Seminars from past and present Visiting Fellows

The academic year 2022–2023 is nearing its final quarter and thus we are happy to present a series of seminars from our past and present Visiting Fellows.

Since 2008, the Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellows Programme has hosted over 150 scholars from 29 countries. This academic year, we are having ten outstanding scholars visiting the institute, out of which five will be presenting their research papers in the following weeks.

Many of the former Visiting Fellows have maintained and developed connections after their visits. Series of open online seminars called Aleksanteri Alumni Talks present the ongoing and recently published research by the alumni of the Visiting Fellows Programme. We are glad to announce that that four alumni are participating in the talks this spring.

See the upcoming events on the Visiting Fellows programme and take part in the interesting seminars. Most talks include both online and onsite participation – you are welcome to attend the events also at Aleksanteri institute (Unioninkatu 40, 3rd floor, room 17), just remember to check the details of the event in advance. 

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Event programme
TUE 4.4. IWONA KALISZEWSKA (with comments from Elena Denisova-Schmidt)

Distributed Humanitarianism: Voluntarism and Aid to Refugees During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Visiting Fellows Research Seminar | 15.00–16.30 | Online via Zoom and Unioninkatu 40, room 17 



THUR 27.4. INNA MELNYKOVSKA

Corporate Resilience with a Human Face:

Patterns, Roots, and Implications of Business Autonomy in War-Torn Ukraine

Aleksanteri Alumni Talks | 15.00–16.30 | Only online via Zoom

THUR 11.5. MARINA BYKOVA

Russian State and Russian Philosophy: From 1922 Deportations to Today's Struggles

Visiting Fellows Research Seminar | 15.00–16.30 

TUE 16.5. MIRANDA JAKIŠA

Contemporary South Slavic Victimhood Narratives and Performances: Coping with ‘Srebrenica’ in Art

Visiting Fellows Research Seminar  | 15.00–16.30 

TUE 23.5. ELENA BOGDANOVA & ANNA TARASENKO

Bodily experience and adaptation to forced migration caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Aleksanteri Alumni Talks | 15.00–16.15

WED 31.5. ANNA SHAPOVALOVA

In the Shadow of Ideology: International Economic Dimension of Stalinist Early Show Trials (1928-1933)

Visiting Fellows Research Seminar  | 15.00–16.30 

THUR 15.6. TETIANA PERGA

Battle for rags in the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s – early 1930s

Visiting Fellows Research Seminar | 14.00–15.30