BASEES Annual Conference 5-7 April 2014 Fitzwilliam College Churchill College Cambridge United Kingdom

Saturday, 5th April

Registration opens at 10am

11.30-12.30: LUNCH

12:30-13:30

KEYNOTE: Prof Judith Pallot (University of Oxford)

13:45-15:30

SESSION 1

1.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Nothing to lose: Art and the Dispossessed in Putins Russian Hilary Pilkington (University of Manchester) Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Glasgow) In the National Bolshevik Orbit: Recent Fiction by Zakhar Prilepin, Sergei Shargunov and Arslan Khasavov Lars Kristensen (University of Skvde) When Marx Returned to Russia: Marxist Film Activism in a Post-communist Condition Yngyar Steinholt (University of Troms) Cultural activism without involvement? The discourse of protest in contemporary St Petersburg punk scenes

1.2.

Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Roundtable - Aspects of Contemporary Ukrainian Literature and Issues in Translation Studies Svitlana Barnes Michael Naydan (Pennsylvania State University) Issues in Compiling an Anthology of Contemporary Ukrainian Women Writers Lidia Stefanowska (Warsaw University) The Reception of Contemporary Ukrainian Authors in Polish Translation Mariya Tytarenko (Catholic University of Lviv) The Blurred Boundaries of Current Ukrainian Literary Journalism and Literature Alla Perminova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) The Ways English-language Poetry Penetrates into the Ukrainian Polysystem

1.3. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: Translation and Culture Erida Prifti (University of Vlora) Arjan Bilo and Erida Prifti (University of Vlora) AdumbrationsCompensating Loss in the Translation of Multiple-Layered Allusions Elvira Peo (University of Vlora) The Translation of Proper Names and English Nobility Titles in Albanian Denada Bita (University of Vlora) Linguistic and Cultural Gaps in Translating Adages, Aphorisms, and Axioms from English into Albanian

1.4. Chair: Papers:

Sociology-Geography: Reflections on contemporary societal change I tbc Darya Malyutina (Independent researcher) Russian migrants speaking up: transnational political activism in London' Marina Maximenkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) and Anna Sorokina (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Russia as a host society in post-soviet immigrants notions Paul Becker (Max-Planck Institute for the Study of religious and ethnic Diversity) Migrants interaction with the formal and informal state in Russia Victor Khroul (Moscow State University) God in Russian public opinion: polls vs self-expression texts analysis Evgenia Tarasova (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London) Investigating Russias Online Fashion Market

1.5. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Post-soviet politics Eleanor Knott (London School of Economics)Tbc Roxana Adina Huma (University of Plymouth) No room for the middle ground? The problems facing Moldovan civic identity Olga Alekseeva (ICEUR institute in Vienna) Freedom in Belarus: imposed or desired experience An empirical study of the Belarusian society based on interviews with population, scientific publications and media analysis Ina Shakhrai (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Entering the Zone of Autocratic Stability: ExternalDomestic Interactions in the Post-Soviet Countries (Belarus and Georgia) Ina Ramasheuskaya (EHU, Lithuania; BIPART Belarus) The state governance in Belarus: the policy paralysis and the potential for reform Olena Podolian (Sodertorn University) The challenge of stateness: citizenship in post-Soviet democratisation in the cases of Estonia and Ukraine

1.6. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Russias Engagement with International Organisations in Europe Tbc Elena A. Korosteleva (University of Kent) The EU and Russia in the eastern neighbourhood: how to reconcile the differences? Tania Biletskaya (University of Glasgow) Russia and EU norms of governance: the role of cultural values and public attitudes Elena Kropatcheva (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, IFSH) Russias Engagement with the CSTO, NATO and OSCE: Commonalities, Differences and Parallels

1.7. Chair: Papers:

Politics: The Western Balkans Tina Schivatcheva (University of Cambridge) (TBC) Ivor Sokoli (SSEES, University College London) How are domestic war crimes trials affecting norm building in Croatia?

Ritsa Panagiotou (Center of Planning and Economic Research) The Greek Crisis as a Crisis of EU Enlargement: how will the Western Balkans be affected? Martino Bianchi (IMT- Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca) The invisible civic Bosnia and Hercegovina Blazo Kazanegra (University of Belgrade) Explaining Divergent Political Development in Western Balkans: The Story of Two Empires Bogdan Zawadewicz (University of Warsaw) The Impact of External Actors on the Party Competition in Serbia

1.8. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Putins New Russia and Asia tbc Ik Joong Youn (Hallym University, Seoul, South Korea) Putins New Strategy Towards the Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula: In Search of Partner or Investor? Beom-Shik Shin (Seoul National University, South Korea) The Changes and Prospect of Russia's Positional Power in Northeast Asia Dmitry Foryy (University of Siegen, Germany) The problems and prospects of the strategic cooperation between China and Russia in modern international relations

1.9.

History: Population Displacement in the 20th century Lithuania: Civilian Experiences and their Legacies

Chair:

Svenja Bethke (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg) Papers: Klaus Richter (University of Birmingham) Displacement Without Moving. Local Responses to Economic Policies in the Borderlands (1918 - 1923) Tomas Balkelis (University of Vilnius) War Exodus, Repatriation and Nation-Making: Population Displacement and its Memory in Lithuania, 1914-1922 Violeta Davoliute (University of Vilnius) The Discourse of Displacement in Postwar Lithuania Discussant: Ruth Leiserowitz (German Historical Institute in Warsaw)

1.10.

Chair: Papers:

History: Religion, Modernity, and Secularization (organized by the BASEES Study Group on Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe 1) Miriam Dobson (University of Sheffield) Patrick Lally Michelson (Department of Religious Studies Indiana University) Modernity without Secularization: The Ascetic Revolution in Late-Synodal Russian Orthodox Thought Katherine Younger (Yale University) Contested Conversion: The Hnylychky Affair and the Politics of Religion in 19th Century Eastern Europe Eleanor Peers (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Germany) Are they Energetiki, or Ichchi? Shamanic performance and modernity in Sakha (Yakutia)

1.11. Chair:

History: Minorities in Eastern Europe tbc

Papers:

Blint Varga (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Multilingualism in the regional centers of Hungary, 1880-1910 Klaus-Juergen Hermanik (University of Graz) Visual Aspects of Minorities Cultural Branding Ksenija Kolerovic (University of Manchester) Serbian Primary School among Vlachs, 1883-1914: Acceptance through Resistance Iryna Vushko (City University of New York) Socialism, Fascism, and Minorities: Socialists between the Austrian Empire, Italy and Yugoslavia Vladimir Creulescu (University of Bucharest, Universit Montesquieu Bordeaux IV) Understanding the Aromanian-Romanian Movement (1864-1905): an Analytical Model

1.12.

History: Colonial and estate identities in late Imperial Russia Chair: Octavie Bellavance (Yale University) Papers: Alan Crawford (University of Bristol) The Treaty Ports of China and Russian Imperial Identity Jennifer Griffiths (UCL SSEES) Images of Urban Life in Late Imperial Central Asia Zbynk Vydra (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic) Russian nobility and its self-presentation in the final years of the Tsarist regime Discussant: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)

1.13. Chair:

National Politics, Aesthetics and Visual Culture and Religious Activity in the Khrushchev Era James Ryan (University College Cork)

Papers:

Mike Loader(King's College London) DeStalinisation's 'false start': The June 1953 Latvian Party Plenum Jessica Werneke (University of Texas at Austin) The Aesthetics of Amateurism: Sovetskoe Foto, Visual Culture and the Practice of Photographic Professionalism of the 1950s and 1960s Sultonbek Mirzosho (School of African and Oriental Studies) The Consequences of Renewed Anti-Religious Policy in Tajikistan 1959 19640 Discussant: Alessandro Iandolo (London School of Economics)

1.14.

