3.10.2013 at 14.15
Visiting Fellows Research Seminar: Tom Junes:
"Growing up with Solidarity: The Cold War Roots of Post-communist Populism"
7.10.2013
Final seminar of the OVET Project "Valloita Venäjä asiantuntemuksella"
10.10.2013 at 14.15
Visiting Fellows Research Seminar: Mayya Soboleva: ""Homo Sovieticus": The Origin of a New Soviet Man"
17.10.2013 at 14.15
Visiting Fellows Research Seminar:
Kåre Johan Mjør:
"The Concept of Civilisation in Contemporary Russia"
23.-25.10.2013
Aleksanteri Conference - Russia and the World. Registration for audience open now!
21.11.2013 at 14.15
Visiting Fellows Research Seminar: Andrei Tsygankov:
"The Discourse of Civilization in Russia's Foreign Policy"
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- The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia II, by Jussi Lassila, was reviewed in Anthropology of East Europe
and in The Russian Review - Helsinki Summer School 2013 - "Post-socialist Society and Culture"
- New Visiting Fellows for 2013-2014
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Aleksanteri News 3/2013
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The latest issue of our newsletter introduces four new researchers: Dr. Katalin Miklóssy, Dr. Kaarina Aitamurto, Dr. Jussi Lassila and Dr. Andrey Starodubtsev. You can also find out about our current visiting fellows, one of whom, Dr. Svetlana Stephenson, is interviewed as the Face of the Month of this issue. Aleksanteri News 3/2013 also provides a glimpse of the upcoming Aleksanteri Conference "Russia and the World" (Oct 23-25, 2013). The programme of the conference is now published and registration for audience opened at the conference site. |
Katalin Miklóssy selected as senior researcher
Dr. Katalin Miklóssy was selected among 39 applicants for a five-year senior researcher position based on an international evaluation. We thank all the applicants for their excellent applications!
Modernisation compared: Finland, Japan and Russia
Göran Therborn and Philip Hanson at the workshop
The first international seminar on modernisation in Finland, Japan and Russia was organised in Helsinki 12.-13.9.2013 by the Aleksanteri Institute, the Embassy of Japan and Hokkaido University Helsinki Office.
Read more about the seminar "Modernities Scrutinized: Finland, Japan and Russia in comparison"
Multidisciplinary views on Soviet imperial legacy
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A brand new book Empire De/Centered (eds. Sanna Turoma & Maxim Waldstein, Ashgate 2013) brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of authors to reconsider Soviet imperial legacy from previously unexplored perspectives.The collection provides a reconceptualization of the theoretical and methodological foundations of contemporary imperial and spatial studies, through the example of the experience provided by Soviet society and culture. |
| Read more at http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409447863 |
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Postdoctoral reasearcher and Head of International Affairs
Dr Kaarina Aitamurto has been appointed to the position of postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute and Dr Katja Lehtisaari has been appointed (temporary) Head of International Affairs. We would like to thank all the applicants for the excellent applications!
Post-socialist Society and Culture at Helsinki Summer School
The Aleksanteri Institute will once again be part of the international Helsinki Summer School. Our course, entitled Post-socialist Society and Culture, is designed for advanced undergraduates or Master’s level students of humanities and social sciences and takes place on August 6-22, 2013.
Russia's Greatest Challenge?
Watch researchers from the Aleksanteri Institute list the greatest challenges facing Russia at the moment.
Centre of Excellence Choices of Russian Modernisation
Recent Publications
- Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe.
Aitamurto, K. & Simpson, S. (eds.). Acumen Publishing, 2013, 352 p. - Cracks in the Wall : Challenges to Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia. Gel’man, V. In: Problems of Post-Communism, 2013, Vol. 60, Nro 2, pp. 3-10.
- Empire De/Centered. New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union
Turoma, S. and Waldstein, M.(eds.). Ashgate 2013. - The Russian Dimension of Baltic Maritime Governance. Gritsenko, D. In: Journal of Baltic Studies. Published online 4 Jul 2013, 25 p.
- Politics, governance, and the zigzags of the power vertical : toward a framework for analyzing Russia's local regimes.Gel’man, V.In: Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics by Reisinger, W. (ed.). Routledge, 2013, pp. 25-39.
- Innovations and Entrepreneurs in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies
Nikula, J. & Tchalakov, I.. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 440 p. - The Helsinki Process from Small States' perspectives : Cold War Strategies of Hungary and Romania in Comparison. Miklóssy, Katalin. In: Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives : Comparisons and Enranglements by Blowqvist, A., Iordachi, C. & Trencsényi, B. (eds.). Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 485-514.
- Poliittinen historia. Miklóssy, K. In: Yliopistodidaktiikka : esseitä yliopisto-opetuksesta tieteenaloittain by Lahtinen, A-M. & Lindblom-Ylänne, S. (eds.). Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, Yliopistopedagogiikan tutkimus ja kehittämisyksikkö, pp. 124–134.
- Twenty-First Century Feminisms under Repression : Gender Regime Change and the Women’s Crisis Center Movement in Russia. Saarinen, A. & Johnson, Janet. E. In: Signs, 2013, Vol. 38, Nro 3, pp. 543-567.
- Imperiia re/constructed: narratives of space and nation in 1960s Soviet Russian culture. Turoma,S. In: Empire De/Centered : New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union by Turoma, S.& Waldstein, M. Ashgate, 2013.
See database TUHAT for all publications by our staff members
