Kansainvälinen Aleksanteri-konferenssi järjestestään vuosittain englanninkielisenä tapahtumana. Kolmipäiväinen konferenssi on suurimpia Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan akateemisen tutkimuksen tapahtumia maailmassa. Tutustu aiheeseen englanninkielisestä uutisesta tai siirry suoraan esitelmäkutsuun.
The Aleksanteri Conference is one of the largest annual conferences of Russian and Eastern European Studies in the world. It takes place in Helsinki in late October and stretches over three days. Over 200 papers are presented during the 50 panel sessions and more than 400 participants attend the conference every year. The theme of the conference varies from year to year.
This year’s conference will address changes in the relationships within and between the former communist countries of the Global East. We focus on region(s) that have been labeled as post/former -Soviet, -socialist, -communist, or even wider as Eurasia, to afford thinking about differences rather than similarities, specificities rather than generalizations.
We examine the concept and trajectories of choice in relation to political transformations within and between the countries of the Global East. Much research has been about the inevitability of certain processes without providing space for thinking about free will. With this conference, we would like to explore various factors and their combinations that influenced certain legal choices made by the former communist countries of the Global East: the choices that led Russia to attack Ukraine; the choices behind traditional values, policy backsliding, violation of human rights; the choices behind and transformations of carceral practices. Our study of carceral practices moves past stone walls and iron bars, examining the judicial systems of which prisons are both symbols and actualities. We invite scholars to examine punishment and control at the intersections of geography, politics, history, literature, sociology, psychology, as well as penal studies and legal studies.
This conference will be focused on the Global East, as opposed to Russia, which has been central to most of our previous conferences. This year we especially encourage proposals from across the region that address the conference’s principal themes of political transformations, legal choices and carceral practices from a broad range of disciplines. We also welcome submissions on recent research across a broad range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, geography, politics, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and international relations.