Friday, 31 March 2023 to Sunday, 2 April 2023
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31 March
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DAY 1
Bute HallJames Watt South Stephenson RoomJames Watt South Room 355East Quad Lecture TheatreSenate Room
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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 Room
DAY 1
Hunter HallHunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (LT 103)
DAY 3
9:00
A spectrum of allies? Depictions of the war, the west, and Ukraine on Russian Telegram.
09:00 (15 mins)
Jade McGlynn, King's College London  

Evolving enmity: Ukraine and Russia in each other’s strategic narratives, 2013–2022
09:15 (15 mins)
Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow  

Nothing is True, But It Turns Out Not Everything is Possible: Putin’s Failed Attempt to Construct Strategic Narratives for the Ukrainian Invasion
09:30 (15 mins)
Sarah Oates, University of Maryland  

The Boring War?: Normalizing the war in Russia’s domestic media
09:45 (15 mins)
Paul Goode, Paul Goode  

When your propaganda fails: the challenge of COVID-19 dissidents and the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Ilya Yablokov, University of Sheffield  Natalia Moen-Larsen, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs   
Education and research – politics and policy
Chair: Mikhail Vodopyanov
James Watt South Stephenson Room

Chinese education for Kazakhstani students: opportunities and challenges What opportunities and challenges are arising from China’s education diplomacy in Kazakhstan? The strategic importance of Central Asia to China is clear given th
09:00 (15 mins)
Gulnara Dadabayeva, KIMEP University  

From Universities to Telegram: Practices of Knowledge Production and Dissemination in Russian Social Sciences
09:15 (15 mins)
Petr Torkanovskiy, King's College London  

Governmentality in British and Russian Higher Education
09:30 (15 mins)
Rafig Abdullayev, University of Glasgow  

The narratives of non-formal educational organisations' struggle in post-Soviet Russia
09:45 (15 mins)
Sofya Smyslova, University of Cambridge  
Russia(ns) in the world
Chair: Felix Krawatzek
James Watt South Room 355

How different are the recent Russian migrants?
09:00 (15 mins)
Félix Krawatzek, Centre for East European and International Studies  

International Order, War, and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: the Global South between Russia and the West
09:15 (15 mins)
Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter  

Russia and the West in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Repercussions of Diverging Approaches to International Statebuilding
09:30 (15 mins)
Abdullah Kesvelioglu, University of Edinburgh  

The Geopolitics of the Kaliningrad Oblast: Russian and European Perspectives
09:45 (15 mins)
Paul Graystone, University of Birmingham  

USSR-GDR politics of reconciliation and it’s impact on today’s Russian profile
10:00 (15 mins)
Maria Khorolskaya  
Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain
Chair: Robert Dale
East Quad Lecture Theatre

‘So That I Could Make Others in the Countryside Aware’: Students of the Communist Party’s Political Schools in Poland (1944–1956)
09:00 (15 mins)
Łukasz Bertram, Polish Academy of Sciences  

Living under One Roof: Homes for Older People in the Late Soviet Union
09:15 (15 mins)
Susan Grant, Liverpool John Moores University  

The “Socialist work discipline” and its impacts on everyday working and living in State-socialist Czechoslovakia
09:30 (15 mins)
Lucie Dušková, GWZO  

Travelling of Forsytes across the Iron Curtain: Domesticity as a common value of Cold War societies
09:45 (15 mins)
Johana Kłusek, Charles University  

Globalization of minority: families networks of mennonites through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War
09:00 (20 mins)
Nadezhda Beliakova, Cluster   

Religion, family, and samizdat in the late Cold War: The case of Georgii and Lidiia Vins
09:20 (20 mins)
Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield  

Repression, Resistance and Revival: Three Models of Transmission of Faith within the Family in the Soviet Era
09:40 (20 mins)
Barbara Martin, University of Basel  
9:00
Media and Propaganda in Historical Research
Chair: Bartosz Hordecki
Main Building Room 466

"Every Rotten Slander": Soviet Media, the Jewish Daily Forward, and the Holodomor
09:00 (15 mins)
Henry H. Prown, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta  

Creating the Image of the Intelligentsia in Soviet Cartoon under Stalin
09:15 (15 mins)
Oksana Hela, The University of Basel  

The Scottish Perception of Poland and Ukraine in the second part of the 19th C
09:30 (15 mins)
Iwona Sakowicz-Tebinka, University of Gdańsk  

WAR-NEWS-UP War News for Understanding the Propaganda: A Comparative Analysis of Media Sources on the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878
09:45 (15 mins)
Aytac Yurukcu, Univ. of Eastern Finland, Turkish Hist. Society  
Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society I.
Chair: Helena Trenkic
Discussant: George Bodie
McIntyre Room 201

A Vote for Solidarity. Local Referendums in Late Socialist Slovenia
09:00 (20 mins)
Ana Kladnik, University of Graz  

Helping each other. Solidarity and local communities in late socialist Yugoslavia
09:20 (20 mins)
Igor Duda, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula  

Solidarity in the socialist factory
09:40 (20 mins)
Nina Vodopivec, Institute of Contemporary History  
Reconciliation in Post-Yugoslav Space: Digital Peacebuilding
Chair: Zala Pavšic
Discussant: Mirna Šolić
McIntyre Room 208

#Yugoslavia: Algorithmic Peacebuilding through Commodification of Nostalgia
09:00 (15 mins)
Ivana Stepanovic, Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg  

Hashtag Memory Activism: #ŠtoTeNema in the Context of Srebrenica Genocide
09:15 (15 mins)
Rimante Jaugaite, University of Bologna, DISCI  

Mending broken bonds: Reconciliation in documentary movies
09:30 (15 mins)
Zala Pavšič, CEU Democracy Institute  

“There is only the street:” Activist archiving, curating, and art making as response to institutional crisis in the Ukrainian East, 2014-2022
09:00 (15 mins)
Victoria Donovan, University of St Andrews  

Infrastructuring the Soviet Nuclear Culture in Obninsk and Sarov
09:15 (15 mins)
Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University London  

Monotowns and the 20th Century's Modernism: The Socialist Legacy of Built Environment in post-Soviet Russia
09:30 (15 mins)
Irina Redkina, Universität Hamburg  

Remembering Pervostoiteli: Labor Migration and Identity in Soviet-Era Planned Cities
09:45 (15 mins)
Victoria Fomina, University of St Andrews  
War in Ukraine: Displacement, Mobilities and Identities
Chair: Anne While
James Watt South Room 375

