Programme

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Venue: Unioninkatu 36, meeting at the entrance hall of the National Library.

Registration / information desk is on the 4th floor of the University of Helsinki Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33). We ask all the participants to register upon arrival at the information desk. Registration / information desk will be open from 12 o'clock till 19.00 on Wednesday, from 8.45 till 17.00 on Thursday and from 9.15 till 14.30 on Friday. 

Our student volunteers are happy to help you in any questions you may have! 

The conference presents three different photo exhibitions at Main Building:

 "Anti–Authoritarians - Berlin 1968 / 2018", photographs by Colin Robins

 "Prague Spring 1968" in cooperation with the Czech embassy in Helsinki

 "Helsinki 1968" photos from Helsinkikuvia.fi

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Vladimir Gel'man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Professor Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard University, USA):
• Professor Katrin Voltmer (University of Leeds, UK):

Coffee will be served at 3rd and 4th floor lobbies.

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):
• Elena Shmeleva (Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and Aleksei Shmelev (Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia):
• Terhi Raikas (University of Helsinki, Finland):
• John Nelson (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland):

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

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

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):
• Natalia Mamonova (Swedish Institute of International Affairs):
• Irina Olimpieva (Center for Independent Social Research, Russia):
• Selbi Durdiyeva (Ulster University, NI, UK):

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):
• Konstantin Zamyatin (University of Helsinki, Finland):
• Anni Maria Reuter (University of Helsinki, Finland):

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):

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

2A: Russian Media Lab II: Screening of a Documentary Film “Disco and Atomic War” (2009)

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Interview with Jaak Kilmi, Director of the Film. This session will run till 7 pm.

The documentary "Disco and Atomic War“ stems from the childhood experiences of the authors who lived in the Soviet Estonia in 1980s. The film focuses on the crucial role of the Finnish television in making visible the manifold absurdity of the Soviet life. After screening, Dr Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus will interview Jaak Kilmi about the topics this documentary aims to address.

Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Daria Gritsenko (Aleksanteri Institute and HELDIG, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland)
• Jussi Pakkasvirta (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University, Sweden)
• Markus Kainu (The Social Insurance Institution of Finland KELA)
• Hanna Smith (Hybrid CoE)

2C: Restructing the Post-Imperial World

Venue: Hall 12, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Brendan Humphreys (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Christina Kramer (University of Toronto, Canada):
• Jonathan Sicotte (Georgetown University, USA):
• Alessandro Milani (Ecole pratique des hautes études, France):

Venue: Hall 8, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Jouni Järvinen

• Rosario Napolitano (Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia / University of Milan, Italy): Hungarian Uprising versus Prague Spring: a Comparative Analysis of Latvian Glavlit in 1956 and 1968
• Susan Ikonen (University of Helsinki, Finland): On the Interplay between Hopes for the Future and Legacies of the Past: Soviet Society and Culture between 1953 and 1968
• Miwako Okabe (University of Helsinki, Finland): Students' Dissident and Pop-music in the GDR in 1956 and 1968: the Case of Leipzig

2E: Roundtable: Liberal Discourse Revisited: Implications for Theory and the Case of ECE Countries

Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Hana Formánková (University of Leipzig, Germany)

• Katalin Miklóssy (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Erosion of the Rule of Law or an Incompatible Concept? 
• Petra Guasti (Goethe University Frankfurt and Ash Centre/Harvard Kennedy School): Non-linear Democratization: Central Europe between Past and the Future
• Hana Formánková and Astrid Lorenz (University of Leipzig, Germany): Below Institutional Stability: Economic Structures, Elite Networks and Politics in Czechia
• Vladimir Gel'man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) - comments 

2F: Intellectuals, Ideas and Political Change

Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Vesa Oittinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Mikhail Maslovskiy (Sociological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences):
• Liubov Fadeeva (Perm State University, Russia):
• Leo Granberg (University of Helsinki, Finland):

2G: Russia and the West

Venue: Hall “Konsistori”, University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Suvi Kansikas (Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Alex Aissaoui (University of Helsinki, Finland):
• Alessandro Vitale (University of Milan, Italy):
• Andrey Zaostrovtsev (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia):

Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Risto Keskinen (City of Helsinki, Finland) and Ekaterina Protassova (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Natalia Rodina (Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia): Russian Pre-primary Education in Historical Perspective
• Elena Kolesnikova (Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences): Preschool Teachers in a Changing Institutional Context
• Olga Savinskaya (Higher School of Economics, Russia): The Routine Practices and Social Order in the Kindergarten: How it is Constructed by Children
• Ekaterina Arutyunova (Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences): Ethnic Languages in Pre-school Education in the Republics of Russia

2I: Youth Problems in Russia and Europe

Venue: Hall 21, University of Helsinki Main Building, 5th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Dragana Cvetanovic (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Arseniy Svynarenko (Finnish Youth Research Society)
• Natalia Goncharova (Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg, Russia):
• Yana Krupets (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Nadezhda Vasilieva (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia):
• Elena Omelchenko (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia):

2J: Social Policy in Russia and in the Soviet Union

Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) 

Discussant:

• Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) 
• Terry Cox (University of Glasgow, UK):
• Natalia Koulinka (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States):
• Aleksandr Bugrovskii (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia):
• Anastasia Novkunskaya (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia):

Registration / information desk is on the 4th floor of the University of Helsinki Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33). We ask all the participants to register upon arrival at the information desk. Registration / information desk will be open from 8.45 am till 5 pm on Thursday.

3A: Russian Media Lab III: Media, Market and the Digital Economy

Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Katja Lehtisaari (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Alexandra Barmina (Central European University, Hungary):
• Joseph Lenkart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA):
• Nina Trubnikova (RUDN University, Russia):
• Irina Soboleva (Institute of Economics Russian Academy of Sciences) and Marina Baskakova (Institute of Economics Russian Academy of Sciences):

3B: Paradoxes of Socialism and Cultural Resistance

Venue: Hall 12, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Ira Österberg (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Birgit Beumers (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Heli Reimann (University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland):
• Philip Decker (Oxford University, UK):
• Jason Merrill (Michigan State University, USA):

3C: Reception of 1968 Events in the Soviet Union

Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Judith Pallot (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) 

• Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder-Institut for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany):
• Ekaterina Kamenskaya (Urals Federal University, Russia):
• Allan Reid (University of New Brunswick, Canada):
• Alexander Sungurov (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia):

3D: Politics of Memory

Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Olga Malinova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

• Jessica Bawgus (University of Glasgow, UK):
• Ryan Hale (University of East Anglia, UK):
• Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and Johanna Turunen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
• Marco Siddi (Finnish Institute of International Affairs):

Venue: Hall 8, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Vladimir Gel'man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland / European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)

• Leendert Jan Gerrit Krol (European University Institute, Italy): Between Compliance and Concession. Institutional Power and Legislative Activity of Authoritarian Parliaments in Eurasia
• Margarita Zavadskaya (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland / European University at St. Petersburg, Russia): Economic or Ethnic Mobilization? Political Machines and the Integrity of Subnational Elections in Russia
• Tatiana Tkacheva (Higher  School of Economics, Russia) and Grigorii Golosov (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia): United Russia’s Primaries and the Strength of Political Machines in the Regions of Russia: Evidence from the 2016 Duma Elections
• Pär Gustafsson:

3F: Ageing and Poverty in Russia

Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Jouko Nikula (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) 

• Julia Zelikova (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, North-West Institute of Management):
• Gaiane Safarova (St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences), Natalia Kalmykova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) and Anna Safarova (St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences):
• Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala University, Sweden):
• Ekaterina Slobodenyuk (Higher School of Economics, Russia):

Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Larisa Shpakovskaya (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Discussant:

• Ira Jänis-Isokangas (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Anna Klimova (University of Helsinki, Finland): "It was an unplanned pregnancy": Narratives on Becoming a Foster Parent
• Anna Klepikova (European University at St.Petersburg, Russia): Former Volunteers, Prospective Parents: Experiences of Fostering a Child with Disabilities in Russia
• Anna Altukhova (European University at St.Petersburg, Russia): "They tell me one word, and I tell them three in return!": Negotiations on Guidance and Independence between Staff and Residents in an assisted Living Project

Coffee will be served at 3rd and 4th floor lobbies.

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Dr. Jouni Järvinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Professor Veljko Vujačić (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia):
• Professor Susan Reid (Loughborough University, UK):

Author, journalist and activist Masha Gessen will be interviewed by Mariëlle Wijermars about Gessen's latest book "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia" at Think Corner Lounge, 2nd floor.

Please register in advance .

There is a possibility to buy lunch at Think Corner 1st floor.

4A: Russian Media Lab IV: Internet Regulation, Online Censorship and Resistance

Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Dmitry Yagodin (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Marina Galkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) and Liudmila Sivetc (University of Turku, Finland):
• Liudmila Sivetc (University of Turku, Finland):
• Markku Lonkila (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Larisa Shpakovskaya (Higher School of Economics, Russia) and Philip Torchinsky:

4B: Roundtable: Antinomies of Russian Modernisation

Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Organised by the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies “Choices of Russian Modernisation”

Chair: Brendan Humphreys (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Vladimir Gel'man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Venue: Hall 12, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Kristiina Silvan (University of Helsinki, Finland): Remembering Komsomol Past in Contemporary Belarus
• Uku Lember (Tallinn University, Estonia): Oral Histories about Male Homosexual Experiences in Late Soviet Estonia and in Times of Transition (1960-90s)
• Riikka Taavetti (University of Helsinki, Finland): Glimpses of Soviet Gay Male Pasts in Estonian Life Stories and Contemporary Art

4D: Revolution and generational conflict in Eastern Europe

Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Birgit Beumers (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Maria Matskevich (Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Simone Attilio Bellezza (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy):
• Kimmo Elo (University of Turku, Finland):

4E: Eastern Policy of the EU

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Katri Pynnöniemi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Joan DeBardeleben (Carleton University, Canada):
• Nina Lutterjohann (Bielefeld University, Germany):
• Maryna Rabinovych (I.I.Mechnikov Odesa National University, Ukraine / University of Hamburg, Germany):
• Anna Ayvazyan (Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences):

Venue: Hall 8, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Margarita Zavadskaya (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Boris Sokolov (Higher School of Economics, Russia): Identifying Populist Right Parties in Contemporary Europe
• Andrey Shcherbak (Higher School of Economics, Russia): Russia’s ‘Conservative Turn’ after 2012: Evidence from Cross-national Surveys
• Eduard Ponarin (Higher School of Economics, Russia) and Mikhail Komin (The Center for Strategic Development): The Russian Elite’s Imperial Nationalism and the Russian Society: The Emergence of a Grand Consensus

Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Yana Krupets (Higher School of Economics)

• Alexander Kondakov (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Samuli Hurri and Iiris Kestila (University of Lapland, Finland)
• Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Ekaterina Borozdina (European University at St. Petersburg)

4H: Changing Values in Contemporary World

Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Anna Tarasenko

• Anna Almakaeva (Higher School of Economics, Russia) and Evgeniya Mitrokhina (Higher School of Economics, Russia):
• Marita Gasteiger (University of Vienna, Austria):
• Anna Nemirovskaya (Higher School of Economics, Russia) and Natalia Soboleva (Higher School of Economics, Russia):
• Marina Nemytina (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia) and Tsybik Ts. Mikheeva (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia ):

5A: Russian Media Lab V: Media Framing

Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Discussant:

• Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester, UK)
• Mariëlle Wijermars (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Mass Media and the Legitimation of Internet Control in Russia
• Irina Khaldarova (University of Helsinki, Finland):
• Dmitry Yagodin (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland):

Venue: Hall 12, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Emilia Palonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Dmitry Kozlov (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia): Between Protest and Self-organisation: Leningrad Samizdat of the 1950s
• Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University, Sweden): Creating Citizen-historians: Digital Archives as a Form of Civic Engagement
• Elena Rodina  (Northwestern University, USA): The Art of Daily Resistance: Oppositional Tactics and Strategies Utilised by the Journalists in the North Caucasus
• Saara Ratilainen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Feminism in Liberal Mainstream Media: Resisting Neo-traditional Gender Politics

Venue: Hall 8, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Elena Shmeleva (Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

• Aleksei Shmelev (Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia) and Irina Levontina (Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia): Russian Liberal Lexicon: Key Expressions and Their Evaluative Potential
• Elena Marassinova (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences): The Notion of "Citizen" in Political Language of the 18th Century Russia.

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Valentina Fava (Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
• Suvi Kansikas (Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland)

Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Boris Kolonitsky (European University at Saint-Petersburg; St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

• Vera Kaplan (Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel): Two Archives of the Russian Revolution
• Bartlomiej Gajos (Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding; Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Space and Memory – the Case Study of Moscow 1918
• Olga Malinova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia): Framing Memory About Post-Soviet Transformation in the 1990s as a Tool of Legitimization of Putin's Regime
• Maria Matskevich (Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences): Attitudes to a Notion of Revolution in Post-Soviet States: Shared Memories within Actual Context

5F: Democracy and Authoritarianism

Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Eduard Ponarin (Higher School of Economics, Russia)

Discussant:

• Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard University, USA)
• Vladimir Gel'man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland):
• Aleksei Gridnev (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) and Galina Selivanova (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy):
• Matteo Laruffa (LUISS University, Rome, Italy / Humboldt University, Germany):

Venue: Hall 21, University of Helsinki Main Building, 5th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Sakari Höysniemi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Joan DeBardeleben (Carleton University, Canada)
• Teemu Oivo (University of Eastern Finland, Karelian Institute): Questioned Finnish-Russian Dual Citizenship in Views of Russian-speakers
• Iurii Agafonov (North-West Institute of Management, branch of RANEPA in St. Petersburg, Russia): Playing a Double Game: Effects of European Neighbourhood Policy on the Political Regimes in Eastern Partnership
• Kristiina Silvan (University of Helsinki, Finland): Transformation of the Russian Komsomol to the Russian Youth Union (1990–2018)

Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Anna Klimova (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Anna Altukhova (European University at St.Petersburg, Russia)
• Anna Klepikova (European University at St.Petersburg, Russia)
• Larisa Shpakovskaya (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Antti Teittinen (Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Finland)
• Jaana Tiiri (Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities, Finland)

5I: Inequality in Russia

Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Terry Cox

• Yuri Frantsuz (St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Russia):
• Svetlana Mareeva (Higher School of Economics, Russia):
• Dmitry Rudenko (University of Tyumen, Russia):
• Elena Bogomiagkova (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) and Ekaterina Orekh (St. Petersburg State University, Russia):

Rhymes of power, sounds of freedom: chat and show with Marčelo, Serbian rapper, musician and novelist. 

Marko Šelić Marčelo (b.1983) is a Serbian author of novels, columns and rap lyrics. His intellectual activism can be seen through the work related to action against violence, war trauma, human trafficking and labor exploitation, and for tolerance between the people of the former Yugoslavia and the impact of music and literature on modern youth’s attitudes. Marčelo has the ability to scan the dysfunctional society around him, sketch a precise picture of it and its people trying to deal with the traumas of disillusions, corruption, brain drain, defeat of the urban culture, violence and neo-conservativism. His voice moves the listener deeply and his message heels audience’s yearning for intense words. All of this is needed in the environment where many generational voices have run dry.

Marčelo will perform with his 3-piece live band at Tiedekulma 17.30-18.30, October 25^th 2018. Hosted by Dragana Cvetanović (Aleksanteri Institute).

Venue: ThinkCorner of the University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4

All chairs, discussants and paper presenters are invited to attend this reception at 19.00-20.30.

Venue: City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13.

Registration / information desk is on the 4th floor of the University of Helsinki Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33). We ask all the participants to register upon arrival at the information desk. Registration / information desk will be open from 9.15 am till 2.30 pm on Friday.

6A: Russian Media Lab VI: Media, Control and Society

Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Olga Dovbysh (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Maxim Alyukov (University of Tyumen, Russia / Centre for Independent Social Research, Russia):
• Jukka Pietiläinen (University of Helsinki, Finland):
• Arseniy Svynarenko (Finnish Youth Research Society) and Anastasia Sablina (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia):

Venue: Hall “Konsistori”, University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Dragana Cvetanovic (Aleksantari Institute, University of Helsinki)

Discussant:

• Miranda Jakisa (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
• Ana Hofman (Research Center of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Ay Carmela! Antifascism and Politics of Future after Yugoslavia
• Senad Halilbasic (University of Vienna, Austria): Theatre as Resistance - A Case Study of a Theater Co-production in the Divided City of Mostar
• Nastasia Louveau (University of Zurich, Switzerland): Performative Practices in Yugoslavia - Oscillation between Socialist Critique & Progressive Real-Socialism

Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Ira Jänis-Isokangas (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland)

• Ekaterina Rybkina (European University Institute, Italy; European University at St. Petersburg, Russia): Wireless Communication and Radio Experimenters in Twentieth-Century Russia.
• Dmitriy Ivanov (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia): Post-Imperial Mobilization: Petrograd Province Paramilitaries 1917-1919
• Mia Öhman (University of Helsinki, Finland): Soviet-Finnish Coproduction Film Trust (Doverie, 1976) as a Tool for World Peace

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Caroline Serck-Hanssen: A Saint for all Seasons? Changing Representations of St. Tryphon of Pechenga in Norway and Russia from 1880s to the Present.
• Jukka Korpela (University of Eastern Finland): Bandit Trifon, the Muscovite Occupation of Arctic Shores and its religious Legitimization.
• Elina Kahla (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Can Saints Build Bridges in the Arctic? Pros and Cons.

Venue: Hall 12, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Tatiana Weiser (Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences, Russia)

• Timur Atnashev (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia): What are Regimes of Publicity and Why They are Important when Studying Russian Intellectual History?
• Valery Vyugin (Institute of Russian Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia): A Conspiracy of Soviet Writers?: The Second Congress of Soviet Writers (1954) and Changes in Regimes of Publicity
• Konstantin Kokarev (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia): “Foreign agent” as a Legal and Political Institute and its Impact on the Regime of Publicity in Russia, 2014-2017
• Victoria Faibyshenko (St. Philaret Christian Orthodox Institute, Moscow): "Expansion of the Sacred" as a Privatization of Public Domain in the post-Soviet Russia

This panel has been cancelled.

6G: Regional Issues in Russia

Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Andrey Starodubtsev (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Stephanie Hitztaler (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki):
• Alexander Sergunin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia):
• Denis Stremoukhov (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia):
• Svetlana Vinogradova (Higher School of Economics, Russia):

Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Simo Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Galina Eremicheva (Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences): The Attitudes of Russians towards the Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Inequality
• Elena Evdokimova (Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences): Changes in the Perception of Social Inequality during the Transformation in Russia
• Lilia Zemnukhova (Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Scienes): New Inequalities in Digital Economy
• Ekaterina Orekh (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) and Elena Bogomiagkova (St. Petersburg State University, Russia):

6I: Labour Markets in Russia

Venue: Hall 21, University of Helsinki Main Building, 5th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Irina Olimpieva (Center for Independent Social Research, Russia)

• Natalia Soboleva (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia):
• Vladimir Karacharovskiy (Higher School of Economics, Russia):

6J: Eurasian Relations

Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)

• Chu Dongmei (Institute of China's borderland studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):
• Yoko Hirose (Keio University, Japan):
• Zachary Paikin (University of Kent, UK):
• Marco Siddi (Finnish Institute of International Affairs):

Coffee will be served at 3rd and 4th floor lobbies.

7A: Russian Media Lab VII: Mediated Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Russia

Venue: Hall 10, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Olga Andreevskikh (University of Leeds, UK):
• Liliia Pankratova (St. Petersburg State University, Russia):
• Elena Onegina (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg / Moscow, Russia):

Cancelled

Venue: Hall “Konsistori”, University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Elizabeth Walker (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)

• Terry Cox (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Birgit Beumers (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

7D: Political Legacies in Eastern Europe

Venue: Hall 13, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Jouni Järvinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Veljko Vujačić (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Alexandru Groza (University of Bucharest, Romania):
• Zbyněk Vydra (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic):
• Barbara J. Falk (Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada):

Venue: Hall 6, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Saara Matala (Aalto University, Finland)

• Matěj Bily (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR), Czech Republic): Time to Dissolve Comecon? The Discussions on the Economic Cooperation within the Warsaw Pact in the late 1980’s.
• Elena Dragomir (University Valahia of Targoviste, Romania): The Opposition within: Romania and the CMEA-EEC Negotiations on the 1988 Joint Declaration  
• Suvi Kansikas (Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland): CMEA after 1988: the Socialist Bloc between disintegration and Integration
• Aleksei Popov (South Ural State University, Russia): Poor History of Mutual Investment within the CMEA in the late 1960s: History of the Project of Equity Participation

7F: Peace Movement and the Third World

Venue: Hall 8, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Sohvi Kangasluoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant:

• Johanna Turunen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
• Irina Gordeeva (St. Philaret's Christian Orthodox Institute, Moscow, Russia) and Nadezda Petrusenko (Umeå Universitet, Sweden):
• Hilary Lynd (University of California Berkeley, USA):

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Anna Fomina (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Galina Markova (Know How Centre for Alternative Care for Children, New Bulgarian University): The Influence of post-Totalitarian Mindsets on the Process of the Deinstitutionalization
• Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland), Maija Jäppinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Zhanna Chernova (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg): Child Welfare Reform in Contemporary Russia: From Child Protection to Child Focused Approaches
• Larisa Shpakovskaia (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia): Punish or Love: Public Debate on Acceptable Pedagogical Methods in the Context of Child Welfare Reforms
• Anna Tarasenko (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Reform of the Residential Care for Children without Parental Care: Russian Regional Patterns

Venue: Hall 7, University of Helsinki Main Building, 3rd floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Pekka Kettunen (Abo Akademi University, Finland)

Discussant:

• Pekka Valkama (University of Vaasa, Finland)
• Inessa Tarusina (North-Western Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy), Tatiana Barandova and Valeria Lavrentieva (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia): Governance of City Development: A Case of St. Petersburg's Green Area Improvement
• Pekka Kettunen (Abo Akademi University, Finland) and Hanna Heino (University of Turku, Finland): Sustainable Development in Four Urban Areas in Finland: Comparative Analysis
• Tatiana Barandova, Ilia Dorkhanov (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Inessa Tarusina (North Western Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy): Sustainable Development at the Local Level: Waste Management and Sorting at St. Petersburg

7I: Spaces of Interaction: Balkans and Ukraine

Venue: Hall 21, University of Helsinki Main Building, 5th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Emma Hakala (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

• Tomasz Padło (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland):
• Marina Vulovic (University of Helsinki, Finland):
• Dragana Cvetanovic (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Yugospotting through Rhyme-droppin’: Rapping New Common Identities in post-Yugoslav Spaces
• Valentin Chenier (University of Oulu, Finland): Keep It Real, Teach It Well: Pedagogical Approaches to Hip hop in French and Balkan Contexts

7J: Faith, Spirituality and Politics

Venue: Hall 14, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair and discussant: Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Justinas Dementavičius (Vilnius university, Lithuania):
• Mikhail Dobrovolskiy (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia):
• Maija Penttilä (University of Helsinki, Finland):

Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, 4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33

Chair: Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Dr Maria Mälksoo, Brussels School of International Studies/University of Kent:
• Professor Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester: