BASEES Annual Conference 2023

31 March
1 April
Sun 2 April
[Schedule with Streams only]
There are 20 rooms - drag the view left and right to see more
DAY 2
Bute HallJames Watt South Stephenson RoomJames Watt South Room 355East Quad Lecture TheatreSenate Room
DAY 2
Main Building Room 466McIntyre Room 201McIntyre Room 208Fore HallJames Watt South Room 375
DAY 2
Gilbert Scott Room 356Gilbert Scott Room 253Gilbert Scott Room 250James Watt South Room 361Melville Room
DAY 2
Turnbull RoomMain Building Room 132Main Building Room 134Gilbert Scott Room 251Robing RoomDAY 3
9:00
Urban Connections: Territorial Imaginations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
James Watt South Stephenson Room

Between politics and poetics of social change in contemporary Baku
09:00 (15 mins)
Cristina Boboc, Ghent University  

Building Authority: Bishkek in the 1920s
09:15 (15 mins)
Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University  

Central Asian Migratory Imaginations during Russia's war on Ukraine
09:30 (15 mins)
Joni Virkkunen, University of Eastern Finland  

Challenging a Socialist Way of Life: Comrades’ Courts and Volunteers’ Militias in 1960s Soviet Tashkent
09:45 (15 mins)
Zayra Badillo Castro, School of Oriental and African Studies, London  

Remembering Baku’s oil barons
10:00 (15 mins)
Leyla Sayfutdinova, University of St Andrews  
Intellectuals as Memory Generators – Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions, and People
James Watt South Room 355

The millennium of Christianity and the Croatian narrative of the origins
09:00 (15 mins)
Agata Domachowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń  

Illyrian or Pelasgian? – cementing the theory of the Albanians’ origin in communist Albania and Kosovo.
09:15 (15 mins)
Rigels Halili, University of Warsaw  

The (post)Soviet anniversaries regarding the legacy of Kievan Rus’. Change, continuity, and the influence of the intellectuals
09:30 (15 mins)
Łukasz Gemziak, Nicolaus Copernicus University  

What were the origins of the Bulgarian alphabet? Discussions around the 1100th anniversary of the Moravian Mission in socialist Bulgaria
09:45 (15 mins)
Ewelina Drzewiecka, Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre, BAS  
Russian domestic politics – institutions and information
East Quad Lecture Theatre

Norilsk and Nornickel: Local Government-Business Relations in a Russian Monotown
09:00 (15 mins)
Miriam Pollock, University College London  

Russia’s ontological (in)security: domestic values versus external enemies
09:15 (15 mins)
Federica Prina, University of Glasgow  

War for children: the dynamics of militarism and anti-militarism in Russia
09:30 (15 mins)
Kasia Kaczmarska, University of Edinburgh  
New Directions in World War II History
Senate Room

Fatherland or Motherland? Banat German Rural Ascriptions of National Belonging in the Romanian Banat under the Aegis of National Socialism (1940-1944)
09:00 (15 mins)
David Borchin, ULBS - ISCI  

Jan Patočka, Philosophical Production, and the Freiburg Idyll.
09:15 (15 mins)
David Aitken, McGill University  

The national motor vehicle fleet and the Red Army during the German-Soviet War 1941-1945
09:30 (15 mins)
Hugh Davie, University of Wolverhampton  

War, Fun, and the Yugoslav Partisans
09:45 (15 mins)
Iva Jelusic, Christian Michelsen Institute  
9:00
'Weapons of the weak': Small acts of resistance during social upheavals
Main Building Room 466

"Why do I keep seeing terrible inequality?" Politicisation and invisible dissent of teenage women in the post-war USSR
09:00 (15 mins)
Ella Rossman, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies  

“Always in My Hands…”: Smartphones Use by the Ukrainian Refugees children
09:15 (15 mins)
Natalia Khvorostianov, Ben Gurion University, Negev  

From Infrapolitical Resistance to Political Rebellion: Trajectories of Dissent and Dynamics of Contention in Montenegro's Antibureaucratic Revolution
09:30 (15 mins)
Bojan Baca, University of Gothenburg  

From small acts of defiance to organised protests: older people exercising social, economic and political citizenship Belarus
09:45 (15 mins)
Anna Shadrina, UCL SSEES  
Socialist and Communist Experiences of Women's Liberation in the West and the East, 1907-1930
McIntyre Room 201

A Liberal Feminist in an Early Soviet Working-Class Neighborhood: Medical Policing, Expertise and Gender Across the 1917 Revolutionary Divide
09:00 (15 mins)
Pavel Vasilyev  

The Zhenotdel and veiled women in 1920s Uzbekistan.
09:15 (15 mins)
Anne McShane  

Women and Men within the Communist International: the Complex experiences of Communist Women in the East and the West, 1920-1924.
09:30 (15 mins)
Daria Dyakonova, International University in Geneva  
Russia’s Natural Environment: Epistemologies and Materialities
McIntyre Room 208

Amber crafting in Russia: informality, precarity, and temporality
09:00 (15 mins)
Daria Kurikhina, Freie Universität Berlin  

Contentious Politics in Putin's Russia: Environmental Struggles as a Key Platform and the Case of Shies
09:15 (15 mins)
Maria Chiara Franceschelli, Scuola Normale Superiore  

Vulnerability: the half-baked concept in Russia’s climate change discourse. A case study in Moscow, Russia
09:30 (15 mins)
Aliaksandr Ilyukevich, King's College London  
The (neo)imperial imaginaries of nature and environment in contemporary Russian media
Fore Hall

