reconsidering the Political in Soviet History

Chair: Timothy Blauvelt
Discussant: Timothy Blauvelt

Garden Room

Negotiating for Autonomy with Moscow: The Centre-Periphery Relationship in the Khrushchev Era
12:45 (15 mins)
Michael Loader, University of Glasgow

The Communist Party of Ukraine in the Final Years of the Soviet Union: From Institutional Transformation to Disintegration
13:00 (15 mins)
Nataliya Kibita, University of Glasgow

The Politics of Modernisation in Late Soviet Belarus (1965–1980)
13:15 (15 mins)
Natalya Chernyshova, Queen Mary University of London

The Unacknowledged Role of Ekaterina Furtseva in Nikita Khrushchev’s Defeat of the ‘Anti-Party Group’ in 1957
13:30 (15 mins)
Ismene Brown, Independent researcher

Political developments in Belarus before and after 2020: the role of civil society, the opposition and the EU

Chair: Eleanor Bindman

JCR

Belarus-EU relations before and after 2020: challenges and opportunities.
12:45 (15 mins)
Victoria Leukavets, Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Civil Society, Social Movements and Protest Mobilization in Belarus after 2020
13:00 (15 mins)
Eleanor Bindman, Manchester Metropolitan University

The concept of political opposition in authoritarian contexts: the case of Belarus
13:15 (15 mins)
Sofie Bedford, Uppsala University

The trajectories of Belarusian diaspora social mobilisation in 2020-2023: from fraud elections to the Russian aggression against Ukraine
12:45 (15 mins)
Marta Jaroszewicz, University of Warsaw Kseniya Homel, University of Warsaw

Vanished Histories/Displaced Communities. Gender Perspective and Centre-Periphery Dynamics in Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Creative Communities

Chair: Victoria Musvik
Discussant: Anna Kuteleva

Linnett Room

Analyzing Central-Periphery Relationships in Soviet Fashion from the 1960s to the 1980s
12:45 (15 mins)
Iuliia Papushina

Representation of Women in the Decorative Art of the USSR Journal as a Reflection of Soviet Regional and Gender Policy
13:00 (15 mins)
Alyona Sokolnikova, Independent scholar

Russian Festivals of Female Photography of the 1990s: Why Are They Forgotten?
13:15 (15 mins)
Victoria Musvik, University of Oxford

The Role of Women in Creating and Preserving the Regional Phenomenon of the Research Institute “Prometheus”
13:30 (15 mins)
Sorokina Daria, École normale supérieure

12:45

Nagorno-Karabakh

Chair: Helge Blakkisrud

Selwyn Diamond Suite

Normalizing Conflict – Enabling Genocide? Expert Neutrality in Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict.
12:45 (15 mins)
Arsene Saparov, Rabdan Academy

Post-conflict rehabilitation: humanitarian dimension (Case of Azerbaijan)
13:00 (15 mins)
Gulshan Pashayeva, Center of Analysis of International Relations

Russia's Cockfight in the Caucasus: Exploring Adaptive Constellation as a Trigger for War between Non-Western Small States Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020
13:15 (15 mins)
Eduard Abrahamyan, University College London

The involvement of Armenian non-state defense actors after the Karabakh 2020 war: from a sectorial disposition to the qui-vive to a transformation of the defense field?
12:45 (15 mins)
Aude Merlin, ULB Taline Papazian, Sciences Po Aix

Project Discussion: "The Encyclopedia of the Dog": A Digital Annotated Edition of Sasha Sokolov's "Between Dog and Wolf"
12:45 (90 mins)

Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

Chair: Alessandro Achilli, University of Cagliari
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, University of St Andrews
Martina Napolitano, University of Trieste
Noemi Albanese, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Methodological Complexities in Oral History Research: Unpacking Traumatic Memory among Ex-Soviet Union Jews in the Context of Ongoing Military Violence
12:45 (90 mins)

Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

Chair: Svetlana Pogodina, University of Latvia
Maria Kaspina, Independent Researcher
Daria Malyuta, Sorbonne University
Elina Vasiljeva, University of Latvia
Svetlana Amosova, Personal capacity

East-West Cooperation in Science and Technology 1: Nuclear Diplomacy, Communication and Technological Sovereignty

Chair: Doubravka Olšáková
Discussant: Sam Robinson

Selwyn Old Library Room 4

American spy anxiety and East-West cooperation on particle accelerators, 1959-1975
12:45 (15 mins)
Barbara Hof, University of Lausanne

Experts and International Administrations in Politics of Nuclear Disarmament
13:00 (15 mins)
Katja Castryck-Naumann, GWZO Leipzig

Scientific exchange between East and West. A Space Constructed by Communication
13:15 (15 mins)
Katharina Lenski, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

