The 22nd Aleksanteri Conference “Decolonizing Space in the Global East – Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices” begins on this week’s Wednesday, October 25. The Opening Ceremony as well as all of the conference’s Plenaries will be streamed live for free.
THE OPENING CEREMONY & PLENARY I
Wed 25 Oct at 10.30-12.00 | The Great Hall, Main Building
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian activist and opposition leader (video)
Tuija Brax, director of the new Rule of Law Center, University of Helsinki
Markku Kangaspuro, director of the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Madina Tlostanova, Professor of Postcolonial Feminism, Linköping University
Follow live: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l52
PLENARY II – ROUNDTABLE: The End of Area Studies, or a Brand New Beginning?
Wed 25 Oct at 17.00–18.30 | Hall 1 (B116), Metsätalo
Chair: Katalin Miklossy, Head of Discipline in Eastern European Studies
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sirke Mäkinen, University Lecturer, Title of Docent in Political Science
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Matthias Neumann, Professor of Modern History
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Jeremy Morris, Professor of Global and Russian Studies
School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
Follow live: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l15
PLENARY III: Carceral Practices
Thur 26 Oct at 11.30–13.00 | Hall 1 (B116), Metsätalo
Chair: Brendan Humphreys, Senior Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Kresimir Petkovic, Professor of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Alan Barenberg, Associate Professor, Department of History, Texas Tech University, USA
Dominique Moran, Professor of Carceral Geography, University of Birmingham, England
Petru Negura, Visiting Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Follow live: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l15
PLENARY IV: Legal Choices
Thur 26 Oct at 16.30–17.30 | Hall 1 (B116), Metsätalo
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva, Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Agnieszka Kubal, Associate Professor, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, England
Jeff Kahn, Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, USA
Follow live: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l15
PLENARY V: Political Transformations
Fri 27 Oct at 9.00–11.00 | Hall 1 (B116), Metsätalo
Chair: Una Bergmane, Grand fund researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Epp Annus, Associate Professor, Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia
Iwona Kaliszewska, Assistant Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw
Viacheslav Morozov, Professor of International Political Theory, University of Tartu, Estonia
Ben Noble, Associate Professor of Russian Politics, University College London, United Kingdom
Follow live: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l15
PLENARY VI – ROUNDTABLE: From Prisons to Organized Crime
Fri 27 Oct at 14.00–15.60 | Think Corner
Chair: Costanza Curro, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Gavin Slade, Associate Professor of Sociology, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Rustam Urinboyev, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University
Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Follow live: https://tiedekulmamedia.helsinki.fi/fi/web/tiedekulma/player/webcast?eventId=259139011
Decolonizing Space in the Global East:
Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices
October 25–27, 2023 | Helsinki, Finland
The Aleksanteri Conference is one of the largest annual conferences of Russian and Eastern European Studies in the world. It takes place in Helsinki in late October and stretches over three days. Over 200 papers are presented during the 50 panel sessions and more than 400 participants attend the conference every year. The theme of the conference varies from year to year.