Streams and events open to the public in the Aleksanteri Conference 2024

In the Aleksanteri Conference of 2024, there are sessions and plenaries open to the public without a fee. Welcome!
Schedule of the streams and events open to the public

Please find below links to live stream sessions that are open for everyone. You can also join the last event on Friday live in Think Corner/Tiedekulma.

Wednesday 23rd of October:

10:00-11:00 Opening Ceremony.

11:00-12:00 Plenary I: Jennifer Gandhi: Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Politics from a Comparative Perspective. 

15:30-16:30 Plenary II: Diana T. Kudaibergen: States, Regimes, and Vlast': How Citizens Make Sense of Everyday Authoritarianism? 

Thursday 24th of October:

12:00-13:00 Plenary III: Gwendolyn Sasse: Questions about War and Democracy in Russia’s War against Ukraine

Friday 25th of October:

13:00-14:30 Book Launch: Российская модернизация: новая парадигма (Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm).

15:15-16:45 Benjamin Nathans: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. and Tiedekulma (Yliopistonkatu 4).

16:30-17:30 Closing seremony. Kukuvitsa performing and announcing the 2025 conference.

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