CENTRE FOR BALTIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES CBEES ANNUAL CONFERENCE 7–8 NOVEMBER 2019 Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2019: Orders and Freedoms Welcome to the CBEES Annual Conference 2019! The Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), founded in 2005, is a multidisciplinary research centre at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Its purpose is to develop, coordinate and conduct research on the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe, which is also the most important research profile at Södertörn University. CBEES conducts a wide range of activities, including advanced seminars, public lectures, courses, workshops, conferences, summer universities, and network meetings. It publishes Baltic Worlds, a printed scholarly journal that is distributed in more than 50 countries. Moreover, CBEES hosts the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), in which some 95 PhD students have successfully defended their doctoral theses. Presently, CBEES is also the National Centre for the Swedish part of the Baltic University Programme (BUP).

The theme of the 2019 conference is “Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2019: Orders and Freedoms”. The autumn of 1989 and the early 1990s are often remembered as a time of euphoria and enthusiasm: the former communist states were supposedly “returning to Europe” and moving towards freedom and democracy within the framework of the emerging European Union. However, since then, developments have been far from euphoric. It appears that a combination of Euroscepticism, populism, illiberalism and nationalism is tearing the region apart. What remains of “1989” and where do we go from here? The aim of this conference is to discuss events, policies and ideas in the shaping of the contemporary European order in the social, political and cultural spheres.

This conference – and CBEES as a research centre – is generously supported by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen). Thank you for making this annual conference possible! Also, I would like to express my gratitude to the organising committee at CBEES: Irina Sandomirskaja, Tora Lane and Irina Seits; as well as to our colleagues Ann-Mari Sätre (Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University) and Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa (Lund University), for collaborating with us on the planning and organisation of this year’s conference. Finally, I would like to thank Teresa Kulawik and Yulia Gradskova (Gender Studies, Södertörn University) for organising the witness seminar Tear Down this Wall: Feminists Revisit the Break- Ups and Breakthroughs of 1989, and for letting us use this as a pre-conference event.

I wish you all an enjoyable and engaging conference!

Joakim Ekman, Director of the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University

Dear participants, Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) is pleased to fund the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, and its Annual Conference. The mission of the Foundation is to support research and doctoral studies, as well as academic infrastructure at Södertörn University. The Foundation’s regional focus is the Baltic and East European region. This year is the 25th anniversary of the Foundation. The theme of this year’s conference shows that the Foundation’s mission to fund research and research activities related to this area is as important today as it was 25 years ago.

The programme of the conference is both interesting and timely, and I congratulate the organising committee on having created such an important agenda.

I wish you a successful conference!

Britta Lövgren, Research director Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2019: Orders and Freedoms

The purpose of this conference is to commemorate and problematise the 30th anniversary of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall. The conference will be dedicated to this event and its aftermath, especially in association with the end of the Cold War and the Europeanisation of the former Second World. Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Eastern Bloc, 1989 is often remembered as a time of euphoria and enthusiasm. The former communist states were supposedly ”returning to Europe” and moving towards freedom and democracy within the framework of the European Union. However, since then, development has been far from euphoric: it appears that a combination of Euroscepticism, populism, nationalism and authoritarianism is tearing the region apart. What remains of ”1989”, and where do we go from here? What is important to remember and what has been left to oblivion? The aim of this conference is to discuss events, policies and ideas in the shaping of the contemporary European order in the social, political and cultural spheres.

Organizing Committee: Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor, CBEES Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa, Professor, Lund University Irina Seits, Administrative support, CBEES Ann-Mari Sätre, Associate Professor, IRES, Uppsala University Tora Lane, Research Associate, CBEES

Keynote speakers:

• LAVINIA STAN Jules Leger Research Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University

Lavinia Stan is a Comparative Politics specialist, working on democracy and demo- cratisation – especially religion and politics, as well as transitional justice – in post- communist Europe. My research has been generouslyfunded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of (SSHRCC) with multiple research grants. I obtained a doctorate from the University of Toronto, and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Ovidius of Constanta, Romania. Her publications include Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe, and Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania (co-authored with Dr. Lucian Turcescu, published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and 2007, respectively); Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience (co-edited with Dr. Nadya Nedelsky, Cambridge University Press, 2015), Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former (Routledge, 2009), as well as Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania: New Insights (edited with Lucian in 2017).

