1.1 Linguistics : Translating Shakespeare into Russian
Chair: Andrey Gorbov (St Petersburg State University)
Elena Rassokhina (Umeå University, Sweden), 'Translating Direct Address into Russian: "thou, my Rose" in Shakespeare's Sonnet 109'
Per Ambrosiani (Umeå University, Sweden), 'Translating Polylingualism: Shakespeare's Henry V in Russian'
Discussant — Ludmila Pöppel (University of Stockholm)

1.2 Sociology: Ideologies of Professionalism in the contemporary Russian Welfare State
Chair: tbc
Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University) 'Professional discourses on youth social dislocation and organised crime in Russia'
Arthur Mason (University of California, Berkeley) 'The Incentive Park: Vanguard Skolkovo Practice and the Import of Global Russians'
Victoria Antonova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) 'Civil servants in Russia: multicultural issues in professional project '
Discussants — Michael Rasell, Janet Walker (Lincoln University, UK)

1.3 Politics: Russia's 2011-12 Electoral Cycle: First Reflections
Chair: Neil Robinson (University of Limerick )
Derek Hutcheson (University College Dublin), 'The Russian electoral process: do voters make a difference?'
Stephen White (University of Glasgow), 'Were these 'fair and free' elections?'
David White (University of Birmingham), 'Contestation without Opposition: the Electoral Authoritarian Regime in Practice?'
Richard Sakwa (University of Kent), 'The 2011-12 Elections and the Future of Russian Democracy'

1.4 Literature and Culture: The Changing Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry Canon after 1991
Chair: Rosalind Marsh (University of Bath)
Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter), ''Official' Soviet poets in the post-Soviet Canon: the case of Aleksandr Tvardovskii'
Joanne Shelton (University of Exeter), 'Twentieth-century Russian poets in the post-Soviet school curriculum'
Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh), 'The Canonisation of émigré poets: Nabokov, Tsvetaeva, Khodasevich'

1.5 History: Russia: War and Nationality
Chair: Frank Wolff (Osnabrück University)
Susan Grant (University College, Dublin) ‘Nursing in Russia, 1914-1922'
Elizabeth White (University of Ulster) ‘My Little Russia’: Russian émigré schooling and the battle against denationalization in interwar Europe

1.6 History: Communism and After
Chair: tbc
Andru Chiorean (University of Nottingham) 'In the Pursuit of the Socialist Society: the Logic of Censorship and the Forging of the Institutional Censor in Communist Romania'
Vesselin Dimitrov (London School of Economics) 'Party Government and the Establishment of Communism in Eastern Europe'
Sarah Marks (University College London) 'Reconsidering the Thaw in Czechoslovakia: Cultural and Intellectual Shifts in Science after 1956'

1.7 Linguistics: Concepts and Cultures
Chair:Anna Solomonovskaja (Novosibirsk State University)
Zuzanna Bułat Silva (University of Wrocław), 'The concept of home in Polish and Portuguese - distant cultures, similar concepts'
Irina P. Tsvetova'Food and the Social-Cultural Aspects in Studying Foreign Languages'

1.8 Politics: Political Institutions
Chair: Allan Sikk (UCL)
Lee Savage (University of Sussex), 'Who Gets In? The Size, Experience and Ideological Determinants of Government Membership in Central and Eastern Europe'
Philipp Köker (UCL, SSEES) 'Presidential Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: How Presidents' Background and Perception Shape the Use of their Powers'
Liam O'Shea (University of St Andrews), 'Why does police reform appear to have been more successful in Georgia than in Kyrgyzstan or Russia?'
Sergiu Gherghina & George Jiglau (GESIS Köln, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj), ‘Minorities in government: Explaining the success of ethnic parties in post-communist states’

1.9 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Nationalism, migration and Violent Conflict: Russian media and multi-modal constructions of Others
Chair: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (University of Edinburgh)
Sue-Ann Harding (University of Manchester), 'Difference, Dislocation and Disorder: Russian Television News Coverage of "Migrants" and Migration'
Emma Heywood (University of Manchester), 'Communication of Conflict: Russian, French and UK Foreign News Coverage'
Discussant: Vera Tolz (University of Manchester)

1.10 Literature and Culture: Meanings of Water in Russian Culture
Chair: Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow)
Jane Costlow (Bates College, USA), 'Waters of Oblivion, Waters of Memory in Dovzhenko's Earth and Shepitko/Klimov's Farewell.'
Arja Rosenholm (University of Tampere, Finland), 'Water in Soviet Literature in the Cold War Culture'
Discussant: Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow)

1.11: Linguistics Corpus linguistics: morphology
Chair: tbc
Paola Bocale (University of Cambridge), 'Derivational processes in Polish. The results of a field investigation'
Anna Socha (University of Sheffield), 'Indeclinable Nouns on the Rise in Polish. A corpus study of foreign toponyms.'
Marjana Vaneva (University American College Skopje), 'Prototypical Cases of Zero Derivation in English and Macedonian'