Temporary protection seekers from Ukraine navigating the welfare system in Finland: the first six months
09:00 (15 mins)
Emma Rimpiläinen, IRES, Uppsala University  

Valkyries and Madonnas: Constructing the Ukrainian Womanhood during the Russo-Ukrainian War
09:15 (15 mins)
Kateryna Boyko, Uppsala University  

Being Ukrainian in Poland: labour migrants' perceptions and experiences on the eve of Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
09:30 (15 mins)
Anne White, UCL SSEES  

Reflection of Ukrainian War in Media and Social Networks. Corpus Analysis
09:45 (15 mins)
Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum WorldWide  
9:00
Strategy, conflict, and security
Chair: Nadja Douglas
Gilbert Scott Room 356

Examining motives of foreign fighter mobilization: Lessons from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Huseyn Aliyev, University of Glasgow  

Intellectuals of Statecraft: Russian Arms Control Debates and Great Power Competition
09:15 (15 mins)
Alexander Graef, IFSH  

The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region: Reconciling energy equity, security, and environmental sustainability in a transformative period
09:30 (15 mins)
Mary Keogh, IFZO, University of Greifswald  

Strategic Choices and Sources of Political Uncertainty for the Russian IT Firms: The War in Ukraine as a Game Changer?
09:45 (15 mins)
Dmitry Volkov, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations  
Russian Coal: Past, Present and Future in the context of Decarbonisation
09:00 (90 mins)
Gilbert Scott Room 253
Chair: Nikita Lomagin, Russian Federation
Maxim Titov, Russian Federation
Irina Mironova, Russian Federation
Anna Korppoo, Norway

Authoritarian Regimes and Social Values
Chair: Aadne Aasland
Gilbert Scott Room 250

A Rebellion with(out) a Cause? Popular Protest and Elite Transformation in Socialist Montenegro, 1988–1990
09:00 (20 mins)
Bojan Baca, University of Gothenburg  

The Social Origins of Illiberalism in Central Europe
09:20 (20 mins)
Lenka Bustikova Siroky, University of Oxford  

Transformation of the moral order in Soviet/Russian society (1976-1999)
09:40 (20 mins)
Anna Smolentseva, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge  

Antigenderism as Russian soft power? Comparing discourse on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Russia and Norway.
10:00 (15 mins)
Marthe Myhre, Oslo Metropolitan University  
Spatial Politics: Approaches to Knowledge and Planning
Chair: Sofia Gavrilova
James Watt South Room 361

Inclusion and exclusion errors and the implications for using spatial data in Gulag research
09:00 (15 mins)
Daniel Horn, Essex University  

The emerging importance of the concept of NTA - theoretical considerations, recent practices and ENTAN experiences
09:15 (15 mins)
Natalija Shikova, International Balkan University (IBU)  

The Relational Ontologies of Soviet Volumetric Cartography in the Russian Arctic and Siberia
09:30 (15 mins)
Nadezhda Mamontova, Turku Institute of Advanced Studies  
New perspectives on the 19th century Russia
Chair: David McDonald
Discussant: David McDonald
Melville Room

“Liberal funerals, political resistance and sites of martyrdom in the late Russian Empire”
09:00 (15 mins)
George Gilbert, University of Southampton  

Between the Spiritual Booze and the Principle of Hope: a Revised Study on the Religious Cultural Heritage of Collectivism in Russian Marxist Thought
09:15 (15 mins)
George Bocean, Durham University  

Out from the Shadows: Women and Russian Radicalism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
09:30 (15 mins)
Lynne Hartnett, Villanova University  

Reframing Peasant Backwardness
09:45 (15 mins)
David Darrow, University of Dayton  
9:00
Concept, Time, Discourse: Alexandre Kojève's Aesthetics of Return
09:00 (15 mins)
Isabel Jacobs, Queen Mary University of London  

Past Modern: Theorising the Aesthetics of Return in the Late Soviet Underground
09:15 (15 mins)
Katerina Pavlidi, University College Dublin   

Return to the Present Continuous: the Past in Contemporary Russian Popular Music
09:30 (15 mins)
Marco Biasioli, University of Manchester  

Russian neo-rave: metamodernism and cultural recycling of the 1990s
09:45 (15 mins)
Maria Engström, Uppsala University  
Literatures of the Russian Arctic area I
Chair: Tintti Klapuri
Discussant: Mika Perkiömäki
Main Building Room 132

"Don’t you think that something smells bad in this hotel room?" Dirtiness and subject’s hybridity in Indigenous literature of the Russian Arctic
09:00 (20 mins)
Eeva Kuikka, Tampere University  

Relationality of indigeneity in late Soviet Nenets short forms
09:20 (20 mins)
Karina Lukin, University of Helsinki  

Urban Arctic in Contemporary Russian Graphic Novels
09:40 (20 mins)
Anni Lappela, University of Helsinki  
An elusive alliance? The prospects and limitations of the Sino-Russian relationship
09:00 (90 mins)
Main Building Room 134
Chair: Marcin Kaczmarski, UK
Natasha Kuhrt, UK
Marc Lanteigne, Norway
David Lewis, UK
Nathaniel Choi, UK

Russian Orthodoxy: Representations and Influences
Chair: TBC TBC
Gilbert Scott Room 251

Is it an ill bird that fouls its own nest? Critical representations of clergymen in Russian 19th-century prose
09:00 (1 mins)
Marta Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw  

The Way of the Werefox: Reading the Alt-Spiritual in Viktor Pelevin's Sacred Book of the Werewolf
09:01 (1 mins)
Kirsten Tarves, University of Toronto  

Iulia de Beausobre (1893-1977): cultural mediator or Orthodox missionary?
09:02 (1 mins)
Ruth Coates, University of Bristol  

Russian Church and the Challenges of Digital Christianity in the Post-Pandemic Era
09:03 (1 mins)
Anastasia Mitrofanova  
Language Strategies and Use of Terminology
Chair: Natalia V. Parker
Robing Room

(Non) Speaking with/due to Caution: The Language of Positive Self-Censorship in the Polish Media
09:00 (15 mins)
Roman Sacharov, University of Lodz  

Defending Language as a Strategy of Anti-Authoritarian Resistance. Language Ideologies in Polish Metalinguistic Discourse (1970–1989 and 2015–2022)
09:15 (15 mins)
Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London  