Film/Media: The National Question on Russian State Television following the 2012 Presidential Elections Chair: Galina Miazhevich (University of Leicester) Papers: Elisabeth Schimpfossl (University of Manchester) Nation-building on Russian Television: the Role and Identities of TV Presenters and Journalists Vera Tolz (University of Mancester) From Compatriots into Aliens: Russian Television Coverage of Migration during Putins Third Presidency Ilya Yablokov (University of Manchester) Pussy Riot as Agent Provocateur: Studying the Language of Conspiracy in the Russian Media Discussant: Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester)

1.15. Chair: Papers:

Film/Media: Strands in Bulgarian and Rumanian Film tbc Maya Nedyalkova (University of Southampton)

Bringing World Cinema to Bulgaria and Sharing the Latest Bulgarian Films with the Rest of the WorldAlternative Distribution and Audience Development at Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) Adina Bradeanu (University of Westminster) A Bank Robbery to Remember: Political Violence, Genre, and Cinematic Imagination Temenuga Trifonova (York University, Toronto) Bulgarian Cinema: From Allegorical Expressionism to Declined National Cinema Ana Ribeiro (Universit Paris Ouest, Nanterre) Transitions in Transition: Girls Adolescence in ExCommunist Contemporary European Cinemas.

1.16. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: Russian culture and mentality through the English language Tatiana N. Ivanova (North-West Institute of Management of the Presidential Academy, Russian Federation) Elena V. Beloglazova (St Petersburg State Economic University, Russian Federation) Bringing Russia home to English speakers: Russianculture-oriented English Yulia V. Sergaeva (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Russian Federation) Russia-oriented names as a global naming trend Tatiana N. Ivanova (North-West Institute of Management of the Presidential Academy, Russian Federation) Arguing in English, but Thinking Russian: Overcoming a Mismatch

1.17.

Languages/Linguistics:

Chair: Papers:

tbc Olena Sydorenko (Donetsk National Medical University, Ukraine) Ergonyms as the mirror of social life Kseniya Fedotova (Pryazovskyi State Technical University, Ukraine) . Natalya Mudrova (Donbass State Pedagogical University, Ukraine) Valerii Kalinkin (Donetsk National Medical University, Ukraine)

15:30-16:00 TEA/COFFEE

16:00-17.30 SESSION 2

2.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: The Ins and Outs of Translation Mikhail Palatnik (Washington University in St Louis) Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter) Boris Slutskiis translations of Bertolt Brecht Emily Lygo (University of Exeter) A Window Still Open on the West: Literary Translation in the Late Soviet Period Muireann Maguire (University of Exeter) Unmaking a Translator: The Spectre of Nicholas Wreden Discussant: Rachel Polonsky (University of Cambridge)

2.2.

Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Merging Oppositions and Fluid Boundaries in Russian Contemporary Literature: Yuri Lotmans Theory of Space Reconsidered Claire Whitehead (University of St Andrews) Arja Rosenholm (University of Tampere) Can All People Swim?: Swimming in Contemporary Russian Literary Texts Maija Knnen (University of Eastern Finland) Journeying through Russian Space Marja Rytknen (University of Eastern Finland) Liminality in Contemporary Russian Fiction

2.3. Chair: Papers:

Sociology-Geography: Civil society and social change tbc Oana Ivan (Independent researcher) Governments come and go, but we need to survive here, in the midst of the marshlands; on Environmental Protection, Local Communities and New Capitalism in an Eastern European Biosphere Reserve- the Danube Delta Svetlana McGill (Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University) Global Fund Support to NGOs in Ukraine: Fighting AIDS or Building Potemkin Villages? Alma Vardari-Kesler (Tel-Aviv University & Ben-Gurion University) Tangible Trust - Culture and Contentious Action in Supervised Kosovo Timur Alexandrov (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

Central Asian Civil Society Beyond Tradition and Modernity: A Comparative Case Study of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 2.4. Chair: Papers: Sociology-Geography: Reconsidering/Reimagining Central and Eastern Europe Tbc Tomasz Zarycki (University of Warsaw) Orientalism old and new: Polish images of East. From Kresy to the New Borderlands Roch Dunin-Wasowicz (London School of Economics and Political Science) Critiquing Europe Contemporary art & social understandings of Europe Zuzanna Bogumi (The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education Warsaw) Martyrs of the Bloodlands: on milieux de memoire in Eastern Europe Ruth McKenna (University of Glasgow) Imagining Russia: perspectives from within the student community

2.5. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Identify, geopolitics, and gender between East and West Katarzyna Kaczmarska (Aberystwyth University,) Tina Schivatcheva (University of Cambridge) Imagining Europe - social myths and complex identities in Bulgaria and Ukraine David Cadier (London School of Economics) History, Geography or Domestic politics? Visegrad countries policies towards Russia in comparative perspective Barbara Gaweda (University of Edinburgh)

Gender regimes in Eastern Europe: combining Eastern and Western feminist political analysis Murad Ismayilov (University of Cambridge) State, Identity, and the Politics of Music: Eurovision and NationBuilding in Azerbaijan

2.6.

Politics: Russian-Chinese relationship: power transition in the making? Chair: Natasha Kuhrt (Kings College, London) Papers: Peter Ferdinand (University of Warwick) Russia, China, and Asian diplomacy at the UN Branimir Vidmarovic (Zagreb School of Economics and Management) Russia, China and the SCO. Same Boat, different Missions Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Warsaw) Sinocentrism instead of the pivot to Asia: post-crisis developments in Russo-Chinese relations Discussant: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College, London)

2.7. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Eurasian Geopolitics: Practical, Formal, Popular Levels Mark Bassin (Sodertorn University) Mikhail D. Suslov (Uppsala University) Teaching Eurasianism: Ideological Agenda in PostSoviet Manuals on Geopolitics Irina Kotkina (Sodertorn University) Etnogenez Eurasian Science Fiction Project: BioPolitics and Ethno-Vitalism in Contemporary Russian Utopianism Marlene Laruelle (IERES)

Why the Eurasian Union project is not Eurasianist? Identity Narratives among Eurasian Union's supporters

2.8. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Putins Third Term: Change or Continuity? Luke March (University of Edinburgh) David White (University of Birmingham) In the wake of the Navalny phenomenon: a realignment of opposition politics in Russia? Neil Robinson (University of Limerick) Putin, nationalism and the rhetoric of reaction Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham) Social order development in Russia: a regional perspective Discussant: Richard Sakwa (University of Kent)

2.9.

Chair: Papers:

History: Historical Orthodox Pilgrimage (organized by the BASEES Study Group on Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe 2) Stella Rock (Baylor University) Nikolaos Chrissidis (Southern Connecticut State University) Russian Palestine and the Mother of God Hanging Above Mount Athos: (Re)imagining Holy Lands a-lia rus Christine D. Worobec (Northern Illinois University) Orthodox Pilgrimages to Kiev in the Long Nineteenth Century Jennifer B. Spock (Eastern Kentucky University) Pilgrimage to Solovki Monastery in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Integrating Piety and Economy

2.10. Chair: Papers:

History: Mass politics and the state structure in late Imperial Russia Zbynk Vydra (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic) George Gilbert (University of East Anglia/Institute of Historical Research, London) Rightist death rituals and memory in late Imperial Russia, 1900-1914 Octavie Bellavance (Yale University) Courts on Trial: The Press, the Public and the Judicial Process in Russia, 1864-1905 Bartley Rock (UCL SSEES) The Politics of Relief: Relationships between provincial and uezd institutions in administering famine relief in Tambov Province, 1891-1892

2.11. Chair: Papers:

History: tbc Peter Zusi (UCL SSEES) Martina Winkler (University of Bremen) Time, Space and Power: Topographies of the Czech Dissent Anna Hjkov (University of Warwick) I Was Deported As A Political: Czech Women Resistance Fighters and Their Lives Between the Camps and the Long Postwar Peter Bugge (Aarhus University, Denmark) A Western invention? The discovery of Czech dissidence in the 1970s

2.12. Chair: Papers:

History: Revolutionary Russia Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia) Alistair Dickins (University of Manchester)

The Committee Class in Action: Conceptualising the Rise of Political Parties in the Krasnoyarsk Soviet of 1917 Steven Balbirnie (University College Dublin) They wouldve done credit to a Guards Battalion: British Relations with Local Troops in North Russia, 1918-1919 James Ryan (University of Warwick/University College Cork) They know not what they door do they? Bolshevik Understandings of the Agency of the Perpetrator, 1918-1928 Olena Palko (University East Anglia) Controversy of Mykola Khvylovy (to the question of the alliance between national radical intellectuals and the Bolsheviks

2.13. Chair: Papers:

History: British Attitudes to Russia in the Twentieth Century tbc Michael Hughes (Lancaster University) Two Travellers on the Russian Margins: Stephen Graham and Morgan Philips Price Jon Davis (Anglia Ruskin University) '"A quick but vivid glimpse of a quite new world: British socialists in Stalins Russia' Mark Hurst (University of Kent) "Uncensored Russia": Peter Reddaway and Soviet Dissent'

2.14.

