Programme
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Provisional Programme
12.30-13.15: LUNCH
13:15-14:45: Session 1
1.1
Auditorium - Does Russia Have Free and Fair Elections?
Chair: Stephen White
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Stephen White
(University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Elections, Russian-style’
Cameron Ross
(University of Dundee, UK), ‘Regional Elections and Electoral
Authoritarianism in Russia’
Derek Hutcheson
(University College Dublin, Ireland), ‘Post-communist Elections and the
International Community’
Ian McAllister
(Australian National University, Australia) and Stephen White
(University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Post-communist Elections and Public
Opinion'
1.2 Reddaway
Room - Crimes and
Punishments in Early Twentieth Century Russia
Chair: Peter Waldron
(University of East Anglia, UK)
Aaron Retish
(Wayne State University, USA), ‘The Trials of Revolution: Confronting
Social Breakdown and Violence through the Rural Soviet Courts, 1917-1924’
Corinne Gaudin
(University of Ottawa, Canada), ‘Village Banishment in
Late-Imperial and Early-Soviet Judicial Practices’
Sarah
Badcock
(University of Nottingham, UK),
‘Experiencing Punishment: Exile to Siberia, 1900-1917’
1.3 Trust
Room - The Russian Heroine (Neo-Formalist Circle)
Chair: Joe Andrew
(Keele University, UK)
Joe Andrew
(Keele University), ‘”The Eyes Have It”: Towards a Typology of the
Physical Appearance of the Nineteenth-Century Heroine’
Kathryn
Ambrose
(Keele University, UK), ‘The Unattainable Ideal: Tolstoy’s Mother
Heroines’
Jane Briggs
(University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Mothers and Daughters: Teenage
Tantrums in Turgenev and Dostoevsky’
1.4 William
Thatcher Room - Russian Scientific Traditions: Explorations of Thought and
Practice
Chair: Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow, UK)
Julia Lajus
(European
University and Institute for the History of Science and Technology, RAS,
St Petersburg, Russia), ‘Soviet Oceanography of the 1920s-50s: Roots,
Traditions, Place in International Marine Science’
Denis Shaw
(University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Concepts of ‘landscape’ and ‘natural
region’ in Russian and British Physical Geography in the First Half of the
Twentieth Century’
Alexander
Titov
(University
College, London, UK), ‘Nature and Ethnos: Naturalistic Approach to
Studies of Ethnic History in Russia’
Jonathan
Oldfield
(University
of Glasgow, UK), ‘Russian Conceptualisations of the Natural World
during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’
1.6
Gaskoin – Phonetics and Phonology
Chair: Robert D. Greenberg
(Hunter College and Yale University, USA)
Mirjana Sokolovic-Perovic
(University of
Newcastle, UK),
‘An Experimental Study of Consonant Sequences in Serbian’
Igor Dreer
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), ‘Phonology as Human Behavior: Non-random Phonotactic Distribution of Phonemes in Byelorussian
Monosyllabic Words’
1.7 De Smith
Room - Contemporary Belarusian Literature
Chair: Jim Dingley
(Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, UK)
Arnold McMillin
(University
College, London, UK), ‘Jury Stankievich and the Dark Side of Belarusian
Literature at the Turn of the Century’
Zina
Gimpelevich
(University of Waterloo, Canada), ‘The
image and Role of the Jew in V. Bykau’s Prose’
Martin
Paulsen
(University of Bergen, Norway), ‘Whose Bykaw? On the Canonization (or
lack thereof) of Vasil’ Bykaw in Belarus and Russia’
15:00-16:30:
Session 2
2.1
Auditorium - EU-Russia Relations after the War in Georgia
(BASEES-UACES EU-Russia Research Network)
Chair: Graham Timmins (University
of Stirling, UK)
Maria Ordzhonikidze
(EU-Russia Centre, Belgium)
Taneli Lahti
(Member
of Cabinet of Commissioner Olli Rehn,
European Commission)
Marina Larionova
(State University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
2.2 Reddaway Room - Through the Iron Curtain - Networking in Cold War
Europe
Chair:
Sari Autio-Sarasmo
(University
of Helsinki, Finland)
Katalin Miklossy
(University
of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Changing Ideas and Experiences in the Europe
between: New Networking between Finland and Hungary in the 1970s’
Riikka Nisonen-Trnka