Discursive Construction Concerning Scientific Terms Based on the Nomenclature Used in the Gender Studies Field. Polish and Russian Cases
09:30 (15 mins)
Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen  
9:00
Polish Literature and Culture
Chair: Juliette Bretan
Hunter Hall

After Failure:Utopias of the Present in Early Twentieth-century Poland
09:00 (15 mins)
Krzysztof Rowinski, Trinity College Dublin  

Central European Palimpsest: History and Postmemory of Displacement in Polish Contemporary Fiction
09:15 (15 mins)
Renata Ingbrant, Stockholms universitet  

Memory and/of Forced Migration During and After WWII in the Works of Polish and Yiddish Writers
09:30 (15 mins)
Annelie Bachmaier, TU Dresden  

Multicultural literature is a window to discovering and understanding the world.
09:45 (15 mins)
Dorota Hrycak- Krzyzanowska, Polish University Abroad   
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11:00
Greater Eurasia: Putinist Russia’s Latest Geo-Imaginary
11:00 (15 mins)
Mark Bassin, Södertörn University  

Grossraum Thinking in Putin's Russia
11:15 (15 mins)
David Lewis, University of Exeter  

It’s nationalism, stupid (?) Nationalism, foreign policy and Russia’s Ukraine policy.
11:30 (15 mins)
Luke March, The University of Edinburgh  

Reconfigured patriotic forces and the reduction of ideological plurality in Putin’s Russia
11:45 (15 mins)
Matthew Blackburn, University of Warsaw  
Her Side of The Story: Women Dissident Practices in the Soviet Union and Beyond
Chair: Tatsiana Astrouskaya
James Watt South Stephenson Room

Male and female autobiographic written and oral accounts on the 'thaw' period (Belarusian SSR, early 1960s): (in)visibility of women
11:00 (15 mins)
Uladzimir Valodzin, European University Institute  

The unacknowledged role of Ekaterina Furtseva in Khrushchev’s defeat of the ‘Anti-Party Group’ in 1957
11:15 (15 mins)
Ismene Brown, Independent researcher  

Women in the Jewish Movement for Emigration from the USSR: The Case of Soviet Minsk
11:30 (15 mins)
Tatsiana Astrouskaya, Herder Institute   

Women practices and invisibility: the case of non-conformist youth groups in Leningrad in the 1960s
11:45 (15 mins)
Sofia Lopatina, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology  
Getting Published in Academic Journals and Books
11:00 (90 mins)
James Watt South Room 355
Chair: Tomila Lankina, UK
Paul Goode, Canada
Anceschi Luca, UK
Regina Smyth, UK
Lenka Bustikova, UK
Madeleine Markey, UK
James Krapfl, Canada
Michael Loader, UK
Stella Rock, UK
Peter Sowden, UK

Unlikely Political Connection?: Asia and Central Europe
Chair: Milada Polišenská
Discussant: Milada Polišenská
East Quad Lecture Theatre

“Laughter, No Laughing Matter”: Affect as Epistemic Resistance against Necropower in Poland’s Orange Alternative and Thailand’s Youth-led Pro-democracy Movement
11:00 (15 mins)
Verita Sriratana, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University  

First Written Representation of Siam in the Eye of an Austro-Hungarian Expeditor in János Xántus' Úti jegyzetek Sziámból
11:15 (15 mins)
Thapanee Tubnonghee  

Havel and the Anti-Charter
11:30 (15 mins)
Joshua Hayden, Anglo-American University  

The Quiet Changes in Czech Foreign Policy on China since 2021: Corruption Scandals and Increasing Diplomatic Exchange with Taiwan
11:45 (15 mins)
Zuzana Veselá, Prague School of Economics  

When is a dissident not a dissident?
12:00 (15 mins)
Barbara Day, Independent Scholar  

“The absorption of Evil by Good”: mental cure in Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection.
11:00 (20 mins)
Natalia Borisova, University of Tuebingen Slavic Department  

“Trollope kills me with his excellence”: Anthony Trollope’s “The Bertrams” in Leo Tolstoy’s estimates
11:20 (20 mins)
Irina Gnyusova  

Tolstoy`s anti-nihilist comedy "The Nihilist" in the historical and literary context of the 1860-s
11:40 (20 mins)
Yulia Krasnoselskaya  
11:00
After XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
11:00 (20 mins)
Yoram Gorlizki, University of Manchester  

Alimony and Social Control under Stalin
11:20 (20 mins)
Aaron Retish, Wayne State University, Department of History  

From the Street to the Court (and Back) – Juvenile Delinquency in the Soviet 1950s
11:40 (20 mins)
Immo Rebitschek, Friedrich Schiller University  

Social Control redefined: Housing Disputes in Post-Stalinist Courts
12:00 (20 mins)
Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv University  
Practices of Solidarity inside Socialist Society II.
Chair: Ana Kladnik
Discussant: Libora Oates-Indruchova
McIntyre Room 201

“Better Angola than Poland!” East German citizens’ reactions to solidarity drives with Poland, 1980-1981.
11:00 (20 mins)
George Bodie, Goldsmiths, University of London  

Solidary states, collective feelings: (Re)thinking solidarity from the aftermath of state socialism
11:20 (20 mins)
Tanja Petrovic, ZRC SAZU  

Che Guevara, voluntary labour and the transition to socialism
11:40 (20 mins)
Aidan Ratchford, University of Glasgow  

A Frozen State: Cold and the Idea of Russia
11:00 (20 mins)
Alison Smith, University of Toronto  

Cold and punishment in late Imperial Russia
11:20 (20 mins)
Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham  

Cold Water Bathing and a New Russian Masculinity
11:40 (20 mins)
Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas  

The “Russian Catarrh” of 1782: A “Cold” Disease from a Cold Country
12:00 (20 mins)
Matthew Romaniello, Weber State University  
Russia's war on Ukraine (2)
Chair: Viktoriia Svyrydenko
Fore Hall

Reflexive propaganda: polarization, political deliberation, and war in an authoritarian regime
11:00 (15 mins)
Maxim Alyukov, King's College London  

Exploring the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine over individual geopolitical preferences in Georgia.
11:15 (15 mins)
Ángel Torres-Adán, Institute for Sociology-Slovak Academy of Sciences  

Experiencing digital (dis)integration in transmedia environments. Russian resistance movement media strategies in times of war.
11:30 (15 mins)
Denis Bilunov, Charles University  
War and Society: Embodied Experiences, Narrated Identities
Chair: Federico Marcomini
James Watt South Room 375