Film/Media: Media and communities

Chair:

Jukka Pietilinen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute) Papers: Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute) Informed, realist and rational: construction of proper citizens in Estonian daily newspaper Postimees Katja Lehtisaari (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute) Business press and business community in Russia Roman Horbyk (Sdertrn University) Home, norm and rival: the discursive construction of Europe in the press of Poland, Ukraine and Russia Discussant: Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough University)

2.15. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: translating historical texts tbc Svetlana Jakimovska (University Goce Delcev, Macedonia) General and translatological characteristics of the Macedonian orthodox terminology Christine Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) An apocryphal letter from the Ottoman sultan: the European tradition and the Russian translation from 1697 Johan Muskala (Uppsala University, Sweden) Name transcriptions in a 16th century Russian herbal Elena Rassokhina (Ume University, Sweden) Translating Shakespeare into Russian: Vocabulary Problems

2.16

Institute of Translation TBC

2.17. Chair: Papers:

Economics: Europe tbc Anneli Kaasa (University of Tartu) Culture, Religion, and Social Capital Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi (Ternopil National Economic University) Nordic Model and Institutional Frameworks Aleksandra Skorupinska (Open University of Catalonia) ICT, co-innovation and productivity: Evidence from Central and Eastern European firms

17.45-18.45

Dmitriy Bykov (Writer) in conversation with

19:00-20:00

DINNER

20:30- 21:30 IN CONVERSATION: Andrei Sannikov (Belarus presidential candidate 2010) in conversation with Prof Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester)

Sunday, 6th April

07.45-08:45

BREAKFAST

09:00-10:30: SESSION 3

3.1.

Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Shifting Borders: Musical Practices between Serbian / Yugoslav Origins and Broader Multilingual / Multicultural Arenas (organized by the BASEES Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music) Philip Bullock (University of Oxford) Ivana Medic (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Music of the lost generation: Serbian musical diaspora Ana Petrov (University of Bania Luka) A Window towards the West: Yugoslav concert tours in the Soviet Union Srdjan Atanasovski (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Shifting borders in the Serbian families multilingual music albums

3.2.

Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century Canon (organized by the BASEES Nineteenth-Century Study Group) Sarah Hudspith (University of Leeds) Katherine Bowers (University of Cambridge) The Female Gothic and the New Woman: The Case of Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk

Margarita Vaysman (University of Oxford) Right-to-Left: metafiction and ideology in the late nineteenth-century Russian novel Connor Doak (University of Bristol) Whats Papa For? Fatherhood in the work of Anton Chekhov Discussant: Ruth Coates (University of Bristol)

3.3. Chair: Papers:

Sociology-Geography: Social and Ecological Impacts of Sports Mega-Events in Post-Socialist Cities Veronika Simonova (European University at St-Petersburg) Nikolay Karbainov (Kazan Federal University) Mega-Events and Neopatrimonial Growth Machines in post-Soviet Cities Vera Galindabaeva (Kazan Federal University) Mega-Events, Ideology of Growth Machines, Informal Practices and Animal Rights in Post-Soviet Cities Polina Ermolaeva (Center of Advanced Economic Research, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan) 2014 Sochi Green Games: promises or reality?

3.4. Chair: Papers:

Sociology-Geography: Russian-speaking post-Soviet migrancy in Europe: Languages, identities, experiences tbc Sari Pyhnen and Tatjana Rynknen (both University of Jyvskyl, Finland) Russian-speaking migrant artists in Finland: narrating life-histories and negotiating professional identities Anna Smoliarova (St. Petersburg State University)

Post-Soviets as Russians: media coverage and identification Polina Kliuchnikova (Durham University, UK) Language(s) at work: Translating experiences, developing repertoires and communicating careers of Russian-speaking migrants in the UK Discussant: Oksana Morgunova (University of Glasgow) 3.5. Chair: Papers: Politics: EU and the Post-Soviet region Roxana Adina Huma (University of Plymouth) Salome Minesashvilim (University of Edinburgh/Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) European Union Neighbourhood Policy Stimulus for Democratization? Eske van Gils (University of Kent) Beyond principles and energy: An analysis of the European Unions democracy promotion discourse towards Belarus and Azerbaijan Ryhor Nizhnikau (University of Tartu) EUs impact in the Eastern neighbourhood: explaining EUs rule transfer in migration and environment sector in Moldova and Ukraine Eleanor Knott (London School of Economics) Romania as a kin-state in Moldova: the view from below

3.6. Chair: Papers:

Politics: National Identity and Nationalism in Todays Russia Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Oslo) Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University) Oil and National Identity in Russia

Anastasia Mitrofanova (MGIMO) Russian nationalists in the Komi Republic: the case of the Frontier of the North, Syktyvkar Pl Kolst (University of Oslo) Contemporary Russian national democrats- what kind of nation, what kind of democracy? Andreas Umland (National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy) Extreme Right Wing Intellectualism During Putins Third Presidential Term: The Case of Alexander Dugins Dealings in 2011-2014 Discussant: Vera Tolz (University of Manchester)

3.7. Chair: Papers:

Politics: What Shape is Peace?: The Politics of Space in Post-Conflict Bosnia Matthew Bolton (Pace University New York City) Alex Jeffrey (University of Cambridge) Spaces of Justice: the unruly geographies of War Crimes Trials Matthew Bolton Landmines and Metamines: The Politics of Bosnias Minefields Stefanie Kappler (Liverpool Hope University) Sarajevo's Ambivalent Memoryscapes

3.8.

Chair: Papers:

Politics: From one-dimensional to multi-dimensional? Russia's Asia-Pacific policy in the wake of the U.S. 'rebalancing' to Asia Paul Richardson (University of Manchester) Natasha Kuhrt (Kings College London) Development with a human face: bringing the human back into Russia's Far Eastern Development

Sergey Sevastyanov (Far Eastern Federal University) The growing role and importance of the Republic of Korea as a Russian partner in Northeast Asia Artyom Lukin (Far Eastern Federal University) Russia and the Emerging Order in the Asia-Pacific Discussant: Paul Richardson (University of Manchester)

3.9.

Chair: Papers:

History: Contemporary Orthodox Pilgrimage (organized by the BASEES Study Group on Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe 3) Katya Tolstaya (VU University Amsterdam) Magdalena Lubanska (University of Warsaw) Healing Practices at the St Kosma and Damian Monastery in Kuklen (Bulgaria) Magdalena Zatorska (University of Warsaw) Healing Practices at Orthodox Christian Monasteries in Ukraine Stella Rock (Baylor University) Coming to God through Sorrows: Consolation, Cures and Pilgrimage in Contemporary Russia

3.10.

Chair: Papers:

History: Shaping Knowledge, Constructing the Social: The Development of the Social Sciences in Eastern Europe and USSR in the 20th Century (I) Egbert Klautke (UCL SSEES) Pavel Vasilyev (St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Mariya Ivanovna Pokrovskaya: Social Sciences, Russian Liberalism, And The 1917Divide Raluca Musat (New Europe College, Bucharest)

New perspectives on the history of sociology: the Bucharest School of Sociology and the transformation of the peasantry Katherine Lebow (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Austria) Polish Sociology Between the Two World Wars Mihai-Dan Cirjan (Central European University, Budapest) Building Efficiency out of Crisis: The Romanian Debate on Economic Rationalization in the First Half of the 1930s

3.11.

History: Roundtable: What Have We Learned after 25 Years? Revisionist Approaches to the Revolutions of 1989 Chair: Melanie Ilic (University of Gloucestershire) Panelists: Kevin Adamson (University of Stirling) James Krapfl (McGill University) Monika Metykov (University of Sussex) Libora Oates-Indruchov (Palack University, Czech Republic) 3.12. Chair: Papers: History: Khrushchev / Russia and Finland tbc Geoffrey Swain (University of Glasgow) The Dismissal of Khrushchev, a Reappraisal Malcolm Lyndon Gareth Spencer (University of Oxford) Signals From Stalin: The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in the Midst of the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40 Lari Rantanen (University of Turku) The Great Famine of Finland 1867 1868 in the aspects of Russo-Finnish relations of the 1860s

3.13.

