ASN W2-4orld MAY Convention 2019
Convention Panels
Session I Session VII THURSDAY 9:40 - 11:40 AM FRIDAY 3:00 - 5:00 PM Session II Session VIII THURSDAY 12:00 - 2:00 PM FRIDAY 5:20 - 7:20 PM Session III Session IX THURSDAY 3:40 - 5:40 PM SATURDAY 10 AM - 12 PM Session IV Session X THURSDAY 6 - 8 PM SATURDAY 1:40 - 3:40 PM Session V Session XI FRIDAY 9 - 11 AM SATURDAY 4:10 - 6:10 PM Session VI FRIDAY 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK11 Imagining the Balkans in a Post-Western Global Order (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Francine Friedman (Ball State U, US) [email protected] PRESENTERS Stefano Bianchini (U of Bologna, Italy) [email protected] A New Eastern Question? Disruptive Memories, Problematic Dialogue and the EU Decline” R. Craig Nation (Dickinson College, US) [email protected] The Past as Prologue? Great Power Engagement in Balkan Europe Julie Mostov (NYU, US) [email protected] Fading Dreams of Democracy in the Shadow of Authoritarian Closure David Kanin (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected] Adjusting the Security Cap: Regional Dynamics in the Context of Western Entropy
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE7 Antisemitism and the Holocaust
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Daina Eglitis (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Displacement and Danger: Women in the Nazi Ghettos of Eastern Europe Catherine Portuges (U of Massachusetts Amherst, US) [email protected] 1945: A Hungarian Film Reckons with Anti-Semitism Kristian Feigelson (Sorbonne Nouvelle U, France) [email protected] Screen Memory: the Jewish Question in Hungary Avraham Weber (Ministry for Social Equality, Israel) [email protected] The Holocaust in Former USSR Territories: The Change of the Legal Narratives Regarding Holocaust Survivors
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE10 Diaspora Politics of Central Europe
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Klavdia Tatar (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Gabrielle Hermann (Corvinus U, Hungary) [email protected] National Identity Construction of American Hungarian Diaspora Organizations and its Implications on their Choice of Advocacy Goals and Strategies Agnes Vass (Corvinus U, Hungary) [email protected] Expanded Nation, Exported Nationalism: The Effects of Hungarian Diaspora Policy in Western Canada Svetlusa Surova (Comenius U, Slovakia) [email protected] Diaspora Policies in Visegrad Countries as a Challenging Factor for the Nation-State Ieva Birka (U of Latvia) [email protected] Building Virtual Communities: Information Communication Technology and Diaspora Engagement Olga Cara (U College London, UK) [email protected] Negotiating Ethnicity in Diaspora: A Case of Academic Achievement of Latvian Pupils in England DISCUSSANT Stephen Deets (Babson College, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU9/BO1 Book Panel on Hélène Thibault’s Transforming Tajikistan: State-building and Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia (I.B. Taurus, 2018)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Juliette Cleuziou (U Lumière-Lyon 2, France) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Michele Commercio (U of Vermont, US) [email protected] Zulfiya Bakhtivekova (U of Central Asia, Tajikistan) [email protected] Mariya Omelicheva (National Defense U, US) [email protected] Hélène Thibault (Nazarbaev U, Kazakhstan) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M6 Critical Issues on International Migration: Practical and Normative Considerations
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Martin Schain (NYU, US) [email protected] PAPERS Miodrag Jovanovic (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] Towards Normative Foundations of Demographic Politics in a Liberal-Democratic State Alexander Kustov (Princeton U, US) [email protected] ‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’: What Can We Learn About Immigration Politics from Public Opposition to Emigration? Solange Maslowski (Charles U, Czech Republic) [email protected] The Dangerousness of the Lack of Definition of Legal Grounds Justifying Expulsions of EU Citizens DISCUSSANT Helidah Ogude (New School U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N13 Nationalism, Identity and Belonging
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Lena Surzhko-Harned (Penn State U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Jeffrey Kopstein (U of California, Irvine, US) [email protected] Michael Bernhard (U of Florida, US) [email protected] The Long Term Implications of Leninist Nationality Policy on Postcommunist Development Gordana Uzelac (London Metropolitan U, UK) [email protected] Rhetoric of Economic Nationalism Klára Plecitá (Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic) [email protected] The Importance of Christianity and Customs/Traditions for the National Identity of European Countries Marat Akopian (Shepherd U, US) [email protected] When Ideas and Ideals Exclude: Reexamining Development of the French Nation and Citizenship Neil Cruickshank (North Island College, Canada) [email protected] Misina Dalibor (Lakehead U, Canada) [email protected] Looking Back, and Thinking Ahead: Towards a New Understanding of (the ‘New’) Nationalism DISCUSSANT Perry Carter (Princeton U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N19 Minorities in Politics
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Amy Sodaro (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, US) [email protected] PAPERS Majid Hassan Ali (U of Bamberg, Germany/U of Duhok, Iraq) [email protected] Religious Minorities in Iraq in Nationalist and Sectarian Contexts: Conflict and Division after 2003 Rida Abu Rass (Queen’s U, Canada) [email protected] The Dynamics of Palestinian Contention in Israel Muhmmed Sihabdudheen Kolakkattil (Columbia U, US) [email protected] The Nation in the Post-colonial Muslim Politics in India: A Study of the Political Discourses of Indian Union Muslim League Aleksandra Zdeb (U of Graz, Austria/Queen’s U Belfast, UK) [email protected] Agency Versus Structure in Incongruent Settings: Political Culture of Minority Elites in Power-Sharing Systems Guillaume Rousseau (U de Sherbrooke, Canada) [email protected] Unitary Nation-State and Decentralization in France and Québec: National Identity and Regional Identities DISCUSSANT Lillian Frost (Harvard U/George Washington U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R10 Mobilizing the Soviet State towards Religious Ends in the Postwar Period Perspectives from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Elissa Bemporad (Queens College/The Graduate Centre, CUNY, US) [email protected] PAPERS Brinton Ahlin (Harvard U, US) [email protected] Deflecting and Ignoring Khrushchev’s Anti-Religious Campaign: The View from a Tajik Shrine Kathryn David (NYU, US) [email protected] Beyond Statistics: The Persistence of Active Churches in West Ukraine During Khrushchev’s Anti-Religious Campaigns Erin Hutchinson (Harvard U, US) [email protected] Religion and the National Past in the Late Soviet Union: The Debate over the Preservation of Historic Churches in Moldova Ekaterina Klimenko (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) [email protected] Church, State and Memory: Remembering the Revolution and Building the Nation in Contemporary Russia Ideas of Crimea: Crimea in Post-2014 Russian Cinema DISCUSSANT Eren Tasar (UNC Chapel Hill, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK10 Culture and Politics in the Turkish Republic 1950s-1970s
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Thomas Fugler (United States Air Force Academy, US) [email protected] The Limits of Ideology: Failure of the Turkish Left to Mobilize Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Ankara (1960-1971) Huseyin Kurt (Northeastern U, US) [email protected] A Rebellious Generation: Anti-Imperialist Momentum in Turkey, 1959-1971 Ali Sengul (City U New York , US) [email protected] Modernity, Realism and the Birth of a National Cinema in Turkey Selin Bengi Gumrukcu (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Understanding Right-Wing Violence: Case of Turkey in the 1970s Emre Amasyali (McGill U, Canada) [email protected] Imperial Agents or Progressive Innovators? A Historical GIS (HGIS) Study of the Impact of Missionaries in Modern-Day Turkey DISCUSSANT Louis Fishman (Brooklyn College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U13 Ukrainian Statehood’s Evolution The Election Process
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Antonina Berezovenko (National Technical U of Ukraine, Ukraine) [email protected] Presidential Elections in Ukraine: Ideas, Concepts, Rhetoric Lada Kolomiyets (Taras Shevchenko National U of Kyiv, Ukraine) [email protected] A Proliferating Reality of Propagandistic Translation as Manipulation of Ukrainian Governmental Discourses During the Months Leading up to the Presidential Election in Ukraine Yurii Shapoval (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) [email protected] Today’s Ukraine Realities and Election Process in Historical Perspective Inna Volosevych (Ipsos Ukraine) [email protected] An Analysis of the Results of Presidential Elections in Ukraine DISCUSSANTS Anna Procyk (Kingsborough CUNY, US) [email protected] Michael Rywkin (City College, NY, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U19 Ukraine’s Crimea under Russian Occupation 2014-2018 (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session I // 9:40 - 11:40 AM //
CHAIR Myroslava Gongadze (Nieman Fellow, Harvard U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Hanna Abakunova (Harvard U, US/ Sheffield U, UK) [email protected] Politics of Memory on the Second World War in the Occupied Crimea Orly Keiner (U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor) Responding to the Human Rights Situation in Crimea Sevgil Musaeva (Harvard U, US) [email protected] The Media Landscape in Crimea after 5 years of Annexation Gene Fishel (U.S. Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs) [email protected] The Russian Occupation in Geopolitical Perspective Huseyin Oylupinar (Harvard U, US) [email protected] Divide and Destroy by Religion: The Russian Impact on the Crimean Tatar Muslims and Non-Russian Orthodox Christians
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK6 Creating a Different Kind of National Identity through Sports, Culture, and Media
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR John Kraljić (Independent Scholar, US) [email protected] PAPERS Maria Lechtarova (NYU, US) [email protected] The Public Drama of Cultivating a New European National: How the Bulgarian Reality Television Show “Fermata” Mobilizes Agrarian Mythologies to Articulate Trajche Panov (U of Bergen, Norway) [email protected] How Mainstream Right Captures the Populist Ideological Space - The Cases of Serbia and Macedonia Michael Rossi (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Serbia (Re)Branded: Democracy in Image and Substance in the Post-Milošević Era DISCUSSANT Timofey Agarin (Queen’s U Belfast, UK) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE6 Racialization and Ethnicization in Romani Studies? Intersectional Readings of Romani Identity
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR Koen Slootmaeckers (City U of London, UK) [email protected] PAPERS Lucie Fremlova (U of Portsmouth, UK) [email protected] Visual Self-Representations of LGBTIQ Roma: Towards Queer Intersectional Methodologies Julija Sardelić (U of Leuven, Belgium) [email protected] Racialized Citizenship and Minority Statelessness: Roma as (Non-)Citizens in Europe Angéla Kóczé (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Romani Women Thinking: Knowledge, Consciousness and Politics of Resistance Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, Germany) [email protected] Roma Positionality – Translating the Roma Subjective Experience into Academic Discourse Tímea Junghaus (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, Germany) [email protected] Reading Roma Contemporary Women’s Art as Epistemic Disobedience DISCUSSANT Ethel Brooks (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE21 Gendered Experiences of Jewish Emigration from East Central Europe, 1880-1914
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR Gershon Bacon (Bar-Ilan U, Israel) [email protected] PAPERS Anastasiia Strakhova (Emory U, US) [email protected] Innocent and Dangerous: Female Agents of Jewish Emigration from the Late Russian Empire Aleksandra Jakubczak (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Women Crossing Boundaries: Jewish Anxiety over Single Young Jewish Women’s Migration, 1880s-1914 Oleksii Chebotarov (U of St. Gallen, Switzerland) [email protected] Wives, Daughters, Sisters and Mothers: Women in the Structure of Jewish Transmigration in East Central Europe, 1880s-1890s DISCUSSANT Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU13/BO23 Book Panel on Cloé Drieu’s Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937 (Indiana, 2018)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Kristian Feigelson (Sorbonne Nouvelle U, France) kristian.feigelson@sor- bonne-nouvelle.fr Peter Rutland (Wesleyan U, US) [email protected] Dominique Arel (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] Cloé Drieu (EHESS, France) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N7 The Crisis of Democracy and the Rise of Nationalism and Populism (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR Mitchell Orenstein (U of Pennsylvania, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Florian Bieber (U of Graz, Austria) [email protected] The Relationship Between the Rise of Illiberal Regimes and Exclusionary Nationalism Erin Jenne (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Populism and Nationalism in Foreign Policy Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen’s U, Canada) [email protected] Nationalist Populism and the Subversion of Democratic Agency Jason Wittenberg (UC Berkeley, US) [email protected] Nationalism as a Response to Liberalism
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N12/BO2 Book Panel on Amy Sodaro’s Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (Rutgers University Press, 2018)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR Alissa Boguslaw (New School for Social Research, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Joyce Apsel (NYU, US) [email protected] Jonathan Bach (The New School/Eugene Lang College, US) [email protected] Malkhaz Toria (Ilia State U, Georgia) [email protected] Amy Sodaro (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R11 Managing Diversity in post-Soviet Russia
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Federica Prina (U of Glasgow, UK) [email protected] Russia’s National Cultural Autonomy and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility? Sansar Tsakhirmaa (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected] Integration-distinction Balance and Comparative Ethnic Regional Autonomy in Russia and China Konstantin Zamyatin (Durham U, UK) [email protected] Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management: From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State Silvia Serrano (Sorbonne U, Paris, France) [email protected] Islam between the Market and the State: How Halal is Changing the Source of Religious Authority in the Russian Federation Matvey Lomonosov (U of Tyumen, Russia) [email protected] Citizenship Ethnicization in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia: Is Ethnic Conflict Relevant? DISCUSSANT Alexander Osipov ((International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Germany) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK3 The Securitization of Turkey’s Kurdish Question in Historical Perspective
