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Fitzwilliam
College, Cambridge, UK
27
– 29 March 2010
Programme
Saturday, 27 March 2010
12.30-13.15:
LUNCH
13:15-14:45:
Session 1
1.1
Auditorium – Russian Parliamentary Politics
Chair: Neil Robinson
(University of Limerick, Ireland)
Cameron Ross (University of Dundee, UK), ‘Federalism
and Regional Representation in the Federation Council’
Paul Chaisty (St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford,
UK), ‘Legislative Lobbying in the Federal Assembly, 1994-2007’
1.2 Reddaway
Room - Geographies of In/Security in the Caucasus – Local and Global Perspectives
Chair: Drew Foxall (Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK)
Aude Merlin (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium),
'Violence in Ingushetia and Dagestan: Chechen Conflict Spill Over or Isolated
Endogeneous Conflicts?'
Inka Salovaara-Moring (University of Helsinki, Finland)
‘Dead Ground: Spaces of Geopolitics, Communication and “Frozen Conflict”
in Georgia’
Discussant: Aglaya Snetkov (University of Birmingham,
UK)
1.3 Trust
Room - Identities and Social Attitudes of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians
Chair: Allan Sikk (University College London, UK)
Richard Mole (University College London, UK) ‘Homophobic
Discourse and the ‘National Threat’ in Post-communist Latvia’
Olga Cara (University College London, UK) ‘Linguistic
Acculturation Strategies of Ethnic Russian Adolescents in Latvia’
Violetta Parutis (University College London, UK)
‘Changing Sexual Attitudes and Behaviour of London’s Estonian, Latvians
and Lithuanians’
1.4 William
Thatcher Room –
Eastern European Culture
Chair: Susan Reynolds (British Library, UK)
Susan Reynolds (British Library, UK), “
Nejaky hanebny basnirik nemecky ”: Grillparzer and the Czechs
Yvonne Poerzgen (University of Bremen, Germany), ‘
From “We” to “Me”: Identity as a Result of Inclusion and Exclusion in
Miljenko Jergovic‘s Texts‘
Libora Oates-Indruchova (Charles University, Czech Republic),
‘Subversive Gender Discourses in Czech Culture of the Perestroika
Period’
1.5
Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre – The Impact of War and Revolution in Russia
and the Soviet Union
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia, UK)
James Ryan (University College Cork, Ireland), ‘War
against War: The Significance of the First World War in the Thought of
V.I. Lenin on Violence, 1914-21’
Alistair S. Wright (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘The
Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Karelia during the Russian Civil War’
Christopher Gilley, ‘The “Change of Signposts” in
the Russian and Ukrainian Emigrations’
1.6 Gaskoin
– New Methods in Teaching Slavonic Languages
Chair: James Wilson (University of Leeds, UK)
James Wilson (University of Leeds, UK), ‘Training
in Pronunciation: An Added Bonus or a Core Component of Russian Language
Programmes?’
Karolina Ziolo (University of Sheffield, UK), ‘Teaching
Polish to Heritage Speakers: Challenges and Perspectives’
Natasha Bogoslavskaya (University of Leeds, UK), ‘Êàê ýëåêòðîííûå ðåñóðñû ïîìîãàþò â ðàáîòå íàä ñî÷èíåíèÿìè, èçëîæåíèÿìè è ïåðåâîäàìè'
1.7 RR2 – Aspects of the ‘Woman Question’: Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Tolstoy
(Neo-formalist Study Group)
Chair: Joe Andrew (Keele University, UK)
Joe Andrew (Keele University, UK), ‘For Men Only?
Dostoevsky’s Patriarchal Vision in “The Brothers Karamazov”’
Kathryn Ambrose (Keele University, UK), ‘Turgenev
and the Woman Question: A Re-vision’
Jane Briggs (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Literary
Marriages: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev’
1.8 Music
Room - Russian Presence in Britain: Emigré Life
Documented
Chair: Anthony Cross (University of Cambridge, UK)
Katya Rogatchevskaia (British Library, UK), ‘The
Development of the British Library Slavonic Collections in the Early 20th
Century’
Andy Byford (Durham University, UK), ‘Russian Diaspora
Newspapers in the UK: Some Reflections on Migrant, Community and National
Representations’
Oksana Morgunova (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Digitising
Migrants’ Memories: To Save Or Not To Save?’
Anna Pechurina (University of Manchester, UK), ‘Objects
as Documents: Visualization of Different Waves of Migrants’
15:00-16:30:
Session 2
2.1 Auditorium
– Media, Culture and Society in Post-Soviet Russia
Chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng
(University of Tampere, Finland)
Svetlana Pasti (University of Helsinki, Finland),
‘Journalists in Russian Magazines: What Does Make Distinctions in their
Professional Culture?’
Saara Ratilainen (University of Tampere, Finland), ‘Media
and Popular Genres in the Post-Soviet Russia’
Dmitry Strovsky (Ural State University, Russia),
‘Social Conflict in Russian Mass Media Coverage’
Discussant: Jukka Pietiläinen (University of Helsinki,
Finland)
2.2 Reddaway
Room – Roma: Policy and Identity
Chair: Dorian Singh (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford,
UK)
Concetta Smedile (Central and Cecile, UK),
‘Crossing Ethnic Boundaries: Migration Prostitution and Identities Among
Roma’
Dorian Singh (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford,
UK), ‘Accessing Healthcare: Understanding the Needs of Urban Roma
in Romania’
Márton Rövid (Central European University,
Hungary), ‘One-Size-Fits-All-Roma? On the Normative Dilemmas of the
Emerging European Roma Policy’
2.3 Trust
Room – Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Karen Henderson (University of Leicester, UK)
Dragomir Stoyanov (City University of Seattle, USA),
‘European Integration and Bulgarian Political Parties’
Fernando Casal Bertoa (European University Institute,
Italy), ‘Institutionalizing Political Parties or Institutionalizing
Party Systems? Conceptual Development and Empirical Application to New
East Central European Democracies’
Matthew Frear (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘The
Opposition in Contemporary Belarus: Rhetoric and Reality’
2.4 William
Thatcher Room – Topics in East European Linguistics'
Chair: Paola Bocale (UK)
Nicole Richter (University of Jena, Germany), ‘Structuring
Oral Spontaneous Speech: Auditive and Visual Cues in Russian’
Sergey Say (Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS, St
Petersburg, Russia), ‘Narrative-Advancing Relative Clauses in Russian’
Erida Prifti (University of Vlora, Albania), ‘Is the Albanian Language Headed Toward Extinction?’
2.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Identity Formation in Eastern Europe
Chair: Olga Sevastyanova
Lukasz Sommer (University of Warsaw, Poland), ‘Language
Planning and Language Consciousness: Finland and Estonia in the 19th Century’
Tatiana Saburova and Natalia Rodigina (Omsk
State Pedagogical University, Russia), ‘Project “Forward to Herzen”:
The Representations of A. Herzen in Russian Intellectuals’ Memoirs in
the Second Half of the 19th – the Beginning of the 20th Centuries’
Boris Bulatovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia),
‘Entry of Slovakia into the Euro Area’
2.6 Gaskoin
– Approaches to Chekhov
Chair: Joe Andrew (University of Keele, UK)
Tintti Klapuri (University of Turku, Finland), 'Everyday
and nostalgia in "Three Sisters"'
Andrey Shcherbenok (University of Sheffield, UK), ‘Chekhov's
"Killing Realism" and the Problem of Meaning’
Sarah Young (University College London, UK), ‘Chekhov’s
“Sakhalin Island” and the Dark Other: Memory, Identity and Estrangement’
2.7 RR2 – The Piano in Russia and Eastern Europe: Issues of Production, Identity
and Innovation (Music Study Group 1)
Chair: Anne Swartz (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA)
Anne Swartz (Baruch
College, City University of New York, USA), ‘Piano Makers in Russia:
the Transition to Russian-Owned Firms during Alexander II’s Reign’
Rebecca Mitchell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA), '”Germanness” and Music in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of
Nikolai Medtner’
Ivana Medic (University of Manchester, UK), ‘Vasilije
Mokranjac's Piano Works in the Context of Serbian Moderated Modernism’
2.8 Music
Room – Approaches to Soviet Culture
Chair: Vladimir Orlov (Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Leyla Sayfutdinova (Middle East Technical University,
Turkey), ‘Representations of Armenians in Azerbaijani 20th Century
Fiction: Friends and Enemies’
Vladimir Orlov (Clare College, University of Cambridge,
UK), ‘Soviet Cantatas and Oratorios by Sergei Prokofiev’
16:30-17:00
TEA/COFFEE
17:00-18:30:
Session 3
3.1 Auditorium
– Russian Foreign Policy under Putin/Medvedev
Chair: Alex Pravda
(St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK)
Peter Duncan (University College London, UK), ‘Ideas
and Outcomes in Russian Foreign Policy Since 2000’
Julie Newton (St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford,
UK), ‘Approaches to Europe: A New Framework?’