Ecocritical Geopolitics in the Time of War: Chornobyl/Chernobyl as a Post-Humanist Site
09:00 (20 mins)
Mika Perkiömäki, University of Helsinki / Tampere University  

Snow Maidens and Cold Bodies in Sakha Horror
09:20 (20 mins)
Natalya Khokholova, Kyrgyz Aviation Institute  

The (Neo-)Imperial Imaginary of the Arctic in Recent Russian Film
09:40 (20 mins)
Adelaide McGinity-Peebles, University of Nottingham  
Reflections of Affective Experience in Latvian Poetry and Life Writing
James Watt South Room 375

Affect and Time in Inara Verzemnieks’ Memoir "Among the Living and the Dead"
09:00 (20 mins)
Artis Ostups, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia  

Accumulating Negative Affects: The Diaries of the Soviet Latvian Film Director Gunārs Piesis
09:20 (20 mins)
Janis Ozolins, Art Academy of Latvia  

Ugly Feelings of the Soviet Latvian Underground Queer Poet
09:40 (20 mins)
Karlis Verdins, University of Latvia  
9:00
Queer Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Russian Film, Literature, and Law
Gilbert Scott Room 356

1990s Lesbian Journals and Ancient Greece: Seeking a Russian Queer Aesthetic
09:00 (15 mins)
Georgina Barker, UCL  

a cinematic experiment in russian homonationalism: desiring the ‘non-russian’ masculine body in Olga Stolpovskaya’s You I Love
09:15 (15 mins)
Misha Yakovlev, Film and Television, University of Warwick  

A Crisis of Identity: The Bisexual Russian-Ukrainian-Romany Throuple in Faina Grimberg’s Novella Mavka (2001)
09:30 (15 mins)
Charlotte Dowling, University of Oxford  

How “European” Were Imperial Russian Laws Against Homosexuality?
09:45 (15 mins)
Nick Mayhew, University of Glasgow  
The First World War in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Gilbert Scott Room 253

Displacement, Refugees, and Russian Imperial Policies during the First World War in the Caucasus
09:00 (20 mins)
Asya Darbinyan, Clark University  

Refugee Relief and Displacement in Turkestan During the First World War
09:20 (20 mins)
Hanna Matt, University of Manchester  

What the papers said – Turkestan newspapers in the First World War years
09:40 (20 mins)
Roman Osharov, University of Oxford  
Security through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in Central Eastern European and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society
Gilbert Scott Room 250

Assembling the war: Everyday practices of militarization before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Groningen  

Living on a Mental Frontline. The Use of War Veterans in Russian Patriotic Education
09:15 (15 mins)
Elena Racheva, University of Oxford, Department of Sociology  

The history of battles and victories: approaching the history of Russia thought the Russian National Atlas (2004-2008).
09:30 (15 mins)
Sofya Gavrilova, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography  
Politics of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Self-Fashioning
James Watt South Room 361

Evgenii Evtushenko as the Soviet Bard of Cuba
09:00 (30 mins)
Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University  

Greek literature in Mariupol in the 1930s?
09:30 (30 mins)
Panayiotis Xenophontos, University of Oxford  

'The Lake School' in Moscow of the 1930s: Self-fashioning and Intellectual Autonomy at IFLI (1931-1941)
10:00 (30 mins)
Peter Budrin , Queen Mary University of London  

Touring Writers and Performed Literary Personalities
10:30 (30 mins)
Angelos Theocharis, Durham University  
Russian domestic politics – ideas, ideology, and propaganda
Melville Room

A Historical Catechism of the Putin Era: The Official Version of Russia’s History and Its Political Significance
09:00 (15 mins)
Marcin Skladanowski, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin NIP 712-016-10-05  

Patriotism as Populism: Memory and Identity in (non)contemporary Russia
09:15 (15 mins)
Victor Apryshchenko, Bard College  

The Dark Carnival: Bakhtin, Schmitt and Russia's War against Ukraine.
09:30 (15 mins)
David Lewis, University of Exeter  

Organizations with foreign agent status in Russia: mechanisms of repression and practice of activity (empirical research 2019-2021)
09:45 (15 mins)
Magdalena Lachowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan  
9:00
Russian migrants' anti-war activism
Turnbull Room

Choosing Between Prison or Exile: Russian Activists Abroad after the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Elizabeth Plantan, Stetson University  

Democracy in Exile? Trajectories of Russian Anti-War Migrants in Eurasia
09:15 (15 mins)
Margarita Zavadskaya, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)  

Pro-democracy activism by Russian migrants in Germany and Georgia in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine
09:00 (15 mins)
Tatiana Golova, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)  Tsypylma Darieva, ZOiS, Centre for East European and international studies  
Discussing Pål Kolstø's new book Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church (Cambridge University Press 2022)
09:00 (90 mins)
Main Building Room 132
Chair: Pål Kolstø, Norway
Ulrich Schmid, Switzerland
Ruth Coates, UK
Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, UK

Central European Literatures and Cultures
Main Building Room 134

Peripheral Enlightenment: Reading the first Slovak novel as a world classic
09:00 (15 mins)
Dobrota Pucherova, Inst. of World Lit., Slovak Academy of Sciences  

Multilingual Pest-Buda: Hungarians, Serbs and Germans in literature in 1800
09:15 (15 mins)
Zsuzsanna Varga, Editor, Slavonica  

Between Self-Aggrandizement and Self-Deprecation: Czech and Hungarian Fin de Siècle Orientalisms in Comparative Perspective
09:30 (15 mins)
Dmitrii Kuvshinov  
Russia’s Development from Electoral to Closed Authoritarianism: Implications for Research
09:00 (90 mins)
Gilbert Scott Room 251
Chair: Matthew Blackburn, Poland
Bo Petersson, Sweden
Geir Flikke, Norway
Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Sweden
Karen-Anna Eggen, Norway