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ronay Bakan (Yale U, US) [email protected] Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Contentious Politics: A Case of Urban Warfare in the Kurdish Region of Turkey Ceren Belge (Concordia U, Canada) [email protected] Containing Ethnic Conflict: Repression and Co-Optation as Complementary Strategies Arda Bilgen (Independent Researcher, US) [email protected] A Project of Destruction, Peace, or Technoscience? Untangling the Relationship Between the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and the Kurdish Question in Turkey Murat Devres (Boğaziçi U, Turkey) [email protected] Internal Colonial Rule in Dersim
DISCUSSANT Dilan Okçuoğlu (Queen’s U, Canada) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U10 State-Citizen Relationships in Post-Soviet Politics The Case of Ukraine
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session II // 12:00 - 2:00 PM //
CHAIR Gwendolyn Sasse (Centre for East European and International Studies, Germany) [email protected] PAPERS Maria Popova (McGill U, Canada) [email protected] Danhiel Beers (James Madison U, US) [email protected] The Rule of Law Breakthrough that Wasn’t: Judicial Reform After Maidan Olga Onuch (U of Manchester, UK) [email protected] Paul D’Anieri (U of California, US) [email protected] Ukraine’s ‘Weberian’ Problem: Legality, Legitimacy and State-Citizen Interactions Svitlana Krasynska (Independent Scholar, US) [email protected] Institutional Distrust and Ukraine’s Informal Civil Society Elise Giuliano (Colombia U, US) [email protected] Perceptions of the post-Maidan state: analyzing opinions from Kharkiv and Dnipro DISCUSSANT Henry Hale (George Washington U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK7 Nations and Local Identities
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR Zeynep Arkan Tuncel (Hacettepe U, Turkey) [email protected] PAPERS Florian Bieber (U of Graz, Austria) [email protected] Identity Choices in Interwar Dalmatia Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (LSE, UK) [email protected] Opting Out of War but at What Costs? A Trajectory of Transition in Serbia’s Sandzak Goran Filic (U of Bologna, US) [email protected] Rejection of Radical Nationalism in Wartime Yugoslavia: The Case of Tuzla (1990-1995) Pinar Odabasi Tasci (U of Akron, US) [email protected] Beyond the Midye-Enez Line: Reclaiming Edirne During the Balkan Wars Jelena Radovanovic (Princeton U, US) [email protected] Negotiating Property of Pious Foundations in Post-Ottoman Niš DISCUSSANT Connie Robinson (Central Washington U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE1 Within and Beyond Antisemitism? The Jewish Minority Before and During World War II
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR Daina Eglitis (George Washington U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Maria Madalina Irimia (The Center for the Study of Jewish History, Romania) [email protected] Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Romania: Pogroms, Plunder and Expulsions after 1859 Felicia Waldman (U of Bucharest, Romania) [email protected] The Obsession with Numerus Clausus in Early 20th century Romania and its Legislation Gershon Bacon (Bar-Ilan U, Israel) [email protected] Great Achievement, Toxic Heritage, De Facto Reality: The Minorities Treaties, Jewish Autonomy, and Polish-Jewish Relations, 1919-1939 Zohar Segev (U of Haifa, Israel) [email protected] Immigration, Politics and Democracy: The World Jewish Congress in Eastern Europe, 1936-1939 Daniel Solomon (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] Explaining Subnational Variations in Pogrom Violence: The Case of Kristallnacht DISCUSSANT Robert Moses Shapiro (CUNY Brooklyn College, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU4 The Eurasian Migration System
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Erin Hofmann (Utah State U, US) [email protected] The Question of Return Among Turkmen Educational Migrants Nicole M. Butkovich Kraus (Rutgers U Newark, US) [email protected] Citizenship, Migration, and Xenophobia in Russia Laura Dean (Milikin U, US) [email protected] Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia Catalina Hunt (Franklin & Marshall College, US) [email protected] War and Migration in 19th Century Eurasia: The Case of the Crimean Tatars Cynthia Buckley (U of Illinois Urbana, US) [email protected] Nativity, Ethnicity and Language: Untangling Determinants of Migrant Health in the Russian Federation DISCUSSANT Lisa Koryushkina (Williams College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N16 Art and Reconciliation Conflict, Culture and Community I (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR James Gow (King’s College London, UK) [email protected] PAPERS Rachel Kerr (King’s College London, UK) [email protected] The Art of Reconciliation Tom Paskhalis (London School of Economics, UK) [email protected] Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Women’s Voice in Post-Conflict Reconciliation Ivor Sokolić (London School of Economics, UK) [email protected] Partners in Peace: Why the Activity of Dating is Reconciliatory Tiffany Fairey (U of the Arts London, UK) [email protected] Participatory Arts and Peacebuilding: Embodying and Challenging Reconciliation DISCUSSANT Henry Redwood (King’s College London, UK) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R14/BO3 Book Panel on Mitchell Orenstein’s The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War (Oxford, 2019)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR Dmitry Gorenburg (Harvard U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Eugene Finkel (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected] Milos Rastovic (Duquesne U, US) [email protected] Pierre Jolicoeur (Royal Military College, Canada) [email protected] Inga Miller (SUNY Albany, US) [email protected] Mitchell Orenstein (U of Pennsylvania, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH5 Memory Laws Updated and Compared (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR Vjeran Pavlaković (U of Rijeka, Croatia) [email protected] PRESENTERS Diane Orentlicher (American U, US) [email protected] Why Address Denialism? Igor Lyubashenko (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland) [email protected] Ukrainian Memory Laws - More Smoke than Fire? Ireneusz Kaminski (U of Cracow, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) [email protected] Memory Laws and Holocaust Denial in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights Grazyna Baranowska (U of Poznan, Poland) [email protected] Memory Laws in Turkey
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK8/BO15 Book Panel on Ceren Lord’s Religious Politics in Turkey: From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Ayfer Karakaya (William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, US) [email protected] Yeşim Bayar (St. Lawrence U, US) [email protected] Hale Yilmaz (Southern Illinois U, US) [email protected] Ceren Lord (Oxford U, UK) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U1 Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Dmytro Vovk (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law U, Ukraine) [email protected] Autocephaly and War: State and Church Relations in Ukraine in the Context of the Military Conflict with Russia Elizabeth Clark (Brigham Young U, US) [email protected] Religious Freedom, Civil Religion, and the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict Robert Blitt (U of Tennessee College of Law, US) [email protected] The International Religious Freedom Act and Options for U.S. Response to Ukraine-Russia Conflict Stanislav Panin (Rice U, US) [email protected] Jewish Conspiracy Narratives in Russian Publications on the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution Andrew P.W. Bennett (Religious Freedom Institute, Canada) [email protected] Ecclesial and Religious Pluralism in Ukraine: A Unique Strength in a Time of Crisis
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U21 The Jewish Question and Mass Violence in Ukrainian History
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Klas-Göran Karlsson (Lund U, Sweden) [email protected] Bloodlands History Lessons Adrian Cioflanca (Center for the Study of Jewish History, Romania) [email protected] Mass Killings and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Transnistria Victoria Khiterer (Millersville U, US) [email protected] The Babi Yar Massacre and Commemoration of the Holocaust in Modern Ukraine Daria Mattingly (Cambridge U, UK) [email protected] The Question of Jewish Perpetrator in the Holodomor DISCUSSANT Markian Dobczansky (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK9/BO5 Book Panel on Jelena Džankić, Soeren Keil and Marko Kmezić’s Europeanization Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR Tanya Domi (Columbia U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Michael Rossi (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Tamara Pavasovic Trost (U of Ljubljana, Slovenia) [email protected] Valery Perry (Democratization Policy Council, Bosnia) [email protected] Jelena Dzankic (European U Institute, Italy) [email protected] Soeren Keil (Canterburry Christ Church U, UK) [email protected] Marko Kmezic (U of Graz, Austria) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE4/BO6 Book Panel on Jennie Schulze’s Strategic Frames. Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 20187)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR Myra Waterbury (Ohio U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Rita Peters (Harvard U, US) [email protected] David Smith (U of Glasgow, UK) [email protected] Erin Jenne (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Jennie Schulze (Duquesne U, US ) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE14 Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR Ju Li (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] PAPERS Elena Marushiakova [email protected]; Vesselin Popov [email protected] (School of History, U of St Andrews, UK) ‘Letter to Stalin’: Roma Visions on Gypsy Policy in the Early USSR Raluca Bianca Roman (School of History, U of St Andrews, UK) [email protected] ‘The voice of the Roma’? National Identity, Ethnic Building and Regional Politics within Roma-led Publications in Interwar Romania Sofiya Zahova (School of History, U of St Andrews, UK) [email protected] Romani Self-representation in the ‘Gypsy Newspaper’ of Interwar Yugoslavia Aleksandar G. Marinov (School of History, U of St Andrews, UK) [email protected] Roma Civic Emancipation as Reflected in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society in the Interwar Period DISCUSSANT Brigid M. O’Keeffe (Brooklyn College, CUNY, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU7 Repression of Uighurs in China (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Sean Roberts (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Dilnur Reyhan (Research Center on Eurasian Studies, France) [email protected] Eric Schluessel (U of Montana, US) [email protected] Sandrina Catris (Augusta U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K5 Displacement, Migration, and Mobiliity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Caucasus
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Arsene Saparov (U of Sharjah, UAE) [email protected] Involuntary Resettlement During the Late Stalinism in the Soviet Caucasus 1948-1952. Nationalism, Bureaucratic Morass and Popular Strategies of Survival in Armenia and Azerbaijan Daniel Pommier Vincelli (Sapienza U of Rome, Italy) [email protected] Azerbaijani IDPs Sources of Integration and Isolation Ekaterine Pirtskhalava (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State U, Georgia) [email protected] Ina Shanava (Georgian National U, Georgia) [email protected] Social, Ethnic, and Place Identity of Repatriated Muslim Meskhetians in Georgia Tsypylma Darieva (Centre for East European and international Studies, Germany) [email protected] On the Move: ‘Roots’ Mobilities and Diasporic Youth DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M7 South Asian Migrants Across the Globe Political, Social and Religious Activism
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR André Liebich (The Graduate Institute, Switzerland) [email protected] PAPERS Anne-Sophie Bentz (U Paris Diderot, France) [email protected] Theoretical Considerations on Waiting among Refugee and Migrant Communities Anouck Carsignol (UQAM / CERIAS, Canada) [email protected] South Asian Activism in Canada: Infra-diasporic Construction and Contestation of Identities and Ideologies Lola Guyot (European U Institute, Italy) [email protected] The Autonomization of Diaspora Politics: Tamil Transnational Mobilizations after War Giacomo Mantovan (CEIAS, Paris, France) [email protected] An Untold Experience of the War? Politics of Remembrance among former Tamil Tigers exiled in France
DISCUSSANT Andrea Carteny (U La Sapienza, Italy) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N3/BO7 Book Panel on Andreas Wimmer’s Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart (Princeton, 2018)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR Laia Balcells (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Carles Boix (Princeton U, US) [email protected] Zeynep Bulutgil (U College London, UK) [email protected] Harris Mylonas (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Andreas Wimmer (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R4 Religion and National Security in Russia
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Alicja Curanović (U of Warsaw, Poland) [email protected] Communistic China, Liberal West or de-Russified Caucasus? Mapping Geopolitical Fears of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 21st Century Nicolai N. Petro (U of Rhode Island, US) [email protected] Russia, Ukraine, and the Orthodox Church Dmitry Adamsky (School of Government, IDC Herzliya, Israel) [email protected] The Impact of Religion on Russian Military Campaign in Syria Irina du Quenoy (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Émigré Russian Orthodoxy and Security Issues Daniel Schulte (Brown U, US) [email protected] Dismantling Secularism: State-Religion Alliances in Russia and Turkey DISCUSSANT Dmitry Gorenburg (Harvard U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK5 Patterns of Repression and the Consolidation of Authoritarianism in Turkey (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR James Ryan (NYU, US) [email protected] PAPERS Nate Schenkkan (Freedom House, US) [email protected] Transnational Repression in the Turkish Case Elmira Bayrasli (Foreign Policy Interrupted, NY, US) [email protected] Power and Submission: Women and the AKP Ayşen Candaş (Yale U, US/Boğaziçi U, Turkey) [email protected] The Rupture Lisel Hintz (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected] Neither Free Nor Fair: Elections under Turkey’s AKP Elizabeth Pertner (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Media: Past, Present, and Future
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U5 Social and Territorial Changes in Ukraine and the 2019 Presidential Election (ROUNDTABLE)
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR Valeryi Kuchinsky (Columbia U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor U, US) [email protected] Paul D’Anieri (UC Riverside, US) [email protected] Adrian Karatnycky (Atlantic Council, US) [email protected] Viktoriya Sereda (HURI Harvard U, US) [email protected] Oxana Shevel (Tufts U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U7 Power, Politics & Religion