History: Expertise and Resource Management in Late Imperial Russia Chair: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia) Papers: Katja Bruisch (Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau) The Making of the Future Village. Ideology, Expertise, and the Agrarian Question in late Imperial Russia Ian Campbell (University of California-Davis) Between resistance and expropriation: land norms, statistical expertise and the ambiguities of late-tsarist resettlement David Darrow (University of Dayton) The Moral Economy of Revolution and Civil War: Land Norms after 1917 Discussant: David McDonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

3.14. Chair: Papers:

Film/Media: Memory, Media and Politics: Representing the Past in Museums, Film and Text Zuzanna Bogumi (Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education), Jan Gryta (University of Manchester) From Grassroots Initiative to the City's Main Attraction: The Holocaust in Krakow's Museum Matilda Mroz (University of Greenwich) Mediated Memories: Ethics and Jewish Memory in Contemporary Poland Sara Jones (University of Birmingham) Mediated Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in Autobiography, Museums and Documentary Film

3.15. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: Aspects of discourse tbc Anna Balyuk (Novosibirsk State University, Russian Federation) Language identity in scientific discourse Elena Butorina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation) Radka Holanova (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) Intertextuality in advertising from the point of view of Cognitive Linguistics Pavla tpnov (Charles University, Czech Republic) 'The Language Image of Human in Partner Appellations' Languages/Linguistics: On the Causative-Anti-Causative Alternation in Slavic between Morphology, Semantics and Syntax Peter Kosta (University of Potsdam, Germany) Peter Kosta (University of Potsdam) On the Causative-Anti-Causative alternation as principle of affix ordering in the Light of the Mirror Principle , the Lexical Integrity Principle and the Distributed Morphology Anton Zimmerling (Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation) Pro and contra Unaccusativity. Syntactic diagnostics and verbal classes in Russian Diego Gabriel Krivochen (Universidad Nacional de La Plata Modern Languages and Literatures, Argentina) (Anti-)Causative morphology and the morphophonology-semantics tension

3.16.

Chair: Papers:

3.17. Chair: Papers:

Economics: Post-Communist Development Ion Voicu Sucala (University of Glasgow) Ion Voicu Sucala (University of Glasgow) The Legacy of Backwardness in Romania after 1989 Kerstin Mahlapuu (University of Glasgow) Constructing Estonian identity in a wider Europe Silvana Tarlea (University of Oxford) Governments, Multinational Companies and the Development of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe Bogdan Rusu (Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania) No Candidates for Company Private Scholarship: Why students would not apply? Bogdan Rusu (Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania) Firm Growth: value generation and impact of past experiences for serial entrepreneurs Dan Maniu Duse, Cristina Feniser (Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, Romania Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) The development of university research. A perspective on the candidates for university rector position in Romania

10:30-11:00

COFFEE/TEA

11:00-12:30: SESSION 4

4.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Contemporary Literature Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Glasgow) Kira Gordovich (St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design) The Young Protagonist in Modern Russian Prose Uro Tomi (University of Belgrade) Peeking from Behind the Curtain: New Tendencies in Contemporary Serbian Crime Fiction Aleksandra Rychlicka (UCL, SSEES) Loss of stories? Narrative strategies in Polish fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century Benjamin Sutcliffe (Miami University, Ohio) Secular Victims, Religious Aggressors: Liudmila Ulitskaias Muslims and the Intelligentsia

4.2.

Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Nabokov, Blok and Klma tbc Katherina Kokinova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) Vladimir Nabokov And The Art Of Giving Instructions Anna Piliska (University of Wrocaw, Poland) Gimme them gold coins literally? The Lolita-esque Lana Del Rey versus the prototype Elena Tchougounova-Paulson (Cambridge ) Gnostic Motives in the Early Correspondence Between A. Blok and L. Mendeleeva Kim Kyuchin (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)

Modernity, Radical Subjectivism and Paradoxical Images of Human Nature in the Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klma

4.3. Chair: Papers:

Sociology-Geography: Reflections on contemporary societal change II tbc Marina Yusupova (University of Manchester) There is no reason to live if you dont consider yourself a man. Criminal Manifestations of Masculinity in the Narratives of Russian men Jurga Bucaite-Vilke (Vytautas Magnus University) Does Society Need my Job? Unemployed Men, Selfconstruction and the Images of Social Exclusion (Lithuania) Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University) Hedging the bets: identities and aspirations of street gang members in Russia Suvi Salmenniemi (Department of Social Research, University of Turku) Peers, Priests and Psychologists: Understanding the Consumption of Psy Technologies in Russia

4.4.

Sociology-Geography: Social inclusion and exclusion and mega-events in postsocialist countries Chair: Anna (Ganna) Tolkachova (Kazan Federal University) Papers: Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina (both Cardiff University) Mega-events as the regime of spatial exclusiveness in Russias modernization

Nataliya Ikonnikova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) The Zone of International Hospitality' as the zone of exclusion (the case of Adler local habitants preparing to Sochi-2014 Olympics) Irina Kuznetsova (Kazan Federal University) City residents after sport multi-sport events in Russia: thinking about the social outcomes of the Olympics 2014 in Sochi and Universiade 2013 in Kazan

4.5. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Russian politics: discourses and perceptions Eske van Gils (University of Kent) Svetlana Zarubina (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Patriotism in the Russian societys perception (20012011) Valeria Kasamara and Anna Sorokina (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Russias Past and Future in Russian youths mind

4.6. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Politics and Society in Post-Soviet De Facto States Rico Isaacs (Oxford Brookes) Donnacha Beachin (Dublin City University) Elections in post-Soviet unrecognized states: Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria, 20112012 Giorgio Comai and Bernardo Venturi (Dublin City University and University of Bologna) Language and education laws in multi-ethnic de facto states: the cases of Abkhazia and Transnistria Karolina Beachin Stefaczak (Dublin City University)

Gender and elections in recognised and unrecognised states; the 2012 contests to the legislatures of Georgia and Abkhazia

4.7.

Politics: The Migration Issue in Contemporary Politics, Media, and Society Chair: Pl Kolst (University of Oslo) Papers: Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Oslo) Restore Moscow to the Muscovites. Playing the migrant card in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections Natalya Kosmarskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Institute of Advanced Social Studies, Paris) Host Populations Perception of Central Asian Migration under Challenging/Changing Urban Environment (A Case-Study of Moscow) Christine Myrdal Lukash (University of Oslo) Ethnic and non-ethnic Othering in medias coverage of working conditions for migrants in Russia Discussant: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University, USA)

4.8. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Russia and Narratives of Change: Identity, Norms, Protests Natasha Kuhrt (Kings College London) Stephen White (University of Glasgow) EU Enlargement and Values Imperialism Marco Siddi, Luke March, Marlene Gottwald, Nicole Koenig (University of Edinburgh) Different expectations of democratisation? German and British discourses on mass protests in Russia and Syria

Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University) Re-Interpreting the Cold War: Russias Quest for a Great Power Status

4.9.

Chair: Papers:

History: Orthodox Saints, Relics, and Miraculous Icons: From the Medieval Period to Collectivization (organized by the BASEES Study Group on Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe 4) Zoe Knox (University of Leicester) Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov (University of Manchester) The Local Cults of the Women Saints in the Orthodox Slavic Middle Ages: From Typologies to Tropes Monica White (University of Nottingham) Relics and Princely Power in pre-Mongol Rus Steven Smith (University of Oxford) The Bolsheviks and Miraculous Icons, 1920s-1930s

4.10. Chair: Papers:

History: Memory and the Politics of History in (Soviet) Russia and Europe tbc Scott Siggins (University of East Anglia) Farewell to the Grand Narrative: Debate and Dissent in the Construction of Memorials to the Great Patriotic War Marta Grzechnik (University of Greifswald) Recovering Territories: The use of history in the integration of the new Polish western borderland after the Second World War Cordula Gdaniec (Free University Berlin) You cant shake off this oppressive feeling. Remembering WW2 in Russia and Germany Today:

Lasting Influences and New Interpretations by the Young Generation Franziska Exeler (European University Institute) The Partisan Republic. Narrating the Years of War and Occupation in Post-1944 Soviet Belorussia

4.11. Chair: Papers:

History: Socialist Art, Culture, and Science tbc Andreea Lazea (West University of Timisoara) Public Art in Socialist Romania. The Cases of Bucharest and Timisoara Elitza Stanoeva (Human and Social Studies Foundation Sofia) Inventing the Socialist Consumer: Worker, Citizen or Customer? Politics of Mass Consumption in Bulgaria, 1956-1968 Katerina Liskova (Masaryk University) (In)visible sexual deviants. Shifting foci of Czechoslovak sexology between the 1950s and 1970s

4.12. Chair: Papers:

History: 'Daily Life in the Gulag' George Gilbert (University of East Anglia) Daniel Healey (University of Oxford) Forging Gulag Sexualities: Penal homosexuality and the reform of the Gulag after Stalin Steven Barnes (George Mason University) TBC Mark Vincent (University of East Anglia) Interpersonal Relations in the Gulag: the Urki and Camp Authorities Discussant: Miriam Dobson (University of Sheffield)

4.13.

