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9:00
Russian philosophy at war
09:00 (15 mins)
Juliette Faure, Université Paris-Panthéon Assas  

The Galvanising Effects of War: Russian Nationalists’ “Identity Talk” Amid the Ukraine War
09:15 (15 mins)
Jules Sergei Fediunin, EHESS  

Wartime Putinism: Ideological Production and Institutional Support
09:30 (15 mins)
Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University  
The Politics of Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Lenka Buštiková
Discussant: Katarzyna Grzybowska-Walecka
Auditorium Lounge

Embedded Authoritarianism: Inclusive Autocratization in Hungary
09:00 (15 mins)
András Bozóki, Central European University  

Illiberal Youth? The participants of the right-wing protests in Poland.
09:15 (15 mins)
Katarzyna Walecka, Wadham College University of Oxford  

Mobilisation for and against liberal democracy in Central Europe
09:30 (15 mins)
Petra Gausti, Charles University, Prague  Lenka Bustikova, University of Florida  

Slovakia's Constitution on the Road to Illiberalism? The Role of Constitutional Design and Elites' Determinations
09:45 (15 mins)
Darina Malova, Comenius University  
Conflict, contestation, and (de)colonisation
Chair: Artur Nadiiev
CWB Plenary Room

A borderland rethinking her entangled history with Russia - The removal of Lenin statues in Finland in 2022
09:00 (15 mins)
Pia Koivunen, University of Turku  

Beyond Russia: 'Us' and 'Them' in the Rhetoric of Abkhaz and South Ossetian leaders
09:15 (15 mins)
Helge Blakkisrud, University of Oslo  

Ethics for Whom? Decolonizing Research Ethics Review in Eurasian Studies
09:30 (15 mins)
Jody LaPorte, University of Oxford  

Peaceful counter-secession and reintegration policy in the context of the Transnistrian conflict
09:45 (15 mins)
Ana Maria Albulescu, University of Tartu  

Creating a bystander. A 1965 scouts’ reconnaissance as a space of passing and dismantling the knowledge about the Holocaust in Poland
09:00 (20 mins)
Janek Gryta, University of Southampton  

Disorientation: the Holocaust Memory after 1968
09:20 (20 mins)
Joanna Nizynska, Indiana University  

Polish Holocaust Memory in the Era of Transformation: A Post-Dependence Perspective
09:40 (20 mins)
Katarzyna Anzorge, University of Lodz   

Ethical machine translation? A case study of the post-editing of Russian feminist poetry
09:00 (20 mins)
Matilda Hicklin, University of Bristol  

The Power of Paratexts – Marketing Contemporary Russian Literature in the Anglophone West
09:20 (20 mins)
Sarah Gear, University of Exeter  

What is translation, anyway? Two "general theories" of translation, with and without machine translation
09:40 (20 mins)
Suzanne Eade Roberts, PhD student, Bristol and Exeter Universities  
9:00
Media, communication, and censorship
Chair: Sofie Bedford
CWB Syndicate 3

How to suppress anti-war dissent: An image of Russian war propaganda and censorship on aggression against Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Violetta Fitsner, OVD-Info  Elena Lipatova  

Meme-Ing Waves: Unpacking Political Narratives in The Romanian Context
09:15 (15 mins)
Mihaela Mihailescu, University of Bath  

The Politics of Pacification: Analyzing the Kremlin's Approaches to Managing Public Sentiment in Times of War
09:30 (15 mins)
Olga Vlasova, King's College London  

This is not a war! Sociolinguistic frequency analysis of Russian ideological concepts in wartime
09:45 (15 mins)
Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum WorldWide  
New approaches to disinformation in (and beyond) the Russian context
Chair: Stephen Hutchings
Discussant: Alexandr Voronovici
Games Room

‘It’s Not That Simple, We Do Not Know the Whole Truth’: Disinformation Discourse, Media Trust, and Political Attitudes in Russia in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Maxim Alyukov, University of Manchester  

Evolution of Russia's State-Sponsored Trolling, Its Discursive Strategies and Post-Prighozhin Dynamics
09:15 (15 mins)
Maksim Markelov, University of Manchester  

'Russia and COVID-19: How to Capture the Disinformation Cycle'
09:00 (15 mins)
Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester  Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, University of Mancheter  

The atrocity story on the incident in Odesa, May 2014: Making of the collective belief in Web 2.0 environment
09:45 (15 mins)
Aleksei Titkov, The University of Manchester  

Soviet POW monuments in Norway: local society dynamics and Russian use
09:00 (15 mins)
Marianne Neerland Soleim, The Arctic University of Norway  

The Kirkenes Red Army Liberation Commemorations in Norwegian-Russian Bilateral Relations, 1994-2024
09:15 (15 mins)
Kari Aga Myklebost, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  

Monumental memory policies; Russian uses of war memorials in Northern Norway, 2014 – 2023
09:30 (15 mins)
Joakim Markussen, UiT the Arctic University of Norway  

Svalbard as a tool of Russian memory politics: The Arc-of-Meridian Case
09:45 (15 mins)
Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway  

Fragmented Perspectives on the Concept of Baltic Colonialism in the Early Modern Atlantic
09:00 (15 mins)
John Freeman, University of Warsaw  

Freising and the Slavs. Bishop Abraham’s importance to Christianity in Carantania
09:15 (15 mins)
Anke Lenssens, Ghent University  

Let’s Talk About Mountains. The Environmental History of Pre-Modern Southern and Eastern Carpathians and Its Supra-Regional Contribution
09:30 (15 mins)
Kata Tóth, University of Vienna  

Reshaping the Capital: Fifteenth/Sixteenth-Century Muscovite Construction Projects in the Litsevoi letopisnyi svod
09:45 (15 mins)
Earl Hodil, Pomona College, Department of History  

The Committee of Oppressed Peoples (Ukrainians, Belorussians, Lithuanians) (Paris, 1924)
09:00 (15 mins)
Serhiy Blavatskyy, The University Lumière Lyon-2  

Contesting the Russian Identity of the Nansen Passport: Ukrainian and Jewish Challenges
09:15 (15 mins)
Tatiana Khripachenko, University of Bonn   