THURSDAY MAY 2 // Session IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Alessandro Milani (HURI, Harvard U, US) [email protected] Ruthenianism vs Ukrainianism: the Eparchy of Mukacevo and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1919 and 1989) Andrii Fert (U Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine) [email protected] “Not the Ukrainian Church, but the Church of Christ in Ukraine”: (Supra)national Memory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Tornike Metreveli (U of St. Gallen, Switzerland) [email protected] “We Are Now the Orthodox!”- Religion in Times of War in Ukraine Inga Miller (U of Albany, US) [email protected] Church Politics as a Weather Vane of National Politics in Latvia and Ukraine, 2017-2018 Annelle Sheline (Rice U, US) [email protected] Territorial Authenticity: Lessons about Religious National Identity in Ukraine and Morocco DISCUSSANT Catherine Wanner (Penn State U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK10 Democratic Institutions of Inclusion and Exclusion
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Jelena Dureinovic (Justus Liebig U, Germany) [email protected] PAPERS Petar Bačić (U of Split, Croatia) [email protected] How We Discovered National Referendums and Where it Got us (Comparative Analysis of National Referendums in Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia) Dorde Gardasevic (U of Zagreb, Croatia) [email protected] Jurij Toplak (U of Maribor, Slovenia) [email protected] National Minorities’ Rights Redesigned by Referendum Means: The 2018 Croatian Case Timofey Agarin (Queen’s U Belfast, UK) [email protected] Allison McCulloch (Brandon U, Canada) [email protected] Are Consociations Plagued by Political Clientelism? What Can we Learn from Bosnia and Macedonia Dragana Svraka (U of Florida, US) [email protected] Which Cleavage Matters? A Critical Assessment of Ethnic Cleavage in Bosnia and Herzegovina
DISCUSSANT John Kraljić (Independent Scholar, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK17 The EU and Security in the Balkans and Central Europe
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Oya Dursun-Ozkanca (Elizabethtown College, US) [email protected] Western Balkans in the Transatlantic Security Context: Where Do We Go from Here? Fridon Lala (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] The Changing Face of European Regional Governance: Demystifying the Role of China in the Balkans Sinisa Tatalovic (U of Zagreb, Croatia) [email protected] Croatia’s Membership in the EU and NATO and its Policy Towards the Western Balkans Věra Stojarová (Masaryk U, Czech Republic) [email protected] Media Capture in the Western Balkans through Illiberal Practices towards the EU Gorana Grgic (U of Sydney, Australia) [email protected] Nationalism as a Propeller of European Subregionalism? The Curious Case of the Three Seas Initiative Filip Scherf (The Economist Intelligent Unit, Russia) [email protected] How Russia Achieves its Political and Economic Goals in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory and Practice DISCUSSANT David Gazsi (King’s College London, UK) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE3 Historical Views on Romania
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ioan Marius Eppel (Babes-Bolyai U, Romania) [email protected] The State of the Nation, the State of the Church: Romanian Ecclesiastical Infrastructures around 1900 in Dualist Hungary Anca Glont (U of Dayton, US) [email protected] The Embodied Nation: Corporatism as Economic Ideology in Carol II’s Romanian Dictatorship Razvan Sibii (U of Massachusetts Amherst, US) [email protected] “You Can Be a Good Romanian, but not a Romanian”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Romanian Historical Narrative Calin Andrei Olariu (Babes-Bolyai U, Romania) [email protected] Thirty Years a Gold Smuggler. State Power, Marginality and Everyday Resistance in a Mining Community in Interwar Transylvania Liminita Ignat-Coman (Babes-Bolyai U, Romania) [email protected] Homes and Pits: Identity of Transylvanian Romanian Gold Miners between 1850-1918 DISCUSSANT Mona M. Momescu (Columbia U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE8 Museum, Monuments and the Interplay of Memory Narratives
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ljiljana Radonić (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) [email protected] Hungarian Memorial Museums from the “Invocation of Europe” to an Authoritarian-Revisionist Backlash Jonathan Parker (U of Texas at Austin, US) [email protected] Ethnographies of Us and Them in Two Prague Museums Volker Benkert (Arizona State U, US) [email protected] Woirld War II in Contemporary German National and Nationalist Discourses Jan Class Behrends (Center for Contemporary History, Germany) [email protected] How Did We Write the History of post-Communism? DISCUSSANT Thomas Szigeti (NYU, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE20/BO8 Book Panel on Liliya Berezhnaya’s and Heidi Hein-Kircher’s Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism (Berghahn, 2019)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Zaur Gasimov (German Orient Institute in Istanbul, Turkey) [email protected] Stephen M. Norris (Miami U, US) [email protected] Alfons Bruening (Radboud U Nijmegen, Netherlands) [email protected] Liliya Berezhnaya (U of Münster, Germany) [email protected] Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder-Institute for Historical Research, Germany) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU5 Building and Bleeding the Nation in Central Asia
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Dina Sharipova (KIMEP U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Youth and National Identity in Kazakhstan Aziz Burkhanov (Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Kazakhstan’s Youth Vision of National Identity: Then and Now Zhanat Kundakbayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Nation-Building Process in Contemporary Kazakhstan: Of the Role of Academics Historians Darina Sadrakassova (Independent Researcher, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Branding Kazakhstan: Relationships between State and Non-State Actors Zulaikho Usmanova (Institute of Philosophy, Tajikistan) [email protected] “Tanzeem” Cultural Politics as a Next Step of Nation-Building in Tajikistan DISCUSSANT Brent D. Hierman (Virginia Military Institute, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K8 Nationalism, Foreign Policy, and Democratization in the South Caucasus
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Laurence Broers (SOAS, UK) [email protected] Losing Control of a Competitive Authoritarian System: Armenia’s Republican Party Regime and Why it Became Vulnerable Tamar Karaia (Tbilisi State U, Georgia) [email protected] The Formation of a Master Narrative in post-Rose Revolution Georgia Anar Valiyev (ADA U, Azerbaijan) [email protected] Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy Towards Russia: Strategic Hedging or Bandwagoning? Rustam Anshba (Chatham House, UK) [email protected] Society Development and Conflict Resolution : The Case of Abkhazia DISCUSSANT Stephen Jones (Mount Holyoke College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M5 Exploring Diaspora Politics, Economics and Identity
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ahmed Khattab (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] Political Crises and Diaspora Politicization in Non-Democracies Tatsiana Kulakevich (U of South Florida, US) [email protected] Migrants, Rule of Law, and Foreign Direct Investment: Reconsidering the Influence of Immigration on Financial Flows Karina Shklyan (U of California- San Diego, US) [email protected] In Search of an Identity: Ethnic Return Migration of American Jews to Israel Lior Yohanani (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Enlistment to the Israeli Defense Force Among Second Generation Israeli Americans Vasileios Petrogiannis (Sodertorn U, Sweden) [email protected] Greek Intra-European Migrants: Europe as a Space of Unfulfilled Expectations Daphne Winland (York U, Canada) [email protected] Value(s) of Victimhood: Diaspora in Croatian Nation-building 25 Years Later DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N15 Co-Ethnics, Migrants and Diasporas
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Didem Doğar (McGill U, Canada) [email protected] Do Migrants Suspected of Terrorism Deserve Human Dignity? The Borderline Between the Rule of Law and War on Terrorism Yuval Feinstein (U of Haifa, Israel) [email protected] How Do Nationalist Narratives Affect Anti-Immigrant Attitudes? Exceptionalism and Collective Victimhood in Contemporary Israel Cristina Dragomir (Columbia U, US) [email protected] The European Roma: The Unlikely Indian Diaspora Seraina Ruegger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) [email protected] The Causes of Irredentist Claims Johanne Lefeldt (Johannes Gutenberg-U of Mainz, Germany) [email protected] Living Together in and with Diversity in a New York Neighborhood DISCUSSANT Siobhan Kirkland (George Washington U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N18/BO9 Book Panel on Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled’s The Religionization of Israeli Society (Routledge, 2018)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Alberto Spektorowski (Tel Aviv U, Israel) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Ran Hirschl (U of Toronto, Canada) [email protected] Paul Scham (U of Maryland, US) [email protected] Elazar Elhanan (City College of New York, CUNY, US) [email protected] Yoav Peled (Tel Aviv U, Israel) [email protected] Horit Herman Peled (Art Institute, Oranim College, Israel) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY
PANEL R6 Theorizing Civil Society in Russia
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Elise Giuliano (Columbia U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Yana Gorokhovskaia (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Notes on Defining and Measuring the Opposition in Russia Janet Elise Johnson (Brooklyn College, CUNY, US) [email protected] The Surprisingly Contentious Politics of Domestic Violence Reform in Russia Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham U, US) [email protected] Geography of Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia DISCUSSANT Alexis Lerner (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R9 Appropriating Public Spaces, Producing Russian Places
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Heather DeHaan (Binghamton U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Jamie Freeman (U of East Anglia, UK) [email protected] Constructing Identity: Kaliningrad and the Appropriation of Place Natalia Volvach (Stockholm U, Sweden) [email protected] Constructing Russian Nationalism in the Cityscape of Sevastopol Marina Mikhaylova (Temple U, US) [email protected] World Cup in Russia: Local Mediations of Global Mega-Events Kristiina Silvan (U of Helsinki, Finland/Princeton U, US) [email protected] Russian Youth Forums: Sites of Patriotic Upbringing or Youth Empowerment? DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH2 Youth and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Stephen Deets (Babson College, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Felix Krawatzek (ZOiS, Germany) [email protected] Between the Past and the Future: Comparing the Political Outlook of Young People in Central and Eastern Europe Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS, Germany) [email protected] Youth in Russia: Transnational Experiences and Political Attitudes Renata Franc (Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia) [email protected] The Meaning of Young People’s Support for Democracy and Autocracy: The Role of the Socio-Political Context Cynthia Kaplan (UC Santa Barbara, US) [email protected] Gulnar Nassimova (Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Youth Migration: A Brain Drain from Kazakhstan? DISCUSSANT Mark Beissinger (Princeton U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK2 Turkish Influence in the Balkans Between Neo-Ottomanism and Pragmatism
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Sabina Pacariz (Queen Mary U, UK) [email protected] Turkish Investments in Serbia : Business Speaks A Different Language Goran Miletic (Europe at Civil Rights Defenders, Sweden) [email protected] The Implication of Closer Turkish-Serbian Cooperation on Implementation of Human Rights Standards Lászlo Szerencsés (U of Graz, Austria) [email protected] Turkish Foreign Policy and Kosovo: The Role of Religion Tanya Domi (Columbia U, US) [email protected] The Deepening Relationship Between Turkey and Serbia: How illiberal states mutually approach human rights DISCUSSANT Dimitar Bechev (UNC Chapel Hill, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U2 Reconfiguring the Past Memory Politics and Practices in the Wake of the Euromaidan in Ukraine
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Oxana Shevel (Tufts U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Oleksandra Gaidai (Museum of History, Kyiv, Ukraine) [email protected] Memory Sphere in Ukraine After 2014: The Case of Mykolaiv and Kherson Oksana Myshlovska (U of Bern, Switzerland) [email protected] Memory and Democratic Participation After the Euromaidan: New Ways of Participation, Contestation and Protest Shaping Memoryscapes in Ukraine Anna Chebotarova (U of St. Gallen, Switzerland) [email protected] Mediating Dissonant Past: Holocaust in post-Soviet Ukrainian Fiction and Feature Films Iurii Zazuliak (Ukrainian Catholic U, Ukraine) [email protected] Entangled Temporalities of the National Commemorations and Academic History Writing in Contemporary Ukraine DISCUSSANT Viktoriya Sereda (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U12 Elite Politics in Ukraine in Comparative Perspective
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM //
CHAIR Rainer Ruge (EU, Brussels, Belgium) [email protected] PAPERS Cristina Gherasimov (German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany) [email protected] Stagnation or Renewal? Political Elite in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine Nataliya Kibita (HURI Harvard, US) [email protected] Regionalism and Consensus-Seeking: The Legacy of Soviet Institutions in Post-Soviet Ukraine Karina Korostelina (George Mason U, US) [email protected] National Resilience in Ukraine Ondrej Timco (U College London, UK) [email protected] Corruption as Embezzlement: The Lazarenko Case DISCUSSANT Nicholas Pehlman (CUNY Graduate Center, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK12/BO11 Book Panel on Valery Perry’s Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia (Columbia University Press, 2019)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Soeren Keil (Canterburry Christ Church U, UK) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Tanya Domi (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Viola Gienger (Just Security, US) [email protected] David Kanin (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected] Valery Perry (Democratization Policy Council, Bosnia and Herzegovina) [email protected] Ana Devic (U of Leuven, Belgium) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK14 Unintended Effects of Contemporary Migration