Daragh McDowell (Exeter College, University of Oxford,
UK), ‘Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan: Post-imperial Relationships’
3.2 Reddaway
Room - Being Excluded? Experiences of Roma Children in Education: Results
of European Comparative Empirical Research
Chair: Vera Messing (Central European University, Hungary)
David Kostlan (Institute of Sociology, SAS, Slovakia)
and Michal Nekorjak (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), ‘Roma Pupils
in Czech and Slovak Schools: A Comparative Analysis’
Maria Neményi (Institute of Sociology, HAS, Hungary)
‘Being Othered: The Construction of Minority Ethnic Identity of Roma
Adolescents in Hungary’
Ian Law and Sarah Swann (University
of Leeds, UK) ‘Missing Out: Gypsy/Roma/Traveller Children and Education,
Some Evidence From Fieldwork in a Northern City in the UK’
Zuzana Kusa and David Kostlan (Institute
of Sociology, SAS, Slovakia) ‘Migration Plans of Slovak Pupils in
the Context of Current Migration Trends’
3.3 Trust
Room – Painting in the Peripheries of Imperial Russia
Chair: Katya Rogatchevskaia (British Library, UK)
Rosalind P. Blakesley (Pembroke College, University of
Cambridge, UK), ‘Learning to Paint in the Provinces’
Emma Minns (University of Reading, UK), 'Russia
sees herself: the role of the portrait in the ‘Peredvizhniki’exhibitions'
Maria Taroutina (Yale University, USA), ‘“Flight
to Byzantium”: Reinscribing the Past and the Periphery into the Rise of
Russian Modernism’
3.4 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Democracy in the Post-Communist World
Chair: Maria Repnikova (St Antony's College,
University of Oxford, UK)
Nienke de Deugd (University of Groningen, The Netherlands),
‘Relations between the EU and Ukraine: A Case of Policy Transfer?’
Gergana Dimova (St Catharine’s College, University of
Cambridge, UK), ‘”Who Guards the Guardians?” Processes of Accountability
in Russia and Bulgaria’
Ieva Gruzina (University of Latvia, Latvia & London
School of Economics and Politics, UK), ‘Memory Politics: Impact on
National and EU Policy’
William Miller (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘A Convergent
Popular European Legal Culture?’
3.5 Gaskoin
– 'Everything Flows' by Vasilii Grossman
Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) To give
a reading from his recent translation of Vasilii Grossman's 'Everything
Flows'
3.6
Music Room – Slavic Historical Morphosyntax: Participles and Gerunds
Chair: Olga M. Mladenova (University of Calgary, Canada)
Daniela S. Hristova (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge,
UK), ‘Variant Manuscript Readings and a Speaker-Oriented Theory
of Change’
Per Ambrosiani (University of Umeå, Sweden), ‘Accentological
Characteristics of Early Slavic Participles and the Development of Modern
Slavic Converbs’
Jan Ivar Bjørnflaten (University of Oslo, Norway),
‘Grammaticalization, Actualization and Lexical Diffusion in the
Formation of Gerunds in Russian’
Discussant: Jens Nørgård-Sørensen
(University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
19:00-19:45
DINNER
20:30-22:15
Auditorium, Plenary Session - Eastern Europe as Vision and Phantom
Chair: Terry Cox (University of Glasgow, UK)
Wendy
Bracewell (University
College, London, UK), 'Travellers' Tales, East and West'
Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University, Poland),
'Eastern Europe Under Western Ice, or: Waiting for a Thaw'
Sunday,
28 March 2010
07.45-09.00:
BREAKFAST
09:30-11:00:
Session 4
4.1 Auditorium
– Building Relations with Eastern Europe: Governance or Partnership?
