BASEES 2018 Annual Conference

13 April – 15 April 2018 Fitzwilliam College – Churchill College University of Cambridge United Kingdom

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.

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

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

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 6

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.

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

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

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 10

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 11

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.

KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE 2:

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 Finnin (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 13

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 Rory Finnin directs the Ukrainian Studies programme at the University of Cambridge and chairs the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES). He is also Director of the Slavonic Studies Section at Cambridge. His primary research interest is the interplay of literature and national identity in Ukraine. He also studies Soviet Russian dissident literature, Turkish nationalist literature, and Crimean Tatar literature. His broader interests include nationalism theory, human rights discourse, and problems of cultural memory. Finnin's current project is a comparative study of the role of lyric poetry in the emergence of modern European nationalisms.

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 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).

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 16

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 17

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

KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE 3:

“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 21th 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:

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, 20

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

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).

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. 23

Alexander Nove Prize, 2016

Awarded at the 2018 Annual Conference

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. 24

George Blazyca Prize, 2016

Awarded at the 2018 Annual Conference 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.

BASEES Postgraduate Prize 2017

Awarded at the 2018 Annual Conference 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.

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 27

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

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.

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 Sponsored by the Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe

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’

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) Sponsored by the 19th Century Study Group 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) 31

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) 32

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 Sponsored by the Study Group for the Former Yugoslavia 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’ Anna Calori (University of Exeter) ‘“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 Sponsored by the (Digital) Media and Cultures Study Group Chair: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Papers: Nathan Brand (University of Leeds) ‘Conservative sexualities - the visual politics of Tsargrad TV’ 33

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

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

Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham and Editor of Post-Communist Economies) 35

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)

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

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

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)

1.16 Politics: Russia as a 2.16 Politics: Russian Security, Eurasian Regional Power - Diplomacy and Conflict - Tizard Cockroft (Churchill) (Churchill)

2.17 Politics: Citizenship, Security and Environment in Russia and Eastern Europe - Wilson Court Common Rm

1.18 Politics: The Politics of the 2.18 Economics: Russia’s economic Caucasus - - Tizard (Churchill) development - Gaskoin Room

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 and Forgetting Upper Hall 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 2 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.

Tauris, 2018) – Upper Hall

3.3 Literature and 4.3 Literature and 5.3 Literature and Membership 19:45-late Culture: Problems of Culture: Reflection of Culture: Cracks in the enquiries – Conference Dostoevsky’s Poetics: the Revolution in Wall: Dissidents and Registration Dinner Narrators and Their Russian and English Activists Between East Desk 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, English Cultural Russian and Czech Imaginary Places – Manufacturing Exchange - Fellows Drama - Wilson Court Eastern and Central Dissent - Wilson Dining Room Seminar Room 3 Europe - Fellows Dining Court Common Rm Room (Churchill) (Churchill)

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 44

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

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 6.14 Surveillance in Post- and authoritarian Languages/Linguistics: Communist Countries - developments in East Media, social media and Club Room (Churchill) Central and South- translation - Old SCR East Europe - Music Room

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

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

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)

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 9.2 Literature and Culture: (Re)- Literature and Samizdat - Sixties 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

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)

8.12 History/Politics: Roundtable: Openness of State 9.12 Politics: The Politics of Eurasia, 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)

8.15 Politics: The Politics of Eurasia, Part One - Reddaway Room

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)

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) Heather McGill (Amnesty International) 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’

1.2 Literature and Culture: A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia- Ukraine Relations - Music Room Chair: David-Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg) Papers: Arve Hansen (Arctic University of Norway) ‘Pop, Rock, and Battle Drums: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution’ 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’

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) 53

‘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’

History: Social Histories of Yugoslavia and its Successor States - Gaskoin 1.8 Room Chair: Orel Beilinson (Tel Aviv University) 54

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’

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) ‘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)’ 55

1.12 History: Aspects of World War One - 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 (Trianon 100; 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: Alison Long (Keele University) 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’ Irina Thomières (University of Paris, la Sorbonne)

Nouns of Evenet in Russian. Predicates. Semantics. Typology’

1.15 Politics: Protests and Activism in Russia - Reddaway Room Chair: Bohdana Kurylo (SSEES, UCL) 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’

1.18 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’’