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Tina Mavrikos-Adamou (Hofstra U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Mihail Arandarenko (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] Emigrant Workforce and Remittance Inflows: Some Evidence from the Western Balkans Roswitha M. King (Ostfold U College, Norway) [email protected] Does Emigration Reduce Tobacco Smoking Among Those Staying behind? Evidence from the Western Balkans Lana Peternel [email protected] Dinka Marinović Jerolimov [email protected] (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia) “We Do Not Wish to be Simply Advocates or Humanitarians, We Are Much More Than That”: NGOs Perspectives on Migration Crisis in Croatia Armina Galijas (U of Graz, Austria) [email protected] Is the “Balkan Route” Closed? DISCUSSANT Ana Di Lellio (NYU, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE5/BO12 Book Panel on Tamás Kiss’ Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights: Hungarians in Transylvania (Palgrave, 2018)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen’s U, Canada) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Sherrill Stroschein (UCL, London, UK) [email protected] Myra Waterbury (Ohio U, US) [email protected] Irina Culic (Babeș-Bolyai U, Romania) [email protected] Tamás Kiss [email protected] István Gergő Székely [email protected] (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Romania)
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE9 Contesting Politics of Memory in Central Europe
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Agatha Dudzinski (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Klaus Bachmann (SWPS U, Poland) [email protected] Criminalizing History. The Polish «Holocaust Law» in a Comparative Perspective Kate Korycki (Queens U, Canada) [email protected] Memory and Nativism George Soroka (Harvard U, US) [email protected] The Rise of Memory Laws in Europe: What We Have Learned (1985-2018) Sabine Mannitz (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany) [email protected] Time to Remember: Lacuna in the German Commemoration of War Dead and Peace Education Grazyna Baranowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) [email protected] Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) [email protected] Legal and Political Deployments of Memory: The Case of Poland DISCUSSANT André Liebich (The Graduate Institute, Switzerland) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU10 Faces of Patriarchy
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Frank Karioris (U of Pittsburgh, US) [email protected] PAPERS Michele Commercio (U of Vermont, US) [email protected] Polygyny in Kyrgyzstan: Perspectives of Men with Multiple Wives Hélène Thibault (Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Glamour and Freedom: Becoming a Second-Wife in Kazakhstan Juliette Cleuziou (U Lumière Lyon 2, France) [email protected] The Evolution of Marriage and Gender Roles: Marriage, Divorce and Economics in Tajikistan Zulfiya Bakhtibekova (U of Central Asia, Tajikistan) [email protected] Using Femininity for Protection: Tajik Women Negotiating Security in Dushanbe DISCUSSANT Marintha Miles (George Mason U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K4 The Diplomacy of Unrecognised States in the Caucasus
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City U, Ireland) [email protected] Explaining the Recognitions and Derecognitions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Daria Isachenko (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder, Germany) [email protected] Unrecognized Cooperation in Post-Soviet Eurasia: The Case Study of Abkhazia-Transnistria relations Bruno Coppieters (Free U of Brussels, Belgium) [email protected] Is Pluto a Planet? Is Abkhazia a State? Defining Basic Entities in Astronomy, International Law and Political Science Till Spanke (LSE, UK) [email protected] Leverage and Instruments of Patron States in Shaping State Building Processes in De Facto States – The Case of Russian Involvement in Abkhazia’s State Building Pursuits Giulia Prelz Oltramonti (U libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) [email protected] Secession and Viability in Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Different goals, strategies, outcomes DISCUSSANT Gëzim Visoka (Dublin City U, Ireland) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M8/BO10 Book Panel on Philipp Ther’s The Outsiders: Refugees in Modern European History (Princeton 2019)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Lisa Koryushkina (Williams College, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Lisa Anderson (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Daniel Naujoks (Columbia U/The New School, US) [email protected] Philipp Ther (U of Vienna, Austria) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N10 Nationalism, Ideas and Politics in the West
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Yuval Feinstein (U of Haifa, Israel) [email protected] PAPERS Catherine Côté (U of Sherbrooke, Canada) [email protected] Quebec: How the Millennials Generation Redefines the Nationalist Discourse Jean-Thomas Arrighi (U of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) [email protected] ‘The People, Year Zero’: Citizenship and the Politics of Independence in Scotland and Catalonia Paul Hamilton (Brock U, Canada) [email protected] The Role of Europe in the Nationalist Discourses of Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party Bethan Johnson (U of Cambridge, UK) [email protected] Che in Spain, Fanon in France: The European Co-optation of Non-Western National Liberationism, 1960-1980 Dejan Stjepanović (U of Dundee, UK) [email protected] The Right to Vote: Constitutive Referendums and Regional Citizenship DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N17 Art and Reconciliation Conflict, Culture and Community II (ROUNDTABLE)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Ivan Zverzhanovski (UNDP) [email protected] PAPERS James Gow (King’s College London, UK) [email protected] Reconciliations, Evaluations and Histories Paul Lowe (U of the Arts, London, UK) [email protected] Reconciliation, Photography and Memory Amit Singhal (United Nations, Department of Political Affairs, NY, US) [email protected] Evaluating Reconciliation Philip C. Bobbitt (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Unreconciled: Reconciliation and History
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R8 Soviet Nationality Policy and Its Legacy
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Kelsey Davis (Brandeis U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel) [email protected] A Recurrent Echo: the “Jewish Question” in Politics and Memory of Eastern Europe Gozde Yazici Corut (American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) [email protected] The Meeting of the Russo-Ottoman Border Commission in 1912: Lost Maps and Unclear Borders Anna Whittington (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) [email protected] Alphabet Soup: Orthographic Reform under Lenin and Stalin Claudia Palazzo (U of Bologna, Italy) [email protected] Film and Nation: Sergei Parajanov and Soviet Nationality Policies Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola U Chicago, US) [email protected] Russia’s Minority Policies: pre-1917 and post-1991 Compared DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH6 The Pressures on Universities in Populist Authoritarian Regimes (ROUNDTABLE)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Ceren Belge (Concordia U, Canada) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Maria Trofimova (European U at Saint Petersburg, Russia) [email protected] Risks and Liabilities to Institutional Autonomy of Universities in Authoritarian Regimes Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu (Boğaziçi U, Turkey) [email protected] Challenges for Universities and Academics in Turkey András L. Pap (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Full-Fledged Authoritarian Artillery, Sparse Coping Strategies: The Case of Hungarian Higher Education
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK1 Turkey’s Authoritarian Shift Causes and Consequences
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Murat Somer (Koc U, Turkey/Stanford U, US) [email protected] Polarizing-Cum-Transformative Politics and Democratic Breakdown in Turkey: From Reforms to Revolution and the Prospects Mert Arslanalp (Bogazici U, Turkey) [email protected] T. Deniz Erkmen (Ozyegin U, Germany) [email protected] In the Name of Law and Order: Protest Repression During Emergency Rule in Turkey Basak Gemici (U of Pittsburgh, US) [email protected] Life Turns into a Waiting Room: Women’s Experience and Changing Emotions in Public Spaces under Emergency Rule, Turkey Dogan Gürpinar (Istanbul Technical U, Turkey) [email protected] Authentic and National: Cultural Wars Over Academia in Turkey DISCUSSANT Senem Aslan (Bates College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U4 Ukraine Five Years After the EuroMaidan Attitudinal Change, Political Behavior, and Public Policies (ROUNDTABLE)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Joshua Tucker (NYU, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Mark Beissinger (Princeton U, US) [email protected] Olga Onuch (U of Manchester, UK) [email protected] Graeme Robertson (UNC Chapel Hill, US) [email protected] Grigore Pop-Eleches (Princeton U, US) [email protected] Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U11 Ethnic and Civic Identities in Ukraine and Belarus
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR Ariane Larouche (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Elmira Muratova (Crimean Federal U, Ukraine) [email protected] The Transformation of the Crimean Tatars’ Institutions and Discourses After 2014 Grigory Ioffe (Radford U, US) [email protected] Civic Nationalism, Belarusian Style Oksana Malanchuk (U of Michigan, US) [email protected] Defining Multiple Identities in Ukraine: A Cluster Analysis Approach Raisa Ostapenko (Sorbonne U, France) [email protected] Post-Soviet Self-Fashioning: Social, Economic, and Political Realities and Shifting Identities in Ukraine Olga Burlyuk (Ghent U, US) [email protected] Imagining Ukraine: From History and Myths to Maidan Protests DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U14 Donbas Conflict Local and Comparative Perspectives
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Dan Dungaciu (U of Bucharest, Romania) [email protected] Frozen Conflicts as Precursors of Trouble to Come: The Cases of Ukraine and Moldova Igor Lyubashenko (SWPS U of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland) [email protected] The Evolution of Ukrainian Government’s Approach to Truth-Seeking in the Context of Donbas Conflict Alexandra Smidova (Masaryk U, Czech Republic) [email protected] Anti-Government Non-State Armed Actors in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch, Germany) [email protected] Infrastructure and War in Donbas: Providing Water Across the Front Line (A Graphic Story) DISCUSSANT Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK2 National Identity and Minority Rights Protection in the Western Balkans Mapping External Influences
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Laura Montanari (U of Udine, Italy) [email protected] PAPERS Carna Pistan (U of Udine, Italy) [email protected] Minority Rights (Un)Protection in Croatia: The Dark Side of the Law Milos Milenkovic (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] Milan Antonijevic (Open Society Fund, Serbia) [email protected] Marko Milenkovic (Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia) [email protected] Minority Rights Protection in the Context of EU Conditionality for the Western Balkans – The Case of Serbia Justin Frosini (Bocconi U, Italy) [email protected] National Identity and Minority Rights Protection in the Western Balkans: Through the Looking-Glass of Constitutional Preambles Matteo Daicampi (U of Udine, Italy) [email protected] The Effective Participation of Minorities in the Local Government in the Western Balkans DISCUSSANT Dušan Stojičić (Brandeis University, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK4 Rethinking EU Enlargement Policy
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Tina Mavrikos-Adamou (Hofstra U, US) [email protected] PAPERS John Hulsey (James Madison U, US) [email protected] European Union Personnel Turnover, Conditionality and Europeanization in the Western Balkans Simonida Kacarska (European Policy Institute, Macedonia) [email protected] Freeing a Captured State: What role for EU Accession? The case of the Republic of Macedonia Zeynep Arkan Tuncel (Hacettepe U, Turkey) [email protected] The EU’s Enlargement Policy towards the Western Balkans: New Contender in the Old (Geopolitical) Game? Jelena Džankić (European University Institute, Italy) [email protected] Soeren Keil (Canterbury Christ Church U, UK) [email protected] Facilitators and Obstacles on Montenegro’s Road to the EU DISCUSSANT Chip Gagnon (Ithaca College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE11 Ethnic Minority Politics Election, Representation and Participation
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Sherrill Stroschein (U College London, UK) [email protected] Enclave Politics and Party Systems (Non)-Nationalization Benjamin McClelland (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Candidate Ethnic Identification in Post-Soviet Latvian Elections Ruzica Jakesevic (U of Zagreb, Croatia) [email protected] Accommodating Ethnic Diversity Through Political Representation in Croatia. Who is Represented? Juris Dreifelds (Brock U, Canada) [email protected] Defensive Language Policies in Latvia and Quebec, Canada Lilija Alijeva (U of London, UK) [email protected] Minority Right to Effective Public Participation: A Comparative Case Study of the Russian-Speaking Minority in Independent Estonia and Latvia DISCUSSANT Sean Kates (NYU, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE18 Antigypsyism and the Marginalization Roma in (Post-)socialist Central Europe
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Tamás Kiss (Romanian Institute for Research on Nationalities, Romania) [email protected] Ethnic Caste System and its Erosion in Székely Villages Diana Alexandra Nistor (Babes-Bolyai U, Romania) [email protected] Centre and Periphery. An Oral History of the Roma Communities Between Rural and Urban Areas in Communist Romania Filip Pospisil (John Jay College, CUNY, US) [email protected] Failed Citizens or Migrants? Contestation Julia Szalai (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Informality and the Invisibility of Roma Political Participation in Central European Societies Maria Subert (Hostos CUNY, US) [email protected] Cultural-Historical Legacies in 2008-09 Hungarian Extreme Nationalist Violence Against Roma/Gypsies and Subsequent Official Apologies DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU1 State Power and Policies in Eurasia