Capturing the interaction of ethnic, regional, and national identity in Donbas amid the (un)finished war - a narrative-based case study of people with dual nationality
11:00 (15 mins)
Qianrui Hu, University College London  

Shopping malls and the everyday urban experience of Russia’s war on Ukraine
11:15 (15 mins)
Oliver Banatvala, School of Slavonic and East European Studies  

Warfare and the Everyday: Collective Trauma and Social Process
11:30 (15 mins)
Austin Garey, University of Pennsylvania  
11:00
Repression and dissent under socialism
Chair: Cathie Carmichael
Gilbert Scott Room 253

‘Greek Catholic’ as ‘anti-Orthodox’?: The Case of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Soviet-ruled Galicia
11:00 (15 mins)
Kateryna Budz, The University of Edinburgh  

From the Wives of the ‘Enemies’ to ‘Enemies’ Themselves: Women on Trial during Stalin’s Great Terror and the Great Patriotic War
11:15 (15 mins)
Liudmila Lyagushkina, University of Nottingham  

Living an incoherent life: homosexuality and anti-Soviet dissidence in Soviet Lithuania
11:30 (15 mins)
Rasa Kamarauskaite, SSEES, UCL  

Religious Samizdat, Keston College, and Religious Persecution in the USSR
11:45 (15 mins)
Zoe Knox, University of Leicester  

The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive and Ethno-Politics in the Gulag.
12:00 (15 mins)
Mark Vincent, University of East Anglia  

CEO or mother? Executive search under public maternalism
11:00 (15 mins)
Nagy Beáta, Corvinus University of Budapest  

Mighty Ukrainian Girls in post-1991 Children's Historical Fiction
11:15 (15 mins)
Mateusz Świetlicki, University of Wrocław  

Precarious Femininities: Dreams of Ascent and Fears of Descent between Shame, Delusion, and Freedom in Polish Post-Socialist Literature
11:30 (15 mins)
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, RECET, University of Vienna  

Teaching "female virtues" or sexual rights? (Mis)conceptions about Gender in Polish sex education for youth and the counter program of NGOs
11:45 (15 mins)
Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Herder Institute  
Authoritarianism and disinformation
Chair: Jasmin Dall'Agnola
James Watt South Room 361

Autocratic Diffusion in Central Asia - Current Developments
11:00 (15 mins)
Aizhan Sharshenova, OSCE Academy in Bishkek  

Disinformation as a Corruption Defense: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Georgia
11:15 (15 mins)
Scott Radnitz, University of Washington  

International Origins of the Deeply Personalised Russian Political Regime
11:30 (15 mins)
Atsushi Ogushi, Keio University  

Post-Soviet fathers and their nations: a comparison Batka Lukashenka, Papa Nazarbayev, and Niyazov-Turkmenbashi
11:45 (15 mins)
Ruta Skriptaite, University of Nottingham  

The End of Adaptive Authoritarianism in Russia?
12:00 (15 mins)
Stephen Hall, University of Bath  
New Directions in Polish Censorship
Chair: Andrew Roach
Melville Room

Censorship of Literature in Poland under Communism: new perspectives.
11:00 (15 mins)
Kamila Budrowska, University of Bialystok, Swierkowa 20B, 15-328NIP: PL542-23-83-747  

What Censorship? An Analysis of Parliamentary Discourse.
11:15 (15 mins)
Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk, Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw  

Reasons of State and States of Mind: Ewa Lipska’s A Living Death Within and Without Censorship.
11:30 (15 mins)
John Bates, Glasgow University  
11:00
‘Opening one border, building a wall on the other’: Borderscaping in the Polish news media
11:00 (15 mins)
Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius, Polish Academy of Sciences  

Decolonising amateur photography: new local Soviet photo clubs of the mid-1970s and 1980s and their fate in post-Gorbachev Russia
11:15 (15 mins)
Victoria Musvik, University of Oxford  

The paradox of the Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Aesthetics "Prometheus": a story of survival and struggle for independence in contemporary Russia
11:30 (15 mins)
Daria Sorokina, École normale supérieure  

The state monopoly on the future: Contradictions between Russia’s quest for ‘greatpowerness’ and the development agenda in the Russian Far East
11:45 (15 mins)
Anna Kuteleva, University of Wolverhampton  
Literatures of the Russian Arctic area II
Chair: Karina Lukin
Discussant: Eeva Kuikka, Anni Lappela
Main Building Room 132

Caught between the Primordial, the Modern and the Post-Modern: The Shaman as Symbol in three late Novels by Yurii Rytkheu.
11:00 (20 mins)
Audun J. Mørch, University of Oslo  

Ecocentric tropes in Kola Sámi poetry: the case of Oktiabrina Voronova
11:20 (20 mins)
Tintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki  

Soviet Coal Mining (Non-)Fiction on Svalbard: The Case of Sergei Kharchenko
11:40 (20 mins)
Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  
“Grey zone” research challenges in Eastern European Holocaust studies
11:00 (90 mins)
Main Building Room 134
Chair: Raisa Ostapenko, France
Caroline Sturdy Colls, UK
Daria Cherkaska, UK

Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine by Cultural Means
Chair: David-Emil Wickström Wickström
Gilbert Scott Room 251

The Image of War in Russian-speaking Ukrainian Poetry (Es Soya's Case): New Contexts
11:00 (15 mins)
Kristina Vorontsova, Uniwersytet Jagielloński  

Shaping consciousness: people’s feelings towards the war in the monthly literary magazine ‘Знамя’
11:15 (15 mins)
Arianna Bettin, Trinity College Dublin  

(In)visible resistance: Exploring independent theatre practices in today’s Russia
11:30 (15 mins)
Olga Nikolaeva, Musikverket   

Contemporary Ukrainian Literature as a Witness of Russia's War against Ukraine.
11:45 (15 mins)
Olha Voznyuk, Ukrainian Free University  

Protest Music in Ukraine: from Decolonization to Democracy
12:00 (15 mins)
Olga Gomilko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  
Multilingual Societies and Language Policies
Chair: Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka
Robing Room

Multilingual Tallinn: a pilot study on soundscape and linguistic landscape
11:00 (15 mins)
Kapitolina Fedorova, Tallinn University  

Repositioning of Russian-language professionals in Kazakhstan
11:15 (15 mins)
Juldyz Smagulova, KIMEP University  

Russian legislation and support for the maintenance of linguistic diversity
11:30 (15 mins)
Konstantin Zamyatin  