History: Western economic rationality and the late Soviet reformist thinking Chair: Olessia Kirtchik (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Papers: Sophie Lambroschini (Universit Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dfense) Learning finance capitalism: the experience of Soviet bankers in the 1970s-80s Chris Miller (Yale University) Shenzhen on the Baltic: What the USSR learned from Chinas Special Economic Zones during Perestroika Olessia Kirtchik (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Soviet mathematical economics and the reformist discourse in the late Soviet Union: affinities and mismatches Discussant: Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham)

4.14.

Film/Media: Albanian Cinema 1: Memory, Themes and Communist Religion Chair: Ridvan Peshkopia (University for Business and Technology, Prishtina) Papers: Ana Grgic (University of St Andrews) The Archaeology of Memory: Tracing Fragments of the Past in Eol Cashkus Albanie 1912 Gzim Alpion (The University of Birmingham) Challenges of Working in the Film Industry and the National Theatre in Albania during Communism An Insider Perspective Konstantinos Giakoumis (University of New York, Tirana) Christian Mythology of Communism and Vice Versa: A Case-Study on Albanian Communist Cinema Discussant: Lars Kristensen (University of Skvde, Sweden)

4.15. Chair: Papers:

Film/Media: Space and Spaces of Russian Cinema tbc Joe Andrew (Keele University) Another Captive in the Caucasus: Aleksei Uchitels The Captive (2008) Natalija Majsova (University of Ljubljana) Constructing Cosmos in Contemporary Russian Film: the Case of Outer Space Masumi Kameda (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Live Images of Cosmonauts: Soviet Television Broadcasts of Spaceflights, 1961-1965

4.16.

Languages/Linguistics: Corprora, Quantitative Data and Language (I) Chair: Neil Bermel (University of Sheffield, UK) Papers: Tom Dickins (University of Wolverhampton, UK) A case study of the language of Czechoslovak normalisation Jelena Golubovic (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Mutual intelligibility in the Slavic language area Dario Lecic (University of Sheffield, UK) Morphological doublets in Croatian: the case of Instrumental singular

4.17. Chair: Papers:

Economics: Eastern Europe tbc Aleksandra Wilczynska (Open University of Catalonia) Job flexibility, job security and job satisfaction. For

whom it works? Evidence from Polish microeconomic data Sandra Martinsone (Independent researcher) Political economy of economic reforms in Latvia since independence: expectations, promises, mplementation and consequences Roman Zavorotniy (Kiev National Economic University, Ukraine) Problems of the analysis of strategic financial valuebased indicators of the Ukrainian enterprises Beniamin Frunjyan (Audit Consultant at AN Audit) Financial Stability of Audit Companies in the Republic of Armenia

12:30-13:30

LUNCH

13:30-15:00: SESSION 5

5.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: tbc Connor Doak (University of Bristol) Andreas Berg (Bond University) M.M. Kheraskovs concept of civil religion and the progress of mores in the Russian Enlightenment John P. Moran (Kennesaw State University) Tolstoys Hedgehog: Violence, Conflict and the Deification of Reason Audun J. Mrch (University of Oslo) The Case of the Missing Gun: Chekhovs The Student Irena Galloway (Florida State University)

Peter the Great and the Greatness of Russia in Aleksey Tolstoys novel Peter the First

5.2. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: tbc Emily Lygo (University of Exeter) Susanna Witt (Uppsala University) Translation and Intertextuality: Byrons Don Juan in Russian Susan Reynolds (British Library) Melting the bivouac glacial: Paul Claudel in Prague, 1909-11 Olga Ushakova (Tiumen State University) Russian-English Literary Parallels in D.S. Mirskys Histories of Russian Literature Jan Matanoha (University of Sheffield) Found in Translation? Jan Mukaovsk Prague prepoststructuralism, (post)post-structuralism or jenseits structuralism and (post)poststructuralism?

5.3. Chair: Papers:

Sociology-Geography: Cold War Science Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham) Teresa Ashe (Open University) The Politics of Cold War Climate Research: Redressing the US Bias Elena Kuligina (European University at Saint-Petersburg) The development of the Soviet North in the mainstream interest of British scientists and their interaction with the soviet scientific institutions in 1950s 1960s

Denis Shaw (University of Birmingham) A.A. Grigorevs The Subarctic (1946, 1956) and Soviet contributions to climate change science in the postwar period Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham) M.I. Budyko and the development of Soviet climate change science post-1945 5.4. Sociology: Russia and China: Social Inequality and Political Instability Chair: tbc Papers: Stephen White (University of Glasgow) Social Inequality and Political Instability: What does the Survey Evidence Tell Us? Olga Kryshtanovskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences) Social Inequality and Political Instability: What does the Qualitative Evidence Tell Us? Elena Danilova (Russian Academy of Sciences) Winners and losers of reforms: perception of social changes Discussant: Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University)

5.5.

Chair: Papers:

Politics: Interdisciplinary encounters with institutional change: Emotions, (in)formality and futurity in post-war Bosnia Eleanor Ryan-Saha ( Durham University) Dr Laura McLeod (University of Manchester) Hoping for Change: Gendered Yearnings for Constitutional Reform in BiH Karla Koutkova (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

The importance of having tela: Notes on (in)formality and change in the Bosnian higher education sector Eleanor Ryan-Saha (Durham University) Pursuing Better Futures in an Imperfect World: Personal and Institutional Change and the Treatment of Addiction in Sarajevo Politics: Russian choices of security policy for the 21st century Chair: Luke March (University of Edinburgh) Papers: Bettina Renz (University of Nottingham) What kind of army does Russia need? Hanna Smith (University of Helsinki) Russian strategic thinking: traditional versus modern? Nataliya Danilova (University of Exeter - Cornwall Campus) The Politics of War Memory as an Instrument of CivilMilitary Relations in Russia Discussant: Richard Sakwa (University of Kent) 5.6.

5.7. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Between political protest and civic apathy: limits of political participation in Russia Regina Smyth (Indiana University, USA) Oleg Kashirskikh (Higher School of Economics, Russia) The Limits of Democratic Citizenship in Russia: Economized Political Participation in Atomized Society Irina Soboleva (Higher School of Economics, European University in Saint-Petersburg) The Effect of Political Protest on the Public Politics Withdrawal in Authoritarian Regimes (Evidence from Russia)' Nikita Savin (Higher School of Economics, Russia)

Discursive Rationales of Political Passivity in Russia

5.8.

Politics: Landscapes of protest: Individual and contextual determinants of collective action Chair: Timofey Agarin (Queens university, Belfast) Papers: Oxana Ivanova-Chessex and Johannes Kluba (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg) Russian Immigrants Protest Mobilization in Germany: Biographical, Social and Political Foundation of a New Phenomenon Agnieszka Balcerzak (LMU Munich, Germany) One State, Two Nations? Polands Post-communist Landscape of Social Movements between the Liberal LGBT-Equality Parades and National-Conservative Marches of Independence Elena Glushko (Russian Academy of Science / Independent scholar) Finding Other: State, Church and LGBT in Russia, Slovakia and Poland Discussant: Timofey Agarin (Queens University, Belfast)

5.9.