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Alexis Lerner (Columbia U, US) [email protected] The Calculus of Dissent Management in Post-Soviet Authoritarian States Lawrence Markowitz (Rowan U, US) [email protected] Rethinking State Repression: Deterrence and Diversion in Central Asia’s Autocracies Matthew Thomas (CUNY Graduate Center, US) [email protected] State of Exile: Coercive and Bureaucratic Power in the Formation of Tibetan National Identity Colleen Wood (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Who Belongs in “Our Common Home”: Public Education and National v. Ethnic Identification in Kyrgyzstan Sarah Dorr (U of Leeds, UK) [email protected] The Elite-Level Demonstration Effect of the Arab Spring in Kazakhstan: 2005-2015 DISCUSSANT Nargis Kassenova (Harvard U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K3/BO13 Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide (Routledge, 2019)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Joyce A. Apsel (NYU, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Jennifer M. Dixon (Villanova U, US) [email protected] Jay Winter (Yale U, US) [email protected] Klas-Göran Karlsson (Lund U, Sweden) [email protected] Vahagn Avedian (Lund U, Sweden) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M1 Global Refugee Issues
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Mila Dragojevic (U of the South, US) [email protected] Immigrants and Refugees: Political or Analytical Categories? Gillian Brock (U of Auckland, New Zealand) [email protected] How Should We Assist Refugees? Julia Morris (The New School, US) [email protected] Migrant Scares and the Making of a Refugee Economy in the Republic of Nauru Lillian Frost (Harvard U/George Washington U, US) [email protected] Intentional Ambiguity: Theorizing State (Non)Enforcement of Citizenship Policies toward Protracted Refugees Duygu Ozaltin (U of Kent, UK) [email protected] Crossing ‘Through Areas with Mines’: Rethinking Determinants of Forced Migration 1970-2015 DISCUSSANT Mashura Akilova (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N1/BO14 Book Panel on John J. Mearsheimer’s The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Yale University Press, 2018)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Harris Mylonas (George Washington U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Deborah Boucoyannis (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Matthew Adam Kocher (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected] H. Zeynep Bulutgil (U College London, UK) [email protected] Şener Aktürk (Koç U, Turkey) [email protected] John J. Mearsheimer (U of Chicago, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N11 Nationalism and Violence
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Catherine Corriveau (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Eyup Civelek (U of Florida, US) [email protected] Commitment to Compromise? Uncovering the Link Between the Support for Ethnic Political Parties and Rebel Organizations Gordana Bozic (Department of Justice, Canada) [email protected] Can Violence Against Both the Ethnic “Other” and the Ethnic “Self” Be Still Considered “Ethnic”? Damon Lynch (U of Minnesota, US) [email protected] Mountains of Time: Yazgulom and the 1992-97 Tajik Civil War Yusuf Magiya (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Modernization, Secularization and Ethnic Conflict: The Kurdish Question in Turkey Isabelle Delorme (Science Po Paris, France) [email protected] The Attacks of 11 September 2001 and 13 November 2015 in Graphic Memoirs: From New York to Paris, the Expression of a Traumatic Memory? DISCUSSANT Daniel Solomon (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R7 Legitimating Autocracy in Russia
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Edouard Pontoizeau (U de Montréal, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Matthew Blackburn (Uppsala U, Sweden) [email protected] Domestic Political Legitimacy and Geopolitics in Contemporary Russia: Papering over the Cracks within the Putin Consensus Paul Goode (U of Bath, UK) [email protected] David Stroup (U of Oklahoma, US) [email protected] Monopoly is the Message: Banal Nationalism and Autocratic Legitimation Veera Laine (U of Helsinki, Finland) [email protected] Continuities and Changes of the Evolution of Russia’s “Others” in the Presidential Rhetoric, 2000-2018 Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King’s College London, UK) [email protected] The Politics of Insecure Collective Identity: Lessons From Putin’s Russia Sergei Fudiunin (INALCO, France) [email protected] Populism and Elitism in Today’s Russia, or When Populism Can Be Good for Democracy DISCUSSANT Peter Rutland (Wesleyan U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH4 When Does History Matter? The Legacies of Historical Moments and Processes in Post-Communist Settings
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Erin Hutchinson (Harvard U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Jane Kitaevich (U of Michigan, US) [email protected] Those Sticky Attitudes—Why Don’t They Just Go Away! Explaining Divergent Patterns in the Persistence of Socio-Political Attitudes in the Post-Soviet Space--the Looming Weight of the Past or Social Engineering Gone Awry? Michelle O’Brien (The Ohio State U, US) [email protected] The Long Shadow of Armed Conflict: Individual Disruptions and Institutional Decay Berenike Schott (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Electoral Support for the Far Right in Germany: Spatio-Temporal Patterns from Weimar to Today Kyle Marquardt (U of Gothenburg, Sweden) [email protected] Language, National Identity and Regime Trajectories: National and Subnational Evidence from Post-Soviet Cases Matthew Reichert (Harvard U, US) [email protected] Who Built Nations in the Soviet Union? The Long-Run Consequences of Soviet Identity-building in the Post-Revolutionary Period DISCUSSANT Zvi Gitelman (U of Michigan, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK11/BO4 Book Panel on Aslı Iğsız’s Humanism in Ruin: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange (Stanford 2018)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR Ilke Denizli (ASN Convention Manager, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Sadia Abbas (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Berke Torunoğlu (Princeton U, US) [email protected] Elektra Kostopoulou (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Aslı Iğsız (NYU, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U16 Ukrainian and Russian Diasporas
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VII // 3:00 - 5:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Olga Boichak (Syracuse U, US) [email protected] Which Factors Drive Diasporic Mobilization in the Digital Age? Lessons from the Ukrainian Communities Violeta Moskalu (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) [email protected] A Socio-Political In-Depth Case Study of the Rights of Ukrainian Migrants and Expatriates Who Live Abroad Alisa Menshikova (EHESS Paris, France) [email protected] To be Ukrainian in France in the Interwar Period (1919-1939) Klavdia Tatar (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] Making the Diaspora Work for the Homeland: Canadian Ukrainians and their Bid for the Democratisation of Ukraine Andrei Korobkov (Middle Tennessee State U, US) [email protected] The Russian Elite Diaspora Abroad: Its Scale, Dynamics, and Structural Characteristics DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK18 Organizing Diversity and Resisting Exclusion
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR Marija Mandic (SASA, Serbia) [email protected] PAPERS Haris Dajc (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] Isidora Jasic (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] LGBT Movement and National Sentiments: Politics of Sexuality and ex/in/clusion in Serbian LGBT Community Koen Slootmaeckers (U of London, UK) [email protected] Not ‘Coming Out’? The Attitudinal Panopticon and the Shallow Europeanisation of LGBT Rights in Serbia Leda Sutlovic (U of Vienna, Austria) [email protected] “Worker Mother” at Home – Gradual Transformations of Socialist Equality Policies Liridona Veliu (U of Copenhagen, Denmark) [email protected] #Balkanization: A Critical Study of Otherness through Twitter Zhanar Sekerbayeva (U of Tsukuba, Japan) [email protected] Role of Medical Specialists in Negotiating the “Normalization” of Transgender People in Kazakhstan DISCUSSANT Chip Gagnon (Ithaca College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE19 Strategy of Minority Belonging and Survival
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ionela Bogdan (Babeş-Bolyai U, Romania) [email protected] If You Have Nothing to Hide, you Have Nothing to Fear: Gender, State Policies and Lived Experience Among Roma in Romania during the Communist Regime Sener Akturk (Koc U, Turkey) [email protected] A Muslim Community Under Catholic Rule: Explaining the Exceptional Survival of the Lithuanian Tatars Alina Jasina-Schäfer (Justus Liebig U Giessen, Germany) [email protected] ‘Our Birches, Our Trees – Everything Is So Dear to Me’: Naturalisation of Belonging at the Estonian Borderland Tibor Tóth (U of Delaware, US) [email protected] Attila Papp (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Linguistic Landscape in Southern Slovakia: Sample Design and Learning from Google’s Street View Images Karolis Dambrauskas (Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania) [email protected] Lukewarm Nationalism: Between Disciplinary and Normalizing Power—The Case of Lithuanian Poles DISCUSSANT TBA BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE22 Corruption in Central Europe
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR Liljana Cvetanoska (U of Sussex, UK) [email protected] PAPERS Eli Gateva (U of Nottingham, UK) [email protected] Understanding Success and Failure of EU Post-Accession Conditionality in the Areas of Judicial Reform and Fight against Corruption Roxana Bratu (U of Sussex, UK) [email protected] TheSsocial Construction of Corruption in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania Fanni Gyurko (U of Glasgow, UK) [email protected] A Socio-legal Explanation of Everyday Corruption Practices in the Hungarian Context: New Trends vs the Relevance of a Post-Socialist Past Albana Shehaj (U of Michigan, US) [email protected] Unintended Consequences : The Effect of EU’s Fiscal Transfers on Recipient States’ Corruption and Domestic Party Competition DISCUSSANT Adam Fagan (King’s College London, UK) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU2 Cultural Politics, Power and Identity in Soviet Central Asian History
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Zayra Badillo Castro (U of London, UK) [email protected] From Tashkent to Havana via Mecca: Soviet Muslims and Transnational Encounters that Defined Central Asia’s Regional Identity During the Cold War Anton Ikhsanov (Higher School of Economics, Russia) [email protected] The Personal Relations Factor Within the Cultural Revolution in Central Asia During the 1920’s-1930’s Zukhra Kasimova (U of Illinois Chicago, US) [email protected] Hybrid Identities in Soviet Central Asia: From Moscow to Tashkent and then to Nukus Didar Kassymova (KIMEP U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Kazakh Repatriates from China: Trapped in Temporal Identity Gaps and Lags Azim Malikov (Palacky U, Czech Republic) [email protected] The Politics of Memory in Samarkand in the Post-Soviet Period DISCUSSANT Carolyn Kissane (NYU, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU6 Women and Cultural Politics in Eurasia
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Frank Karioris (U of Pittsburgh, US) [email protected] Bound to be Grooms: The Imbrication of Economy, Ecology, and Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan Tamar Koplatadze (U of Oxford, UK) [email protected] Identity at the Crossroads: NGOs and Post-Soviet Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan Syinat Sultanalieva (U of Tsukuba, Japan) [email protected] Feminism as a Self-Colonising practice? Analyzing Feminist Narratives on the Role of Women in Kyrgyzstan Nodira Kholmatova (European U Institute, Italy) [email protected] Unveiling Gender Relations: Return Migration and Reintegration of Women Migrants in Tajikistan DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K7 Religion, Politics, and Conflict in the Caucasus
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Olga Breininger-Umetayeva (Harvard U, US) [email protected] Competing Visions: Literary Representations of the Caucasus War Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Conversions in the Russo-Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Muslims and Armenians in the South Caucasus, 1850–1914 Murad Ismayilov (U of Cambridge, UK) [email protected] The Evolution of Ideas of Democracy, Secularism, and the Separation of State and Church in the Narratives of the Islamic Movement in Azerbaijan Kristine Margvelashvili (Gottingen U, Germany/Ilia State U, Georgia) [email protected] Symphonic Ideal: The Orthodox Church, Voters, and State in Georgia Gela Merabishvili (Virginia Tech, US) [email protected] The Georgian Orthodox Church and the Spatialities of Nationhood DISCUSSANT Sofie Bedford (Uppsala U, Sweden) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N4 Self-Rule, Autonomy and Secession
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR Yoav Peled (Tel Aviv U, Israel) [email protected] PAPERS Kathleen Cunningham (U of Maryland, US) [email protected] The Strategic Use of Self-Rule Referenda Livia Rohrbach (U of Copenhagen, Denmark) [email protected] Sub-national “Tyranny of the Majority” : The Case of Ethiopia Lynn Tesser (Marine Coprs U, US) [email protected] Modern Greece: Self-Determination Becomes a Basis for Legitimate Statehood Angely Martinez (Syracuse U, US) [email protected] Who Deserves Independence? A Dataset of Secessionist Grievances Stras Gorelik (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Does the Loss of Autonomy Really Generate Separatism? George Kyris (U of Birmingham, UK) [email protected] A Typology of Unrecognised States DISCUSSANT Maria José Hierro (Yale U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N9 Democracy Institutions and Challenges
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Matija Lujic (ZEIT-Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany) [email protected] Transnationalism, Authoritarianism and Militant Democracy Peter Dan (Long Island U, US) [email protected] Democracy Under Siege: The Psychology of the New Populism Didem Seyis (Binghamton U, US) [email protected] Judiciary Under Attack?: Populists in Government and the Independence of the Judiciary Alberto Spektorowski (Tel Aviv U, Israel) [email protected] Nationalist Resurrection and the Memory of Fascism: What Should be Learned from it? Timothy Waters (Indiana U, US) [email protected] Predictable Obstacles, Impossible Paths : Lessons from the Catalan Crisis DISCUSSANT Catherine Kane Aiken (U of Maryland, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R13 Constructing National Selves and Others in Russian Foreign Policy Discourses
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ohannes Geukjian (American U of Beirut, Lebanon) [email protected] Explaining Post-Soviet Russia’s Foreign Policy Behavior and Rivalry with the West and the United States Philip Decker (U of Oxford, UK) [email protected] Payback Needs No Bullets: Revenge as Motivation in Russia’s Soft Power Campaign in Germany Balki Begumhan Bayhan (Coventry U, UK) [email protected] Exploring External Legitimation Methods of Hybrid Regimes: An Analysis of Russia Tomasz Stępniewski (Catholic U of Lublin, Poland) [email protected] Ukraine, NATO, and East-Central Europe’s Evolving Security Dilemma Mariana Budjeryn (Harvard Kennedy School, US) [email protected] Nuclear Shield or Double-Edged Sword?: Strategic Nuclear Forces and the (Un)Making of Russia’s Nuclear Alliance DISCUSSANT Robert O. Freedman (Johns Hopkins U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH7 International Protection of Minority Rights (Effective) Multilateralism Under Threat?