1.12 Sociology: Biographies under fire? How individuals adapt to radical social change. Experiences and strategies
Chair: Maija Runcis (Stockholm University)
Christopher Swader (National Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow), 'The Capitalist Personality: Face to Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World'
Vaida Obelene (Uppsala University), ''Gentlemen of success' - former Communist functionaries explaining their lasting success during societal change'
Ildikó Asztalos Morell (Uppsala University), 'Competing representations of the trauma of collectivisation in two life stories'
Discussant: Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University)

2.1 Literature and Culture: Early 20th Century Literature
Chair: Katherine Hodgson(University of Exeter)
Alexey Kholodov (Odessa National University, Ukraine), ‘Christianity vs. Paganism or mythopoetic imagery in Bunin’s The Gentleman from San Francisco and Joyce’s The Dead’
Olena Lytovka (Maria Curie-Sklodovska University in Lublin, Poland), ‘The Concept of Silence in Russian Literature at the Turn of the 20th century: Leonid Andreyev vs. the Symbolists’
Olga Ushakova (Tiumen State University, Russia), ‘Development of a Russian Poetic Epic in the Context of British High Modernism: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and A.A. Akhmatova's Poem Without A Hero’

2.2 Politics: The Europeanisation of Politics in the Balkans
Chair: Matt Willer (University of East Anglia)
Natasha Wunsch (UCL SSEES) ‘Europeanisation from below? Civil society organisations in Serbia and Croatia’
Radostina Schivatcheva (University of Cambridge), ‘Geneaological analysis of the hegemonic environmental governmentalities in Bulgaria preceding and following the EU accession’
Dragomir Stoyanov (Sofia University), ‘European Impact on Bulgarian Political Parties: Organizational Change and Intra-Party Relations’

2.3 History: Imperial Russia: Tradition and Modernity
Chair: tbc
Susanna Rabow-Edling (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Women and Empire in the Russian Colonization of America'
Tatiana Saburova (Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russia) ‘Alexandr Amfiteatrov and the “generation of eighties” in the history of the Russian intelligentsia’
Yukiko Tatsumi (University of Tokyo, Japan) ‘The Representation of Tsar and the Commercial Press in the Late Imperial Russia: a Study of Illustrated Journals and Koronatsionnyi sbornik’

2.4 Sociology (i)Roundtable: Past and Present in Family and Gender Policies and Practices in Russia and Eastern Europe
Chair: Helene Carlbäck (Södertörn University)
Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University)
Zhanna Kravchenko (Lund University)
Melanie Ilic (University of Gloucestershire)

2.5 Linguistics: Balkan Languages
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
Robert Greenberg (CUNY, USA), ‘The Language Debate in Montenegro: Compromise, Controversy, and an Uncertain Future’
Grant Lundberg (Brigham Young University), ‘Categorization of the Varieties of the Slovene Language’
Johanna Virkkula (University of Helsinki), ‘Muslim Names the Bosnian Way’

2.6 Politics A discussion of Conor O'Clery’s Moscow, December 25th, 1991 : the last day of the Soviet Union (Dublin : Transworld Ireland, 2011)
(This panel is conceived as a discussion in the style of the Edinburgh Book Festival in which Professor Stephen White (University of Glasgow) will invite the author to comment on various aspects of his book, followed by an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and otherwise contribute.)

2.7 Literature and Culture: Yearning for the old or propaganda for the new? Russian Music abroad in the 1920s
BASEES Study Group for Russian and East European Music
Chair: Stefan Weiss (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media)
Maria Bychkova (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media), ‘The Activity of Russian musical institutions in Berlin after 1917’
Anna Fortunova (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media), ‘The integration of Russian musicians in 1920s Berlin: myth or reality?’
Stefan Weiss (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media), ‘The “Society of Friends of the New Russia” and the introduction of Soviet Music to Germany’
Anya Leveillé (University of Bern), ‘The paradox of a national music school in exile: the case of Russian composers in Paris in the 1920s’

2.8 History: Gender in Expert Discourses of Late State Socialism and Transformation
Chair: Marta Rabikowska (University of East London)
Libora Oates-Indruchová (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna) ‘The Tradition of Gender-Conscious Thought in the Czech Republic’
Muriel Blaive (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna) ‘Power over the Female Body in Czechoslovakia: Social and Medical Practices of Birth’
Ildikó Asztalos Morell (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Multiple marginalisation of Romani women and poverty elimination projects in the post state-socialist transition'

2.9 The Current State of Russian Business-State Relations
Chair: Elizabeth Teague (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
Tina Jennings (St Antony's College, Oxford) 'Business-State Relations under Putin: Lessons from the Berezovsky-Abramovich Trial'
Elizabeth Teague (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 'Current Attempts to Establish a Business-Friendly Political Party in Russia'
Richard Connolly (CREES, University of Birmingham) 'An Intra-Elite Rule of Law in Russia'
Philip Hanson ( Chatham House) 'The Russian Steel Industry and its Domestic Environment'
Discussant: John Lough (Chatham House)