The boundaries of Slavonic lexicography: new approaches to words, phrases and collocations
Robing Room

Multilingual dictionary of phraseme construcions and its didactic potential
09:00 (15 mins)
Anna Pavlova, University Mainz  

Polish ethnolinguistic lexicography: problems and methods
09:15 (15 mins)
Oleksiy Yudin, Ghent University  

Какие словари нужны изучающим славянские языки? Формат и перспективы двуязычного тематического словаря «Russian for All Occasions»
09:30 (15 mins)
Shamil Khairov, University of Glasgow  

Русский язык в международной базе данных англицизмов «GLAD»
09:45 (15 mins)
John Dunn, University of Glasgow  
9:00:
9:05: 9:05: 9:05: 9:05: 9:05:
9:10: 9:10: 9:10: 9:10: 9:10:
9:15: 9:15: 9:15: 9:15: 9:15:
9:20: 9:20: 9:20: 9:20: 9:20:
9:25: 9:25: 9:25: 9:25: 9:25:
9:30: 9:30: 9:30: 9:30: 9:30:
9:35: 9:35: 9:35: 9:35: 9:35:
9:40: 9:40: 9:40: 9:40: 9:40:
9:45: 9:45: 9:45: 9:45: 9:45:
9:50: 9:50: 9:50: 9:50: 9:50:
9:55: 9:55: 9:55: 9:55: 9:55:
10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00
10:05 10:05 10:05 10:05 10:05
10:10 10:10 10:10 10:10 10:10
10:15 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:15
10:20 10:20 10:20 10:20 10:20
10:25 10:25 10:25 10:25 10:25
10:30 Coffee/Tea in Hunter Hall and James Watt South Building 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:30
10:35 10:35 10:35 10:35 10:35
10:40 10:40 10:40 10:40 10:40
10:45 10:45 10:45 10:45 10:45
10:50 10:50 10:50 10:50 10:50
10:55 10:55 10:55 10:55 10:55
11:00
When societies (re-)create: Youth(ful) ideas and nascent politics in the South Caucasus
James Watt South Stephenson Room

Social media, ‘imaginary collectivity’ and individualities of political activism in Azerbaijan
11:00 (15 mins)
Najmin Kamilsoy, Charles University  

The Shame Movement in the Context of Georgia’s 30 years of Transformation: A Gramscian Analysis of Civil Society
11:15 (15 mins)
Nino Khelaia, Georgian Insitute of Public Affairs  

Bringing the lyrical to the political: The socio-political landscape in the Southern Caucasus through the lens of young people
11:30 (15 mins)
Veronika Pfeilschifter, Institute for Caucasus Studies   

Women’s Movement Perspective in Post-Revolutionary Armenia
11:45 (15 mins)
Olga Azatyan, Yerevan State University  
Political parties
James Watt South Room 355

Post-Communist Far-Right under Transformation? Romanian and Bulgarian far-right since 2014
11:00 (15 mins)
George Kordas, Panteion University of Social and Political Scienc  

Troublemakers and Game Changers: Political Parties and the Halt of Democratic Backsliding in Bulgaria
11:15 (15 mins)
Sergiu Gherghina, University of Glasgow  

Singling Out the Collective: Collective Leadership, Electoral Performance and Organisational Development in the Cases of Lewica Razem in Poland and Zdruzena Levica in Slovenia
11:30 (15 mins)
Petar Bankov, University of Glasgow  

Understanding political theories and legal doctrines to justify political party prohibition
11:45 (15 mins)
Bohdan Bernatskyi, European University Institute  
Researching in the Former Soviet Union. Stories From the Field.
11:00 (90 mins)
East Quad Lecture Theatre
Chair: Jasmin Dall'Agnola, United States
Andrea Peinhopf, UK
Ruta Skriptaite, UK
Rasa Kamarauskaite, UK
Abigail Karas, UK

Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Senate Room

‘The Fullness and Richness of “Man Himself”’: Diversity of the Body in the Stalin Era
11:00 (20 mins)
Claire Shaw, University of Warwick  

Cinema, Psychiatry and the Neurological Gaze in the Early Soviet Union
11:20 (20 mins)
Anna Toropova, University of Warwick  

Swaddled minds: ‘National character’, Soviet babies and authority in ‘The People of Great Russia’ (1949)
11:40 (20 mins)
Hannah Proctor, University of Strathclyde  
11:00
New perspectives on the Russian Civil War
Main Building Room 466

Civil War and Gossip. Monument to Judas Iscariot in Sviyazhsk, 1918
11:00 (15 mins)
Bartek Gajos, Mieroszewski Centre  

Demobilization in the Mobilizational State: The End of the Civil War Red Army, 1920-21
11:15 (15 mins)
Thomas Stevens, University of Pennsylvania  

Diverging Paths?: The South Slavic Left and Revolutionary Russia before 1922
11:30 (15 mins)
Samuel Foster, University of East Anglia  

Historical-Revolutionary Museums in Russia: Projects and Implementation before and after 1917
11:45 (15 mins)
Nikolay Sarkisyan, University of Oxford  
Conflict, communication, and politics in the Caucasus
McIntyre Room 201

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: failure to understand leading to the failure to resolve
11:00 (15 mins)
Murad Muradov, Azerbaijan Investment Holding  

The Joint Russian-Turkish Monitoring Centre in the framework of Turkey’s security policies in the South Caucasus
11:15 (15 mins)
Simona Scotti, Topchubashov Center  

Towards the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty: undeniably, challenging road ahead
11:30 (15 mins)
Gulshan Pashayeva, Center of Analysis of International Relations  
Representation of gender and body in the Soviet culture
McIntyre Room 208

Fashioning the Social Role of Soviet Women on Stagnation Screens
11:00 (15 mins)
Natasha Vinnikova, University of the Arts London  

Images of Internationalism: Gender, Ethnicity, and Relationships at University in Vladimir Rogovoi’s Balamut (The Meddler, 1979)
11:15 (15 mins)
Serian Carlyle, UCL  

Nudity in the USSR during the Thaw:  the censorship frameworks
11:30 (15 mins)
Ekaterina Vikulina  

Screening East European sexualities. Queer time and space in 'Brothers of the Night'
11:45 (15 mins)
Izabella Wodzka, University College London  
Transformations of Muslim Lives in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Fore Hall

Gender Policies Towards Muslim Men in Socialist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
11:00 (15 mins)
Ivan Simic, Charles University  

Muslim reformism: An unexpected influence on Yugoslav communist gender discourses
11:15 (15 mins)
Andreja Mesarič, Faculty of Arts, Charles University  

Population Politics and Nation-Building: Migrations of Turkish and Muslim Populations from Bulgaria to Turkey (1925-1939)
11:30 (15 mins)
Slavka Karakusheva, Independent researcher  

Socialist Transformation of Muslim Girls Education in Yugoslavia
11:45 (15 mins)
Jelena Gajic, Charles University  
Voting and elections
James Watt South Room 375

An economic offer they cannot refuse! Economic expectations on incumbent government support in Core and Periphery European Countries
11:00 (15 mins)
Andreea Stancea, National School of Political and Administrative St  

Analysis of the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus: long-term factors, short-term triggers and key enabling mechanisms which have led to post-electoral protests.
11:15 (15 mins)
Victoria Leukavets, Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies  

Substituting the Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism: The Case of the Russian Regional Parliamentary Elections in 2021
11:30 (15 mins)
Daniil Romanov, The University of Oxford  

THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN E-VOTING AND ITS SUITABILITY FOR ELECTION
11:45 (15 mins)
Marina Gorbatiuc, The Institute of Legal,Political and Sociological   

Unity and centering as a democracy-building electoral strategy after the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election: An intersectional analysis
12:00 (15 mins)
John Gould, Colorado College  
11:00
Post-Soviet and Post-Memory
Gilbert Scott Room 356

Open System, Closed Outcome?: Kitchen Debates and the Limits of the Fake in Moscow Artistic Circles, 2012 - 2020.
11:00 (15 mins)
Kitty Brandon-James, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL  

Global Campaigning: The anti-Comics Debate in 1950s Poland
11:15 (15 mins)
Ewa Stanczyk, University of Amsterdam  

The Holocaust’s as Ontological Legacy. Polish Jewish writing of the 21 st century
11:30 (15 mins)
Katarzyna Zechenter, UCL SSEES  

Coping with the Soviet past in Russian graphic novels
11:45 (15 mins)
Annamaria Vass, Debreceni Egyetem (Adószám:17782218)  
The Future of Ukrainian Children's Literature
11:00 (90 mins)
Gilbert Scott Room 253
Chair: Emily Finer, UK
Viktoriia Medvied, UK

Security through militarized patriotism. Militarizing processes in CEE and post-Soviet states and their effects on civil society (II)
Gilbert Scott Room 250

How Russian Patriotic Education Was Changed to Support War: Military Masculinity as a Hegemonic Discourse and Practices of Resistance
11:00 (15 mins)
Jonna Alava, University of Helsinki  

Forging Frontline Russians: Militarized Patriotism and Identity Policy in Occupied Ukraine
11:15 (15 mins)
Håvard Bækken, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)  

The power of belonging for (para)military security production in Poland
11:30 (15 mins)
Bettina Bruns, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography  
Imagining the Orient in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
James Watt South Room 361

Between Imagination and Ethnography: Fokine’s The Polovtsian Dances
11:00 (20 mins)
Jordan Lian, University of Cambridge  

Centre and periphery in the production of knowledge about Central Asia in the Russian Empire
11:20 (20 mins)
Roman Osharov, University of Oxford  

Relics of Orientalism: imperial and anti-imperial museology in early Soviet Tashkent
11:40 (20 mins)
Mollie Arbuthnot, Jesus College  
Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe I
Melville Room

A Un/Bordered Nation: Ukraine’s new “flickering diaspora” and its “long-distance relationship” with the home country
11:00 (15 mins)
Valeria Korablyova, Charles University  

Alter-geopolitics and de-bordering Romania and Poland in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
11:15 (15 mins)
Kathryn Cassidy, Northumbria University  

Peripheral geopolitical orientations: Borderland views on geopolitical questions in Georgia and Hungary
11:30 (15 mins)
Gela Merabishvili, ELTE (Eotvos Lorand University)  

Projecting and Experiencing Informational Borders in Eastern Ukraine pre-2022
11:45 (15 mins)
Ekaterina Mikhailova, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European   
11:00 Demystifying Open Access
11:00 (90 mins)
Turnbull Room
Chair: Madeleine Markey, UK
Stella Rock, UK

Queer Security and Belonging in Russia and Georgia
Main Building Room 132

"I'd Like to Get Beaten Up": Complexities of Living a Secure Queer Life in Georgia
11:00 (15 mins)
David Rypel, UCL SSEES  

“We are still here”: Russian queer parents and migration
11:15 (15 mins)
Olga Doletskaya, UCL  