Chair: Stephen White
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Elena Korosteleva (Aberystwyth University, UK), ‘Governance
or Partnership? Assessing the EU’s Engagement with Eastern Europe’
Oleksandr Stegniy (Centre for socio-Political Research
‘SOCIS’, Ukraine), ‘The European Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern Partnership
and Ukraine: Progress, Difficulties and Expectations’
Olga Danii and Mariana Mascauteanu (Independent
Sociological and Information Service ‘Opinia, Moldova), ‘The European
Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern Partnership and Moldova: Progress, Difficulties
and Expectations’
David Rotman and Natalia Veremeeva (Belarusian
State University, Belarus), ‘The European Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern
Partnership and Belarus: Progress, Difficulties and Expectations’
Alexander Gasparishvili and Sergey Tumanov
(Moscow State University, Russia), ‘The European Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern
Partnership and Russia: Threat or Opportunity?
4.2 Reddaway
Room – Soviet History
Chair: Mike Bowker (University of East Anglia, UK)
Liubov Denisova, 'The “Gulag” of the Collective Farm,
or the Realities and Discrepancies of Soviet Rural Life'
Ekaterina Emeliantseva (Bangor University, UK), ‘Human
Heroes or Bio-robots? The Soviet Cult of Technology, Masculinity Concepts,
and Emotions on the Soviet Nuclear Submarines in the 1960-90s’
Susan Grant (University College Dublin, Ireland), ‘Physical
culture and peasant acculturation in 1920s and 1930s Soviet Russia’
4.3 Trust
Room – The Future of Russian: Language Culture in the Era of New Technology
Chair: Daniela Hristova (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge,
UK)
Martin Paulsen (University of Bergen, Norway), ‘Challenging
Cyrillic: Towards a Typology of Latin Alphabet Writing in East Slavonic
Languages’
Vera Zvereva (Institute of World History, RAS, Moscow,
Russia), ‘New Words in Girls’ Blogs: Cultural Semantics and Functions’
Alexander Berdichevsky (University of Bergen, Norway),
‘Instant Norm: What Errors You Are Not Allowed to Make in Russian
Instant Messaging’
4.4 William
Thatcher Room – Late Twentieth Century Balkan History
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia, UK)
Mat Savelli (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford,
UK), ‘Psychiatry and Politics in Communist Yugoslavia: Who Abused
Whom?’
Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po Paris, France) ‘Screening
Socialism: Power and Daily Life in Bulgarian Cinema (1970-1980s)’
4.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Imprisonment in Russia: New Visualisations
Chair: Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK)
Judith Pallot (Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK),
Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK) and
Sonya Gavrilova (Moscow State University, Russia), ‘Mapping
the Gulag: Geographies of Imprisonment in Russia’
Josephine von Zitzewitz (St John’s College, University
of Oxford, UK), ‘The “Virtual Museum of the Gulag”’
Discussant: Mary McAuley (London, UK) and Arseny
Roginskiy (International Historical-Enlightenment Human Rights
and Humanitarian Society ‘Memorial’, Russia)
4.6 Gaskoin
– Tolstoy’s Centenary
Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Glasgow, UK)
Anthony Briggs (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Understanding
Tolstoy’
Vladimir Paperni (University of Haifa, Israel),‘Ïîëêîâîäöû
è âðà÷è â ðîìàíå Ëüâà Òîëñòîãî “Âîéíà è ìèð”’
Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Glasgow, UK),
‘An Irishman at Yasnaya Polyana: Shane Leslie’s 1907 Visit to Tolstoy’
4.7 RR2 – Empire and Nation in Literary Discourse
Chair: Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter, UK)
Julija Snezko (Vilnius University, Lithuania), ‘Imperial
and (Proto)-National Semantics in Nikolaj Karamzin‘s Public Discourse‘
Emilie Murphy (University of Nottingham, UK), ‘She
Spoke Russian Badly...Or Did She? French Language and Culture in Russian
Women's Diaries, 1800-1825’
Mari Ristolainen (University of of Eastern Finland,
Finland), ‘Virtual
Frontiers: Russian Border Guards’ Poems Online’
11:00-11:30
COFFEE/TEA
11:30-13:00:
Session 5
5.1 Auditorium
– Twenty Years of Multi-Party Politics in Russia
Chair: Elena Korosteleva (Aberystwyth University,
UK)
Derek Hutcheson (University College Dublin, Ireland),
‘Does Russia have Cartel Parties?’
