Programme

The programme of the 18th annual Aleksanteri Conference consists of three plenary sessions and seven panel sessions with seven to ten parallel panels, altogether encompassing more than 200 individual presentations.

Complementing academic activity, the conference programme also includes cultural events, photo exhibitions and screening of documentaries. Conference guests are invited to attend a guided tour of the Slavonic Library and two evening receptions hosted by the City of Helsinki and University of Helsinki. A book exhibition will take place at the main conference venue.

Scroll down to browse the programme or use the quick links to find the right panel.



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Wednesday 24 October
10:00 Guided tour at the Slavonic Library

Come and get to know the world-famous Slavonic Libary of the National Library of Finland. Register in advance, as we have limited number of places to this tour.



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

12:00 Registration and information desk open

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! 

12:00 Launching of the photo exhibitions

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

12:00 Book exhibition opens

Venue: Hall 15 at the 4th floor of the University of Helsinki Main Building.

13:00 Opening Ceremony

Opening words by Professor Markku Kangaspuro, Director of the Aleksanteri Institute

Ceremonial speaker: Professor emerita Marju Lauristin, Tartu University



Watch the opening ceremony and plenary session here



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

13:30 Plenary Session I

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

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

Watch the plenary session here

15:00 Coffee

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

15:30 Panel session I

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)

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:

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)

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:

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
17:15 Panel session II

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.

2B: Roundtable: Re-formatting Area Studies in the Age of Big Data

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)

2D: Generation and Culture in the Eastern Bloc after the Prague Spring 1968 and the Hungarian Uprising 1956

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)

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)

2H: Freedom and Democracy in Pre-Primary Education

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:

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:

18:00 Off Site Event: Discussion with writer Jelena Tšižova, organized by student associations of University of Helsinki

Panel discussion with the Russian writer, Jelena Tšižova

on 24th of October at 6pm at the library of Rikhardinkatu (Address: Rikhardinkatu 3)

Russian writer, Jelena Tšižova, decided to become a writer after she survived a sinking ship disaster. Before, she has been working in finance, as a teacher and as an entrepreneur. Her career as a writer has been successful and she has been acknowledged as a winner for the Russian Booker prize for her novel "The Time of Women". https://intokustannus.fi/kirja/naisten-aika/  (in Finnish)

The event will start at 6 pm and is held in English. After the panel discussion there will be free mingling time with Jelena Tšižova and other participants. Jelena Tšižova hoped to meet students and discuss topics of their interest, In particular. The event will end at 7.30 pm.

As we will provide some snacks and coffee/tea for you, we hope that you would sign up for the event, so that no one will be left hungry (enrolment ends on 21st of October). The event is free of charge. Please register at this link.

Warm welcome!

Best Regards, 

Sasha Ry & Rupla Ry, Student Associations of University of Helsinki

19:00 Reception hosted by the University of Helsinki

All chairs, discussants and paper presenters are invited to attend this reception at 19.00-21.00.

Venue: Small hall lobby, 4th floor, University of Helsinki main building.

Thursday 25 October
8:45 Registration and information desk open

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.

9:00 Panel session III

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)

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:

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) 

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)

3E: Power Sharing, Defections and Cooptation in Russia and post-Soviet Space: Microfoundations of Authoritarian Rule

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: Commercial Courts and the Rule of Law in Russia, 1992-2000: A Case of Systemic Transformation

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) 

3G: Grass-Root Alternatives to Institutionalization in Russia: Ethnography of Family and Community Care

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
10:30 Coffee

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

11:00 Plenary session II

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

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

Watch the plenary session here

12:30 Lunch break

At the conference venue you can get lunch at the Unicafe, situated at the 1st and 2nd floors of the building. As the conference venue is located in the city centre, there are several restaurants and cafes to choose from. Check MyHelsinki website for more information.

13:00 Interview with author Masha Gessen

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 here.

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

 

14:00 Panel session IV

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)

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)

4C: Remembering and Reproducing the Soviet Pasts: New Perspectives on Estonian and Belarussian Memories

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:

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)

4F: Nationalism and Populism in Eastern Europe

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

4G: Roundtable: Gender Equality, Sexual Liberation and Freedom after Three Decades of Post-Socialism

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

15:45 Panel session V

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:

5B: Cultural and Media Resistance Practices in Russia (1968-2018)

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

5C: History of the Key Concepts of the Russian Liberal Discourse

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.

5D: Roundtable: New Approaches in Soviet/Russian Economic History

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)

5E: Memory of Crises in Crisis Times

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:

5G: FRRESH (Finnish-Russian Network in Russian and Eurasian Studies) Perspectives to Russia and Beyond

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)

5H: Screening of a documentary film: Filming for a disability organization: implications for the community and research

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

17:30 Rhymes of power, sounds of freedom - Marčelo

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 25th 2018. Hosted by Dragana Cvetanović (Aleksanteri Institute).

Venue: ThinkCorner of the University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4

19:00 Reception hosted by the City of Helsinki

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

Venue: City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13.

Friday 26 October
9:15 Registration and information desk open

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.

9:30 Panel session VI

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)

6B: Forms of Protest and Resistance in (Post-)Yugoslav Arts

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

6C: Paramilitaries, Airwaves and Lenin's Adventures in Finland. Activists, Ideology and Art

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

6D: St. Tryphon of Pechenga and Political Uses of History

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.

6E: Regimes of Publicity in Russia: Studying the Changes in the Status of Public Speech

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

6F: 1968 in non-European Views: the USA, the Soviet Union and Japan

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)

6H: Old and New Inequalities in Russian Everyday Life

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): The Idea of "fullness of life" in the Today's Discourse of Russian Parents (on the Example of Interviews about Children's Video Games)

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)

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)

11:00 Coffee break

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

11:30 Panel session VII

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)

7B: Roundtable: Culture as National Value

Cancelled

7C: Roundtable: Publishing in Academic Journals: Tips to Help You Succeed

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:

7E: Integration and Disintegration of the Socialist Bloc: Comecon in the 1960s to 1980s

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:

7G: Deinstitutionalisation of Child Welfare in Russia: Policy Shift, Ideational Changes and Institutional Transformations

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

7H: Governance of Sustainable Development in Comparative Perspective

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)

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)

13:00 Lunch break

At the conference venue you can get lunch at the Unicafe, situated at the 1st and 2nd floors of the building. As the conference venue is located in the city centre, there are several restaurants and cafes to choose from. Check MyHelsinki website for more information.

14:30 Plenary session III

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

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

Watch the plenary session and closing ceremony here

16:00 Closing Ceremony

Dr. Suvi Kansikas (Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland): Closing remarks



Dr. Daria Gritsenko (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Announcing the theme for the Aleksanteri Conference 2019



Watch the closing ceremony here (starting at 1:35)