Bisexual Belonging Online: A Case Study of ‘Bi Life Stories’ on Gay.ru
11:30 (15 mins)
Charlotte Dowling, University of Oxford  

Waiting for the revolution: Russian LGBTQ+ activism and belonging in Georgia
11:45 (15 mins)
Talia Kollek, University of Oxford, St Catherine's College  
Social Values and Norms in the Contemporary Russia
Main Building Room 134

Growing dependency: changes in public perception of poverty coping strategies in Russia 2011-2021
11:00 (20 mins)
Nina Ivashinenko, University of Glasgow  

Knowledge production about Russia: changes in the center-periphery relations, 1990-2020
11:20 (20 mins)
Katerina Guba  

Tobacco and alcohol consumption and military service over the life course in Russia
11:40 (20 mins)
Jamie Edwards, University of Oxford  
History, Reproductive Rights, Social Change. Polish Society in Images and on Streets
Gilbert Scott Room 251

New Polish Film and Photography Engaged in the World in Conflict
11:00 (20 mins)
Justyna Budzik, University of Silesia in Katowice  

'The politics of street renaming, the legacies of transition and the material heritage of communist dictatorship in Poland'
11:20 (20 mins)
Ewa Ochman, The University of Manchester  

Women’s Complaint as a window into the Polish society. Legal mobilization against authoritarian backsliding following the Abortion Law
11:40 (20 mins)
Agnieszka Kubal, University College London  
Illuminating Misplaced Archives: Researching Soviet and Post-Soviet Photography in Latvia
Robing Room

Biography of an Archive: Incorporation of Soviet Photo Club Culture into the Canon of Latvian Photography
11:00 (20 mins)
Liga Goldberga, Art Academy of Latvia  

Inherited ways of looking: A Case Study of Aivars Liepiņš photography series "Children's Carehome No. 2. Baldone"
11:20 (20 mins)
Agnese Zviedre, Art Academy of Latvia  

Through the Lens of an Architect: Representation of Modernist and Postmodernist Architecture in Soviet Latvian Photography
11:40 (20 mins)
Ineta Done, Art Academy of Latvia  
11:00
11:05 11:05 11:05 11:05 11:05
11:10 11:10 11:10 11:10 11:10
11:15 11:15 11:15 11:15 11:15
11:20 11:20 11:20 11:20 11:20
11:25 11:25 11:25 11:25 11:25
11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30
11:35 11:35 11:35 11:35 11:35
11:40 11:40 11:40 11:40 11:40
11:45 11:45 11:45 11:45 11:45
11:50 11:50 11:50 11:50 11:50
11:55 11:55 11:55 11:55 11:55
12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00
12:05 12:05 12:05 12:05 12:05
12:10 12:10 12:10 12:10 12:10
12:15 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:15
12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20
12:25 12:25 12:25 12:25 12:25
12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30
12:35 12:35 12:35 12:35 12:35
12:40 12:40 12:40 12:40 12:40
12:45
Poles and Jews in Mid-century Europe. Identity Building as a Tool of Minority Politics
James Watt South Stephenson Room

“Every Pole has not only a right, but the duty to return to his country”: Post-war Polish Repatriation from British-occupied Germany
12:45 (20 mins)
Samantha Knapton, University of Nottingham  

Are we in the same boat? How did Polish exiles’ experience of British Imperialism affect their position within the Windrush Generation?
13:05 (20 mins)
Josef Butler, King's College London  

Confronting the Holocaust. The Polish Government-in-Exile's Policy Concerning Jews 1939-1945
13:25 (20 mins)
Piotr Długołęcki, Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych   

Landscapes of Jewish Memory in Poland. Jewish Agency and Memoryscape in Gierek’s Poland.
13:45 (20 mins)
Janek Gryta, University of Wales Trinity Saint David  
Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in East-Central Europe before 1939
James Watt South Room 355

How to feed the body of your own nation (and to starve the body of another)? Polish women and the National Democratic Party at the beginning of the 20th century
12:45 (15 mins)
Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez, Instytut Slawistyki PAN  

Making something new out of the old? Dilemmas and strategies of the Slovak authorities in the transition period (1919-1920)
13:00 (15 mins)
Etienne Boisserie, Inalco  

School for democracy: co-operation movement as a platform for democratic opposition in Estonia in 1934–1940
13:15 (15 mins)
Liisi Veski, University of Tartu / University of Glasgow  

The Image of Women in the Romanian Sports Press in the Interwar Period
13:30 (15 mins)
Cosmin-Ștefan Dogaru, University of Bucharest  

The missing phase of psychiatric institutionalization and the early attempts at providing care for the mentally ill in nineteenth-century Hungary
13:45 (15 mins)
Janka Kovács, Research Centre for the Humanities  
Politics of Waiting. Narratives beyond Wasting Time, and Linear Progression
East Quad Lecture Theatre

Expectations and Delays: Soviet Mass Housing, Privatization and the Post-Socialist City
12:45 (15 mins)
Lois Kalb, European University Institute  

The (Geo)politics of Waiting and Boredom of Café Routine in Southern Mitrovica (Kosovo)
13:00 (15 mins)
Rozafa Berisha, University of Prishtina  

The ‚Not-Yet’ Memorial: Negotiating the Past and Making the City of Tbilisi (Georgia)
13:15 (15 mins)
Laura Maffizoli, University of Manchester  

Waiting as a Way of Living Geopolitics at the Border Triangle between Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania
13:30 (15 mins)
Claudia Eggart, Centre for East European and International Studies  
Constructing Identities: National and Transnational
Senate Room

Between the Balkans, Mediterranean and Central Europe. Mental Maps in the Memories of the Dalmatian Writer Enzo Bettiza
12:45 (15 mins)
Maciej Czerwinski , Jagiellonian University of Krakow  