• JUDITH PALLOT Professor (emeritus), Christ Church and University of Oxford, Director of Research, University of Helsinki, President of BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies)

From 2016-19 she was President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. She has been researching and teaching in Russian Area Studies for four decades. There are two major strands to her research. The first concerns the adaptations of rural household producers to the challenges of agrarian reform and economic transformation. The second is the treatment of difference in the Russian penal system and the Soviet legacies in penal culture throughout the region of the former USSR and ECE. In 2018, she was awarded an advance grant to continue her studies of penality in the former Soviet Union and communist successor states, which she conducts at the Aleksanteri Institute. She has published extensively in journals and is the author and co-author of over ten books, including Land Reform in , 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin’s Project of Rural Transformation. (Oxford University Press, 1999); with Tatyana Nefedova, Russia Unknown Agri- culture (Oxford University press, 2007); with Elena Katz, Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women and Prisoners in Russia, (IB Tauris, 2016) and with Laura Piacentini, Gender, Geography and Punishment: Women’s Experiences of Carceral Russia, (OUP, 2012). WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER – THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER:

Södertörn University, Stockholm – Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

1 – 5 Stairwells

A MB 503 – 5th floor, MB-wing

B MB 505 - 5th floor, MB-wing

C MA 796 – 7th floor, Main building

D MA 756 – 7th floor, Main building

E MA 624 – 6th floor, Main building

F F11 – 11th floor, Building F

G Restaurant Allé Elva – 4th floor, Library

H Train station Flemingsberg http://bit.do/fb2DH

FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER:

Uppsala University – Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES)

IRES Library (room A533), 3rd floor – Rådhuset

IRES Seminar room (room B519) 3rd floor – Rådhuset

Sal 1/Lecture hall 1 (room B316), 1st floor – Rådhuset

Sal 2/Lecture hall 2 (room A304), 1st floor – Rådhuset

Brusewitz-salen (room 3312), auditorium, 3rd floor – Gamla Torget

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PROGRAMME – CBEES Annual Conference 2019:

WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER – THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER: PROGRAMME Wednesday 6 November – SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY Wednesday 6 November 2019 Södertörn University, Stockholm – 14.30- Early Registration for the Conference Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) 15.00 Venue: outside MA 624 15.00- Pre-Conference Witness Seminar: Tear Down This Wall 17.45 Venue: MA 624 Commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath from a gender and feminist perspective. What did fall of the wall mean for women? What do we know about feminist and women’s activism in different communist countries and regions around 1989? How is the role of women in the 1989 events remembered? And what consequences did the end of state socialism and demolishing of the Iron Curtain have for feminist theory and activism on both sides of the former line? Special guests: • Slavenka Drakulic (Croatia) • Annett Gröschner () • Tamara Hundorova (Ukraine) • Ewa Kulik-Bielińska (Poland) • Olga Lipovskaia (Russia) Moderated and organised by Teresa Kulawik and Yulia Gradskova (both Södertörn University) Followed by a reception at the conference venue F11 at Södertörn University, 18.00-20.00

Please confirm your participation in the online registration form – http://bit.do/e8MQP

Thursday 7 November 2019 – PROGRAMME Thursday 7 November – SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY Södertörn University

8.30- REGISTRATION 9.00 Venue: MB 5 (outside MB 505 / MB 503)

9.00- WELCOME NOTES 9.15 Gustav Amberg, Vice-Chancellor of Södertörn University; Joakim Ekman, Director of the Centre for Baltic and European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University

Venue: MB 505

KEYNOTE LECTURE Lavinia Stan: "Transitional Justice in Post-Communism: Lessons Learned and Future Avenues" 9.15- KEYNOTE LECTURE Lavinia Stan: "Transitional Justice in Post-Communism: Lessons Learned and Future Avenues" 10.15 Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja Venue: MB 505 10.15- COFFEE BREAK – outside MB 5 10.45

10.45- Venue: MA 756 Venue: MB 503 Venue: MB 505 Venue: MA 796 12.15 Session 2A: Session 2B: Session 2C: Session 2D:

Panel: Making Tomorrow’s Session 2B: Panel: Battles over History and Uses and Abuses of Memory Leaders: Youth Movement of Culture in Poland, Thirty Years Right-Wing Populist Parties in Panel: New Regionalism on after the Fall of the Communist Chair: Francesco Zavatti the Baltic Sea Region” Trial? Assessing the Legacy of Rule 1989 in Nordic-Baltic Policy Rune Brandt Larsen: • Ann-Cathrine Jungar Transfers and Region-work • Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Europeanization of Historical • Louis Wierenga • Krzysztof Stala Narratives? • Chair: Carl Marklund • Peteris Timofejevs Anita Pluwak Niklas Bernsand: Retrospective Yulia Gradskova: When “Gender • Mattias Nowak Multiculturalism – pre-WWII Cultural Equality” Has Arrived to Russia – Diversity in Chernovitsi City- Nordic Cooperation Around Gender Branding Equality After 1989: Achievements and Problems Nadezda Petrusenko: Patriarchy vs Feminism: the Role of Memory Mart Kuldkepp: “Sveriges ansvar”: Politics in Social Mobilization in The Idea of Swedish Responsibility Post-Soviet Russia Towards the Post-Soviet Baltic States Yuliya Yurchuk: Transformations of Memory of Christianization of Kaarel Piirimäe: Nordic Influence Kievan Rus’ in Ukraine from 1988 in Estonian Foreign and Defence to 2018 4 Policy After 1989

Ylva Waldemarsson: From an Open Window of Opportunity to a Window Ajar? Nordic Transfer of Institutions, Policies and Norms to the Baltic States and Northwest Russia – Success, Resistance, and Pitfalls: the Case of Gender Equality

12.15- LUNCH for presenters and chairs 13.30 Venue: Restaurant Allé Elva, located under the Södertörn University Library

13.30- Venue: MA 756 Venue: MB 503 Venue: MB 505 Venue: MA 796 15.00 Session 3A: Session 3B: Session 3C: Session 3D:

Populism in the East European Changes and Social Planning Heritage and Legacies Memory Politics Context Chair: Ilja Viktorov Chair: David Gaunt Chair: Yuliya Yurchuk Chair: Ninna Mörner Gilda Hoxha: Social Cleavages vs Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus: Sticking Lilia Topouzova: The Bulgarian Olga Lavrinenko: Technocratic Frozen Democracy: the Western “Eastern” Bodies to European Gulag in the Post-Communist populism in the East Central Europe Balkan Case Cultural Heritage Public Space: Acts of as a Threat to Liberal Pluralism Remembrance, Ways of Forgetting Agata Tatarenko: Relics of Cezary Brzezinski: Changes in Baiba Witajewska-Baltvilka: Why Communism: Politics of Memory Roman Romantsov: Amnesia or is Populism Rising More in Some Spatial Planning in Poland After the Toward Soviet Heritage in the Remembrance? The Politics of but Less in Other CEE Countries? Fall of Communism as a Threat in Central Eastern Countries Memory of the Holocaust in Comparison of Poland and Estonia the Economic, Spatial and Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania Environmental Sphere Maja Jovic: From One System to 1991-2018 Attila Antal: Solidarity and Another: Voices of the Borovo Nationalism after the Hungarian Alexander Soldatkin: Towards Factory Workers Andrii Nekoliak: “Memory Laws” Transition Mapping the Social Landscape of and historical memory Regulation: Natallia Prystupa: Remembering Urban Improvements in Russia’s the Patterns of Legislative 1989 in Social Networks: Festival Engagement with the Past in Big Cities (The Case of Nizhny Culture in Czech and Slovak Ukraine, Poland and Estonia 1991- Novgorod) Republics” 2018

Anna Herran: Student Uprisings, Democratic Ideals, and Commemo- rations: November 17 as a Holiday in Contemporary Greece and the Czech Republic