Chair: Papers:

History: Shaping Knowledge, Constructing the Social: The Development of the Social Sciences in Eastern Europe and USSR in the 20th Century (II) tbc Attila Melegh (Corvinus University of Budapest,Hungary) Population discourses in a comparative perspective in the 20th century in South- Eastern Europe

Corina Dobo (University College London & University Of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania) World Population Conference, Bucharest 1974: politics and demographical concerns Ioana Macrea-Toma (The Open Society Archives (OSA) Hungary) When systems do meet: IIASA and the transnational knowledge transfer in managing societies Discussant: Karl Hall (Central European University, Hungary)

5.10. Chair: Papers:

History: Polish and Jewish History tbc Michael Fleming (Polish University Abroad, London) Jan Karski, Auschwitz and news of the Holocaust Svenja Bethke (Institut fr die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg) Definitions of Criminality and Law in the Ghettos of Lodz and Vilna. The Perspective of the Jewish Councils in World War II Elisabeth Tho [Thoss] (University of Vienna) Craftsmanship in Cracow. Between prescription and everyday life Dorota Szeligowska (Central European University) Critical patriotism, a form of constitutional patriotism, la polonaise?

5.11. Chair: Papers:

History: Diplomacy in South-East Europe tbc Kristian Kafozov (London School of Economics and Political Science)

An Analysis of Bulgarian-Yugoslav relations and perspectives on the Soviet Union throughout the Rise of Communism in the Balkans of South Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1948 Tonka Kostadinova (The American College of Sofia) Wandel durch Annhrung in the Balkans: the GreekBulgarian Reconciliation Process in the Cold War Period' Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia) Eastern Questions and Balkan Wars through the eyes of British Nationals in the early Twentieth Century 5.12. Chair: Papers: History: Children and Russias Great War and Russian Revolution tbc Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia) Mobilising Children: Youth and the Patriotic War Culture in Kiev during World War I Elizabeth White (UWE Bristol) League of Nations and Russian refugee children in the 1920s Katy Turton (Queens University Belfast) Children of the Revolution

5.13. Chair: Papers:

History: The Soviet Union and the Third World: Politics, Economics, and Competition Mike Loader (Kings College London) Alessandro Iandolo (London School of Economics) The Soviet Union vs. Cadburys: socialist trade in theory and practice, 1957-64 Nataliya Telepneva (London School of Economics)

The post-Khrushchev transition and Soviet relations with the national-liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, 1964-1967 Chris Miller (Yale University) The Moscow Consensus: Karen Brutents and Soviet Development Thought, 1970-1991

5.14

Film/Media: Albanian Cinema 2: New Men and Women and their Chinese Reception Chair: Lars Kristensen (University of Skvde, Sweden) Papers: Ridvan Peshkopia (University for Business and Technology, Prishtina) Construing and Dismantling the Image of the New Man: The Contribution of the Albanian Cinema to the Communist and Postcommunist Albanian Ontology Artan Puto (Tirana University, Faculty of History) Farmer, Worker, Fighter, Mother: Women in Albanias Communist-era Cinema Ming Jian and Bruce Williams (The William Paterson University of New Jersey) The Cultural Revolution Revisited: Chinese Nostalgia for Albanian Cinema Discussant: Gzim Alpion (The University of Birmingham)

5.15. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: tbc tbc Jens Nrgrd-Srensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) The old Russian perfect development and usage Jan Ivar Bjrnflaten (University of Oslo, Norway)

The perfect in a cross-linguistic perspective and the transformation of the past tense in Russian

5.16. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: Corpora, Quantitative Data and Language (II) tbc Lucie Chlumska and Vaclav Cvrcek (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) A Quantitative Analysis of Translated Czech: The Case of Simplification Neil Bermel, Ludek Knittl and Jean Russell (University of Sheffield, UK) Variation among native speakers of Czech and sensitivity to frequency of forms Dagmar Divjak and Nina Szymor (University of Sheffield, UK) Unpacking modality

5.17. Chair: Papers:

Economics: Russian Economics tbc Ilja Viktorov (Sdertrn University, Sweden) Informal Practices and Financial Intermediaries in the Russian Financial Market, 1990-2012 Valeriya Utkina () Knowledge management implementation in Russian local government: A conceptual Framework Irina A. Korgun and Kazuhiro Kumo coauthored paper (Institute of Russian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea / University of Leeds [Korgun]; Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan / University of Oxford [Kumo]

Foreign Economic Relations and Economic Development: A Case of Russian Regions

15:00-15:30

TEA/COFFEE

15:30-17:00: SESSION 6

6.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: tbc Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter) Jelena Pilipovi (Belgrade University) The Wind and the Oak: Symbols of resistance to the forces of eros in the poems of Laza Kostic, Virgil and Sappho Marianna Deganutti (University of Oxford) Fulvio Tomizzas Eastern Gaze Sarah Ossipow Cheang (Universit Populaire du Canton du Genve) Russias Otherness in Catherine Lovays A Russian and Amusing Novel

6.2. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Ideology tbc( Maya Kucherskaya (Moscow Higher School of Economics) Leskovs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District as an answer to the ideological polemics of the 1860s Metodi Metodiev (University of Glasgow) Early alternatives in socialist literature: A Case Study of the displacement of the class struggle and the

revolutionary consciousness from two post-war Bulgarian novels Elena Kolesnikova (Russian Academy of Sciences) ( . . Evgeny Pavlov (University of Canterbury) Time Forward? Sigismund Krzhizhanovskys Vospominaniia o budushchem and the Stalinist Poetics of Time

6.3.

Sociology/Geography: Informal Post-Socialist Economies: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods Chairs: Jeremy Morris (University of Birmingham) and Abel Polese (University of Tallinn) Papers: Borbla Kovcs (Central European University) Informality in Romania Local Childcare markets Ida Harboe (University of Aarhus) Informality in Lithuania young mens invisibility Discussant: Colin Williams (University of Sheffield)

6.4. Chair: Papers:

Sociology: Post-Socialist Punk: Cultural Practices, Affective Bonds and Social Context Yngvar Steinholt (University of Troms) Hilary Pilkington (University of Manchester) If you want to live, you better know how to fight: Punk fighting and street life Ivan Gololobov (University of Warwick) A punk is someone who knows the whole truth but doesnt tell anyone: Punk as philosophical, ideological and political practice Benjamin Perasovi (Ivo Pilar Institute, Zagreb)

The Punk family: Friendship and loyalty on punk scenes

6.5. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Ethnic politics and the radical Right Barbara Gaweda (University of Edinburgh) (TBC) James Dawson (SSEES, University College London) Understanding the Reluctance of Bulgarias Progressive Protesters to Confront Ethnic Nationalism Andrea L. P. Pirro (CIRCaP, University of Siena) The Populist Radical Right in the Political Process: Assessing Parties' Impact in Central and Eastern Europe Adam Slaby (University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany) Let us march against em! Examining anti-Romany riots in the scope of correlation between national policies, attitudes of the Czech society and its politics Jelena Loncar (University of York) Political representation of national minorities in Serbia

6.6. Chair: Papers:

Politics: EU enlargement and LGBT rights in Central Eastern Europe & the post-Yugoslav space Heleen Touquet (University of Leuven) Richard Mole (University College London) Nationalism and homophobia in Central and Eastern Europe Roman Kuhar & Metka Mencin eplak (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) From holiness to science: Counter-mobilization tactics of the Roman Catholic Church Francesca Stella (University of Glasgow)

Europeanization, sexual citizenship and queer migration: mapping the issues Lien Verpoest (University of Leuven) The End of Rhetorics: the EU, Russia, and LGBT policies Discussant: Koen Slootmaeckers (Queen Mary, University of London)

6.7. Chair Papers:

Politics: Legitimacy of discontent: Actors and repertoires of protest movements Licia Cianetti (SSEES, University College London) Radicalism and Minority Representation: Alternative minority institutions and the legitimacy of the Russianspeakers political voice in Estonia and Latvia Daiva Repeckaite (VU University Amsterdam) Professionalization of Social Engagement Meets Disengaged Citizens Alina Dobreva (European University Institute, Florence) The Protesters, the Politics and the Legitimacy Citizens in the Streets of Bulgaria 2013

6.8.

Politics Roundtable: 'Thinking about spaces in Russia and Eurasia: the Burden of Geopolitics' Chair: Valentina Feklyunina (University of Newcastle) Panelists: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London) Ruth Deyermond (King's College London) Maxine David (University of Surrey) David Lewis (University of Exeter)

6.9.