2.10 Economics: Capitalist diversity in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair Silvana Cimpoca (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
Magnus Feldmann (University of Bristol), 'The Economic Crisis and the Slovenian Political Economy: The End of Exceptionalism?'
Mitja Stefancic (University of Ljubljana), 'From effective transition to unexpected problems: the case of Slovenia'
Silvana Cimpoca (University of Oxford)'Understanding a Dependent Market Economy. Is Education the Answer? Perspectives on Romania'

2.11 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Myth, Memory, Migration: Popular Culture in CEE Mass Media under Communism and After
Chair: Holly Porteous (University of Glasgow)
Jan Culik (University of Glasgow), ‘The construction of national mythology in popular Czech TV series’
Paul Vickers (University of Glasgow), ‘All Friends Here? Migrating to the new Polish West in Sylwester Chęciński’s Agnieszka 46 (1964) and Sami swoi (1967).’
John Bates (University of Glasgow), ‘Representations of the new Polish economic migrants in recent British and Polish TV series and films.’

2.12 Sociology: Soviet understandings of climate change
Chair: TBC
Denis Shaw (University of Birmingham), ‘The Subarctic: a Classic Study of the Tundra’
Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow), ‘Conceptualisations of Climate Change amongst Soviet geographers, circa 1945-1960s’
Discussant: TBC

3.1 EU-Russia Energy Relations: Several Perspectives
Chair: Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow)
Jack Sharples (University of Glasgow), ‘EU-Russian Energy Relations: The Russian Perspective’
Andrew Judge (University of Strathclyde), ‘Securitising EU gas supplies: threats and responses’
Tomas Maltby (University of Manchester), ‘EU energy security policy: New member states’
Domenico Ferrara (University of Warwick), ‘Understanding EU-Russia energy relations through a discursive approach’

3.2 Linguistics: Syntax
Chair: Anna Socha (University of Sheffield)
Dalmi Grete (Eszterhazy College) ‘The left periphery of polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh- questions: a comparison of South Slavic li and Hungarian vajon’
Zsuzsanna Becseiné Ráti (University of Szeged, Hungary), 'О так называемом «малом синтаксисе» русского языка (анализ N+P+N конструкций)'
Malgorzata Krzek ‘The interpretation of subject in Polish impersonal constructions’

3.3 History: Russian Marxism and Antisemitism
Chair: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)
Erik van Ree (University of Amsterdam) Was Georgii Plekhanov an “Orthodox Marxist”?
Brendan McGeever (University of Glasgow) 'The Soviet Government's Confrontation with Antisemitism and Pogroms in 1918'

3.4 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Russian media from international perspective
Chair: Jukka Pietiläinen (University of Helsinki)
Katja Koikkalainen (University of Helsinki), ‘Business magazines in Russia: Combining elite and mass interests’
Salla Nazarenko (University of Tampere), ‘Fighting For National Unity - Patriotism in Television News in Georgia and Russia'
Kaarle Nordenstreng & Svetlana Pasti (University of Tampere) ‘The Russian Media System in the Context of the BRICS Countries’

3.5 Politics: Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Chair: Mike Bowker (University of East Anglia)
Ina Shakhrai (University of Potsdam) ‘The EU and Russia as external actors: does Belarus have to choose?’
Eleanor Bindman (University of Glasgow) ‘EU Policy on Economic and Social Rights in Russia: A Missed Opportunity?’
Anastasia Mitrofanova (Diplomatic Academy, Moscow), 'Building National Identities in the Post-Soviet area: the case of Moldova'

3.6 Literature and Culture: Representations of the Past in Russian Literature and Philosophy
Chair: Elena Namli (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden)
Julie Hansen (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden), ‘History and the Detective in Aleksandr Terekhov’s Novel Kamennyi most’
Mikhail Suslov (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden), ‘Looking Backward: Representations of the Past in Russian Narrative Utopias on the Turn of the 20th Century ’
Kåre Johan Mjør (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden), ‘Towards a Canon of Russian Philosophy: The Historiography of Gershenzon, Ern and Berdiaev’
Discussant: Elena Namli (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden)

3.7 Literature and Culture: 19th Century Literature
BASEES 19th Century Study Group
Chair: Sarah Hudspith (University of Leeds)
Sarah Young (SSEES, University College London), ‘Performing the city: street theatre in the Physiology of Petersburg and Crime and Punishment’
Giuliana Teixeira de Almeida (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil), ‘Through the biographical prism: Joseph Frank and Dostoevsky’

3.8 History: The Politics of Deviance in Socialist States
Chair: tbc
Tuomas Laine-Frigren (University of Jyväskylä) - Psychology and politics of deviance in Socialist Hungary
Ira Jänis-Isokangas (University of Eastern Finland) - How to Campaign against Deviance in the Soviet Union
Giorgi Kldiashvili and Levan Avalishvili (Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information, Tbilisi) - ‘”Special Folders” of the Party Archives of Georgia on the March 1956 events’
Discussant: Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland)

3.9 Linguistics: Issues in Historical linguistics
Chair: Per Ambrosiani (Umeå University, Sweden)
Alison Long (GSMD), ‘The declining use of the Russian short form adjective with semi-copula verbs — 1800-2000’
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen (University of Copenhagen), ‘Usage-motivated assignment of grammatical content: The accusative and the genitive as argument 2 (A2) in the history of Russian’

