Programme

BASEES 2018

Annual Conference

13 April – 15 April 2018

Fitzwilliam College – Churchill College
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Dear conference participants,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the BASEES conference. Much has happened
since last year’s conference in the “BASEES region” that makes our theme of human rights
particularly timely. Taking as our starting point the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia, our
keynote panels will be examining modern interpretations of protest and revolution in East
Central Europe in the 1950s and 60s and the prospects for human rights activism in the post-
Soviet space today. We are also reviving a conference tradition that I remember from the first
conferences I attended, of inviting leading experts to give delegates the opportunity to get up
to speed on the events that have unfolded in their particular specialist area across the region
in the past year. There is an impressive range of panels on offer, with the major disciplines in
the humanities and the social sciences and all the geographic and cultural regions of the
Eurasian continent represented, that provide platform for the presentation of our members’
cutting-edge research. On behalf of the BASEES committee, I wish you all a good
conference!
Professor Judith Pallot
President, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
We are most grateful to our sponsors for their generous support.
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Academic Conference Organiser:
Dr Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia) [email protected]

Dr Chris Jones (University of East Anglia) [email protected]
Local Organisers:
Suzy Howes & associates ltd [email protected]
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Conference Schedule
Friday, 13 April 2018
Registration opens……………………………………………………. 10:00

Lunch………………………………………………………………………… 11:30-12:30
Keynote (1)…….……………………….................................... 12:30-13:30
Session 1…………………………………………………………………… 13:45-15:15
Coffee/Tea/ ……………………………………………………………… 15:15-15:45
Book Launch: Gendering Postsocialism
(Routledge)………………………………………………….. 15:25-15:35
Session 2…………………………………………………………………… 15:45-17:15
Keynote (2)……….…….………….......................................... 17:30-19:00
Dinner ……………………………….……………………….……………. 19:00-20:00
BASEES Women's Forum Roundtable and Drinks.………. 21:00-22:00
Saturday, 14 April 2018
Session 3………………………………………………………………….. 09:00-10:30

Coffee/Tea……………………………………………………………….. 10:30-11:00
Meet the PG Poster Presenters………….………. 10:30-11:00
Session 4………………………………………………………………….. 11:00-12:30
Lunch……………………………………………………………………….. 12:30-13:45
BASEES Annual General Meeting………………... 12:45-13:30
Session 5………………………………………………………………….. 13:45-15.15
Coffee/Tea ……………………………………………..……………….. 15:15-15:45
Book Launch: The Politics of Football in
Yugoslavia (I.B. Tauris)………………………………… 15.25-15:35
Membership enquiries………………………………….15:20-15:40
Session 6……………………….………..………………………………… 15:45-17:15
Keynote (3)..……………………………………………………..………. 17:30-19:00
Drinks Reception………………………………………………………. 19:00-19:45
Conference Dinner…………….…………………………..…….…… 19.45-22:00
‘The Music of Dissent post-1968’…………………………………….….. 22:00-late
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Sunday, 15 April 2018
Session 7………………………………………………………………….. 09:00-10:30

Coffee/Tea……………………………………………………………….. 10:30-11:00
Session 8…………………………………………………………………… 11:00-12:30
Session 9……………………………………………………………………. 12:45-14.15
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Delegate Guide
This year, the conference takes place in meeting rooms split between Churchill College and
Fitzwilliam College and your programme indicates which site you should go to. Churchill
College is on Storey’s Way, directly opposite the main Porters’ Lodge at Fitzwilliam College.
Please ask a Porter, or one of our stewards (wearing red-lanyarded badges) for directions if
you need any help. Signage to assist you will also be in place.
Bedrooms are provided in Fitzwilliam College and Murray Edwards College, please note that
you must check out and return your key to the Porters’ Lodge at your college by 09:00 on
your final day.
Smoking is not permitted at either college.
Maps
Maps of Fitzwilliam College and Churchill College, including a meeting room plan, and an area
map showing all three colleges can be found at the end of this booklet.
Please wear your delegate badge at all times in Fitzwilliam and Churchill Colleges.
If you should happen to lose your badge, please come to the conference desk for a
replacement.
Postgraduate Posters
Academic posters will be on show in the Upper Hall at Fitzwilliam.
Notices / Updates / Last Minute Changes
We will put notices out via twitter. Follow @basees and #basees2018
Meals
Breakfast for college residents: this is available between 0745 and 0900 for those staying in
Fitzwilliam College and between 0800 and 0900 for those staying in Murray Edwards College.
All coffee and tea breaks are open to all conference attendees and take place in the foyer to
the Auditorium and the Upper Hall at Fitzwilliam. The foyer to the Auditorium will be most
convenient to those attending panels in Churchill College or the Walker Rooms.
The drinks reception on Saturday evening is open to all conference attendees and takes place
in the Upper Hall at Fitzwilliam College.
Hot lunches and dinners are served in Fitzwilliam Dining Hall and are only open to those who
have pre-purchased a ticket. The conference desk will be able to sell a limited number of
additional tickets. If you have asked for a special diet, please make yourself known to a
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member of the catering staff on each occasion. Pre-ordered packed lunches on Sunday are
available for collection from the conference desk. Please bring your meal tickets with you to
all meals.
There is a small café and bar in the Screens area which is open for coffee, tea, sandwiches and
cakes from 08:00 to 18:00 each day and then as a bar in the evenings.
Internet access
There is free wireless access in the public areas of both Fitzwilliam and Churchill Colleges. In
Churchill College choose the CHURCHILL COLLEGE network. No password is required at
Churchill College. In Fitzwilliam College, if you have Eduroam access please use it, otherwise
ask at the Registration Desk for instructions to access the network. If you are staying in
Murray Edwards College or Fitzwilliam College then you will be given instructions on how to
access the internet from your bedroom.
Conference desk
Get help and information during the conference at the conference and registration desk
which will be in the Screens at Fitzwilliam College and is staffed daily starting at 1000 on
Friday 13 April. There will be signs to help you find your way to the Screens. The notice board
in this area will have details of any daily notices, such as changes to the programme, so do
make a point of checking this from time to time. Come and see us, we can help with local
information as well as information about the conference, and will do our best to assist you
with any queries you may have. You can also contact us on the conference phone, +44
(0)7768 418572, during conference hours and for emergencies only outside of those hours.
We are here to help! You will be able to tell who we are because we will be wearing our
badges on red lanyards.
Cambridge weather
Weather: No-one visits the UK without thinking about the weather, which is basically
unpredictable, depending on whether it chooses to arrive from the north, south, east or
west. However, the Cambridge area has the lowest average rainfall of anywhere in the British
Isles.
For a 5-day forecast for the Cambridge area see www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2653941
What’s on in Cambridge
For guides to what to do, where to eat etc in Cambridge see www.visitcambridge.org The
Conference Desk will also have some tourist information on things to do in Cambridge.
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Restaurants / Gastropubs near Fitzwilliam College
Leave Fitzwilliam College via the Huntington Road entrance, turn right towards the city centre.
All restaurants listed here are within a ten-minute walk from the college on the road towards
the city centre.
Sir Isaac Newton – Gastropub

84 Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AJ
http://www.sirisaacnewton-cambridge.co.uk/
The Castle Inn - Gastropub

38 Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AJ
The Architect - Gastropub

43 Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AH
http://www.thearchitectcambridge.co.uk/
Mee and I – Asian Tapas and Noodle Bar

45 Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AH
http://meeandi.co.uk/
The Maharajah – Indian Tandoori Restaurant

9-13 Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AH
http://www.maharajah-cambridge.co.uk/
La Margherita – Italian Restaurant

15 Magdalene St, Cambridge CB3 0AF
lamargheritacambridge.com
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Exhibitors – Upper Hall
Berghahn Books
Bloomsbury Publishing
Cambridge University Press
Combined Academic Publishers Ltd
Crossroads Eurasia LLC
Eurospan Group
Gazelle Book Service
I.B.Tauris Publishers
Integrum
‘Learn Russian in the European Union’, Daugavpils University, Latvia
Oxford Publicity Partnership
NovaMova Russian Language School
Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers
Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge

Europe-Asia Studies
East European Politics
Rowman & Littlefield International
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BASEES KEYNOTES 2018
KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE 1:
Human Rights in the Region: Domestic and International Perspectives

Friday, 13 April, Auditorium 12:30-13:30
Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President)
Speakers Mary McAuley (Independent Scholar)

Sergey Golubok (St. Petersburg Bar Association)
Heather McGill (Amnesty International)
Dalia Leinarte (UN Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, UN [CEDAW])
By the time delegates will have convened for this year’s annual conference, Russians
will have just voted in their seventh President. The election will have taken place
against a backdrop of concerns about just how free and fair the electoral process is
in Russia and whether the movement towards greater democratisation in the
country is stalled. No less than in Russia events in East Central Europe during the last
decade have raised similar concerns, which are particularly poignant given that 2018
is the fiftieth anniversary of the Prague Spring and its suppression by Soviet armed
forces. Our guest speakers in the opening keynote session, are all involved in
different ways in promoting human rights in Russia and across the BASEES region
either through their practical work or scholarship. The session will begin with Mary
McAuley, who interviewed the leading human rights activists for her recent book
“Human Rights in Russia: Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin” to
introduce the topic discussing the changing face of human rights activism from the
end of the Soviet period to present day. She will be followed by our three other
speakers, all of whom are involved in different ways in defending human rights;
human rights lawyer Sergey Golubok, who represents parties in cases heard before
the Russian courts, including the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, and
before courts in Belarus and the European Court of Human Rights; Heather McGill,
from Amnesty International who has been in charge of research on Belarus, Ukraine
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and the author of a recently published report of prisoners transportation in the
Russian federation, and Dalia Leinarte, Professor of History at the University of
Vilnius and currently chairperson of the UN The Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) whose brief is to advance gender equality
and human rights for women and girls around the world.
The panel speakers are introduced here in alphabetical order:
Sergei Golubok (LL.M. in International Human Rights

Law (University of Essex, United Kingdom), Ph.D. in
International Law and European Law (St Petersburg
State University, Russia) has work experience with
Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg (2008-2011). Since 2011 he is a practicing
attorney in Russia, member of the St Petersburg Bar
Association, mostly representing applicants before the
European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional
Court of Russia, and conducting criminal defense. In
2017 Dr Golubok was elected by his colleagues to serve
as a Board member of his Bar Association. He is also
member of the European Criminal Bar Association and associate member of the
International Criminal Court Bar Association. In 2017 Sergei was awarded a prize for
human rights litigation by the Moscow Helsinki Group. Available on Facebook: Sergey
Golubok and on Instragram: goluboksergey.
Dalia Leinarte is Professor of

History and Chairperson of the UN
CEDAW Committee. Leinarte
writes extensively on women and
family in Imperial Russia, and
former Soviet Union. She is an
author of The Lithuanian Family in
its European Context, 1800-1914:
Marriage, Divorce and Flexible
Communities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Adopting and Remembering Soviet
Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 (Brill, 2010). Dalia Leinarte has
received national and international recognition. In her country she is a recognized
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gender equality expert and defender of women’s rights. An especially strong
example of the recognition of her work is that in 2012 the Lithuanian government
nominated her as a candidate for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, UN (CEDAW). She was successfully elected.
Mary McAuley (M.A., D. Phil. Oxon) left an academic

career, as Fellow in Politics at St Hilda’s College,
Oxford, in 1995 to head the Ford Foundation’s
Moscow office, with particular responsibility for
supporting human rights and legal reform. In May
2002 she returned to London, where, as an Associate
of the International Centre for Prison Studies (then at
King’s College, London) she wrote on juvenile justice.
Publications include: Russia’s Politics of Uncertainty,
Cambridge University Press, 1997; Deti v tiurme , OGI,
Moscow, 2008; Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian
Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic, 2010; Human
Rights in Russia: Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin, I B Tauris, April 2015
Heather McGill graduated with an M.A. in

Political Science from McGill University.
Since 1990 she has worked in various roles
with Amnesty International. Her first job was
as USSR Field Officer, training and assisting
Amnesty International activists in the former
Soviet Union and then as researcher covering
the Western CIS, Russia and since 2017
Central Asia. She has researched and
published reports on the death penalty in Belarus, violence against women in Belarus
and Ukraine, the investigation of torture allegations in Ukraine and Moldova and
most recently a report on Prisoner Transportation in Russia. She is currently
researching the issue of legal capacity and mental disability in Kazakhstan.
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The Past Year in View across the Region

Friday, 13 April, Auditorium 17:30-19:00
Chair: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)
Speakers: Michael Ellman (University of Amsterdam. Netherlands)

Andrew Wilson (SSEES, London)
Natasha Kuhrt (Kings College London)
Sam Greene (Kings College London)
Rory Finnan (Camcrees, Cambridge)
Following on from last year’s successful roundtable, when specialists from across the
humanities and social sciences were asked to summarise in under seven minutes
developments in their subject area, we have made the task easier for the 2018
conference. We are following the same format as before but the invited speakers
will only be commenting on developments during 2017 and up to present, if anything
interesting has happened. We have changed the cast, so on this occasion Sam
Greene will be bringing us up-to-date on changes in the political arena in the RF;
Andrew Wilson on the non-Russian successor state in Europe; Natasha Kuhrt on
foreign relations; Michael Ellman on economic development and Rory Finnan on
interesting developments in the cultural sphere.
The panel speakers are introduced here in

alphabetical order:
Michael Ellman is an emeritus professor of

Amsterdam University and one-time fellow of
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He was a graduate
student in the kafedra of mathematical economics of
the economics faculty of Moscow State University in
1965-67 and has taught and researched at Glasgow,
Cambridge and Amsterdam universities. At
Amsterdam University he was also chair of the
economics and business departments. He was
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awarded the 1998 Kondratiev prize for his ‘’contribution to the development of the
social sciences’’. Author of numerous books and articles on the Soviet and Russian
economies, on transition economics and on Soviet economic and political history.
One of the editors of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, member of editorial board
of vol.5 of Tragediya sovetskoi derevni, contributor to both volumes of the New
Palgrave and to the Encyclopedia of Russian History.
Dr Rory Finnin directs the Ukrainian Studies programme at Cambridge and chairs the
Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES). He
received his PhD (with
distinction) in Slavic
Languages and
Comparative Literature
from Columbia
University. He also holds
Certificates from the
Harriman Institute and
from the Institute for the
Study of Human Rights at
Columbia University.
Sam Greene is Director of the Russia

Institute at King`s College London
and senior lecturer in Russian
politics. Prior to moving to London in
2012, he lived and worked in
Moscow for 13 years, most recently
as director of the Centre for the
Study of New Media & Society at the
New Economic School, and as
deputy director of the Carnegie
Moscow Center. His book,Moscow
in Movement: Power & Opposition
in Putin`s Russia, was published in
August 2014 by Stanford University
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Press. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics and
Political Science.
Natasha Kuhrt is lecturer in the Department of War

Studies, King’s College London. Her main research
interests are nationalism; international law,
sovereignty and intervention in particular in
relation to Russian foreign policy. Russia in Asia is a
key focus of her research and she has published a
monograph and several articles and book chapters
on this topic. She is co-convenor of the BISA
Working Group on Russian & Eurasian Security and
is currently completing a book on Russian foreign
policy for Polity Press.
Andrew Wilson is Professor in Ukrainian Studies at

University College London. His most recent book
Ukraine Crisis: What the West Needs to Know was
published by Yale University Press in 2014. A
fourth, updated, edition of The Ukrainians:
Unexpected Nation was published in 2015. His
other books include Belarus: The Last European
Dictatorship (2011), Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
(2005) and Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the
Post-Soviet World (2005).
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KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE AND DRINKS
Friday, 13 April, Reddaway Room 21:00-22:00
Experiences of Academia
Teaching and Researching in the BASEES Region:
Perspectives from East Central Europe and Russia
What have been the experiences of women who have come from Eastern Europe to
the UK to research and work in British universities? What sort of practical and
attitudinal issues have they faced? How do they settle themselves in and become
accommodated to the workings of UK higher education?
At the roundtable, we will award the prizes for the Women’s Forum book, article
and conference paper competitions. The panel speakers are introduced here in
alphabetical order:
Olesya Khromeychuk is Leverhulme Early Career

Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her current
research focuses on the participation of women in
military formations during the Second World War
and in the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.
She is the author of “Undetermined” Ukrainians:
Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS “Galicia”
Division, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. She has guest-
edited a special issue of the Journal of Soviet and
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Post-Soviet Politics and Society 2(1) (2016), entitled ‘Gender, Nationalism and
Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine’.
Agnieszka Kubal is Lecturer in Sociology at UCL

and Departmental Lecturer in Russian and East
European Studies at University of Oxford. She is
currently completing her second monograph:
Immigration and Refugee Law. Socio-Legal and
Comparative Approaches (with Cambridge
University Press), that results from her British
Academy post-doctoral project: ‘Helots no
more? Human Rights and Access to Justice for
Migrants in Russia’.
Galina Miazhevich is Senior Lecturer at the

School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies
at Cardiff University (from 2018-to date). Galina
started her academic career in the UK as a
Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project at
the University of Manchester (2006-2008). She
was then Gorbachev Media Research Fellow at
the University of Oxford, UK (2008-2012),
followed by appointment as Lecturer at the
University of Leicester (2013-2017) before her
recent move to the University of Cardiff.
Galina's research interests include media

representations of multiculturalism; media and democracy in post-communist
Europe; gender, media and emergent forms of post-Soviet identity. Galina has
published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored several
monographs; she organised a number of international workshops and convened the
Gorbachev Lectures on Press Freedom held at Christ Church, University of Oxford in
2011. Galina regularly contributes to BBC Russian service. She is a HEA Fellow, ECREA
executive board member and a co-convenor of the BASEES (Digital) Media and
Cultures group. Galina was a visiting fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of
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Helsinki (Finland) in 2017. Galina was recently awarded an AHRC Leadership
Fellowship (2018-2020) to explore media representations of non-heteronormative
sexuality in Russia.
Margarita Vaysman is Lecturer in Russian at

the University of St Andrews.
Her research focuses on nineteenth-century
Russian literature, intellectual history,
narratology and gender. Margarita's current
project brings together gender and celebrity
studies, investigating the strategies used by
female writers to gain literary fame. Looking
at novels, articles and translations, co-
authored by up-and-coming nineteenth-
century Russian and Ukrainian women
writers and their established male
colleagues, it examines the effect of this
collaboration on women’s literary
reputations and their place in the current
literary canon.
Her forthcoming monograph, Nineteenth-

Century Russian Metafiction, explores
instances of literary self-consciousness – a narrative technique that forces readers to
be aware that they are reading a work of fiction – in Russian literature
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“Fifty years On”: Remembering and Forgetting the post-war revolutions in

Eastern Europe
Saturday, 14 April, 17:30-19:00 – Auditorium
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchová (University of Graz, Austria)

Speakers: Janos Rainer (Head of the Institute for the History of the
1956 Hungarian Revolution)
Jacques Rupnik (CERI, Sciences Po)
Jan Kubik (SSEES, London)
Fifty years ago there were exciting events taking place in Czechoslovakia; Aleksander
Dubček had become first secretary of the KSČ and political liberalisation was under
way. But it was not to last long. On August 8th Soviet troops entered the country and
put an end to the Prague Spring. This was neither the first nor last revolution to
challenge the communist hegemony in the countries of East Central Europe. In this
keynote panel, we will be asking our speakers to remind us of these oppositional
uprisings and the people involved in them, and to reflect upon how they are being
re-interpreted at the present in the service of leaderships in the communist
successor states. Our speakers are Jacques Rupnik who was a student at the time of
the Soviet invasion and having left Czechoslovakia her returned in 1990-2 as an
adviser to president an adviser to Vaslav Havel, Janos Reiner, Director of the
Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest and Jan Kubik,
former Director of SSEES who will be speaking respectively about how the
revolutions of the post WWII revolutions or uprisings are being commemorated (or
not) in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
The panel speakers are introduced here in alphabetical order:
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Jan Kubik is Professor at the UCL School of
Slavonic and East European Studies and the
Department of Political Science, Rutgers
University in New Brunswick. His earlier
publications include: The Power of Symbols
against the Symbols of Power. The Rise of
Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in
Poland and Rebellious Civil Society: Popular
Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland,
1989-1993 (with Grzegorz Ekiert). His recent
work deals with the relationship between
political science and cultural anthropology
(Anthropology and Political Science: a
convergent approach, with Myron Aronoff); critical analysis of post-communist
studies (Postcommunism from Within. Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony,
edited with Amy Linch); and the politics of memory (Twenty Years After Communism:
The Politics of Memory and Commemoration, prepared and edited with Michael
Bernhard). Among his research interests are: culture and politics; civil society,
protest politics and social movements; communist and post-communist politics; the
rise of populism; and interpretive and ethnographic methods in political science. He
received M.A. (sociology and philosophy) from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow,
Poland and Ph.D. (anthropology, with distinction) from Columbia University.
Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of

Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz
(A). Her research interests include cultural
representations of gender, gender and social
change, censorship, and narrative research, with
a focus on state-socialist and post state-socialist
Czech Republic. Her recent articles include “A
Dulled Mind in an Active Body: Growing Up as a
Girl in Normalization Czechoslovakia”
(in Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist
Societies: Memories of Everyday Life, ed. by Iveta
Silova, Nelli Piattoeva, and Zsuzsa Millei,
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth?: Gender
Critique in Czech Society and Culture“ (Slavic Review, Winter 2016). She co-
edited The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: an Expropriated
Voice (with Hana Havelková; Routledge 2014, paperback 2015; expanded Czech
edition 2015) that won the 2016 BASEES Women’s Forum Book Prize. She is currently
completing a book manuscript on Czech and Hungarian post-1968 scholarly
publishing and censorship.
János M. Rainer (1957), Hungarian historian,

professor of contemporary history at Eszterházy
Károly University (Eger, Hungary), head of the 1956
Institute – Oral History Archive Department at the
Hungarian National Széchényi Library (Budapest).
Before 1989 he published in samizdat on the reprisals
after 1956. His field of expertise is Hungarian history
after WWII, focusing on the 1956 revolution and the
Kádár-period. His two-volume biography on Imre
Nagy was published in enshortened version in Polish,
Russian, German and English.
Jacques Rupnik is Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale

(CERI) at Sciences Po, France, where he also serves as Professor of Political Science.
He was educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently Director of
Research at CERI and Professor at
Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting
professor at the College of Europe in
Bruges and Charles University in
Prague. Since he joined CERI, Sciences
Po in 1982 he has been writing and
lecturing about East and Central
European history and politics and
European integration. He was advisor
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to president Vaclav Havel in the 1990’s. Executive director of the International
Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-
1996) and drafter of its report Unfinished Peace (1996), member of the Independent
International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-drafter of The Kosovo
Report (Oxford UP, 2000). Among the various positions held: advisor to the European
Commission (2007 – 2010). Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice
and Reconciliation in The Hague since 2010. Member of the board of directors of the
European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). He has been a visiting
Professor in several European universities and in the Department of Government, at
Harvard University where he is regularly Visiting Scholar at the Center for European
Studies.
J.Rupnik has published a number of books and scholarly articles including Histoire du
Parti Communiste Tchécoslovaque (1981) The Other Europe (1989), Le Printemps
tchécoslovaque 1968 (1999), 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and
the new international system, London, Routledge, ( 2013, with an introduction by
V.Havel), Géopolitique de la démocratization, l’Europe et ses voisinages, Presses de
Sciences Po (2014).
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Conference Dinner / Award Ceremony
Saturday, 14 April, 19.45-22:00
After Dinner Speaker: Prof Veljko Vujačić (EUSP)
Veljko Vujačić is Provost of the European University at St. Petersburg and Professor
of Sociology at Oberlin College.
Professor Vujačić’s fields of specialization include
sociological theory, political sociology and
comparative-historical sociology, with a special focus
on communism and nationalism in the Soviet Union
and Yugoslavia. He is the author of Sociologija
Nacionalizma. Eseji iz teorijske i primenjene
sociologije na primerima Rusije i Srbije [The Sociology
of Nationalism. Essays in theoretical and applied
sociology with case studies from Russia and Serbia,
Beograd; Službeni glasnik, 2013] and Nationalism,
Myth, and the State in Russia and Serbia. Antecedents
of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and
Yugoslavia(Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is
currently completing a book manuscript entitled From Class to Nation. Communism
and Nationalism in Russia and Serbia, 1985-1991, and working on a project on
charisma, nation, and tradition in late communism and post-communism.
After Dinner Event
Andrei Gavrilov - The Music of Dissent post-1968

– Reddaway Room, 22:00
Andrei Gavrilov is author of nearly 100 articles about music - Soviet, Russian and
International, as well as commentaries for LP and CDs. He has worked as a music and
arts observer for Aurora monthly review, Molodia quarterly magazine and for
different radio stations - Kultura, FM, Kino FM and Silver Rain FM. He has his own
radio programs: C'est la Vie and the Alphabet of Dissent for Radio Liberty and
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow daily program for Silver rain fm. He has been
collecting recordings of the "bards" and Soviet and Russian Jazz for the past forty
years and has one of the largest private collection of original recordings in Russia.
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Alexander Nove Prize, 2016
Awarded at the 2018 Annual Conference
To
Andy Willimott
(University of Reading)
for
Living the Revolution:
Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932
(Oxford University Press, 2016)

Citation
In Living the Revolution, Andy Willimott takes an almost entirely unknown topic and makes it
his own, turning what could have been a traditional ‘thesis book’ into something of real lasting
value. This fine, energetic piece of scholarship offers a genuinely new perspective on the
revolutionary developments of the 1920s by making a compelling case for the importance of
the much neglected urban commune movement. It strikes a convincing balance between
stressing the agency of the commune activists – aptly characterized as ‘those who tried to be
the change they wanted to see in the world’ - and the increasing control imposed by the party-
state. Willimott’s impressive command of his sources enables him to expand the scope of his
conclusions beyond his field of specialism and to make a major contribution to revitalising the
study of early Soviet Russia. He is a worthy winner of this year’s Nove Prize.
Jury:
Prof Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester
Prof Peter Waldron, University of East Anglia
Advisor: Prof Stephen Smith, University of Oxford
The Alexander Nove Prize for scholarly work of high quality in Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet
studies was established by decision of the annual general meeting of the Association in March
1995 in recognition of the outstanding contribution to its field of study made by the late
Alexander Nove.
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George Blazyca Prize, 2016

To
Jakub Beneš
(University of Birmingham)
For
Workers and Nationalism:
Czech and German Social Democracy in Hapsburg Austria, 1890-1918
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Jakub S. Beneš’s book, Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in
Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918, addresses the issues of nationalism, socialism and ‘national
indifference’ in the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn of the twentieth
century. Beneš takes issue with Hans Mommsen’s argument that Czech Social Democrats
adopted nationalist politics because the party leadership pandered to petty bourgeois
elements. He directs our attention, rather, to the grass roots, where a transnational, socialist
movement fighting exclusion from political society on class grounds gradually switched focus,
once the vote had been won, to a struggle against exclusion on the grounds of national
minority status. In the process, social democracy split along ethnic lines, because neither side
understood the concerns of the other. As Beneš insists and illustrates, with copious and vivid
evidence from Czech and German memoirs, newspapers, pamphlets and popular literature,
this distinctly working-class variant of nationalism was, by the time of the First World War, a
mass movement; the opinions of party leaders were irrelevant.
Jury:
Prof Nigel Swain, University of Liverpool
Prof Anne White, SSEES, University College London
The George Blazyca Prize for scholarly work of high quality in East European studies was
established by decision of the annual general meeting of the Association in April 2006 in
recognition of the outstanding contribution to its field of study made by the late George
Blazyca.
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BASEES Postgraduate Prize 2017
To
Olena Palko
(Birkbeck, University of London)
For
"Between Two Powers: The Soviet Ukrainian Writer Mykola

Khvyl'ovyi" in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 64
(2016), H. 4, S. 575–598
Citation
Olena Palko’s study of ‘Soviet Ukrainian Writer’ Mykola Khvyl’ovyi effectively challenges the
existing historical and literary paradigm which seeks to classify prominent intellectuals as
communist or nationalist. Palko’s central argument, that Khvyl’ovyi’s multifaceted identity as
proletarian writer, Bolshevik and Soviet Ukrainian during the 1920s was complex but not
contradictory, is compelling and lays the basis for a much more nuanced analysis of his life and
literary legacy. This engaging and well-written article draws on available archival materials and
original literary analysis, effectively integrated within a rich historiographical context. Palko’s
study not only broadens our knowledge and understanding of Khvyl’ovyi and his work, but
also provides many useful observations about ‘national intellectuals’ in the early Soviet period.
Therefore, it is a deserving winner of this year’s BASEES Postgraduate Prize.
Jury:
Dr Andrea Gullotta, University of Glasgow
Dr Kelly Hignett, Leeds Beckett University
The BASEES Prize for the Best Scholarly Article by a Postgraduate Student is offered annually
by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for a scholarly, peer-reviewed
article of high quality in any of the disciplinary and geographical areas which fall within the
BASEES remit.
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BASEES Women’s Forum Prizes 2018
Book Prize
Pauline Fairclough, Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under
Lenin and Stalin
In the shaping of Soviet cultural identity from 1917 to 1953, music played
an important role. Great works of art were integrated into the Soviet canon, but
could also be used to criticise contemporary Soviet artists, to build a new narrative
of Russian supremacy, while stamping out musical avant-gardism. Fairclough’s book
provides fascinating detail on programming and performance based on archival
research. She explains judiciously an era which, while it may not have ‘moulded’ the
Soviet listener, did offer a form of entertainment not widely accessible before 1917.
The canon was never wholly static, even in the years 1948-53, when it was most
tightly controlled. Her book will be the definitive work on this subject.
Sarah Badcock, A Prison without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of
Tsarism
While Soviet historiography emphasized the cultural benefits that political exiles
brought to Siberia, Badcock gives voice as well to the regional authorities and local
populations, who articulated the negative impacts of exile on their
communities. Exiles who lacked private means were forced to provide for
themselves in unaccustomed conditions. There was a quota on those allowed into
the towns, and little work elsewhere. Criminal exiles roamed free, for example in
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Yakut villages, further impoverishing and terrorising their local inhabitants. Badcock
has consulted archives in the Sakha Republic and the Irkutsk Oblast. We hear new
kinds of voices in this study, and find descriptions that prove further that state
ambitions for forced labour and the misery of prisoners and their families did not
begin with the Soviet state.
Jury: Dan Healey and Barbara Heldt
Article Prize
This year saw a great range of essays submitted which demonstrated that
scholarship by women on Eastern Europe is really flourishing.
We awarded the BASEES women's prize jointly to Agnes Kriza for her
beautifully illustrated article on ‘The Russian Knadenstuhl’ for the
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 79 (2016), pp. 79-130
The intricacy of the research impressed the judges as well as her
empirical range which integrated material from a several
historiographical traditions. We thought it was a striking piece of
historical detection, which rescued a little known period in Russian
history. The other joint winner was Michelle Assay for her original and
incisive article 'What did Hamlet (not) do to offend Stalin?' Actes des
congrès de la Société française Shakespeare [on line], 35 / 2017. Dr
Assay elegantly traced Stalin’s antipathy to ‘Hamletism’ and historic
Russian interpretations of Hamlet rather than to Shakespeare and the
Danish prince per se. Drawing on a wide range of secondary and archival
sources, the article presented a nuanced, compelling and tight argument.
Runners up
The judges also warmly commended the runners up. We

thought that Maria Engström's essay ‘Daughterland [Rodina-Doch’]: Erotic
patriotism and Russia's future. Conservative mobilization and
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sexualization of the nation’, (online at
http://intersectionproject.eu/article/politics/daughterland-rodina-doch-erotic-
patriotism-and-russias-future) contained the kernel of a fascinating idea which could
be developed into a longer piece. We admired the empirical detail about Ivanovo
and the intellectual ambition of the article ‘Appropriation and
Subversion: Precommunist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and
Postcommunist Democratic Outcomes’ by Tomila V. Lankina, Alexander Libman
and Anastassia Obydenkova which was published in World Politics, vol. 68 no. 2,
2016, pp. 229-274. The article by Sigita Kraniauskien and Laima Žilinskien on ‘Soviet
Ethics in Soviet Memory Studies’ in The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present:
Methodology and Ethics edited by Melanie Ilic and Dalia Leinarte (London:
Routledge 2016), pp. 92-109 showed deep insight into complex processes.
Article Prize: Mary Buckley and Cathie Carmichael
The PG paper prize will be announced at the conference.
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PANELS SPONSORED BY BASEES STUDY GROUPS
Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe Study

Group
3.4 Literature and Culture: Religious Heterodoxies in Contemporary Bulgaria,

Transylvania & Siberia - Walker Room 21
Sponsored by the Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe
Study Group
Chair: Stella Rock (Open University)
Papers: Tünde Komáromi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
‘Faith Healing in Transylvania: The Complementary Roles of Orthodox
Priests and Seers’’
Magdalena Lubanska (University of Warsaw)
‘Sensational Forms Related to the Cult of Live-Giving Waters in South-
Western Bulgaria’
Eleanor Peers (University of Aberdeen)
‘Weaving the Web of Ideas and Beliefs: Soviet Propaganda in Indigenous
Siberian Revival’
4.7 Sociology/Geography: Religion in Crisis and Conflict: Lessons from Russia

and Ukraine - Walker Room 21
Study Group
Chair: Eleanor Peers (University of Aberdeen)
Papers: Marat Shterin (Kings College London)
‘Conceptualising Religion in Political Conflict: The ‘Sacred’ in the Russian-
Ukrainian Crisis’
Boris Knorre (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
‘Theology of war in Post-Soviet Orthodoxy as a symbolical language’
Andrey Levitskiy (University of Oxford)
‘Liberal Clergy and the Question of Reforms in the Russian Orthodox
Church, 1903-1927’
5.15 Politics: Eastern Orthodoxy and Politics: Historical and Contemporary

Challenges - Walker Room 21
Study Group
Chair: Zoe Knox (University of Leicester)
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Papers: Christopher Campbell (University of Glasgow)
‘A house divided? The Russian Orthodox Church and the Cold War
ecumenical movement’
Tobias Köllner (Witten/Herdecke University/Otto von Guericke University
Magdeburg)
‘On Entangled Authorities: The Interrelation between Politics and
Orthodox Religion in Contemporary Russia’
Stella Rock (Open University)
'Unifying the nation: St Seraphim's post-Soviet pilgrimages’
19th Century Study Group

3.6 Literature and Culture: New Approaches to Russian Émigré Literature of
the Interwar Period - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Sponsored by the 19th Century Study Group
Chair: Melissa Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Maria Krivosheina (National Research University Higher School of
Papers:
Economics, Moscow)
‘“White Pinkerton”: Between Tradition and Counter-reaction’
Natalya Sarana (Humboldt University of Berlin)
‘Boris Zajcev’s Puteschestvie Gleba and the Russian Émigré
Bildungsroman’
Petr Budrin (University of Oxford)
‘Not About Love: Viktor Shklovky’s Zoo (1923) and Laurence Sterne’s A
Sentimental Journey (1768)’
Melissa Purkiss (University of Oxford)
‘Home away from home: the holiday resort in émigré
literature’
Discussant: Melissa Purkiss (University of Oxford)
4.6 Literature and Culture: Russian Literary Canon Through the Post-Soviet
Lens - Recital (Churchill)
Chair: Muireann Maguire (Exeter University)
Papers: Margarita Vaysman (St Andrews)
‘Disappearing Distaff: Literary Fates of the Russian Male Writers' Female
Co-Authors’
Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh)
‘Rehabilitating Tolstoy: Russian Views of Tolstoy in the 2000s’
Olga Sobolev (London School of Economics)
‘A Non-Russian Russian Hero: Framing and Re-framing Nabokov’’
Discussant: Connor Doak (University of Bristol)
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BASEES Forum for Czech and Slovak Studies in the UK
3.8 History: Perspectives on Independence – 1918 - Music Room
Sponsored by the BASEES Forum for Czech and Slovak Studies in the UK
Chair: Julia Sutton-Mattocks (University of Bristol and University of Exeter)
Papers: Abigail Weil (Harvard University)
‘Writing in the Crossfire: Jaroslav Hašek as Czech Legionnaire and Red
Army Propagandist’
Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)
‘Representing Yugoslavia in First World War Propaganda: The Yugoslav
Committee and the Vision of South Slav Independence’
Oliver Panichi (University of Teramo)
‘Leaving the Empire and the Pope: The Reform Movements of the Lower
Catholic clergy in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia after 1918’
Discussant: Mary Heimann (Cardiff University)
Polish Studies Group

History: Polish Studies - War, Displacement, Repatriation - Wilson Court
3.10
Common Rm
Sponsored by the Polish Studies Group
Chair: Mateusz Zatonski (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Papers: Katarzyna Nowak (University of Manchester)
‘Polish Prisoners, Patients, and the Elderly in American-occupied
Germany. Marginalised Refugees in the Aftermath of World War II’
Samantha Knapton (Newcastle University)
‘The ‘sludge’ that remains: Polish Displaced Persons and repatriation in
the British zone of occupation’
Anna Nakai (Central European University)
‘Behind the Scenes of broadcasting March 68: Radio
Free Europe and its internal disputes over the defector
Henryk Grynberg’
Study Group for the Former Yugoslavia

3.12 History: Book Presentation: The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s
Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non‑Alignment - Old SCR
Sponsored by the Study Group for the Former Yugoslavia
Chair: Angela Romano (European University Institute)
Papers: Chiara Bonfiglioli (University College Cork)
Rory Archer (UCL SSEES)
Anna Calori (University of Exeter)
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Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (University of Glasgow)
Goran Musić (Central European University)
4.10 History: Memory and identity as a means of state consolidation?