15.00- COFFEE BREAK – MB 5 15.15

5 10.45- Venue: MA 756 Venue: MB 503 Venue: MB 505 Venue: MA 796 12.15 Session 2A: Session 2B: Session 2C: Session 2D: Panel: Making Tomorrow’s Session 2B: Panel: Battles over History and Uses and Abuses of Memory Leaders: Youth Movement of Culture in Poland, Thirty Years Right-Wing Populist Parties in Panel: New Regionalism on after the Fall of the Communist Chair: Francesco Zavatti the Baltic Sea Region” Trial? Assessing the Legacy of Rule 1989 in Nordic-Baltic Policy Rune Brandt Larsen: • Ann-Cathrine Jungar Transfers and Region-work • Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Europeanization of Historical • Louis Wierenga • Krzysztof Stala Narratives? • Chair: Carl Marklund • Peteris Timofejevs Anita Pluwak Niklas Bernsand: Retrospective Yulia Gradskova: When “Gender • Mattias Nowak Multiculturalism – pre-WWII Cultural Equality” Has Arrived to Russia – Diversity in Chernovitsi City- Nordic Cooperation Around Gender Branding Equality After 1989: Achievements and Problems Nadezda Petrusenko: Patriarchy vs Feminism: the Role of Memory Mart Kuldkepp: “Sveriges ansvar”: Politics in Social Mobilization in The Idea of Swedish Responsibility Post-Soviet Russia Towards the Post-Soviet Baltic States Yuliya Yurchuk: Transformations of Memory of Christianization of Kaarel Piirimäe: Nordic Influence Kievan Rus’ in Ukraine from 1988 in Estonian Foreign and Defence to 2018 Policy After 1989

Ylva Waldemarsson: From an Open Window of Opportunity to a Window Ajar? Nordic Transfer of Institutions, Policies and Norms to the Baltic States and Northwest Russia – Success, Resistance, and Pitfalls: the Case of Gender Equality

12.15- LUNCH for presenters and chairs 13.30 Venue: Restaurant Allé Elva, located under the Södertörn University Library

13.30- Venue: MA 756 Venue: MB 503 Venue: MB 505 Venue: MA 796 15.00 Session 3A: Session 3B: Session 3C: Session 3D:

Populism in the East European Changes and Social Planning Heritage and Legacies Memory Politics Context Chair: Ilja Viktorov Chair: David Gaunt Chair: Yuliya Yurchuk Chair: Ninna Mörner Gilda Hoxha: Social Cleavages vs Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus: Sticking Lilia Topouzova: The Bulgarian Olga Lavrinenko: Technocratic Frozen Democracy: the Western “Eastern” Bodies to European Gulag in the Post-Communist populism in the East Central Balkan Case Cultural Heritage Public Space: Acts of Europe as a Threat to Liberal Remembrance, Ways of Forgetting Agata Tatarenko: Relics of Pluralism Cezary Brzezinski: Changes in Communism: Politics of Memory Roman Romantsov: Amnesia or Spatial Planning in Poland After the Attila Antal: Solidarity and Toward Soviet Heritage in the Remembrance? The Politics of Nationalism after the Hungarian Fall of Communism as a Threat in Central Eastern Countries Memory of the Holocaust in Transition the Economic, Spatial and Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania Environmental Sphere Maja Jovic: From One System to 1991-2018 Another: Voices of the Borovo Alexander Soldatkin: Towards Factory Workers Andrii Nekoliak: “Memory Laws” Mapping the Social Landscape of and historical memory Regulation: Natallia Prystupa: Remembering Urban Improvements in Russia’s the Patterns of Legislative 1989 in Social Networks: Festival Engagement with the Past in Big Cities (The Case of Nizhny Culture in Czech and Slovak Ukraine, Poland and Estonia 1991- Novgorod) Republics” 2018 Anna Herran: Student Uprisings, Democratic Ideals, and Commemo- rations: November 17 as a Holiday in Contemporary Greece and the Czech Republic

15.00- COFFEE BREAK – MB 5 15.15

15.15- Venue: MA 756 Venue: MB 503 Venue: MB 505 Venue: MA 796 16.45 Session 4A: Session 4B: Session 4C: Session 4D:

The Post-Socialist Social Sphere Security and Foreign Policy in Discourses of the Past in Film Stages and Places of Memory the Baltic States and Media Chair: Helene Carlbäck Chair: Yulia Gradskova Chair: Thomas Lundén Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja Katharine Petty: Domestic Olga Zabalueva: Between Memory Violence in Hungary: A Problem in Andrei Valodzkin: The Baltic Unity Daniel Iftene: Capitalizing the and History: ‘Difficult Issues’ in Flux in Foreign Policy Practices Since Oppressed. Shaping the Anti- Museums 1989: Decay or Transformation? Communist Discourse in Romanian Andrei Semenov: Always Hard Cinema Through the Victims of Anastasia Felcher: The Parade of Times? Public and Private Aleksandra Kuczynska-Zonik: Communism post-1989 Victims: East-European War Responses to Economic Hardships Security Perspective(s) in the Baltic Museums in a Global Context in Russia States Olga Gontarska: The Cinematic Representation of the Wild 90s Michael Cole: Far-Right Influence Ann-Mari Sätre: Social Policy and Andris Banka: The Breakaways: on Ukrainian World War Two Rehabilitation of Female Prisoners Revisiting Baltic NATO membership Claudiu Turcuş: Private Narratives in Russia Performances of Cold War 5 Europeanization. Specters of Radio Selbi Durdiyeva: Alt-Right Civil Free Europe Society Groups in Russia and Their Approaches to Memory of the Monika Bialek: Changes in Polish Soviet Repressions: Revisionism, Radio after Political Transformation Re-Stalinization, and the Markers in Poland (on an Example Radio- of ‘Civility’ of Civil Society Reportage Feature)

17.00- Venue: MA 756 Venue: MB 503 Venue: MB 505 Venue: MA 796 18.30 Session 5A: 5B Book Presentation: Session 5C: Session 5D:

Legacies of Europe and Borderlands in European Engagement and Integration Bracketing the Concepts legacies of Resistance Gender Studies: in Post-Socialist Literature Chair: Paulina Rytkönen Chair: Florence Fröhlig Beyond the East-West Frontier Chair: Tora Lane Natalia Mamonova: Ukranian Bradley Reynolds: “Death of a • Teresa Kulawik Enthusiasm and Polish Katja Grupp: ’Frozen Charlottes’ ‘Common European Home’? • Zhanna Kravchenko Disillusionment: Discourses and The (His)story of (Broken) Female • Lenita Freidenvall Practices of Eurointegration and the Figures in Present and Past in Stanislav Tumis: Czechoslovakia • Yulia Gradskova EU’s Common Agricultural Policy in “Pamjati Pamjati” by Stepanova and European Integration: Legacies • Helene Carlbäck Rural Ukraine and Poland of Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus Adriana Stan: Postmodernism as in Comparative Perspective Nicoleta Serban: A Group of Anticommunism: Cold War Belgians Mobilizes the Entire Legacies in (Post)Socialist Grzegorz Piotrowski: Fascism and Europe to Save the Romanian Romanian Literature Antifascism in Poland since 1989 Villages (1989)

Ionut-Valentin Chiruta: Converging Minority Trans-Border Mobilization Through Nationalistic and Populistic Frameworks

19.00- CONFERENCE DINNER 22.00 Venue: Restaurant Allé Elva, located under the Södertörn University Library

6 PROGRAMME Friday 8 November – UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

9.30- Venue: IRES library, Venue: Lecture hall at IRES, Venue: Lecture hall 1, Venue: Lecture hall 2, 11.00 room A533, 3rd floor room B519, 3rd floor room B316, 1st floor room A304, 1st floor

Session 1A: Session 1B: Session 2A: Panel Session 2B:

Soviet Legacies, Attitudes, Legitimacy Models Shifting Ideas and Identity Memory and Identity Patriotism, Ideology and Reverse Transitions in Post-Soviet Russia Chair: Matthew Kott Chair: Ann-Mari Sätre Chair: Leo Granberg Chair: Elias Götz Dariusz Rott: Image of the Mikhail Maslovskiy: Ekaterina Mouliarova: The Common Alla Anisimova: Siberian Regional Russian empire in Polish Towards a Multiple European Home”: Dynamics of Identity: Soviet Legacies and Post-Soviet Reportage (1989-2019) Modernities Approach to Legitimacy and Enforcement Transformations Soviet Legacies Tamara Kusimova: Buying Nina Ivashinenko and Alla Varyzgina: Mark Bassin: The Sovietization of Soviet or Buying Russian? Maria Gavrilova: Military Transformation in Attitudes About the Eurasia Towards the Political Economy Game Zarnitsa: Soviet Role of the State in the Economic Sphere: of Nostalgia Practices of “Patriotic from Paternalism to Participatory Model Pål Kolstø: The Politics of Traditional Education” in Values in Russia since 2012 Celebrating Nino Chalauri and Johan Sandén: How Arzuu Sheranova: Contemporary Russian the Past in Central Asia: the School (Quasi) Marketization Evolve over Time - Matthew Blackburn: The ‘Soviet’ in Past, Legitimacy and New Iden- the Case of Georgian Debt Enforcement Popular Historical Memory in Russia tities in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Maria Engqvist: Dragos Petrescu: From Communism to Today: An Un-usable Past? Re-Imaging the Russian Illiberalism, 1989-2019: Totalitarian Armed Forces: Facing the Legacies, European Integration and Enemy with Stiletto Heel Transnational Populism