National Discourse in the Communist Movement in Subcarpathian Rus in the 1920s
09:30 (15 mins)
Anastasiia Luzhanytsia , Slovak Academy of Sciences  

Social networks and local institutions in late Habsburg Braşov: an examination of the city’s commercial and industrial elites
09:45 (15 mins)
Megan Palmer, University of Nottingham  
9:00
Approaches to Religion in War
Chair: Victoria Hudson
Selwyn Diamond Suite

Orthodoxy's and Islam's Roles in Enemy Propaganda in Russia during the War against Ukraine
09:00 (20 mins)
Viktor Lambin, University of Helsinki   

Projecting dominance? Islam in Russia’s persuasive and manipulative threat narration
09:20 (20 mins)
Mira Ruokolainen, University of Helsinki  

Religion and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: engaging with the postcolonial perspective
09:40 (20 mins)
Marat Shterin, King's College London   
Besieged by the Future 3: Taming Post-Socialist Economies
Chair: Egle Rindzeviciute
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

Coordinating the Future: Thoughts on Entangled History of Socialist Future Planning(s)?
09:00 (20 mins)
Jan Surman, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS  

Guessing the Unpredictable: Industrial Management and the Rise of the Market Economy in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, 1980s-1990s
09:20 (20 mins)
Vítězslav Sommer, Institute of Contemporary History  

Knowledge Acquisition and Travel Reports about the “West” in Cold War Hungary
09:00 (15 mins)
Szabolcs Laszlo, New Europe College  

Left-Wing Scientific Diplomacy and History of Science: The Cases of Joseph Needham and John Desmond Bernal
09:15 (15 mins)
Fabian Link, Universität Wuppertal  

Science Diplomacy in newly independent Australia post-1901
09:30 (15 mins)
John Webb, Swinburne University of Technology  
Ukraine's Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience
Chair: Elmira Muratova
Selwyn Old Library Room 4

Collective Memory, Islam and Survival Strategies of Crimean Tatars in Occupied Crimea
09:00 (15 mins)
Elmira Muratova, European Center for Minority Issues  

Evangelical Christian pacifism in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine.
09:15 (15 mins)
Tatiana Vagramenko, University College Cork  

Going beyond regional: digital media presence of the Greek-Catholic Church in time of the Russo-Ukrainian war
09:30 (15 mins)
Nadia Zasanska, Europa-Universität Flensburg  

When the War Returns... Public Discourses of the Jewish Communities in Contemporary Ukraine
09:45 (15 mins)
Alla Marchenko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  

​​Exploring the Everyday of 'Voluntary Exile' in Higher Education
09:00 (15 mins)
Sofya Smyslova, University of Cambridge  

The identity challenge of Russian universities
09:15 (15 mins)
Angelika Tsivinskaya  
9:00
Negative concord and negative coordination in East Slavic languages
09:00 (20 mins)
Egor Tsedryk, Saint Mary's University  

The Interaction between Negation and Slovene Indefinite Pronouns
09:20 (20 mins)
Kristina Gregorčič, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts  

Polarity-dependent expressions in Czech: experimental evidence
09:40 (20 mins)
Mojmír Dočekal, Masaryk University  

Licensing negative indefinites in Strict Negative Concord Hungarian
10:00 (20 mins)
Gréte Dalmi, Dept of Finno-Ugric Studies, University of Hamburg  
Connecting the Caucasus and Central Asia: Past, Present, and Future
09:00 (90 mins)
Teaching Room 4
Chair: Roman Osharov, University of Oxford
Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils / Ilia State University
Abigail Scripka, ZZF Potsdam
Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University
M Zekhni, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Russia as exceptional: reflective reasoning?
09:00 (90 mins)
Teaching Room 5
Chair: R Taras, Tulane University, Political S
Vera Ageeva, SciencesPo
Yulia Kurnyshova, University of Copenhagen
Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa
David Lane, Cambridge University

Post-Soviet Literature
Chair: Aleksei Surin
Teaching Room 6

“Christian Fantasy” of Iuliia Voznesenskaia: Between Fiction and Orthodox Apologetics
09:00 (15 mins)
Melaniia Kalinina  

Buying books online: a curious case of value-making by Russian readers
09:15 (15 mins)
Ksenia Papazova, The University of Manchester  

Guzel Iakhina and the Suffering of the Children
09:30 (15 mins)
David Gillespie  

Transformative Archive of Literary Minsk Online
09:45 (15 mins)
Hanna Horn, --  

Guards officers' conversions to monasticism: the late Leo Tolstoy in the discussion of the religious practices of Orthodoxy and Tolstoyism.
09:00 (20 mins)
Natalia Borisova, University of Konstanz/University of Tuebingen  

Social changes in the late Russian Empire and their influence on the literary representation of the clergy
09:20 (20 mins)
Marta Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw  

Soul Testing and Experiments: Psychology at Theological Academies in the Russian Empire
09:40 (20 mins)
Maksim Demin, Ruhr University Bochum  
9:00
A comparative analysis of individual well-being across income-quantiles in Central and Eastern Europe
09:00 (15 mins)
Paulina Lenik, Kozminski University Warsaw  

Comparative analysis of the skills among IT specialists in Russia and USA
09:15 (15 mins)
Sergey Sosnovskikh, Manchester Metropolitan University  

Econometric modeling of foreign economic relations of Kazakhstan and assessment of the impact of external influences on its economy (pandemic, sanctions)
09:30 (15 mins)
Marat Myrzakhmet, Almaty Management University  
Reimagining Russian culture in the 1960s-2020s through Women's Perspectives.
Chair: Liudmilla Trigos
Discussant: Carol Ueland
Teaching Room B

“Olga Sedakova’s Cycle "The Chinese Journey” (1980, 1986) As a Reinvention of Nikolay Gumilev’s Vision of China”.
09:00 (20 mins)
Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh  

Poetic Words Against the War: Vera Pavlova and Evgeniya Berkovich
09:20 (20 mins)
Olga Partan, College of the Holy Cross  