Historical perspectives from Bosnia & Herzegovina - Gordon Cameron
L/Theatre
Chair: Richard Mills (University of East Anglia)
Papers: Andrew Lawler (Bangor University)
‘The expression and suppression of ethnic identity in commemorations
of the People’s Liberation War on the Territory of Bosnia & Herzegovina’
‘“Radnici da, Ratnici ne”: workers, veterans and the ethnicisation of
workplaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina’
Elliot Short (University of East Anglia)
‘The utilisation of commemoration and the military in reinforcing ethnic
identity in post- Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995-2005.’
Discussant: Catherine Baker (University of Hull)
(Digital) Media and Cultures Study Group (DMC)

4.2 Film/Media: Media representations of Feminism and Sexual Violence in
Contemporary Russia and Ukraine - Gaskoin Room
Sponsored by the (Digital) Media and Cultures Study Group
Chair: Nikolay Zakharov (Södertörns University, Stockholm)
Papers: Adelaide McGinty-Peebles (University of Manchester)
‘Violence, rape and feminism in Angelina Nikonova's Twilight Portrait
(2011)’
Mariia Terentieva (University of Cambridge)
‘Help Me(me): #IAmNotScaredToSpeak as an Online Collective Action
Challenging Rape Culture in Ukraine’
Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki)
‘Feminist empowerment and mainstream media in contemporary Russia’
Discussant: Galina Miazhevich (University of Cardiff)
8.1 Film/Media: The Conservative turn and televisual representation of

gender and sexuality in Russia - Old SCR
Chair: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)
Papers: Nathan Brand (University of Leeds)
‘Conservative sexualities - the visual politics of Tsargrad TV’
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Olga Andreevskikh (University of Leeds)
‘It is not what you see: the visual imagery of the makeover TV show
‘Modnyi Prigovor’ in the context of Russia’s heteronormative discourse
on ‘traditional sexualities’
Galina Miazhevich (University of Cardiff)
‘Discursive representations of non-heteronormative sexuality in Russia’
Discussant: Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki)
Study Group on the Caucasus

4.9 History: Roundtable: Thinking between peripheries: Perspectives on the
South Caucasus and Central Asia - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
Sponsored by Study Group on the Caucasus
Chair: Tbc
Papers: Laurence Broers (SOAS, University of London)
Bavne Dave (SOAS, University of London)
Alexander Morrison (University of Oxford)
Nino Kimoklidze (University of Birmingham)
Slavonic and East European Mediaeval Studies Group

4.11 History: Medieval Slavonic Studies: New Queries, New Methodologies,
New Perspectives - Wilson Court Seminar Room 3
Sponsored by Slavonic and East European Mediaeval Studies Group
Chair: Alexandra Vukovich (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Rosie Finlinson (University of Cambridge)
‘The Maternal Body in Muscovite Medical Texts’
Victoria Legkikh (University of Vienna)
‘Problems and solutions of classification and and publication of Russian
services of “Jerusalem” type’
Susana Torres-Prieto (IE University)
‘On Alexander the Great in Medieval Slavonic Historiography’
Post-Communist Economies Study Group

4.18 Economics: Post-Communist World Today - Club Room (Churchill)
Sponsored by BASEES Post-Communist Economies Study Group
Chair: Voicu Ion Sucala (University of Exeter)
Papers: Michael Ellman (University of Amsterdam)
‘Varieties of capitalism in post-socialism’
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Voicu Ion Sucala (University of Exeter)
‘Central planning today’
Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University)
‘International Trade after the Collapse of Socialism’
Special Events / Sponsored Panels

Friday 15:25-15:35
Book Launch: Yulia Gradskova, Ildikó Asztalos Morell (eds.), Gendering Postsocialism:
Old Legacies and New Hierarchies (Routledge, 2017) – Upper Hall
4.19. Special Roundtable Active Old Age Under And After Socialism - William
Thatcher
Sponsored by EUSP
Chair: Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University)
Papers: Elena Zdravomyslova (PNiS, EUSP)
Alissa Klots (EUSP)
Maria Romashova (Center for Comparative History and Political Studies,
Perm))
Elena Bogdanova (PNiS, EUSP)
Saturday 15:25-15:35
Book Launch: Richard Mills, The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism
and the State (I.B. Tauris, 2018) – Upper Hall
Saturday 15:20-15:40
Membership enquiries – Meet the BASEES Membership Secretary – Registration Desk
Special Panel by our Partner Routledge: How to Get Published - Music

6.4
Room
Chair: Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham)
Speakers: Madeleine Markey (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
Laurence Broers (SOAS, University of London and Editor of Caucasus
Survey)
Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham and Editor of Post-Communist
Economies)
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Terry Cox (University of Glasgow and Editor of Europe-Asia Studies)
Marat Shterin (King’s College, London and Editor of Religion, State &
Society)
Peter Sowden (Routledge Books)
6.19 Book Launch: Andrzej Bolesta (ed.), Post-Communist Development:

Europe's Experiences, Asia's Challenges (Warsaw: Collegium Civitas, 2017)
- Wilson Court Common Rm
Saturday 22:00 The Music of Dissent post-1968 – Reddaway Room

Andrei Gavrilov (Music critic, Moscow)
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Friday, 13 April
12:30-13:30 13:45-15:15 15:15-15:45 15:45-17:15 17:30-late
KEYNOTE (1): 1.1 Film/Media: Film Coffee/Tea 2.1 Film/Media: From the archives: 17:30-19:00 Keynote (2): The Past
Human Rights in adaptations and Russian new approaches to film histories - Year in View across the Region –
the Region: culture across borders - Club Walker Room 11 Auditorium
Domestic and Room (Churchill)
International 21:00-22:00 BASEES Women’s
Perspectives Forum Roundtable and Drinks –
– Auditorium Reddaway Room
1.2 Literature and Culture: A 15:25-15:35 Book 2.2 Literature and Culture: War of
War of Songs: Popular Music Launch: Yulia Songs: Popular Music and Recent
and Recent Russia-Ukraine Gradskova, Ildikó Russia-Ukraine Relations (2) - Music
Relations - Music Room Asztalos Morell Room
(eds.), Gendering
Postsocialism: Old
Legacies and New
Hierarchies
(Routledge, 2017) –
Upper Hall
1.3 Literature and Culture: 2.3 Literature and Culture: Defining

Excesses of Perception. The Russian-ness - Repeating Motifs in
Inaccessible in Russian Literature and Culture - Club Room
Literature from the 1830s to (Churchill)
the Present - Old SCR
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1.4 Literature and Culture: 2.4 Literature and Culture: Sedition,
Rehabilitating the Russians? Aesopian Language and Censorship:
The Memory of 1968 and From the Thick Journals to
Reciprocal Representations in Contemporary Novel - William
Contemporary Czech and Thatcher
Russian Literatures - Gordon
Cameron L/Theatre
1.5 Literature and Cultures: 2.5 Literature and Culture: Real and
Countercultures, Youth Imaginary Places: Cities and Countries
Movements and Children’s - Recital (Churchill)
Literature in Russia and
Eastern Europe - Wilson Court
Common Rm
1.6 Sociology/Geography: The 2.6 Sociology/Geography:

Last Soviet Generation in Quantitative Approaches to Social
Lithuania - Wilson Court Change - Wilson Court Seminar Room
Seminar Room 3 2
1.7 Sociology/Geography: The 2.7 History: Youth as an Object and

Soviet Present and Russian Civil Subject of History - Gordon Cameron
Society - William Thatcher L/Theatre
1.8 History: Social Histories of 2.8 History: Polish Identity in the

Yugoslavia and its Successor Twentieth Century - Walker Room 21
States - Gaskoin Room
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1.9 Literature and Culture: The 2.9 History: Sights and Sounds of the
First and the Second Life of Soviet Union in the Cold War - Trust
Igor Inov's Book about Jan Room
Werich - Wilson Court Seminar
Room 1
1.10 History: The Prague Spring 2.10 History: Mapping and Imagining
and Beyond - Recital (Churchill) Empire - Fellows Dining Room
(Churchill)
1.11 History: Dissent and 2.11 History: Memory and

Resistance - Sixties (Churchill) Historiography - Reddaway Room
1.12 History: Aspects of World 2.12 Languages/Linguistics: Teaching,

War One - Trust Room Text, Translation and the First
Novgorod Chronicle - Wilson Court
Seminar Room 1
1.13 History: Representing the 2.13 Politics: Contemporary Ukrainian

Gulag in Russian Museums - and Moldovan Politics - Old
Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
1.14 Languages/Linguistics: 2.14 Politics: Domestic Russian

Languages of South East Political Developments - Sixties
Europe - - Walker Room 21 (Churchill)
1.15 Politics: Protests and 2.15 Politics: Representation and Civil

Activism in Russia - Reddaway Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Room - Cockroft (Churchill)
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1.16 Politics: Russia as a 2.16 Politics: Russian Security,
Eurasian Regional Power - Diplomacy and Conflict - Tizard
Cockroft (Churchill) (Churchill)
1.17 Politics: The EU as an 2.17 Politics: Citizenship, Security and

International Actor - Walker Environment in Russia and Eastern
Room 11 Europe - Wilson Court Common Rm
1.18 Politics: The Politics of the 2.18 Economics: Russia’s economic

Caucasus - - Tizard (Churchill) development - Gaskoin Room
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Saturday, 14 April
9:00-10:30 10:30- 11:00-12:30 12:45- 13:45-15:15 15:15- 15:45-17:15 17:30-late

11:00 13:30 16:45
3.1 Film/Media: Coffee/Tea 4.1 Film/Media: BASEES Coffee/Tea 6.1 Film/Media: Russia 17:30-19:00
Damaged bodies and Print and online Annual and the ‘Information Keynote:
traumatic pasts - - Meet the PG media in Russia and General War’ - The Role of RT - “Fifty years
Wilson Court Seminar Poster Ukraine: journalists, Meeting Trust Room On”:
Room 3 Presenters – bloggers and - Remembering
Upper Hall and Forgetting
entrepreneurs - Old Reddaw
the post-war
SCR ay Room
revolutions in
Eastern Europe
- Auditorium
3.2 Film/Media: 4.2 Film/Media: 5.2 Film/Media: 15:25-15:35 6.2 Film/Media: 19:00-19:45
Shaping the News in Media Roundtable: Borders Book Exhibition: My Identity: Drinks
Russia and (Eastern) representations of and Transformations: Launch: Art, Culture and Identity Reception
Ukraine: From Self- Feminism and Sexual Representations of Richard in the Balkans - Wilson
Censorship to Violence in Space in post-1989 Mills, The Court Seminar Room 1
Algorithms - Sixties Contemporary Russia Central and East Politics of
(Churchill) and Ukraine - European film, visual Football in
Gaskoin Room and performance art - Yugoslavia:
Fellows Dining Room Sport,
(Churchill) Nationalism
and the
State (I.B.
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Tauris, 2018)
– Upper Hall
3.3 Literature and 4.3 Literature and 5.3 Literature and Membership 6.3 Literature and 19:45-late
Culture: Problems of Culture: Reflection of Culture: Cracks in the enquiries – Culture: Fighting for Conference
Dostoevsky’s Poetics: the Revolution in Wall: Dissidents and Registration Freedom - Walker Room Dinner
Narrators and Their Russian and English Activists Between East Desk 21
Narratives - Cockroft Literature - Cockroft and West - Recital
(Churchill) (Churchill) (Churchill)
3.4 Literature and 4.4 Literature and 5.4 Literature and 6.4 Special Panel by our 22:00
Culture: Religious Culture: Not (Quite) Culture: Roundtable: Partner Routledge: How
Heterodoxies in at Home: Artistic Futurism Lived, to Get Published - Music The Music of
Contemporary Experience in the Futurism Lives, Room Dissent post-
Bulgaria, Transylvania Borders of Emigré Futurism Will Live! The 1968 –
& Siberia - Walker and Nationalised - Poetry of the Russian Reddaway
Room 21 Wilson Court Seminar Avant-Garde in 2018 & Room
Room 2 Beyond - Music Room
3.5 Literature and 4.5 Literature and 5.5 Literature and 6.5 Literature and
Culture: Russian- Culture: Staging Culture: The Poetics of Culture: Real and
Power, Russian and Czech Imaginary Places –
English Cultural
Manufacturing Drama - Wilson Court Eastern and Central
Exchange - Fellows
Dissent - Wilson Seminar Room 3 Europe - Fellows Dining
Dining Room Court Common Rm
(Churchill) Room (Churchill)
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3.6 Literature and 4.6 Literature and 5.6 Literature and 6.6 Literature and
Culture: New Culture: Russian Culture: Censorship: Culture: Experiences of
Approaches to Russian Literary Canon Literature, Journalism Emigration - Club Room
Émigré Literature of Through the Post- and The State - Club (Churchill)
the Interwar Period - Soviet Lens - Recital Room (Churchill)
Wilson Court Seminar (Churchill)
Room 1
3.7 4.7 5.7 6.7 Literature and

Sociology/Geography: Sociology/Geography Sociology/Geography: Culture: Representations
Forms of : Religion in Crisis Race, postcoloniality of Women in Slavonic
Contemporary and Conflict: Lessons and whiteness after Literatures and Cultures:
Feminist Activism in from Russia and Yugoslavia - Wilson Writers, Victims and
Central and South East Ukraine - Walker Court Seminar Room 2 Saints - Walker Room 11
Room 21
Europe - William
Thatcher
3.8 History: 4.8 History: Crossing 5.8 Sociology/Geography: 6.8

Perspectives on Boundaries and Gender in Russia - Trust Sociology/Geography:
Independence – 1918 - Borders in the Cold Room Insights into Finnish and
Music Room War - Reddaway Russian societies - Wilson
Room Court Seminar Room 1
3.9 History: Students' 4.9 History: 5.9 History: Buryatia 6.9 History: Writing the
Protests in East Central Roundtable: Thinking under State Socialism - History of Interwar
Europe in 1968 - Trust between peripheries: Old SCR South-Eastern Europe –
Room Perspectives on the
South Caucasus and
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Central Asia - Fellows Key Issues and Themes -
Dining Room Sixties (Churchill)
(Churchill)
3.10 History: Polish 4.10 History: 5.10 History: Soviet 6.10 History: From
Studies - War, Memory and identity society and the Interrogation File to the
Displacement, as a means of state international crisis of Court Room: Criminality
Repatriation - Wilson consolidation? 1968 - Sixties (Churchill) in the Early Soviet State -
Court Common Rm Historical Gaskoin Room
perspectives from
Bosnia &
Herzegovina. -
Gordon Cameron
3.11 History: 4.11 History: 5.11 History: 6.11 History: The Taste
Roundtable: From Medieval Slavonic Roundtable: Thirty in Soviet Food? -
Liberation to Tyranny: Studies: New Years of Yugoslavia's Reddaway Room
The Fate of the Queries, New “Anti-Bureaucratic
Bolshevik Revolution - Methodologies, New Revolution”: A Long-
Reddaway Room Perspectives - Wilson Run Appraisal and New
Court Seminar Room Avenues of Research -
3 Walker Room 11
3.12 History: Book 4.12 History: 5.12 History: British-

Presentation: The Surveillance under Soviet Cultural
Economic Struggle for Communism and Relations and 1968 -
Power in Tito’s Beyond - Trust Room Gaskoin Room
Yugoslavia: From
World War II to
45
Non‑Alignment - Old
SCR
3.13 4.13 5.13 History: Historical 6.13 History: ‘Realpolitik

Languages/Linguistics: Languages/Linguistic Background to Prague and local nationalism in
Self-identification in s: Roundtable: Spring - Gordon the Soviet-Polish
contexts of cultural Behavioural portraits Cameron L/Theatre borderlands in the 1920s’
displacement: Russians of political leaders – - William Thatcher
in Finland - Gordon interdisciplinary
Cameron L/Theatre research - Wilson
Court Seminar Room
1
3.14 Politics: 4.14 Politics: Illiberal 5.14 6.14

Surveillance in Post- and authoritarian Languages/Linguistics: Languages/Linguistics:
Communist Countries - developments in East Pot Pourri – Semantics, Media, social media and
Club Room (Churchill) Central and South- Russification, Idioms translation - Old SCR
East Europe - Music and Poetics - Wilson
Room Court Common Rm
3.15 Politics: The 4.15 Politics: Russian 5.15 Politics: Eastern 6.15 Politics: Turkey as a
External Factors in the disinformation and Orthodoxy and Politics: new player in the Eastern
Political Economy of its effects in Europe - Historical and Black Sea Region - Recital
Transformation and Sixties (Churchill) Contemporary (Churchill)
Development in Challenges - Walker
Central Asia: Towards a Room 21
New "Great Game"? -
Wilson Court Seminar
Room 2
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3.16 Politics: 4.16 Politics: Russia 5.16 Politics: Russia 6.16 Politics: Smoking
Researching post- and Migration, Part and Migration, Part Two and drinking in Central
Soviet de facto states: One - Tizard - Tizard (Churchill) and Eastern Europe -
evidence‑based (Churchill) Gordon Cameron
debates between L/Theatre
theory and practice -
Tizard (Churchill)
3.17 Politics: Use of 4.17 Politics: Use of 5.17 Politics: Crisis and 6.17 Economics: The
Symbols in Symbols in political discourse in the Formation of Family
Contemporary Politics, Contemporary post-Soviet space - Businesses in Post-
Part I - Walker Room Politics, Part Two - Reddaway Room Socialist States:
11 Walker Room 11 Interdisciplinary
Approaches and
Empirical Examples -
Cockroft (Churchill)
3.18 Law: Roundtable: 4.18 Economics: 5.18 Politics: 6.19 Book Launch:
The Law in Practice - Post-Communist Emergence and survival Andrzej Bolesta
Gaskoin Room World Today - Club of de facto states: (ed.),Post-Communist
Room (Churchill) exploring the Development: Europe's
constraining and Experiences, Asia's
facilitating factors - Challenges (Warsaw:
William Thatcher Collegium Civitas, 2017) -
Wilson Court Common
Rm
3.19 Economics: 4.19 Special 5.19 Politics: Finnish –

Socialist economies Roundtable Active Russian Network for
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before and after 1989 - Old Age Under And Russian and Eurasian
Recital (Churchill) After Socialism - Studies in Social Science
William Thatcher and Humanities:
Perspectives of
Contemporary Russian
Politics - Wilson Court
Seminar Room 1
5.20 Economics: The

socialist economic
history - Cockroft
(Churchill)
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Sunday, 16 April
9:00-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:30 12:45-14:45
7.1 Film/Media: Soviet and Russian Coffee/Tea 8.1 Film/Media: The Conservative turn and 9.1 Film/Media: The Role of the
cinema: soldiers, clowns and aliens - televisual representation of gender and sexuality in Media in Ukrainian Society Today -
Gaskoin Room Russia - Old SCR Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
7.2 Literature and Culture: Dissident 8.2 Literature and Culture: The Poetics of Russian 9.2 Literature and Culture: (Re)-
Literature and Samizdat - Sixties and Czech Drama - Wilson Court Common Rm Constructing the Past and Re-
(Churchill) Imagining the Present in Literary
Fiction - Club Room (Churchill)
7.3 Literature and Culture: Absent and 8.3 Literature and Culture: Literature Without 9.3 Literature and Culture: The Art
Present Translators: From the Borders - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill) of the Russian Avant-Garde /
Nineteenth Century to Present Day - Philosophies of Culture and
Music Room Progress - Gordon Cameron
L/Theatre
7.4 Literature and Culture: Translating

and Self-Translating Between Cultures -
Walker Room 11
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7.5 Sociology/Geography: Politics, 8.5 Literature and Culture: Russian Music and 9.5 Literature and Culture:
Protest and Punishment in Belarus, (Identity) Politics - Music Room European Literary Influences in
Czech Republic and Poland - Tizard Russia - Gaskoin Room
(Churchill)
7.6 History: Revisiting the Imperial Turn 8.6 Sociology/Geography: Post- and Pre-Conflict 9.6 Sociology/Geography:
- Fellows Dining Room (Churchill) Identities in Abkhazia, Bosnia and Latvia - Gaskoin Migration, Religion and Identity -
Room Music Room
7.7 History: Hidden Chapels, Hidden 8.7 History: Secret Police Archives and Religions - 9.7 History: Bilateral and
Bodies: Underground Religious life in Trust Room Transnational Histories of the Cold
Central and Eastern Europe - Old SCR War - Sixties (Churchill)
7.8 History: The impact of the 1968 8.8 History: Assimilation, Migration and Resistance 9.8 History: The Practices of
invasion on socialist regimes' in Polish History - William Thatcher Stalinism - Trust Room
Westpolitik - Gordon Cameron
L/Theatre
7.9 History: Governance and Mobility in 8.9 History: Discrimination and Repression - Walker 9.9 History: Twentieth-Century
the Soviet Periphery - Cockroft Room 11 Czechoslovak History - William
(Churchill) Thatcher
7.10 History: COURAGE: Cultural 8.10 History: Building the Soviet Union - Gordon 9.10 History: The Past in the
Opposition in Eastern Europe and 1968 - Cameron L/Theatre Present - Old SCR
Walker Room 21
7.11 Languages/Linguistics: Russian in 8.11 History: Late Nineteenth-Century History - 9.11 Politics: Between pragmatism
the City: transnational linguistic Cockroft (Churchill) and nationalism - Cockroft
encounters - Club Room (Churchill) (Churchill)
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7.12 Politics: Politics and Identity in 8.12 History/Politics: Roundtable: Openness of State 9.12 Politics: The Politics of Eurasia,
Russia - Trust Room Archives in Former Soviet Republics - Sixties Part Two - Reddaway Room
(Churchill)
7.13 Politics: A Litmus Test? Russian 8.13 Languages/Linguistics: West and South East 9.13 Politics: The Politics of Media
Media and the 2018 Presidential Slavonic Languages - Walker Room 21 and Memory in Russia - Tizard
Campaign - William Thatcher (Churchill)
7.14 Politics: Russian Politics after the 8.14 Politics: Panel External Actors in the Eastern 9.14 Politics: Identity and Migration
2018 Presidential Election - Reddaway Partnership Region – Goals, Instruments and Impact in Central and Eastern Europe -
Room - Tizard (Churchill) Recital (Churchill)
7.15 Politics: Government and Society in 8.15 Politics: The Politics of Eurasia, Part One -
Contemporary Russia - Recital Reddaway Room
(Churchill)
7.16 Economics: Russian Energy Policy: 8.16 Politics: Gender, Identity and Corruption in the
External and Domestic Determinants - Balkans - Club Room (Churchill)
Wilson Court Common Rm
8.17 Law: Roundtable: Rights in Russia – the

Dmitriev Case - Recital (Churchill)
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Friday 13 April
Registration opens at 10:00
12:30-1:30 Keynote Roundtable:
Human Rights in the Region: Domestic and International Perspectives -

Auditorium
Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President)
Mary McAuley (King's College, London)