Chair: Papers:

History: Russian Religious Thought (organized by the BASEES Study Group on Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe 5) Geoffrey Hosking (UCL SSEES) Josie von Zitzwitz (University of Oxford) Religious Thought and its Impact on Leningrad Poetry in the 1970s Elizabeth Harrison (UCL SSEES) Nikolai Berdiaevs Russkaia ideia and the image of Catholicism in Russian thought and literature Adam Ure (?) The Creative Economy as a Force for Religious Modernization: The Case of Vasilii Rozanov Ruth Coates (University of Bristol) Nikolai Berdiaev and the Silver Age reception of the doctrine of deification History: Violence in the Transformation of Central European Order: The Czech Lands 1914-1920 Klaus Richter (University of Birmingham) Rudolf Kuera (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences/Imre Kertesz Kolleg - University of Jena) Taming the Discontented: The Concept of Public Violence between Habsburg Empire and the Czechoslovak Republic (1914-1920) Jakub Bene (University of Birmingham) Rural violence in the Czech lands at the end of the Habsburg Monarchy: The Green Cadres in 1918 and after Claire Morelon (Science Po Paris/University of Birmingham) Violence in the hinterland: soldiers in Pragues public space, 1914-1920

6.10. Chair: Papers:

Discussant: Michal Kopeek (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) 6.11. Chair: Papers: History: Bosnia and Hercegovina tbc Richard Mills (University of East Anglia) Sportsmen on the Barricades The 1994 Wartime Football Championship in Bosnia and Hercegovina Hana Oberpfalzerov (University in Prague) Transitional Justice and The Processof National Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Chris Jones (University of East Anglia) French responses to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia: 1988-1991 History: (Soviet) Russias Periphery tbc Ben Phillips (UCL SSEES) Siberian exile and colonisation in the Russian revolutionary consciousness, 1825-1863 Stefan B. Kirmse (Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin) Between Integration and Conflict: Muslim Tatars in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia Alter Kahraman (Middle East Technical University) Crimean Tatar National Movement and Lenin Bayragi Zayra Badillo Castro (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London) Urban Development and a New Way of Life for the Soviet East: Tashkent and Central Asia after Stalin History: Narratives of Justice and Useable Pasts in World War II and its Aftermath Steve Smith (University of Oxford)

6.12. Chair: Papers:

6.13. Chair:

Papers:

Jacques Schuhmacher (University of Oxford) Hitlers War Crimes Investigators. Wehrmacht and SS Investigations of Soviet War Crimes and Atrocities Jonathan Waterlow (University of Oxford) War, Peace, and the Soviet Nuremberg: War Crimes Trials and the Representation of the Postwar World in the Soviet Union, 1945-53 Robert Dale (Kings College, London) Picturing Returning Veterans after 1945: The Visual Image of Demobilization and Historical Memory

6.14. Chair: Papers:

Film/Media: Shifting memory of World War Two in Russian and Soviet Cinema Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London) Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London) Eternal Return of the Same: Iconic Images of WWII in Recent Russian Film David Gillespie (University of Bath) 'Conscience and Collaboration in Soviet and postSoviet War Films' Alissa Timoshkina (Kings College London) Constructing (alternative) memories of the Holocaust: footage of the camps in Soviet Cinema

6.15. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: the lexicon tbc Irina Thomires (Universit Paris IV-Sorbonne, France) : c, , Mariia Aleskerova (St Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russien Federation)

A comparative study of child innovations in Russian and English Natalia Kislitsyna (Taurida National V.I.Vernadsky University, Ukraine) Comparative study of linguistic connotation Katarzyna Popova (University Prf. dr. Assen ZlatarovBurgas, Bulgaria) Language and cultural image of stone in BaltoSlavonic linguistic worldview

6.16. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: corpus linguistic approaches tbc Polina Eismont (St Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russien Federation) Between East and West: the place of personal pronouns in Russian syntax Valerij Solovev ( , Russian Federation) Edie Furniss (Pennsylvania State University) Expressing surprise in Russian conversation: a corpus analysis of pragmatic function

6.17.

AGM

17:30-18:30

KEYNOTE: Prof Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)

18.45-19:30 DRINKS RECEPTION (supported by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group)

19:30

CONFERENCE DINNER

Monday, 7th April

07.45-08.45: BREAKFAST

09:00-10:30: SESSION 7

7.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: tbc tbc Iuliia Papushina (National State University; Higher School of Economics) Soviet and Non-soviet in the Apprehension of Urban Art Festival: the Case Study of Festival White Nights in Perm 2012 Ganna Tolkachova (Kazan Federal University) Culturology and Cultural Studies in Russian Universities: Friends or Foes? Ana Vukmanovi (Independent Scholar, Serbia) Spatial construct in South Slavic oral lyric Ana Popova (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) The Liturgical Poetry and the Cycle of the Great Feast Depicted in the Church of St. Georges in Polosko

7.2. Literature/Cultures: tbc Chair: tbc Papers : Tatiana Marchenko (A. Solzhenitsyn Cultural House Russia Abroad) () : .. Elena Huber (University of Salzburg) History and new aesthetic principles in the Soviet everyday culture of 1950s-1980s as a pop-cultural phenomenon Anatoly Vishevsky (Grinnell College) From Hope to Irony in the Popular Culture of the Soviet intelligent: Two Films of Georgi Danelia Anna Kan (University of Bristol) Living on the Material World: Money in the Soviet Rock Underground of the 1980s)

7.3. Chair: Papers:

Sociology: Russias migration challenges: everyday experiences and political responses Polina Ermolaeva (Centre for Academic Research, Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences) John Round (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) The everyday experiences of labour migrants in Moscow Irina Kuznetsova (Kazan Federal University) The Health of labor migrants in Russia through the lens of everyday life experiences Sergei Riazantsev (Institute of Economic Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Chinese migrants in the Russian labour market: competitors or the driving force of economic development?

7.4. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Russian foreign policy Marco Siddi (University of Edinburgh) (TBC) Olga Romanova (Cranfield University) The impact of national security culture on Russian foreign policy towards Japan on Kurile Islands issue since 1991 Polina Travert (University of Le Havre, France) Russia, China and United States : the cooperation possibilities and rivalry in the multipolar world Valerie Pacer (University College London) An Obstacle to Arms Control? The Russian Leadership and the Issue of Euro-Atlantic Missile Defence

7.5. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Religion and traditionalism Ina Shakhrai (Humboldt University of Berlin) (TBC) Tatiana Shlenskaya (The Higher School of Economics, Russia) The role of Religious Factor in Political Conflicts in Republic of Tatarstan Anna Kulkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) The Influence of Religiosity on Political Participation in Contemporary Russia Jan Hupkens (College of Europe EU & Southeast Europe) Conceptualizing Trans-National Islam in Post-Conflict States: The Case of Bosnia & Herzegovina Victor Apryshchenko (Southern Federal University, Russia)

Where Europe does end: Power Traditionalism in the Russian North Caucasus

7.6 Chair: Papers:

Politics: Postcommunist protest movements: Roots and rationale Licia Cianetti (SSEES, University College London) Olga Procevska (University of Latvia) Walk on the Right Side: Why post-Soviet intellectuals don't protest Inna Chuvychkina (University of Bremen, Germany) Circle of Protests under the Putin Regime Ilona Grzy winska (University of Warsaw) Nothing About Us Without Us: A case study of the 2012 protests against ACTA in Poland

7.7.