Shaping the Emblem of Soviet Russia for the West – the Image of female gymnasts in Soviet cinema.
09:40 (20 mins)
Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science  
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11:00 Access Denied: Contending with barriers in the field and within the field in Slavic and Russian Studies
11:00 (90 mins)
Auditorium
Chair: Nikolay Sarkisyan, University of Oxford
Alina Kontareva, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Grigory Grigoryev, University of Helsinki
Nina Kruglikova, Independent Scholar, UK

Russia’s war on Ukraine 2
Chair: Bo Petersson
Auditorium Lounge

From ‘cleansing’ to ‘filtration’, incarceration and expulsion in the Balkans and Ukraine
11:00 (20 mins)
Brendan Humphreys, University of Helsinki   

The Role of Historical Memory and Vicarious Identification in British, German, and Latvian Foreign Policy Responses to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
11:20 (20 mins)
Karl Stuklis, University of Glasgow  

The Impact of the Ukraine War on the Western Balkans: What is at Stake going Forward?
11:40 (15 mins)
Ritsa Panagiotou, Center of Planning and Economic Research  
Authoritarian backsliding and forms of resistance 1
Chair: Agnieszka Kubal
Discussant: Birgit Apitzsch
CWB Plenary Room

Alice in Genderland: Romanian Feminism as an Assertive Paradigm of Opposition to Democratic Deconsolidation and Illiberalism
11:00 (15 mins)
Roxana Dumitrache, NSPAS, Bucharest  

Authoritarian backsliding observed from a distance? German judges and judges associations’ perceptions of threats to the rule of law
11:15 (15 mins)
Birgit Apitzsch, Ruhr-University Bochum  Zeynep Bozkurt, Ruhr University Bochum  

The Preliminary Ruling as a Sword used by the Romanian Judicial Associations in Preventing Rule of Law Decay
11:30 (15 mins)
Raluca Bercea, Law Faculty, West University of Timișoara  

Life in Chapters: Displacement of Polish Women during the Second World War.
11:00 (20 mins)
Olga Topol, The British Library  

The challenges of resettlement. Polish refugees in post-war Britain. Questions of national identity and diversity. Polish transnationalism.
11:20 (20 mins)
Agata Blaszczyk, University of Oxford  
On Music, Migrations, Diaspora and Cultural Exchanges
Chair: Ivana Medić
Discussant: Ivana Medić
CWB Syndicate 2

Ambassador for Non-Conformist Soviet Music
11:00 (15 mins)
Fiona Jackson, University of Bristol  

Perceptions of Music in Communist Romania and Their Impact on a Generation of Emigrant Composers
11:15 (15 mins)
Ana Diaconu, National University of Music Bucharest  

Ukrainian Composers in the United Kingdom: Three Waves of Emigration
11:30 (15 mins)
Mariia Romanets, University of Bristol  
11:00
Political Participation and Democracy in CEE
Chair: Elina Troscenko
CWB Syndicate 3

Challenges of Local Communities to Strengthen Civil Society in Latvia
11:00 (20 mins)
Anete Usca, European University Institute  

Street Fighters: performing sovereignty in Georgia.
11:20 (20 mins)
Elina Troscenko, University of Bergen  

Bunkering the Nation: The Politicization of Ukraine’s Shelters Amidst Russia’s Aggression
11:40 (20 mins)
Marnie Howlett, University of Oxford  
BASEES/ZOiS Book Roundtable
11:00 (90 mins)
Games Room
Chair: Matthias Neumann, University of East Anglia
Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge
Olga Onuch, University of Manchester

Myths, memories and commemorations in the North II
Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski
Garden Room

Local libraries and their role in the making of memory about the Great Patriotic War in the Pechenga region, 2000s-2020s
11:00 (20 mins)
Elena Kochetkova, University of Bergen  

Memory landscapes in the Norwegian - Russian borderland
11:20 (20 mins)
Petia Mankova, UIT The Arctic University of Norway  

Contested memories of the violent past in a border region: the political use of Stalinist and Finnish terror in post-Soviet Russian Karelia
11:40 (20 mins)
Artem Spirin, University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway  
Publishing in Academic Journals and Books
11:00 (90 mins)
JCR
Chair: Madeleine Markey, Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Tony Mason, Central European University (CEU) Press
David Smith, University of Glasgow; Europe-Asia Studies
Rico Isaacs, University of Lincoln; Central-Asian Survey


Between agriculture and industry: peasant economic practices (promysly) and modernisation in the European North of the late Russian Empire
11:00 (20 mins)
Vasily Borovoy, University College Dublin  

Buying money with sheep: Iarmarki, trade circuits and scales of rural life in the late Russian empire
11:20 (20 mins)
Jennifer Keating, University College Dublin  

Pennies, crusts, or a bed for the night? Alms and charitable transactions in late Imperial Russian villages.
11:40 (20 mins)
Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham  
11:00
Religion as a cultural and political resource in Russia
Chair: Marat Shterin
Selwyn Diamond Suite

How the Orthodox Church in Russia reinforces the authoritarian discourse by controlling family policy and incorporating ‘traditional values’
11:00 (15 mins)
Marina Iaroslavtseva  

Locating the role of neo-Paganism in far-right groups on the Russian socio-political landscape
11:15 (15 mins)
Victoria Hudson, King's College London  

Militant religiosity embedded in Russia’s war rhetoric
11:30 (15 mins)
Santeri Kytöneva, University of Helsinki  

The significance of the ‘Old Believer’ merchants in the development of Russian culture
11:45 (15 mins)
John Nelson, Aleksanteri Institute  
Besieged by the Future 4: Infrastructuring Preservation and Ruination
Chair: Egle Rindzeviciute
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

Dark Reconstruction: Russian Architecture-after-urbicide in Ukraine, Chechnya and Syria
11:00 (20 mins)
Michal Murawski, SSEES, UCL  

The Future of the Past: Restoration, Conservation, and the Practices of Malleable and Reversible Histories
11:20 (20 mins)
Irina Sandomirskaja, Sodertorn University  