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’ Yngvar Steinholt (Arctic University of Norway) ‘Mocking a Presentist Utopia: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the Russian National Anthem’’ Discussant: Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds)

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: Muireann Maguire (University of Exeter) 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’ Tatiana Ivanova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) ‘ Jak To Všechno Bylo: the story of Igor Inov’s Book on Jan Werich’

Sociology/Geography: Quantitative Approaches to Social Change - Wilson 2.6 Court Seminar Room 2 Chair: TBC Papers: Alin Croitoru (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) ‘Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship: Two different lenses for

looking at the Romanian immigrants’ entrepreneurial behaviour’ Anneli Kaasa (University of Tartu) 59

‘Regional-Level Context of Individual-Level Social Capital – Culture,

Religion or Communist Background?’ Gabor Scheiring (University of Cambridge) ‘Industrial transformations and health in emerging economies: a multi-

level retrospective cohort study on post-socialist Hungary’ Tatiana Ivanova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) ‘ Jak To Všechno Bylo: the story of Igor Inov’s Book on Jan Werich’

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’

History: Sights and Sounds of the Soviet Union in the Cold War - Trust 2.9 Room Chair: TBC Papers: Gabrielle Cornish (University of Rochester) 60

‘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) ‘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: Alison Long (Keele University) 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) ‘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’ Alexandra Bulat (UCL SSEES) ‘The brightest and the best,’ us, and the rest: Framing EU migration in

the 2016 EU referendum campaign’

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 Ulises Klyszcz (University of Glasgow and 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’

2.18 Economics: Russia’s economic development - Gaskoin Room Chair: Sergey Sosnovskikh (University of Greenwich) Papers: Sergey Sosnovskikh (University of Greenwich) 63

‘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)

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: Elena Tchougounova-Paulson (Independent Scholar) 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) 65

‘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 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’

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’

‘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’

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)

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’

Germany. Marginalised Refugees in the Aftermath of World War II’ Samantha Knapton (Newcastle University) ‘The ‘sludge’ that remains: Polish Displaced Persons and repatriation in

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)

Papers: Chiara Bonfiglioli (University College Cork ) Rory Archer (UCL SSEES) Anna Calori (University of Exeter) Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (University of Glasgow) Goran Musić (Central European University)

3.13 Languages/Linguistics: Self-identification in contexts of cultural displacement: Russians in Finland - Gordon Cameron L/Theatre Chair: Liisa Tuhkanen (UCL SSEES) Papers: 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 Court Seminar Room 2 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’ Konrad Zasztowt (War Studies Academy) 69

‘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?’ 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’

3.17 Politics: Use of Symbols in Contemporary Politics, Part I - Walker Room 11 Chair: Georges Mink (CNRS/College of Europe) Papers: 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’

Law: Roundtable: The Law in Practice - Gaskoin Room 3.18 Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President, University of Oxford) Papers: Sergey Golubok (St Petersburg Bar Association) ‘The Challenges of the Defense Attorney’ Heather McGill (Amnesty International) ‘Just Cogs in a Machine: the state of Fair Trials in Russia’ Bill Bowring (Birkbeck, University of London) ‘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’

10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea

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’ 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’

(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)

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) ‘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) 72

‘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) ‘'"My town is dead…My memory is afire": the Russian Émigré Identity of

Marc Chagall'’ 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’

‘Disappearing Distaff: Literary Fates of the Russian Male Writers' Female

4.7 Sociology/Geography: Religion in Crisis and Conflict: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine - Walker Room 21 Sponsored by the Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe

Study Group Chair: Eleanor Peers (University of Aberdeen) Papers: Marat Shterin (Kings College London) ‘Conceptualising Religion in Political Conflict: The ‘Sacred’ in the Russian-

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)

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: Orel Beilinson (Tel Aviv University) Papers: Laurence Broers (SOAS, University of London) 74

Bavne Dave (SOAS, University of London) Alexander Morrison (University of Oxford) 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 Sponsored by the Study Group for the Former Yugoslavia 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’ Anna Calori (University of Exeter) ‘“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)

services of “Jerusalem” type’ Susana Torres-Prieto (IE University) ‘On Alexander the Great in Medieval Slavonic Historiography’