Teaching (about) a language through declarations on its name, status, identity: Serbo-Croatian and its afterlives in a language teaching curriculum
11:45 (15 mins)
Jelena Calic, University College London  
11:00 REELIT-Sponsored Roundtable: Translation and Publishing in Periods of Great Change
11:00 (90 mins)
Hunter Hall
Chair: Sarah Gear, UK
Anna Maslenova, UK
Cathy McAteer, UK
Muireann Maguire, UK
Christina Karakepeli, UK

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12:40 12:40 Spotlight on the Baltic States
Light refreshments will be available

12:40 (40 mins)
McIntyre Room 201
Charles Clarke, UK
Dmitrijs Andrejevs, UK
John Freeman, UK

12:40
Scotland's Ukrainians - their story
Chair: Peter Kormylo
Gilbert Scott Room 250

A historiography of Scotland's Ukrainians over four waves of migration from 1890s to the present
12:40 (15 mins)
Peter Kormylo, University of Toronto  
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12:45
The Art Transfer in the Late USSR
Chair: Alexey Kotelvas
Discussant: Irina Nastasa?-Matei
East Quad Lecture Theatre
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My Tatars in Mordovia and other stories
Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (LT 103)

Slide show of monochrome photographs, 1991-2021.
13:00 (120 mins)
Shamil Khairov, University of Glasgow  
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Ruxit: Russia and the Council of Europe from beginning to an end
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva Muravyeva
Bute Hall

From Cooperation to Confrontation and Breakup: the European Court of Human Rights and Russian State Institutions
14:00 (15 mins)
Dmitry Kurnosov, University of Helsinki  

How Russia Joined the Council of Europe: The Role of Values, Politics, and Law
14:15 (15 mins)
Jeffrey Kahn, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law  

'Only Our Traditional Values': Human Rights of Women and LGBTQI+ people in the Russia-CoE relations
14:30 (15 mins)
Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki  

Inventing a New Justice. Lawyer's Reflection on Litigation in Russia without the ECtHR
14:45 (15 mins)
Denis Shedov, University of Helsinki  
New perspectives on revolutionary Russia
Chair: Sarah Badcock
James Watt South Stephenson Room

Critical infrastructure in Russian Cities in Troubled Times
14:00 (15 mins)
Lutz Häfner, University of Bielefeld  

Taking a Break from Revolution: Historians at the Village Haymaking in 1917-1918
14:15 (15 mins)
Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University  

Capitalism and socialism on the farm: I will compare Soviet collectivization policies in Kazakhstan with the enormous expansion of the British plantation economy in Kenya in the 1930s. I will analyze the two kinds of modernity that were imposed.
14:30 (15 mins)
Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles  
The Soviet Red Cross
14:00 (90 mins)
James Watt South Room 355
Chair: Joanne Laycock, UK
Hanna Matt, UK
Siobhan Hearne, UK
Severyan Dyakonov, Switzerland
Peter Whitewood, UK

Foreign policy
Chair: Nadja Douglas
East Quad Lecture Theatre
The Art Transfer in the Late USSR
Chair: Alexey Kotelvas
Discussant: Irina Nastasa?-Matei
East Quad Lecture Theatre

“Protean Spirit”: Uzbekistan’s Influence on China’s Foreign Policy
14:00 (15 mins)
Frank Maracchione, University of Sheffield  

EU and Russian hegemony in the ‘shared neighbourhood’: Between coercion, prescription, and co-optation
14:15 (15 mins)
Isabell Burmester, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva  

Uzbekistan's China policy in the time of Russia's war against Ukraine - deepening engagement and its policy implications
14:30 (15 mins)
Elzbieta Pron, University of Silesia in Katowice   

A new era of narrating a Ukrainian strategy and the European Union’s foreign policy: how the former is making a measurable difference on the latter
14:45 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Vdovychenko, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Aston University  

“The Russians are coming!” Imperial Decline and the Emergence of a Communist Challenge in Cold War Motorcycle Speedway
14:00 (20 mins)
Richard Mills, University of East Anglia  

Becoming an international sports leader : trajectories of Soviet representatives in international sports organizations during the Cold War
14:20 (20 mins)
Sylvain Dufraisse, Nantes université  

'Society Is Watching You Very Carefully’: Smuggling, the State and Athlete Attempts to Assert Agency in People's Poland
14:40 (20 mins)
Christopher Lash, Uczelnia Łazarskiego, NIP 527 02 09 936  
2:00
Identities in flux: engaging religion in periods of change
Chair: Stella Rock
Main Building Room 466

A Clergyman’s Daughter at the Age of Equality
14:00 (20 mins)
Irina Paert, University of Tartu  

Post-Soviet Muslims in Europe: Recycling the National into the Religious?
14:20 (20 mins)
Kristina Kovalskaya, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laicités (Paris)  

The Last Saint: St. Serafim of Sarov in Exile
14:40 (20 mins)
Peter Flew, UCL (SSEES)  
Gender perspectives on the Yugoslav Gastarbeiter migration
Chair: Sara Bernard
Discussant: Rebecca Kay
McIntyre Room 201

“I work and I exist”. Impact of (Yugoslav) gastarbaiters savings on women's emancipation in Imotska Krajina
14:00 (20 mins)
Sara Žerić, IOS Regensburg  

“Yugoslav immigration to France through a gender perspective, 1960s to present day”
14:20 (20 mins)
Juliette Ronsin, Ecole normale supérieure  

The silent returns. A gender-based analysis of the Gastarbeiter return and reintegration patterns in socialist Yugoslavia
14:40 (20 mins)
Sara Bernard, University of Glasgow  

Gaming Tricks: The Body of the Post-Soviet Spectator in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau (2019)
14:00 (15 mins)
Tatiana Efremova, Columbia University  

Recipes for Baking Bread: Stories from Holdomor
14:15 (15 mins)
Sara Nesteruk, University of Huddersfield  

The Internationale Buchkunst-Ausstellung and the Ideological Development of an Internationalist Design Sensibility.
14:30 (15 mins)
Claudia Lonkin, New York University  

Putin’s Oligarchs under Sanctions
14:00 (15 mins)
Ingvill Moe Elgsaas, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies  

The Political Economy of Transformation in Resource-Rich Countries: “Backward” Industrialisation and Relative Surplus Population in Uzbekistan
14:15 (15 mins)
Franco Galdini, The University of Manchester  

The political imprints of Soviet industrialisation in the long run: evidence from Kazakhstan
14:30 (15 mins)
Liu Peng, University of Minnesota  