The Khrushchevka Renaissance, or the Future of Soviet Architectural “Detritus”
11:40 (20 mins)
Ekaterina Mizrokhi, University of Cambridge  
Religion and politics
Chair: Alma Prelec
Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3

"Rotting West and The Holy Mother Russia“: Pro-Russian Propaganda in Montenegro about the War in Ukraine
11:00 (15 mins)
Boban Batrićević , Faculty for Montenegrin language and literature  

From Religion to Ethnonationalism - Civil Society-Based Prevention Programming in Bosnia and Herzegovina
11:15 (15 mins)
Laura Welty, The Australian National University   

Political Orthodoxy as a Source of Soft Power in Russia and Serbia
11:30 (15 mins)
Milan Vukomanović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy  

Red Bishops, Orthodox Commissars? A mixed-methods case-study of the causal factors determining the relationship between the Communist Party and the Orthodox Church, in post-Soviet Russia.
11:45 (15 mins)
George Hajipavli, University of Oxford  
The Power of Objects: Critical Studies of the Indigenous Heritage in Siberia
Chair: Nadezhda Mamontova
Discussant: Ekaterina Melnikova
Selwyn Old Library Room 4

"You know that I can't walk without a Khanty dress" - Exploring the Meaning and Practice of Indigenous clothing in Western Siberia
11:00 (15 mins)
Stephan Dudeck, University of Tartu  

Contextualizing Buddhist Relics and Archaeological Human Remains in two Siberian Museums
11:15 (15 mins)
Ksenia Pimenova, Université Paris Nanterre / LESC  

The biographies of entangled humans and nonhumans: Nenets reindeer herders’ relations with powerful things
11:30 (15 mins)
Laur Vallikivi, University of Tartu  

The journeys of the Nganasan idol there and back again: Ownership, inheritance and identity in indigenous heritage production 
11:45 (15 mins)
Mariia Mochalova  

The uneasy fates of ritual objects of the Asiatic Yupik: heritage that is preserved and destroyed, hidden and passed on
12:00 (15 mins)
Dmitriy Oparin, Université Bordeaux Montaigne  
11:00
Language and Scholarship, Linguistic Theory
Chair: Natasha Parker
Seminar Room

‘Protecting Polish’ as a National Identity Construction Strategy in Polish Discourse of Linguistics (1989–2015)
11:00 (20 mins)
Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London  

Slavonic Languages in Early Modern Scholarship
11:20 (20 mins)
Sanja Peric Gavrancic, Institute for the Croatian Language   
Sport, Politics, and the Transnational Cold War: New Approaches and Challenges
11:00 (90 mins)
Teaching Room 4
Chair: Sylvain Dufraisse, Nantes université
Richard Mills, University of East Anglia
Lorenzo Venuti, Università degli Studi di Firenze

19th-Century Russian Literature and Culture
Chair: Sasha Rasmussen
Teaching Room 5

Dostoevsky's "Poor Folk" (1846) and the Mephistophelian Intention of Good
11:00 (15 mins)
Inna Tigountsova, University College London  

Judicial Narratives and Social Transformations: four trials in the era of the Great Reforms in Russia
11:15 (15 mins)
Iris Uccello, University of Verona  

Narratives and Intentions: Journal Contents and Intellectual Interactions during the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History
11:30 (15 mins)
Po-yi Chen, University of Texas, Austin  

Polish–Russian Musical Encounters in the Nineteenth Century: Concert Life, Education and the Publishing Industry.
11:45 (15 mins)
Renata Suchowiejko, Jagiellonian University  

Sobornost: Totalitarian Connotations
12:00 (15 mins)
Dmitry Biriukov, Freie University Berlin  

After Stalin: The Thaw as a Path to New Perspectives in Soviet Russian Poetry
11:00 (20 mins)
Martina Zagni, University of Greifswald  

Creating a new poetic community: 20th-century Russophone poets in diaspora
11:20 (20 mins)
Katharine Hodgson, University of Exeter  

Poems after the End: Memories of Modernism in the Late Poetry of Vasilisk Gnedov (1890-1978) and Leonid Martynov (1905-1980)
11:40 (20 mins)
James Rann, University of Glasgow  
Jewish Culture and Memory
Chair: Jan Kutílek
Teaching Room 7

Dan Pagis’ Enigma: A Biography Journey in His Footsteps
11:00 (15 mins)
Hadas Shabat Nadir, Kibbutzim College of Education,  

Ida Nappelbaum and Olga Ziv - two literary responses to Zhdanov
11:15 (15 mins)
Dave Weller, University of Exeter  

Russophone Literature of the Holocaust in the 21st Century: The View from Israel
11:30 (15 mins)
Aleksei Surin, Bar-Ilan University   

Samizdat and the Remaking of Jewish Culture in Leningrad: A Soviet Reading of Vladislav Khodasevich and Shaul Tchernichovsky in the Leningradskiĭ evrejskiĭ alʹmanakh
11:45 (15 mins)
Benjamin Arenstein, University of Chicago  
11:00
Effective Inefficiency of Natural Resource Funds in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
11:00 (20 mins)
Teymur Khalafov, University of Glasgow  

Environmental Investments and State Funding as Mechanisms of Corruption: The Case of Russia
11:20 (20 mins)
Sergey Sosnovskikh, Manchester Metropolitan University  

Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Interests of GCC Hydrocarbon Producers in the New Realities of the 4th Energy Transition
11:40 (20 mins)
Nikolay Kozhanov, Qatar University  

"You were not supposed to ask that question". Autobiographical memory of agents of the communist security apparatus.
11:00 (15 mins)
Piotr Osęka, Institute of Political Studies PAS  

Censored: Examining the standards, personnel, and censorship technology in the Soviet military press, 1944–1945
11:15 (15 mins)
Alemzhan Arinov, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University  

Communist or Muslim: Soviet Muslim Operatives, the KGB, and Islam in the 1970s-1980s
11:30 (15 mins)
Vassily Klimentov, University of Zurich  