Chair: Papers:

History: Structure of Social Political Measures and SelfAssertion of inhabitants in the Bohemian Lands: Between Democracy and Dictatorship Rudolf Kuera ( Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences; University of Jena) Radka ustrov (Faculty of Arts Charles University in Prague / Lidice Memorial) Between Self-Identification and Constructive Negotiation: Czechs and New Social Order in theProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Jakub Rkosnk (Faculty of Arts Charles University in Prague) Making of the Communist Welfare State in Czechoslovakia 19451960: Between Bismarck and Stalin

Jakub louf (Faculty of Arts Charles University in Prague / State District Archive in Prague) The koda Works Blue-Collar Strikes in the Course of the Czechoslovak First Five-Year Plan (19491953)

7.8. Chair: Papers:

History: Soviet Culture and Society tbc Susan Grant (University College Dublin) Modest, simple people: Perceptions and Expectations of the Soviet Nurse Roman Horbyk (Sdertrn University, Sweden) Plants and planets must compete alike: madness and deviation in the Soviet Ukraine, 1928 1930 Mateusz Zatoski (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Tobacco in the official Soviet media between Stalin and Khrushchev

7.9. Chair: Papers:

History: Topographies of Leisure: Mapping Petrograd/Leningrad in the 1920s Pavel Vasilyev (St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Pavel Vasilyev (St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Drugs and the Early Soviet City: Mapping Cocaine, Opiates, and Cannabis in Petrograd/Leningrad in the 1920s Vera Berezina (Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States) Old capital or new soviet city: excursions around Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s

Elizaveta Zhdankova (European University at St. Petersburg) Soviet cinemas in the 1920s: the cultural space of urban leisure or an escape from the Soviet reality?

7.10. Chair: Papers:

Film/Media: Contemporary Russian Journalism and Social Media tbc Maria Anikina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) Journalism as a profession in Russia: research approaches and survey results Eugeny Kolesnikov (Independent scholar, St. Petersburg) ' ' Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (University of Cambridge) weeting fear, anger, outrage for emotional mobilization: case of Navalny supporters rallies on 18 July 2013.

7.11. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: Mutual intelligibility, contact linguistics, regiolects and dialects tbc Tania Avgustinova (Saarland University) The empirical basis of Slavic intercomprehension Grant Lundberg (Brigham Young University, USA) The growth of regional dialects at the expense of local micro-dialects in Slovenia Kristine Kunicka (Daugavpils University, Latvia) Morphological peculiarities of the peripheral Polish spoken in Latgale: the Russian influence

10:30-11:00

COFFEE/TEA

11:00-12:45

SESSION 8

8.1. Chair: Papers:

Literature/Cultures: Constructions of Identity tbc Adriana Decu (Independent researcher) Anita Nandris Cudla: A Romanian feminine testimony on communist deportations Nina Efimov (Florida State University) In Search of Identity: American Russians in Vasily Aksenovs novel The New Sweet Style Milan Miljkovic (Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade) Living on the Island of Flowers: New Theatrical Readings of Yugoslav Identity Claudia Draganoiu (Free University of Berlin) Narratives of the Homeland in Romanian exile literature (1947-1989) Sonia-Doris Andras (London College of Fashion University of the Arts, London) Beautiful Ambassadors: Signs, Space and Power in the Interwar Miss Romania Pageants

8.2.

Sociology: Roma in Central and Eastern Europe: Critical reflections Chair: tbc Papers: Jn onka (Charles University in Prague)

Social structure of Roma groups Kimmo Granqvist (University of Helsinki) Sociological factors and constraints of use and status of Romani language in Finland Richard onka (Catholic University, Slovakia) Roma jobs in Svit in 30 years, 20th Century Discussant: Milo Tomandl (Charles University in Prague)

8.3. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Governance & accountability Philipp Kker (University College London) (TBC) Ellie Martus (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Russias environmental policy process: the challenge from industrial interests Tina Schivatcheva (Univesrity of Cambridge) Lost in transition' the doxa and praxis of the Bulgarian environmental governance Olga Gasparyan (National Research University, Higher School of Economics) Factors of Government Efficiency in the Russian Regions Gianfranco Brusaporci (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and New Bulgarian University) Strengthening Regionalism in South East Europe: the role of Energy and Environmental policies in CrossBorder Areas Gergana Dimova (Cambridge University) The Mabetex Scandal in Russia vs. the Visa Affair in Germany: Do Multiple Accountability Mechanisms Compete or Cooperate?

8.4.

Politics: Constitutionalism and political elites

Chair: Papers:

Andrea L. P. Pirro (CIRCaP University of Siena) (TBC) Marina Maximenkova (National Research University, Higher School of Economics) Russian and French political elite: Differences of Political Perceptions Michael Hein (University of Greifswald) Constitutional Reform in Romania: DeDemocratisation "in Hungary's Footsteps? Philipp Kker (University College London) Presidential activism in Central and Eastern Europe: The question of popular elections Katerina Malygina (University of Bremen) Bureaucratic politicization a feature of the Ukrainian politics? Analysis of appointment patterns in the Ukrainian ministries in 1992-2009

8.5. Chair: Papers:

Politics: Russia modernization and conservatism Ilya Yablokov (University of Manchester) Jukka Pietilinen (University of Helsinki) Delayed, Catching-up or Conservative: Understanding of modernisation in Russian scholarly literature Elena Y.Yanchuk (CEMI RAS CCI of Russia) Some aspects of the technological and political modernization in Russia Katarzyna Kaczmarska (Aberystwyth University) Russia and the standard of civilization: learning the language of international society Dorothy Horsfield (Australian National University) Neo-conservatism in Putin's third term presidency

8.6.

History: Feeling Soviet: Emotion, Community and Identity in the USSR Chair: Rebecca Reich (University of Cambridge) Papers: Claire Shaw (University of Bristol) Signing Bolshevik? Speech and Identity in the Soviet Deaf Community Alexey Tikhomirov (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Dictatorship of Empathy: Care, Sensitivity and Trust under Brezhnev Anna Toropova (University of Cambridge) The Education of Feeling: Cinema, Genre and the Emotional Community of Stalinism Discussant: Emma Widdis (University of Cambridge)

8.7. Chair: Papers:

History: Early Modern Russia tbc Shahid Hussain (UCL) A Study of Motivational Military Mechanisms employed by Suleiman the Magnificent and Ivan the Terrible Elena Kashina (University of York) Meta-Discourse on the Highest Level: the Use of Religious Iconography for Contesting Sovereignty Liliya Stepanova (Academy IMSIT) The historical conditions of forming the European and Eastern European models of wedlock History: Opposition, Dissidence, Diaspora, Youth tbc Ianina Kruglikova (University of Turku, Finland) Networking of Russian Scholars in London 1919-1922 Emily Tamkin (University of Oxford)

8.8 Chair: Papers:

Of Mass and Mind: The Role of Intellectuals and the Masses in Dissident Movements of the Eastern Bloc Adam F. Kola (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toru, Poland) Against Whole World. Polish Left-wing Exile Intellectuals against Communism and Emigrants Majority Madigan Fichter (Centre for Southeast European Studies, Graz) Balkan Counterculture and Youth Opposition, 19651975) Aliaksandr Piahanau (Belarusian State University, University Paris 7) Generation-oriented politics of history? An analysis of historicizing practices of major political parties in Hungary

8.9. Chair: Papers:

History: National Spaces and Identity tbc Eva Posch (University of Graz, Austria) Negotiating the Nation in Touristic Historiography: Observations from Moldova Oleg Shemetov (University of Vienna) Language Issue in Canada and Ukraine: Rather Similar than Different Jasmina Knezovic (University of Oxford) Tin Ujevic and friends: Propagandists for the Yugoslav Cause Dalia Leinarte (Vilnius University) Longing and happiness in autobiographical accounts of former Soviet Lithuanian nomenklatura Radosaw Budzyski (Jagiellonian University)

Gustaw Manteuffel an unheard (hi)story

8.10. Chair: Papers:

Film/Media: Analysing the Russian Media tbc Anna Solomonovskaya (Novosibirsk State university) National and International Values in Television Commercials (based on ORT and REN TV broadcast) Emma Heywood (University of Manchester) Conflicts of interests? Russian, French and UK coverage of the Middle East Dmitry Skripchenko (St-Petersburg State University) The media as modern determinants of social reality

8.11. Chair: Papers:

Languages/Linguistics: Languages/Linguistics: corpus linguistic approaches to possessives, quantifiers, numerals tbc Lidia Mazzitelli (University of Bremen, Germany) Predicative Possession in the Circum-Baltic area: an analysis of possessive constructions in Belarusian and Lithuanian Alison Long (Keele University, UK) Morphosyntactic change in Russian: The development of the case of the modifier in phrases with 2, 3 and 4 in the period 1800-2000 Yulia Kuvshinskaya (National Research University High School of Economics, Russian Federation) Predicate agreement with quantifier phrases in modern Russian: a Corpus Study

12.45-13.30 Lunch End of Conference

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