Varieties of Capitalism: Which Model Did Russia Choose?
14:45 (15 mins)
Andrey Yakovlev, Davis Center Harvard University  

“Was, is: Criminology, Area Studies and the Neglect of the East”
14:00 (20 mins)
Laura Piacentini, University of Strathclyde  

Reflexivity as methodological guidance for war-time research: reflections of a Ukrainian, researching Ukraine
14:20 (20 mins)
Ielizaveta Rekhtman, University of Glasgow  

Relational Area Studies: Russia and geographies of knowledge
14:40 (20 mins)
Ammon Cheskin, University of Glasgow  
2:00 A Perspective for 2022-23 in Ukraine: The Russian Civil War, 1917-1920
14:00 (90 mins)
Gilbert Scott Room 356
Chair: Alex Marshall, UK
Evan Mawdsley, UK
Geoffrey Swain, UK
Murray Frame, UK

Social Agency in Conflict and Border Zones
Chair: Anita Khachaturova
Gilbert Scott Room 253

CSOs providing social services in de facto borderland (Abkhazia-Georgia): When (geo)political and social dynamics meet in Samegrelo, Georgia
14:00 (15 mins)
Gaëlle Le Pavic, Ghent University - United Nations University CRIS  

Hétérotopies of exile: discourses of disruptions, resistance and identity in the ‘How we left’ narratives of Russians after the February, 24th
14:15 (15 mins)
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova  Alexei Morozov  

The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakah war: affective experience and the ordinary in a protracted armed conflict
14:30 (15 mins)
Anita Khachaturova, Université libre de Bruxelles  
Freed with No Right to Leave: Former Gulag Prisoners and Their Lives on the Soviet Periphery
Chair: Miriam Dobson
Discussant: Miriam Dobson
Gilbert Scott Room 250

‘In Search of a Roof’: Urban Exclusion and Provincial Life in Dissident Lives?
14:00 (20 mins)
Polly Jones, University College, Oxford  

Culture Held Captive: The Role of Former Prisoner-Theatremakers in the Cultural and Artistic Development of Komi and Kolyma
14:20 (20 mins)
Jake Robertson, University of Oxford   

Former Gulag Prisoners in the Soviet Periphery: A (Virtual) Literary Community?
14:40 (20 mins)
Andrea Gullotta, University of Palermo  
Joseph Brodsky's Legacy
Chair: Joe Andrew
Discussant: Alexandra Smith
James Watt South Room 361

Joseph Brodsky's Postcards
14:00 (20 mins)
Natalia Rulyova, University of Birmingham  

A Room and a Half and the Art of Poetic Cinema.
14:20 (20 mins)
Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science  

Joseph Brodsky’s Creative Writing Pedagogy as an Approach to his Work
14:40 (20 mins)
Eugenia Kelbert Rudan, UEA (East Centre, Co-Director)  

Joseph Brodsky and the lives of the poet: questions of self-translation in “Tsushima Screen”, ‘24 May 1980’, and their Russian originals.
15:00 (15 mins)
Andrew Reynolds, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
Women’s Writing and Feminist Perspectives
Chair: Daria Dyakonova
Melville Room

Zinaida Gippius and Ekaterina Bakunina: Who Was the Better Feminist?
14:00 (15 mins)
Veselina Dzhumbeva, Queen Mary University of London  

Negotiating illness through the second language in Izabela Morska’s Znikanie (2019).
14:15 (15 mins)
Aneta Stepien, Maynooth University   

Unearthing Female Voices: Nastasya Kairova and Russian Journalism
14:30 (15 mins)
Iris Uccello, University of Verona  

The Spatiality of Belarusian Revolution: Poetics of Resistance and Defeat
14:45 (15 mins)
Yuliya Charnyshova  

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya at 200 and the “Brontification” of the Khvoshchinskaya Sisters
15:00 (15 mins)
Nora Seligman Favorov, Independant Scholar  
2:00
An uncanny dialogue: Lev Shestov’s philosophy as the ‘great’ art of not seeing and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic investigations of the unconscious mind
14:00 (15 mins)
Marina Ogden, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London  

"Zorved" as a Gesamtkunstwerk? Mikhail Matyushin on Sound, Colour, a Synthesis of the Arts and the Fourth Dimension
14:15 (15 mins)
Marina Lupishko, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum  

The 'Virtuosity' Argument of Kandinsky
14:30 (15 mins)
Paul Weber, Saarland University, Saarbruecken  
Scientists in Socialist Countries under the Pressure of the Cold War
14:00 (90 mins)
Main Building Room 132
Chair: Antonie Dolezalova, Czech Republic
Anna Sosnowska, Poland
Zarko Lazarevic, Slovenia
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Canada

Discussions about the Russian language and culture in different countries after February 24, 2022
14:00 (90 mins)
Main Building Room 134
Chair: Kapitolina Fedorova, Estonia
Vera Zvereva, Finland
Natalia Tshuikina, Estonia
Dieter Stern, Belgium
Jiyeon Lee, South Korea
Juldyz Smagulova, Kazakhstan

Trans-Regional Exchange in Motion: Cultural Fluidity in Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Europe
Chair: Olenka Pevny
Discussant: Simon Franklin
Gilbert Scott Room 251

Catalogus Librorum Omnium: Transferring the Library Cataloguing Models to the Early Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
14:00 (15 mins)
Stepan Blinder, University of Cambridge  

Cross-cultural trajectories and forms of governance in late medieval Moscow
14:15 (15 mins)
Angus Russell, University of Cambridge  

Relationships and Affective Language in Kyivan Rus’ Birchbark Letters, c.1100-1300
14:30 (15 mins)
Amelia Gardner-Thorpe, University of Cambridge  
Theatre and Performance
Chair: Jesse Gardiner
Robing Room

Anticipating the deluge: Revolted Ukraine in early-19th century French Theatre
14:00 (15 mins)
Georgia Tsichritzis, McGill University  

Breaking the 'Fifth' Wall: The Role of the Translator in British and American Staged Productions of the Works of Mikhail Bulgakov
14:15 (15 mins)
Hannah Klimas, University of Leeds  

Deconstructing the Stalinist stage: The revival of avant-garde theatre during the Thaw
14:30 (15 mins)
Jesse Gardiner, University of St Andrews  