4.12 History: Surveillance under Communism and Beyond - Trust Room Chair: Corina Snitar (University of Glasgow) 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: Alison Long (Keele University) 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’ 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’

4.17 Politics: Use of Symbols in Contemporary Politics, Part Two - Walker Room 11 77

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’ Voicu Ion Sucala (University of Exeter) ‘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

13:45-15:15: SESSION 5 78

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 Court Seminar Room 3 Chair: Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter) Papers: Giulia Gigante (Université Libre de Bruxelles) ‘Variations on the Theme of Light and Darkness in Elena Schwarz's Poetry’ Susan Reynolds (The British Library) 79

‘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 Bit-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: Chris Jones (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’ Hanna Shadryna (Birkbeck College, London) ‘Ex-Soviet women pensioners living in Russia: status gains and losses after state socialism’ 80

Alexandrina Vanke (University of Manchester) ‘Masculine bodies and sexualities in Post-Soviet Russia’ Daria Ukhova (Bremen Graduate School of Social Sciences) ‘Uneven revolution? Gendered and classed division of unpaid work in dual-earner households 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) Goran Musić (Central European University) Marko Žilović (George Washington University)

5.12 History: British-Soviet Cultural Relations and 1968 - Gaskoin Room Chair: Marco Biasioli (University of Manchester)

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’ Discussant: Marco Biasioli (University of Manchester)

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)

5.15 Politics: Eastern Orthodoxy and Politics: Historical and Contemporary Challenges - Walker Room 21 Sponsored by the Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe Study Group Chair: Zoe Knox (University of Leicester) 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’

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’ Bohdana Kurylo (SSEES, UCL) ‘The Ukraine Crisis, Diaspora and the Question of Agency’ Anna Sorokina (Higher School of Economics) and Valeria Kasamara (Higher School of Economics) ‘Value orientations of Russian youth: between regional and national identity’

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’ 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?’ 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: Sergey Sosnovskikh (University of Greenwich) Papers: Mark Harrison (University of Warwick) ‘The Soviet economy: the late 1930s in historical perspective’ Voicu Ion Sucala (University of Exeter) ‘Soviet imperialism after WWI’

15:15-15:45 Coffee/Tea

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 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 the 6.2 Balkans - Wilson Court Seminar Room 2 Xhevdet Pantina (University of Prishtina)

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) 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: Elena Tchougounova-Paulson (Independent Scholar) 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’

Literature and Culture: Experiences of Emigration / Fighting for Freedom- 6.6 Club Room (Churchill) 85

Chair: Natalia Sarana (Humboldt University of Berlin) 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’ Eugenijus Zmuida (The Institute of Lithuanian Literature, Vilnius) ‘The Ways of Fighting for Freedom: Radical and Consistent (The Case of Lithuania)’

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’

Sociology/Geography: Insights into Finnish and Russian societies - Wilson 6.8 Court Seminar Room 1 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’ 86

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)

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’ 87

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: Alison Long (Keele University) 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’ Sotiria Papadopoulu (Democritus University of Thrace) ‘Comparative Analysis of Modern Greek and Bulgarian “surprise” idioms from a cognitive perspective’

Politics: Turkey as a new player in the Eastern Black Sea Region - Recital 6.15 (Churchill) Chair: Katharina Hoffmann (University of St. Gallen) 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’ 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)

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 / Poetics of 7.2 Russian Drama - Sixties (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’ Rodrigo Alves Do Nascimento (University of São Paulo) ‘Time and Experience in Chekhov’s Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard’

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’

7.4 Literature and Culture: Translating and Self-Translating Between Cultures - Walker Room 11 Chair: Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh) 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?’

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"’ Alexander Morrison (University of Oxford) ‘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’ Kinga Povedák (University College Cork) ‘Alternative Spaces of Worship: Religious Communities of the Underground’ 92

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 Chair: Angela Romano (European University Institute) 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) 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’

7.13 Politics: A Litmus Test? Russian Media and the 2018 Presidential Campaign - William Thatcher Chair: Natalia Rulyova (University of Birmingham) Papers: Jade McGlynn (University of Oxford) ‘Between resistance and reinforcement: media discourse on electoral legitimacy in Voronezh’ 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 2018 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’