Uncovering secrets in archival inventories: a case study of the Moscow KGB archive
11:45 (15 mins)
Liudmila Lyagushkina, University of Nottingham  
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2:00 Russia and Ukraine: entangled histories, diverging states (book round table)
14:00 (90 mins)
Auditorium
Chair: Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge
Oxana Shevel, Tufts University
Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, The University of Manchester
Andrew Wilson, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Maria Popova, McGill University
Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Activism and protest
Chair: Elliot Napier
Auditorium Lounge

Brave New Joke: Meta-Humour as a political action in Russia, Belarus, and the US
14:00 (15 mins)
Yahor Azarkevich, University of Warwick  

Discourses on “far-right” politics in Georgia - analyzing the case of illiberal protest movement
14:15 (15 mins)
Nino Khelaia, Freie Universität Berlin  

Georgian Civil Society Strategies against Judicial Oligarchy: when “judiciary must be saved.”
14:30 (15 mins)
Ana Andguladze, Université libre de Bruxelles  

Interacting with the Past: Historical Symbolism in Youth Activism in Slovenia and Croatia
14:45 (15 mins)
Zala Pavšič, Kozep-europai Egyetem   

The politics of LGBTQ+ belonging in the Balkans: A relational-comparative case study of movements in Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia
15:00 (15 mins)
Meg Poff, City, University of London  

Attentive Publics: Infrastructuring the Frontier of Russian Anti-war Movements.
14:00 (15 mins)
Svetlana Chuikina, Karlstad University  

Putin’s ‘Cultural Front’: Russian Art in the Service of War
14:15 (15 mins)
Tatiana Romashko, University of Jyväskylä  

Reporting on Political Grounds and Denunciation Practices in Russia: Past and Present
14:30 (15 mins)
Oksana Ermolaeva, Complutense University  

Silencing Anti-War Voices: Marginalizing Effects of Denunciations in Prosecutions in Russia
14:45 (15 mins)
Mariia Nemova, OVD-Info  

War, what is it good for? Construals, emotions, and anti-/pro-war action in Russia.
15:00 (15 mins)
Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Durham University  
Transnationalising Polish Studies
Chair: Krzysztof Rowiński
CWB Syndicate 1

Anthropology of Otherness, Anthropology of Polishness: Witkiewicz, Malinowski, and Conrad in the Tropics
14:00 (20 mins)
Ola Sidorkiewicz, University of Oxford  

Olga Tokarczuk Across Languages
14:20 (20 mins)
Kasia Szymanska, University of Manchester  

Why Polish Studies need a transnational turn
14:40 (20 mins)
Krzysztof Rowinski, Trinity College Dublin  
Constitutions, leaders, and non-democracy
Chair: Sergei Katsuba
CWB Syndicate 2

“The Constitutional Manifesto”: The Strategic Advantage of Constitutional Amendment to Non-Democrats During the Initiation Stage
14:00 (15 mins)
Paul Fisher, UCL SSEES  

Hegemonic masculinity and Political Image-making in the post-Soviet spaces: a Comparative analysis of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Saparmurat Niyazov-Turkmenbashi
14:15 (15 mins)
Ruta Skriptaite, University of Nottingham  

How Constitutionalism Manifests in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
14:30 (15 mins)
Matteo Bonini, University of Oxford  

Power to – or from – the people? Referendums and the construction of support in authoritarian regimes
14:45 (15 mins)
Ben Noble, UCL  

The Demise of the Russian Gravity Centre
15:00 (15 mins)
Stephen Hall, University of Bath  
2:00
European Union’s Foreign Policy facing war in Ukraine – the future role of the Eastern Partnership
14:00 (20 mins)
Florence Ertel, University of Passau  

Political Risks in the Post-Soviet Region: Geopolitical & Country Risks: Business Management Strategies
14:20 (20 mins)
Hannes Meissner, UAS BFI Vienna  

Recent Changes in the Internal and External Context of a Central Asian State
14:40 (20 mins)
Julian Plottka, University of Bonn  

The Soviet School of Montage and Chinese Cultural Discourses at the Turn of 1920s
14:00 (20 mins)
Ran Wei, Durham University  

Visualizing Absurdity: Daniil Kharms and Slobodan Pešić's The Kharms Case
14:20 (20 mins)
Sofija Todorović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology  

Political Crises in 1917 as Laboratories of Conflict Discourse in Russia
14:00 (15 mins)
Konstantin Tarasov  

The End of Exile: The Politics of Going Home amid War and Revolution.
14:15 (15 mins)
Lynne Hartnett, Villanova University  

The Macedonian Front and the End of Imperial Russia, 1915 – 1919: Forgotten Campaign or an Early Flashpoint?
14:30 (15 mins)
Samuel Foster, University of East Anglia  

The Role of the Tsarist Secret Police during First World War: Security Challenges and Dilemmas
14:45 (15 mins)
Jamie Bryson, University of Exeter  

"We Are Still Carrying the Torch": Older Activists in Volunteer Organizations under Khrushchev.
14:00 (20 mins)
Alissa Klots, University of Pittsburgh  

“Secular sacred” of Shared Heritage: the Soviet Utopias and the Volunteer Activism at Valaam
14:20 (20 mins)
Ekaterina Melnikova  

Drops of Solidarity: Soviet Red Cross Volunteers and Blood Donation in the Post-Stalin USSR
14:40 (20 mins)
Siobhán Hearne, University of Manchester  
Demystifying Open Access
14:00 (90 mins)
Linnett Room
Chair: Madeleine Markey, Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Jen McCall, Central European University (CEU) Press
Marat Shterin, King's College London: Religion, State and Society

2:00
Religion as an agent of change in Russia
Chair: John Nelson
Selwyn Diamond Suite

Besedniki: A Unique Community Inside Russian Orthodoxy
14:00 (20 mins)
Anastasia Mitrofanova  

Did Britain Save Patriarch Tikhon from Execution in 1923?
14:20 (20 mins)
Scott Kenworthy, Miami University  

Monasticism in the World: Tikhonites and the cult of St. Serafim of Sarov
14:40 (20 mins)
Peter Flew, UCL (SSEES)  
Besieged by the Future 5: Environing Technologies of Space, Climate and the Atom
Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

“A Little Sputnik That Could”: Poetic Technologies and Historical Future
14:00 (15 mins)
Alexei Kojevnikov, University of British Columbia  

Soviet and Russian Climate Futures and Environmental Future-making
14:15 (15 mins)
Jonathan Oldfield, University of Birmingham  

Ukraine’s Nuclear Future Imaginaries: From Chernobyl to Independence to the Russian War
14:30 (15 mins)
Tatiana Kasperski, Sodertorn University  

A Protestant State in the Multi-confessional Commonwealth? The Image of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the International Level in the Early Modern Period
14:00 (20 mins)
Hanna Mazheika, University of Turku  

Belarusian Liturgical Books in the Hungarian Kingdom: Sources and Evidence of the Confessionalization and Migration of Ideas between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Habsburg Empire
14:20 (20 mins)
Sándor Földvári  

Identification and description of Belarusian first printed books: Francysk Skaryna heritage in the world
14:40 (20 mins)
Aliaksandr Susha, International Association for Belarusian Studies  
Emerging Russian diasporas and anti-war movements in Europe and in the South Caucasus
14:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Old Library Room 4
Chair: Margarita Zavadskaya, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Tsypylma Darieva, Centre for East European and International Studies
Tatiana Golova, Centre for East European and International Studies
Olga Bronnikova, Universite Grenoble Alpes

Nineteenth-Century Russian Studies in the UK: The State of the Field
14:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Walters Room
Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University
Anna Berman, University of Cambridge
Margarita Vaysman, University of Oxford
Sarah Hudspith, University of Leeds
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, University of St Andrews
Marta Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw

2:00
Regional variation and the development of written / standard Ukrainian
Chair: Jan Fellerer
Discussant: Jan Fellerer
Seminar Room

A formation of new standard Ukrainian: The case of the Kryvorivnja (Hutsul) parish register books
14:00 (20 mins)
Oksana Lebedivna, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy  

The language of a Galician Bible translation of 1921 as a reflection of the state and status of Ukrainian
14:20 (20 mins)
Liliya Bachun, Oxford University  

To devoice or not to devoice? From a history of one debate over the neutralization of obstruents in Ukrainian
14:40 (20 mins)
Andriy Danylenko, Pace University, Modern Languages Department  
Figuring Class through Culture: Representations and Practices in Postsocialist Eastern Europe
Chair: Mischa Gabowitsch
Discussant: Ondřej Daniel
Teaching Room 4

Grounding work: Subjectification as middle class in postsocialist Romania
14:00 (20 mins)
Magdalena Craciun, University of Bucharest  

Teaching viewers how the market works: Television didacticism and the building of a middle class in 1990s Czech Republic and Slovakia
14:20 (20 mins)
Veronika Pehe, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy o  

The Fine Line Between Classes. Politics of representing class difference in contemporary Polish docusoaps
14:40 (20 mins)
Magda Szcześniak, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw  Krzysztof Świrek, University of Warsaw  
Constructing Memory in/about Russia: Sites, Texts, Monuments
Chair: Benjamin Musachio
Discussant: Peter Budrin
Teaching Room 5

“Unforgettable Memorial of My Momentary Bliss”: Nature as a Place of Personal Memory in Russian Sentimentalism
14:00 (20 mins)
Oleg Larionov, University of Oxford  

Russian Temples of Fame: the Idea of Public Pantheon at the Time of Alexander I and Nicolas I
14:20 (20 mins)
Elena Aksamentova, University of Tartu   

Landscape and Literary Memory: The Poet’s Grave as Materialization of The Classical Canon and Political Dissent in 19th Century Russia.
14:40 (15 mins)
Daria Sinichkina, Faculté des Lettres Sorbonne Université  
Entangled cultural transfers and East Central Europe
Chair: Elżbieta Kwiecińska
Teaching Room 6

Colonial Transfers: Poles in British Africa during World War II
14:00 (15 mins)
Piotr Puchalski, University of the National Education Commission  

Käthe Schirmacher and her Polish sisters. Feminism, nationalism, inequality
14:15 (15 mins)
Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez, Instytut Slawistyki PAN  

Ladomir: The Concept of Eco-Social Utopia in the Works of Velimir Khlebnikov.
14:30 (15 mins)
Katarzyna Roman-Rawska, The Institute of Slavic Studies  

Max Weber’s German Civilizing Mission, 'Polnische Wirtschaft' and Making Cultural Theories of Capitalism
14:45 (15 mins)
Elzbieta Kwiecinska, University of Warsaw  
Carpathian Visions: Polish, Ukrainian and Soviet Imaginings of the Hutsuls, 1918-1941
Chair: Stefan Lacny
Discussant: Patrice Dabrowski
Teaching Room 7

Between exoticism and Polishness: the interwar Polish discourse on the Hutsul Region and the Hutsuls
14:00 (20 mins)
Jagoda Wierzejska, University of Warsaw  

The transregional making of an ethnographic region. The Hutsul Region in interwar Ukrainian ethnography
14:20 (20 mins)
Martin Rohde, IOS Regensburg  

Uncovering Ukrainianness: Hutsul Folk Customs and Ukrainian Identity in Soviet Cultural Production, 1939-1941
14:40 (20 mins)
Stefan Lacny, MMLL Faculty, University of Cambridge  
2:00
Historical Perspective on Russia's Economic Colonisation
Chair: Agzamkhon Niyazkhdojayev
Teaching Room A

‘Belarusians are basically Slavic Estonians’. Similarities and differences in industrial management policies in BSRR and ESSR between 1955 and 1985.
14:00 (15 mins)
Kacper Wańczyk, Kozminski University 524-10-05-438  

Cotton, Colonization & Development in Imperial Turkestan
14:15 (15 mins)
Agzamkhon Niyazkhodjayev, Free University of Berlin  

In a Dire Straits: Yugoslav Development Strategy between the “East” and “West,” 1945-1955
14:30 (15 mins)
Domagoj Mihaljevic, University of Nottingham  

Reforming Foreign Economic Relations Amongst CMEA Countries at the time of Perestroika and Beyond
14:45 (15 mins)
Giovanni Cadioli, University of Padua - SPGI  
The Post-Soviet Afterlives of Eastern Europe's Empires
Chair: Valeria Lazarenko
Teaching Room B