3.10 History: The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present
Chair: Sabina Fiebig (University of Gloucestershire)
Melanie Ilic (University of Gloucestershire) ’Everyday Lives of Soviet Women’
Dalia Leinarte (Vilnius University) ‘Silence as Testimony in Life Stories of Soviet Lithuanian Women’
Kelly Hignett (Swansea University) ‘”We had to become criminals, to survive under communism”: Conversations about Crime in Communist Eastern Europe’

3.11 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Identity in Post-Soviet Russian Film and Media
Chair:Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London)
Anastasia Gorelik (EHESS/CERCEC/CNRS), ‘Identity Question Through The Mass-Media’s Peculiarities of Post Soviet Russia.’
Rasa Balockaite (Vytautas Magnus University), ‘Colonial Narratives in the Soviet Cinema: Case of the “Kidnapping, Caucasian style” (1967)’
Svetlana Tischenko (Monash University, Australia), ‘Back to the Future in the New Russian Blockbuster: Creating a New Hero from Old Values.’

4.1 Sociology: Social Change and Processes of Re-adaptation among Eastern European Migrants in the UK
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova (Charles University, Prague)
Marta Rabikowska (University of East London), ‘A Pole Like a Wolf to another Pole: Class Formation and Group Ressentiment among Eastern European Immigrants in London’
Monika Metykova (Northumbria University), ‘Making a Home in the UK: Eastern European Migrants in London, Edinburgh and Newcastle’
Anne White (University of Bath), ‘Can Poland keep its return migrants?’
Oana Romocea (Leeds Metropolitan University), ‘Negotiating Ethnic Identity within a Transnational Space: Romanian Migrants in the UK’

4.2 Literature and Culture: Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature
Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Glasgow)
Jekaterina Shulga (SSEES, University College London), ‘The Living and the Dead: The Uncanny Terror in Iurii Dombrovskii’s Khranitel’ drevnostei and Fakul’tet nenuzhnykh veshchei’
Sarah Hudspith (University of Leeds), ‘Escape from Moscow: Russian women writers of the 1990s and the city’
Kira Gordovich (St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russia), ‘The author’s persona in Russian literature of the end of the XX/XXI century’
Svetlana Skomorokhova (University of Warwick), ‘‘The Benevolent Goblin’: Translation as ‘Cultural Memorial’ in Post-Soviet Russia’

4.3 Stalinism and its Legacy
Chair: Mark Vincent (University of East Anglia)
Anatoly Z. Pinsky (Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, USA) ‘The Individual after Stalin: Toward a New Understanding of Destalinization, 1953-1964’
Victoria Donovan (University of Exeter) ‘The Age of Engineers: The Evolution of the Technical Intelligentsia in Postwar Russia’
Norman Prell (University of Aberdeen), ‘The Road to Magadan: Memory and Silence’
Peter Whitewood (University of Leeds) ‘Subversion in the Red Army and the Military Purge of 1937-38’

4.4 Linguistics: Corpus linguistics
Chair: Dagmar Divjak (University of Sheffield)
Svetlana Gorokhova (St Petersburg State University), ‘Word form frequency effects in language production: A corpus-based study of Russian speech errors’
Beata Trawiński (University of Vienna), ‘Stylistic Profiles of Polish Secondary Prepositions’

4.5 Media: Russian media, consumption and social change
Chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng (University of Tampere, Finland)
Olga Gurova (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki) ‘Shopping for fashion in post-socialist Russia’
Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri-Institute, University of Helsinki) ‘Magazine Cosmopolitan and changing values of Russians’
Saara Ratilainen (University of Tampere, Finland), ‘What to wear?: Class, gender and consumption in post-Soviet glossy media’

4.6 Literature and Culture: Culture and Identity in Bosnia-Hercegovina
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
Aleksandar Pavlović (University of Nottingham), ‘The Death of Smail-Aga in Literature and Popular Belief: the Formation of the Turk as the Political Enemy in the Balkans’
Gabriela Vojvoda-Engstler (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), ‘Third space cultural identity in Dževad Karahasan’s story Pisma iz 1993. godine (Letters from 1993)’
Giulia Carabelli (Queen’s University, Belfast), ‘(Re)collecting Mostar.’

4.7 Economic and Politics in Ukraine and its Neighbours
Chair: Lina Klymenko (University of Vienna, Austria)
Maria Shagina (University of Düsseldorf) ‘The EU impact on Ukrainian party politics: Europeanization or Democratization?’
Olga Lykholobova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) ‘Comparative Analysis of Structural Transformations in Eastern Europe and the CIS in Response to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009'
Svitlana Maksymenko (University of Pittsburgh) (co-authored with L. Klein and F. Kushnirsky) ‘A Macroeconomic Study of Ukraine’s growth and reform’