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Tove Malloy [email protected] Viktoria Martovskaya [email protected] (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany) The Conundrum of Non-Recognized Entities in the Implementation of International Norms on Human and Minority Rights Iryna Ulasiuk (Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, The Netherlands) [email protected] Inclusive Multilateralism: the Role of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Petra Roter (U of Ljubljana, Slovenia) [email protected] International Organisations: A Multilateral Forum or a Stage for Bilateralisation of Minority Rights? DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK9 Turkish Nationalism in Comparative Perspective International Influences and Regional Responses
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ekaterina Zheltova (Charles U, Czech Republic) [email protected] The “Heroes” and the “Traitors”: The Making and Un-Making of the Albanian- Greek Border Through Discourses of Accusation and Victimhood Tomris Ozlem Yilmaz (Paris IV Sorbonne U, France) [email protected] Reframing Turkish Nationalism: Historical Narratives in Diaspora A. Ebru Akcasu (Charles U, Czech Republic) [email protected] Nation and Migration in Late-Ottoman Spheres of Belonging Nora Seni (Paris 8 U, France) [email protected] Instrumentalization of Jewish Memory in Turkish Foreign Policy Thomas Wood (U of South Carolina Aiken, US) [email protected] Neo-Ottomanism or Kemalism in Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy? DISCUSSANT Aslı Iğsız (NYU, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U9 Identity and Memory in Times of Conflict
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR Quentin Corbel (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Viktoriia Svyrydenko (U of Tartu, Estonia) [email protected] Legacies of the Imperial Past: Identity and Memory in Ukraine Since 2004 Natalia Stepaniuk (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] The Reordering of Language Identities in Volunteer Communities amidst the Donbas War Marnie Howlett (LSE, UK) [email protected] Children on the Border: An Analysis of Contemporary Ukrainian Identity Construction During and Following the Euromaidan Svitlana Krys (MacEwan U, Canada) [email protected] Coloniality, (Social) Abjection, and Reforms in Andrii Liubka’s Post-Euromaidan Prose Kateryna Iakovlenko (Franko L’viv National U, Ukraine) [email protected] The Tyranny of Gaze and the Aesthetics of Violence DISCUSSANT Oleh Kotsyuba (HURI Harvard U, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U17 Conflicting Ethno-Spaces in Multi-Ethnic Cities The Example of Lwów (1900-1939)
FRIDAY MAY 3 // Session VIII // 5:20 - 7:20 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Germany) [email protected] Refusing a Local Compromise: Securitizing Debates on the Election Reform for Lwów’s City Council Before the First World War Sarah Ellen Zarrow (Western Washington U, US) [email protected] Jewish Communal and Educational Perspectives on the Lwów Pogrom Adrian Mitter (Herder Institute Marburg, Germany/U of Toronto, Canada) [email protected] Universities as Spaces of Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation – The Example of Ukrainian Students in Cracow and Lwów DISCUSSANT Natalia Aleksiun-Madrzak (Touro College, New York City, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK8 Corruption in the Balkans The Role of the European Union
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR Jasmina Spasojević (Independent Scholar, US) [email protected] PAPERS Adam Fagan (Queen Mary U of London, UK) [email protected] Transformation all the Way Down? European Union Integration and the Professional Socialisation of Municipal Health Officials in Serbia Kotomi Moriguchi (Ghent U, Belgium) [email protected] Stakeholder Identification on International and Regional Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement in Four Selected ex-Yugoslavian States Liljana Cvetanoska (U of Sussex, UK) [email protected] Corruption in Macedonia: Has the EU Made any Difference? Yogambigai Rajendra (U of Macedonia, Greece) [email protected] Corruption and Poverty in Croatia: 2015 to 2018 Dale Mineshima-Lowe (Birkback, U of London, UK) [email protected] Citizen anticorruption activism: perceptions of corruption and corruption monitoring using mobile technology and social media DISCUSSANT Roxana Bratu (U of Sussex, UK) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK15 Challenges to Building Modern States in Post-Conflict Political and Economic Environments
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR Diana Greenwald (City College, NY, US) [email protected] PAPERS Alissa Boguslaw (The New School, US) [email protected] Sovereign Not Sovereign: Independence and Indeterminacy in Kosovo Marius Calu (Regent’s U London, UK) [email protected] Kosovo Divided: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Struggle for a State David Siroky (Arizona State U, US) [email protected] The Kosovo Clock: Accounting for the Timing of International Recognition Goran Tepsic (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] Miloš Vukelić (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] Transforming Enemies into Adversaries: Bosnia-Herzegovina Between “Continuation of War by Other Means” and Agonistic Pluralism Smoki Musaraj (Ohio U, US) [email protected] Speculating in Kind: Klering Payments and the Redistribution of Risk in Albania’s Construction Industry DISCUSSANT Susan Woodward (CUNY Graduate School, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE15 Hungary’s Path to Illiberal Democracy?
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Kristy Kay (U of Glasgow, Scotland) [email protected] Csángó Unchained: Minoritized Nation-Building in the Hungarian Táncház Movement Robert Sata (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] The Christian Nation of the Illiberal State in Hungary Eszter Salgo (John Cabot U, Italy) [email protected] Viktor Orbán’s Cosmogonic Project Kristof Filemon (U of Bologna, Italy) [email protected] National and Minority Policies in the Political Survival Strategy of Viktor Orbán Andras Pap (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) [email protected] Race, Ethnicity, Sex and Harassment: A Silver Bullet to Tackle Institutional Discrimination? DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE16 Kin-State, Diaspora and the Question of Emigration
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Myra Waterbury (Ohio U, US) [email protected] Divided Nationhood and Multiple Membership: A Framework for Comparing Polish and Hungarian Kin-State Policies Erick Zen (Pontifical Catholic U of São Paulo, Brazil) [email protected] Lithuanian Diaspora in American and the Long-Distance Nationalism (1980-1918) András Morauszki (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre, Hungary) [email protected] Alternatives or Supplements? The Relationship Between Home-State and Kin-State Financial Support to Minority Organizations in Central Europe Vizi Balázs (National U of Public Service, Hungary) [email protected] Kin-State Responsibility and Bilateral Minority Rights Protection Treaties: The Slovenian-Hungarian Experience Dragos Radu (King’s College, UK) [email protected] Emigration and Trust: The Experience of Eastern Europe DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU8 Uzbekistan: Prospects for Reform (ROUNDTABLE)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Justin Burke (Eurasianet – Publisher, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Peter Leonard (Eurasianet – Central Asia Editor, US) [email protected] Uzbek Reforms : Looking at the Impact From an On-The-Ground Perspective. Nargis Kassenova (Davis Center, Harvard U, US) [email protected] The Regional Dimension of Reforms in Uzbekistan Alexander Morrison (Oxford U, UK) [email protected] Uzbek Reforms : A Historical Perspective Jennifer Murtazashvili (U of Pittsburgh, US) [email protected] How Far Does the Uzbek Government Want to Go with Reforms?
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K2 Identity, Gender and Mobilization in the North Caucasus
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Sasha Klyachkina (Northwestern U, US) [email protected] Governance Under Polycentric Rule: Goods Provision, Dispute Resolution, and Symbolic Practices in Dagestan Irina Kosterina (Heinrich Boell Foundation Moscow Office, Russia) [email protected] Rethinking Modernization and Agency: Gender Relations in the North Caucasus Egor Lazarev (U of Toronto, Canada) [email protected] E-thnicity: Digital Ethnography of Ethnic Mobilization in Ingushetia Tomas Smid (Masaryk U, Czech Republic) [email protected] Increasing Popular Opposition in Chechnya DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M2 Refugees and Europe
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR Bernadette Ludwig (Wagner College, US) [email protected] PAPERS Marilena Anastaspopoulou (U of Oxford, UK) [email protected] Coming to Terms with Forced Migration: An Intergenerational Study Colette Daiute (CUNY, US) [email protected] Guiseppe Campesi [email protected] Elena Carletti [email protected] (U of Bari, Italy) Navigating the Italian Reception System after the ‘Refugee Crisis’ Matti Välimäki (U of Turku, Finland) [email protected] Securitization in Authorities’ Discourse and Practice: Refugee Reception in Finland, 1986–1995 Soraya Mehdaoui (French Ministry of Justice, France) [email protected] Protecting Asylum Seekers:Between the Geopolitical Realities and the Legal Framework, How to Address the Challenges? DISCUSSANT Gallya Lahav (SUNY Stony Brook, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N2 Challenges to Democracy Parties and Voters
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR Krzysztof Jasiewicz (Washington and Lee U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Hadas Aron (NYU, US) [email protected] An Ethno-Nation Deeply Divided: The Center Periphery Cleavage and the Rise of Right Wing Populism in Central Europe Lenka Bustikova (Arizona State U, US) [email protected] Unexpected Gains: Do Green Parties Benefit from Populism and the Rise of the Far Right? Valur Ingimundarson (U of Iceland) [email protected] Divided Resistance: The Response of the Left to the Authoritarian and Radical Right Stefan Stojkovic (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] How “Right” is a Right-Wing Voter after the Great Recession? Comparing Support for the Radical Right and Moderate Right in Western Europe DISCUSSANT Julian Waller (George Washington U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R2 Diasporas, Migrants and Displaced Peoples
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Edward Holland (U of Arkansas, US) [email protected] Elvira Churyumova (U of Arkansas, US) [email protected] Memory and Experience among Kalmyk Refugees, 1926-1951 Elena Bulakh (U of Lisboa, Portugal) [email protected] António Eduardo Mendonça (U of Lisboa, Portugal) [email protected] Diasporic Nationalism and Identities of Russian Immigrants in Portugal Liisa Tuhkanen (U College London, UK) [email protected] ‘I Used to Think That I Am Finnish’ – Examining the Relationship between Ethnic Identity and Perceived Discrimination among Russian-speakers Living in Finland Carolina de Stefano (U of Eastern Finland, Finland) [email protected] The Union’s Disintegration, the Migration Crisis, and the Fate of the Russian-Speaking Communities Abroad Svetlana Riazanova (Perm Federal Research Centre, Russian Federation) [email protected] Migrants and Conflicts within the Local Ummah of The Perm Krai: A Playing Card or a Social Actor? Liudmila Kopecka (Charles U Prague, Czech Republic) [email protected] Dynamic of Semi-Legal Practices of Russian-Speaking Student Migrants in the Czech Republic DISCUSSANT Leah Haus (Vassar College, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R12 Resentment, Rivalries and Rubles Examining the Economic Drivers of Russian Foreign Policy
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Boris Barkanov (West Virginia U, US) [email protected] Geo-Economics: Natural Gas and Russia’s Strategic Adjustment to Unipolarity Seckin Kostem (Bilkent U, Turkey/Kennan Institute, US) [email protected] Imagining Eurasia: Tracing the Evolution of Russia’s National Economic Interests Ksenia Maksimovtsova (U of Giessen, Germany) [email protected] The ‘Cold War’ Online, or Is Russia Antagonistic to the West? The Discourse(s) of Anti-Russian/Anti-Western Sanctions in Russian and American Digital Media Luba Racanska (St. John’s U, US) [email protected] US China’s Silk Road in Central Asia and its Consequences for Sino-Russian Energy Policy DISCUSSANT Yuval Weber (Daniel Morgan Graduate School, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH1 Post-Soviet Minorities, Ethnicity and Identity
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Alexander Osipov (International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Germany) [email protected] Is There a Post-Soviet Model of Diversity Policy? Jasmin Dall’Agnola (Oxford Brookes U, UK) [email protected] Can Nationalism & Globalism coexist within the former Soviet Space? Kyle Estes (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) [email protected] Bringing Home the Goods? Ethnic and Regional Distributive Politics in the Post-Soviet States DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK4 Kurdish Responses to Repression and Assimilation
