Programme

Please note that some changes to the programme might still be possible.

All times in the programme are Helsinki local times (UTC +03:00 EEST).
PANEL ABSTRACTS

You can download conference's panel and roundtable abstracts in the link below. 

Wednesday 26 October 2022

MANNERHEIM MUSEUM

We warmly welcome you to participate in a pre-conference tour to Mannerheim Museum at 10.00-11.00 on Wednesday the 26th of October. We kindly ask you to register in advance at fcree-aleksconf@helsinki.fi as we have a limited number of places available for this tour.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the 5th president of the Republic of Finland after serving more than 30 years in the army of the Russian empire and then as the supreme commander of the Finnish army in the Liberation war (1918), the Winter War (1939-1940) and the Continuation War (1941-44). Mannerheim´s legacy to independent Finland can still be seen today, and the museum seeks to show and tell about not only Mannerheim´s military side, but also the curious explorer and the humanitarian. One of the most well-known NGO´s in Finland, Mannerheim League for Child Welfare (MLL), was founded by Mannerheim´s sister Sophie and the NGO was named specifically after Marshall Mannerheim. The visit to the museum will not only give an overview about Mannerheim´s life, but at the same time, will provide a crosscut of Finnish history and shows the many struggles that Finland faced in gaining and maintaining independence. The Mannerheim foundation also funds many other projects other than the MLL and the Mannerheim Museum. The joint Mannerheim professorship between the University of Helsinki and the Finnish National Defence University was established in 2017 to facilitate research in Finland on Russian foreign and security policy. The professorship is funded by three foundations: the Mannerheim foundation, Maanpuolustuksen kannatusssätiö, and the National Defence University's support foundation. The Mannerheim foundation allowed the use of Mannerheim´s name in the professorship as a show of respect to Finland's 100th Independence Day and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mannerheim's birth.  



The museum is located in the house of Mannerheim, and it is mostly in its original condition. The visit is free of charge (limited availability) and the tour the museum organizes will be held in English. There are tram stops near the museum, but you can also reach the museum on foot from the center and Metsätalo conference venue in around 25 minutes.  

 

SLAVONIC LIBRARY

You are welcome to visit the Slavonic library with us on a pre-conference tour on Wednesday 26th of October at 11.30-12.30. The visit is free of charge but has limited capacity, so register in advance at fcree-aleksconf@helsinki.fi. The Slavonic library is located within the National library of Finland next to the Senate square and the Helsinki Cathedral. During the tour we will be getting to know the Slavonic library and its historical collections more and enjoy the beautiful building before the start of the conference.



The library was founded in 1843 by Jakov Grot who served as a professor of Russian language, literature, and history at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland. The University is known as the University of Helsinki today. The Slavonic library facilitates around half a million items and has around twenty databases varying from books, journals, maps, newspapers, and digital publications. The earliest publications are from the early 19th century and are of varying topics whereas the newest acquisitions are recent academic publications about Russian and Eastern European Studies. The library adds around 2000 items to its collection every year. Not only is the collection of the library impressive and has a cultural historical value to Finland, but the building itself can also be seen as a significant architectural triumph. C.L. Engel designed the library with fire safety in mind and separate from the main building of the university in 1836. Tsar Nikolai I accepted the plans to build the grandiloquent Roman style library and even on a European scale, the library put many others to shame. The building was completed in 1845. In the early 20th century, the library experienced a transformation when the Rotunda was built as an extension for the increasing collection of the whole National Library. The library was renovated between 2013 and 2015 with the intent to preserve as much of the original as possible. 

We ask all participants to register upon arrival at the information desk.

Registration / information desk is in the entrance hall of the conference venue.

Address: Unioninkatu 40 / Fabianinkatu 39.



Registration / information desk will be open

  • from 12.00 until 18.00 on Wednesday
  • from 8.30 till 18.00 on Thursday
  • from 8.15 till 16.30 on Friday. 

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor. Click here for Live stream.



13:00-13:15 Opening ceremony

Musical performance

Charnetskyi: Oi u luzi chervona kalyna

Philomela-choir & Sofiia Yakovyshyna



Opening words: Katri Pynnöniemi, Associate Professor, Mannerheim Chair of Russian Security Studies

13:15-14:15 Plenary Session 1: The General Crisis of the 21st century

Chair: Tuomas Forsberg (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge, UK)

Coffee will be served at the third floor lobby of the conference venue.

1A Panel – The Role of Gender and Sexuality in Russia´s War Against Ukraine part 1

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor

Chair: Jonna Alava (University of Helsinki, Finland & Finnish National Defence University, Finland)

Discussant: Larisa Shpakovskaya (University of Helsinki)

Maisa Borg (Tampere University, Finland) and Maare Käis (Tampere University, Finland) Emotions, Visual Representations, and Social Media – Women in Russia´s War in Ukraine

Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Gender Dynamics and War in Ukraine: a Feminist Institutionalist Perspective



1B Roundtable – Bringing Citizens Back: Eurasia Before and During the War in Ukraine

Venue: Hall 7, 3rd floor

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

Kristiina Silvan (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Ryhor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Teemu Oivo (Karelia Institute, University of Eastern Finland, & Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, Finland)



1C Student poster presentations

Venue: Hall 4, 2nd floor

Chair: Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Andrew Guilford (University of Helsinki, Finland) Soviet-Era Eurasianist Thought and its Lasting Influence on the Ideological Architects of the Putin Regime

Alexandra Hetrick (University of Helsinki, Finland) Sustainability Governance: An evaluation of forestry certification in Russia

Hanna Hurme (University of Helsinki, Finland) Authoring the New Russia: an analysis of Vladislav Surkov's novel, Almost Zero

Katarina Meister (University of Helsinki, Finland) Fandom and Protest at Times of War: Russian Protest Music Community

Evan Mortimer (University of Helsinki, Finland) Russian National Identity: Discord and Disunity

Alexandra Moskaleva (University of Helsinki, Finland) The Power of Resentment among Russian- speaking Minorities in Estonia and Latvia through Media Consumption

Ryan Reed (University of Helsinki, Finland) The Gulag in the Official Memory of the Russian Federal Penitentiary System and the Revival of the Soviet Era Cult of the Great Patriotic War

Heidi Rättyä (University of Helsinki, Finland) Race, Gender and Class in Russian Media Discourse: Manizha and Russian Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Tatu Vehmas (University of Helsinki, Finland) Russian Import Substitution - Realities and Dreams



1D Panel – Russia´s Cultural Statecraft After the Invasion of Ukraine: Is There Anything Left?

Venue: Hall 11, 3rd floor

Chair: Tuomas Forsberg (Helsinki Collegium for Advances Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant: Sergey Medvedev (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Sirke Mäkinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Revisiting the Role of Russian Higher Education in Foreign Policy - What is its Relevance in the Post-24 February 2022 Situation?

Tuomas Forsberg (Helsinki Collegium for Advances Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland) Sport and Cultural Statecraft: The collapse of the KHL as Russia's Soft Power Project

Elina Viljanen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Classical Music and Russia's Cultural Statecraft after the Ukraine War

Julia Bethwaite (Tampere University, Finland) "Museal Special Operation" - Russian Diplomacy and Cultural Statecraft After February 24th



1E Panel – War and Repression. Russia´s War Against Ukraine in Discursive, Comparative and Legal Perspective

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair and discussant: Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, the UK)

Mikhail Nakonechnyi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Rise of Neo-Stalinism, Weaponization of Conspiratorial “folk-history”, and Denial of Atrocities in Ukraine

Brendan Humphreys (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Incarceration and Population Expulsion: Patterns from the Balkan and Ukraine Wars

Gleb Bogush (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Victims of War: The Case of Ukraine

Judith Pallot (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Violence and Repression: the Carceral Fate of the Opponents of the War in Ukraine



1F Panel – The Politics of Information in Wartime Russia

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Ola Svenonius (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden)

Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden) Russia’s Not So Sovereign Internet

Karen-Anna Eggen (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norway) Information Confrontation

Eemil Mitikka (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) and Ola Svenonius (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden) Propaganda and Polls - Russian Support for Putin After February 24th



1G Panel – The Use of History and Political Thought in Ideology Building

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor

Chair: Mette Skak (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Rosa Magnusdottir (University of Iceland, Iceland) Putin and the End of the Second World War: the History of the Great Alliance and the Second Front in Russia, 2000-2022