(University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Selling “Socialist” Innovation to a
Capitalist Market: the Case of the Soft Contact Lens’
Pia Koivunen
(University of Tampere, Finland), ‘Bridging between East and
West – Diverse Functions of the World Youth Festivals in Cold War Europe’
2.3 Trust
Room - Russia in Motion: Screen Reactions to Ballet
(Media and Culture Study Group)
Chair: Eugenie Zvonkine
(University
of Paris 8, France)
Birgit Beumers
(University
of Bristol, UK), ‘Dancing Puppets: Alexander Shiryaev and his Films’
Mike
O’Mahony
(University of Bristol, UK), ‘Riot at the Rite: The Ballet Russes
Revisited’
Marsha
Siefert
(Central European University, Hungary), ‘Red Shoes: The Soviet
Co-Production of Anna Pavlova on Film, 1976-1983’
2.4 William
Thatcher Room - Gogol’ Bicentennial: Dialogues with Gogol’
(Nineteenth Century Study Group)
Chair: Alex Harrington
(Durham University, UK)
Adam Ure
(University College, London, UK), ‘Creativity and Revolution: Rozanov’
Sarah Young (University College, London, UK), ‘Erasing the Gogolian body: Narration, Dismemberment, and Decapitation in Russian Literature’
Cynthia Marsh (University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Staging Gogol’ in Post-War Britain: a Hijacking?’
2.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre - Tax, Welfare and Social Interests in Eastern and
Central Europe
Chair: Marcin
Dabrowski
(University
of the West of Scotland, UK)
Jan Drahokoupil
(University of Mannheim, Germany), ‘Neoliberalism and Welfare Reform in
Central and Eastern Europe: What is Driving the ‘second-generation
reforms’?’
Martin Myant
(University of the West of Scotland, UK), ‘The "Flat tax" in Former
Communist Countries in the Context of Interest Representation’
George-Marian Isbasoiu
(Free
University of Brussels, Belgium), ‘Varieties of capitalism and
Industrial Relations in Eastern Europe’
2.6
Gaskoin Room - Church Slavonic
Chair: Mary MacRobert
(Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, UK)
Vadim Krysko
(Institute
of Russian Language, RAS, Russia), ‘Древнеславянский канон Кириллу
Философу: в поисках исходного текста’
Anna
Solomonovskaya (Novosibirsk State University, Russia), ‘Slavonic
Translation of Corpus Areopagiticum and Russian Vocabulary (on the origin
of a Russian word)’
2.7 De Smith
Room - Russian Emigré Fiction
Chair:
David
Gillespie
(University of Bath, UK),
Muireann Maguire
(Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK), ‘The Ghosts of Gaito
Gazdanov: The Unreal in Gazdanov’s Fiction’
Justin
Doherty
(Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland), ‘Gaito Gazdanov and the Metaphysics of
Taxi-Driving: “Nochnye dorogi” in the Context of Taxi Literature and Film’
David
Gillespie
(University of Bath, UK), ‘Andrei Makine’s Russia’
Elena
Kravchenko,
(University College London,UK), ‘Intertextuality as a ‘Recycling’
Mechanism in Sasha Sokolov’s “Between Dog and Wolf”: Play with
Authorities’
2.8 Music
Room - Semantic Studies of Modern Russian
Chair: Ekaterina
Velmezova
(Lausanne
University, Switzerland),
Charles Drage
(Imperial College, London, UK), ‘Semantic Developments in Foreign
Language-based Russian Slang’
Mark
Shuttleworth
(Imperial College, London, UK), ‘Metaphor Across Language: a Case Study
Based on Russian Translations of English Scientific Texts’
Svetlana
Sokolova
(University of Tromsø, Norway), ‘The Role of Constructions in Verbal
Polysemy: A Corpus-based Study of Russian “gruzit’’’
16:30-17:00 TEA/COFFEE
17:00-18:30: Session 3
3.1
Auditorium - The Caucasus – Local and Global Perspectives
(The Caucasus and Central Asia Research Group)
Chair:
Jeremy Smith (University of Birmingham, UK)
Cerwyn Moore
(University
of Birmingham, UK), ‘Assessing the Evolution and Transformation of the
Chechen Separatist Movement: From Communism and Nationalism to Islamism
and Salafism’
Anton Popov
(University of Warwick, UK), ‘The Caucasus and Cossack Identity in the
Narratives of Cossacks’
Ulrike
Ziemer
(University
of Birmingham, UK), ‘Armenians in Krasnodar (Southern Russia) and Long
Distance Nationalism’
Discussant:
Galina Yemelianova
(University
of Birmingham, UK)
3.2 Reddaway
Room - Communist
Mentalities
Chair: Olga Sevastyanova
Mat Savelli
(St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK),
‘“Communist Psychiatry” – Did it Ever Exist?’
