1A: Russian Media Lab I: Roundtable "Researching Russian Media - Challenges and Future Perspectives"
Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Participants: project members Mariëlle Wijermars, Katja Lehtisaari, Olga Dovbysh, Saara Ratilainen, Jussi Lassila
1B: Cultural Resistance
Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Julie Hemment (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA): You’re kidding? Deadpanning Diplomats, Comedic Collusion and the Challenges of a Satirical Arms Race
Elena Shmeleva (Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and Aleksei Shmelev (Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia): Russian Canned Political Jokes: from 1917 through 2018
Terhi Raikas (University of Helsinki, Finland): Banned Books and the Freedom to Write in the Soviet Union
John Nelson (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): 'Flower-power' and the 'Hammer and Sickle' – the Role and Reaction to Popular Music in the 1968 Student Protests
1C: Environmental Values and Ethics in the Soviet Union
Venue: Hall 12, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Elena Kochetkova (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia): Soviet Environment and Engineers, 1945-1980s: Views and Values
Viktor Pal (University of Helsinki, Finland / Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia): Consumer Recycling in the USSR. Ethics and Values.
Inna Sukhenko (University of Helsinki, Finland): Literary Dimensions of “Nuclear Phobia” in Post-Chornobyl Nuclear Fiction: Towards Energy Humanities
1D: Across the Borders - East-West Cultural and Tourist Exchanges in Eastern Europe
Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Riikka Palonkorpi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Sune Bechmann Pedersen (University of Lund, Sweden): Tourist Business across the Iron Curtain: The Politics and Practices of Scandinavian Communist Travel Agencies
Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland): Yves Montand in the USSR
Pia Koivunen (University of Turku, Finland): World Youth Festival as a Form of (Youth) Travel during the Cold War
1E: Territorial Dimension of Educational Governance in Russia and Germany
Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Anna Tarasenko (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Discussant: Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Nelli Piattoeva (University of Tampere, Finland) and Sigrid Hartong (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany): Capturing the Spatial Dynamics of Datafication in Federal States - Education Policy Transformations in Germany and Russia
Andrey Starodubtsev (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland & Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia): Coordination, Subordination, and Control in Federal Systems: Case of Education Policy in Russia and Germany
1F: Roundtable: Russian Defence Industry: Future Perspectives
Venue: Hall “Konsistori”, University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Laura Solanko (BOFIT, Bank of Finland)
Katri Pynnöniemi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Karoliina Rajala (Ministry of Defence, Finland)
Anna Lowry (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Aleksi Päiväläinen
1G: Protests in Russia
Venue: Hall 8, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Vladimir Gel'man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Discussant: Markku Lonkila (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Svetlana Erpyleva (Tyumen State University, Russia): New Local Activism after Nationwide Post-Election Protest in Russia: Event, Biography and Political Culture
Natalia Mamonova (Swedish Institute of International Affairs): Protest in the Name of Putin
Irina Olimpieva (Center for Independent Social Research, Russia): The Role of Labour Protest in the Dialog between the State and Society in Russia
Selbi Durdiyeva (Ulster University, NI, UK): Transitional Justice and Public Sphere
1H: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Union and Russia
Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Andrey Shcherbak (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Nikolay Sarkisyan (University of Oslo, Norway): Imported Institutions: A Critical Perspective on Russia's Policy of Ethnic Tolerance
Konstantin Zamyatin (University of Helsinki, Finland): Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management: From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State
Anni Maria Reuter (University of Helsinki, Finland): The Experience of Internal Exile in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s Time
1I: LGBTQ Issues in Russia
Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Riikka Taavetti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Discussant: Olga Andreevskikh (University of Leeds, UK)
Alexander Kondakov (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Violence against LGBTQ People in Russia: How the Law on Propaganda Contributes to Hate Crime
Pauliina Lukinmaa (University of Eastern Finland): Transnational Human Rights Networks and St Petersburg LGBTQI Activism
1J: Post-Soviet Healthcare: Institutional Agency in the Context of Perpetual Reforming
Venue: Hall 21, University of Helsinki Main Building, 5th floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Larisa Shpakovskaya (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Tetiana Stepurko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine): Policies and Practices of Continuing Education for Health Care Administrators in the Context of Reform in Ukraine
Olga Zvonareva (Maastricht University, Netherlands): Innovating Drugs in Russia: what is Pharmaceutical Industry?
Anastasiya Novkunskaya (European University at St.Petersburg, Russia): Patient's’ Agency in Russian Maternity Care: Manipulating Different Institutional Logics
Ekaterina Borozdina (European University at St.Petersburg, Russia): Introducing ‘Natural’ Birth in Russian Healthcare: Institutional Work and Professional Project of the Midwives