Stephen White (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘People
and Parties in Post-communist Russia’
David White (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘The
not so strange death of liberal Russia’
5.2 Reddaway
Room – Economic Development and Industrial Policy in Russia and the Western
Balkans
Chair: Terry Cox (University of Glasgow, UK)
Michael Rochlitz (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies
Lucca, Italy), ‘The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Putin’s
Russia’
Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘The
Economic Crisis and the Prospects for the Modernization of the Russian
Economy’
5.3 Trust
Room – Gender, Forms of Assistance and the Production of Securities in
Contemporary Russia
Chair: Geoff Swain (University of Glasgow, UK)
Rebecca Kay (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘“We Are
the Light of Their Lives” – Care Work, Gender and the Production of Emotional
Securities: A View from Rural Altai’
Vikki Turbine (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Women’s
Use of Legal Claims in Contemporary Russia: Securing Welfare in a Context
of Individual Responsibility?’
Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala University, Sweden),
’Women’s Work in Transitional Russia: The Role of Institutional Frameworks
for Women’s Political Agency in Russian Regions’
Meri Kulmala (University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Karelian
Women’s Network – A Movement of Social Motherhood?’
5.4 William
Thatcher Room – Cultural Constructions: From Policy to New Media
Chair: Andy Byford (Durham University, UK)
Tatiana Dobrosklonaskaya (Moscow State University, Russia),
‘Russians in the UK: Critical Analysis of Media Representations’
Dmitry Yagodin (Tampere University, Finland), ‘Civic
Engagement Practices in the Russian Political Blogosphere’
5.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Soviet Wartime Representations of the Holocaust:
Film, Literature and the Press
Chair: Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter, UK)
Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary, University of London, UK),
‘Boris Barnet’s Priceless Head in the Context of Wartime Representations
of the Holocaust’
Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London, UK),
‘The Dilemmas of Representing the Shoah in Grossman’s “The Hell of
Treblinka”'
Karel C. Berkhoff (Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, The Netherlands), ‘Early Soviet Reports on Nazi Killings
in Kiev’
5.6 Gaskoin
– The Development of Nationalist Sentiment in Eastern European History
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia, UK)
John Paul Newman (University College Dublin, Ireland),
‘For the Honour of the Fatherland: The Role of Serbian Veterans in the
Interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia’
Eleonora Naxidou (Democretus University, Greece), 'Different
Approaches of the “National Past” in the Balkans: The Case of Grigor Parlichev
and Margaritis Dimitsas'
Yuliya Yurchuk (Södertörns Högskola, Sweden),
‘Shaping the Ukraine: Ukrainian Nation Building Since 1991’
Marina Germane (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Political
or Ethnic Nation? Two Competing Concepts in Interwar Latvia (1918-1940)’
5.7 RR2 – The History of Orthodoxy
Chair: Vera G. Tchentsova (Institute of General History, RAS,
Russia)
Andreas Berg (Griffith University, Australia), 'Rethinking
Orthodoxy: History, Personality and Prophesy in the Thought of Anton Vladimirovich
Kartashev'
Olga Sevastyanova, ‘The Symbolic Significance of
the White Klobuk and the Policy of the Bishops of Novgorod in the XIVth
Century’
5.8 Music
Room – Topics in Syntax, Semantics and Translation
Chair: (Jens Nørgård-Sørensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Anna Solomonovskaya (Novosibirsk State University, Russia),
‘Translation of Commentary to a Patristic Text and the Mentality of
the Medieval Translator’
Marija Ovsjannikova (St. Petersburg State University,
Russia), ‘Prepositional Government and Semantic Development of Russian
Primary Prepositions’
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
14:00-15:30:
Session 6
6.1 Auditorium
– Stalinism: Recent findings and New Interpretations
Chair: Andrei Sorokin
(ROSSPEN Publishers, Russia)
Sergey Mironenko (State Archive of Russian Federation,
Russia), ‘Stalin and the Beginning of World War II’
Arseny Roginskiy (International Historical-Enlightenment,