Tengrism as a Lived Religion in Kazakhstan and its Role in National Identity Building
13:00 (15 mins)
Abigail Scripka, University of Glasgow  

Memory, Identity, Belonging in Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Autobiographical Novel Warm Arctic Nights (2019)
13:15 (15 mins)
Tetiana Ostapchuk, University College London  

Rethinking Soviet selfhood in the era of the Anthropocene: self, body, environment
13:30 (15 mins)
Epp Annus, Tallinn University / Ohio State University  
12:45
Government and governance
Main Building Room 466

Populist and Liberal Mythology in Polish Political Discourse. In Search of Linguistic Indicators of Mythologisation
12:45 (15 mins)
Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka, SSEES, University College London  

Shift in emphasis: changes in the composition of the Hungarian government 2010-2022
13:00 (15 mins)
Ványi Éva, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (HU-19156972)  

The reconstruction of the Hungarian theatrical sphere – A case study
13:15 (15 mins)
Daniel Beck, Corvinus University of Budapest  

Russian Organized Corrupt Network under Putin regime.
13:30 (15 mins)
Serguei Cheloukhine, John Jay College, CUNY  
Lessons for Russian Foreign and Security Policy from Russia's War in Ukraine
12:45 (90 mins)
McIntyre Room 201
Chair: Kevork Oskanian, UK
Marcin Kaczmarski, UK
Natasha Kuhrt, UK
Ruth Deyermond, UK
Isabell Burmester, Switzerland
Bettina Renz, UK

Research challenges, ethics and data in the time of war
McIntyre Room 208

Libraries Bracing Themselves for a New Ice Age - The Russian War against Ukraine and its Consequences for the Acquisition and Accessibility of Media for Research on Russia and Eastern Europe
12:45 (20 mins)
Juergen Warmbrunn, Herder-Institut Forschungsbibliothek  

Visual Regimes of the Russo-Ukrainian War: From "The Soldiering Self" to Arrested War, and Beyond
13:05 (20 mins)
Roman Horbyk, Örebro University  
Russian foreign policy – regional activities
Fore Hall

Russian Foreign Policy and ontological vectors: a case study of the reversal of priorities as a result of the Euromaidan
12:45 (15 mins)
Eric Pardo Sauvageot, Deusto University   

Central Asia in Russian Foreign Policy Imagination: Before and After the Beginning of the War in Ukraine
13:00 (15 mins)
Kristiina Silvan, Finnish Institute of International Affairs  

Regional Security in Northeast Asia: Responses and Trends in Russian Foreign Policy
13:15 (15 mins)
Nivedita Kapoor  

Russia in the South Pacific
13:30 (15 mins)
Jonathan Ludwig, Oklahoma State University  
Trade, mobility and environment in late imperial Central Asia
James Watt South Room 375

“At the meeting of the nine roads”: Environmental and economic networks at the Karkara fair
12:45 (20 mins)
Jennifer Keating, University College Dublin  

Moving through mountains: Pamir and its mobile subjects under imperial rule
13:05 (20 mins)
Malika Zehni, University of Cambridge  

Rivers of the Empire and Land of the Rivers: Waterscape of Semirechie in Russian Exploration and Colonization.
13:25 (20 mins)
Tatiana Saburova, Indiana University  

Short Stops and Excursions: Anglo-American Expeditions along the Trans-Caspian Railway up to 1920
13:45 (20 mins)
Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University  
12:45
Social foundations of the war: multiscalar accounts of conflict and political economy
Gilbert Scott Room 356

(Post)War reconstruction of Ukraine: state-society-capital complex, class, sex, gender, and national identity
12:45 (20 mins)
Yuliya Yurchenko, University of Greenwich   

Militarised civil society and the informal economy of war in Ukraine since 2014
13:05 (20 mins)
Taras Fedirko, University of Glasgow  

Russian everyday political economy: libidinal perspectives in wartime
13:25 (20 mins)
Jeremy Morris, Aarhus Universitet  

Vibes: Political attitudes and media consumption practices of young Russians (prior to the full-scale invasion)
13:45 (20 mins)
Armen Aramian, SSEES UCL  
Legitimation, identity politics, and "war nationalism" in Putin's Russia: strategies and fallout
Gilbert Scott Room 253

Crossing the Rubicon: Continuity and Change in Kremlin Legitimation Strategies (2020-23)
12:45 (15 mins)
Matthew Blackburn, University of Warsaw  

Did Traditionalist Values Help Putin Escape Term Limits in 2020?
13:00 (15 mins)
Henry Hale, IERES  

Russia's New "War Nationalism": How Official Nationalist Rhetoric Contributed to Legitimising the Invasion of Ukraine
13:15 (15 mins)
Jules-Sergei Fediunin, EHESS  

Traditional Values and Civic Activism
13:30 (15 mins)
Regina Smyth, Indiana University  
Contested motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)
Gilbert Scott Room 250

“Strong family makes strong Russia.” “Good mothers” and “traditional values” in a militarizing statebstract
12:45 (20 mins)
Yulia Gradskova, Södertörn University  

Maternalism old and new: redefining ‘good-motherhood’ through state awards for Lithuanian mothers of many children
13:05 (20 mins)
Ieva Bisigirskaitė, Philology Department, Vilnius University  

Migrant mothers from post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and Caucasus region in Sweden – Practices, values and challenges
13:25 (20 mins)
Soheyla Yazdanpanah, Genusvetenskap, Södertörns högskola  
Joggling with the Transnational: Romanian Humanitarian Networks after Ceausescu's Nationalist Turn
James Watt South Room 361