Nina
Vodopivec
(Institute for Contemporary History, Slovenia), ‘From Revolutionary
Textile Workers to Victims of Socialism’
Nanci Adler
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
‘The Communist Within: Narratives of Gulag Prisoner Loyalty to the
Party’
Erik van Ree
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
‘The German Model of “socialism in one country”’
3.3 Trust
Room - Social and Regional Policy Making in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair:
Martin
Myant
(University of the West of Scotland, UK)
John Gould
(Colorado
College, USA),Sharon Fisher (Global Insight, USA) and
Timothy Haughton (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Fico, Slovakia
and Social Liberal State: A New Equilibrium?’
Marcin
Dabrowski
(University
of the West of Scotland, UK) ‘Europeanisation of Regional Policy Actors
in Poland: New Rules ‑ Same Old Story?’
Terry Cox
(University of Glasgow, UK) ‘Patterns of Influence in Policy making in
Hungary’
3.4 William
Thatcher Room -
Espionage and the History of the Second World War
Chair:
Mike Bowker
(University of East Anglia, UK)
Iwona Fedrau
(University of Hull, UK),
‘A Polish
Maid in Three Regimes?: One Woman Agent's Story (1924-1956)’
Mesrob Vartavarian (University of California, Los Angeles,
USA), ‘The Chekists Go to War, Soviet State Security Activities during
the Second World War’
3.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre - Soviet and Post-Soviet Rock: Re-reading
Revolutionary Culture
Chair: Tomi Huttunen
(University of Helsinki, Finland)
Tomi Huttunen
(University of Helsinki, Finland),
‘The Swamp
of Texts: Re-reading Leningrad/St. Petersburg Rock Poetry’
Yngvar Steinholt
(University of Tromsø, Norway), ‘Continuous Suicide: Egor Letov and the
Soviet Union’
Polly
McMichael
(University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Re-packaging Soviet Rock’
3.6 Gaskoin
Room - Bible Translation/West Slavonic Syntax
Chair:
Vadim Krysko
(Institute
of Russian Language, RAS, Russia),
Vittorio S. Tomelleri
and Emma Rizzelli Martella (University of Macerata, Italy), ‘The
Church Slavonic Translation of Bruno's Psalter in Russia (1535)’
Maria
Malygina
(Institute of Russian Language, RAS, Russia), ‘Особенности перевода
древнерусского минейного стихираря по спискам XII в.’