Imposter phenomenon between Baroque and Avantgarde: Vsevolod Meyerhold’s "Revizor" and "Boris Godunov"
14:45 (15 mins)
Ekaterina Grineva, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)  
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4:00
Civil society as an actor in Ukraine’s nation-state building in wartime
16:00 (15 mins)
Viktor Stepanenko, Institute of Sociology, Nat.Academy of Ukraine  

Institutional changes of the political system in Ukraine under the impact of Russian military aggression.
16:15 (15 mins)
Galyna Zelenko, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies  

New attributes of the brand of Ukrainian democracy: democratic values as the key to the future of Ukraine.
16:30 (15 mins)
Kateryna Fedoryshyna, State University of Trade and Economics  

War as a catalyst of nation-building with the assistance of Diaspora communities
16:45 (15 mins)
Andrej N. Lushnycky, IICEE- University of Fribourg  
Ethnic and national groups, and migration
Chair: Anne White
James Watt South Stephenson Room

Romanian or Moldovan? Romania’s Kin-state Politics Vis-à-vis the Moldovan Minority in Ukraine
16:00 (1 mins)
Andreea Udrea, Royal Holloway University of London  

Turkey as a kin state: Turkish policy towards Muslim minority in Bulgaria under AKP
16:01 (15 mins)
Yana Volkova, Queen's University Belfast  
Institutions in Perestroika
Chair: Isaac Scarborough
Discussant: Kirsten Bönker
James Watt South Room 355

Institutionalization of national independent life in the USSR during perestroika. Jewish organizations and associations in Moscow after 1985
16:00 (20 mins)
Evgenii Kriakin  

Institutionalization of the environmental movement in Ukraine during perestroika in the Soviet Union
16:20 (20 mins)
Tetiana Perga, Institute of World History of National Academy of Science of Ukraine  

Perestroika as Mission: The ‘Voice[s] of Orthodoxy’ between Moscow and Berlin, 1985-1991
16:40 (20 mins)
Franziska Schedewie, University of Heidelberg, Historical Institute  
Intersectional Feminist Practices of Everyday Creativity in Postsocialism
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Discussant: Libora Oates-Indruchova
East Quad Lecture Theatre

“Young wolves” and “domestic hens”. The feminist political economy of creativity in the context of Polish socio-economic transformation.
16:00 (15 mins)
Aleksandra Fila, University of Graz  

Spatial Creativity as a Method: Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Collective Memories of Trauma
16:15 (15 mins)
Vera Sokolova, Charles University, Prague  

Textile Ways of Knowing: Postsocialist Struggle with Women's Authorship
16:30 (15 mins)
Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Charles University, Faculty of Humanities  

Toward a Prefigurative Politics of Care and Feminist Commons The Potential of (Re)Politicizing Analyses of Prague Community Gardens: A Critical Literature Review
16:45 (15 mins)
Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Graz  
BASEES-ZOiS Roundtable: What is the role of researchers amidst Russia’s war against Ukraine?
16:00 (90 mins)
Senate Room
Chair: Matthias Neumann, UK
Viktoria Sereda, Germany
Anastasiya Leuhkina, Germany
Yuliya Bidenko, Ukraine
Victoria Vdovychenko, UK

4:00
Elites, Activism and Political Participation
Chair: Ingvill Moe Elgsaas
Main Building Room 466

The role of institutional and interpersonal trust in Belarusian societal mobilisation 2020-2021
16:00 (15 mins)
Nadja Douglas, Centre for East European and International Studies  

Why Young Russians and Kazakhstanis Use or Do Not Use New Media in Political Participation
16:15 (15 mins)
Yerkebulan Sairambay, Suleyman Demirel University  

Not a Threat? Russian Elites’ Disregard for the “Islamist Danger” in the North Caucasus in the 1990s
16:30 (15 mins)
Vassily Klimentov, European University Institute  
Interwar population politics
Chair: Janek Gryta
McIntyre Room 201

Minority policy of interwar Poland in historical syntheses.
16:00 (15 mins)
Barbara Klassa, University of Gdańsk  

Non-Territorial Minority Arrangements in Interwar Soviet Ukraine
16:15 (15 mins)
Olena Palko, University of Basel  

Reform in the education system and the attitude of the Greek state towards the schools of the Albanian (Cam) minority
16:30 (15 mins)
Laurena Kalaja, Polis University  

The contribution of the Albanian Immigration Societies to the Albania minority rights during the interwar period
16:45 (15 mins)
Deona Çali, Active Learning Lab  

'The More You Oppress Them...': Seto Hyperfecundity and Eugenic Anxiety in Interwar Estonia
17:00 (15 mins)
Paris Pin-Yu Chen, University College London  

Imperial Russia as an Alternative to Bolshevism in Nazi Cinema
16:00 (15 mins)
Philip Decker, Princeton University  

Russian Digital Nationalism amid the Invasion of Ukraine: Mobilisation of Nationalist Organisations and Discourse
16:15 (15 mins)
Alexandra Brankova, Uppsala University, IRES  

The Battle of Spectacles over Monuments in Ukraine: Multimodal Analysis of Ukrainian and Crimean Telegram channels
16:30 (15 mins)
Anastasiya Pshenychnykh, Loughborough University  

The Caucasus in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Cinema. Between Ethnography and Orientalism
16:45 (15 mins)
Martina Morabito, Università degli Studi di Padova  

The Honest, Faithful, Eternal Nation: Shortparis’ music video ‘Strashno’ as critique of far-right Russian nationalism in mainstream Russian popular culture.
17:00 (15 mins)
Thomas Reid, University of St Andrews  
Petroimaginations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski
Fore Hall

The post-socialist transition road novel
16:00 (20 mins)
Myka Tucker-Abramson, University of Warwick  

Late Soviet Petrocinema: Farman Salmanov in Aleksandr Proshkin’s «Risk Strategy» (1978)
16:20 (20 mins)
Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  

PetroArt: Oil in Contemporary Russian Visual Arts
16:40 (20 mins)
Maria Engström, Uppsala University  
Lessons for Scholars of Russian Foreign and Security Policy from Russia's War in Ukraine
16:00 (90 mins)
James Watt South Room 375
Chair: Bettina Renz, UK
Katarzyna Kaczmarska, UK
Kevork Oskanian, UK
David Lewis, UK
Alexander Graef, Germany

4:00 Cold War at the Periphery and the Legacy of the Cold War
16:00 (90 mins)
Gilbert Scott Room 356
Chair: Geoffrey Swain, UK
Corina Snitar, UK
Mark Kramer, United States
Andrea Peto, Austria
Ksenia Wesolowska, UK