The ultracentrifuge for uranium enrichment - an East-West technology transfer in the Cold War
13:30 (15 mins)
Frank Dittmann, Deutsches Museum

Warsaw Pact’s Attempt to Protect its “Scientific-Technological” Potential in the late 1980s
13:45 (15 mins)
Matěj Bílý, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy o

Dealing with Destruction. A selection of the authors to the publication CBEES State of the Region report 2024 "The Consequences of the War and Reactions to these Changes" will discuss its outcome, insights and collected data.
12:45 (90 mins)

Selwyn Walters Room

Chair: Ninna Mörner, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University
Tatiana Kasperski, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University
Irina Sandomirskaja, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University
Vitaly A. Chernetsky, University of Kansas
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Charles University

12:45

The Eighteenth-century Linguistic and Religious Hybridity in the Balkans: The Sermons against Witches and Sorceresses

Chair: Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov
Discussant: Margaret Dimitrova

Seminar Room

Language Representation of the Concept of Woman in the So-Called “Zhenski Sbornik”[Women’s Collection] by Josif Bradati
12:45 (20 mins)
Darina Stoyanov, Odesa I.I.Mechnikov Natioal University

MAGIC AND SORCERY IN THE 18TH CENTURY (Linguistic aspects in THE WOMEN'S COLLECTION BY YOSIF BRADATI)
13:05 (20 mins)
Tatyana Braga, Institute for Bulgarian Language

Textual and Religious Hybridity in the Pre-modern Balkan Preaching: The works of Josef Bradati and Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain
13:25 (20 mins)
Adelina Angusheva-Tihanova, The University of Manchester

The Hybrid Language of the Eighteenth-Century Sermons against Magic and Superstitions by Josif Bradati
13:45 (20 mins)
Margaret Dimitrova, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

Re-telling stories of the Central and East European Jews from transnational, translocal and transmedia perspectives

Chair: Malgorzata Radkiewicz

Teaching Room 4

“Multidirectional memory” in transnational Holocaust films made by Polish filmmakers
12:45 (20 mins)
Elzbieta Ostrowska, University of Lodz 724-000-32-43

From “Po-lin” to “Three Minutes: A Lengthening“. Film memories of the Jews in mid-war Poland and a transmedia storytelling
13:05 (20 mins)
Malgorzata Radkiewicz, Jagiellonian University

Transnational and Crosslinguistic Friendship: Exploring the Identities of Two Jewish Writers in Post-Holocaust Contexts
13:25 (20 mins)
Urszula Chowaniec, Lund University

Contemporary post-Soviet necropolitics and necroaesthetics

Chair: Aleksei Semenenko

Teaching Room 5

“It’s very hard to convey any arguments or facts to them:” Claims of zombification in the Donbas war
12:45 (15 mins)
Emma Rimpiläinen, Uppsala University

Orientation—North: Political occultism and necroaesthetics in contemporary Russia
12:45 (15 mins)
Maria Engström, Uppsala University

“Da, smert’!”: Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevism and the Death Drive
13:15 (15 mins)
Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Trust and New Literary Forms

Chair: Tatyana Gershkovich
Discussant: Tatyana Gershkovich

Teaching Room 6

Authorial Manifestation in the Digital Literary Era: Trust and Distrust in Evgenij Gornyj’s Chuzhye slova
12:45 (20 mins)
Giulia Gallo, Sapienza University of Rome

Dubious Words, Ruinous Memories: The Reinvention of Historiography in Katja Petrowskaja’s Maybe Esther
13:05 (20 mins)
Katerina Pavlidi, University College Dublin

LitRPG and RealRPG: Narrative Strategies and Readers’ Expectation
13:25 (20 mins)
Anna Murashova, University of Tartu / Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History

Stand-up Comedy

Chair: Miranda Jakisa

Teaching Room 7

Comedy with an Accent. Modes of Migration Comedy in Eastern Central Europe
12:45 (20 mins)
Alfrun Kliems, Humboldt University of Berlin

Čuxxlović and Malarina - 'Balkan' Stand-up in Viennese Cabaret
13:05 (20 mins)
Miranda Jakisa, University of Vienna, Institut Slawistik

The Easy Way to Give up Russian. The Ukrainian Stand-up in the War
13:25 (20 mins)
Yaraslava Ananka, Leipzig University

12:45

Finding their place: communities and the future

Chair: Elliot Napier

Teaching Room A

Competing Memories in the Creation of Local Identity: a case study of Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022
12:45 (15 mins)
Daiva Price, Vytautas Magnus University

Transcending Mortality: The Intersection of Indefinite Life Extension Technology and Russian Sophiology
13:00 (15 mins)
Walter SIsto, D'Youville University

