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9:00 | Wartime Ideological and Intellectual Transformations of Russia Auditorium 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 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 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 |
Holocaust Memory in Poland: New Perspectives on the Old Problem CWB Syndicate 1 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 |
REELIT (Russian and East European Literature in Translation): Human and machine translation, past and present CWB Syndicate 2 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 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 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 |
Myths, memories and commemorations in the North I Garden Room 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 |
Rethinking Central and Eastern Europe in the Pre-Industrial Age JCR 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 Politics of National Identity before 1939 Linnett Room 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 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 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 |
East-West Cooperation in Science and Technology 4: The Role of Science Diplomacy In a Modern World Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3 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 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 |
Organisational and social transformation of the higher education sector Selwyn Walters Room 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 | Strict Negative Concord in Eastern and Central European Languages Seminar Room 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 OxfordTimothy 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 SVera Ageeva, SciencesPo Yulia Kurnyshova, University of Copenhagen Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa David Lane, Cambridge University |
Post-Soviet Literature 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, -- |
Knowledge formation: secular and religious experience in the late Russian Empire Teaching Room 7 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 | The Challenges of Economic Development and the Impact of Global Shocks in Eurasia Teaching Room A 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. 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 OxfordAlina 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 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 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 |
Forgotten? Missing narratives about Poles during and after the Second World War CWB Syndicate 1 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 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 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 AngliaGwendolyn 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 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 & FrancisTony Mason, Central European University (CEU) Press David Smith, University of Glasgow; Europe-Asia Studies Rico Isaacs, University of Lincoln; Central-Asian Survey |
New outlooks on economic life in the late Russian empire Linnett Room 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 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 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 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 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 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 universitéRichard Mills, University of East Anglia Lorenzo Venuti, Università degli Studi di Firenze |
19th-Century Russian Literature and Culture 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 |
20th-century Russophone Poetic Affiliations as Products of Creative Affinity or a Matter of Place and Time. Teaching Room 6 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 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 | Energy Transition and State Funding in the Times of Uncertainty Teaching Room A 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 |
Inside the Soviet Security State: Identity, Memory and Espionage Teaching Room B "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 CambridgeOxana 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 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 |
Russian domestic politics (1) – war and repression CWB Plenary Room 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 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 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 | Geopolitical Conflict, Wars and Regime Changes in the post-Soviet space: Consequences for the EU, Countries and Businesses CWB Syndicate 3 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 |
Film production and distribution in the countries of the Games Room 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 |
Revolutionary Russia in the Shadow of the Great War Garden Room 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 |
Opting in to socialism: volunteering in the post-Stalin Soviet Union JCR "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 & FrancisJen 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 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 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 |
Ties and Relations of Belarusian Culture to Western and Central Europe as Phenomena of Confessionalization in 16/18 cc. Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3 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 AffairsTsypylma 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 UniversityAnna 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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4:00 | Popular Resistance to the Regime in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia Auditorium 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 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 |
Russian domestic politics (2) – parties, ideologies, and elites CWB Plenary Room 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 |
Staging Poland and East-Central Europe in the early 20th century CWB Syndicate 1 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 |
Varieties of Rentierism: Third-Country Opportunities Amid Russia's War in Ukraine CWB Syndicate 2 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 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 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 SouthamptonBen 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 StrathclydeElizabeth Banks, Edinburgh Ksenia Wesolowska, University of Strathclyde Severyan Dyakonov, NYU Jordan Center Akbar Rasulov, University of Glasgow |
Hungarian state- and nation-building experiences exported to the Balkans, Anatolia and Central Asia (19th-21st centuries) Linnett Room 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 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 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 |
Ties and Relations of Belarusian Culture to Western and Central Europe as Phenomena of Confessionalization in 16/18 cc. - second panel of the session. Selwyn Old Library Room 2&3 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 CollegeJohn 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 AngliaKateryna 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) 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 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 |
Research Data Quality in Times of War: New Challenges, Questions, and Solutions Teaching Room 5 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 |
Gender, Identity and Body in Ekaterina Bakunina's Prose and Poetry Teaching Room 6 «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 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 | Roundtable: Russian coal industry in the era of climate change and energy transition. Fasten seat belts, energy transition in the turbulence zone. Case of the Russian coal industry in the era of climate change and energy transition.Teaching Room A 16:00 (15 mins) Teaching Room A Chair: Maxim Titov, Personal capacityMikhael Oschepkov, Personal capacity Nikita Lomagin, Personal capacity Anna Korppoo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute |
Late Soviet Temporalities: Buddhism and Late Soviet Culture 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 16:30 (15 mins) Katerina Pavlidi, University College Dublin |
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5:45: | Plenary session 2 Auditorium Keynote
'High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland' - Professor Polly Jones in conversation with Tom Parfitt. 17:45 (60 mins) Polly Jones, University College, Oxford |
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