Human Rights and Humanitarian Society ‘Memorial’, Russia), ‘New Research
on Stalin's Terror’
Yoram Gorlizki (University of Manchester, UK), ‘New
Evidence on Late Stalinism’
James R. Harris (University of Leeds, UK), ‘The Great
Terror: The Impact of the Archives’
6.2 Trust
Room – Russia and Its Neighbours
Chair: Nadiya Kravets
(St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK)
Victoria Hudson (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Russian
Soft Power and the 2010 Presidential Elections in Ukraine’
Yelena Zabortseva (University of Sydney, Australia),
‘Kazakhstan-Russian Relations in the Post-Soviet Era, 1991-2008’
Carmen Gayoso (London School of Economics and Politics,
UK), ‘Substantive Belief Formation Through Russian Hegemonic Actions
in the Post-Soviet Region’
Iain Ferguson
(University
of St Andrews, UK), 'The Ideological Origins of the EU-Russia Relationship'
6.3 William
Thatcher Room – Class, Space and the Self in Post-Socialism
Chair: Julia Lerner (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Elisabeth Schimpfoessl (University of Manchester, UK),
‘Russia’s New Social Upper Class: Searching for Legitimacy’
Michael Fleming (Academy of Humanities and Economics,
Poland), ‘Socialism, Post-socialism and Violence: The Case of Poland’
Julia Lerner (Ben Gurion University, Israel), ‘The
Managed Soul? Adapting the Therapeutic Culture to the Post-Soviet Self’
6.4 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Language Contact and Migration
Chair: David Willis ( Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Paola Bocale, ‘Polish Cambridge – Ukrainian Rome:
Investigating the Effects of Language Contact Among Slavic Migrants in
Europe’
Svetlana Eriksson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland),
‘The Russian Language and Identity: Narratives of Adolescents from Russian-speaking
Families in Ireland’
Boris Bulatovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), ‘Russian and Austrian Influence on Serbian Language Policy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Facts and Controversies’
6.5 Gaskoin
– Post-Soviet Identities
Chair: Anna Pleshakova (University of Oxford, UK)
Djurdja Bartlett (London College of Fashion, UK),
‘From Pretty to Sexy: Socialist and Post-Socialist Femininity’
Ekaterina Popova (University of Edinburgh, UK), ‘SELF
and OTHER in Contemporary Russian Migration Discourse: Study of Discourse
Metaphors’
Anna Pleshakova (University of Oxford, UK), ‘The
Post-Soviet Mythologized Concept of Enemy: Profiling New Russian National
Construal’
Maria Smirnova
(Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia), ‘O.Wilde’s
Plays: New Russian vs. Soviet Translations’
6.6 RR2 – Narrativization of History: Discourse Regulation and Self-Expression
in Soviet Literature and Film, 1930-1989
Chair: Olga Voronina (University College London, UK)
Olga Voronina (University College London, UK), ‘Polyphony
and Narrative Distortion in Mikhail Bulgakov's “The Master and Margarita”’
Jekaterina Shulga (University College London, UK), ‘Testimony
and Ideology: Remembering Trauma in Vasily Grossman’s “Everything Flows”’
Elena Kravchenko (University College London, UK),
‘Aestheticization of Being: Re-Writing of Soviet History in Sasha Sokolov’s
“Ïàëèñàíäðèÿ (Astrophobia)”’
Daniel Levitsky (University College London, UK), ‘Soviet
history in ‘Thaw’ Cinema: The Making of New Myths and Truths’
6.7 Music
Room – Heads of Russian Meeting
15:30-16:00
TEA/COFFEE
15:45-16:45:
Reddaway Room, BASEES AGM
17:00-18:30
Auditorium, Keynote Lecture:
Professor Donald Rayfield (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
'Inventing
Russia: English-(language) Writers and their Imagined Russias'
19:00-19:45:
Auditorium Foyer - Drinks Reception - Sponsored by ROSSPEN Publishers
19:45
BASEES Annual Dinner
Followed
by the Award of
The Nove Prize for 2008
to
Dr Vesselin Dimitrov for his book
Stalin's Cold War: Soviet Foreign Policy, Democracy and Communism in Bulgaria, 1941-48
(Palgrave Macmillan)
and
The Blazyca Prize for 2008
to
Dr Lucian Leustean for his book
Orthodoxy and the Cold War:
Religion and Political Power in Romania, 1947-65
(Palgrave Macmillan)
Monday,
29 March 2010
07.45-09.00:
BREAKFAST
09:30-11:00:
Session 7
7.1 Auditorium
– Russian Party Politics and Social Movements
Chair:
Peter Duncan (University
College London, UK)
David White (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Political
Opposition in Russia: Dead, Dying or Dormant?’