Economics: Russian Energy Policy: External and Domestic Determinants - 7.16 Wilson Court Common Rm Chair: TBC Papers: Nikita Lomagin (European University at Saint Petersburg) ‘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’

10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea

11:00-12:30: SESSION 8

‘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)

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’ 96

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) ‘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’

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 1940–1990’ 97

Octavian Gabor (Methodist College) ‘Opposing Communism: Between Rationality and Pragmatism’ Mihai Stelian Rusu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) ‘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: Orel Beilinson (Tel Aviv University) 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 98

Chair: Alison Long (Keele University) Papers: Helena Leheckova (University of Helsinki) ‘Forms of address in Czech and Finnish’ 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)

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 ’ 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) ‘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’ 100

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’

9.6 Sociology/Geography: Migration, Religion and Identity - Music Room Chair: Anne White (SSEES, University College London) 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) ‘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)

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‘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’

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’

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)

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‘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’ Leendert Jan Gerrit Krol (European University Institute) ‘Parliamentary policymaking in post-Soviet Eurasia: authoritarian parliaments in a comparative perspective’

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’

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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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] 122

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] 125

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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] Selmani Nora [email protected] Semenova Natalia [email protected] Shabbir Malik Shahzad [email protected] Shadryna Hanna [email protected] Shaw Claire [email protected] Shek Olga [email protected] Sheridan Vera [email protected] Shlykov Pavel [email protected] Shterin Marat [email protected] Shuvalova Iryna [email protected] Shyrokykh Karina [email protected] Sicotte Jonathan [email protected] Sidorova Olga [email protected] Silvan Kristiina [email protected] Simic Ivan [email protected] Simonov Sergey [email protected] Sipailaite Julija [email protected] Sirocic Zorica [email protected] Skachedubova Maria [email protected]

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Slekys Deividas [email protected] Smirnova Mariia [email protected] Smith Alexandra [email protected] Smoley Christine [email protected] Smoljanski Alexander [email protected] Smolyak Olga [email protected] Snitar Corina [email protected] Sobolev Olga [email protected] Sokolova Svetlana [email protected] Sokulski Mateusz [email protected] Solic Mirna [email protected] Solomonovskaya Anna [email protected] Soloninka Deanna Rachel [email protected] Sorokina Anna [email protected] Sosnovskikh Sergey [email protected] Soulsby Anna [email protected] Sowden Peter [email protected] Stanik Miroslav [email protected] Stanoeva Elitza [email protected] Steinholt Yngvar [email protected] Stokholm Isabel [email protected] Stottor Thomas [email protected] Stoyanova Veronika [email protected] Subasic Mate [email protected] Sucala Voicu Ion [email protected] Sutton-Mattocks Julia [email protected] Svenonius Ola [email protected] Szeligowska Dorota [email protected] Szobi Pavel [email protected] Taichrib Vitali [email protected] Tchougounova-Paulson Elena [email protected] 131

Teich Mikulas [email protected] Teles Fazendeiro Bernardo [email protected] Thomas Alun [email protected] Thomières Irina [email protected] Titov Maksim [email protected] Tkacheva Tatiana [email protected] Tokbaeva Dinara [email protected] Tolstykh Alexander [email protected] Tolz-Zilitinkevic Vera [email protected] Triantaphyllou Dimitrios [email protected] Tsareva-Brauner Vera [email protected] Tsyrempilov Nikolay [email protected] Tuhkanen Liisa [email protected] Turner Anna [email protected] Ukhova Daria [email protected] Unkovski-Korica Vladimir [email protected] Ushakova Olga [email protected] Utkina Valeriya [email protected] Vagramenko Tatiana [email protected] Vallasek Julia [email protected] Van Gils Eske [email protected] Vanke Alexandrina [email protected] Ványi Éva [email protected] Vasilyev Pavel [email protected] Vatcharadze Anton [email protected] Vaysman Margarita [email protected] Vazanova Marina [email protected] Vendil Pallin Carolina [email protected] Virkkunen Joni [email protected] Vishevsky Anatoly [email protected] Vits Kristel [email protected] 132

Zatonski Mateusz [email protected] Zavadski Andrei [email protected] Zdravomyslova Elena [email protected] Zeinilova Maira [email protected] Zilinskiene Laima [email protected] Zmuida Eugenijus [email protected] Zvereva Vera [email protected]

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