Motoki Nomachi
(Hokkaido
University, Japan), ‘On the So-called Recipient Passive in Kashubian
Language (from a typological perspective)’
3.7 De Smith
Room - Journeys to the East in Russian Modernism
Chair:
Anna Ponomareva (Imperial College, London & London Metropolitan
University, UK)
Dennis Ioffe
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada), ‘Daniil Kharms and Bidia Dandaron: the Meeting
That Never Happened’
Evgeny
Pavlov
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand), ‘Rectifying Vision: Mandelstam
and Bely’s Journeys to the Caucasus’
Anna Ponomareva (Imperial College, London & London Metropolitan
University, UK),
The Framework and Conceptual Roots of Belyi’s Approach to a New
Literature: the Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
3.8 Music
Room - Problems of Contemporary Russian Orthoepy
Chair: Charles Drage
(Imperial College, London, UK)
Leonid Kasatkin
(Institute of Russian Language, RAS, Russia), ‘Произношение сочетаний
еа, иа, ео, ио, эо в современном русском литературном языке’
Rozaliia
Kasatkina
(Institute
of Russian Language, RAS, Russia), ‘О произношении русских отчеств’
Maria
Kalenchuk
(Institute of Russian Language, RAS, Russia), ‘Об одной особенности
произношения заимствованных слов в русском литературном языке’
19:00-19:45
DINNER
20:30-22:15
Auditorium - Plenary Session: ‘1989 in the Soviet Union – Memory and
Legacy’
Chair: Terry Cox
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Archie Brown
(University of Oxford, UK)
Philip Hanson (University of Birmingham, UK)
Marju Lauristin
(University of Tartu, Estonia)
Sunday, 29 March 2009
07.45-09.00: BREAKFAST
09:30-11:00:
Session 4
4.1 Auditorium - Roundtable on Russia's Great War and Revolution,
1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal
Chair: Tony Heywood
(University of Aberdeen, UK)
Murray Frame (University of Dundee, UK)
Geoff Swain
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Chris Read
(University of Warwick, UK)
4.2 Reddaway Room - Church, State and Society in Russia Today
Chair: Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK)
Dmitrii Sidorov
(California
State University, USA), ‘Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Geopolitics of
the Cold War’
Vicky Arnold
(Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK), ‘Sacred Place in
Post-Soviet Russia’
Xenia Dennen
(Keston Institute, UK), ‘How Relevant is Religion in
Russia today? The Keston Institute Encyclopaedia Project’
Discussant:
Zoe Knox
(University
of Leicester, UK)
4.3 Trust
Room - The Historical Imagination
Chair:
Sarah
Young
(University College, London, UK)
Ilya Vinitsky
(University of Pennysylvania, USA), ‘Russian Glubbdubdrib: False
Dimitry’s Shade and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism’
Olga
Tabachnikova
(University of Bath, UK), ‘Ivan Turgenev as a Character of Lev
Shestov’s Philosophical Essays: An Irrelevant Hero’
Vladimir
Orlov
(University of Cambridge, UK),’“Sovietised Saint”: The Symbolic Image
of Alexander Nevsky by Eisenstein and Prokofiev’
Anna Rush
(University of St Andrews, UK), ‘Aesthetics of Horror: Iu. Tynianov’s
Voskovaia persona as a Sum of Expressionist Devices’
4.4 William Thatcher Room - Cross-Cultural Contacts,
Ceremonial and Politics under Ivan the Terrible
Chair:
Jana Howlett
(Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Sergei Bogatyrev
(University College, London, UK), ‘Ceremonial Headgear and Dynastic
Politics under Ivan the Terrible’
David B. Miller
(Roosevelt University, USA), ‘The Politics and Ceremonial of the
Installation of Ioasaf Skripitsyn as Metropolitan of Russia on 6 February
1539’
Clare Griffin
(University College, London, UK), ‘Bomelius: Magus
or Physician? Identity and Perception in Ivan IV’s Muscovy’
Discussant: Simon Franklin
(Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK)
4.5 Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre - Russian Media
Chair: Jukka Pietiläinen
(University of Helsinki, Finland)
Markku
Kangaspuro
(University
of Helsinki, Finland), ‘The Role of Media in International Russian
Studies’
Elena
Vartanova
(Moscow State University, Russia), ‘The Condition of the Media Market
in Russia’
Minna-Maria
Salminen
(Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finalnd), ‘Expert Opinions
on the Future of Russian Media’
4.6 Gaskoin Room - Democratisation in the Post-Communist World
Chair:
Karen
Henderson
(University of Leicester, UK)