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Delal Aydin (Binghamton U, US) [email protected] Friendship as Political Concept: Kurdish Youth Politics in the 1990s Özgür Sevgi Goral (U Paris 8, France) [email protected] Unpacking the Colonial Effect in Turkey: Amnesia, Cultural Aphasi and the Memory Debate Mucahit Bilici (CUNY, US) [email protected] Kurds Between Ethnicity and Universalist Ideologies Oner Yigit (U of Central Florida, US) [email protected] Islam and Kurdish Identity: Evaluation of Islamic Opening of Secular Kurdish Movements? Burak Tan (U of Chicago, US) [email protected] Justification of Ethnic Violence in Turkey: Political Rhetoric at the Aftermath of the Peace Process DISCUSSANT Deniz Duruiz (Northwestern U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK7 Refugees, Migration, and Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Fabio Bego (U of Roma Tre, Italy) [email protected] The benefits of suffering: The Russo-Turkish 1877-1878 war refugees according to the Albanian activists at the turn of the 20th century Nurbanu Dursun (Istanbul U, Turkey) [email protected] Bringing Neoliberalism and Neo-Ottomanism Together: Conservative Nationalism in Everyday Life in Turkey After the Syrian Civil War Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu (Bogazici U, Turkey) [email protected] Migration and Citizenship Law in the Northern Mediterranean: A Comparative Analysis Berna Turam (Northeastern U, US) [email protected] The City on Guard: Situating Athens Into the Global Refugee Crisis Foteini Kalantzi (U of Oxford, UK) [email protected] Transnational Political Participation: The Case of the Contemporary Greek Diaspora DISCUSSANT Ayse Parla (Boston U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U3 Book Panel on Zina Gimpelevich’s The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Bielarusian Literature (McGill University Press, 2018)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR Alla Romano (CUNY, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Vital Zajka (YIVO Institute, US) [email protected]
Maria Paula Survilla (Wartburg College, US) [email protected]
Veranika Laputska (Polish Academy of Science, Poland) [email protected]
Thomas E. Bird (Queens College, CUNY, US) [email protected]
Zina J. Gimpelevich (U of Waterloo, Canada) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U15 Public Opinion in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session IX // 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM //
CHAIR India Roberts (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Lowell Barrington (Marquette U, US) [email protected] The Regional Divide in Ukraine: Still Driving Attitudes about Russia, But Is It an Identity? Volodymyr Paniotto (Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine) [email protected] Attitude of Ukraine’s Population to Russia and Population of Russia to Ukraine Stephen Shulman (Southern Illinois U, US) [email protected] Coercion Versus Concession: Explaining Mass Attitudes Toward Secessionism in Ukraine Calvin Garner (U of Washington, US) [email protected] Aaron Erlich (McGill U, Canada) [email protected] Shared Ethnic Identity and Preferences for Conflict Resolution in Eastern Ukraine DISCUSSANT Ted Gerber (U of Wisconsin Madison, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK1 New Meanings of Familiar Cultural Symbols and References
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Sandra Kasunic (Independent Scholar, US) [email protected] PAPERS Tamara Pavasovic Trost (U of Ljubljana, Slovenia) [email protected] «Positive« Everyday Nationalism: Constructing the Nation through Joyful Memories in School Textbooks in the Former Yugoslavia Jasmina Gavrankapetanovic (U of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ Doshisha U, Japan) [email protected] «Enjoy Sara-jevo 1992/1993»–Coca-Cola, Material Culture and the Siege of Sarajevo Julija Pesic (U of Toronto, Canada) [email protected] Yugoslavian Socialism and Popular Culture Marija Grujic (Institute for Literature and Art, Serbia) [email protected] The Concepts of Borders in Late Socialist Cinema in Yugoslavia: Narratives of Unreachable Spaces DISCUSSANT Stefano Bianchini (U of Bologna, Italy) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK13 The Politics of Remembering
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Blaze Joel (UC Berkeley, US) [email protected] The World is Watching: The International “Spotlight Effect” and the Politics of Memory in Prijedor and Srebrenica Jelena Dureinovic (Justus Liebig U, Germany) [email protected] Unearthing the Past? The Controversies of the State-Funded Quest for Graves of Victims of Communism in Serbia Marija Ivanovic (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] Populist Politics of Remembering and Forgetting at the Partisan Monument in Mostar Marija Mandić (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbia) [email protected] Remembering Hungarian as the Language of the Social Environment in Socialist Yugoslavia Ondřej Zila (Charles U Prague, Czech Republic) [email protected] “Still dreaming about Sarajevo, but never again live there” The Narrative and Memorial Forms of Sarajevan Serbs Who Left the City in 1996 DISCUSSANT Arnaud Kurze (Montclair State U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE13 Anti-Immigrant Discourse, the Far Right and Illiberal Democracy in Central Europe
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Daphne Halikiopoulou (U of Reading, UK) [email protected] What is New and What is Nationalist about Europe’s New Nationalism? Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Europe Ana Raluca Bigu (Center for Institutional Analysis and Development, Romania) [email protected] Migration, Religious Identity and Nationalist Contestations: A Case Study on Romanian Media’s Populistic Treatment of Europe’s Migrant Crisis Aleksandar Milosevic (U of Belgrade, Serbia) [email protected] The Old ‘New Europe’: The Rise of Economic Nationalism in the Visegrad Group Tsveta Petrova (Columbia U, US) [email protected] Democracy Promotion in Dark Times: Why Illiberal Democracies Promote Democracy Lena Surzhko-Harned (Pennsylvania State U, US) [email protected] Ekaterina Turkina (HEC, Canada) [email protected] (Un)Civil Society: Communication Networks of Far-Right Actors in Europe DISCUSSANT Katerina Vrablikova (U of Bath, UK) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE17 Politics, Nationalism and Violence Before and After World War II
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Agatha Dudzinski (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Glenn Kranking (Gustavus Adolphus College, US) [email protected] Proclaiming a “Swedish” Identity Among Estonia’s Swedish Minority Population, 1920-1940 Tomas Balkelis (Lithuanian Institute of History, Lithuania) [email protected] Peace or Long-Term Crisis? The Impact of War on the Political Life of Interwar Lithuania Slawomir Lotysz (Institute for the History of Science, Poland) [email protected] Struggle for the Swamp: Ethnic Problems of the Pripet Marshes in the Second Polish Republic Anton Weiss-Wendt (Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minorities Studies, Norway) [email protected] The Notion of Soviet Genocide: Raphael Lemkin and East European Émigré Organizations in North America Michal Mlynarz (U of Toronto, Canada) [email protected] Poland’s ‘Wild West’: Social Antagonism, Lawless Crimes and Violence, Deportations and ‘Repatriations’ During the Post-WWII Polonization of the Jelenia Góra Valley, 1945-1947 DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU11 Glocality and Precarity NGOs, Norm Localization and Cooperation in Central Asia
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Jafar Usmanov (U of Bonn, Germany) [email protected] “Glocality” of Civil Society in Tajikistan Sohrob Aslamy (Syracuse U, US) [email protected] Redefining the “Border Between Two Worlds”: Efforts to Overcome Division and Precariousness Along the Panj River Border in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan Iuliia Emtseva (U of Notre Dame, US) [email protected] Elida Nogoibaeva (American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) [email protected] Country Assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic: Fair Trial Standards and Meaning in Local Context Medet Tiulegenov (American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) [email protected] Ethnic Minorities in Public Life: A Contested Norm in Central Asia? DISCUSSANT Martha B. Olcott (James Madison College, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU12/BO22 Book Panel on Cameron’s The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell 2018)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Ariane Larouche (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Brigid M. O’Keeffe (Brooklyn College, CUNY, US) [email protected] Daria Mattingly (Cambridge U, UK) [email protected] Adrienne Edgar (UC Santa Barbara, US) [email protected] Sarah Cameron (U of Maryland, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K6 Administrative, Conflictual or Hegemonic? Religion, State and Society Relations in post-Soviet Caucasus
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Vera Stojarova (Masaryk U, Czech Republic) [email protected] PAPERS Sofie Bedford (Uppsala U, Sweden) [email protected] Ceyhun Mahmudlu (Indiana U, US) [email protected] Resilience and Nationalization of Islam in Azerbaijan Kamal Gasimov (U of Michigan, US) [email protected] Bureaucratization and Engineering of Islam in Azerbaijan Artyom Tonoyan (U of Minnesota, US) [email protected] Church, State, Nation : Religious Discourse and the Politics of National Identity in Armenia DISCUSSANT Yashar Ehtibarli (Indiana U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M3 Comparing Migrant and Refugee Integration
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Michael Sharpe (York College CUNY, US) [email protected] PAPERS Wilfred Dominic Josue (U of Hagen, Germany) [email protected] Integrating into German Society through Politics and History: The Effects of the Orientation Course (Orientierungskurs) to Refugees in Brandenburg, Germany Mariann Dömös (U of Pécs, Hungary) [email protected] Benvenuti? Migration and Integration from a Bottom-Up Perspective in Italy Tina Magazzini (European U Institute, Italy) [email protected] ‘White Elephants’: Reflections on Majority-Minority Rights Through the Integration Trajectories of Africans of European descent Emina Osmandzikovic (TRENDS Research & Advisory, United Arab Emirates) [email protected] Refugee Characteristics as a Game-Changer for Integration in Fortress Europe DISCUSSANT Nancy Hiemstra (Stony Brook U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N8/BO18 Book Panel on Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars by Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekely (Georgetown, 2018)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Jennifer Murtazashvili (U of Pittsburgh, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Laia Balcells (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] Costantino Pischedda (U of Miami, US) [email protected] Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego, US) [email protected] Jessica Trisko Darden (American U, US) [email protected] Ora Szekely (Clark U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N14 Memory and Identity
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Jennifer M. Dixon (Villanova U, US) [email protected] PAPERS Andrea Carteny (Sapienza U of Rome, Italy) [email protected] Double Citizenship as a Symbol of National Heritage: A Comparative Approach on a Few European Cases Jennifer Ostojski (Northeastern U, US) [email protected] House of European History – Creating EU-Nationalism Robin Ostow (Wilfred Laurier U, Canada) [email protected] Shaping New Kinds of Citizens in Human Rights Museums: District Six Museum, Cape Town South Africa and the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, US Antonio Álvarez-Benavide (U Carlos III Madrid, Spain) [email protected] Spaniards First: The Spanish Identitarian Movements DISCUSSANT Marko Zilovic (George Washington U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R5 Breaking up the Soviet Union, Reassembling Russia
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Henry Hale (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Support for Territorial Expansion Luyang Zhou (Brown U, US) [email protected] Tearing up Empire: The Military Breakup of the Soviet Union Thomas Sherlock (United States Military Academy, West Point, US) [email protected] Russian Society and Foreign Policy: Mass and Elite Orientations after Crimea Dumitru Minzanari (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US) [email protected] Re-assembling a Russian Empire: Annexing Territories through Deceiving Hearts and Minds Ruslan Dokhov (Moscow State U, Russia) [email protected] Olga Vendina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) [email protected] Empire or Nation? Post-Soviet Dynamics of Basic Geopolitical Concepts in Russia: Semantic Analysis DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH3 Getting Published in an International, Peer-Reviewed Journal. Editors’ (ROUNDTABLE)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PARTICIPANTS David Smith (U of Glasgow, UK) [email protected] Michael Bernhard (U of Florida, US) [email protected] Harris Mylonas (George Washington U, US) [email protected] Krzysztof Jasiewicz (Washington and Lee U, US) [email protected] Yitzhak Brudny (Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK6 Religion and Minority Politics in the Middle East
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Dominik Müller (U of Zurich, Switzerland) [email protected] Negotiating Islamic Authority and Religious Involvement in the Turkish Diaspora: An Anthropological Perspective on Everyday Life in Swiss Mosques Dalal Daoud (Queen’s U, Canada) [email protected] Minorities Under Islamists in Power: The Religion and Minority Politics in MENA Ramin Ahmadoghlu (Georgia Gwinnett College, US) [email protected] Nationalism, Identity, and Religion: Transformation of Azerbaijani Nationalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran Mehri Ghazanjani (McGill U, Canada) [email protected] Geopolitics and the Kurdish Question Abdelkader Filali (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] Identity and Jihad: A Macro Level Analysis of the Amazigh in Morocco DISCUSSANT Ceren Belge (Concordia U, Canada) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U18 Germans in Ukraine Before and During World War II