Decomunisation in Ukraine: Unpacking the Soviet Legacy.
14:00 (15 mins)
Alina Soloviova, European University Institute  

From symbolic to legal de-heritagisation: Lenin monuments and regime change in Latvia (1990-1991)
14:15 (15 mins)
Dmitrijs Andrejevs, University of Manchester  

Ottoman Imperial Past in the Politics of Memory of Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory in Search of the Non-Russian Historical Roots
14:30 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Svyrydenko, The University of Manchester  

Representations of Alexander III in modern Russia
14:45 (15 mins)
Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa  
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Popular Resistance of Ukraine’s Minority Populations to Land Socialization during the 1920s.
16:00 (15 mins)
Olena Palko, University of Basel  

Popular resistance to militarism in Russia from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
16:15 (15 mins)
Roger Reese, Texas A&M University  

Resisting Soviet Assimilation: National Minorities in Transcarpathia and Lviv
16:30 (15 mins)
Julia Elena Grieder, University of Basel  

Understanding Russian Exodus: Identity, Solidarity, and Mobilization
16:45 (15 mins)
Anastasiia Andreeva, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien  
The EU (1) – membership and leverage
Chair: Claudia Bădulescu
Auditorium Lounge

Democratisation and Discontent: Ukrainian and Georgian attitudes at EU and NATO failure to provide membership roadmaps for democratic applicants.
16:00 (15 mins)
Thomas Law, CERES, Munk School, University of Toronto  

Perspectives of democratic consolidation in Ukraine and Georgia, and their future with NATO and the European Union
16:15 (15 mins)
Tea Tutberidze, King’s College London  

When and How the “Neighbours” Matter: “Immediate” Opportunity Structures in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Policy Frame-Alignment by the EU
16:30 (15 mins)
Tamar Gamkrelidze, College of Europe  

Friends with benefits: exploring donors of the Russian ruling party
16:00 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Poltoratskaia, Central European University  

Politicized Corruption and Models of Legal Repression of Local Elites in Russia
16:15 (15 mins)
Olga Masyutina, University of Bremen  

Tectonic shifts under a stable surface: The transformation of the CPRF’s voter base
16:30 (15 mins)
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  

Bronisława Niżyńska and Polish National Culture: The Case of Pieśń o Ziemi
16:00 (20 mins)
Jordan Lian, University of Cambridge  

'Only by some such imaginary situation': melodramas of Poland and East-Central Europe in British writing of the 1930s
16:20 (20 mins)
Juliette Bretan, University of Cambridge  

'There will be no Polish representation at all': The London Victory Parade and the Divergence of British and Polish Cultural Memory
16:40 (20 mins)
Jennifer Grant, Queen Mary University of London  

Changing Flows of Capital and Energy: Kazakhstani Regime Strategies in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine
16:00 (20 mins)
Julia Schwab, University of Glasgow  

The Russo-Ukrainian War: Refugee Rentierism & East-Central Europe
16:20 (20 mins)
Janica Ezzeldien, University of Glasgow  

War-Time Rent and the Political Economy of (Self-)Exile: Hosting Russian Relokanty in Kazakhstan, Türkiye and Argentina
16:40 (20 mins)
Matthew Heneghan, University of Glasgow  
4:00
Teaching difficult histories across Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Tadeusz Wojtych
Discussant: Ewa Ochman
CWB Syndicate 3

Difficult responsibility. Teaching Wolyń massacre in Polish secondary/high schools in 21st Century
16:00 (15 mins)
Barbara Klassa, University of Gdańsk  

How do textbooks promote reconciliation? A comparative study of Central Europe and Canada
16:15 (15 mins)
Tadeusz Wojtych, Newcastle University  

Visuals in History Textbooks: War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet School Education from 1945 to 2021
16:30 (15 mins)
Mischa Gabowitsch, Research Center for the History of Transformations  

Why Europeanization fails to lead to inclusive remembrance: the case of the post-1989 national History curriculum in Romania
16:45 (15 mins)
Simina Dragos, University of Cambridge  
Policies and practices of the information wars
Chair: Maksim Markelov
Games Room

"If they criticize and hold Russia back, then our ship is on the right course": The Role of Documentary Films in Shaping Russian National Identity and Rewriting History
16:00 (15 mins)
Anastasia Kriachko Roeren, University of Oslo  

Blocking the Information War? Testing the effectiveness of the EU’s censorship of Russian state propaganda among the fringe communities of Western Europe
16:15 (15 mins)
Christiern Santos Okholm, European University Institute  

Newspeak as a test of the fascisization process of Russia
16:30 (15 mins)
Joanna Getka, University of Warsaw  

The Mediatization of Propaganda: Continuities and discontinuities between Soviet and Russian active measures and political warfare
16:45 (15 mins)
Roman Horbyk, University of Basel  
Political Martyrdom in Late Imperial Russia
16:00 (90 mins)
Garden Room
Chair: George Gilbert, University of Southampton
Ben Phillips, University of Exeter
Lara Green, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sally A. Boniece, Frostburg State University
Abigail Holekamp, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science
Alison Rowley, Concordia

Soviet Developmentalist Internationalism in the Third World: Between Theory and Practice
16:00 (90 mins)
JCR
Chair: Natalia Telepneva, University of Strathclyde
Elizabeth Banks, Edinburgh
Ksenia Wesolowska, University of Strathclyde
Severyan Dyakonov, NYU Jordan Center
Akbar Rasulov, University of Glasgow


Exporting Hungarian nation- and state-building experience to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania
16:00 (15 mins)
Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, Research Centre for the Humanities   

Hungarian self-Orientalist approach to Central Asia
16:15 (15 mins)
Istvan Santha, research centre for the humanities  

Recent descendants of the Huns. Cultural tradition, heritage and the (re)constructions of national identity in nowadays Mongolia and Hungary
16:30 (15 mins)
Zsolt Szilágyi, Institute of Ethnology, HUN-REN, RCH  

The Hungarian Influence in Turkish Nation-Building
16:45 (15 mins)
Emre Saral, Hacettepe University  
4:00
Rethinking Dostoevsky
Chair: Sarah Hudspith
Discussant: Sarah Hudspith
Selwyn Diamond Suite

Are Dostoevsky’s Metaphysical Rebels Metaphysically Flaccid? Ivan Karamazov's Philosophy of Revolt
16:00 (20 mins)
Alina Wyman, New College of Florida  

Queering Dostoevsky
16:20 (20 mins)
Connor Doak, University of Bristol  

Will Truth Make You Free? Thoughts on an Encounter Between Two Broken Men
16:40 (20 mins)
Octavian Gabor, Methodist College  
Besieged by the Future 6: Undefined, Unspeakable, Unpredictable. Concluding discussion
Chair: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė
Selwyn Kathleen Lyttelton Room

The Phenomenon of Kharkiv
16:00 (20 mins)
Alina Legeyda, University of Newcastle  Dmytro Legeyda, Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape  

Besieged by the Future 6: Undefined, Unspeakable, Unpredictable. Concluding discussion
16:00 (15 mins)
Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University London  Irina Sandomirskaja, Sodertorn University  Pavel Otdelnov, Artist presentation  

Belarusian historical anniversaries of 2023 of events from the era of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
16:00 (20 mins)
Siarhei Marozau, Independent researcher   

Brest Church Union and Greek-Catholic Church (1596–1839) as a cultural phenomenon in Belarusian historiography of the 21st century
16:20 (20 mins)
Sviatlana Marozava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno  
Food for the Empire and the World: Food (In)Security in the Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Period
16:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Old Library Room 4
Chair: Maria Fedorova, Macalester College
John Seitz, Tennessee Wesleyan University
Immo Rebitschek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Friedrich Asschenfeldt, Princeton U

Social upheaval and resistance in Ukraine: new social orders
16:00 (90 mins)
Selwyn Walters Room
Chair: Olga Sovenko, University of East Anglia
Kateryna Myronchak, University of Birmingham
Vitaliy Shpachuk, Newcastle University Business School
Victoria Vdovychenko, Aston University
Oksana Torubara, Lancaster University

4:00
Russian in Use, Russian in Context(s)
Chair: Marina Korneeva
Seminar Room

"Foreign accent" of Heritage Russian speakers in French-speaking community
16:00 (20 mins)
Elena Simonato, University of Lausanne  

The Russian particle "-ka": peculiarities and use in everyday interaction
16:20 (20 mins)
Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto, Tallinn University  

Наблюдения над языковыми особенностями спонтанных высказываний в русскоязычном радиоэфире Эстонии / Observations of the linguistic features of spontaneous statements in the Russian-language radio broadcast of Estonia
16:40 (20 mins)
Inna Adamson, Tallinn University  
Human rights in Eastern Europe: historical and comparative perspectives
Chair: Agnieszka Kubal
Discussant: Beata Huszka
Teaching Room 4

From Silence to Solidarity: To The Retrospective of the Human Rights Activism in Soviet Ukraine
16:00 (15 mins)
Hanna Oliinyk, University College London  

History of the human rights movement in Hungary and the creation of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee
16:15 (15 mins)
Beata Huszka, UCL SSEES  

History of the Russian Human Rights Movement: Critical Reflection from 2024
16:30 (15 mins)
Denis Shedov, University College London  

Translating grievances in human rights terms - the human rights movement in Poland
16:45 (15 mins)
Agnieszka Kubal, University College London  

Conducting Public Opinion Surveys in Russia: Data Quality, Practical Issues and Examples of Recent Research
16:00 (15 mins)
Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford / St Antony's College  

Methods for Data Quality Assessment in Surveys During the War in Ukraine and Russia
16:15 (15 mins)
Volodymyr Paniotto, Kiev  

Methods vs. Ethics When Researching War
16:30 (15 mins)
Marnie Howlett, University of Oxford  

The potential of Discuss Data for research data management and discussion platform for data quality
16:45 (15 mins)
Eduard Klein, Research Cent. for East Europ. Studies, Uni Bremen  

«The Human Document». Ekaterina Bakunina’s Poetry of Contradictions
16:00 (20 mins)
Sara Gargano, Tor Vergata University of Rome  

Ekaterina Bakunina on Motherhood and Marriage
16:20 (20 mins)
Veselina Dzhumbeva, Queen Mary University of London  

What Ekaterina Bakunina did Wrong: Physicality and Temporality in the Novel The Body.
16:40 (20 mins)
Alina Turygina, University of Oregon  
Joseph Brodsky's Legacy and Brodsky Studies
Chair: Joe Andrew
Discussant: Natasha Rulyova
Teaching Room 7

The Case of Polukhina – Brodsky Archive
16:00 (15 mins)
Arina Bedrina  

The Non-Soviet Classics of Joseph Brodsky
16:15 (15 mins)
Maya Kucherskaya  

Bilingual Brodsky
16:30 (15 mins)
Eugenia Kelbert Rudan, Institute of World Literature SAS  

Valentina Polukhina, Lev Loseff and the Invention of Brodsky Studies
16:45 (15 mins)
Carol Ueland, Drew University  
4:00 Fasten seat belts, energy transition in the turbulence zone. Case of the Russian coal industry in the era of climate change and energy transition.
16:00 (15 mins)
Teaching Room A
Chair: Maxim Titov, Personal capacity
Mikhael Oschepkov, Personal capacity
Nikita Lomagin, Personal capacity
Anna Korppoo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Late Soviet Temporalities: Buddhism and Late Soviet Culture
Chair: Juliane Fürst
Discussant: Juliane Fürst
Teaching Room B

Russia as Revelation: Buddhism in Yuri Mamleev’s The Fate of Being
16:00 (15 mins)
Isabel Jacobs, Queen Mary University of London  

Valentin Silvestrov & Zen Aesthetics
16:15 (15 mins)
Richard Gillies, University of Glasgow  

What Do Buddhism and Postmodernism Have in Common? The Meditative Art of Collective Actions
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Katerina Pavlidi, University College Dublin   
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