4.8 History: International Solidarity: Activism and the Global in Eastern European History
Chair: Jon Waterlow (University of Oxford)
Frank Wolff (Osnabrück University, Germany) 'From Cash Flow to Transnational Jewish Secularism: Practice and Effects of Bundist Revolutionary Fund-Raising between Eastern Europe, the United States and Argentina'
Gleb J. Albert (Bielefeld University, Germany) 'An Internationalist obshchestvennost’? The MOPR in 1920s Soviet Society'
Timur Mukhamatulin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) ‘The Appropriation of Spain: Spain in Soviet Mass Conscience during the Civil War (1936-1939)’
Discussant: Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia)

4.9 Sociology: The Search for National Identity in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan
Chair: Galina Yemelianova (University of Birmingham)
Gulnara Mendikulova (Centre for Diaspora Studies, World Association of the Kazakhs, Almaty, Kazakhstan), 'Ethnic Politics in the Sovereign Kazakhstan'
Adele Del Sordi (IMT Advanced Studies< Lucca, Italy), 'The "Party of Power" Nur Otan and the Stability of the Kazakhstani Political System'
Svetlana Zhanabayeva (Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan) 'Language Policy under President Nazarbayev'
Galina Yemelianova (University of Birmingham) 'Islam, the Kazakh National Identity and Politics in Contemporary Kazakhstan'

4.10 Sociology: Science in 19th century Russia - regional, national and transnational exchange.
Panel sponsored by CRCEES
Chair: Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow)
Marina Loskutova (St. Petersburg branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences), ‘Regionalizing Russia: academic communities and the production of regional identities in the late 19th century Russian empire’
Anastasia Fedotova (St. Petersburg branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences), ‘Regional entomological congresses in southern provinces: the making of applied biology’
Eric Michael Johnson (University of British Columbia), ‘"National style", transnational networks, and mutual aid in Russian evolutionary thought, 1859 - 1919’
Mary Bailes (University of Glasgow), ‘Rural-urban exchange in late 19th century Russian scientific communities’

5.1 History: Within the Fissures of the Soviet State.
Chair: Gleb J. Albert (Bielefeld University)
Andy Willimott (University of East Anglia), ‘Between Tradition and Modernity: The Genealogy of Early Soviet Commune-ism’.
Jon Waterlow (University of Oxford), ‘Crosshatching Realities: Popular Humour and Adapting to Stalin's 1930s.
Simon Huxtable (Birkbeck College) ‘Theory and Practice in Soviet Journalism, or Was the Soviet Press Leninist?’

5.2 History: Balkan History and Politics
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
Richard Mills (University of East Anglia), ‘From Goal-lines to Frontlines: Football Leagues in Wartime Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina 1991-1995’
Dario Brentin (SSEES University College London) 'I feel like a real Croatian now!' - Sport, 'race' and ethnicity in post-socialist Croatia
Piotr Goldstein (University of Manchester), ‘Looking for Regularities in the Balkans: Typology of Mostar and Novi Sad NGOs’

5.3 Politics: Russia and its Neighbours
Chair: Derek Hutcheson (University College Dublin)
Dmitry Foryy (University of Siegen), ‘Russia’s strategic interests in the Central Asia in the 21st Century’
Mihoko Kato (University of Oxford / Hokkaido University), ‘Re-examining the Yeltsin’s foreign policy from the standpoint of the Asia-Pacific region’
Alicja Curanovic (University of Warsaw ) ‘Controlled Resacralisation?The Religious Factor in the Policy of the Russian Federation’

5.4 Linguistics: Lexical semantics
Chair: Dagmar Divjak (University of Sheffield)
Nezrin Samedova (Azerbaijan University of Languages), ‘The Typology Of Initiality In The Light Of Differentiating Two Homonymous Constructions Stat’+INF In Russian (Some Thoughts)’
Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij and Ludmila Pöppel (Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University, Sweden), ‘Combinatorial profile and synonymy: Russian synonyms from the semantic field of power’
Andrey Gorbov (St Petersburg State University), ‘Prestige and Elevation hypotheses verified: A Case Study of Six Loanwords in Russian’

5.5 Sociology: Mobility, Circulation, and Exchange in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow)
Rachel Koroloff (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), ‘Seeds of Exchange: From Apothecary to Botanical Gardens in St. Petersburg, 1690-1750’
Gregory Afinogenov (Harvard University), ‘Travel, Espionage, and Information on the Road from St. Petersburg to Beijing’
Kelly O'Neil (Harvard University), ‘Managing Abundance: Oak Trees, Shipyards, and the Reorganization of Russian’
Discussant: John Randolph (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

5.6 Literature and Culture: Cultural Constructions of the Scientist in East European Socialist Fiction
Chair: Sarah Young (UCL)
Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Glasgow), ‘Scientists in Soviet Fiction: An Overview’
Muireann Maguire (Wadham College, Oxford), ‘From NIICHAVO to Maxwell House: Scientific Institutions in Soviet Sci-Fi’
Yvonne Poerzgen (University of Bremen, Germany), ‘Man and machine: Stanisław Lem’s techno-philosophy’
Matthias Schwartz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), ‘The destiny of the sharp-eyed. The image of the mad scientist in Soviet science fiction of the Stalin period’