Working-class men in Russia: finding space between neoliberalism and Putinism
13:15 (15 mins)
Charlie Walker, University of Southampton

New approaches to the military history of the Russian Civil War

Chair: Jennifer Keating

Teaching Room B

Lavr Kornilov in Turkestan – from Central Asia to the Russian Civil War
12:45 (20 mins)
Roman Osharov, University of Oxford

Learning Lessons of the Civil War in the Red Army, 1918-1929
13:05 (20 mins)
Sofya Anisimova, University College Dublin

The Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War: the french case revisited
13:25 (20 mins)
Gwendal Piégais, University College Dublin

12:45

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12:55

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Tea/coffee

2:15:

2:20:

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2:45:

Russian Military, Violent Entrepreneurs and Political Repercussions

Chair: Jussi Lassila
Discussant: Maxim Alyukov

Auditorium

Looking for loyal pockets of efficiency after Prigozhinʼs mutiny
14:45 (15 mins)
Jussi Lassila, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Russian Military Reform and Wicked Problems
15:00 (15 mins)
Kirill Shamiev, European Council on Foreign Relations

The Downfall of Private Propaganda Factory: Organisational Behaviour of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot Media Group
15:15 (15 mins)
Serge Poliakoff, University of Passau

Russian foreign policy (1) – global engagement

Chair: Marianna Poberezhskaya

Auditorium Lounge

Ontological Security and Multipolarity: Imagining Russia’s new world order in Afghanistan, Syria, and the South Caucasus
14:45 (15 mins)
Vassily Klimentov, University of Zurich

Regional dilemmas in Russia’s engagement with the non-West: A case study of South Asia
15:00 (15 mins)
Nivedita Kapoor

The Role of Russian and Western Soft Power Competition in Georgian Nation-Building: From Independence to Nowadays
15:15 (15 mins)
Vladimir Liparteliani, Durham University

Resisting Imperialism through Decolonisation

Chair: Sarah Hudspith

CWB Plenary Room

Haunted Soviet: Postmemory and the Resonance of a Toxic Past in Contemporary Russian Art
14:45 (15 mins)
Elena Konyushihina, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Decolonizing Slavic and East European Academic Collections via Cultural Diplomacy, Inclusivity, and Repatriation:
15:00 (15 mins)
Alena Aissing, UCLA Young Research Library

Thinking through Literature: Mamardashivili and the topology of resistance
15:15 (15 mins)
Tora Lane, Södertörn University

Overcoming the Soviet in Soviet Georgian music
15:30 (15 mins)
Maia Sigua, Tbilisi State Conservatoire John Nelson, Aleksanteri Institute

Censorship, Self Censorship and Resistance – discourse of the Studies of Old Georgian Literature in Soviet Period
15:45 (15 mins)
Sophia Guliashvili, The University of Georgia

Human Rights and Democracy in Wartime Ukraine

Chair: Olena Chub

CWB Syndicate 1

Gendered aspects of internal displacement in Ukraine: amplifying the voices of internally displaced women.
14:45 (15 mins)
Daryna Dvornichenko, University of Oxford

Human Rights Protection Activity of Ukraine since the beginning of the armed conflict on the part of Russia.
15:00 (15 mins)
Alina Bondarenko, University of Bristol

Representative Democracy Rights in Wartime Ukraine
15:15 (15 mins)
Olena Chub, University of Bristol Law School

Social Dialogue and Labour Rights: Challenges for Wartime Ukraine and Post-War Recovery
15:30 (15 mins)
Yana Simutina, University of Bristol Law School

Poland – policy and politics

Chair: Justyna Budzik

CWB Syndicate 2

Margaret Thatcher and the governing elite of the Polish People’s Republic in the 1980’s. Study of an encounter of political cultures
14:45 (15 mins)
Mateusz Drozdowski, University of the National Education Commission

Preferential (re)immigration - The case of the Polish diaspora repatriation initiatives
15:00 (15 mins)
Anna Jeglinska, Uppsala University

The dynamics of liberal media discourse on the Middle Eastern migration crises: the case of Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza in 2015 and 2021
15:15 (15 mins)
Polina Klochko, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Shaping Higher Education policies in a polarized party system - Polish parliamentary debates in a long-term perspective (1990-2021)
15:30 (15 mins)
Mareike zum Felde, Research Centre for East European Studies

2:45:

Czechoslovakia and Poland: Cultural and Political Histories

Chair: Julia Sutton-Mattocks

CWB Syndicate 3

Czechoslovak Realpolitik and the Second World War
14:45 (15 mins)
Pavel Krejci, University of Hong Kong

Masaryk's castle as the center of power, administration, and ideology in Czechoslovakia between the World Wars.
15:00 (15 mins)
Jakub Štofaník, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academ