Rico Isaacs
(Oxford Brooks University, UK), ‘Informal Norms and the Contingent
Process of Transition in Central Asia: The Cases of Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan’
Inga
Saikkonen
(St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK), ‘Electoral
Authoritarianism and Russian Regional Political Regimes’
Tatiana
Rizova
(Christopher Newport University, USA), ‘Knights or Knaves: Legislative
Candidate Selection in the Hungarian and Lithuanian Ex-communist Parties’
4.7 De Smith
Room - Russian Poetry
Chair: Katharine Hodgson
(University of Exeter, UK)
Marilena Ruscica,
(Stanford University, USA), ‘Tales of Imprisonment and Exile: Osip
Mandel’shtam’s “Kama River Poems”’
Olga Lawler
(Leeds Metropolitan University, UK), ‘Gumilev’s Themes and Images in
Vysotsky’s Songs’
Marina
Lupishko,
‘On the Melodic Quality of Tsvetaeva’s Verse: “Hommage à Marina Tsvetayeva”
by Sofia Gubaidulina (1984)’
4.8 Music
Room -
Historical
Morphosyntax
Chair: David Willis
(Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Alexander Moldovan
(Institute
of Russian Language, RAS, Russia), ‘История фазового глагола стать в
русском языке’
Jan Ivar
Bjørnflaten
(University
of Oslo, Norway), ‘The Emergence of Gerunds in the Slavic Languages’
Jens
Nørgård-Sørensen
(University of Copenhagen, Denmark), ‘Old Russian Syntax: Towards an
Interpretation’
11:00-11:30
COFFEE/TEA
11:30-13:00:
Session 5
5.1
Auditorium - Roundtable: The Life and Death of the Socialist Economic
System
Chair: Julian Cooper
(University of Birmingham, UK)
Mark Harrison
(University of Warwick, UK)
Philip Hanson
(Chatham House, London and University of Birmingham, UK)
Silvana Malle
(University
of Verona, Italy)
Pekka Sutela
(BOFIT, Bank of Finland, Finland)
Richard Connolly
(University of Birmingham, UK)
5.2 Reddaway Room - Perspectives on Russian Foreign Policy
Chair: Richard Sakwa
(University of Kent, UK)
Aglaya Snetkov
(University
of Birmingham, UK), ‘North Caucasus: The Ongoing Security Issue for the
Russian State’
Stephen Aris
(University of Birmingham, UK), ‘”Losing friends in the West, turning
to friends in the East”: The Asian Vector of Russian Foreign Policy’
Sirke
Mäkinen
(Finnish
Institute of Foreign Affairs, Finland), ‘Geopolitics Teaching at Russian Universities:
Socialization of the Next Generation of Russian Leaders’
Paul Sanders
(Burgundy School of Business, France), ‘”A blessing in disguise?”:
EU-Russia Economic Cooperation and the 2008 South Ossetia Conflict’
5.4 William
Thatcher Room - Andrei Kurkov: An Introduction
Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Andrei Rogatchevski
(University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Andrei Kurkov’s Alternative History’
Uilleam
Blacker
(University College, London, UK), ‘The Russian Voice of Postcolonial
Ukraine: Andrei Kurkov’s “Dobryi angel smerti”’
Lars
Kristensen
(University of St Andrews, UK), ‘Andrei Kurkov’s “A Matter of Death and
Life” and Viacheslav Krishtofovich’s “A Friend of the Deceased”’
5.5 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre - Trends in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
Chair: Hélène Mélat
(Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Larissa Rudova
(Pomona College, USA), ‘The Grammar of Glamour in Russian Literature
under Putin’
Anatoly
Vishevsky
(Grinnell College, USA), ‘Герои-детективы
Бориса
Акунина
и
Леонида
Юзефовича’
Discussant:
Kelly Herold
(Grinnell College, USA)
5.6 Gaskoin
Room - Petrine Ideology
and Diplomacy: Muscovite and European Perspectives
Chair: Maureen Perrie
(University of Birmingham, UK)
Antony Lentin (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK),
‘Western
Perspectives of Pravda Voli Monarshei: Sources and Suggestions’
Endre Sashalmi
(Pécs University, Hungary),
‘God-Guided
Contract and Scriptural Sovereignty: The Muscovite Perspective of Pravda
Voli Monarshej’
Jan Hennings
(Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK),
‘The
Political Cultures of Muscovite and Petrine Diplomacy’
Discussant:
Maureen Perrie
(University of Birmingham, UK)
5.7 De
Smith Room - Syntax and Semantics
Chair:
Jan Ivar
Bjørnflaten
(University
of Oslo, Norway)
Grete Dalmi
(Eszterhazy College, Hungary), ‘Copular Sentences and Predication’
David Willis
(Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK), ‘New Markers of Negation
in Slavonic Languages’
Anastasia
Makarova
(University of Troms
5.8 Music Room - Transition and Identity in Education
Chair: Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK)
Olena Fimyar
(Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK), ‘Post-Communist
Politics and Policy-Making in Ukrainian Education: Main Actor(s), Dominant
Discourses and Persistent Soviet Legacies (1991-2006)’
Elisabeth
Schimpfoessl
(Manchester
University, UK), ‘Russia’s New Social Upper Class: Identity Formation
and Social Reproduction’
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
14:00-15:30:
Session 6
6.1
Auditorium -
Gender and Soviet
History
Chair:
Nina Vodopivec
(Institute for Contemporary History, Slovenia)
Euridice Charon Cardona
(University of Newcastle, Australia), ‘Changing Slogans: Hidden Agenda:
Shifts in Soviet Discourse on Women’s Participation in the Great
Fatherland War,(July 1941-March 1942)’
Susan Grant
(University College Dublin, Ireland), ‘"I don’t want to be as before/ a
dark fool: Fizkul’tura, chastushki”, and the Shaping of Female
Consciousness, 1924-1934’
Ira Jänis-Isokangas
(University
of Tampere, Finland), ‘Local Elections and the Problem of Hooliganism
in Leningradskaya oblast’ in 1922-1927’
6.2 Trust
Room - Assessing Accession: EU Enlargement and Beyond
Chair:
Marcin Dabrowski
(University of the West of Scotland, UK)
Simona
Guerra
(University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Religion as a Determinant of
Opposition to or Support for European Integration in Poland’
Laura
Cashman
(University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Romani Integration in the New EU’
Carol Weaver
(University of Leicester, UK), ‘Continuing EU Enlargement in the Wider
Black Sea Region’
Mukhtar
Hajizada
(University of Leicester, UK),
‘The EU’s
Eastern Partners and Wider Black Sea Region: Counterweight or
Counterpoint?’
6.3 William
Thatcher Room - Reconsidering Bakhtin’s Ideas on Literature, Philosophy
and Religion
Chair:
Hilary Bagshaw
(University
of Sheffield, UK)
Craig Brandist
(University
of Sheffield, UK), 'Bakhtin's
historical poetics between Romanticism and Positivism: the importance of
the Soviet context'
Tintti
Klapuri
(University
of Turku, Finland), ‘What Do We Need the Chronotope For? Some Problems
of the Bakhtinian Concept in Literary Research’
Ana María
Oliva
(University of Sheffield, UK), ‘What Do We Need ‘Understanding’ For?
Some Problems of the Bakhtinian Concept in Theory of Language’
Discussant:
Stephen Hutchings
(University of Manchester, UK)
6.4 Gordon
Cameron Lecture Theatre - Civil Society, Journalism and Media in Russia
Chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng
(University of Tampere, Finland)
Katja Koikkalainen
(University
of Tampere, Finland), ‘New Models of Journalism: Western Influence on
Russian Magazines’
Jukka
Pietiläinen
(University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Development of the Mass Media
Audience in Russia’
Svetlana Pasti
(University
of
Helsinki,
Finland), ‘A Russian Journalist Today: First Results of a National
Survey 2008’
Dmitry
Strovsky
(Ural State University, Russia),
'Russian Media at
the Crossroads: Why There Is No Way to Democracy'
6.6 De Smith
Room - Civil Society and Social Issues in Russia and Central and Eastern
Europe I
Chair: Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK)
Meri Kulmala
(University
of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Russian Social Organisations – Agents of Local
Well-being and Social Rights’
Aino
Saarinen
(University
of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Crisis Centres in Russia Today – Results from a
National Survey Study’
Julia Szalai
(Institute of Sociology, HAS, Hungary), ‘Hungary’s Bifurcated Welfare
State: Splitting Social Rights and the Social Exclusion of Roma’
Ekaterina
Volkova
(Ural State University, Russia), ‘Ethnic Nationalism in the Eastern
Europe of the 1980s and 90s: Phenomenon, Development and the Role of
Culturati’
6.7 Music
Room - East Slavonic Semantics
Chair: Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey, UK)
Ekaterina
Velmezova
(Lausanne
University, Switzerland), ‘Semantic Classifications of Interjections in
Russian Grammars: Challenges and Main Difficulties’
Elena
Uryson
(Russian
Language Institute, RSA, Russia), ‘Русский
союз и частица И: реконструкция этимологии по синхронной семантике’
Iryna Galutskikh (Zaporozhye National University, Russia),
'Ukrainian Historical Core Vocabulary Semantics: on Semantic Continuum
Coverage'
6.8.
Seminar Room 1
– A Meeting of the Association of Heads of Russian
15:30-16:00 TEA/COFFEE
15:45-16:45:
Reddaway Room, BASEES AGM
17:00-18:30 Auditorium, Keynote Lecture
–
George Szirtes, Poet and Writer
19:00-19:45: Auditorium Foyer - Drinks Reception
19:45
BASEES Annual Dinner
Monday, 30 March 2009
07.45-09.00: BREAKFAST
09:30-11:00:
Session 7
7.1
Auditorium - Roundtable on
Nationalism and the Fall of Communism
Chair: Galina Yemelianova
(University of Birmingham, UK)
Juliette Cadiot
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
Pål Kolstø
(University of Oslo, Norway)
Jeremy Smith (University of Birmingham, UK)
Ronald Suny (University of Michigan, USA)
7.3 Trust
Room - The City and Imagined Geographies
Chair: Sarah Young (University College, London, UK)
Elena
Kashina
(University of York, UK), ‘Merchants and Architecture in Moscow at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century’
Sean Jinks
(University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Petersburg
Text’
Sanna Turoma
(University of Helsinki, Finland),’“Imperiia” Re/constructed: Imaginary
Geographies in the 1960s Soviet Union’
7.4 William
Thatcher Room -
Population Displacement and Violence
Chair:
Cathie Carmichael
(University of East Anglia, UK)
Christopher Lash
(University of Manchester, UK),
'Moving West: The Experience and Treatment of
Displaced Eastern Poles in Poland's 'Recovered Lands' 1945-50’
Dorota Piersa
(University of East Anglia, UK), ‘The Massacres in Volynia and Eastern
Galicia, 1943-45’
Siobhan
Peeling
(University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Endless Displacement: The Repopulation
of Leningrad after the Blockade’
7.5 Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre - Sociolinguistics
Chair:
Roumyana
Pancheva
(University of Southern California, USA
Oksana Laleko
(University
of Minnesota, USA), ‘Towards a New Grammar: First Language Attrition
and American Russian’
Grant
Lundberg
(Brigham
Young University, USA), ‘Dialect Usage and Identity in Slovenia’
Robert D.
Greenberg
(Hunter College and Yale University, USA), ‘Language Standardization in
Montenegro: The role of Montenegrin Dialectal Features’
7.6 Gaskoin
Room - Reflections on EU Accession in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Chair:
Jackie Gower (King’s
College London, UK)
Tereza Novotna
(Boston University, USA), ‘One-way Traffic from Brussels to Prague’
Tim Haughton
(University of Birmingham, UK), ‘For Business, for Pleasure or for
Necessity? The Czech and Slovak Republics’ Choices for Europe’
Karen
Henderson
(University of Leicester, UK), ‘Europeanisation of Political Parties in
Central and Eastern Europe:Is there a “Slovak model”?’
7.7 De Smith
Room - Gender
in Contemporary East European Culture and Society
Chair:
Rosalind Marsh (University of Bath, UK)
Mariya
Stoilova
(Birkbeck, University of London, UK), ‘Gender and Generation: Bulgarian
Women’s Experiences of the Transformation from Socialism in Bulgaria’
Arja
Rosenholm
(University of Tampere, Finland), ‘Russian Women Writing on Nature’
Raisa
Sidenova
(Yale
University, USA), ‘Men of Constant Sorrow: Masculinity in Contemporary
Russian Film’
7.8 Music
Room - Russian Musical Culture
Chair:
Philip Bullock
(Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK)
Anne Swartz
(City University of New York, USA), ‘The Piano in Russian Society
During Nicholas I’s Reign’
Tanya Filosofova
(University of St Andrews, UK), ‘An Unknown Russian Folk Song about the
Crimea War, ‘”iadem, brattsy, vkrugovuiu…”’
Philip Bullock
(Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK), ‘A Russian Rake: Pushkin,
Chaikovskii and the English Onegin’
Tanya
Sirotina
11:00-11:30 COFFEE/TEA
11:30-13:00: Session 8
8.1 Auditorium - Religion, Representation and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe
Chair: Natalya Rulyova (University of Birmingham, UK)
Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester, UK), ‘Islamist Violence as Particular and Universal: Genre, Terror and the Problem of Representation in Russian and British Television News’
Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov (University of Manchester, UK), ‘The Tale of Three Religions: The Representations of Inter-religious Dialogue in the Late Twentieth-Century South Slavic Literature and Film’
Galina Miazhevich (University of Oxford, UK), ‘Religion, Representation and Postcolonial Identity in Belarus’
8.2 Reddaway Room - Ukraine’s Economic Development Model at a Crossroads?
Chair: Adam Swain (University of Nottingham, UK)
Vlad Mykhnenko and Adam Swain (University of Nottingham, UK), ‘Comparative Regional Economic Performance in Post-Soviet Ukraine’
Simon Pirani (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK), ‘How Dependence on Natural Gas Hurts the Ukrainian Economy’
Mihai Varga (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), ‘Divided They Fall: Organised labour in Ukraine and Reasons for its Quiescence’
8.3 Trust Room - Russian Women’s Writing
Chair: Alex Harrington (Durham University, UK)
Kyohei Norimatsu (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK), ‘The Limitations of Rousseauistic Dichotomy: Elena Gan’s Caucasian Tales’
Diana Greene (New York University, USA), ‘Karolina Pavlova’s Unpublished Tale “Razdel” and the Debates about Women and Literature’
Kirsti Ekonen (University of Tampere, Finland), ‘On the Genealogy of Russian Modernism: the Role of Zinaida Vengerova’
Josephine von Zitzewitz (St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK), ‘Olga Sedakova: Faith and Poetic Form’
8.4 William Thatcher Room - The Cinema of Kazakhstan Today
Chair: Birgit Beumers (University of Bristol, UK)
Gulnara Abikeyeva (Zhurgenov National Academy of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan), ‘State-funded and Independent Film Production in Kazakhstan’
Eugénie Zvonkine (University of Paris 8, France), ‘The Search for a New Film Language in Kazakh Shorts and Feature’
Alim Sabitov (Zhurgenov National Academy of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan), ‘The Kazakh Steppe in Visual Arts and Cinema’
8.5 Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre - Soviet History in the 1950s
Chair: Olga Sevastyanova
Luminita Gatejel (Free University of Berlin, Germany), ‘Waiting, Hoping and Finally Driving. Automobile and Socialism in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania (1956-1980)’
Patryk Babiracki (University College Dublin, Ireland), ‘Soviet-Polish Literary Contacts and the Politics of the ‘Raw Deal,’ 1945-1953’
8.6 Gaskoin Room - Nation and Identity
Chair: Anne White (University of Bath, UK)
Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania, USA), ‘Patriot, Occupier, Victim - European: History and Identity among Russians and Russian-speakers in Latvia’
Anne White (University of Bath, UK), ‘Post-2004 Migration from Polish Small Towns to Western Europe’
Elena Katz (St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK), ‘Gender and Crime in post-Soviet Russia (on Materials of Post-perestroika Legal Journals)’
Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge, UK), ‘The Spread of Russian Messianism: Sacred Ethnic Identities among the Buryat and Sakha of East Siberia’
8.7 De Smith Room - The Soviet Union and Europe: Bloc-building and Cooperation
Chair: Katalin Miklóssy (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Laura Dib (University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘Building the EEC’s Institutional Identity: the Significance of the Eastern “other”’
Suvi Kansikas (University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘The Soviet Union and the EEC’s Challenge in the Early 1970s’
Sari Autio-Sarasmo (University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘The Soviet Union and the Search for Western Cooperation during the Cold War’
8.8 Music
Room -
Formal Approaches to Slavic Diachrony
Chair: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
(Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
and Valentin Vulchanov (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway), ‘The Old Bulgarian Syntax: the
basics’
Roumyana
Pancheva
(University of Southern California, USA), ‘Factors Contributing to
Historical Change in the Linearization of T in Old Church Slavonic’
Mila
Dimitrova-Vulchanova,
Giuliana Giusti (Cá Foscari University, Italy) and Valentin
Vulchanov, ‘Nominal Expressions in Flux: the Status of the
Universal Quantifier in Old Bulgarian’
Giuliana
Giusti
(Cá Foscari
University, Italy), ‘The Development of the Definite Article in Romance
Languages’
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
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