Romania and the Scholarships Programs for African Students during the 1980s
12:45 (20 mins)
Stefan Bosomitu, IICCMER  

Romanian Policy in the United Nations towards the Humanitarian Aid in the 80s
13:05 (20 mins)
Daniel Filip-Afloarei, New Europe College, IICCMER  

Solving the National-Transnational Paradox in Ceausescu’s Romania: Humanitarian Networks and East-West Relations after 1971
13:25 (20 mins)
Dalia Bathory, IICCMER  
Border in/securities – at the nexus of space and emotions in Central- and Eastern Europe II
Melville Room

Beekeeping with/out borders in Moldova and Ukraine: Cooperation and Conflict in Defending Carpathian Honeybee Territory
12:45 (20 mins)
Tanya Richardson, Wilfrid Laurier University  

Providing water and power across front lines : the actors, practices and limits of operating critical infrastructure in conditions of insecurity in the war Ukraine (2014-present).
13:05 (20 mins)
Sophie Lambroschini, Centre Marc Bloch  

Sensuous Nostalgia: Insecurity in the Borderlands of the Fergana Valley
13:25 (20 mins)
Asel Murzakulova, University of Central Asia  
12:45
Global Soviet Union
Turnbull Room

Complimentary Assistance: Exchanges Between Mongolia, the Soviet Union, China and Poland during the Cold War
12:45 (15 mins)
Nikolay Erofeev, University of Oxford  

Fighting for the New East: Soviet international law and self-determination in the Rif War (1921-1926)
13:00 (15 mins)
Alexandra Day, Trinity College Dublin  

The Birth of the Soviet Proxy War: International Red Aid, Comintern and Transatlantic Internationalist Movements
13:15 (15 mins)
Yevhenii Monastyrskyi, Yale University  

Under the shadow of Aswan: perspectives of economic and technical cooperation between Brazil and the USSR (1962-1964)
13:30 (15 mins)
Gianfranco Caterina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil  
The 1990s: Societies in transition
Main Building Room 132

Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina
12:45 (15 mins)
Elliot Short, Zinc Network  

Intellectual confrontation with Mečiarism in Slovakia during the 1990s
13:00 (15 mins)
Dirk Dalberg, Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Acade  

The Chimera Parliament: Analysing the Russian Congress of People's Deputies from 1990-1993.
13:15 (15 mins)
Jeffrey Hawn, LSE  
Russian Nationalism and Anti-Globalism
Main Building Room 134

Textual Paratexts in Post-Soviet Russian Literature as a Tool of Representing Russian National Thinking
12:45 (15 mins)
Dmitry Mazalevsky, University of Debrecen HU17782218  

A Critical Assessment of Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Anti-Ukrainianism and Its Legacy since 2014
13:00 (15 mins)
Elisa Kriza, Bamberg University  

The West as Russia's Enemy. Anti-Western and Anti-liberal Narratives in the Prose of Alexander Prokhanov
13:15 (15 mins)
Michał Kołakowski, University of Warsaw  

No peninsula is an island: Aksyonov’s Crimea as a symbolic land
13:30 (15 mins)
Annamaria Vass, Debreceni Egyetem (Adószám:17782218)  
Decolonial Perspectives
Gilbert Scott Room 251

Neo-Gothic of Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s "Nomer Odin" (2004) and "Chernaia Babochka" (2008) in the Postcolonial Eastern European Context and Intersections with the Ukrainian Example of Andrii Liubka’s "Karbid" (2015).
12:45 (15 mins)
Inna Tigountsova, The Brilliant Club/Researchers in Schools  

Towards a “colonialism without colonies”? Constructing ‘black Africa’ in late Imperial Russia
13:00 (15 mins)
Anita Frison, University of Padua  

Decolonial Practices and the Language of a City at War in Kharkiv, Ukraine
13:15 (15 mins)
Viktoriia Grivina, St Andrews University  

The Russo-Harlem Renaissance: Searching for a Black Voice in Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923), Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Dorothy West's The Living is Easy (1948)
13:30 (15 mins)
Saffy Mirghani, University College London  
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Ideas
Robing Room

« Satire and travel writing in Vladimir Sollogoub’s Tarantass »
12:45 (15 mins)
Léandre Lucas, Lille University   

“History, folk tale, poetry everywhere”. Romantic “fashion for Scotland” in the travel memoirs of 19th-century Polish voyagers
13:00 (15 mins)
Aleksandra Gintowt, University of Wrocław  

Transformation in Perception of Knowledge: How Specialization Influenced Mid-19th-Century Russian Intellectual History
13:15 (15 mins)
Po-yi Chen, University of Texas, Austin  