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Mikhail Akulov (Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Settlers and Nations: Visions of German Creole Polity in Crimea in 1918 Amber Nickell (Purdue U, US) [email protected] Between the Old Father and the Angry Wife: Ethnic Germans and their Steppebrethren in Revolutionary Ukraine Agnieszka Smelkowska (UC Berkeley, US) [email protected] The Nazi Welfare Project and the Black Sea German Community DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U20 Mapping Religion in Contemporary Ukraine (ROUNDTABLE)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session X // 1:40 - 3:40 PM //
CHAIR Serhii Plokhii (Harvard U, US) [email protected] PRESENTATIONS Kostyantyn Bondarenko (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, US) [email protected] Using the Digital Atlas of Ukraine Viktoriya Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic U, Ukraine) [email protected] Change and Continuity on Ukraine’s Religious Scene Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) [email protected] Religious Ambivalence and Electoral Attitudes in Ukraine Jose Casanova (Georgetown U, US) [email protected] Making Sense of the New Data on Religious Situation in Ukraine
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK3 Encountering the Joys of War and the Challenges for Peace in Local Communities
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR R. Craig Nation (Dickinson College, US) [email protected] PAPERS Jelena Golubovic (Simon Fraser U, Canada) [email protected] Ethnicity, Ambiguity, and Embodied Anxiety : Experiences of Serb Women in Post-War Sarajevo Jacob Brink Rasmussen (Aarhus U, Denmark) [email protected] Bridging the “Local Turn” and Military History: Military Peacekeepers and Subnational Elites in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995-2003 Sladjana Lazic (U of Tromsø, Norway) [email protected] Becoming Citizens Through ‘Everyday Work’? Mapping Constraints and Possibilities for Full Exercise of Victims’ Agency in Transitional Justice Processes DISCUSSANT Allison McCulloch (Brandon U, Canada) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL BK5 Rise of the Right in the former Yugoslavia : Children and Youth, Sports, and Memory Politics (ROUNDTABLE)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Arnaud Kurze (Montclair State U, US) [email protected] PRESENTERS Bojana Ćulum (U of Rijeka, Croatia) [email protected] Youth and the Radical Right Ivana Polić (U of California San Diego, US) [email protected] From Chocolates to Commemorations: Politicization of Children in Present-day Croatia, Serbia, a nd Bosnia-Herzegovina Vjeran Pavlaković (U of Rijeka, Croatia) [email protected] WW2 2.0: Youth, Memory Politics, and the Rise of the Radical Right in Croatia
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE2 Historical Justice to Roma
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, Germany) [email protected] PAPERS Iulius Rostas (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] The Pedagogy of Reconciliation: On Truth, Knowledge and Justice Ethel Brooks (Rutgers U, US) [email protected] Out of Place: Romani Women’s Holocaust Testimony, Digital Circulations and the Possibility of Critique Margareta Matache (Harvard School of Public Health, US) [email protected] The Roma Case for Reparations Márton Rövid (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected] From Addressing Anti-Gypsyism to Remedying Racial Injustice DISCUSSANT Angéla Kóczé (Central European U, Hungary) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL CE12/BO19 Book Panel on Licia Cianetti’s The Quality of Divided Democracies: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Representation in the New Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen’s U, Canada) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Jennie Schulze (Duquesne U, US) [email protected] Karen Bird (McMaster U, Canada) [email protected] Elise Giuliano (Columbia U, SIPA, US) [email protected] Licia Cianetti (Royal Holloway U of London) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL EU3 Ethnicity and Citizenship in Eurasia
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Elena Borisova (U of Manchester, UK) [email protected] ‘Citizenship is Better than Just a Labour License’: Changing Meaning of Citizenship in Post-Soviet Tajikistan Adrienne Edgar (UC Santa Barbara, US) [email protected] Intermarriage after Communism: The Impact of the Soviet Collapse on Ethnically Mixed Families in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan Medet Tiulegenov (American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) [email protected] Ethnic Minorities in Public Affairs: A Contested Norm in Central Asia? Dilnur Reyhan (INALCO, France) [email protected] The Uyghur Question and Integration of Uyghurs in Europe Zulfiya Imyarova (Narxoz U, Kazakhstan) [email protected] Assimilation Process of the Minorities Within a Minority: A Case Study on Chinese Muslims (Uighurs and Dungans) in the South of Kyrgyzstan Madeleine Clingan (Peking U, China) [email protected] Sonya Cotton (Peking U, China) [email protected] Failed Traditions, the State and the Contestation over Hui identity in Ningxia DISCUSSANT TBA
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL K1 Memory and Identity Formation in the Caucasus and Beyond
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Stephen Jones (Mount Holyoke College, US) [email protected] PAPERS Mauricio Borrero (St. John’s U, US) [email protected] Three Intersections of Sport and National Identity: The Soviet Football League, Dinamo Tbilisi, and Baku 2020 Naira Sahakyan (U of Amsterdam, Netherlands/European U at Saint Petersburg, Russia) [email protected] Levels of Identity? Тhe Project to Establish a State-Nation in Multiethnic Daghestan during the Revolution of 1917 Maia Araviashvili (Ilia State U, Georgia) [email protected] Constructing Sites of Memory, Practicing Nationalism Beyond the Homeland: (The case of second-generation Georgian migrants in the USA and Germany) Peter Kabachnik (College of Staten Island, CUNY, US) [email protected] States of Missing, Missing States: Spatializing the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in Contemporary Post-Socialist Space Sebastian Muth (Lancaster U, UK) [email protected] Where Post-Soviet Never Ends: Russian and the Politics of Language and Identity in Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria DISCUSSANT Julie A. George (Queens College, CUNY, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL M4 Undocumented Migration and Public Policy Learning from Local and National Practices
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Patrisia Macias (U of Illinois- Chicago, US) [email protected] ‘Penal Populism’ and the Punitive Turn in Immigration in the United States” Nina Michalikova (U of Central Oklahoma, US) [email protected] Before and After:Perception of Fear among American Legal Immigrants with Undocumented Spouses under the Trump Administration George Vital Zammit (U of Malta) [email protected] The Commune Versus the State: The Riace Model and the Contours of Migration Policy Conflict DISCUSSANT Van Tran (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N6 The Politics of the Far Right
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Daphne Halikiopoulou (U of Reading, UK) [email protected] PAPERS Ahmet Görgen (Justus Liebig U of Giessen, Germany) [email protected] The Rise of Middle Class Racism in Europe: The Case of Public Alliance of AFD, Pegida and Pro-Chemnitz Group During the Chemnitz Protests in 2018 Agata Bloch (Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) [email protected] Marco Vallada Lemonte (U of Guarulhos and U of Sao Paulo, Brazil) [email protected] Brasilien über alles? The Brazilian Populist Far-Right and Bolsonaro’s Rise to the Presidency: “Trump of the tropics”, “Brazilian Hitler”, or simply Bolsonaro? Jan Rathje (Amadeu Antonio Foundation, Germany) [email protected] In Search of Sovereignty. Neo-Nazis, “Reichsbürger” and Other Sovereignists in Germany Marc Schwietring (Hans Boeckler Foundation, Germany) [email protected] The Relevance of Co-plaintiff. The NSU Trial at Higher Regional Court of Munich as an Example of Current Deficits in Germany’s Response to Far-Right Terrorism DISCUSSANT Berenike Schott (Columbia U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL N5 Secession and State Recognition in Contemporary World Politics
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Ryan Griffiths (Syracuse U, US) [email protected] Secessionist Strategy and the International System Costas Laoutides (Deakin U, Australia) [email protected] National Self-Determination and Emancipation Gëzim Visoka (Dublin City U, Ireland) [email protected] The Diplomacy of State Recognition: Discourse, Performance and Entanglement Ralph Wilde (U College London, UK) [email protected] The Right to Self-Determination as a Constraint on the Practice of Recognition by States DISCUSSANT Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City U, Ireland) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R1/BO20 Book Panel on Samuel Green’s and Graeme Robertson’s Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale, 2019)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Timothy Frye (Columbia U, US) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Seva Gunitsky (U of Toronto, Canada) [email protected] Sarah Oates (U of Maryland, US) [email protected] Jessica Pisano (The New School, US) [email protected] Samuel Greene (King’s College London, UK) [email protected] Graeme Robertson (UNC Chapel Hill, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL R3 Violence and Radicalism in Russia and Ukraine
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Alexandar Motovski (Williams College, US) [email protected] PAPERS Geir Flikke (U of Oslo, Norway) [email protected] Extrajudicial Persecution and Coercive Violence against the Naval’ny 2018! Campaign Jussi Lassila (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland) [email protected] Russian Radical Left in 2018: Still between Residual Ideas and Loyal Oppositional Status? Ryhor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland) [email protected] What is Left of the Ukrainian Left: The Communist Party of Ukraine After the Euromaidan and De-communization Adrien Nonjon (U Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) [email protected] Ukraine as a New Nationalist Eco-Laboratory Mariya Omelicheva (National Defense U, US) [email protected] Female Terrorism and the Radicalization of Women in Russia DISCUSSANT Juris Pupcenoks (Maris College, US) [email protected] BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U8 Donbas War Narratives
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR TBA PAPERS Mykola Riabchuk (Institute of Political and Nationalities Studies, Ukraine) [email protected] ‘Hybrid Censorship’ During the ‘Hybrid War’: Freedom of Speech and Expression in the Post-Euromaidan Ukraine Richard Arnold (Muskingum U, US) [email protected] Everyday Nationalism After War: The Cossack Image in Dnipro, Ukraine Oleksii Polegkyi (U of Alberta, Canada) [email protected] Identities Between Trauma and Nostalgia: Dynamics and Changes Among Populations in the Donetsk Region Elzbieta Olzacka (Jagiellonian U, Poland) [email protected] The Role of Museums in Shaping National Identity in Wartime Ukraine Darya Tsymbalyuk (U of St Andrews, UK) darya.tsymbalyuk @gmail.com ‘I’m a fig tree’: House Plants and Gardens in Narratives of Displacement from Donbas, Ukraine DISCUSSANT Tania Bulakh (Indiana U Bloomington, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TH8 Political Violence, Memory and the Shaping of Identities in the Balkans and Central Asia
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Zenon Wasyliw (Ithaca College, US) [email protected] PAPERS David Kaminsky (Binghamton U, US) [email protected] The Greek and Serbian Uprisings : Nationalism, Agency, and Imagined Communities Timur Saitov (Binghamton U, US) [email protected] Transformation of Russian National Identity in Istanbul in the Aftermath of World War I Deyan Peykov (Florida International U, US) [email protected] Bulgarian National Heroes : People Fighting an Empire, People Forging Socialism Zeynep Dursun (Binghamton U, US) [email protected] Reshaping Families : The Survival of Evacuees in Kazakhstan during World War II DISCUSSANT Heather DeHaan (Binghamton U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL TK12/BO21 Book Panel on Lisel Hintz’ Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey (Oxford, 2018)
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Yitzhak Brudny (Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel) [email protected] PARTICIPANTS Lisel Hintz (Johns Hopkins SAIS, US) [email protected] Oya Ozkanca (Elizabethtown College, US) [email protected] Kemal Kirisci (Brookings Institute, US) [email protected] Kristin Fabbe (Harvard U, US) [email protected]
BACK TO SUMMARY PANEL U6 Mobilization, Protests, and Public Engagement in Ukraine
SATURDAY MAY 4 // Session XI // 4:10 - 6:10 PM //
CHAIR Quentin Corbel (U of Ottawa, Canada) [email protected] PAPERS Irina Soboleva (Columbia U, USA) [email protected] Exaggerating the Gap: Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Engagement Campaigns in Polarized Societies Susann Worschech (European U Viadrina, Germany) [email protected] Nationalistic Europeanization? Conceptions of Europe and Transnational Network Structures of Nationalistic Movements in and around Ukraine Craig Proctor (U of Manchester, UK) [email protected] The Rise and Fall of Radical Right Nationalists: The Case of Ukraine’s Right Sector Iryna Lysenko (Herder Institute for Historical Research, Germany) [email protected] Bloodshed for Europe? Framing the Maidan Revolution 2013/14 as a Civilisational Choice Between Russian “Backwardness” and Europe’s Democratic Values Vanessa Rao (U of Bologna, Italy) [email protected] Contending Identities in Ukraine: The Mobilization of Nationalist Historical Narratives During the Maidan Uprising DISCUSSANT TBA
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