Sean Roberts (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Verticals
and Horizontals: The Role of United Russia as a “Management Tool” in
the Emerging Post-Putin Regime’
Maya Atwal (University of Birmingham, UK), 'The
Role of Youth in a Dominant Party Regime: The Case of Molodaia Gvardia
Yedinoi Rossii’
7.2 Reddaway Room – Identity and Lifestyle after Socialism
Chair: (tbc)
Olena Kornyeyeva (Jacobs University, Germany), ‘East
Goes West: Distinctive Features of Integration of Ex-Soviet Immigrants
in Western Europe’
Arsen Hakobyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography,
Armenia), ‘The Turkish-Speaking Armenians in the North Caucasus:
The Boundaries of Identity’
7.3
Trust Room – Dostoevsky and 20th Century Literature (C.20 Study Group)
Chair: Alastair Renfrew (Durham University, UK)
Rolf Hellebust (University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Words,
New and Magic, in Dostoevsky and Bely’
Alastair Renfrew (Durham University, UK), ‘Dostoevsky
in Tynianov and Bakhtin: From Parody to Genre’
Inna F.I. Tigountsova (Memorial University, Canada),
‘Death and Beyond in Fedor Dostoevsky’s “Bobok: From Someone Else’s
Diary” and Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s “Number One, or in the Gardens
of Other Possibilities”’
7.4 William
Thatcher Room – Verbal Syntax
Chair: Mary MacRobert (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, UK)
Polina Eysmont (St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation, Russia), ‘Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure
in Russian: An Experimental Study’
Danica Pusic (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy), ‘The
Past in the Serbian Variant of Serbo-Croatian: Distribution of Verbal
Tenses from Registers to Regions’
Olga M. Mladenova (University of Calgary, Canada), ‘Textual
Evidence on the Substitution of Non-finite Verb Forms in Bulgarian’
7.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World
Chair: Kenneth Morrison (De Montfort University, UK)
Ivana Tomovska (Center for Regional Policy Research and
Cooperation ‘Studiorum’, Macedonia), ‘Aspects of Human Security in
FYR Macedonia’
Eleanor Bindman (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Russia,
Chechnya and Strasbourg: Russian Official and Media Response to the “Chechen
Cases” at the European Court of Human Rights’
Anastasia Voronkova (Queen Mary, University of London,
UK), ‘Late-Soviet Ethno-national Mobilisation as Contentious Politics:
The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh’
7.6 Gaskoin
– Reshaping Russia’s Cultural Heritage
Chair: Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Elena
Kashina (University of York, UK), ‘The Renaissance
of Russian Medieval Culture in Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Century’
Sean Jinks (University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Zoshchenko’s
Overcoat: Gogolian Melancholy in Zoshchenko’s Comic Fiction’
Anna Rush (University of St Andrews, UK), ‘“Mentors”
and “Apprentice”: Pushkin and the Karamzins in Iu. Tynianov’s “Pushkin”’
Annika Bøstein Myhr (University of Oslo, Norway), ‘Language
Strategies and Literary Heritage in Denis Gutsko’s novel “Russkogovoriashchii”,
Andreï Makine’s “Le testament français”
and Mikhail Shishkin’s “Russkaia Shveitsariia. Literaturno-istoricheskii
putevodite”’'
11:00-11:30
COFFEE/TEA
11:30-13:00:
Session 8
8.1 Auditorium
– Post-Communist Russia’s Relationship with the West in the European Mediascape
Chair:
Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester, UK)
Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester, UK),
'Russian Self-Imaging, the Media and the