5.7 Literature and Culture: Intercultural Dialogues and Influences
Chair: Svetlana Skomorokhova (University of Warwick)
Sergiy Kurbatov (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden), ‘Manifest and Latent Influences of Ukrainian Components on the Development of Russian Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries’
Susan Reynolds (British Library), ‘`Seh ich ganz Prag in weiter Runde’: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Slavonic heritage.’
Bruno Gomide (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil), ‘David Vygodski and Hispanic-American studies in the Soviet Union’
Katalin Bella (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) ‘BetweenPatronage and Equality: Hungarian-Prussian Intellectual Contacts in the 18th Century’

5.8 History: Memory, Identity and the writing of History
Chair: tbc
Vicky Davis (University College London), ‘Time and Tide: Temporal perceptions of invented tradition in Novorossiisk’
Kamala Imranli (University of Birmingham) ‘Rewriting history: The Case of Garabagh’.
Nadezhda Savova (Princeton University), ‘Bread and Home: Post-socialist Cultural Politics in the Tangible Places of Intangible Heritage’
Loretta Salajan (Aberystwyth University) ‘Identity, Discourse and Foreign Policy: The Case of Romania’

5.9 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Constructions of Gender: Czech and Russian
Chair: Katja Koikkalainen (University of Helsinki)
Katerina Liskova (Masaryk University), ‘Regulating Sex and Gender. Intersection of Sexology and the State’ [in Communist Czechoslovakia]
Susanne Sklepek-Hatton (University of Nottingham), ‘Unraveling “Normalized” Discourse on Womanhood in the ČSSR: From the KSČ to VLASTA Magazine’
Holly Porteous (University of Glasgow), ‘“I Wanted to Buy Everything” - Fantasy, Aspiration and the Consumer Lifestyle in Contemporary Russian Women’s Magazines’

5.10 History: For a national cause? Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Urban tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Chair: Sarah Lemmen (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna)
Kerstin Jobst (University of Salzburg; Academy of the German Forces, Hamburg), ‘Yalta as a national pleasure periphery’
Yavuz Köse (Universität Hamburg , ‘To bicycle in Bursa. Ottoman tourists in late 19th century Bursa’
Sarah Lemmen (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna), 'Czech national tourism? Mental maps of Cairo in Czech travelogues around 1918'
Discussant: Wendy Bracewell (SSEES, University College London)

5.11 Sociology: Identity and belonging
Chair: tbc
Cerasela Voiculescu (University of Edinburgh), ‘Desires of Membership, Fears of Belonging: Roma Identity Management in Local State Encounters’
Eva Eckert (American University, Prague), ‘Migration Narratives and Migrant Integration of Czechs, Germans, Slovaks and Vietnamese, to the destinations of Texas and Czech Republic in the mid 19th and second half of the 20th centuries’
Tamara Gella (Orel) ‘National Identity in Russia and Europe: Contemporary Aspects of the Problem’

6.1 Linguistics: Public discourse in Russia and abroad
Chair:Alla Nedashkivska (University of Alberta)
Elena Butorina (Russian State University for the Humanities), 'Сайты и блоги на русском языке за пределами России '
Alla Nedashkivska (University of Alberta), ‘Childhood in Ukrainian Media: Discursive Study of Ukrainian and Russian language magazines’
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (University of Edinburgh), ‘Catching Shadows of Linguistic Memories: metalanguage of the Soviet past’

6.2 Comparative Economics
Chair: tbc
Oleksandr Dluhopolskyy (Ternopil National Economic University), ‘The effectiveness of public sector and public expenditure: pragmatics of inconsistencies’
Justyna Schulz (University of Bremen), ‘Road to economic dependency? - An import driven development of the Eastern European Countries’
Leyla Sayfutdinova (Middle East Technical University), ‘The Transformation of engineering profession in post-Soviet Azerbaijan’

6.3 History: Framing communities and nations in east-central Europe - then and now (I)
Chair: tbc
Jan Lorenz (University of Manchester), 'Traces of affinity. Emerging adulthood and negotiation of Jewish belonging in contemporary Poland'
Josette Baer (University of Zürich), 'Two concepts of nation - and state-building: Masaryk vs. Vajansky'
Stevo Ðurašković (University of Zagreb), 'The National Identity-Building in Slovakia- the case of Vladimír Mináč'

6.4 Literature and Culture: Music in Dialogue
Chair: Stephen Muir (University of Leeds)
Vladimir Orlov (Aleksey Bakhrushin Museum of Theatre, Moscow, Russia), ‘“There is no mother who lulls her child with these intonations”: Soviet Lullaby in Stalin's USSR’
Dominique Porebska-Quasnik (Université Jan Kochanowski, Poland), ‘Originality of the Polish vocal repertory in the XIX and XXth centuries: messages and symbols. Language-code and perspective of future.’
Tamsin Alexander (University of Cambridge), ‘Italianising Russian Opera: Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar at Covent Garden (1887)’

6.5 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Beyond Soviet Documentary Film
Chair :Jekaterina Shulga (SSEES, University College London)
Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London), ‘The Films of Sergei Dvortsevoi and the End of Analogue’
Masumi Kameda (University of Tokyo), ‘Film Representation of Railway Construction: Soviet and Yugoslav Propaganda in Comparison’
Alissa Timoshkina (Kings College London), ‘Forgiving the Father: second generation guilt and the legacy of the Holocaust in Alexander Rodniansky’s documentary film “A visit to the Father”’

6.6 Politics: The Law, Justice and Democracy
Chair: Liam O'Shea (University of St. Andrews)
Fabian Zhilla (King’s College, London), ‘Informal Structures and Social Control of the Judiciary in Post-communist Societies’
James Gow (King’s College, London), ‘Pictures of Peace and Justice: the ICTY beyond the Courtroom’
Elvin Gjevori (Dublin City University), “The Institutionalisation of the Armed Forces and Judiciary in Albania”
Nena Močnik (University of Ljubljana), ‘Count on us, thirty years later: legacy and actualization of the former Yugoslav multicultural practices in the contemporary reconciliation processes of the region’

6.7 Linguistics: Etymology
Chair:Lianna Matevosyan (Yerevan State University)
Anna Solomonovskaya (Novosibirsk State University), ‘Three Cognitive Verbs in the Speech of Medieval Slavic Scholar’
Idaliya Vasilyeva (V.V.Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), ‘Piast the Polish King: an etymological perspective'
Nataliya Panasenko (University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia), ‘Primary and secondary designation in Slavonic phytonymic lexicon’

6.8 Politics: Kin states and nation building
Chair: Stephen White (University of Glasgow)
Karin Traunmüller (University of Vienna), 'Kin-State policies in Central and Eastern Europe - trends, developments and question'
Eleanor Knott (LSE), 'What does it mean to be a kin majority? Defining a new typology for post-Communist kin relations'
Ammon Cheskin (University of Glasgow), 'A choice of two histories? Latvian official history, Russian official history, and the dilemma facing Latvia’s Russian-speakers'
Ingegerd Municio-Larsson (Södertörn University), 'Transcultural images of citizenship in nation-building processes: an east-west perspective'

6.9 Literature and Culture: Gulag Literature
Chair: Josephine von Zitzewitz (New College, Oxford)
Josephine von Zitzewitz (New College, Oxford), ‘The Role of Nature in Gulag Poetry: Shalamov and Zabolotsky’
Thomas Rowley (University of Cambridge), ‘Splintering Selfhood: Samizdat and the Case of Danylo Shumuk’
Andrea Gullotta (University of Padua, Italy), ‘Literature within the Gulag: the Unique Case of the Solovki Prison Camp’

6.10 Linguistics: Pragmatics and Clitics
Chair: tbc
Katherine Moskver & Elena Remchukova (US Air Force Academy and Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship), ‘Pragmatics of Diminutives in Russian’
Margje Post (Universitetet i Bergen), ‘The Northern Russian clitic dak - an utterance-final procedural marker’

6.11 History: Russian Presence in Britain: Historicising the Recent Past
Chair: A Cross
Elena Zaytseva (Independent Scholar) 'Exhibitions of 'non-official' art from the Soviet Union in London in 1960's - 1980's'
Konstantin Shlykov (Moscow State University of International Relations) ‘Gorbachev in Britain: conflicting perceptions and political reality’
Natalia Budanova (Courtauld Institute of Art), ‘Invisible presence: Boris Kustodiev’s portrait of Petr Kapitza from the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum’
Oksana Morgunova (MIGNET EU Project) ‘Russians in the City of London: Patriots with a Touch of Spleen’

6.12 History: Reassessing the Soviet Union
Chair: Andy Willimott (University of East Anglia)
Alessandro Iandolo (St Antony's College, Oxford University) ‘A Forced March to Progress. Reassessing Soviet economic aid to Ghana, 1957-1964’
Lina Klymenko (University of Vienna, Austria) ‘Coming to Terms with the World War II in Ukraine: a Commitment to European Values?’
Richard Maguire (University of East Anglia), 'The Quest to Destroy Moscow: The Culture of British Nuclear Missile Targeting'
Anna Sorokina and Valeria Kasamara (The National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow), ‘The Post-Imperial Syndrome: Russian Youth about the Soviet Past’

7.1 Russian Geopolitics, History and National Identity
Chair: tbc
Mikhail Suslov (Russian Institute for Cultural Research), ‘Orthodox Fundamentalism and Geopolitical Imagination in Russia, 1991 to the Present’
Ghoncheh Tazmini (Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Intercionais (IEEI), Portugal), ‘Modernisation in Russia: the ambivalent relationship between western models and non-western traditions’
Tamara Djermanovic (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), 'Dostoevsky's literature construction of the relation between Russia and the West in The Brothers Karamazov'
Victoria Hudson (CREES, Birmingham University), ‘Soft Power po-Moskovskij: A Review of Contemporary Russian Approaches to Cultural Influence Abroad’

7.2 Politics: East-Central Europe
Chair: Ingegerd Municio-Larsson (Södertörn University)
Jiri Melich (Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research) 'Czech National Identity, Political Culture, and Corruption in the Age of Globalization'
Agata Drelova (University of Exeter) ‘An Unfinished Project (A making of Slovak national ideology in the late socialist Czechoslovakia)‘
Sylwia Ejmont (Bogazici University) ‘The Heart of Europe: Emotions in Polish Political Discourse’

7.3 Sociology: Welfare and gender: Views from Russia and the EU
Chair: TBC
Jolanta Aidukaite (Mykolas Romeris University), ‘Welfare Reforms and Socio-economic Trends in the Ten New EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe’
Natalia Chernyaeva (Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art), ‘Mothers versus Experts: Mom’s Blogging Communities and Shifting Models of Normative Mothering in modern Russia’
Vasyl Lopukh (Shevchenko Scientific Society, USA) 'Ukrainian "Fourth Wave" Immigration to the USA'

7.4 Film/Media/Gender Studies: Auteurist studies of Eastern European Cinema
Chair:Alissa Timoshkina (Kings College London)
Mario Slugan (University of Chicago), ‘Emir Kusturica’s oeuvre and the study of Balkanism: An alternative to existing approaches’
Alina Popescu (Université Paris Ouest), ‘The Romanian Cineasts And The Securitate. The case of Mircea Daneliuc’
Julia Anokhina (Independent researcher), "Solaris": Before and after Tarkovsky

7.5 Linguistic approaches to poetry and drama
Chair: tbc
Larysa Bieliekhova (Kherson State University), ‘Integrated Model of Poetic Text Interpretation’
Elena Knyazeva (Institute of Linguistics, the Russian Academy of Sciences), ‘Linguistic Factors of Individual Rhythm Realization in Sound Poetic Texts (based on the analysis of Russian poetic texts of the 20th century in author’s representation)’
Klara Sharafadina (St Petersburg) ‘Представлен подробный сравнительный анализ французской версии этикетных цветочных пособий с первыми английскими руководствами'

7.6 History: The Use of Ritual: transmission, transformation, prolongation.
Case Studies on Political and Historical Change in Twentieth Century Romania
Chair: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
Ionut Biliuta (Central European University) ‘Nation’s or God’s Liturgy? The Interwar and Post-Communist Fascination with Ritual of the Romanian Iron Guard’
Valentin Sandulescu (Independent Scholar ), ‘Fascism and Ritual in a Romanian Context: the 1927 Ritualistic Foundation of the Legion of the Archangel Michael’
Anca Sincan (“Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Romanian Academy of Sciences), ‘“Last rites:” Greek Catholic rituals preserved by religious communities after the forced union with the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1948’
Narcis Tulbure (University of Pittsburgh, USA), ‘ Crisis, Ritual and Change: Cultures of Consumption and Credit-Based Affluence in Contemporary Romania’
Discussant: Lucian Leustean (Aston University)

7.7 Sociology: Russian-speaking migrants in the West: changes, flexibilities, movements of meanings
Chair: Darya Malyutina (UCL)
Olga Bronnikova (University of Poitiers & Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris), ‘Identity strategies of Russian-speaking migrant’s associations’
Anna Pechurina (Teesside University), ‘Migration, Diaspora and the Multiplicity of the Meanings of Things: the Case of Russian Dolls’
Maria Shukurova (University of Iceland), ‘Conversational Code-switching among Russian Speaking Bilinguals in London and Reykjavik’

7.8 Literature and Culture:Творчество Козьмы Пруткова: современный взгляд исследователей и издателей
Chair: Alexey Smirnov (Russian Academy of Science Vita Nova Publishers)
Alexey Smirnov (Russian Academy of Science Vita Nova Publishers), Козьма Прутков-классик литературной пародии'
Maria Smirnova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow), 'Афоризмы Козьмы Пруткова и "Новые афоризмы" из книги Алексея Смирнова "Прутковиада: Новые досуги"'
Ilya Zakharenkov (Vita Nova Publishers), 'Деятельность издательства "Вита Нова" на примере книги" Сочинения Козьмы Пруткова"'

7.9 Literature and Culture: Russia and the West
Chair: Andreas Schonle (Queen Mary, University of London)
Andreas Schonle (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Patriotic melancholy: national identity and lieux de mémoire absente in Karamzin’s middle period’
Inna Tigountsova (University of Nottingham), ‘Eternity and the Vortex of Time in Goethe and Dostoevsky’
Rolf Hellebust (University of Nottingham), ‘The Redemptive Mission of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in the Context of Romantic Genre Theory’

7.10 Polish History
Chair: tbc
Tom Junes (College of Europe) 'The old get older, but the young get stronger: generational change as a factor in the demise of Communism.'
Tomasz Kozłowski (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland) 'Rural "Solidarity" in Poland'
Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland) 'Telimena in Moscow. Marketing through Fashion Shows. Examining Changing Polish Cloth Export Practices to the Soviet Union 1956-1982'
Jens Boysen (German Historical Institute Warsaw, Poland), ‘On the search for a “national agreement”: the military leadership of Poland between internationalist loyalty and nationalist compromise (1980-1990)’

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Academic Conference Organiser - Dr Cathie Carmichael, School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