Institute Events

2012

16.-17.2.2012
Seminar New Perspectives on Empire and Space: Russia and the Soviet Union in Focus
VENUE: on Thursday 16.2. University Main Building (Unioninkatu 34), aud XVI, 4th floor and on Friday 17.2. University Main Building (Unioninkatu 34) aud VI, 3rd floor.
More information: sanna.turoma [at] helsinki.fi .

23.2.3012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Alexandra Arkhipova, Russian State University for the Humanities
How a Legend Became a Woman: the Story of Rosa Kaganovich, Stalin’s Secret Wife
Abstract
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

14.3.2012
Aleksanteri Election Seminar New President, New Russia: What Next?

15.3.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Craig Brandist, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

29.3.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminaari
Nadir Kinossian, University of Tromsø, Norway
"Authoritarian Modernisation” and Regional Development in the Russian Federation
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

12.4.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Arsene Saparov
Arbitrary Borders? The Logic of the Bolshevik Boundary-Making in the South Caucasus 1921-1925
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

17.4.2012 at 14:15
Guest Lecture by Researcher Anna Lenkewitz: The Tsar´s Role is on Trial. Russian Constitutional State Theories and the Question for Justice in late Tsarist Empire
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

3.5.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Terry Cox, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Interest Representation and State-society Relations in East Central Europe
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

10.5.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Andrey Maidansky, Taganrog Institute of Economics and Management, Russia
The Concept of Personality in Cultural Historical Theory
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

CALL FOR PAPERS
18.-19.5.2012
International symposium on the theme of "Spinoza in Soviet thought"
Keynote speakers will be Prof. Daniela Steila (University of Turin) and Prof. Andrey Maidansky (Institute of Management and Economy, Taganrog). In addition, the anthology Spinoza — pro et contra (in Russian), edited by Prof. Maidansky and published in the beginning of 2012, will be presented and discussed.

Those interested of presenting a paper are asked to send their suggestions with a short summary of the content (about 150 words) to the organizator of the symposium, Prof. Vesa Oittinen (e-mail: vesa.oittinen[a]helsinki.fi) until 31. of December 2011.

23.5.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Andrew Graan, Wake Forest University, United States
Marketing  Macedonia: Neoliberal Statecraft and Consumer Citizenship in the Age of Nation Branding
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

28.5.2012 at 16:00-18:00
Cultural Forum: Writers and Freedom of Speech
Author, director of St. Petersburg PEN Club, and the Russian Booker Prize winner (2009) Yelena Chizhova talks about social and literary environment in contemporary Russia with
Dr. Elina Kahla

7.6.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Natali Stegmann, University of Regensburg, Germany
How Socialism Lost its Concepts. A Brief look from the Czechoslovak and from the Polish Perspective
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

14.6.2012 at 14:15
Visiting Fellows Research-seminar
Elena Osokina, University of South Carolina, United States
Rembrandts for Tractors: Soviet Art Export under Stalin
VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.