11.00- COFFEE BREAK 11.30

11.30- Venue: IRES library, Venue: Lecture hall at IRES, Venue: Lecture hall 1, Venue: Lecture hall 2, 13.00 room A533, 3rd floor room B519, 3rd floor room B316, 1st floor room A304, 1st floor

Session 1C: Panel Session 1D: Session 2C: Session 2D:

Authoritarian Transformation and the Role of Media Local Identity in the Post-Soviet Space Celebrating Nazi Cooperation in Collaborationists in Chair: Yuliya Yurchuk Post-Soviet Space Chair: Irina Seits Post-1989 Eastern Europe Integration or Paulina Rytkönen: History, Heritage and Chair: Joakim Ekman Vasil Navumau: Chair: Yulia Gradskova Absorption? Analysis of the Propagandist Food Regimes in Post- Soviet Wine • Oleg Antonov Narratives About Belarus in the Russian Industries – Impact on Entrepreneurial Andrej Kotljarchuk: Windows • Edward Lemon Media in 2019 Challenges and Opportunities in Armenia of Opportunity’: The legacy of • Fabio Belafatti and Georgia Waffen-SS and BKA Veterans in Ann Werner and Ekaterina Kalinina: the Post-Soviet Belarus, ca Nurlan Aliyev: Russia’s Russian Rap: Masculinity and Intellectual Tatiana Ryabichenko: The Role of 1989-1996 Power Projection in the Flow in the Case of Oxxxymiron Identity in Acculturation and Adaptation Arctic: Influences of Soviet of Ethnic Minorities: the Case of Francesco Zavatti: Legacies Lidia Pokrzycka: Media Market in Latvia Redeploying the Legion. The and Russian Influences. Current Situation Russians in Post-Soviet Latvia and Georgia Iron Guard in Early Post- Communist Romania Svetlana Lnyavskiy: Soviet Linguistic Madeleine Hurd: Memory Work Legacy: Battle for Language Rights, the of ‘Germanic’ Waffen-SS Case of Ukrainian and Russian Speakers Veterans in the Post-Soviet in Ukrainian Social Networks Discussions Space

13.00- LUNCH 14.15 Venue: IRES library, room A533, 3rd floor

14.15- Keynote: Judith Pallot: The Return of the Gulag? Continuities and Transformations in Punishment Post-1989’ 15.15 Chair: Vladislava Vladimirova Venue: Brusewitzsalen (room 3312) auditorium, Gamla Torget 6: 3rd floor 15.15- COFFEE BREAK 15.30

15.30- Round Table on the Theme: The Future of Europe: Give Me Just One Good Reason to be Optimistic 17.00 Chair: Ninna Mörner • Li Bennich-Björkman • Barbara Törnquist-Plewa • Irina Sandomirskaja • Pål Kolstø Venue: Brusewitzsalen (3312) auditorium, Gamla Torget 6: 3rd floor

17-18.30 RECEPTION Venue: IRES library

7 CBEES is a multidisciplinary research centre, focusing on the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe

Research into the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe has a special status at Södertörn University. It is financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, which is tasked with supporting research and doctoral courses and programmes that focus on this field. At the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), different disciplines and perspectives are gathered for the purpose of achieving deeper understanding of the processes of change in the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe. Subjects range from History, Ethno- logy, Sociology and Philosophy to Economics, Environmental Science and Political Science, producing a thriving and wide-ranging multidisciplinary research environment. produced by: Kommunikationsavdelningen, Södertörn University printing: Elanders, 2019