Sergey Golubok (St. Petersburg Bar Association)
Dalia Leinarte (UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, UN [CEDAW])
13:45-15:15: SESSION 1
Film/Media: Film adaptations and Russian culture across borders - Club
1.1
Room (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Ksenia Hainová (Palacky University)
‘(In)visible text: Queen of Spades in Russian Silent Cinema’
Victoria Carolan (University of Greenwich)
‘Shaping Perceptions of Russian History: The use of Catherine the Great
on film outside Russia’’
Michelle Assay (University of Sheffield and Université Sorbonne)
‘Grigori Kozintsev’s Shakespeare: Distortions, Corrections and Additions’
Milan Hain (Palacky University)
‘“Heavy Russian Drama”: Adapting Anna Karenina in the Hollywood
Studio Era’
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1.2 Literature and Culture: A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-
Ukraine Relations - Music Room
Chair: Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds)
Papers: Arve Hansen (Arctic University of Norway)
‘Pop, Rock, and Battle Drums: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution’
Yngvar Steinholt (Arctic University of Norway)
‘Mocking a Presentist Utopia: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the
Russian National Anthem’’
Andrei Rogatchevski (Arctic University of Norway)
‘A Musical Dialogue Between the Antagonists? The Euromaidan’s
Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song’
1.3 Literature and Culture: Excesses of Perception. The Inaccessible in

Russian Literature from the 1830s to the Present - Old SCR
Chair: TBC
Papers: Caroline Schubert (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Wild writing: Gogol’s Zapiski sumasshedshego and the Medial Turn of
the 1830s in Russia’
Vitali Taichrib (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Hunger-Writing. Breaching the Inaccessible’
Philipp Torben (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
‘‘Crude and Refined Emotions. Representing Oil in Russian and Soviet
Literature and Visual Culture’
1.4 Literature and Culture: Rehabilitating the Russians? The Memory of 1968
and Reciprocal Representations in Contemporary Czech and Russian
Literatures - Gordon Cameron L/Theatre
Chair: TBC
Nina Weller (Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies,
Papers:
Ludwig-Maximilians-University)
‘Between ‘Brotherly Help’ and ‘Spring Fever’. Reflections upon ‘Prague
Spring’ in Contemporary Russian Culture’
Miriam Finkelstein (Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck)
‘The Other Russia. Martin Ryšavýs Literary and Cinematic Explorations of
Siberia’
Alfrun Kliems (Humboldt University of Berlin)
‘Rehabilitating the Russians through their Literature? Prague Spring in
Czech Literature’
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1.5 Literature and Cultures: Countercultures, Youth Movements and
Children’s Literature in Russia and Eastern Europe - Wilson Court Common
Rm
Chair: TBC
Papers: Imre Jozsef Balazs (Babes Bolyai University, Cluj)
‘Representing Countercultures and Alternative Lifestyles: Hippies and
Bohemians in Minority Literatures from Romania’
Timea Kiss (Collegium Talentum)
‘Reading Game – YA Literature in the Classrooms’
Sociology/Geography: The Last Soviet Generation in Lithuania - Wilson

1.6
Court Seminar Room 3
Chair: Melanie Ilic (University of Gloucestershire)
Papers: Sigita Kraniauskienė (Klaipeda University)
‘The pecularities of the life course of the Last Soviet Generation in
Lithuania’
Vilius Ivanauskas (Vilnius University & Lithuanian institute of history)
‘Lithuanian Cultural elite members as last Soviet generation:
transformative socialization and new challenges’
Irena Sutiniene (Lithuanian Institute of Sociology, Vilnius)
‘The generational identity of the “Last Soviet Generation” in Lithuania’
Laima Zilinskiene (University of Vilnius)
‘Peculiarities of behavioural models of the Last Soviet Generation’
Sociology/Geography: The Soviet Present and Russian Civil Society -

1.7
William Thatcher
Chair: TBC
Papers: Sofiya Gavrilova (University of Oxford)
‘Black holes in popular imagination: the exhibition policy of
kraevedcheskie museums in the Soviet era and today’
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova (National Research University Higher School of
Economics in Moscow) and Linda Cook (Brown University)
‘Coming of Age in Russian Welfare State and Civil Society: the
contradictory developments of social work as a new profession in
contemporary Russia’
Olga Shek (University of Tampere, Finland)
‘The challenges of mental healthcare reforms in post-Soviet Russia:
views of professionals and family caregivers’
54
History: Social Histories of Yugoslavia and its Successor States - Gaskoin
1.8
Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Ivan Simić (Carleton University)
‘Gendered Health, Muslim communities and Socialist Modernity in
Yugoslavia’
Stefan Gužvica (Central European University)
‘Surviving the Soviet Thermidor: A Statistical Analysis of Yugoslav Victims
of the Great Purge’
Ana Milosevic (KU Leuven)
‘European commemoration of Vukovar: sacred memory or joint
remembrance?’
1.9 Literature and Culture: The First and the Second Life of Igor Inov's Book
about Jan Werich - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Chair: Tatiana Ivanova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia)
Papers: Alexander Ivanov (Independent Scholar)
‘My Memories of The Prague Spring’
Tatiana Ivanova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia)
‘Jak To Všechno Bylo: the story of Igor Inov’s Book on Jan Werich’
1.10 History: The Prague Spring and Beyond - Recital (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Miroslav Stanik (Silesian University)
‘Prague Spring and “normalization” in Havirov’
Jouni Järvinen (University of Helsinki)
‘Dissent in ‘Normalized’ Czechoslovakia: The Cat-And-Mouse Game
Between The Regime and Its Opponents’
David Aitken (McGill University)
‘The Deceptive Motifs of the Day: Jan Patočka and the Roots of
Czechoslovak Dissent’
1.11 History: Dissent and Resistance - Sixties (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Ira Jänis-Isokangas (University of Helsinki)
‘Passive and active resistance: the Constitutional Fennoman Party and
the Revolutionary Russia’
Galina Yakova (Leeds Beckett University)
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‘Democratisation of the Bulgarian Socialist Regime – Why did a mass
dissident movement not develop?’
Barbara Martin (Bremen University)
‘From Alliance to Confrontation: Andrei Sakharov's and Roy Medvedev’s
Debate on Détente (1968-1975)’
1.12 History: 1.1 - Trust Room

Chair: Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)
Papers: Sofya Anisimova (King’s College London)
‘The Image of Homeland in Russian Soldiers' Folklore of the First World
War’
Arpad Hornyak (University of Pecs)
‘Serbian territorial claims against Hungary in World war I and at the Paris
Peace Conference’
James White (Ural Federal University)
‘Old Believer Priests in WW1: Becoming Chaplains, Attaining Legitimacy’
Berik Dulatov and Aidar Aitmukhambetov (Affiliation)
‘Letters from the Austro-Hungarian and German POWs of 1917 as a
source for studying the conditions of their detention’
History: Representing the Gulag in Russian Museums - Fellows Dining

1.13
Room (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Jeff Hardy (Brigham Young University)
‘Perm 36 and the Gulag Museum in Moscow’
Irina Flige (Memorial, St Peterburg)
‘The Virtual Gulag Museum’
Sofiya Gavrilova (affiliation)
‘The Gulag in kraevedcheskie museums’
Judith Pallot (University of Oxford)
‘The Gulag in Prison Service museums’
Languages/Linguistics: Languages of South East Europe - - Walker Room

1.14
21
Chair: TBC
Papers: Robert Greenberg (University of Auckland)
‘What is in a name?: Yugoslav successor languages fifty years after the
Croatian spring’
Linda Mëniku (University of Tirana)
‘A critical discourse analysis of news reporting on the Prague Spring in
Albanian newspapers’
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1.15 Politics: Protests and Activism in Russia - Reddaway Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Stephen Hall (University College London)
‘The Kremlin’s preventative counter-revolution 2.0?’
Alexandra Arkhipova, Sergey Belyanin et al (Moscow School of Economic
and Social Sciences)
‘I don’t want to live in richness, I want to live in dignity’: three moral
categories of public actions’
Ekaterina Ananyeva (Charles University)
‘The Kremlin learns to strike back: assessing reactions to protests in
Russia’
1.16 Politics: Russia as a Eurasian Regional Power - Cockroft (Churchill)

Chair: Pallavi Pal (University of Tampere)
Papers: Jonathan Ludwig (Oklahoma State University)
‘Putin Still Dreams of Asia: The Eurasian Economic Union and the Quest
for Regional Power’
Takeshi Yuasa (Hiroshima City University)
‘Russia’s Nuclear Energy Policy as a Factor of International Relations in
Eurasia’
Pavel Shlykov (Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State
University) and Ekaterina Koldunova (MGIMO University, Russia)
‘Russian and Turkish Concepts of Eurasianism: A Comparative Analysis’
Michal Lubina (Jagiellonian University)
‘The New Great Game: Russia and China in Central Asia’
1.17 Politics: The EU as an International Actor - Walker Room 11

Chair: TBC
Papers: Artem Alikin (Higher School of Economics)
‘EU-Russia Relations in the Context of the European Neighbourhood
Policy: from Normative Convergence towards Constructing Russia as
Europe’s Other’
Urban Jaksa (University of York)
‘Trading with de facto states: the EU’s economic engagement with
Transnistria, Abkhazia, TRNC, and Kosovo’
Alexandra Bulat (UCL SSEES)
‘The brightest and the best,’ us, and the rest: Framing E migration in the
2016 EU referendum campaign’
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1.18 Politics: The Politics of the Caucasus - - Tizard (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Eske van Gils (University of Kent)
‘Regime legitimacy and foreign policy in EU-Azerbaijani relations’
Levan Kakhishvili (Tbilisi State University)
‘Nature of party politics in Georgia: Chairsmatic, clientilistic or
programmatic?’
Gulshan Pashayeva (Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan)
‘Security dimension of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process’
15:15-15:45 Coffee/Tea
15:25-15:35 Book Launch: Yulia Gradskova, Ildikó Asztalos Morell (eds.), Gendering
Postsocialism: Old Legacies and New Hierarchies (Routledge, 2017) –
Upper Hall
Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and

expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered
monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their
welfare states in social citizenship and, crucially, their established gender
norms and relations, all contributing to the formation of the postsocialist
citizen.
15:45-17:15 Time: SESSION 2

Film/Media: From the archives: new approaches to film histories - Walker
2.1
Room 11
Chair: TBC
Papers: Bruce Williams (The William Paterson University of New Jersey)
‘Sixty Years Hence: A Retrospective Look at Early Kinostudio Production
in Albania’
Gabrielle Chomentowski (INALCO)
‘African and Arab students trained in cinema in the USSR at the end of
the Sixties: a case study for Connected History during the Cold War’
Adina Bradeanu (University of Oxford))
‘For “Us” vs. for “Them”: Digging the Archives for Romania’s Tourism
Promotional Films’’
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2.2 Literature and Culture: War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-
Ukraine Relations (2) - Music Room
Chair: Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds))
Papers: David-Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg)
‘‘Lasha Tumbai” or “Russia, Good-bye”: The Eurovision Song Contest As a
Post-Soviet Geopolitical Battleground’
Polly McMichael (University of Nottingham)
‘Post-Soviet Rock Soundtracks: The Donbas Conflict’
2.3 Literature and Culture: Defining Russian-ness - Repeating Motifs in

Literature and Culture - Club Room (Churchill)
Chair: Maria Krivosheina (National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Moscow)
Papers: Tomoo Kanazawa (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
‘The Significance of the Balloon Motif in the Development of Modern
Russian Culture’
Anne Liebig (University of Edinburgh)
‘In Vodka Veritas: Russian Writers Under the Influence’
Jan-Martin Santner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
‘Gambling as an Ordeal in Late European Romanticism’
2.4 Literature and Culture: Sedition, Aesopian Language and Censorship:

From the Thick Journals to Contemporary Novel - William Thatcher
Chair: TBC
Papers: Oxana Vorobyova (Moscow State University)
‘Ten mistakes a chief editor never makes, or how the Russkoe Slovo
magazine became a revolutionary democratic periodical’
Rosalind Marsh (University of Bath/Wolfson College, Oxford)
‘Shakespeare, Hoffmann, Pushkin, Dostoevsky: a Test Case of Aesopian
Language in a Contemporary Novel by Elena Chizhova’
Literature and Culture: Real and Imaginary Places: Cities and Countries -
2.5
Recital (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Tatiana Fry (University of Bristol)
‘The Opposition of Moscow and St. Petersburg in Pushkin's Journey from
Moscow to St. Petersburg’
Sanna Turoma (University of Helsinki)
‘Where is Eurasia? Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Metageographical
Legacies of the Cold War’
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Sociology/Geography: Quantitative Approaches to Social Change - Wilson
2.6
Chair: TBC
Papers: Alin Croitoru (Affiliation)
‘Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship: Two different lenses for
looking at the Romanian immigrants’ entrepreneurial behaviour’
Anneli Kaasa (Affiliation)
‘Regional-Level Context of Individual-Level Social Capital – Culture,
Religion or Communist Background?’
Gabor Scheiring (Affiliation)
‘Industrial transformations and health in emerging economies: a multi-
level retrospective cohort study on post-socialist Hungary’
History: Youth as an Object and Subject of History - Gordon Cameron

2.7
L/Theatre
Chair: Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia)
Papers: Cornelia Saurer (University of Babes-Bolyai)
‘School politics in XIXth Romania: the case of a pedagogical spy: George
Costa-Foru’
Matthew Pauly (Michigan State University)
‘Children’s Welfare in Early Soviet Odessa: Revolution, Rescue, and
Discipline’
Orel Bellinson (Independent Scholar)
‘A World Revolution? Interpreting Current Events in Soviet Newspapers
for Children, 1924-1941’
Ivana Polić (University of California, San Diego)
‘The Making of Young Patriots: Children’s Magazines in Post-Yugoslav
Croatia (1991-1999)’
2.8 History: Polish Identity in the Twentieth Century - Walker Room 21

Chair: Miroslav Stanik (Silesian University)
Papers: Radosław Budzyński (Jagiellonian University)
‘The Livonian roots of the Jagiellonian University's rector's chain from
1900’
Dorota Szeligowska (Sciences Po)
‘Patriotic clothing - what expression of everyday patriotism in Poland?’
Tadeusz Wojtych (University of Cambridge)
‘Peaceful Prayers amidst Ruthless Round-ups? The reception of Soviet
guitar poetry in Poland’
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History: Sights and Sounds of the Soviet Union in the Cold War - Trust
2.9
Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Gabrielle Cornish (University of Rochester)
‘Sounds Like Lenin: Noise and the Problems of Socialist Modernity’
Zayra Badilla Castro (School of Oriental and African Studies)
‘Experimental' in the Soviet Periphery: Central Asian Architects and their
project of a Socialist City of Asia in the 1960s’
Saskia Geisler (Ruhr University)
‘Finnish Construction Projects in the Soviet Union. Politics, Economy and
Every-Day Life, 1972-1990’
Simon Young (Independent Scholar)
‘Mobilisation or Stagnation? The BAM Railway, the Moscow Olympics,
and the Nature of the Brezhnev Regime, 1974-82’
2.10 History: Mapping and Imagining Empire - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
Chair: Lara Green (Northumbria University)
Papers: Susanna Rabow-Edling (Uppsala University)
‘Imperial visions in the nineteenth-century Finnish press’
Jonathan Rowson (University of Nottingham)
‘Neither rural nor urban: Industry and workforce in Perm’ Province 1861-
1917’
Diego Repenning (University of Bristol)
‘Siberia in Russia’s Imperial Bureaucracy: The Construction of the ‘Other’
through Administrative Means’
Catherine Gibson (European University Institute)
‘Statistical Fieldwork and Ethnographic Mapmaking in Baltic Provinces of
the Russian Empire’
2.11 History: Memory and Historiography - Reddaway Room

Chair: TBC
Papers: Giuliana Almeida (University of São Paulo)
‘Digressions on the meaning of History in Alexander Herzen’s “My Past
and Thoughts”’
Dorothy Horsfield (Australian National University)
‘Extravagant interpretation and alternative facts: revisiting the
historiography of the eminent British Sovietologist E.H. Carr’
Eleonora Naxidou (Democritus University of Thrace)
‘Revisiting the Communist Past: Historiography, Politics and Memorials
in Bulgaria after 1989’
Bartlomiej Gajos (The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History; Centre for
Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding)
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‘Battle for the October Revolution 1924-1927’
2.12 Languages/Linguistics: Teaching, Text, Translation and the First Novgorod

Chronicle - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Chair: TBC
Papers: Natalia Parker (University of Sheffield)
‘A new approach to the teaching of Russian (Stage 1 – Cyrillic in tandem
with pronunciation)’
Marina Vazanova (Chuvash State Pedagogical University, Russia; Comenius
University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
‘Componential analysis and the construction of text’
Keiko Mitani (University of Tokyo)
‘Linguistics and text – a critical study of the Slavonic translation of the
Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Andrew’
Maria Skachedubova (The V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of
the Russian Academy of Sciences)
‘About some features of the –l- form functioning in the First Novgorod
Chronicle’
2.13 Politics: Contemporary Ukrainian and Moldovan Politics - Old SCR

Chair: Sarah Dorr (University of Leeds)
Papers: Stephen Hall (University College London)
‘The Pendulum Swings Again: Moldova and Ukraine’s March to
Authoritarianism’
Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Disrupted Democracy in Ukraine? Protest, Performance and Contention
in the Verkhovna Rada’
Eric Pardo Sauvageo (Deusto University)
‘Mobilization in the Euromaidan: Popular Uprising or Militant-led Coup?’
2.14 Politics: Domestic Russian Political Developments - Sixties (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Elina Zorina (St Petersburg State University)
‘Institutional transparency and accountability of power structures in the
Russian regions: A comparative perspective’
Federica Prina (University of Glasgow)
‘Russia’s Virtual Equality: Individuals and Groups’
Evgennia Mitrokhina (Higher School of Economics)
‘Regional Bureaucracies under Limited Political Pluralism: Experimental
Evidence from Russia’
Oleg Kraev (MGIMO University)
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‘Stalin rule and modern Russian society: Attitudes and political trends in
the spotlight’
Politics: Representation and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe -

2.15
Cockroft (Churchill)
Chair: Zorica Siročić (University of Graz)
Papers: Eva Vanyi (Corvinus University of Budapest)
‘Professionals or Politicians? Changeable tendencies in the top civil
servant system in Hungary’
Veronika Stoyanova (University of Kent)
‘Studying popular mobilisation in the post-socialist context: the case for
a Gramscian-based conception of post-socialist civil society’
2.16 Politics: Russian Security, Diplomacy and Conflict - Tizard (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Pallavi Pal (University of Tampere)
‘Social Structurationist approach: A theoretical understanding of Russian
nuclear energy diplomacy’
Sirke Makinen (University of Tampere)
‘Reception of Russia’s Educational Diplomacy – Case Studies from the EU
and Post-Soviet Space’
Ivan Kentros (University of Glasgow) and Ulises Klyszcz (University of
Tartu)
‘The Prigorodnyi Conflict: Between Counterinsurgency and
Peacekeeping’
2.17 Politics: Citizenship, Security and Environment in Russia and Eastern

Europe - Wilson Court Common Rm
Chair: TBC
Papers: Oxana Karnaukhova (Southern Federal University)
‘Citizenship for sale: from statuses to identity practices in the contested
integration projects’
Tina Schivatcheva (Free University Berlin)
‘(Re)claiming the environmental conservation areas at the interface of
the city of Bourgas, Bulgaria as egalitarian socio-political spaces’
Deividas Slekys (Vilnius University)
‘Seduced by transnational norms: irrationality of Lithuanian defence
politics’
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2.18 Economics: Russia’s economic development - Gaskoin Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Sergey Sosnovskikh (University of Greenwich)
‘The Impact of the Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks on the
Regional Economic Development in Russia (2005-2015)’
Katarzyna Kosowska (Jagiellonian University)
‘Russian oil and gas industry on the eve of changes’
Natalia Guilluy-Sulikashvili (Université Catholique de Lille) and
Adnane Alaoui (Liverpool Hope University)
‘Cross-Cultural Consumer Behaviour: A comparative study of British and
Russian consumer’s Word-of-Mouth (WOM) practices’
17:30-19:00 Keynote Roundtable:
The Past Year in View across the Region - Auditorium
Chaired by Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)
Michael Ellman (University of Amsterdam. Netherlands)

Andrew Wilson (SSEES, London)
Natasha Kuhrt (Kings College London)
Sam Greene (Kings College London)
Rory Finnan (Camcrees, Cambridge)
21:00-22:00 BASEES Women’s Forum Roundtable and Drinks –