The Paradox of Prague Spring’s Political Scene: Performing the Human Face(s) of Socialism
15:15 (15 mins)
Kristina Broučková, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Violence alongside Czechoslovak-Polish border in Silesia 1945-1947
15:30 (15 mins)
Ondřej Kolář, Slezské zemské muzeum (Silesian Museum)

The Polish Crisis 1980–1982 from Western Perspective
15:45 (15 mins)
Piotr Długołęcki, Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych

Imperial Russia in the Long 19th Century

Chair: David McDonald

Games Room

Paul I and the colonization of Southern Ukraine and Crimea: evolving concepts
14:45 (15 mins)
Oleksandr Kravchuk, University of Bristol (UK)

The Dark Side of the Peasants' Land Bank: Discriminatory Practices Among Rural Actors in Governmental Banking Sector of the Russian Empire (1882-1917)
15:00 (15 mins)
Arina Fedorova, European University Institute

Wither internationalism? Decolonisation narratives and the (im)possibility of supranational feminist, socialist, and pacifist solidarities
14:45 (90 mins)

Garden Room

Chair: Kristen Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania
Adriana Zaharijević, University of Belgrade
Agnieszka Mrozik, Polish Academy of Sciences
Chiara Bonfiglioli, University of Venice

Soviet Culture and Cold War Politics

Chair: Serian Carlyle

JCR

Disco Culture Under the Late Socialism: Youth, National Feelings and the Bee Gees
14:45 (15 mins)
Ekaterina Kokovikhina, New York University

Fashion Across Borders: Soviet Ukraine’s Soft Power and Diplomacy
15:00 (15 mins)
Olha Korniienko, The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History

From “reasonable needs” to “consumer society”: Developed socialism as a preparatory stage during the transition of the USSR from the ideals of communism to capitalism
15:15 (15 mins)
Kristina Chernolikh

Politics for Children: How Murzilka informed its readers 1956 - 1964
15:30 (15 mins)
Helen Lachal, Helen Lachal

Alternative life of teenagers in Soviet Lithuania 1956-1972
15:45 (15 mins)
Ieva Balciune, Lithuanian Institute of History

Parliaments in Socialist Federations: Institutional Designs and Functions of Soviet, Czechoslovak, and Yugoslav Assemblies, 1968–1987

Chair: Ivan Sablin

Linnett Room

A Socialist Parliament: The USSR Supreme Soviet and Its Domestic Functions
14:45 (20 mins)
Ivan Sablin, Heidelberg University

The Yugoslavian parliamentary experiment in the 1970’s
15:05 (15 mins)
Jure Gasparic, Institute of Contemporary History

Undemocratic parliament as a showcase of socialist federalism
15:20 (15 mins)
Adéla Gjuričová, Institute of Contemporary History, CAS

2:45:

Queering and gender in film and media

Chair: Meg Poff

Selwyn Diamond Suite

Embodying Soviet Norms; Women on Thawing Screens
14:45 (15 mins)
Natasha Vinnikova, University of the Arts London

Queering Soviet Fairy Tale Morozko
15:00 (15 mins)
Alexander Kondakov, University College Dublin

Queering Telegram: Independent Channels in Russophone LGBTQ+ (Self)
15:15 (15 mins)
Emma Tarasenko, University of Manchester

Besieged by the Future 1: In the Shadow of Military Strategy

Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja

Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

Dreams Under the Mushroom Cloud: Indigenous Knowledge and “Big Science” in Techno-Futuristic Writings of a Nenets Hunter from Novaya Zemlya
14:45 (20 mins)
Dmitry Arzyutov, Ohio State University

The Last Utopia of the Twentieth Century? The Semiotic and Behaviour Control in the Soviet Management, Policy and Strategy Thought
15:05 (20 mins)
Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University London

War, They Wrote: Programming the Future and Geopolitical Science Fiction in Putinist Russia
15:25 (20 mins)
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen

Cultural map of Ukraine. How has value been changed through the Russian invasion?

Chair: Valeria Lazarenko

Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

Open Innovation in Ukraine: Generating Innovative Solutions Through Collaboration in Times of War
14:45 (20 mins)
Olga Miroshnychenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Was the Ukrainian economy colonial? A historical view
15:05 (20 mins)
Kseniia Lopukh, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

East-West Cooperation in Science and Technology 2: Technology and Science Diplomacy

Chair: Matěj Bílý
Discussant: Sam Robinson

Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Agents in their own service? Czechoslovak techno-experts working for the UNO/UNECE in the Czechoslovak intelligence collection management
14:45 (15 mins)
Jiří Janáč, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Aca

Future Shock: Computers, Linguistics and New Technologies in Eastern Europe
15:00 (15 mins)
Doubravka Olsakova, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Scientific Diplomacy & Knowledge Exchange: Mathematicians and Computer Scientists Navigating the Cold War US-USSR Interacademy Program
15:15 (15 mins)
Brit Shields, University of Pennsylvania

Russia's war on Ukraine

Chair: Katerina Sviderska

Selwyn Walters Room

"Brothers" or "neo-nazis" ? : legitimation of the Russian genocide in Ukraine
14:45 (20 mins)
Katerina Sviderska, Université de Montréal

The Failure of Russian Propaganda
15:05 (20 mins)
Jon Roozenbeek, University of Cambridge

2:45:

Teaching of Slavonic Languages

Chair: Mikhail Vodopyanov

Seminar Room

Island Double Vision: Examining Chekhov’s and Doroshevich’s Turn-of-the-Century Sakhalin
14:45 (15 mins)
Alex Maxwell, University of Virginia

Case Context: what is it and how does it affect the oral production of case forms?
15:00 (20 mins)
Natalia V. Parker, University College London

Introducing Diversity in Russian Language Teaching: A Case Study in Producing a New Edition of 'Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course for Beginners'.
15:20 (20 mins)
Mikhail Vodopyanov, University of St Andrews

The Key to Using Language: The Role of Knowledge on Society in Foreign Language Learning (Illustrated by the Example of Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language)
15:40 (20 mins)
Barbara Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw

BASEES/ZOiS Book Roundtable: The Many Voices and Faces of Ukraine
14:45 (90 mins)

Teaching Room 4

Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
Tamara Martsenyuk, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Tetiana Kostiuchenko, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Olena Palko, University of Basel
Roman Horbyk, University of Basel

Lithuanian Society in Transition

Chair: Melanie Ilic

Teaching Room 5

"I feel mature, but not an adult." Transition to adulthood in Lithuania in the 21st century
14:45 (20 mins)
Sigita Kraniauskiene, Klaipeda University

A Personal networks, intergenerational relationships and intimate lives: the perspective of Lithuanians born from 1980 to 2000.
15:05 (20 mins)
Irena Juozeliūnienė, Vilnius University

Childhood autonomy during Transformation period in Lithuania
15:25 (20 mins)
Goda Damaseviciute, Vilnius university

Social Change and Current Challenges: Social Careers
15:45 (20 mins)
Laima Zilinskiene, Vilnius University

Social Policy and Life Course Regimes: Post-Authoritarian Transformations in Lithuania
16:05 (20 mins)
Jekaterina Navickė, Vilnius University

Badly Behaved Pasts: On Monuments, Graffiti, Film, and Plays that 'refuse to go'

Chair: Kitty Brandon-James
Discussant: Alma Prelec

Teaching Room 6

‘Nasi Spanci’ on Stage: Yugoslav productions about the Spanish Civil War
14:45 (15 mins)
Alma Prelec, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Monumental Propaganda: dismembering, remembering, and resurrecting the Zombie Monument.
15:00 (15 mins)
Kitty Brandon-James, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL

Paint versus Concrete: Whose Hands Hold the Power? Graffiti at Three Sites in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia
15:15 (15 mins)
Elisa Bailey, Lord Cultural Resources

Resonance of Memory: Historical Trauma and Contemporary Anxieties in Valery Rubinchik's "Savage Hunt of King Stakh" (1980)
15:30 (15 mins)
Kate Tomashevskaya, USC

The Metamodern Turn in Russian Culture: Affect, Ambiguity and Recycling

Chair: Katerina Pavlidi
Discussant: Isabel Jacobs

Teaching Room 7

Russia-as-Affect: Metamodernism and the civilizational turn in Russian popular culture
14:45 (15 mins)
Maria Engström, Uppsala University

Patrioprotest: ambiguity as survival strategy and aesthetic style
15:00 (15 mins)
Marco Biasioli, University of Manchester

SibKul’tKommuna: Unserious Utopianism in Post-Soviet Siberia
15:15 (15 mins)
Thomas Drew, The University of Manchester

The Same Old Future: New Russian Cyberpunk
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Aleksei Semenenko, Umeå University

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Remnants of the 'Russian World' in Europe's Online and Offline Spaces
14:45 (90 mins)

Teaching Room A

Chair: Tatiana Romashko, University of Jyväskylä
Vera Zvereva, University of Jyväskylä
Kapitolina Fedorova, Tallinn University
Jade McGlynn, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Tatiana Golova, Centre for East European and International Studies

Women's Rights in 20th Century Eastern Europe

Chair: Marta Łukaszewicz

Teaching Room B

Intimacy and Abortion in early-twentieth-century Revel’: Three Cases.
14:45 (20 mins)
Sasha Rasmussen, University of Nottingham, Department of History