Recursive Loop. Or Why Igor Voloshin’s "Olympius Inferno" is more than Crude Propaganda'
Jukka Pietiläinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), 'Changing
magazine market in Russia'
Galina Miazhevich (Christ Church, University of Oxford,
UK), ‘The Deployment of Sexual Excess in Eurovision as a Tool for
Nation Branding in Post-communist Europe’
8.2 Reddaway
Room – Spirituality Religion in Russia and Eastern Europe
Chair: Hubertus F. Jahn (Clare College, University of Cambridge,
UK)
Miriam Dobson (University of Sheffield, UK), ‘“Religious
Fiends”: Baptists, Pentecostalists and Accusations of Ritual Murder in
the 1950s and 60s’
Zoe Knox (University of Leicester, UK), ‘Watch Tower
Theology and Soviet Ideology: Jehovah’s Witnesses in the USSR’
Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge, UK), ‘Spiritual
Agency in Popular Siberian Newspapers: Can Pre-Soviet Religion Affect
Contemporary Practice?’
8.3 Trust
Room – Debates in Contemporary Russian Politics
Chair: (tbc)
Richard Arnold (Muskingum University, USA), ‘Native
Evil or Foreign Curse? The Origins of Contemporary Russian Racism’
Marina Khmelnitskaya (Wolfson College, University of
Oxford, UK), ‘Policy Process in Post-Soviet Russia: Paradigmatic Change
and Policy Revision in the Example of Housing Policy Reform From 1991
to the Present’
Amy Pearce (Aberystwyth University, UK), ‘Sovereign
Democracy in Russia’
8.4 William
Thatcher Room – Contemporary Variation and Change
Chair: Alexander Berdichevsky (University of Bergen, Norway)
Charles L. Drage (Imperial College London, UK), ‘Some
Features of Twentieth-century Politically Related Russian Slang’
Alexander Krasovitsky (University of Surrey, UK),
‘The Rise of Neutralization in a North Russian Dialect’
Michaela Martinková (Palacký University,
Czech Republic), ‘Genitive Forms After Indefinite Quantifiers in Czech:
Singular or Plural?
8.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre – Russian Poetry
Chair: David Wells (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
David Wells (Curtin University of Technology, Australia),
‘Merezhkovsky’s Simvoly and the Early Development of Russian Symbolism’
Anja Burghardt (University of Salzburg, Austria), ‘Telling
– About Oneself and One’s Surroundings: The Lyrical Persona in Pasternak’s
Poetry’
Sarah Ossipow Cheang (Université Populaire du
Canton de Genève, Switzerland), ‘Blaise Pascal and Marina Tsvetaeva:
An Uncanny Proximity’
8.6 Gaskoin
– Remapping the Russian and Ukrainian Past
Chair: Olga Sevastyanova
Ines Garcia de la Puente (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain),
‘International Trade Routes in Rus’: A Revision’
Olena Rusina (Institute of Ukrainian History, ASU, Ukraine),
‘Kiev as Sancta Civitas in the Muscovite Mentality and Political Practice
(15-16th Centuries)’
Vera G. Tchentsova (Institute of General History, RAS,
Russia), ‘“Byzantine” Regalia in the 17th Century Moscow: On the Origins
of Some Objects of Jewellery Brought by the Greeks to the Court of the
Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich’
Sergey Tyulenev (University of Cambridge, UK), 'Social-Systemic
Role of Translation in the Westernisation of Eighteenth Century Russia'
8.7 RR2 – Constructing Modernity in Russian Literature and Society
Chair: Sarah Young (University College London, UK)
James Rann (University College London, UK), ‘Dropping
Bombshells: Futurism, Terrorism and Modernity’
Muireann Maguire (Pushkinskii Dom, Russia), ‘“Chelovek,
kotoryi ne spit”: The Inventions of Professor Wagner’
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
End of Conference
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