Cold War Keys: The Global Reach of Yugoslavia's UNIS-tbm typewriters
16:00 (20 mins)
K. Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania  

In Search of Socialist Erotica. An Alternative Archive of the Polish Sexual Revolution
16:20 (20 mins)
Anna Dobrowolska, Geneva Graduate Institute  

The Kingdom of Antique Televisions: Reparability and the Afterlives of Socialist Electronics
16:40 (20 mins)
Julia Mead, University of Chicago  
Presenting Western as Russian: Tactics of Appropriation in Russian Visual Culture
Chair: Rashel Zemlinskaya
Discussant: Catherine Phillips
Gilbert Scott Room 250

«The Russians are the largest rebus»: ideology and conflicts behind the cultural import of picture riddles (1845–1883)
16:00 (30 mins)
Ksenia Butuzova, Oxford University  

Archaism as Modernism:The Design of Soviet Popular Science Books on Ancient Russian Architecture in the second half of the 1950s-1980s
16:30 (30 mins)
Romanenkova Maria  

Peter the Great, Bacchus and the Cossack. Origins and Iconography of the Seal of Don Cossack Host (1704) in the context of Russian Visual Culture of the Peter I Era
17:00 (30 mins)
Ilia Malakhov  

Possessing Antiquity: Soviet Art History’s Reinvention of the National Cultural Heritage
17:30 (30 mins)
Rashel Zemlinskaya  
From women and LGBTQ+ prosecution to activism and resistance
Chair: Hadley Renkin
James Watt South Room 361

Anti-gender campaigns in Bulgaria: Actors, tendencies, and recent developments
16:00 (20 mins)
Shaban Darakchi, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  

Eurovision, queer visibility, and political transition in post-Soviet Europe
16:20 (20 mins)
Evgeny Gurin, University of Oxford, St Antony's College  

Not only NGOs and Protest Movements: Everyday activism in today’s Poland
16:40 (15 mins)
Piotr Goldstein, ZOiS Berlin  

Is Ukrainian a Pluricentric Language?
16:00 (15 mins)
Andriy Danylenko, Pace University, Modern Languages Department  

The Morphosyntax of Northeast (Polissian) Ukrainian
16:15 (15 mins)
Salvatore Del Gaudio, Institute of Philology, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University  

Dialectal umlaut of ’a > i in Southwest Ukrainian: The case of the Kryvorivnja dialect
16:30 (15 mins)
Oksana Lebedivna, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy  
4:00
Empires' Multiple Peripheries
Chair: Hanna Matt
Turnbull Room

“It’s better to go to Siberia”: the exile of the Finns from the Grand Duchy of Finland
16:00 (15 mins)
Larisa Kangaspuro, University of Helsinki  

Matter of Taste: On Coloniality of Dietary Discourses in the 18th century Ethnographic Texts from Siberia
16:15 (15 mins)
Olga Trufanova, Lüdwig-Maximilians-Universität München  

The Imperial Policy on the Native Language Education in Private Schools of the Polish and Baltic Provinces at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
16:30 (15 mins)
Yoko Aoshima, Hokkaido University  
History writing between East and West
Chair: Angus Russell
Main Building Room 132

E.H. Carr as Nationalities Scholar
16:00 (15 mins)
Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils / Ilia State University  Jeremy Smith, University of Eastern Finland  

John Erickson: a historian between East and West
16:15 (15 mins)
Niall Gray, University of Strathclyde  

Memories and Myths in the Knowledge Production on the Polish-Ukrainian War for Former Eastern Galicia (1918–1919)
16:30 (15 mins)
Martin Rohde, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies  Jagoda Wierzejska, University of Warsaw  

Negotiating a shared past: How historical commissions affect textbooks in Central Europe and North America (1972-present)
16:45 (15 mins)
Tadeusz Wojtych, University of Cambridge  

The Role of Nationalism in the Recent Historiography of the Origins of the First World War: Serbia and the Great Powers
17:00 (15 mins)
Teodoras Zukas, Vilnius University  
Memory politics and the Instrumentalisation of the past
Chair: Sam Knapton Knapton
Main Building Room 134

“For a European Croatia”: Miko Tripalo and the Memory of WWII, 1990-1995
16:00 (20 mins)
Mayuko Uno, The University of Tokyo  

“Witch-Hunting with History: A Study of Nationalism and Communism in Thailand and Czechoslovakia — Chit Phumisak and Václav Havel”
16:20 (20 mins)
Verita Sriratana, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University  Milada Polisenska, Anglo-American University  

Auschwitz in the popular imagination
16:40 (20 mins)
Alina Nowobilska, The Pilecki Institute  

Romani Holocaust Memory in Modern-day Romania
17:00 (20 mins)
Cristina Stoica, Western University  

The choices and the legacy of Dagestani leaders of the Russian Civil war: heroic narratives and ethnic identity in modern Dagestan
17:20 (20 mins)
Grigory Grigoryev, University of Helsinki  
Soviet Culture and its Evolution
Chair: Rafaela Bozic
Gilbert Scott Room 251

Valentin Kataev's "Time, Forward": Portraying "Asia" and “Asian” in Soviet Production Novels
16:00 (15 mins)
Kate Tomashevskaya, USC  

Ploughing the "red virgin soil": a study in "Krasnaja Nov'" first year.
16:15 (15 mins)
Virginia Pili, Roma Tre University  

Revolution and Emotion
16:30 (15 mins)
Rafaela Bozic, University of Zadar  

Khrushchev's Carnival: Overcoming Fear Through a Political Ritual
16:45 (15 mins)
Raphaëlle Auclert, ICES (Catholic Institute of Higher Studies)  

The Four Colors of Soviet Propaganda: Observing the Evolution of the Soviet Language and Aesthetics
17:00 (15 mins)
Georgii Khazagerov, Self Employed  

Life-Creation in Anti-Communist Martyrologies: Retelling the Life of Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa (1925-2006)
16:00 (20 mins)
Iona Ramsay, Universoity of Exeter  

Max Lawton and the Sorokinaissance - Zhiznetvorchesto in the Digital Age
16:20 (20 mins)
Sarah Gear, University of Exeter  

The Lives of Archpriest Avvakum and Patriarch Nikon in English: Translators’ Life-Creation Strategies
16:40 (20 mins)
Anna Maslenova, University of Exeter  

Mikhail Zenkevich, Translator of British Authors.
17:00 (15 mins)
Svetlana Cheloukhina, Queens College, CUNY  
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