Red Days on the Calendar? Remembering Soviet Menstrual Trauma in Contemporary Russia
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Pavel Vasilyev

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Political Economy of Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Chair: John Gould
Discussant: Tim Haughton

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A retrospective on Soviet economic imperialism in CMEA
16:45 (15 mins)
Michael Bernhard, University of Florida

Sailing the Tides of Populism: Navigating Central Banks in Central and Eastern Europe
17:00 (15 mins)
Jana Gritteršová, Paris School of Economics

The EU and the political economy of illiberalism in Hungary
17:15 (15 mins)
John Gould, Colorado College

Russian foreign policy (2) – history, imperialism, and symbolism

Chair: Jody La Porte

Auditorium Lounge

Former Soviet Elite in the Contemporary Russia-led Regional Organizations: Gender Patterns and Sets of Values in Eurasian Regionalism.
16:45 (15 mins)
Vita Zeyliger, OEI

Post Cold War European Security Structure Related to Russia
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Milos Rastovic, Duquesne University

Symbolic Elements of the Russian Posture in International Affairs
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Dinara Urazova, Northwestern University

The imperial meaning of the Soviet concept of “friendship of peoples”
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Georgii Khazagerov, Independent Researcher

The Implementation of The Russian National-Imperial Project in Ukrainian Lands: Historical Parallels
17:45 (15 mins)
Natalia Gromakova, University of Aberdeen

Identities and discourses – civic, ethnic, and national

Chair: Andreea Udrea

CWB Plenary Room

Football clubs and kin-state ties: the cases of Zrinjski Mostar and DAC 1904
16:45 (15 mins)
Craig Willis, European Centre for Minority Issues

Impact of extensive citizenship policies of Hungary on the political representation of Hungarians in Slovakia
17:00 (15 mins)
Martin Hochel, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences

Internal Othering and Representation of Estonianness in Mass and Elite Identity Discourses from 1990 until 2020
17:15 (15 mins)
Alar Kilp, University of Tartu

Towards an ethnopolitical framework - an envisaged case study of ethnic politics in Latvia
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Gustav Lundberg, Södertörn University

Who is Polish - What is Polishness? Practising and challenging language, literature, identity and culture

Chair: Ola Sidorkiewicz

CWB Syndicate 1

Adult learners of Polish as a heritage language in the UK: Motivations, methods and multilingualism
16:45 (15 mins)
Aurora Gao, University of Cambridge

Coping with a crisis: the relationship between citizenship and mental health as experienced by LGBTQ population in Poland
17:00 (15 mins)
Maria Obrebska, N/A

Earth, Soil, Dust and Photography
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Justyna Budzik, University of Silesia in Katowice

Who was afraid of Anne of Green Gables, Winnie the Pooh, and many more… Books for kids from behind the Iron Curtain under the “care” of the postwar Polish censorship office (1944-1990).
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Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk, University of Lodz

Empire and the Arts: Objects, Collections, and the Russian Taste for Western Luxury

Chair: Louise Hardiman

CWB Syndicate 2

Old Art – New Meaning. The Display of Acquisitions from Spain and France in Alexander I’s Hermitage
16:45 (15 mins)
Catherine Phillips, Independent Scholar

Taste, Empire, and British-Russian Relations: New Research on Russian Decorative Art at Dorich House Museum
17:00 (15 mins)
Louise Hardiman, Kingston School of Art

Signed by Flames: Royal Objects and Discourse of Belonging after the 1837 Fire in the Winter Palace
17:15 (15 mins)
Nikita Balagurov, Lund University

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Decolonizing Understanding of Disability in the Baltic and Eastern European Countries

Chair: Robert Dale

CWB Syndicate 3

“Nothing about us without us”: neurodiversity movement and the role of the medical anthropologist in a self-advocacy culture
16:45 (20 mins)
Daiva Bartušienė, Vytautas Magnus university

In search of identity: the history of the movement for the rights of people with disabilities in Ukraine
17:05 (20 mins)
Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych, The Ethnology Institute National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Piecing together the history of disability in Latvia during Soviet times: A case study of the Association of the Blind community in Cēsis
17:25 (20 mins)
Agnese Zviedre, Art Academy of Latvia

From Modernity to Degrowth: Environmental Realities and Alternatives from the Socialist Anthropocene

Chair: Alexander Petrusek

Games Room

Between Chemical Suicide and Chemical Welfare. Negotiating Chemical Modernity in Gomułka’s Poland.
16:45 (20 mins)
Jan Burek, University College London

Towards a Socialist Anthropocene: Debating Degrowth in East Germany, 1972-1989
17:05 (20 mins)
Alexander Petrusek, Institute of Advanced Studies/UCL

Religion and the State since the 19th Century

Chair: Roman Osharov

Garden Room

Ethno-cultural memory of Ukrainian special resettlers and agency of the underground Greek Catholic Church in Soviet Kazakhstan
16:45 (15 mins)
Nestor Manichkin, French Institute for Central Asian Studies

Religious Mission or Diasporic Church: Changing Roles of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission to China, 1860s-1940s
17:00 (15 mins)
Anastasiia Akulich, University of Leeds

The Abolition of the UGCC as a Soviet Colonial Practice: A Case of the Post-War Eastern Galicia
17:15 (15 mins)
Kateryna Budz, University of Edinburgh

Anti-Gender Backlash and Feminist Resistance in the Post-Soviet States

Chair: Anna Kuteleva

JCR

Belarussian Women’s Response to Anti-Gender Politics: From Domestic Violence to Street Protests
16:45 (15 mins)
Yuliya Brin , University of Helsinki

Cultivating Conservatism: Exploring Gender Discourses of Regional Female Civil Servants in Russia
17:00 (15 mins)
Valeriya Utkina, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Examining the Reception of Feminist Discourses through American Pop Culture among University Students in the Republic of Georgia
17:15 (15 mins)
Georgy Slavin-Rudakov, International Black Sea University

No woman’s land: New ethics, traditionalism and “philosophical mobilisation”
17:30 (15 mins)
Tatiana Levina, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI

Towards Reshaping East-Central Europe and Eurasia. New directions and institutional changes in British academia since February 2022.
16:45 (90 mins)

Linnett Room

Chair: Olena Palko, The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies
George Gilbert, University of Southampton
Francis King, UEA East Centre
Andy Willimott, The Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CEREES) at Queen Mary University of London

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Representation of social and ethnic groups in Soviet and post-Soviet media

Chair: Natalia Telepneva

Selwyn Diamond Suite

Cinematic Portraits of Identity and Resistance: Exploring the Imaginary Communities (Rodnovertsy and Meryans ) through Film.
16:45 (15 mins)
Maria Grigoryeva, University of Helsinki

Representations of Post-Soviet Nostalgia And Late Socialism in Russian TV Series
17:00 (15 mins)
Anna Svetlova, Jagiellonian University

Rethinking the Soviet through satirical magazines: the example of representations of the intelligentsia in cartoons of the late 1980s and early 1990s
17:15 (15 mins)
Oksana Hela, University of Basel

Orientalisation and Folklorisation of Central Asia in Soviet Wartime Cinema
17:30 (15 mins)
Assiya Issemberdiyeva, Queen Mary University of London

Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania
17:45 (15 mins)
Neringa Klumbytė, Miami University

Besieged by the Future 2: Embodiments and Aesthetics

Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja

Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

Crossing Boundaries: The Transnational Futurist Anti-Book Collaborations of Transcaucasia (1917-1922)
16:45 (20 mins)
Lauren Warner-Treloar, Kingston University

Future (Im)perfect: Envisioning the Body in the Soviet 1920s
17:05 (20 mins)
Claire Shaw, University of Warwick

Populist Solidarity and the Prospects of Development

Chair: Juraj Buzalka
Discussant: Chris Hann

Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

"Not all immigrants are the same?" (In)solidarity with immigrants in Czech politics beyond the populist and non-populist divide
16:45 (15 mins)
Vladimír Naxera, University of West Bohemia

Civility, Vulgarity, and Solidarity in post-pandemic Slovakia
17:00 (15 mins)
Nicolette Makovicky, University of Oxford

Hungarian Kurultaj Festival: A Laboratory of Populist Solidarity
17:15 (15 mins)
Tatiana Safonova, Comenius University

Online solidarities in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
17:30 (15 mins)
Jitka Kralova, UCL SSEES

East-West Cooperation in Science and Technology 3: East-East and East-South Relations

Chair: Barbara Hof
Discussant: Sam Robinson

Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Activities of Czechoslovak Experts in Africa through the Lens of Secret Service Documents (1960s, 1970s)
16:45 (15 mins)
Barbora Buzássyova, Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences

Czechoslovak geologists in the Global South in the service of the state and intelligence
17:00 (15 mins)
Barbora Menclová, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Scientists? Diplomats? Businessmen? Spies? Czechoslovak-Chinese Joint Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation as a Czechoslovak vehicle for gathering scientific, economic and political intelligence about the PRC
17:15 (15 mins)
Jan Adamec, independent scholar

Yogurt and Technology - Bulgarian-Japanese "intelligent" cooperation in the 1980s Lyubomir Pozharliev
17:30 (15 mins)
Lyubomir Pozharliev, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde

Changes in Ukrainian Society' values. Current situation and consequences to the post-war economy.
16:45 (90 mins)

Selwyn Walters Room

Chair: Kristina Babenko, Newcastle University Business School
Yevgeniia Gnatchenko, University of East Angliia
Olga Danylyuk, University of London Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
Olga Miroshnychenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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Linguistic Perspectives on Slavonic Literary Texts

Chair: Antonia Pintarić

Seminar Room

A cognitive stylistics approach to supernatural in Gogol's "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden"
16:45 (20 mins)
Antonia Pintaric, University of Zadar

A Luxury Cruise Voyage with Tatyana Tolstaya, a Russian Writer in the 2020s. Discursive Shifts and Commercialisation of Self.
17:05 (20 mins)
Mikhail Vodopyanov, University of St Andrews

Media and geopolitical shifts

Chair: Alexandra Smith

Teaching Room 4

Censorship to Cyber Warfare – The Legacy of The Soviet Period On Estonian Science Fiction Today
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Brent McKenzie, University of Guelph

Creative Landscapes: 90 years from Holodomor
17:05 (20 mins)
Sara Nesteruk, Manchester Metropolitan University

Cultural Connections and Geopolitical Shifts: The Evolving Landscape of Russian Film Festivals in the Czech Republic
17:25 (20 mins)
Ksenia Hain, Palacký University

Memory and Trauma

Chair: Yuchun Lan

Teaching Room 5

“It made it more personal”: Being Western at Museums of Communism
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Samantha Vaughn, Newcastle University

Decolonizing the Past: Сontemporary Russian Culture and the Rights of the Dead
17:00 (15 mins)
Svetlana Novikova, PhD, none

Czechoslovakian Literature and Culture

Chair: Natalija Stepanovic

Teaching Room 6

`Osvobozené Francie nejkrásnější syn’: the Czech death and after-life of Robert Desnos
16:45 (15 mins)
Susan Reynolds, British Library

Avant-garde on the Periphery: Depiction of the Slovak Rural Milieu in Early Work of Peter Jilemnický
17:00 (15 mins)
Zuzana Kubusová, Università di Bologna

Old Young Literature: Literary Gatekeeping During Normalisation in Slovakia
17:15 (15 mins)
Viliam Nádaskay, Institute of Slovak Literature of SAS

Poetic Staging of the Communicative Situation in the Poetry of Slovak Modern School
17:30 (15 mins)
Romana Kališová, Institute of Slovak Literature of SAS

Leoš Janáček and the Late National Revival in Moravia
17:45 (15 mins)
Miloš Zapletal, Silesian University in Opava

Growing Up under Socialism: Soviet Adolescence and Life-Writing

Chair: Ella Rossman

Teaching Room 7

“I Will Become Someone”: Adulting Strategies in a Soviet Teenager’s Diary (1937–1941)
16:45 (20 mins)
Ekaterina Zadirko, University of Cambridge

Late Soviet Collective Life-Writing and Coming-of-Age Experience
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Ella Rossman, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Young Women and Motherhood in Brezhnev-Era Films from the Gorʹkii Studio
17:25 (20 mins)
Serian Carlyle, UCL

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Language and Identity

Chair: Nadiya Ivanenko

Teaching Room A

“They can’t take that from us!” Identity construction by Russian speakers of the Baltic countries through social networking and memorial practices: the case of Victory day celebration in 2023
16:45 (20 mins)
Kapitolina Fedorova, Tallinn University

EU Roma migrants' experiences of language learning and lived citizenship
17:05 (20 mins)
Blair Biggar, University of Glasgow

Sociolinguistic tendencies in Ukraine under Russian invasion (2014-2023)
17:25 (20 mins)
Lesia Myklash, Lviv Polytechnic National University

Circulating social and economic values

Chair: Marianna Poberezhskaya

Teaching Room B

Circulating narratives of justice: what can we learn from cultural policies in Kazakhstan
16:45 (15 mins)
Olga Chumicheva, University of Manchester

Round-tripping in Cyp-Rus? A Critical Review of the Round-tripping Framework Based on Analysis of the TNK-BP Case-study and Macro Data.
17:00 (15 mins)
George Hajipavli, University of Oxford

The time of crisis? The mobility chances of Israelite ex-soldiers in the Horthy-era
17:15 (15 mins)
Robert Szabo, Eötvös Loránd University

The transformation of the moral order in Russian society 1976-2021
17:30 (15 mins)
Anna Smolentseva, University of Cambridge

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PGR Drinks Reception - All postgraduate research students welcome!

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Film Screening and discussion - Wardens’ Gardens by Dmitry Omelchenko

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Wardens’ Gardens A Film Screening + Discussion
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Judith Pallot, Aleksanteri Institute

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