A Tale of Three Grandmothers: Božena Němcová’s `Babička' in translation
13:30 (15 mins)
Susan Reynolds, British Library  
12:45
12:50 12:50 12:50 12:50 12:50
12:55 12:55 12:55 12:55 12:55
1:00 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:00:
1:05: 1:05: 1:05: 1:05: 1:05:
1:10: 1:10: 1:10: 1:10: 1:10:
1:15: 1:15: 1:15: 1:15: 1:15:
1:20: 1:20: 1:20: 1:20: 1:20:
1:25: 1:25: 1:25: 1:25: 1:25:
1:30: 1:30: 1:30: 1:30: 1:30:
1:35: 1:35: 1:35: 1:35: 1:35:
1:40: 1:40: 1:40: 1:40: 1:40:
1:45: 1:45: 1:45: 1:45: 1:45:
1:50: 1:50: 1:50: 1:50: 1:50:
1:55: 1:55: 1:55: 1:55: 1:55:
2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00:
2:05: 2:05: 2:05: 2:05: 2:05:
2:10: 2:10: 2:10: 2:10: 2:10:
2:15: Conference ends 2:15: 2:15: 2:15: 2:15:
2:20: 2:20: 2:20: 2:20: 2:20:
2:25: 2:25: 2:25: 2:25: 2:25:
2:30: 2:30: 2:30: 2:30: 2:30:
2:35: 2:35: 2:35: 2:35: 2:35:
2:40: 2:40: 2:40: 2:40: 2:40:
2:45: 2:45: 2:45: 2:45: 2:45:
2:50: 2:50: 2:50: 2:50: 2:50:
2:55: 2:55: 2:55: 2:55: 2:55:
3:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:00:
3:05: 3:05: 3:05: 3:05: 3:05:
3:10: 3:10: 3:10: 3:10: 3:10:
3:15: 3:15: 3:15: 3:15: 3:15:
3:20: 3:20: 3:20: 3:20: 3:20:
3:25: 3:25: 3:25: 3:25: 3:25:
3:30: 3:30: 3:30: 3:30: 3:30:
3:35: 3:35: 3:35: 3:35: 3:35:
3:40: 3:40: 3:40: 3:40: 3:40:
3:45: 3:45: 3:45: 3:45: 3:45:
3:50: 3:50: 3:50: 3:50: 3:50:
3:55: 3:55: 3:55: 3:55: 3:55:
4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00:
4:05: 4:05: 4:05: 4:05: 4:05:
4:10: 4:10: 4:10: 4:10: 4:10:
4:15: 4:15: 4:15: 4:15: 4:15:
4:20: 4:20: 4:20: 4:20: 4:20:
4:25: 4:25: 4:25: 4:25: 4:25:
4:30: 4:30: 4:30: 4:30: 4:30:
4:35: 4:35: 4:35: 4:35: 4:35:
4:40: 4:40: 4:40: 4:40: 4:40:
4:45: 4:45: 4:45: 4:45: 4:45:
4:50: 4:50: 4:50: 4:50: 4:50:
4:55: 4:55: 4:55: 4:55: 4:55:
5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00:
5:05: 5:05: 5:05: 5:05: 5:05:
5:10: 5:10: 5:10: 5:10: 5:10:
5:15: 5:15: 5:15: 5:15: 5:15:
5:20: 5:20: 5:20: 5:20: 5:20:
5:25: 5:25: 5:25: 5:25: 5:25:
5:30: 5:30: 5:30: 5:30: 5:30:
5:35: 5:35: 5:35: 5:35: 5:35:
5:40: 5:40: 5:40: 5:40: 5:40:
5:45: 5:45: 5:45: 5:45: 5:45:
5:50: 5:50: 5:50: 5:50: 5:50:
5:55: 5:55: 5:55: 5:55: 5:55:
6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00:
6:05: 6:05: 6:05: 6:05: 6:05:
6:10: 6:10: 6:10: 6:10: 6:10:
6:15: 6:15: 6:15: 6:15: 6:15:
6:20: 6:20: 6:20: 6:20: 6:20:
6:25: 6:25: 6:25: 6:25: 6:25:
6:30: 6:30: 6:30: 6:30: 6:30:
6:35: 6:35: 6:35: 6:35: 6:35:
6:40: 6:40: 6:40: 6:40: 6:40:
6:45: 6:45: 6:45: 6:45: 6:45:
6:50: 6:50: 6:50: 6:50: 6:50:
6:55: 6:55: 6:55: 6:55: 6:55:
7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00:
7:05: 7:05: 7:05: 7:05: 7:05:
7:10: 7:10: 7:10: 7:10: 7:10:
7:15: 7:15: 7:15: 7:15: 7:15:
7:20: 7:20: 7:20: 7:20: 7:20:
7:25: 7:25: 7:25: 7:25: 7:25:
7:30: 7:30: 7:30: 7:30: 7:30:
7:35: 7:35: 7:35: 7:35: 7:35:
7:40: 7:40: 7:40: 7:40: 7:40:
7:45: 7:45: 7:45: 7:45: 7:45:
7:50: 7:50: 7:50: 7:50: 7:50:
7:55: 7:55: 7:55: 7:55: 7:55:
8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00:
8:05: 8:05: 8:05: 8:05: 8:05:
8:10: 8:10: 8:10: 8:10: 8:10:
8:15: 8:15: 8:15: 8:15: 8:15:
8:20: 8:20: 8:20: 8:20: 8:20:
8:25: 8:25: 8:25: 8:25: 8:25:
8:30: 8:30: 8:30: 8:30: 8:30:
8:35: 8:35: 8:35: 8:35: 8:35:
8:40: 8:40: 8:40: 8:40: 8:40:
8:45: 8:45: 8:45: 8:45: 8:45:
8:50: 8:50: 8:50: 8:50: 8:50:
8:55: 8:55: 8:55: 8:55: 8:55:
9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00:
9:05: 9:05: 9:05: 9:05: 9:05:
9:10: 9:10: 9:10: 9:10: 9:10:
9:15: 9:15: 9:15: 9:15: 9:15:
9:20: 9:20: 9:20: 9:20: 9:20:
9:25: 9:25: 9:25: 9:25: 9:25:
9:30: 9:30: 9:30: 9:30: 9:30:
9:35: 9:35: 9:35: 9:35: 9:35:
9:40: 9:40: 9:40: 9:40: 9:40:
9:45: 9:45: 9:45: 9:45: 9:45:
9:50: 9:50: 9:50: 9:50: 9:50:
9:55: 9:55: 9:55: 9:55: 9:55:
10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00