Reddaway Room
Experiences of Academia: Teaching and Researching in the

BASEES Region: Perspectives from East Central Europe and
Russia
Speakers:
Olesya Khromeychuk (University of East Anglia)
Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford)
Galina Miazhevich (Cardiff University)
Margarita Vaysman (University of St Andrews)
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Saturday 14 April 2017
09:00-10:30: SESSION 3
Film/Media: Damaged bodies and traumatic pasts - - Wilson Court
3.1
Seminar Room 3
Chair: TBC
Papers: Júlia-Réka Vallasek (Babes-Bolyai University)
‘Boundaries of the Body (Representation of War Injuries and Self-
Representation of Disabled Veterans in the Hungarian Press between
1914-1918)’
Antonina Anisimovic (Edge Hill University)
‘Postcommunist Nostalgia in New Bulgarian Cinema: Coming to Terms
with the Past’
3.2 Film/Media: Shaping the News in Russia and (Eastern) Ukraine: From Self-
Censorship to Algorithms - Sixties (Churchill)
Chair: Markku Kangaspuro (University of Helsinki)
Papers: Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds) and Elisabeth Schimpfösl (University
College London)
‘50 Shades of Gray of Russian State Television: Exploring the News
Coverage of the Manchester Bombing’’
Mariëlle Wijermars (University of Helsinki)
‘Control the News Feed, Control the News? The Impact of Russia’s News
Aggregator Regulation on the Online News Landscape’
Jon Roozenbeek (University of Cambridge)
‘Positive Incentives in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics’
Emerging Media Industries’
Andrei Zavadski (Freie Universität Berlin) and Florian Töpfl (Freie
Universität Berlin)
‘Reinforcing Dominant Narratives: Search Engines and Representations
of the Past’
3.3 Literature and Culture: Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics: Narrators and

Their Narratives - Cockroft (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Christine Smoley (University of Toronto)
‘In the Shadows of Dostoevsky’s White Nights: The Dreamer as a Sketch
of the Amoral Imagination’
Alina Wyman (New College of Florida)
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‘The Fruits of Frustrated Love: Ressentiment Revenge in Dostoevsky’
Octavian Gabor (Methodist College)
‘Personhood and Individuality in Dostoevsky’
3.4 Literature and Culture: Religious Heterodoxies in Contemporary Bulgaria,

Transylvania & Siberia - Walker Room 21
Study Group
Chair: Stella Rock (Open University)
Papers: Tünde Komáromi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
‘Faith Healing in Transylvania: The Complementary Roles of Orthodox
Priests and Seers’’
Magdalena Lubanska (University of Warsaw)
‘Sensational Forms Related to the Cult of Live-Giving Waters in South-
Western Bulgaria’
Eleanor Peers (University of Aberdeen)
‘Weaving the Web of Ideas and Beliefs: Soviet Propaganda in Indigenous
Siberian Revival’
Literature and Culture: Russian-English Cultural Exchange - Fellows Dining

3.5
Room (Churchill)
Chair: Nina Efimov (Florida State University)
Papers: Olga Sidorova (Ural Federal University)
‘“The Language of Birds” – the Russian People of the XVIII – early XIX
Century on the English language’
Olga Ushakova (Tyumen State University)
‘Dmitrii Shostakovich in the Mirror of Contemporary English Literature
(Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time, Gareth Reeves’s Nuncle Music, Lewis
Owens’s Like a Chemist From Canada)’
Alla Kononova (Tyumen State University)
‘From Pushkin to Holub: Eastern European and Russian Poetic Heroes in
Seamus Heaney's Oeuvre’
3.6 Literature and Culture: New Approaches to Russian Émigré Literature of

the Interwar Period - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Chair: Melissa Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Maria Krivosheina (National Research University Higher School of
Papers:
Economics, Moscow)
‘“White Pinkerton”: Between Tradition and Counter-reaction’
Natalya Sarana (Humboldt University of Berlin)
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‘Boris Zajcev’s Puteschestvie Gleba and the Russian Émigré
Bildungsroman’
Petr Budrin (University of Oxford)
‘Not About Love: Viktor Shklovky’s Zoo (1923) and Laurence Sterne’s A
Sentimental Journey (1768)’
Melissa Purkiss (University of Oxford)
‘Home away from home: the holiday resort in émigré literature’
Discussant: Melissa Purkiss (University of Oxford)
3.7 Sociology/Geography: Forms of Contemporary Feminist Activism in

Central and South East Europe - William Thatcher
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova (University of Graz)
Papers: Sabina Kerényi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Katalin Fábián
(Lafayette College)
‘From the Home-Birth Movement to Midwifery and a Mothers’
Movement: The Historical and Contemporary Networks of the Hungarian
Women’s Organizing’
Raluca Popa (Central European University, Budapest)
‘Feminist Activism against Gender based Violence in Romania: Finding
Strength in Diversification’
Jon Binnie and Christian Klesse (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘LGBTQ arts and cultural activism, social movement politics and practices
of solidarity in Krakow, Poland’
Zorica Siročić (University of Graz)
‘The role of festivals for post-Yugoslav feminist movements’
3.8 History: Perspectives on Independence – 1918 - Music Room

Sponsored by the BASEES Forum for Czech and Slovak Studies in the UK
Chair: Julia Sutton-Mattocks (University of Bristol and University of Exeter)
Papers: Abigail Weil (Harvard University)
‘Writing in the Crossfire: Jaroslav Hašek as Czech Legionnaire and Red
Army Propagandist’
Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)
‘Representing Yugoslavia in First World War Propaganda: The Yugoslav
Committee and the Vision of South Slav Independence’
Oliver Panichi (University of Teramo)
‘Leaving the Empire and the Pope: The Reform Movements of the Lower
Catholic clergy in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia after 1918’
Discussant: Mary Heimann (Cardiff University)
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3.9 History: Students' Protests in East Central Europe in 1968 - Trust Room
Chair: Paweł Jaworski (University of Wrocław)
Papers: Paweł Jaworski (University of Wrocław)
‘The Eastern Block in 1968 (International Dimension(s)’
Łukasz Kamiński (University of Wrocław)
‘Students'Movement in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1967-1968 and Its
Impact on the Policy in Czechoslovakia
Kamil Dworaczek (The Institute of National Remembrance, The Historical
Research Office, Department in Wrocław)
‘Students’ Protests in Poland in 1968 - a Part of International Youth
Movement or a National Uprising?’
Mateusz Sokulski (University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of History)
‘Students' protests in Yugoslavia in June 1968 and Its International
Conditioning Factors’
History: Polish Studies - War, Displacement, Repatriation - Wilson Court

3.10
Common Rm
Sponsored by the Polish Studies Group
Chair: Mateusz Zatonski (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Papers: Katarzyna Nowak (University of Manchester)
‘Polish Prisoners, Patients, and the Elderly in American-occupied
Germany. Marginalised Refugees in the Aftermath of World War II’
Samantha Knapton (Newcastle University)
‘The ‘sludge’ that remains: Polish Displaced Persons and repatriation in
the British zone of occupation’
Anna Nakai (Central European University)
‘Behind the Scenes of broadcasting March 68: Radio
Free Europe and its internal disputes over the defector
Henryk Grynberg’
3.11 History: Roundtable: From Liberation to Tyranny: The Fate of the

Bolshevik Revolution - Reddaway Room
Chair: Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney)
Papers: Peter Whitewood (York St John University)
James Harris (University of Leeds)
Lara Douds (University of York)
3.12 History: Book Presentation: The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s
Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non‑Alignment - Old SCR
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Papers: Chiara Bonfiglioli (University College Cork )
Rory Archer (UCL SSEES)
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (University of Glasgow)
3.13 Languages/Linguistics: Self-identification in contexts of cultural

displacement: Russians in Finland - Gordon Cameron L/Theatre
Chair: Liisa Tuhkanen (UCL SSEES)
Papers: Mika Lähteenmäki (University of Jyväskylä)
‘The Russian-speaking community goes online: construction of identity in
digital media’
Vera Zvereva (University of Jyväskylä)
‘Discursive performance of 'Russianness' on social media sites in Finland’
Virpi Kaisto (Karelian Institute / University of Eastern Finland)
‘Exporting/creating neighborness: Russian denizens of Finnish cities’
3.14 Politics: Surveillance in Post-Communist Countries - Club Room (Churchill)

Chair: Ola Svenonius (Stockholm University)
Papers: Martin Kovanic (Comenius University, Bratislava)
‘Post-Communist Surveillance and its Specifics’
Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University)
‘Be Safe or Be Seen? How Russian Activists Negotiate Visibility and
Security in Online Resistance Practices’
Anna Turner and Marcin Zielinski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
‘Public Interest in Surveillance, Privacy and Data Protection in European
Countries. Google Big Data in cross National Perspective’
Pawel Waszkliewicz (University of Warsaw)
‘Video Surveillance Wild Wild West. Analysis of Polish CCTV Regulation
Process’
3.15 Politics: The External Factors in the Political Economy of Transformation

and Development in Central Asia: Towards a New "Great Game"? - Wilson
Chair: Sarah Dorr (University of Leeds)
Andrzej Bolesta (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
Papers:
and the Pacific)
‘From Central Planning to Market: The Building of a Post-Socialist
Developmental State in Central Asia’
Michal Lubina (Jagiellonian University)
‘The New Great Game: Russia and China in Central Asia’
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Konrad Zasztowt (War Studies Academy)
‘External Factors and Regional Integration: The Case of Kazakhstan’
3.16 Politics: Researching post-Soviet de facto states: evidence‑based debates

between theory and practice - Tizard (Churchill)
Chair: Kristel Vits (University of Tartu)
Giorgio Comai (OBC Transeuropa/Dublin City University) and Giulia Prelz
Papers:
Oltramonti (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
‘External assistance to post-Soviet de facto states: building confidence,
capacity, or dependence?’
Minna Lundgren (Mid Sweden University)
‘Researching everyday life in Abkhazia: theoretical, methodological and
ethical implications’
Tomáš Hoch (University of Ostrava) and Tato Khundadze (Georgian Public
Broadcaster)
‘Factors of the Orthodox Church's low level of engagement in the
transformation of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict’
Nino Kemoklidze (University of Birmingham)
‘Self-Determination and Secession: Theory and Practice in the Cases of
Georgia and Ukraine’
Discussant: Urban Jakša (University of York)
3.17 Politics: Use of Symbols in Contemporary Politics, Part I - Walker Room 11

Chair: Georges Mink (CNRS/College of Europe)
Papers: Magdalena Waligórska (University of Bremen)
‘On the Genealogy of the Symbol of the Cross in the Polish Political
Imagination’
Radosław Domke (University of Zielona Góra)
‘Science-fiction plots as an allegory of totalitarian society and state in
cinematography of the late communist Poland’
Bartłomiej Różycki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
‘Shift of political symbolism in commemorative practices: the case of
Poland’
3.18 Law: Roundtable: The Law in Practice - Gaskoin Room

Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President, University of Oxford)
Papers: Sergey Golubok (St Petersburg Bar Association)
‘The Challenges of the Defense Attorney’
‘Just Cogs in a Machine: the state of Fair Trials in Russia’
Bill Bowring (Birkbeck, University of London)
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‘Russia in the European Court’
Maria Smirnova (UN High Commissioner in Geneva;
University of Manchester)
‘The Constitutional Court’
3.19 Economics: Socialist economies before and after 1989 - Recital (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Dorina Rosca (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
‘The origins of the “private/public cleavage” in Moldova under
perestroika: between bureaucratic control and market allocation and
distribution of resources’
Alexander Tolstykh (Independent Scholar)
‘Attitudes towards using natural resources and ecology in the USSR and
contemporary Russia’
Meet the PG Poster Presenters – Upper Hall
Posters: Nyamdoljin Adiya (Mongolian Academy of Sciences)

‘Contemporary Mongolian-Russian Relations’
Jasmin Dall’Agnola (Oxford Brookes University)
‘The impact of globalization on national identities in post-Soviet
societies’
Olivia Durand (University of Oxford)
‘Internal colonization and settler boom cities: Odessa and New Orleans
as non-Anglo variations in continental empires’
Behxhet Gaxhiqi (University of Oxford)
‘The hyperactivity and the missing of concentrated at the teaching
students ’
Helena Huhak (Research Centre for the Humanities Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)
‘Cultural Opposition and 1968’
Natia Iakobidze (Georgian University)
‘Syntax, Tipology, Semantik’
Sergey Lyubichankovskiy (Orenburg State Pedagogical University)
‘Russian Imperial Policy of Acculturation and Problem of Colonialism’
Maren Rohe (University of Birmingham)
‘Perceptions of Germany in Poland and Russia’
Deanna Soloninka (University of Edinburgh)
‘Nationalism and the Kin-State Challenge to Territorial Integrity’
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Mateusz Zatonski (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
‘Tobacco and anti-tobacco advertisement in post-communist Poland,
1989-2000’
11:00-12:30: SESSION 4
4.1 Film/Media: Print and online media in Russia and Ukraine: journalists,
bloggers and entrepreneurs - Old SCR
Chair: Hanna Shadryna (Birkbeck College, London)
Papers: Dinara Tokbaeva (University of Westminster)
‘Success Means Status: How Representation of Businessmen in Regional
Lifestyle Magazines Adds to the Formation of Middle Class in Russia’
Viktoriia Merzliakov (Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow)
‘Virtual identities and content-strategies for the young bloggers in the
Runet’
Liudmila Voronova (Södertörn University)
‘Agonism or Antagonism? Divide in the Ukrainian media community in
the times of crisis’
4.2 Film/Media: Media representations of Feminism and Sexual Violence in

Contemporary Russia and Ukraine - Gaskoin Room
Chair: Nikolay Zakharov (Södertörns University, Stockholm)
Papers: Adelaide McGinty-Peebles (University of Manchester)
‘Violence, rape and feminism in Angelina Nikonova's Twilight Portrait
(2011)’
Mariia Terentieva (University of Cambridge)
‘Help Me(me): #IAmNotScaredToSpeak as an Online Collective Action
Challenging Rape Culture in Ukraine
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Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki)
‘Feminist empowerment and mainstream media in contemporary Russia’
Discussant: Galina Miazhevich (University of Cardiff)
4.3 Literature and Culture: Reflection of the Revolution in Russian and English
Literature - Cockroft (Churchill)
Chair: Olga Sidorova (Ural Federal University)
Papers: Nina Efimov (Florida State University)
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‘The Hypnosis of the Revolution and Stalin in Vasily Aksenov's Trilogy
Moskovskaya Saga’
Olga Ushakova (Tyumen State University)
‘The "Repasts" of the Revolution: Personal Asceticism and Collective
Sacrificial Feasts (F. M. Dostoevskii's Demons and J. Conrad's The Secret
Agent: A Simple Tale)’
Elena Dotsenko (Ural State Pedagogical University)
‘East Europe in the Plays by Tom Stoppard: from the Russian Revolution
to the Prague Spring’
Robert Witman (Florida State University)
‘Chaos in the Aftermath of Revolution: Yuz Aleshkovsky's Post-Modern
Treatment of Revolutionary Soviet History and Representation of the
'New Man'’
4.4 Literature and Culture: Not (Quite) at Home: Artistic Experience in the
Borders of Emigré and Nationalised - Wilson Court Seminar Room 2
Chair: Isabel Stokholm (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge)
‘British or Russian, Realist or Impressionist? The Curious Case of Emily
Shanks’
Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge)
‘Pavel Tchelitchew: Foreigner, Émigré, or National?’
Maria Mileeva (University College London)
‘Foreigners and Marxists: Hungarian and German Artistic Diaspora in
1930s Soviet Union’
Literature and Culture: Staging Power, Manufacturing Dissent - Wilson

4.5
Court Common Rm
Chair: Petra James (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Thibault Deleixhe (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Papers:
Orientales)
‘‘Like a horse running in a carousel’: Censorship in Question and in
Practice in the Polish and Czech Novels of the 1970's’
Stéphanie Gonçalves (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
‘An Unknown Prague Spring’s Effect on Dance and Music History: Bolshoi
Ballet Tour Cancellation in Milan and Paris’
Francesco Tava (University of Bristol)
‘Jan Patočka on Intellectual Opposition’
Elisabeth Vyslonzil (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
‘The Prague Spring and its implications on Austrian cultural policy’
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4.6 Literature and Culture: Russian Literary Canon Through the Post-Soviet
Lens - Recital (Churchill)
Chair: Muireann Maguire (Exeter University)
Papers: Margarita Vaysman (St Andrews)
‘Disappearing Distaff: Literary Fates of the Russian Male Writers' Female
Co-Authors’
Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh)
‘Rehabilitating Tolstoy: Russian Views of Tolstoy in the 2000s’
Olga Sobolev (London School of Economics)
‘A Non-Russian Russian Hero: Framing and Re-framing Nabokov’’
Discussant: Connor Doak (University of Bristol)
4.7 Sociology/Geography: Religion in Crisis and Conflict: Lessons from Russia

and Ukraine - Walker Room 21
Study Group
Chair: Eleanor Peers (University of Aberdeen)
Papers: Marat Shterin (Kings College London)
‘Conceptualising Religion in Political Conflict: The ‘Sacred’ in the Russian-
Ukrainian Crisis’
Boris Knorre (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
‘Theology of war in Post-Soviet Orthodoxy as a symbolical language’
Andrey Levitskiy (University of Oxford)
‘Liberal Clergy and the Question of Reforms in the Russian Orthodox
Church, 1903-1927’
History: Crossing Boundaries and Borders in the Cold War - Reddaway

4.8
Room
Chair: Gabrielle Cornish (University of Rochester)
Papers: Dina Fainberg (City University London)
‘Who Pays the Piper: Soviet-American Spacebridges Debate Mass Media
in the Cold War’
Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia)
‘‘Peace and Friendship’: Overcoming the Cold War in the Children’s
World of the Pioneer Camp Artek’
Pia Koivunen (University of Tampere)
‘The Politics of Hosting International Events. The case of 1967 Expo in
Moscow’
Discussant: Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
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4.9 History: Roundtable: Thinking between peripheries: Perspectives on the
South Caucasus and Central Asia - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
Sponsored by Study Group on the Caucasus
Chair: Tbc
Papers: Laurence Broers (SOAS, University of London)
Bavne Dave (SOAS, University of London)
Nino Kimoklidze (University of Birmingham)
4.10 History: Memory and identity as a means of state consolidation?