Maria Engqvist (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden) The Geopolitical Universe of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and its Influence on Russian Policymaking Under Vladimir Putin

Andreas Umland (Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, Sweden) and Martin Kragh (Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, Sweden) Putinism Beyond Putin: the Political Ideas of Nikolai Patrushev and Sergei Naryshkin

Katri Pynnöniemi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland & Finnish National Defence University, Finland) Ivan Ilʹin and the Kremlin’s Strategic Communication of Threats: Evil, Worthy and Hidden Enemies

 

2A Roundtable – Academic Solidarity Against the Violence of War

Venue: Hall 4, 2nd floor

Chair: Sarah Phillips (Indiana University, the USA)

Olga Filippova (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland & V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

Olga Davydova-Minguet (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

Oleksandra Deineko (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway & V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

Larisa Shpakovskaya (University of Helsinki, Finland)

2B Panel – Russia´s Politics of Memory. Why Does the Kremlin Weaponize History?

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair: Katalin Miklóssy (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Francine Hirch (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) “No Statute of Limitations”: How Putin Manipulates History to Support the War in Ukraine

Georgiy Kasianov (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland) Controversy Over the Past as a Casus Belli: Russia versus Ukraine

Evgenia Lezina (Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam University, Germany) From KGB Training Manuals: How the Soviet Secret Police Discourse on the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement is Used to Justify Aggression Against Ukraine

Bartłomiej Gajos (Mieroszewski Centre, Warsaw, Poland) "Time Bomb". Why Does Putin Despise the Early Bolshevik Regime?

2C Panel – Civil Society and Media Representations on Russian Natural Resources and Environmental Concerns

Venue: Hall 7, 3rd floor

Chair: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Maria Sakaeva (Independent scholar) Environmental Communication Through NGOs Media: Native Voices from the Russian North

Sohvi Kangasluoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Finding Gender from Capital of Gas

Teemu Oivo (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland & Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Impacts of War on Telegram's Eco Channels

Mika Perkiömäki (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) How News Aggregators (Yandex.Novosti, Google.News) Mediate the Environmental Agenda in Runet

2D Roundtable – Who Will Take the Lead? Leadership Succession in the Post-2022 Eurasia

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Joni Virkkunen (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

Jussi Lassila (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Kristiina Silvan (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Mirzokhid Karshiev (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Ryhyor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

2E Panel – The Role of Penalty in Post-Community State Formation in Former Soviet and Yugoslavian space

Venue: Hall 11, 3rd floor

Chair: Gleb Bogush (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Olga Kantokoski (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) The Western Balkan Model of Carceral Punishment in the Context of the Penal Programme of Modernity

Olga Zeveleva (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Ethnicity, Class, and Security in Estonia: Perspectives from the Prison

Lili Di Puppo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) "Muslims do not submit to anyone except the Almighty”: Islam beyond prison categories in Russia

Costanza Curro (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) The End of the Soviet Union in the Labour Colony of Khoni, Georgia

2F Panel - The Consequences of Russia´s Strategic Culture

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor 

Chair: Hanna Smith (Hybrid Coe, Finland)

Mette Skak (Aarhus University, Denmark) Continuity and Change in Russian Strategic Culture. A Case Study of the War in Ukraine

Graeme P. Herd (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Germany) Evaluating Russia´s Strategic Culture and the Invasion of Ukraine: Continuity and Change?

Stephen Hall (University of Bath, the United Kingdom) Repeated Learning Failure? Putin´s Recurrent Ukrainian Mistake

2G Panel - The New Realities of Security

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor

Chair: Panu Moilanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Johanna Vuorelma (Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland) and Anu Koivunen (University of Turku, Finland) Finland´s NATO Membership, Ontological Security, and National Identity

Olena Podvorna (National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine & Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) The New Era of Security: How Russia Has Created Ukrainian-Polish Alliance

Jyri Lavikainen (Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs & University of Helsinki) Russia´s Conceptualisation of Interstate Competition as a Struggle. Framing the Use of Military Force

Opening words by the representative of City of Helsinki, Mr Sami Sarvilinna, The Helsinki City Executive Office

Greeting of the Aleksanteri Institute, Professor Markku Kangaspuro, Director of the Aleksanteri Institute

Speech by H.E. Mrs Olga Dibrova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Republic of Finland

Venue: City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13.

Thursday 27 October 2022

We ask all participants to register at the information desk upon arrival.



On Thursday open from 8.30 till 18.00. 



Located in the entrance hall of the conference venue at Unioninkatu 40 / Fabianinkatu 39.

3A Roundtable – The Changing Regional Context of the Black Sea Area

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Katalin Miklóssy (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Dragomir Stoyanov (University of Sussex, the UK)

Silviu Miloiu (Valachian University, Romania)

Ryhor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Nino Kemoklidze (University of Chichester, the UK)

3B Panel – War and Defence Preparation in Russia and its EU Neighborhood: Societal and Institutional Transformations in a Comparative Perspective

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor

Chair: Marjo Rantala (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Jonna Alava (University of Helsinki, Finland & Finnish National Defence University, Finland) Totalitarization of Patriotic Education in Russia: Practices and Resistance

Linda Hart (Independent scholar) and Marjo Rantala (University of Helsinki, Finland) Sexual Difference and War Labour in Finland: Legal Perspectives and Future Scenarios

Weronika Grzebalska (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) ‘Where are the Women’? Assessing the Gender Politics of Defense Reforms in Post-2014 Poland

3C Panel – The Future of Russian Fossil Fuel Sectors: Accelerated Energy Transitions or a Strengthening Carbon Lock-In?

Venue: Hall 4, 2nd floor

Chair: Laura Solanko (Bank of Finland Institute of Emerging Economies, Finland)

Discussant: Anna Korppoo (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway)

Anna Korppoo (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway) Future Prospects for Russian Oil - Markets and Sanction

Georgy Safonov Russian Coal – Markets, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts

Arild Moe (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway) Russian Gas – Still a role in Energy Transition?

Oleg Pluzhnikov (Participating in individual capacity) Accelerated Energy Transition or a Carbon Lock-in?

3D Roundtable – Studying Russia in the New Reality: Is Computational Social Science a Way Forward?

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair: Daria Gritsenko (University of Helsinki)

Aleksandra Urman (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Margarita Zavadskaya (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Andrey Indukaev (Aalto University, Finland)

Mariëlle Wijermars (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

3E Panel – Interplay Between Institutions and States

Venue: Hall 7, 3rd floor

Chair: Johanna Ketola (University of Turku, Finland & Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland)

Jeffrey Kahn (Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University, the USA) The Origins of Russian Membership in the Council of Europe and the Seeds of its Expulsion: A Re-examination of the Legal History

Marzia Cimmino (Finnish National Defence University, Finland) Assessment of the International Community Conflict Prevention Efforts: The Role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Preventive Diplomacy and Early Warning System in Ukraine – From Conflict in Donbas to the War Outbreak

Elena Bogdanova (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Complaints to the Authorities as an Uncertain Institution: Underestimated Tools of Authoritarian Ruling

3F Panel – Contemporary Warfare

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor

Chair: Michael Rouland (Georgetown University, the USA)

Olga Oliker (International Crisis Group, Belgium) and Gabriela Rosa Hernandez (Arms Control Association, USA) The Art of the Possible: Minimizing Risks as a New European Security Order Takes Shape

Nurlan Aliyev (Researcher at the University of Warsaw and Lecturer at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland) and Mykola Nazarov (Sumy State University, Ukraine) Assymmetric Warfare Strategies and Methods in Russia – Ukraine war

Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, the USA) Nuclear Deterrence Failed in Ukraine: Now What? Background and Implications for European Security

Hidetoshi Ogawa (Keio University, Japan) and Yoko Hirose (Keio University, Japan) Western Rule of Law and Authoritarian Rule of Law in Cyberspace: Russian Legal Approach as a Means to Get the Upper Hand Over the West

3G Panel – Art as the Forum of Political Expression

Venue: Hall 11, 3rd floor

Chair: Anni Kangas (Tampere University, Finland)

Julia Bethwaite (Tampere University, Finland) The Wanderers in Shanghai – Art and Hegemonic Power Pursuits

Miglena Dikova-Milanova (University of Ghent, Belgium) The Red Army in Sofia and the War Graffiti

Oleksandra Nenko (University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland) Ukrainian Arts in the Times of War: Reflections on Changes and Challenges

Coffee will be served at the third floor lobby of the conference venue.

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor. Click here for Live stream.

Chair: Bettina Renz (University of Nottingham, the UK)

Tamara Martsenyuk (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine & Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Women’s Participation in Defending Ukraine in Russia's War

 

At the conference venue you can get lunch at the Unicafe, situated on the ground floor of the building. ThinkCorner, where the plenary session III will take place, also has a cafe, serving soups, salads, sandwiches and snacks all day long. The conference venue is located in the city centre, so there are several restaurants and cafes to choose from. Check MyHelsinki website for more information.

Venue: Think Corner (Yliopistonkatu 4). Click here for Livestream



Chair: Tommi Koivula (Finnish National Defence University)

Roy Allison (University of Oxford, UK)

Margarita Balmaceda (Seton Hall University, USA)

Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency)

 

4A Panel – Policy and Governance in Eurasia

Venue: Hall 7, 3rd floor

Chair: Anna-Liisa Heusala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant: Leo Granberg (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Marina Khmelnitskaya (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland), Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala University, Sweden), and Ulla Pape (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Flexible Authoritarian Governance in Russia: the Politics of Ideas on Family Policy

Mirzokhid Karshiev (University of Helsinki, Finland) Agreeing to Disagree: Public Advisory Councils in Local Governance in Uzbekistan

Eugenia Pesci (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Activating the Unemployed? Contextualising Employment Support Policies Between Global Activation and Implementation Challenges: The Case of Kyrgyzstan

4B Panel – Engineers of ´Reality: Dissecting the Practices of Russian Media Capitalism Under Putin

Venue: Hall 4, 2nd floor

Chair: Ilya Yablokov (University of Sheffield, the UK)

Serge Poliakoff (University of Passau, Germany) and Florian Toepfl (University of Passau, Germany) Reconstructing the History of the “Internet Research Agency” as an Organization

Ilya Yablokov (University of Sheffield, the UK) and Elisabeth Schimpfossl (Aston University, the UK)The Art of Adekvatnost: Dmitry Muratov’s Novaya Gazeta and it’s Tactics of Survival in Putin’s Russia

Olga Solovyeva (The Open University, the UK) Growing in the Authoritarian State: The Downfall of Yandex

4C Panel – Russian Natural Resources in the Politics and Governance of Sustainability Transitions

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor

Chair: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Marja Helena Sivonen (Finnish Environment Institute, Finland) and  Paula Kivimaa (Finnish Environment Institute, Finland) Russia as a Landscape Factor in the Energy Transition of Small European Countries

Marco Siddi (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland) War and Decarbonisation: EU-Russia Energy Relations in Crisis

Olga Dovbysh (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) (De)politicisation of Environmental Agenda in Russian Media

Sakari Höysniemi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Comparing Sociomaterialities of Oil and Biofuel Global Production Networks (case of Neste)

4D Panel – Framing of the War in Ukraine: Analysis of the Rhetoric Legitimating Russia´s Attack Against Ukraine

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor

Chair: Katri Pynnöniemi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland & Finnish National Defence University, Finland)

Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) War Propaganda in Istoriia.RF portal, Maintained by Russian Military Historical Society

Nadia Zasanska (Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine & Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland) War as a Spiritual Mission: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in the Digital Space of the Russian Orthodox Church

Elina Kahla (University of Helsinki, Finland) Apocalyptic Underpinnings in ROC Leadership Rhetoric on War

Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln, the UK) Metaphysical War? – The Russian Orthodox Church and Multi-level Information Engagement Around the War in Ukraine

4E Panel – Self-identity at Crossroads

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Olga Davydova-Minguet (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

Jacqueline Dufalla (Central European University, Austria) Adding Layers to Russia´s Self-Other Dialectic

Elena Pavlova (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia) The Identity Discourse of Russian-speaking Community on Estonia: “Russians from Russia” as the “Other”

4F Panel – Ukraine Before and After Russia´s Invasion

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair: Arseniy Svynarenko (University of Tampere, Finland & / Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland)

Yuliya Bidenko (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine) Civil Society and Social Cohesion in Ukraine Before and During the War: Key Actors and Challengers

Mykhailo Honchar (Kherson Academy of Continuing Education, Ukraine) Kherson Region: Occupied Education | joining online

Richard Arnold (Muskingum University, the USA) Two Nations Divided by a Common Legacy: the Cossack Movement in Russia and Ukraine

 

Coffee will be served at the third floor lobby of the conference venue.

5A Roundtable – Farewell to Imagined Post-Sovietness. Is it Still Justified to Use the Term: ´Post-Soviet´?

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair: Łukasz Adamski (Mieroszewski Centre, Warsaw)

Botakoz Kassymbekova (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Wojciech Konończuk (Center for Eastern Studies, Poland)

Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham, the UK)

Ernest Wyciszkiewicz (Mieroszewski Centre, Warsaw)

5B Panel – War in Migration, Migration of War: Reflections on and Perceptions of Wars(s) in Context of Migration From Ukraine and Russia

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor

Chair: Olga Filippova (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland & V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

Olga Bronnikova (University of Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA4, France) Tensions and Solidarity in Russian and Ukrainian Migrants milieu in Grenoble

Julia Lerner (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) and Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University, the UK) The air is cleaner without them: Public shaming of celebrity emigration from Russia in Spring 2022

Varvara Preter (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Reflections on and Perceptions of War in Ukraine among post-Soviet Immigrants in Israel

Olga Davydova-Minguet (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Meanings of Narratives of the Great Patriotic War among Russian-speaking Immigrants in Finland and France

5C Panel – The Role of Gender and Sexuality in Russia´s War against Ukraine part 2

Venue: Hall 11, 3rd floor

Chair: Anni Lappela (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Discussant: Polina Kislitsyna (University of Helsinki)

Maryna Shevtsova (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia & KU Leuven, Belgium) LGBTQ Activism and Sexual Citizenship in the Times of Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Tamara Martsenyuk (University of Kyiv-Mohlya Academy, Ukraine & Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Gender, Men, and Masculinities on Euromaidan Protests and War in Ukraine

Marta Havryshko (Basel University, Switzerland) Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Sexual Violence in Russian Invasion of Ukraine

5D Panel – Crossing the Rubicon: The Impact of War on Russian Politics and Society

Venue: Hall 4, 2nd floor

Chair: Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden)

Discussant: Jussi Lassila (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Bo Petersson (Malmö University, Sweden) Squaring the Circle: Legitimizing the Regime after February 24th

Matthew Blackburn (Uppsala University, Sweden) Balancing Loyalty and Voice: Responses to the War among Political Actors    

Galina Selivanova (University of Bonn, Germany) Civil Society in Russia between Silence and Escape

Sergey Medvedev (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland) Politics of the Body. The Role of Biopower in the Making of Russia´s War on Ukraine

5E Panel – Russian Memory Politics Before and After the War in Ukraine: Cases from the Regional and Bilateral Scenes

Venue: Hall 7, 3rd floor

Chair: Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Discussant: Stian Bones (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Joakim Markussen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) Soviet and Russian War Memorials in (Northern) Norway before and after the 24th of February 2022

Petia Mankova (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) Local Foreign Policy: Norwegian and Russian Municipality Twinning and the Shared Past of the Borderland

Kari Aga Myklebost (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) Borderland Soft Power: The Russian-Norwegian Patriotic Memory Tours, 2011-2019

5F Panel – Reforming Ukraine

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Yuliya Bidenko (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes University, the UK) NATO Models, Ukrainian Realities: The Politics of Reforming Civil-Military Relations

Bettina Renz (University of Nottingham, the UK) Military Reforms in Ukraine and International Cooperation

Ilmari Käihkö (Swedish Defence University, Sweden & Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) 'Slava Ukraini!': Strategy and the spirit of Ukrainian resistance, 2014-2022

Michael Martin Richter (University of Bremen, Germany) Beyond Ceteris Baribus: Investigating the Dynamics of the Policy Advice Supply Chain and its Results in Ukraine

5G Open discussion – The Future of Independent Journalism in Exile

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor | Click here for Live stream

Chair: Olga Dovbysh (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) and Katja Lehtisaari (Tampere University, Finland)

Elena Rodina (Independent scholar)

Artem Filatov (Journalist, founder of 'Opyt Svobody' media project)

Mariëlle Wijermars (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Salla Nazarenko (Finnish Journalists' Union)

Friday 28 October 2022

We ask all participants to register at the information desk upon arrival.

On Friday open from 8.15 till 16.30. 

Located in the entrance hall of the conference venue at Unioninkatu 40 / Fabianinkatu 39.

 

6A Panel – Russian Memory Politics Before and After the War in Ukraine: Cases from the Regional and Bilateral Scenes

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair: Helge Blakkisrud (University of Oslo, Norway)

Discussant: Kari Aga Myklebost (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Ekaterina Melnikova (Participating in individual capacity) Searches in Search of War: Poiskoviki Responding to the Military Conflict

Håvard Baekken (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norway) Merging Wars: The Wartime Exploitation of the Great Patriotic War in Russian Military Patriotic Clubs

Olga Malinova (Participating in individual capacity) “Back to the 1990´s?” Reconsidering the Experience of the Early Phase of Post-Soviet Transformations in Russian Public Discourses in the Context of the War with Ukraine and Economic Sanctions: Evidence from Central and Local Media

6B Roundtable – The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia: A Book Discussion

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor

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

Jussi Lassila (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)

Markku Lonkila (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Margarita Zavadskaya (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

6C Panel – Transnational Death in Time of Rebordering and War

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Olga Bronnikova (University of Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA4, France)

Discussant: Sergei Mokhov (Liverpool John Moores University, the UK)

Olga Davydova-Minguet (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Pirjo Pöllänen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Long Farewell: The Bureaucracy of Transnational Death in (Post)-mortal Practices of Russian-speaking Immigrants in Finland

Nora Schuurman (University of Turku, Finland) Multispecies Mortality: Sharing the Care, Death and Rescue of Animals in the War in Ukraine

Teemu Oivo (University of Eastern Finland and University of Helsinki, Finland) Glocal Cargo 200: The Final Repatriation

6D Panel – Impact of Sanctions on Russian Technology Sector and Strategic Companies

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor

Chair: Santtu Lehtinen (Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Finland)

Ingvill Elgsaas (Norwegian Defence University College, Norway) Russia´s Strategic Companies Under Sanctions

Inna Melnykovska (Central European University, Austria) Victim or Accomplice? The Role of the High-Tech Business in Russia´s Bad Governance

Mariëlle Wijermars (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland) Digital Sovereignty and Russia´s War Against Ukraine

6E Panel – Management of Urban and Environmental Projects and Discourses in Russia

Panel completely online, stream in hall 4 (2nd floor)

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

Ksenija Hanacek (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain & University of Helsinki, Finland), Markus Kroger (University of Helsinki), Arielle Landau (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), and Joan Martinez-Alier (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) Extractive Projects Along the Polar Silk Road: Implications for Environmental Justice Conflicts in the Arctic Region

Federica Prandin (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Key Dimensions of Identity and Climate Discourses in Russia: Direct and Indirect Links

Anna Tarasenko (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Factors of Variation in Compliance at the Urban Level in Russia in Response to the Federal Policy in Improving the Urban Environment

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor. Click for Live stream.

Chair: Sinikukka Saari (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

Stephan Meister (German Council on Foreign Relations)

 

Coffee will be served at the third floor lobby of the conference venue.

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor. Click for Live stream.

Chair: Hanna Smith (Hybrid Coe)

Olga Oliker (International Crisis Group, Belgium)

Kristi Raik (Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, International Centre for Defence and Security, Estonia)

Jyrki Terva (Tampere University & Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland)

Sergey Utkin (Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

 

At the conference venue you can get lunch at the Unicafe, situated on the ground floor of the building. The conference venue is located in the city centre, so there are several restaurants and cafes to choose from. Check MyHelsinki website for more information.

7A Panel – Effects of War in Agriculture and on Global Food Systems

Venue: Hall 12, 3rd floor

Chair: Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Brian Kuns (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) and Natalia Mamonova (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden) How Ukraine´s Farms Have Coped with the Challenges of War: A Preliminary Assessment

Susanne Wengle (University of Notre Dame, the USA) and Vitalii Dankevych (Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine) Russia's War on Ukrainian Farms

Natalia Mamonova (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden) Food Sovereignty and Solidarity in Times of War in Ukraine

Leo Granberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) Comparing Global Food Crisis 2008 and Food Crisis Caused by War in Ukraine 2022

7B Roundtable – Russian Internet: Sovereignty and Control

Venue: Hall 4, 2nd floor

Chair: Johanne Kalsaas (Bergen University, Norway)

Liudmila Sivetc (Turku University, Finland)

Gregory Asmolov (King´s College London, the UK)

Alena Epifanova (German Council on Foreign Affairs, Germany)

Mariëlle Wijermars (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Tanya Lokot (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Sergey Sanovich (Hoover Institution, Stanford University, the USA)

7C Panel – Measuring and Interpreting Political Surveys in Russia and Europe

Venue: Hall 6, 3rd floor

Chair: Johanna Vuorelma (Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Helsinki, Finland) Citizens´ Perspective on European Values

Eemil Mitikka (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Kremlin-Fixed Propaganda or Genuine Sentiments? What Surveys Tell Us About Russians´ Attitudes to War in Ukraine

Ekaterina Gloriozova (Université Paris Nanterre, France) Russians´ Political Opinions Through a Qualitative Lens. An Analysis of Political Discussions After the 24th of February 2022

Jonáš Syrovátka (Masaryk University, Czechia) and Nikola Hořejš (STEM Sociological Agency) How We Should Research the Impact of Misinformation on Elections?

7D Panel – Why is Russia Gaining Support Outside of Europe?

Venue: Hall 2, 2nd floor

Chair: Roy Allison (Oxford University, the UK)

Radityo Dharmaputra (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia & Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia) Russia as an Anti-Western and Anti-Imperial Force: Indonesian Academic Discourse on Russia´s Ukraine

Ingerid Opdahl (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College, Norway) Russia’s Engagement with Africa After 2018: The Practice of Multipolarity

Karolina Kluczewska (Ghent Institute for International and European Studies, Ghent University, Belgium) Redefining Post-Sovietness: How the War in Ukraine affects Tajikistan and Reshapes its Relations with Russia

7E Panel – Protest Movements and Distrust in Authorities

Venue: Hall 7, 3rd floor

Chair: Meri Kulmala (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Irina Olimpieva (Center for Independent Social Research, the USA) and Elena Nikiforova (Center for Independent Social Research, the USA) “St. Peter on the Way from Ukraine…”: The Anti-War Grass-roots Activism in Russia

Natalia Kusa (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Online and Offline Protest in an Undemocratic System – The Case of Microprotests in the Russian Federation. Preliminary Research

Ekaterina Borozdina (Tampere University, Finland) Infrastructure of Distrust: Vaccination Hesitancy Among Russian Parents

7F Panel – Memory Politics in Belarus and Russia

Venue: Hall 11, 3rd floor

Chair: Markku Kangaspuro (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Germany) Brethren, Neighbors, or Adversaries? Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Memory Politics of Post-Soviet Belarus

Larisa Leisiö (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Soviet Partisans in Eastern Finland During the WW2 60 Years Later in Russian Media

7G Roundtable – Academic Collaboration in the New Era of Insecurity: Dilemmas and Strategies

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor

Chair: Kari Aga Myklebost (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Bo Petersson (Malmö University, Sweden)

Sanna Turoma (Tampere University, Finland)

Mikhail Suslov (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Gleb Yarovoy (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

Helge Blakkisrud (University of Oslo, Norway)

Venue: Hall 1, 1st floor. Click for Live stream.

Chair: Inna Melnykovska (Central European University Vienna, Austria)

Dominique Arel (University of Ottawa, Canada) joining online

Emily Channell-Justice (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, the USA) joining online

Tamara Martsenyuk (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine & Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany)

Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham, the UK)

Closing words by Katri Pynnöniemi, Chair of the organising committee

Announcing the theme for the Aleksanteri Conference 2023: Brendan Humphreys, Marianna Muravyeva, Judith Pallot & Olga Zeveleva