Historical perspectives from Bosnia & Herzegovina. - Gordon Cameron
L/Theatre
Chair: Richard Mills (University of East Anglia)
Papers: Andrew Lawler (Bangor University)
‘The expression and suppression of ethnic identity in commemorations
of the People’s Liberation War on the Territory of Bosnia & Herzegovina’
‘“Radnici da, Ratnici ne”: workers, veterans and the ethnicisation of
workplaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina’
Elliot Short (University of East Anglia)
‘The utilisation of commemoration and the military in reinforcing ethnic
identity in post- Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995-2005.’
Discussant: Catherine Baker (University of Hull)
4.11 History: Medieval Slavonic Studies: New Queries, New Methodologies,

New Perspectives - Wilson Court Seminar Room 3
Sponsored by Slavonic and East European Mediaeval Studies Group
Chair: Alexandra Vukovich (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Rosie Finlinson (University of Cambridge)
‘The Maternal Body in Muscovite Medical Texts’
Victoria Legkikh (University of Vienna)
‘Problems and solutions of classification and and publication of Russian
services of “Jerusalem” type’
Susana Torres-Prieto (IE University)
‘On Alexander the Great in Medieval Slavonic Historiography’
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4.12 History: Surveillance under Communism and Beyond - Trust Room
Chair: Fredrika Bjorklund (Södertörns University, Stockholm)
Papers: Corina Snitar (University of Glasgow)
‘The Efficiency of Surveillance in 1950s Communist Romania Between
Myth and Reality’
Daniela Richterova (University of Warwick)
‘Terrorists and Revolutionaries: The Achilles Heel of Communist
Surveillance’
Rashid Gabdulhakov (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
‘From Comrades' Courts to Dotcomrade Vigilance: State
Instrumentalisation of Digital Vigilante Groups in Post-Communist
Russia’
Ola Svenonius (Stockholm University) and Fredrika Bjorklund ((Södertörns
University, Stockholm)
‘Lessons from the Past: Long-term Effects and Legacies of Communist
Surveillance’
4.13 Languages/Linguistics: Roundtable: Behavioural portraits of political

leaders – interdisciplinary research - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Chair: TBC
Papers: Alexandra Kurganskaya (Don State Agrarian University)
‘Political portraits of the Russian Federation leaders of the late 20th -
beginning of the 21st centuries’
Tamara Mkrtchyan (Southern Federal University)
‘Occasional word combinations as a means of identification a political
leader’s individual personal qualities’
Victoria Borisenko (Southern Federal University)
‘Political interview: turn-taking organisation and the problem of
interlocutor's speech interruption’
Marina Samofalova (Southern Federal University)
‘Means of creating the image of a political leader: verbal vs non-verbal
and spontaneous vs artificial aspects’
4.14 Politics: Illiberal and authoritarian developments in East Central and

South-East Europe - Music Room
Chair: Nicolas Hayoz (Fribourg University)
Papers: Arben Hajrullahu (Prishtina University)
‘Society building and the challenge of illiberal tendencies in Kosovo’
Magdalena Solska (Fribourg University)
‘Political opposition in Poland – just weak or intentionally constrained?’
Andras Bozoki (Central European University)
‘Hybrid Regime in Hungary: The First Non-Democracy in the EU’
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Vedran Dzihic (University of Vienna)
‘Southeast European “authoritarian power machines”: Exploring
legitimiation strategies of dominant political parties in Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Serbia’
Nicolas Hayoz ((University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
‘Legal opportunism, politicized justice and informal networks of power in
non-democracies’
Discussant: Philipp Casula (University of Zurich)
4.15 Politics: Russian disinformation and its effects in Europe - Sixties

(Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency)
‘Russian “Cyber Troops” and Information Warfare’
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann (The Swedish Institute of International Affairs)
‘Much pain, no gain? An analysis of Russia’s high-level (un)diplomatic
communication towards the Nordics, Germany and the UK, post-2014’
Bettina Renz (University of Nottingham)
‘Critical reflections on the study of Russian 'information warfare’’
Karina Shyrokykh (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
‘Question even more: a comparative assessment of the behavior of
Russian international news media on Twitter’
Discussant: Bettina Renz (University of Nottingham)
4.16 Politics: Russia and Migration, Part One - Tizard (Churchill)

Chair: Minna Piipponen (University of Eastern Finland)
Papers: Joni Virkkunen (University of Eastern Finland)
‘Lives at the Edge or Beyond Legality: Immigrant ‘Others’ Emigrating
Russia’
Agnieszka Kubal (University College London)
‘Tracing the Case File. Migrants before Russian Courts’
Mayu Michigami (Niigata University)
‘Housing Conditions of Labour Migrants in the Russian Cities (by results
of sociological questionnaire)’
Seongjin Kim ((Duksung Women’s University))
‘Tales of Four Cities: Perception of Migration in Four Russian Cities’
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4.17 Politics: Use of Symbols in Contemporary Politics, Part Two - Walker
Room 11
Chair: Georges Mink (CNRS/College of Europe)
Papers: Amélie Zima (CNRS/EHESS/Institute for Strategic Research)
‘Use of Symbols in International Relations: the Case of the 1999 NATO
Enlargement’
Irmina Matonyte (Lithuanian Military Academy)
‘Soviet symbols in political competition. The case study of Lithuania,
2004-2016’
Marta Kotwas (UCL SSEES) and Jan Kubik (Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey/UCL SSEES)
‘Far-right March of Independence as a symbolic coup d’état: how the
Polish government lost control over the National Independence Day’
4.18 Economics: Post-Communist World Today - Club Room (Churchill)

Sponsored by BASEES Post-Communist Economies Study Group
Chair: Voicu Ion Sucala (University of Exeter)
Papers: Michael Ellman (University of Amsterdam)
‘Varieties of capitalism in post-socialism’
‘Central planning today’
Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University)
‘International Trade after the Collapse of Socialism’
4.19. Special Roundtable Active Old Age Under And After Socialism
Sponsored by EUSP - William Thatcher
Chair: Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University)
Papers: Elena Zdravomyslova (PNiS, EUSP)
Alissa Klots (EUSP)
Maria Romashova (Center for Comparative History and Political Studies,
Perm))
Elena Bogdanova (PNiS, EUSP)
12:30-13:45 Lunch
12:45-13:30 BASEES Annual General Meeting – Reddaway Room
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13:45-15:15: SESSION 5
5.2 Film/Media: Roundtable: Borders and Transformations: Representations

of Space in post-1989 Central and East European film, visual and
performance art - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
Chair: Abigail Weil (Harvard University))
Papers: Joanna Matuszak (Bucknell University)
Justyna Hanna Budzik (University of Silesia)
Dane Reighard (University of Califonia, Los Angeles)
Svitlana Malykhina (Boston University)
Mirna Šolić (University of Glasgow)
5.3 Literature and Culture: Cracks in the Wall: Dissidents and Activists
Between East and West - Recital (Churchill)
Chair: Charel Roemer (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Papers: Astrid Muls (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
‘Václav Havel, from theatre to dissidence’
Victor Fernandez Soriano (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and John
Nieuwenhys (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
‘Equal rights on both sides of the Wall? Belgian Human Rights Activists
after Prague Spring 1968’
Pepijn van Eeden (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
‘The Prague Spring and May ’68: The Case for Synthesis’
Discussant: Kim Christiaens (Catholic University Leuven)
5.4 Literature and Culture: Roundtable: Futurism Lived, Futurism Lives,

Futurism Will Live! The Poetry of the Russian Avant-Garde in 2018 &
Beyond - Music Room
Chair: Connor Doak (University of Bristol)
Papers: Jamie Rann (University of Birmingham)
James Womack (University of Cambridge)
Rosy Carrick (Independent Scholar)
5.5 Literature and Culture: The Poetics of Russian and Czech Drama - Wilson
Chair: Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter)
Papers: Giulia Gigante (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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‘Variations on the Theme of Light and Darkness in Elena Schwarz's
Poetry’
Susan Reynolds (The British Library)
‘The Diplomat and the Heretic: Paul Fleming and Quirinus Kuhlmann:
Two German Poets in 17th-century Russia’
Evgeniya Vorobyeva (Russian State University for the Humanities)
‘New Online Poetry Communities: Nonhuman Actors, Reader`s network
and New Reader`s Subjectivity’
5.6 Literature and Culture: Censorship: Literature, Journalism and The State -
Club Room (Churchill)
Chair: Polly Corrigan (King’s College London)
Papers: Robert Chandler (Queen Mary University, London)
‘Censorship – And Eloquent Silcence – in Vasily Grossman’s For a Just
Cause’
Yury Yunan (Russian State University for the Humanities)
‘Soviet Censorship of the Stalin Era: A Reflection on the Manuscript
Versions of V. Grossman’s Novel For a Just Cause’
Katalin Bella (Loránd University)
‘State Interference in Editorial Work and Selection Criteria of
Representative Literary Anthologies in 1950s in Hungary’
Julija Sipailaite (University of Sheffield)
‘Arkady Babchenko: From the Chechen Wars to Dissidence’
5.7 Sociology/Geography: Race, postcoloniality and whiteness after

Yugoslavia - Wilson Court Seminar Room 2
Chair: Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)
Papers: Catherine Baker (University of Hull)
‘Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east
European cultural studies’
Orlanda Obad (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
‘Eastern Greyness, Western Class: Workplace Practices and Everyday Life
of Croatian Citizens in EU Institutions’
Tomislav Pletenac (University of Zagreb)
‘“Smells Like Shit”: Was There Racism in Srebrenica?’
5.8 Sociology/Geography: Gender in Russia - Trust Room

Chair: Olga Gradinaru (Babes-Bolyai University)
Papers: Radik Sadykov and Valeriya Utkina (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
‘The professional identity and professionalism of young women in
Russian public administration’
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Hanna Shadryna (Birkbeck College, London)
‘Ex-Soviet women pensioners living in Russia: status gains and losses
after state socialism’
Alexandrina Vanke (University of Manchester)
‘Masculine bodies and sexualities in Post-Soviet Russia’
Daria Ukhova (Bremen Graduate School of Social Sciences)
‘Magnifying women's double burden: Neoliberalism and gender division
of unpaid work in contemporary Russia’
5.9 History: Buryatia under State Socialism - Old SCR

Chair: Catherine Gibson (European University Institute)
Papers: Melissa Chakars (Saint Joseph’s University)
‘Understanding the Destruction of Buddhism in Soviet Buryatia in the
1930s: A Historiography’
Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge)
‘Mass resettlements and their effects on rural life in Soviet Buryatia’
Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Nazarbayev University)
‘Dandaron’s Affair’ in the context of the rise and decline of Buddology in
Soviet Buryatia, 1950-70s’
History: Soviet society and the international crisis of 1968 - Sixties

5.10
(Churchill)
Chair: Gabrielle Cornish (University of Rochester)
Papers: Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
‘The Prague Spring and Soviet Patriotism’
Claire Shaw (University of Warwick)
‘‘Soviet Humaneness’ after the Prague Spring: Visions of Socialist
Disability in 1968’
Juliane Fuerst (University of Bristol)
‘1968 did not happen in the Soviet Union: Long Live the Soviet 1968’
Discussant: Dina Fainberg (City University of London)
History: Roundtable: Thirty Years of Yugoslavia's “Anti-Bureaucratic

5.11 Revolution”: A Long-Run Appraisal and New Avenues of Research -
Walker Room 11
Chair: Corina Snitar (University of Glasgow)
Papers: Rory Archer (UCL SSEES)
Marko Grdešić (University of Zagreb)
Marko Žilović (George Washington University)
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5.12 History: British-Soviet Cultural Relations and 1968 - Gaskoin Room
Chair: Andy Willimott (University of Reading)
Papers: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)
‘Cultural diplomacy and the Cold War : the UK-USSR Cultural
Agreements’
Verity Clarkson (University of Brighton)
‘Exhibiting the USSR in Britain in August 1968: the Earls Court exhibition’
Sarah Davies (Durham University)
‘Theatre tours in British-Soviet cultural diplomacy’
History: Historical Background to Prague Spring - Gordon Cameron

5.13
L/Theatre
Chair: Antonie Doležalová (Charles University, Prague)
Papers: Mikuláš Teich (University of Cambridge)
‘Prague Spring of 1968 Revisited’
Antonie Doležalová (Charles University, Prague)
‘Economic Transformation as a Core of Prague Spring and Its
International Legacy’
Kateřina Lišková (Masaryk University)
‘Sexual deviance and medical expertise. Shifting discourses at the time of
Prague Spring, 1968’
Discussant: Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London)
Languages/Linguistics: Pot Pourri – Semantics, Russification, Idioms and

5.14
Poetics - Wilson Court Common Rm
Chair: TBC
Papers: Irina Thomières (University of Paris, la Sorbonne)
‘Nouns of Evenet in Russian. Predicates. Semantics. Typology’
Sotiria Papadopoulu (Democritus University of Thrace)
‘Comparative Analysis of Modern Greek and Bulgarian “surprise” idioms
from a cognitive perspective’
Olga Sokolova (Russian Academy of Sciences)
‘Russian avant-garde manifestoes: between politics and poetics’
5.15 Politics: Eastern Orthodoxy and Politics: Historical and Contemporary

Challenges - Walker Room 21
Study Group
Chair: Zoe Knox (University of Leicester)
Papers: Christopher Campbell (University of Glasgow)
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‘A house divided? The Russian Orthodox Church and the Cold War
ecumenical movement’
Tobias Köllner (Witten/Herdecke University/Otto von Guericke University
Magdeburg)
‘On Entangled Authorities: The Interrelation between Politics and
Orthodox Religion in Contemporary Russia’
Stella Rock (Open University)
'Unifying the nation: St Seraphim's post-Soviet pilgrimages’
5.16 Politics: Russia and Migration, Part Two - Tizard (Churchill)

Chair: Joni Virkkunen (University of Eastern Finland)
Papers: Minna Piipponen (University of Eastern Finland)
‘To Schengen through Russian Arctic: Russia as a Country of Transit’
Sergei Riazantsev (MGIMO University; the Institute for Socio-Political
Research of the RAS)
‘Modern Russian Emigration and the ‘Russian-speaking Economy’
abroad’
Norio Horie (University of Toyama)
‘Chinese Land Deals and Migration in the Russian Far East: Positionality
Changes in the Borderlands’
Irina Kuznetsova (University of Birmingham)
‘Refugees and internally displaced people from Ukraine’s war-torn
territories: confronting the politics of belonging and everyday
experiences’
Discussant: Agnieszka Kubal (UCL)
Politics: Crisis and political discourse in the post-Soviet space - Reddaway

5.17
Room
Chair: Stephen Hall (University College London)
Papers: Sarah Dorr (University of Leeds)
‘The transregional impact of the Arab Spring in Kyrgyzstan: 2005 – 2015’
Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro (University of Coimbra)
‘Civilizational rhetoric in Uzbekistan’s foreign policy: Political crises and
international misrecognition’
5.18 Politics: Emergence and survival of de facto states: exploring the

constraining and facilitating factors - William Thatcher
Chair: Nino Kemoklidze (University of Birmingham)
Papers: Shpend Kursani (European University Institute)
‘De facto state survival and death in the post-1945 international order’
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Thomas Merle (University of Reims Champagne-Ardennes)
‘Statogenesis and ethnogenesis in the former USSR de facto states: a
comparison of Transnistria and Nagorno Karabakh’
Sebastien Relitz (University of Regensburg)
‘Dilemmas of International Engagement with De Facto Stat’
Kristel Vits (Affiliation)
‘International engagement of de facto states – options and constraints’
Discussant: Giorgio Comai (OBC Transeuropa/Dublin City University)
5.19 Politics: Finnish – Russian Network for Russian and Eurasian Studies in
Social Science and Humanities: Perspectives of Contemporary Russian
Politics - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Chair: Marat Ismagilov (European University at St. Petersburg)
Papers: Tatiana Tkacheva (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher
School of Economics)
‘Gubernatorial Tenures in Russia: First-Come, Long-Served Basis?’
Mariia Ukhvatova (Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg)
‘Orthodoxy and Voting Behavior in Russian regions’
Kseniia Vasenkova (European University at Saint-Petersburg)
‘Legal opposition under electoral authoritarianism: comparative analysis
of Russian sub-national legislatures’
Kristiina Silvan (University of Helsinki)
‘Youth forums as a reflection of state youth policy in contemporary
Russia’
Discussant: Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics and Political Science)
5.20 Economics: The socialist economic history - Cockroft (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)
‘The Soviet economy: the late 1930s in historical perspective’
‘Soviet imperialism after WWI’
15:25-15:35 Book Launch: Richard Mills, The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport,
Nationalism and the State (I.B. Tauris, 2018) – Upper Hall
15:30-15:40 Membership enquiries – Meet the BASEES Membership Secretary -

Registration Desk
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15:45-17:15: SESSION 6
Film/Media: Russia and the ‘Information War’ - The Role of RT - Trust
6.1
Room
Chair: Mikhail Vodopyanov (University of Edinburgh)
Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester) and Vera Tolz (University of
Papers:
Manchester)
‘RT’s Online 1917 Revolution Centenary Project as a New Type of Media
Event’
Vera Tolz (University of Manchester)and Precious Chatterje-Doody
(University of Manchester)
‘RT's 'Information War' Narratives and their Domestic Media
Equivalents: Parallels and Disjunctures’’
Rhys Crilley (Open University) and Marie Gillespie (Open University)
‘Who are RT's Audiences and Why?’
Vitaly Kazakov (University of Manchester)
‘From Russophone to Russophobe: RT, Eurovision 2017 and the Russian-
language social mediasphere'’
Film/Media: Exhibition: My Identity: Art, Culture and Identity in

6.2
the Balkans - Wilson Court Seminar Room 1
Xhevdet Pantina (University of Prishtina)
6.3 Literature and Culture: Fighting for Freedom - Walker Room 21

Chair: TBC
Papers: Kadisha Nurgali (Eurasian National University)
‘“Alash” Literature: Literature of Freedom, Independence and Humanism
of Kazakh Nation’
Eugenijus Zmuida (The Institute of Lithuanian Literature, Vilnius)
‘The Ways of Fighting for Freedom: Radical and Consistent (The Case of
Lithuania)’
Irina Armianu (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
‘The Narratives of Freedom in Petru Dumitriu’s Works’
Special Panel by our Partner Routledge: How to Get Published - Music

6.4
Room
Chair: Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham)
Speakers: Madeleine Markey (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
Laurence Broers (SOAS, University of London and Editor of Caucasus
Survey)
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Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham and Editor of Post-Communist
Economies)
Terry Cox (University of Glasgow and Editor of Europe-Asia Studies)
Marat Shterin (King’s College, London and Editor of Religion, State &
Society)
Peter Sowden (Routledge Books)
Literature and Culture: Real and Imaginary Places – Eastern and Central
6.5
Europe - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Sanja Frankovic (Trinity College, Dublin)
‘The imagined Arcadia of the Third Island by Croatian Writer Renato
Baretić’
Magdalena Lubanska (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology)
‘The Porous Self and Multisensory Religious Imageries of Pilgrims from
Przeworsk Arriving at the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation at Jodłówka,
Poland’
Natalia Palich (Jagiellonian University of Cracow)
‘On the Verge of Disappearance – Spatial Relations in Pustina
(Wasteland) Drama Series’
6.6 Literature and Culture: Experiences of Emigration - Club Room (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Hikaru Ogura (Tokyo University)
‘Émigré Community as Heterotopia: The Case of A. M. Remizov’
Yuri Leving (Dalhousie University)
‘Joseph Brodsky in the American Academy in Rome’
6.7 Literature and Culture: Representations of Women in Slavonic Literatures

and Cultures: Writers, Victims and Saints - Walker Room 11
Chair: Olga Gradinaru (Babes-Bolyai University)
Papers: Dominika Gapska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
‘Female Spirituality in Medieval Serbia. Types, Role Models and Saints’
Nadezda Puryaeva (Moscow State Unive)
‘Perception of Female Literature in Russia (1810-1850)’
Julija Sipailaite (University of Sheffield)
‘Mothers, Sisters, Whores, and Death: Women’s Roles in Chechen Wars
Literature’
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Sociology/Geography: Insights into Finnish and Russian societies - Wilson
6.8
Chair: Tatyana Tkacheva (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Papers: Marat Ismaigilov (European University, St Petersburg)
‘The view from St. Petersburg: The Society for the Encouragement of
artists’ art policy in Russian regions, 1820-1870’
Teemu Oivo (University of Eastern Finland)
‘Questioning the Russian Dual Citizenship in Finland’
Artūrs Hoļavins (European University at St Petersburg)
‘Professional Volunteering: Elderly Care Expert Knowledge Building
among Caregivers’
Veera Laine (University of Helsinki)
‘State-led nationalism in Post-Soviet Russia: key concepts’
Discussant: Ira Jänis-Isokangas (University of Helsinki)
6.9 History: Writing the History of Interwar South-Eastern Europe – Key

Issues and Themes - Sixties (Churchill)
Chair: James Kapalo (University College Cork)
Papers: Roland Clark (University of Liverpool)
‘The Shape of Interwar Romanian History’
Ionut Biliuta (“Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the
Humanities, Romanian Academy)
‘“God is a Fascist!” Ultranationalist “Religiosity” in Interwar Romania’
Maria Falina (Dublin City University)
‘Secular Liberalism and Religious Diversity in Interwar Yugoslavia’
Discussant: Anca Sincan (University College Cork)
6.10 History: From Interrogation File to the Court Room: Criminality in the
Early Soviet State - Gaskoin Room
Chair: Oliver Panichi (University of Teramo)
Papers: Mark Vincent (University of East Anglia)
‘Making a Soviet Murderer: The Case of Moscow Serial Killer Petrov-
Komarov’
Polly Corrigan (King’s College London)
‘The NKVD on paper: making sense of the Soviet interrogation files of the
1930s’
Pavel Vasilyev (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
‘Gendered Bodies on Trial: Exploring Litigation Strategies in the Early
Soviet People's Court’
Discussant: Mark Harrison (Warwick Univeristy)
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6.11 History: The Taste in Soviet Food? - Reddaway Room
Chair: Margarita Vaysman (University of St Andrews)
Papers: Francois-Xavier Nérard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
‘The Taste of Stalinist Canteens’
Olga Smolyak (University of Oxford)
‘The Restaurant Ostentation at Home: Festive Family Food in the Post-
Stalin Era’
Maria Pirogovskaya (European University at St.Petersburg)
‘Food for the Eye: Visual Practices of the (Post)Soviet Feast, 1960-2000s’
6.13 History: ‘Realpolitik and local nationalism in the Soviet-Polish

borderlands in the 1920s’ - William Thatcher
Chair: Yiannis Kokosalakis (University of Edinburgh)
Papers: Peter Whitewood (York St John University)
‘The creation of the Polish subversive threat to the Soviet western
borderlands after the 1920 Soviet-Polish War’
Olena Palko (Birkbeck, University of London)
‘“Creating Red Poles”: national minorities and the Soviet-Polish rivalry in
the interwar period’
Olga Linkiewicz (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of
Sciences)
‘Polish Ethnopolitics after the May Coup of 1926 and the Soviet Political
Project’
Discussant: Matthew Pauly (Michigan State University)
6.14 Languages/Linguistics: Media, social media and translation - Old SCR

Chair: TBC
Daria Radchenko (Russian Academy of National Economy and Public
Papers:
Administration)
‘Cook me some Rusiano: economic sanctions, newslore and marketing in
Russia’
Andrea Liebschner (Ural Federal University)
‘Multimodal cohesion in Russian social networks’
Sylvia Liseling-Nilsson (University of Leuven)
‘The Dutch verb ‘zeggen’ in direct speech translated into Polish and
Russian’
Politics: Turkey as a new player in the Eastern Black Sea Region - Recital
6.15
(Churchill)
Chair: Katharina Hoffmann (University of St. Gallen)
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Papers: Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Kadir Has University)
‘Turkey’s difficult balancing act: Between Black Sea Dynamics and the
Middle East’
Ole Frahm and Katharina Hoffman (University of St. Gallen)
‘Turkey´s Foreign Policy towards its Eastern Black Sea Neighbours: A
Multilevel Analysis’
Franziska Smolnik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
‘A Regional Paradox? Turkish-Abkhaz economic interaction amid Turkish-
Georgian partnership’
Yana Zabanova (University of Groningen)
‘Turkey after the 2016 coup attempt: What impact on trilateral security
cooperation between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia and on Black Sea
security?’
Politics: Smoking and drinking in Central and Eastern Europe - Gordon

6.16
Cameron L/Theatre
Chair: Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London)
Papers: Markus Wahl (Robert Bosch Institute)
‘A Remnant of Capitalism? Treating Alcoholism under Socialism in East
Germany’
Mateusz Zatonski (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
‘Test the West: transnational tobacco companies in Czechoslovakia and
Poland in the 1980s and 1990s’
Erica Richardson; Marina Karanikolos (European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies, London) and Pavel Grigoriev (Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)
‘Increasing life expectancy in the Russian Federation, Ukraine and
Belarus: What’s the role of alcohol policy?’
6.18 Economics: The Formation of Family Businesses in Post-Socialist States:

Interdisciplinary Approaches and Empirical Examples - Cockroft (Churchill)
Chair: Tobias Köllner (University Witten/Herdecke)
Papers: Heiko Kleve (University Witten/Herdecke)
‘Succession in Family Firms and Business Families: A Systems Theory
Point of View’
Krzysztof Safin and Anna Motylska–Kuźma (WSB University Wroclaw,
Poland)
‘Succession Strategies of Polish Family Enterprises’
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György Drótos and Attila Wieszt (Corvinus University of Budapest)
‘Entrepreneurial heritage in business-owning families in Hungary’
Book Launch: Andrzej Bolesta (ed.),Post-Communist Development:

6.19 Europe's Experiences, Asia's Challenges (Warsaw: Collegium Civitas, 2017)
- Wilson Court Common Rm
Speakers: Andrzej Bolesta and Michal Lubina
This volume illustrates how certain development and transition policies
of Central-Eastern Europe framed within the process of post-socialist
transformation may be relevant for post-socialist Southeast Asia.
17:30-19:00 Keynote:
“Fifty years On”: Remembering and Forgetting the post-
war revolutions in Eastern Europe - Auditorium
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchová (University of Graz, Austria)

Janos Rainer (Head of the Institute for the History of the
1956 Hungarian Revolution)
Jacques Rupnik (CERI, Sciences Po)
Jan Kubik (SSEES, London)
19:00- 19:45 Drinks Reception
19:45-late Conference Dinner

After Dinner speaker: Professor Veljko Vujacic (EUSP)
22:00 The Music of Dissent post-1968 – Reddaway Room

Andrei Gavrilov (Music critic, Moscow)
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Sunday 15 April
09:00-10:30: SESSION 7
Film/Media: Soviet and Russian cinema: soldiers, clowns and aliens -
7.1
Gaskoin Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Natalia Semenova (Saint Petersburg State University)
‘Civil War Circus Performers in Soviet Cinema: Dva Buldi Dva (1929)’
Åsne Høgetveit (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
‘The female alien in Russian/Soviet cinema’
Olga Gradinaru (Babes-Bolyai University)
‘Shtrafbat Representations in Post-Soviet Russia’
Literature and Culture: Dissident Literature and Samizdat - Sixties

7.2
(Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Mark Yoffe (George Washington University)
‘From Samizdat to Zine: Metamorphoses of Stylistics in the Underground
Publishing Culture’
Svetlana Ananyeva (Kazakh Academy of Sciences)
‘Dissident Literature of Kazakhstan: Case Study of Yuri Dombrovsky’
7.3 Literature and Culture: Absent and Present Translators: From the
Nineteenth Century to Present Day - Music Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Vera Tsareva-Brauner (University of Cambridge)
‘Editing the Work of an Absent Translator: Insights from Death of the
Vazir-Mukhtar’
Elena Tchougounova-Paulson (Independent Scholar)
‘Chronology of the English Translations of Alexander Blok’s Works:
History and Modernity’
Mariia Smirnova (Russian University for the Humanities)
‘From the Archive of a Translator: Towards a Biography of the First
Woman Translator of D.H. Lawrence 's Novel Lady Chatterley's Lover’
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7.4 Literature and Culture: Translating and Self-Translating Between Cultures
- Walker Room 11
Chair: TBC
Papers: Anna Solomonovskaya (Novosibirsk State University)
‘Early Translators' Prefaces in Germanic and Slavic Cultures:
Commonalities and Differences’
Elena Goodwin (University of Portsmouth)
‘Russian Translations of Contemporary British Literature in ‘Britanskii
soiuznik’ [The British Ally] (1942 - 1950)’
7.5 Sociology/Geography: Politics, Protest and Punishment in Belarus, Czech

Republic and Poland - Tizard (Churchill)
Chair: Marta Kotwas (UCL SSEES)
Papers: Mateusz Mazzini (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
‘Distorted past, detrimental present. Two types of reductionism in
memory politics - a comparative analysis of Poland and Chile’
Roman David (Lingnan University, Hongkong)
‘Do communist-era class differences persist?’
Peggy Watson (Affiliation)
‘Anger, avoidance, and women's protests: the row over judicial reform in
Poland’
7.6 History: Revisiting the Imperial Turn - Fellows Dining Room (Churchill)
Chair: David McDonald (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Papers: David Darrow (University of Dayton)
‘"Managing Difference or Assets? Looking at the Census as an Imperial
Turn from Identity to Economy"’
‘The Widmerpool of Asiatic Russia: the career of Alexei Nikolaevich
Kuropatkin’
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (Brock University)
‘The Kashgar Question: St Petersburg, Tashkent and Yakub Beg’
Discussant: David McDonald (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
7.7 History: Hidden Chapels, Hidden Bodies: Underground Religious life in

Central and Eastern Europe - Old SCR
Chair: Ionut Biliuta ("Gheorghe Sincai" Research Institute for Social Sciences and
Humanities, Romanian Academy)
Papers: Anca Șincan (University College Cork)
‘The afterlife of Bishop Evloghie Oța’s dead body and it’s disputed
ownership’
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Kinga Povedák (University College Cork)
‘Alternative Spaces of Worship: Religious Communities of the
Underground’
James Kapaló (University College Cork)
‘aIncense and Alcohol: Subterranean Inochentist Communities in
Interwar Romania’
Discussant: Roland Clark (Affiliation)
7.8 History: The impact of the 1968 invasion on socialist regimes' Westpolitik
- Gordon Cameron L/Theatre
Papers: Pavel Szobi (European University Institute)
‘Czechoslovak Normalization Elites and the Contacts to the West, 1968-
1971’
Aleksandra Komornicka (European University Institute)
‘Polish Consumer Turn and Import of Western Technology after the
Crises of 1968 and 1970’
Elitza Stanoeva (European University Institute)
‘Bulgarian-Danish relations after the invasion of Czechoslovakia: The
interplay of economic interests and ideological discords’
Benedetto Zaccaria (European University Institute)

‘Prague 1968 and Yugoslavia’s opening to the West, 1968-1970’
Discussant: Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (University of Glasgow)
7.9 History: Governance and Mobility in the Soviet Periphery - Cockroft

(Churchill)
Chair: Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton [from Jan 2018])
Papers: Alun Thomas (Staffordshire University)
‘‘Comradely Advice’ and Nomads in the Tax Policies of Soviet Kazakhstan
and Kyrgyzstan.’
Beatrice Penati (University of Liverpool)
‘Resettlement, collectivisation, and new irrigation in Central Asia: a view
from the Dal’verzin steppe.’
Discussant: Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
7.10 History: COURAGE: Cultural Opposition in Eastern Europe and 1968 -

Walker Room 21
Chair: Balazs Apor (Trinity College Dublin)
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Papers: Atdhe Hetemi (Ghent University)
‘Social Movements in Kosovo and the SFRY between Demands for Social
Change, Justice and Nationalism (1960s)’
Lorant Bodi (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)
‘Circles of Resistance in the 1960s. Artistic and Community Life in a
Budapest Salon’
Discussant: Balazs Apor (Trinity College Dublin)
7.11 Languages/Linguistics: Russian in the City: transnational linguistic

encounters - Club Room (Churchill)
Chair: Qiaoyun Peng (University of Glasgow)
Papers: Lara Ryanzanova-Clark (Edinburgh University)
‘Gatekeeping Russianness: Narratives of Russophone Cultural Activists in
London’
Gesine Argent (Edinburgh University)
‘Perceptions of Multilingualism in the Russian media’
Polina Klyuchnikova (Durham University)
‘Language provision activism for FSU migrants in Russian cities’
Federova Kapitolina and Vlada Baranova (European University at St
Petersburg)
‘“Unwanted presence” in the urban space: Russian-speakers’ attitudes
towards migrants’ languages in St. Petersburg’
7.12 Politics: Politics and Identity in Russia - Trust Room

Chair: TBC
Anna Sorokina (Higher School of Economics) and Valeria Kasamara (Higher
Papers:
School of Economics)
‘Value orientations of Russian youth: between regional and national
identity’
Jason Vaughn (Independent Scholar)
‘Ideologies of the 21st Century Russian Exile - Fighting the Putin regime
in Russian Public Opinion from a Distance: Justifications and
Effectiveness’
7.13 Politics: A Litmus Test? Russian Media and the 2018 Presidential
Campaign - William Thatcher
Chair: TBC
Papers: Natalia Rulyova (University of Birmingham)
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‘Presidential Election Campaign: A View from the Periphery’
Elena Rodina (Northwestern University)
‘Traditional and Alternative Media Spaces in Dagestan on the Eve of
Presidential Elections: Old and New Forms of Journalistic Resistance’
Françoise Daucé (EHESS)
‘From election to re-election. Who write about politics in Moscow from
2012 to 2018 ?’
Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester)
‘The 1918 Presidential Election as Global Media Event: The Role of RT
(Russia Today) in Shaping Perceptions of Russian Democracy’
7.14 Politics: Russian Politics after the 2018 Presidential Election - Reddaway
Room
Chair: Derek Hutcheson (Malmö University)
Papers: Derek Hutcheson (Malmö University) and Ian McAllister (Australian
National University)
‘Mapping the Kremlin’s Support after the 2018 Election’
Luke March (University of Edinburgh)
‘Russian nationalism and the 2016-18 elections: inevitability or
instrumentality?’
David White (University of Birmingham)
‘A change is going to come? Democratic opposition in Putin’s fourth
term’
7.15 Politics: Government and Society in Contemporary Russia - Recital

(Churchill)
Chair: Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics and Political Sceience)
Papers: Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
‘On the connection between economic performance and approval in
Russia’
Noah Buckley (NYU Abu Dhabi)
‘Verticals and Horizontals: Networks of Connections between Russian
Executive Elites’
Discussant: Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Economics: Russian Energy Policy: External and Domestic Determinants -

7.16
Wilson Court Common Rm
Chair: TBC
Papers: Nikita Lomagin (European University at Saint Petersburg)
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‘Foreign Policy Preferences of Russia’s Energy Champions: Loosing
Europe and shifting to Asia?’
Gevorg Avetikyan (European University at Saint Petersburg)
‘Russian Energy Policy in the South Caucasus’
Nikolay Kozhanov (Chatham House)
‘Russian oil and gas diplomacy in the Middle East: its main tasks and
vectors’
Maxim Titov (European University at St. Petersburg)
‘Paris climate agreement: a Russian perspective’
11:00-12:30: SESSION 8
8.1 Film/Media: The Conservative turn and televisual representation of
gender and sexuality in Russia - Old SCR
Chair: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)
Papers: Nathan Brand (University of Leeds)
‘Conservative sexualities - the visual politics of Tsargrad TV’
Olga Andreevskikh (University of Leeds)
‘It is not what you see: the visual imagery of the makeover TV show
‘Modnyi Prigovor’ in the context of Russia’s heteronormative discourse
on ‘traditional sexualities’
Galina Miazhevich (University of Cardiff)
‘Discursive representations of non-heteronormative sexuality in Russia’
Discussant: Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki)
Literature and Culture: The Poetics of Russian and Czech Drama - Wilson
8.2
Court Common Rm
Chair: TBC
Papers: Rebecca Burn (Keele University)
‘The Poetics of Objectivity in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1900)’
Rodrigo Alves Donascimento (University of São Paulo)
‘Time and Experience in Chekhov’s Three Sisters and The Cherry
Orchard’
Elena Dotsenko (Ural State Pedagogical University)
‘The Reality of Absurd in Tom Stoppard's and Václav Havel's ’Czech’
plays’
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8.3 Literature and Culture: Literature Without Borders - Fellows Dining Room
(Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Roman Katsman (Bar-Ilan University)
‘Realism-4.0. The Case of Contemporary Israeli Russophone Literature’
Marija Tepavac (Alpen Adia University)
‘Development of Yugoslav Literature Beyond its Borders: East European
Heritage or West European Trend?’
Qiaoyun Peng (University of Glasgow)
‘“Knitting Estonians Together”: The Role of Handicraft Tradition in the
Construction of “Estonian-ness” Overseas’
8.5 Literature and Culture: Russian Music and (Identity) Politics - Music Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: John Nelson (Aleksanteri Institute)
‘Autocracy Criticised – Political Comment in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Late
Operas’
Olga Lawler (University of Leeds)
‘My Hamlet as a self-portrait of Vladimir Vysotsky and His Generation’
Kieko Kamitake (Hokkaido University)
‘The Patronage of arts in Russia from the End of the 19th Century to the
Early 20th Century - Old Believers and Private Opera Theaters’
8.6 Sociology/Geography: Post- and Pre-Conflict Identities in Abkhazia,

Bosnia and Latvia - Gaskoin Room
Chair: Anna Calori (University of Exeter)
Papers: Marika Djolai (Independent Scholar)
‘Community, identity and locality in Bosnia and Herzegovina’
Liene Ozolina (London School of Economics and Political Science)
‘Politics of anxiety at the European frontier’
Andrea Peinhopf (University College London School of Slavonic and East
European Studies)
‘From inter-ethnic to intra-ethnic relations: Social divisions in post-war
Abkhazia’
Justyna Pilarska (University of Wrocław)
‘The idiographic uniqueness of Bosniaks as the Slavonic Muslims’
8.7 History: Secret Police Archives and Religions - Trust Room

Chair: Anca Șincan (University College Cork)
Papers: Tatiana Vagramenko (University College Cork)
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‘Decommunization Laws and the Politics of Religious Memory in post-
Maidan Ukraine’
Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović (Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts)
‘Doing Research in the Secret Police Archives in Serbia and Slovenia: the
case of Religious Minorities’
James Kapalo (University College Cork)
‘Sacred Materialities: Religions in the Secret Police Archives in
Communist Eastern Europe’
Igor Cașu (University College Cork)
‘A Woman as bearer of Divinity: Soviet counterintelligence in search for
a false Anastasia Romanova among a religious minority in Bessarabia,
1944-1947’
8.8 History: Assimilation, Migration and Resistance in Polish History - William

Thatcher
Chair: Catherine Gibson (European University Institute)
Papers: Miri Freilich (Beit Berl College)
‘Assimilation and Polonization in Interwar Poland (1918-1939)’
Michael Krawiec (University of the West of England)
‘Polish Closed Parishes in Post-war Britain’
Elzbieta Kwiecinska (European University Institute)
‘A colonial discourse without colonies. The German-Polish and Polish-
Ukrainian cases’
Siobhan Doucette (Georgetown University)
‘The Polish Democratic Opposition's Responses to Germany’
8.9 History: Discrimination and Repression - Walker Room 11

Chair: TBC
Papers: Alicija Podbielska (Getulio Vargas Foundation)
‘Holocaust rescuers in the 1968 antisemitic campaign in Poland’
Krzysztof Łagojda (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
‘A Policy of Lies and Half-Truths. The Position of the Soviet
Union/Russian Federation towards the Katyn Massacre in the Years
1940–2011’
Octavian Gabor (Methodist College)
‘Opposing Communism: Between Rationality and Pragmatism’
Mihai Stelian Rusu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
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‘Fascist Femininities: Models of Womanhood in the Romanian National
Legionary State’
8.10 History: Building the Soviet Union - Gordon Cameron L/Theatre

Chair: TBC
Papers: Jonathan Sicotte (Higher School of Economics)
‘Raising Expectations: Baku’s Oil Industry under the First Five Year Plan’
Ryan Hale (University of East Anglia)
‘Proletarians and Palaces: The role of new museums and exhibitions in
the decade following the October Revolution (1917-27)’
Oleg Gorbachev and Lyudmila Mazur (Ural Federal University)
‘The Early Soviet Society as a Social Project’
8.11 History: Late Nineteenth-Century History - Cockroft (Churchill)

Chair: TBC
Papers: Stamatia Fotiadou (Democritus University of Thrace)
‘Greek vs. Bulgarian National Idea on the Eve of the Congress of Berlin
(1878)’
Lara Green (Northumbria University)
‘Felix Volkhovskii, Transnational Networks, and Terrorist Propaganda,
1890-1914’
Natalia Khisamutdinova (Vladivostok University of Economics and
Services)
‘Vladivostok: a Window or a Fortress?’
8.12 History/Politics: Roundtable: Openness of State Archives in Former Soviet

Republics - Sixties (Churchill)
Chair: Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland)
Papers: Igor Casu (University of Moldova)
Anton Vatcharadze (Institute for Development of Freedom of Information,
Georgia)
Nikolay Tsyrempilo (Nazarbayev University)
Levan Avalishvili (Institute for Development of Freedom of Information,
Georgia)
Languages/Linguistics: West and South East Slavonic Languages - Walker

8.13
Room 21
Chair: TBC
Papers: Helena Leheckova (University of Helsinki)
‘Forms of address in Czech and Finnish’
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Svetlana Sokolova (Arctic University of Norway)
‘More on Aspect and Boundedness: Russian Narrative sequences against
the Czech background’
Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido University)
‘Evolution of the Kashubian indefinite marker jeden ‘one’ (compared to
other High-Contact Slavic languages)’
Shkelquim Millaku (University of Priznen)
‘The role and operation of Albanian language in Balkan’
8.14 Politics: Panel External Actors in the Eastern Partnership Region – Goals,
Instruments and Impact - Tizard (Churchill)
Chair: Ole Frahm (University of St. Gallen)
Papers: Ramūnas Vilpišauskas (Vilnius University)
‘Comparing approaches and strategies of external actors in the Eastern
partnership countries: the playground of competing influences?’
Laurynas Jonavičius (Vilnius University)
‘Russian strategies, goals, and instruments in the common
neighbourhood’
Dirk Lehmkuhl et al (University of St. Gallen)
‘Coping with Asymmetric Interdependence: Eastern Partnership
Countries’ Foreign Policy Strategies’
Discussant: Yana Zabanova (University of Groningen)
8.15 Politics: The Politics of Eurasia, Part One - Reddaway Room

Chair: TBC
Papers: Leendert Jan Gerrit Krol (European University Institute)
‘Parliamentary policymaking in post-Soviet Eurasia: authoritarian
parliaments in a comparative perspective’
Alla Kovalova (Independent Researcher)
‘Migration and cohesion efforts in Ukraine under warfare’
Politics: Gender, Identity and Corruption in the Balkans - Club Room

8.16
(Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Leandra Bias (University of Oxford)
‘Is it all about anger and self-exclusion? The Serbian feminist movement
through the eyes of the young feminist (in)activists ’
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Blendi Kajsiu (University of Antioquia)
‘The ideological malleability of corruption: a comparative analysis of
official corruption discourses in Albania and Colombia, 2010-2017’
Milos Rastovic (Duquesne University)
‘Religion as an instrument of Russia’s soft power in the Western Balkans’
8.17 Law: Roundtable: Rights in Russia – the Dmitriev Case - Recital (Churchill)
Chair: Andrea Gullotta (University of Glasgow)
Papers: Andrea Gullotta (University of Glasgow)
John Crowfoot (Human Rights Activist)
Irina Flige (Memorial, St Petersburg)
12:45-14:15: SESSION 9
Film/Media: The Role of the Media in Ukrainian Society Today - Fellows
9.1
Dining Room (Churchill)
Chair: Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Mariia Terentieva (University of Cambridge)
‘Net Non-Profit: How Internet Mediates the Rise of Philanthropic
Engagement in Post-Maidan Ukraine’
Iryna Shuvalova (University of Cambridge)
‘War Songs on Web 2.0: Social Media and the Response to the War in
Donbas’
Jon Roozenbek (University of Cambridge)
‘Justifying Existence: The Evolving Discourses of Independence in DNR
and LNR Media’
9.2 Literature and Culture: (Re)-Constructing the Past and Re-Imagining the
Present in Literary Fiction - Club Room (Churchill)
Chair: Qiaoyun Peng (University of Glasgow)
Papers: Mikhail Vodopyanov (University of Edinburgh)
‘Construction of Soviet Memory in Nonfiction: Tatyana Tolstaya’
Rita Kovács (Corvinus University of Budapest)
‘The Communist Spies of Hungary: How Literature Can Help Us
Understand the Past’
9.3 Literature and Culture: The Art of the Russian Avant-Garde / Philosophies
of Culture and Progress - Gordon Cameron L/Theatre
Chair: TBC
Papers: Mika Koboyashi (University of Tokyo)
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‘Konstantin Somov and "Mir Iskusstva" Group’
Vladimir Feshcenko (Russian Academy of Sciences; Sheffield University)
‘“Revolutionary” Discourse in the Russian Avant-Garde and in French
Theory’
Isabel Stokholm (University of Cambridge)
‘Enough Blood! Artistic Generations in Late Imperial Russia, 1890-1914’
Ruri Hosokawa (University of Tokyo)
‘"Form" in Pavel Florensky's Philosophy’
Olga Gomilko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
‘M. Drahomanov’s Philosophy of History: Rethinking
the Idea of Progress’
Literature and Culture: European Literary Influences in Russia - Gaskoin

9.5
Room
Chair: TBC
Papers: Gilly Mroz (University of Oxford)
‘The Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of Mirgorod: The Case of Gogol’’s
‘Two Ivans’’
Andreas Berg (Griffith University)
‘Miltonic Themes in Eighteenth-century Russia: Kheraskov's
Representation of Chaos’
9.6 Sociology/Geography: Migration, Religion and Identity - Music Room

Chair: TBC
Papers: Andrii Krawchuk (University of Sudbury)
‘Re-thinking religion in Ukraine in the light of revolution and war’
Liisa Tuhkanen (UCL SSEES)
‘Home is where the church is? The role of religion in the acculturation
process of Russian-speaking immigrants in Finland’
History: Bilateral and Transnational Histories of the Cold War - Sixties

9.7
(Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Gianfranco Caterina (Getulio Vargas Foundation)
‘Getting the Modernization Recipe Right: Political Interactions between
Brazil and the Soviet Union (1957-1961)’
David Schriffl (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
‘The invasion and Austro-Czechoslovak relations: A bilateral watershed’
Elena Razlogova (Concordia University)
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‘Translation as Surveillance: Spying on Foreign Filmmakers at the
Moscow International Film Festival in the 1960s’
Christina Gusella (Mississippi State University)
‘American Defectors: William Martin, Bernon Mitchell, and the
Ideological Seduction of the Cold War’
Sirke Makinen (University of Tampere)
‘University cooperation and state relations – the case of Finnish-Russian
double degree programmes’
9.8 History: The Practices of Stalinism - Trust Room

Chair: TBC
Papers: Arsene Saparov (University of Sharjah)
‘Involuntary resettlement during the late Stalinism in the Soviet
Caucasus 1948-1952: nationalism, bureaucratic morass and popular
strategies of survival in Armenia and Azerbaijan’
Mikhail Nakonenchnyi (University of Oxford)
‘GULAG hidden mortality: early release on medical grounds, 1930-1953’
Francesca Del Giudice (Higher School of Economics)
‘The Construction of Stalin's Personality Cult: Bureaucratic Mechanisms
and Practices’
9.9 History: Twentieth-Century Czechoslovak History - William Thatcher

Chair: Abigail Weil (Harvard University)
Papers: George Khazagerov (Southern Federal University)
‘1968: personasphere and boundaries of ignorance’
Anna Soulsby (University of Nottingham)
‘Organizational Elites and Nomenklatura Managerial Survival in Post-
Communist Societies: the case of the Czech Republic’
Jana Nahodilova (University of Bristol)
‘Equality in politics: gender relations in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s’
9.10 History: The Past in the Present - Old SCR

Chair: Tadeusz Wojtych (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Nataliya Kibita (London School of Economics)
‘Legacy of the Russian Revolution in Ukraine’
Zuzana Podracka (Aberystwyth University)
‘The past in the present - the case study of history teaching in
communist and post-communist (Czecho)Slovakia’
Vera Sheridan (Dublin City University)
‘Silence, Silencing and the state: from past to present’
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9.11 Politics: Between pragmatism and nationalism - Cockroft (Churchill)
Chair: Vitaly Kazakov (University of Manchester)
Papers: Precious Chatterje-Doody (University of Manchester)
‘From domestic elites to international publics: RT's re-framing of Russian
identity for external audiences’
Paul Richardson (University of Birmingham)
‘Pragmatic Patriotism: Territory, Identity, and the Role of Japan in
Russia’s Eurasian Geopolitics’
Sofia Tipaldou (University of Manchester)
‘Russian nationalism and foreign policy: The case of Donbass’
Philipp Casula (University of Zurich)
‘Populism and foreign policy – Russia’s Syria intervention reassessed’
9.12 Politics: The Politics of Eurasia, Part Two - Reddaway Room

Chair: Stamatia Fotiadou (Democritus University of Thrace)
Victoria Vygodskaia-Rust (Southeast Missouri State University) and
Papers:
Mashkhura Akilova (Columbia University)
‘Evolution of family policy in the post-Soviet totalitarian space: case
studies of Belarus and Tajikistan’
Tamara Gella (Orel State University)
‘The role of soft power in the formation of the image of modern Russia’
Maira Zeinilova (Dublin City University)
‘Women’s descriptive and substantive representation in the
authoritarian parliament: the case of Kazakhstan’
9.13 Politics: The Politics of Media and Memory in Russia - Tizard (Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Dmitry Yagodin (University of Tampere)
‘The social media networks of Russia’s cultural statecraft’
Kirill Chmel and Maria Milosh (National Research University, Higher School
of Economics, Moscow)
‘Representation of Terrorists in Russian media: visual framing as the
reduction of fear’
Markku Kangaspuro (Aleksanteri Institute)
‘Respect and shame on Stalin in Russia’
Luis Martins (University of Westminster)
‘Post-fascist and post-Soviet memory regimes: remembering before,
throughout and after discourses, towards a fake present’
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9.14 Politics: Identity and Migration in Central and Eastern Europe - Recital
(Churchill)
Chair: TBC
Papers: Abassy Malgorzata and Katarzyna Walasek (Jagiellonian University)
‘Cybernetic model of an autonomous system as a new research tool for
the problems of culture and fragile state systems’
John Gould (Colorado College)
‘Toxic Neoliberalism on the EU’s Periphery: Slovakia, the Euro and the
Migrant Crisis’
Mate Subasic (University of Liverpool)
‘Ethnic or Hybrid? Transborder Identities in East Europe’
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Delegate List
Surname Forename Email
Abassy Malgorzata [email protected]
Alves Do Nascimento Rodrigo [email protected]
Andreevskikh Olga [email protected]
Anisimovich Antonina [email protected]
Arbuthnot Mollie [email protected]
Archer Rory [email protected]
Asztalos Morell Ildikó [email protected]
Avetikyan Gevorg [email protected]
Badcock Sarah [email protected]
Baker Catherine [email protected]
Balazs Imre Jozsef [email protected]
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Baranova Vlada [email protected]
Barber John [email protected]
Beilinson Orel [email protected]
Benedetti Alessia [email protected]
Bias Leandra [email protected]
Biasioli Marco [email protected]
Bit-Yunan Yury [email protected]
Blakesley Rosalind [email protected]
Bódi Lóránt [email protected]
Bogdanova Elena [email protected]
Bolesta Andrzej [email protected]
Bonfiglioli Chiara [email protected]
Bowring Bill [email protected]
Bozoki Tamas Andras [email protected]
Bradeanu Adina [email protected]
Brand Nathan [email protected]
Broers Laurence [email protected]
Brown Ruth [email protected]
Buckley Mary [email protected]
Budzynski Radoslaw [email protected]
Bulat Alexandra [email protected]
Burrell Marina [email protected]
Calori Anna [email protected]
Carolan Victoria [email protected]
Casu Igor [email protected]
Casula Philipp [email protected]
Caterina Gianfranco [email protected]
Chakars Melissa [email protected]
Chandler Robert [email protected]
Chatterje-Doody Precious [email protected]
Chmel Kirill [email protected]
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Chomentowski Gabrielle [email protected]
Clark Roland [email protected]
Clarkson Verity [email protected]
Comai Giorgio [email protected]
Cook Linda [email protected]
Cornish Gabrielle [email protected]
Corrigan Polly [email protected]
Cox Terry [email protected]
Croitoru Alin [email protected]
Crowfoot John [email protected]
Dall'Agnola Jasmin [email protected]
Darrow David [email protected]
Daucé Françoise [email protected]
David Roman [email protected]
Davies Sarah [email protected]
Del Giudice Francesca C. [email protected]
Deleixhe Thibault [email protected]
Djuric Milovanovic Aleksandra [email protected]
Doak Connor [email protected]
Doležalová Antonie [email protected]
Domke Radoslaw [email protected]
Dorr Sarah [email protected]
Dulatov Berik [email protected]
Duncan Peter [email protected]
Dworaczek Kamil [email protected]
Efimov Nina [email protected]
Ellman Michael [email protected]
Falina Maria [email protected]
Fedorova Kapitolina [email protected]
Fernandez Soriano Victor [email protected]
Finkelstein Miriam [email protected]
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Finlinson Rosie [email protected]
Fitzpatrick Sheila [email protected]
Flige Irina [email protected]
Foster Samuel [email protected]
Fotiadou Stamatia [email protected]
Frankovic Sanja [email protected]
Freitag Gabriele [email protected]
Fry Tatiana [email protected]
Fürst Juliane [email protected]
Gabdulhakov Rashid [email protected]
Gabor Octavian [email protected]
Gajos Bartlomiej [email protected]
Gapska Dominika [email protected]
Gavrilova Sofya [email protected]
Geisler Saskia [email protected]
Gella Tamara [email protected]
Gibson Angelina [email protected]
Gibson Catherine [email protected]
Gigante Giulia [email protected]
Gill Ross [email protected]
Golubok Sergey [email protected]
Gomilko Olga [email protected]
Goncalves Stéphanie [email protected]
Goodwin Elena [email protected]
Gorbunova Natalia [email protected]
Gorshkov Vlad [email protected]
Gould John [email protected]
Gradinaru Olga [email protected]
Gradskova Yulia [email protected]
Grant Susan [email protected]
Grdesic Marko [email protected]
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Green Lara [email protected]
Greenberg Robert [email protected]
Gullotta Andrea [email protected]
Gužvica Stefan [email protected]
Hain Milan [email protected]
Hainová Ksenia [email protected]
Hajrullahu Arben [email protected]
Hale Ryan [email protected]
Hall Stephen [email protected]
Hansen Arve [email protected]
Hardy Jeffrey [email protected]
Harris James [email protected]
Harrison Mark [email protected]
Hayoz Nicolas [email protected]
Hedlund Stefan [email protected]
Heimann Mary [email protected]
Hetemi Atdhe [email protected]
Hoch Tomáš [email protected]
Hodgson Katharine [email protected]
Høgetveit Åsne [email protected]
Holavins Arturs [email protected]
Horie Norio [email protected]
Hornjak Arpad [email protected]
Horsfield Dorothy [email protected]
Hughes Michael [email protected]
Humphrey Caroline [email protected]
Hutcheson Derek [email protected]
Hutchings Stephen [email protected]
Iarskaia-Smirnova Elena [email protected]
Ikeda Yoshiro [email protected]
Ilic Melanie [email protected]
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Ismagilov Marat [email protected]
Ivanauskas Vilius [email protected]
James Petra [email protected]
Järvinen Jouni [email protected]
Jaworski Paweł [email protected]
Johnson Tim [email protected]
Jones Chris [email protected]
Kaisto Virpi [email protected]
Kajsiu Blendi [email protected]
Kakhishvili Levan [email protected]
Kamitake Kieko [email protected]
Kanazawa Tomoo [email protected]
Kangaspuro Markku [email protected]
Kapalo James [email protected]
Kasamara Valeria [email protected]
Kazakov Vitaly [email protected]
Kentros Klyszcz Ivan Ulises [email protected]
Khazagerov Georgii [email protected]
Khisamutdinova Natalya [email protected]
Kim Seongjin [email protected]
Kiss Tímea [email protected]
Klesse Christian [email protected]
Kliuchnikova Polina [email protected]
Klots Alissa [email protected]
Knapton Samantha [email protected]
Knorre Boris [email protected]
Knox Zoe [email protected]
Koenker Diane P. [email protected]
Koivunen Pia [email protected]
Kokosalakis Yiannis [email protected]
Koldunova Ekaterina [email protected]
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Köllner Tobias [email protected]
Komáromi Tünde [email protected]
Komornicka Aleksandra [email protected]
Kononova Alla [email protected]
Kotwas Marta [email protected]
Kovács Rita [email protected]
Kovanic Martin [email protected]
Kozicharow Nicola [email protected]
Kraev Oleg [email protected]
Kraniauskiene Sigita [email protected]
Krawchuk Andrii [email protected]
Krivosheina Maria [email protected]
Krol Leendert Jan [email protected]
Gerrit
Kubal Agnieszka [email protected]
Kubik Jan [email protected]
Kuhrt Natasha [email protected]
Kumo Kazuhiro [email protected]
Kursani Shpend [email protected]
Łagojda Krzysztof [email protected]
Lähteenmäki Mika [email protected]
Laine Veera [email protected]
Lankina Tomila [email protected]
Lawler Andrew [email protected]
Lawler Olga [email protected]
Legkikh Victoria [email protected]
Leheckova Helena [email protected]
Leving Yuri [email protected]
Liebig Anne [email protected]
Liebschner Andrea [email protected]
Linkiewicz Olga [email protected]
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Liseling-Nilsson Sylvia [email protected]
Liskova Katerina [email protected]
Lomagin Nikita [email protected]
Long Alison [email protected]
Lopez Beatriz [email protected]
Lubina Michał [email protected]
Ludwig Jonathan [email protected]
Lundgren Minna [email protected]
Lyubichankovskiy Sergey [email protected]
Maguire Muireann [email protected]
Mäkinen Sirke [email protected]
Malykhina Svitlana [email protected]
Marks Sarah [email protected]
Martin Barbara [email protected]
Matonyte Irmina [email protected]
Mazzini Mateusz [email protected]
McAllister Ian [email protected]
McAuley Mary [email protected]
McDonald David [email protected]
McGlynn Jade [email protected]
McMichael Polly [email protected]
Merle Thomas [email protected]
Merzliakova Viktoriia [email protected]
Miazhevich Galina [email protected]
Michaels Grace [email protected]
Michigami Mayu [email protected]
Millaku Shkelqim [email protected]
Mills Richard [email protected]
Milosevic Ana [email protected]
Mink Georges [email protected]
Mitchell Kathryn [email protected]
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Mitrokhina Evgeniya [email protected]
Moon David [email protected]
Morrison Alexander [email protected]
Motylska-Kuzma Anna [email protected]
Mroz Matilda [email protected]
Muls Astrid [email protected]
Nakai Anna [email protected]
Naxidou Eleonora [email protected]
Nelson John [email protected]
Nerard Francois-Xavier [email protected]
Neumann Matthias [email protected]
Nieuwenhuys John [email protected]
Nomachi Motoki [email protected]
Nowak Katarzyna [email protected]
Oates-Indruchova Libora [email protected]
Ogura Hikaru [email protected]
Oivo Teemu [email protected]
Osborne Patrick [email protected]
Ozolina Liene [email protected]
Pal Pallavi [email protected]
Palatnik Mikhail [email protected]
Palich Natalia [email protected]
Palko Olena [email protected]
Pallot Judith [email protected]
Panichi Oliver [email protected]
Papadopoulou Sotiria [email protected]
Papazova Ksenia [email protected]
Parker Natalia [email protected]
Pashayeva Gulshan [email protected]
Pattle Sheila [email protected]
Pauly Matthew [email protected]
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Peebles Adelaide [email protected]
Peers Eleanor [email protected]
Peinhopf Andrea [email protected]
Penati Beatrice [email protected]
Philipp Torben [email protected]
Piipponen Minna [email protected]
Pilarska Justyna [email protected]
Pirogovskaya Maria [email protected]
Podracká Zuzana [email protected]
Polic Ivana [email protected]
Povedak Kinga [email protected]
Rabow Edling Susanna [email protected]
Radchenko Daria [email protected]
Rainer János [email protected]
Rann Jamie [email protected]
Ratilainen Saara [email protected]
Reighard Dane [email protected]
Relitz Sebastian [email protected]
Renz Bettina [email protected]
Reynolds Susan [email protected]
Richardson Erica [email protected]
Richterova Daniela [email protected]
Rodina Elena [email protected]
Rogatchevski Andrei [email protected]
Romano Angela [email protected]
Romashova Mariya [email protected]
Roozenbeek Jon [email protected]
Rosca Dorina [email protected]
Ross Cameron [email protected]
Rowson Jonathan [email protected]
Różycki Bartłomiej [email protected]
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Rusu Mihai Stelian [email protected]
Ryazanova-Clarke Lara [email protected]
Ryazantsev Sergey [email protected]
Sarana Natalya [email protected]
Saurer Cornelia [email protected]
Scheiring Gabor [email protected]
Schimmelpenninck van David [email protected]
der Oye
Schivatcheva Tina [email protected]
Schmidt-Felzmann Anke [email protected]
Schriffl David [email protected]
Schubert Caroline [email protected]
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BASEES 2018

13 April – 15 April 2018

Professor Judith Pallot

President, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

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Friday, 13 April 2018

Registration opens……………………………………………………. 10:00

Saturday, 14 April 2018

Session 3………………………………………………………………….. 09:00-10:30

Session 7………………………………………………………………….. 09:00-10:30

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Human Rights in the Region: Domestic and International Perspectives

Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President)

Speakers Mary McAuley (Independent Scholar)

The panel speakers are introduced here in alphabetical order:

Sergei Golubok (LL.M. in International Human Rights

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of

Mary McAuley (M.A., D. Phil. Oxon) left an academic

Heather McGill graduated with an M.A. in

The Past Year in View across the Region

Chair: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)

Speakers: Michael Ellman (University of Amsterdam. Netherlands)

The panel speakers are introduced here in

Michael Ellman is an emeritus professor of

Sam Greene is Director of the Russia

Natasha Kuhrt is lecturer in the Department of War

Andrew Wilson is Professor in Ukrainian Studies at

Friday, 13 April, Reddaway Room 21:00-22:00

Teaching and Researching in the BASEES Region:

Perspectives from East Central Europe and Russia

Olesya Khromeychuk is Leverhulme Early Career

Agnieszka Kubal is Lecturer in Sociology at UCL

Galina Miazhevich is Senior Lecturer at the

Galina's research interests include media

Margarita Vaysman is Lecturer in Russian at

Her forthcoming monograph, Nineteenth-

“Fifty years On”: Remembering and Forgetting the post-war revolutions in

Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchová (University of Graz, Austria)

The panel speakers are introduced here in alphabetical order: