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15th Annual Aleksanteri Conference
CULTURE AND RUSSIAN SOCIETY
21-23 October 2015, University of Helsinki, Finland
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and Finnish Centre of Excellence in
Russian Studies - Choices of Russian Modernisation
The Programme
version 2.1. (updated 20.10.2015)
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WEDNESDAY 21.10.2015
10:00 – 13:30 Registration
10:00 – 12:00 Pre-Conference Round Table (Small Hall, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
• CHAIRS: Tomi Huttunen, Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki and
Maria Pettersson, journalist at Helsingin Sanomat
• Kalle Kniivilä, journalist and writer (Malmö)
• Irina Prokhorova, publisher (New Literary Review publishing house, Moscow)
• Roman Sentshin, writer (Moscow)
• Artemi Troitski, journalist and writer (Tallinn)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:45 Opening Ceremony and Plenary Session I (Small Hall)
• CHAIR: Dr. Sanna Turoma, Chair of the Organising Committee, Aleksanteri Institute, University of
Helsinki
• Opening Remarks by Paula Lehtomäki, State Secretary to the Prime Minister of Finland
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
• Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford, UK
Russia and Europe, 1991-2014: La grande désillusion
• Vera Tolz, Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Projecting the Nation: Media Events and Changing Narratives of Nationhood in Putin's Russia
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee
16:15 – 17:45 Panels 1A-1J [see the locations and the contents of the panels - pages 5-6]
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18:00 – 20:00 Reception for the participants, hosted by the University of Helsinki
(Teachers' Reading Room, Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
- Please note: only for the registered participants (chairs, discussants and panelists)
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
09:00 – 10:30 Panels 2A-2I [pages 7-8]
11:00 – 12:30 Panels 3A-3J [pages 9-10]
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Panels 4A-4J [pages 11-12]
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee
16:30 – 18:00 Panels 5A-5J [pages 13-14]
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18:30 – 22:00 Reception for the participants, hosted by the Aleksanteri
Institute and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies
(Unioninkatu 33, 3rd floor)
BOOK LAUNCH:
• Markku Kangaspuro, Vesa Oittinen (eds.): Discussing Stalinism: Problems and
Approaches (Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute, 2015)
DANCE PERFORMANCE:
• B-boy Bobisch IS-Flowjob (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Please note: only for the registered participants (chairs, discussants and panelists)
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FRIDAY 23.10.2015
10:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session II (Small Hall, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
• CHAIR: Dr. Katja Lehtisaari, Editor-in-Chief of the Finnish journal for Russian and East-European
Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
• Evert van der Zweerde, Professor in Political Philosophy,
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Democracy in Russia - Perspectives, Expectations, Concepts
• Elena Vartanova, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism,
Moscow State University, Russia
High or Low? Mass Media as a Driving Force of Contemporary (Russian) Culture
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Panels 6A-6H [pages 15-16]
14:45 – 16:15 Panels 7A-7J [pages 17-18]
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee
16:45 – 17:45 Plenary Session III (Small Hall, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
• CHAIR: Dr. Kaarina Aitamurto, Chief Coordinator of Aleksanteri Conference,
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
• Vlad Strukov, Associate Professor in Digital Culture, University of Leeds, UK
The Conservative Turn: Culture as Politics in Putin's Russia
17:45 – 18:00 Closing Ceremony, Markku Kivinen, Professor, Director of
Aleksanteri Institute (Small Hall, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
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WEDNESDAY 21.10.2015
16:15 - 17:45 PANELS 1 (sessions 1A-1J are parallel)
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
1A: Russian Orthodox Christians as Cultural Entrepreneurs
CHAIR: Kaarina Aitamurto, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
1B:
- Sonja Luehrmann
Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Jeanne Kormina
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Sergey Shtyrkov
European University, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Jussi Lassila, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
An Orthodox Proposal Economy: Grants, Diocesan Commissions, and Festivals in
Defense of the Family
Orthodox Expos as Trade Shows and Festivals of Russian Culture
The Visualization of the Nation's Christian Soul: Documentaries about Ossetian
Ethnic Culture as a Tool of Inculturation
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
Gender, Discrimination, and Cultural Interaction
CHAIR: Aino Saarinen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Cai Weaver, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Elena Bratishenko
University of Calgary, USA
The Pitfalls of Learning a Foreign Culture
- Alisa Zhabenko
University of Helsinki, Finland
Leaving Russia: Russian Queer Asylum Seekers in EU
- Natalia Kharadze &
Kakhaber Chikhradze
Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Cultural Parallels Between Russia and Georgia and Their Effect on
Women Employment
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
1C:
Russian Language Today
CHAIR: Ekaterina Protassova, University of Helsinki, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Arto Mustajoki, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Oxana Issers
Omsk State University, Russia
2014 год в интерпретации российских рейтингов «Слово года»
- Varvara Chumakova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
The Patterns of Oral Culture in Russia: The Construction of Social Structure
- Tatiana Krihtova
University of Eastern Finland
Language Situation in Christian Churches of Joensuu in a Context of
a Migrants Choice
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
1D: Media and Conflict
CHAIR: Jukka Pietiläinen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
1E:
DISCUSSANT: Mervi Pantti, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Natalia Avdonina
Northern (Arctic) Federal U, Russia
Mediatization of the War in Afghanistan: From Charging to Justifying
- Liudmila Voronova
Gävle University, Sweden
- Irina Khaldarova
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Emil Edenborg
Lund University, Sweden
Ultimate Gendering of the Image of Russia: Political Journalism in the
Times of Conflict in Ukraine
Russian TV vs. Russian TV: a Comparative Analysis of How Two Russian TV
Channels Visually Frame the Ukrainian Conflict for Internal
and External Audiences
The Secret Funerals in Pskov: Patriotism, Military Masculinity and Politics of
(In)visibility in Russian Media Reporting on Soldiers Who Die in Ukraine
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Civil Society and Social Politics
CHAIR: Jouko Nikula, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Elena Bogdanova, CISR, Russia / University of Eastern Finland
- Artur Holavin
European University, Russia
Care in Cultural Capital: NGOs, The Elderly and Art as a Need
- Julia Zelikova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
Successful Aging in Contemporary Russia
- Daria Goryacheva
& Anna Sanina
- Leo Granberg
& Ann-Mari Sätre
Higher School of Economics, Russia
Value Orientation of Women Administrators in Russia
University of Helsinki, Finland
Uppsala University, Sweden
Governments Meet Civil Society? Local Initiatives in Russia
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WEDNESDAY 21.10.2015
16:15 - 17:45 PANELS 1 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
1F:
Russian Exceptionalism, Missionism, and Civilizationalism
CHAIR: Natalia Baschmakoff, University of Eastern Finland
DISCUSSANT: Jutta Scherrer, EHESS, France
- Brendan Humphreys
University of Helsinki, Finland
Locating Russian Exceptionalism: a Comparative Perspective
- Alicja Curanovic
University of Warsaw, Poland
When Simple Tasks are not Enough: Mission in Contemporary Russia's Politics
- Fabian Linde
Uppsala University, Sweden
The Russian Civilisational Turn as a Challenge to Liberalism
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
1G:
Narratives and Origins of Contemporary Russian Patriotism
CHAIR: Jeremy Smith, University of Eastern Finland
DISCUSSANT: Catriona Kelly, University of Oxford, UK
- Victoria SmolkinRothrock
- Nikolay Mitrokhin
Wesleyan University, USA
University of Bremen, Germany
The Second Baptism of Rus'?: The Spiritual Foundations of New
Russian Patriotism
Anti-Western Civil Society in Russia and the Origins of the War in the Donbass
- Alexander Titov
Queen's University Belfast, UK
Patriotism or Realism?: Untying Ideological Knots of Russia's Policy in Ukraine
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
1H: Law and Human Rights: Practices and Challenges
CHAIR: Anna-Liisa Heusala, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Ekaterina Glukhova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Elena Yushkova
Independent scholar
- Anton Kazun
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Anton Kazun
& Andrei Yakovlev
Higher School of Economics, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Freek van der Vet, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Practices of Experts' Participation in Decision-Making Processes within
Commissioner for Human Rights Activists
Dying Swan Fights for Human Rights
Social Responsibility of Russian Lawyers: Factors of the Engagement into
"Pro Bono" Work
The Quality of Law Enforcement System in Russian Regions:
an Assessment of Attorneys
HALL 15 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
1I:
Managing Creativity in Contemporary Russia
CHAIR: Arja Rosenholm, University of Tampere, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Yana Krupets, Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Saara Ratilainen
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Youth Amateur TV and Online Viewership in Russia
- Olga Gurova
University of Helsinki, Finland
Professional Identities of Young Clothing Designers in Russia and Finland
- Margarita Kuleva
Higher School of Economics, Russia
Labor Routines of Young Cultural Managers at the "New" and the "Old" Russian
Cultural Institutions
HALL 21 (Fabianinkatu 33, 5th floor)
1J:
Roundtable: Communicative Aggression - the Cultural Platform and Political Choice
CHAIR: Viktor Sidorov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
- Kamilla Nigmatullina
St.-P State University, Russia
- Josef M. Dzyaloshinsky Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Ruzanna Ivanian
St.-P State University, Russia
- Sergey V. Kurushkin
St.-P State University, Russia
- Viktor Hrul
Moscow State University, Russia
Methodology of Studying Communicative Aggression / Методология
изучения коммуникативных агрессий.
Media Strategies of Hostility: Linguistic and Figurative Means / Медийные
стратегии вражды: языковые и образные средства.
Stigmatization as a Result and a Tool of Communicative Aggression /
Стигматизация как результат и инструмент коммуникативной
агрессии.
Communication
Aggression in Sacred and Profane Russian Media Discourse:
the Trigger Analysis / Коммуникативные агрессии в сакральном и
профанном медиадискурсах России: триггер-анализ.
Hate Speech in the Mediatization of Religion: Axiological and Teleological
Perspectives / Язык вражды в медиатизации религии: ценностные и
телеологические аспекты.
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
09:00 - 10:30 PANELS 2 (sessions 2A-2I are parallel)
2A:
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
Russian Culture in the Central Asia: the Own or the Alien?
CHAIR: Ekaterina Protassova, University of Helsinki
DISCUSSANT: Damina Shaibakova, Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
- Noora Khudoikulova
University of Helsinki, Finland
Russian Language in the Material Culture of Tadjikistan
- Natalya Kosmarskaya
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian-Language Cultural Behaviour in the Urban Context of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Almagul Maimakova
Kazakh National University
Russian Language in the Mirror of the Kazakh Language Culture
- Leila Mirzoyeva
Demirel University, Kazakhstan
& Aigul Zhumabekova
Russian Language and Culture as Mediators in Indirect Translation from
English into Kazakh
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
2B:
Crimea in Russian Cultural and Political Practices
CHAIR: Dragana Cvetanovic, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Julia Gerlach
- Alexander Smoljanski
Leibniz Institute for Regional
Geography, Germany
Integrum World Wide, Russia
- John Nelson
University of Helsinki, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Arseniy Svynarenko, University of Tampere, Finland
“Like the Temple Mount in Jerusalem”: The Idea of "Sacred Space" in
Contemporary Political Narratives of Crimea
Reflection of Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Mass Media and Social Networks of
Russia and Ukraine
Putin, the Crimea and the Ukraine - So What's New?
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
2C:
Roundtable: Cultural Institutions
CHAIR: Sanna Turoma, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Margarita Kuleva
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Meri Kulmala
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Vlad Strukov
University of Leeds, UK
- Saara Ratilainen
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
2D: Nationalism, Borders, and Cultural Politics
CHAIR: Jussi Lassila, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Diana Shendrikova
- Ilja Kalinin
- Görkem Atsungur
- Veera Laine
DISCUSSANT: Katja Ruutu, European University, Russia
Italian Institute for International
Political Studies
St.-P State University, Russia
Back to the "Roots": The Ukrainian Crisis and the Multifacetedness of Russia's
Revived Nationalism
"Russkij Mir" and Two Conceptions of Border
American University of Central Asia,
Kyrgyzstan
Finnish Institute of International
Affairs
Rethinking Russian Nationalism since 1990s: Sobornost as an Element of
Social Mobilization?
Contemporary Russian Nationalism – The State, Nationalist Movements,
and the Shared Space in Between
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
2E:
Integration in Post-Soviet Space
CHAIR: Anna Lowry, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Katri Pynnöniemi, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Igor Temnyshev
St.-P State University, Russia
Problems of the Post-Soviet Space: Integration Issues
- Marina Henrikson
University of Manchester, UK
The Discursive Construction of the Russian ‘Us’: Citizenship and Compatriot
Policy during the 2008 War in Georgia
Integration and Regionalism: Russia’s Agenda for the Settlement of the NagornoKarabakh Conflict in the New Geopolitical Conundrum
Persian-Russian Cultural Encounter in Tajikistan: from Confrontation
to Cooperation
- Vadim Romashov
Tampere Peace Research Institute,
University of Tampere, Finland
- Seyed Behzad Akhlaghi Journalist
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
09:00 - 10:30 PANELS 2 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
2F:
Authoritarianism and Democracy
CHAIR: Hanna Smith, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Magdalena Leichtova
- Gregory Popov
2G:
University of West Bohemia,
Czech Republic
Moscow Technological Institute,
Russia
- Olga Romanova
Cranfield University, UK
- Andrey Zaostrovtsev
European University, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Vladimir Gel'man, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Attraction of Authoritarianism - The Soft Power of Authoritarian Regime in
Democratic Societies
"We Are Not the West": The Intellectual Opposition to Modernization in Russia in
the Late XIX-Early XX Centuries and 1990-XXI Century in Comparison and Its
Socio-Economic Background
Between Internationalization and Uniqueness: Transformation of Foreign Policy
Narratives in Russia
Why Russians Prefer Expansion to Consumption and Autocracy to Democracy?
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Culture and Politics, Politics of Culture
CHAIR: Pekka Pesonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Marina Gavrilova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Anastasia Rekshinskaya Moscow State Linguistic University,
Russia
- Ksenia Filimonova
Russian State University for the
Humanities
DISCUSSANT: Susan Ikonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Explication of a Concept “Culture” in Russian Political Discourse
Moscow Cultural Modernization within the National Context: Controversies
and Concessions
Modernization of Soviet "Houses of Culture" in Moscow: Practices
and Challenges
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
2H: Moral Panics in Russian New Media: Enter the Russian Orthodox Church
CHAIR & DISCUSSANT: Mikhail Suslov, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Magda Dolinska-Rydzek Justus-Liebig University, Germany
"Russia and the Antichrist": The Images of the Apocalypse in Runet
- Alexander Ponomariov University of Passau, Germany
Moral Concerns Over Modern Technology in Russian Orthodox Canon Law
- Hanna Staehle
University of Passau, Germany
- Irina Kotkina
Södertörn University, Sweden
Russian Orthodox Church and its Relationship to Homosexuality in
Online Discussions
The 'Tannhaueser Scandal' and the Russian Orthodox Church
HALL 15 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
2I:
New Perspectives on Russian Women's Studies
CHAIR: Olga Davydova-Minguet, University of Eastern Finland
- Stephen Amico
University of Bergen, Norway
- Irina Yukina
& Irina Sokhan
SPb State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Anni Lappela, University of Helsinki
The Russian Madonna?: Valeriia, Polyphonic Bodies, and Russian Expressive
Culture in Global Context
Modern Intellectual Women: Corporal Practices of Self-Care and
Academic Discourse
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
11:00 - 12:30 PANELS 3 (sessions 3A-3J are parallel)
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
3A: Challenges of Education
CHAIR: Katalin Miklóssy, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
3B:
DISCUSSANT: Ekaterina Protassova, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Polina Pekker
Moscow State University
Distance Education in Russia: Form or Technology
- Inna Adamson
Tallinn University, Estonia
- Larisa Korganashvili
Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Отношение к русскому языку среди учеников-носителей русского языка в
эстонской школе
Cultural Environment of International Business in Russia
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
Cultural Encounters in Post-Soviet Era
CHAIR: Minna Hakkarainen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Saara Ratilainen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Natella Mikheeva
St.-P State U of Economics, Russia
Germany in the Eyes of Modern Russians
- Irina Rannak
St.-P State University of Economics,
Russia
University of Helsinki, Finland
Socio-Cultural Identification of Russian-Speaking Population of Estonia in the
Evolution of Tourism Activity
“Marina Couldn’t Learn That I Was Not a Foreigner”: Local and National
Identities in Alisa Ganieva’s Prose
- Anni Lappela
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
3C:
The Concept of the Family in Contemporary Russia
CHAIR: Anna Avdeeva, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Esuna Dugarova
- Elena Bogdanova
- Meri Kulmala
& Zhanna Chernova
United Nations Research Institute for
Social Development, Switzerland
CISR, Russia / University of Eastern
Finland
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Higher School of Economics, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Elena Zdravomyslova, European University, Russia
Family in a New Social Contract in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia
Contradictions of Family Care for Orphans in Contemporary Russia: a Case of
Non-Governmental Children Home
Working Mothers: Work and Family Reconciliation in Contemporary Russia
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
3D: Russians and Online News: Trolls, Choices and Editorial Change
CHAIR: Marina Khmelnitskaya, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Jukka Pietiläinen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Joanna Szostek
UCL-SSEES, UK
Views of the West among Russian Students: a Study of Narrative Reception
- Rolf Fredheim
University of Cambridge, UK
Journalism Before and After Independence: the Case of Gazeta.ru
- Gernot Howanitz
University of Passau, Germany
Trolling the West? Pro-Russian Commentaries in German-Language
Online Media
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
3E:
Literature and Society
CHAIR: Liisa Bourgeot, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Mika Perkiömäki
University of Tampere, Finland
- Tatiana Artemyeva
Herzen State Pedagogical University
of Russia
University of Eastern Finland
- Maija Könönen
DISCUSSANT: Sarah Hudspith, University of Leeds, UK
“Rivers Are No Longer Nature for the kWh People”: The River in Sergey
Zalygin’s "An Ecological Novel"
Modern Russian Literature's Social Diagnoses and Prognoses
Train Spotting in Russian Space
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
11:00 - 12:30 PANELS 3 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
3F:
Language of Mass Media as a Means of Culture Transmission
CHAIR: Liliya Duskaeva, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia DISCUSSANT: Viktor Sidorov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
3G:
- Liliya Duskaeva
St.- P State University, Russia
- Yulia Konyaeva
St.- P State University, Russia
Conceptualization of the Values ​of National Culture in the Semantic and Stylistic
Category
of Evaluative
Speech Genre
"Portrait of a Creative Personality" in Russian Journalism:
- Nataliia Kornilova
St.- P State University, Russia
Communicative Scenarios
Event of Cultural Life in Russian Periodical Press
- Alexey Goryachev
St.- P State University, Russia
Promotion of Cultural Projects in New Media: Communicative Scenarios
and Speech Acts
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Cultural Contexts, Generations and Young People in Contemporary Russia
CHAIR: Mikhail Maslovski, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Elena Omelchenko
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Yana Krupets
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Nadya Nartova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Päivi Honkatukia, University of Tampere, Finland
Does Soviet Matter? State Politics and Family Memory Cultures: Young People
and Their (Grand) Parents
Work Cultures and Meanings of Work for Two Generations of Russian Youth
Elusive Youthfulness: Biopower and Construction of Age by Two Cohorts of
Chronologically Young Women
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
3H: Legal Reforms and Criminal Culture in the Russian and Soviet Society
CHAIR: Nikolai Smirnov, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Larisa Kangaspuro
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Ira Jänis-Isokangas
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Igor Sutyagin
Royal United Services Institute, UK
- Miglena DikovaMilanova
Ghent University, Belgium
DISCUSSANT: Timo Vihavainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mutual Influence of Official and Criminal Culture in Pre-Revolutionary Russia /
Взаимовлияние официальной и уголовной культуры в дореволюционной
России.
Hooligans Speak Bolshevik / Хулиганы говорят по-большевистски.
The Phenomenon of Intra-Prison Corruption in Russia / Феномен внутри
тюремной коррупции в России.
Sentencing the Poet and the Swindler: Osip Mandelstam and Andrey Rubanov /
Приговор поэту и мошеннику: Осип Мандельштам и Андрей Рубанов.
HALL 15 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
3I:
Nikolai Bukharin - An Alternative Which Did Not Come True?
CHAIR: Pertti Honkanen, Social Insurance Institution, Finland
- Wladislaw Hedeler
3J:
DISCUSSANT: Daniela Steila, University of Turin, Italy
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin,
Germany
Moscow State University, Russia
Nikolai Bukharin - Stalin's Tragical Opponent. Questions about Biography
(& Nikita Petrov
- Alexander Vatlin
Moscow State University, Russia
Bukharin and the Komintern
- Craig Brandist
University of Sheffield, UK
Bukharin, Gramsci and the Problem of Cultural Hegemony
- Vesa Oittinen
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Nikolai Bukharin's Interpretation of Marxism - An Alternative to Stalinism?
The Moscow Process of 1938 against Bukharin and Others )
HALL 21 (Fabianinkatu 33, 5th floor)
Slavic Paganism in Russia Today
CHAIR: Sanna Turoma, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Alicja Curanovic, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Alexey Gaidukov
Herzen State Pedagogical U of Russia The Quarter-Century Dynamics of the Russian Neo-Paganism (Rodnoverie)
- Roman Shizhensky
Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical
University, Russia
- Kaarina Aitamurto
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
On the Source Base of the Russian Pagan Diaspora (According to
Field Research) / К вопросу об источниковой основе русской языческой
диаспоры (по данным полевых исследований)
Gender in Russian Rodnoverie
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
14:30 - 16:00 PANELS 4 (sessions 4A-4J are parallel)
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
4A: Russia in Polish Political Science Research Perspective. Selected Problems
CHAIR: Wojciech Nowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
- Andrzej Stelmach
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
& Stanislav Zyborowicz
- Wojciech Nowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
& Dominika Narozna
DISCUSSANT: Tadeusz Wallas, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Russian and Polish Democracy in Comparative Perspective
The Impact of Polish Media on the Poles' Perception of Russia. Political Science
and Media Study
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
4B:
Discourse of Power in Contemporary Russia
CHAIR: Aleksei Shmelev, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Kirill Postoutenko, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Irina Levontina
Vinogradov Russian Language
Institute, Russia
- Elena Shmeleva
Vinogradov Russian Language
Institute, Russia
- Alexander Grishchenko Moscow Pedagogical State University,
Russia
- Levon Saakyan
Pushkin State Russian Language
& Olga Severskaia
Institute, Russia
4C:
Evolution of Key Words of Russian Power Discourse
Language of Russian Orthodox Church at Present: a Mixture of Stylistic
The Words Mordy 'Snouts,' Rozhi 'Mugs,' and Litsa 'Faces' in the Russian
Ethnic Slurs
Texts and Subtexts in the Modern Russian Informational Broadcasting:
Euphemization, Dysphemization and Other Ways of Semantic
Dominance Forming
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
Modernisation of Russia - Agency and Choices of the Russian Orthodox Church
CHAIR: Elina Kahla, University of Helsinki, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Boris Knorre, Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Elina Kahla
University of Helsinki, Finland
Special Prayers for Ukraine
- Bishop Mitrofan
(Badanin)
- Antoine Fr. Lévy
ROC Diocese of Severomorsk and
Umba, Russia
University of Eastern Finland
Св. князь Владимир и его уникальный опыт правления, как пример для
современного общества
Orthodoxy and the Jewish Issue
- Katya Tolstaya
INASEC, Netherlands
Traditional Modernisation? Theology after Gulag, Orthodox Discourse on Human
Dignity, and Imago Dei
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
4D: Narratives of Patriotism in Film
CHAIR: Hanna Ruutu, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Victoria Dudina
4E:
DISCUSSANT: Ira Österberg, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- David McVey
St. Petersburg State University, Russia Potentialities of Social Media Analysis for Research of Public Consciousness:
Discussions of Film "Leviathan" in Russian Internet
University of Kansas, USA
The Past is Now: Pavel Lungin's Reflective Adaption Homeland (2015)
- Susan Ikonen
University of Helsinki, Finland
Return to Cold War Cultural Discourses, or How to Portray Soviet /
Russian Fatherland
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Cultural Factors in the Modernization Process of Russia
CHAIR: Arto Mustajoki, University of Helsinki, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Jouni Vaahtera, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Nadezhda Lebedeva
Higher School of Economics, Russia
Cultural Barriers of the Russian Modernization
- Arto Mustajoki
University of Helsinki, Finland
Russian Mind: Myth and Reality
- Tatiana Larina
Peoples' Friendship U of Russia
Cultural Values as Accelerators and Decelerators of Modernization in Russia
- Ekaterina Protassova
University of Helsinki, Finland
Interculturality of Russianness
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
14:30 - 16:00 PANELS 4 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
4F:
Heritage, Monuments, and Cultural Landscapes
CHAIR: Leo Granberg, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Nadir Kinossian
4G:
DISCUSSANT: Ann-Mari Sätre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Recycling' of Soviet Imagery in the Cultural Landscape of Arctic Towns
- Birgitte Beck Pristed
Leibniz Institute for Regional
Geography, Germany
Aarhus University, Denmark
- Corinne Geering
University of Giessen, Germany
Disenchanted 'Entuziasty'? Social Movements for the Preservation of Cultural
Heritage and Post-Soviet Russian Identity Formation
New Russian ‘Roadside Architecture’: Monumental Culture of the Periphery
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Shifting Journalistic Cultures: Challenges for Innovating Journalists and Media Managers
CHAIR: Katja Lehtisaari, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Veronika Fors
St.-P State University, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Elena Vartanova, Moscow State University, Russia
Political Culture of Russian Journalists as Part of the Culture of Society (2001-2013)
- Margarita Khartanovich University of Tampere, Finland
The Current State and Future Forms of Russian Music Magazines
- Katja Lehtisaari
& François Nel
Play, Pause, Stop? Newsmedia Managers' Perspectives on Change
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
University of Central Lancashire, UK
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
4H: The Reach and Limits of Cultural Explanations vs. Institutional Theory in Political Science
CH: Katri Pynnöniemi, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
4I:
- Olga Malinova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Lyubov Fadeeva
Perm State University, Russia
- Irina Busygina
MGIMO, Russia
Exploring Symbolic Dimension of Social Protest: Analysis of Protest Campaign
Dynamics (Moscow in 2011-2012)
Russian Political Identity Construction: Culture Vs. Institutions
Modernization Problem and Modernization Strategy in Russia: What Stories Do
Institutional and Cultural Approaches Tell Us?
HALL 15 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
Modernity and Authenticity in Russian Thought
CHAIR: Mikhail Maslovski, Russian Academy of Sciences
4J:
DISCUSSANT: Sirke Mäkinen, University of Tampere, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Evert van der Zweerde, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Susanna Rabow-Edling Uppsala University, Sweden
Nationalism and Imperialism in Russian Pre-Revolutionary Liberal Thought
- Kåre Johan Mjør
Uppsala University, Sweden
Between Ideology and Nauka: Russia's First Visions of an Indigenous Philosophy
- Mikhail Suslov
Uppsala University, Sweden
"...The Enemy Who Depersonalized Us and Enslaved Us": The Concept of
"Germanness" in Late Imperial Debates on Authenticity
HALL 21 (Fabianinkatu 33, 5th floor)
Changing Images and Subjectivities
CHAIR: Saara Ratilainen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Ekaterina Kalinina, Swedish Defence University
- Arja Rosenholm
University of Tampere, Finland
Cultural History Meets Environmental History
- Suvi Salmenniemi
University of Turku, Finland
Therapeutic Technologies and Political Resistance
- Irina Savkina
University of Tampere, Finland
Псаки и Толстой: новые образы Америки и России в российских медиа
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
16:30 - 18:00 PANELS 5 (sessions 5A-5J are parallel)
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
5A: Public Muteness Syndrome : Problems of Public Debates in Russia
CHAIR: Nikolai Vakhtin, European University, Russia
- Boris Gladarev
- Kapitolina Fedorova
Center for Independent Social
Research, Russia
European University, Russia
- Aleksandra Kasatkina
Kunstkamera, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Tatiana Vaizer, RANEPA / Higher School of Economics, Russia
Attempts to Overcome "Public Aphasia": the Study of Public Discussions in
Russia at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
“Distances of Vast Dimensions...”: Official versus Public Language (Material from
Meetings of the Organizing Committees of Mass Events, January–February 2012)
In Search of a New Meaning: Current Public Discourse in Russian
Allotment Associations
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
5B:
Cultural Sociology
CHAIR: Anna Korhonen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Jukka Gronow, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Ilya Vinkovetsky
Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Tatjana Lipiäinen
University of Eastern Finland
The Making of a National Drink: Tea as a Broker of Cultural Contact and Russia’s
Window on Asia
Afro-Brazilian Moves in Russian Bodies
- Olga Boitsova
& Ekaterina Orekh
Kunstkamera, Russian Academy of
Sciences
Short or Long, Pink or Black? "Soviet Taste" and Westernization in Post-Soviet
Children's Fashion
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
5C:
Russian Orthodoxy
CHAIR: Mikhail Suslov, Uppsala University, Sweden
DISCUSSANT: Maija Penttilä, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Jacob Lassin
Yale University, USA
The Co-Option and Re-Imagination of Russian Realism on the Orthodox Internet
- Boris Knorre
Higher School of Economics, Russia
‘Political Orthodoxy’ in the Post-Soviet Area as a Social-Cultural Phenomenon
- Aleksandr Churkin
Independent scholar
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov and the Russian Religious Conservatism
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
5D: Conspiracy Theories in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
CHAIR: Valerii Viugin, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Anna Razuvalova
- Konstantin Bogdanov
- Alexander Panchenko
5E:
Institute of Russian Literature,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Russian Literature,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Russian Literature,
Russian Academy of Sciences
DISCUSSANT: Sergei Shtyrkov, European University, Russia
Conspiracy Theories in Postmillennial Russia and the New Political Course
(Aleksandr Prokhanov and Aleksandr Dugin)
Alternative Healing Practices in Post-Soviet Russia: Conspiracy Theories
and Social Trust
The Beast Computer in Brussels: Apocalypticism, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral
Panics in Post-Soviet Russia
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
CANCELLED - Business, Competition, and Cultural Environments
Larisa Korganashvili presents her paper Cultural Environment of International Business in Russia in panel 3A
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THURSDAY 22.10.2015
16:30 - 18:00 PANELS 5 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
5F:
Soft Power and Cultural Interaction
CHAIR: Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
5G:
- Meri Herrala
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Pia Koivunen
University of Tampere, Finland
- Julia Simpanen
University of Tampere, Finland
- Elena Kochetkova
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Ivan Grinko
- Konstantin Zamyatin
Laboratory of Museum Design
and Planning, Russia
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Milosz Zielinski
Polish Academy of Sciences
Global Art Forums and Foreign Policy: The Soviet Union and Russia in
Venice Biennales
Soviet Engineers, Finland and the Iron Curtain, 1955-64
DISCUSSANT: Nikolay Mitrokhin, University of Bremen, Germany
Russian Museums as «Soft Power» in Ethnopolitics
Power Sharing or Ethnic Domination? Methods of Diversity Management in
the Republics of Post-Soviet Russia
Was Immanuel Kant a Loser? Spraying of Philosopher's House in March 2015
and the Future of Kaliningrad Oblast and Its Identity
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
Media Functions and Information Reception
CHAIR: Irina Khaldarova, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Irina Privalova
5I:
From Systemic, Ideological and Cultural Antagonism to the Cultural Interchange
of the Superpowers from Stalin to Khrushchev and Beyond
Exhibiting Russia. Russian Cultural Diplomacy at World Fairs
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Ethnicity and Cultural Politics
CHAIR: Markku Kangaspuro, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
5H:
DISCUSSANT: Julia Gerlach, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
DISCUSSANT: Katja Lehtisaari, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Julia Balashova
Saratov State Medical University,
Russia
St.-P State University, Russia
Does It Always Hit the Target?: Cultural Issues of Information Perception
through the Russian New Media
The Transformation of Media Criticism Functions in Contemporary Russia
- Anastasiia Kazun
Higher School of Economics, Russia
Why Russians Are Not Afraid of the Economic Sanctions? The Counterrhetoric
Strategies of the Print Media
HALL 15 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
Russian Philosophical Culture Now and Then
CHAIR: Evert van der Zweerde, Radboud University, Netherlands DISCUSSANT: Sanna Turoma, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
5J:
- Kåre Johan Mjør
Uppsala University, Sweden
- Edward Swiderski
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Between Universalism and Nationalism: Soviet Historiography of
National Philosophies
Russian Philosophers' Self-Evaluation Today
- Vesa Oittinen
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Philosophical Cultures in General and in Russia - Methodological Considerations
HALL 21 (Fabianinkatu 33, 5th floor)
CANCELLED - Regional Identities
Milosz Zielinski presents his paper Was Immanuel Kant a Loser? Spraying of Philosopher's House in March 2015 and the Future of Kaliningrad
Oblast and Its Identity in panel 5G.
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FRIDAY 23.10.2015
13:00 - 14:30 PANELS 6 (sessions 6A-6H are parallel)
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
6A: Roundtable: Cultural Statecraft and Russian Foreign Policy
CHAIR: Tuomas Forsberg, University of Tampere, Finland
6B:
- Christer Pursiainen
Arctic University of Norway
- Andrey Makarychev
Tartu University, Estonia
- Olga Malinova
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Irina Busygina
MGIMO, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Hanna Smith, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
CANCELLED - Alternative Identities in Russia and Beyond
Anni Lappela presents her paper “ Marina Couldn’t Learn That I Was Not a Foreigner”: Local and National Identities in Alisa Ganieva’s Prose in
panel 3B.
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
6C:
Aspects of Jewish / Yiddish culture in the Russian Empire (incl. Finland)
CHAIR: Simo Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Rogier Nieuweboer, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Valery Dymshits
European University, Russia
Finland in the Russian Jewish Literature
- Alexander Ivanov
European University, Russia
Researching Jewish History in the Light of Materials from Vyborg Archives
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
6D: Civilizational Perspectives on Russian Culture, Politics, and Society − I
CHAIR: Markku Kivinen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Fabian Linde
Uppsala University, Sweden
- Yulia Prozorova
Sociological Institute of Russian
Academy of Sciences
Sociological Institute of Russian
Academy of Sciences
EHESS, France
- Mikhail Maslovski
- Jutta Scherrer
DISCUSSANT: Markku Kangaspuro, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
At the Sources of the Russian Civilizational Turn: Samuel P. Huntington's
Civilizational Paradigm
Intercivilizational Encounter' with the West: Political Discourse and Post-Soviet
Version of Modernity in Russia
Cultural Sociology, Civilizational Analysis and Post-Soviet Studies
The Concepts of "Culture" and "Civilization" in Post-Soviet Discourses
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
6E:
Cultural Forms of Motherhood in Contemporary Russia and Former Soviet Republics
CH: Elena Bogdanova, CISR, Russia / U of Eastern Finland
- Esuna Dugarova
DISCUSSANT: Zhanna Chernova, Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Larisa Shpakovskaya
United Nations Research Institute for Parental Support Policies in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia
Social Development, Switzerland
Higher School of Economics, Russia
How to Be a Responsible Mother: the Case of Middle Class Mothering in Russia
- Anna Avdeeva
University of Helsinki, Finland
Natural Parenting as Radical Choice of Russian Mothers
- Alisa Zhabenko
University of Helsinki, Finland
Choosing the Sperm Donor in Lesbian Couples in Russia
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FRIDAY 23.10.2015
13:00 - 14:30 PANELS 6 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
6F:
Putin and the Russian Idea
CHAIR: Anna-Liisa Heusala, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Pami Aalto, University of Tampere, Finland
- Daniela Steila
University of Turin, Italy
Is "Collectivism" Part of the Ideological Dispositive in Putin's Russia?
- Katja Ruutu
European University, Russia
The Culture of Russian Statehood Concepts
- Daniel Philipp Müller
University Of Giessen, Germany
Contradictions in Putin´s Recent Nationality Politics: ´Rossiyane´ as Russians
- Indrani Talukdar
Indian Council of World Affairs
Reconstructing a Uniform National and Geopolitical Russian Identity: Rationale
behind Blending of Nationalism and Culture
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
6G:
Radicalism and Extremism in Political and Cultural Practices
CHAIR: Mika Perkiömäki, University of Tampere, Finland
DISCUSSANT: Kaarina Aitamurto, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Julia Sweet
Rutgers University, USA
Terrorism and Radical Islam in Public Perception: Myths and Truth
- Alexandra Astapenko
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Jussi Lassila
& Tomi Huttunen
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
University of Helsinki, Finland
"Creative Class" as "Floating Signifier" in Russian Mass Media Discourses
in 2004-2015
Idols, Experiences and Catachretic Politics: Becoming a Natsbol in
Nizhny Novgorod
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
6H: Education and Science: Challenges and Choices
CHAIR: Elina Kahla, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Mikhail Mikeshin
- Aleksey Safronov
The National Mineral Resources
University, Russia
The Analytical Center for the
Government of the Russian
Federation
Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Anna Zhbannikova
& Evgeniya Kutergina
- Tatiana Shakurskaya Pavlov First St. Petersburg State
& Violetta Khabibulina Medical University, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Katalin Miklóssy, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
The Image of Science in Russian Education
The Optimality Trap - Implementation of Mathematical Methods in
Economics as a Response to Problems Caused by the Reform of the
Management of Industry in 1957
Educational and Recruitment Problems of Public Administration Students in
Russia: Evidence from Empirical Research
Barriers to Modernization and Synchronization with International Educational
System at Russian Medical University: Cultural Aspects
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FRIDAY 23.10.2015
14:45 - 16:15 PANELS 7 (sessions 7A-7J are parallel)
AUDITORIUM II (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
7A: Violence, Conflict, and Resolution
CHAIR: Arkadi Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Sinikukka Saari
Finnish Inst. of International Affairs
- Jan Claas Behrends
ZZF, Potsdam / Humboldt Universität Violence and Civility: Perspectives on the USSR and Russia (1979-2015)
Berlin, Germany
Sociological Institute, Russian
Collective Memory as a Resource in Conflicts
Academy of Sciences
University of Michigan, USA
Russia's Strategic Culture and its Hybrid Warfare in CIS Area
- Maria Matskevich
- Dumitru Minzarari
7B:
DISCUSSANT: Tuomas Forsberg, University of Tampere, Finland
Russia and Georgia: Is There Any Room for Trust and Cooperation?
AUDITORIUM III (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
Ceremony, Nostalgia, and Memory Politics
CHAIR: Anna-Maria Salmi, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Marco Siddi
- Dimitri Bratkin
- Olga DavydovaMinguet
- Elena Fedotova
Finnish Institute of International
Affairs
St.-P State University, Russia
University of Eastern Finland
Higher School of Economics, Russia
DISCUSSANT: Natalia Baschmakoff, University of Eastern Finland
70 Years After: The Evolving Russian and EU Memory Politics of Victory Day
in the Second World War
Meeting With the Veterans' (встреча с ветеранами) as 'Oral Non-History'
and Para-Religious Ceremony
Commemorations of the WWII in the Finnish-Russian Borderlands:
Is Transnational Politics of Memory Possible?
Nostalgia Phenomenon in British and Russian TV Series (2012-2014)
AUDITORIUM IV (Unioninkatu 34, 2nd floor)
7C:
Marx and Russia
CHAIR: Vesa Oittinen, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
7D:
DISCUSSANT: Paula Rauhala, University of Tampere, Finland
- Alexander Buzgalin
Moscow State University, Russia
- Pertti Honkanen
Social Insurance Institution, Finland
Marxism in Modern Russia - Differentia Specifica of Post-Soviet School of
Critical Marxism
Pecularities of Early Russian Marxism
- Vesa Oittinen
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Marx and Russian Anarchism
HALL 13 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3th floor)
Conservative (Re)turn and Biopolitics in Russian Culture and Consumption
CHAIR: Liudmila Voronova, Gävle University, Sweden
DISCUSSANT: Vlad Strukov, Leeds University, UK
- Andrey Makarychev
Tartu University, Estonia
Biopolitical Patriotism in Russian Cultural Narratives
- Ekaterina Kalinina
Swedish Defence University
Patriotism and Women's Representations in Russian Contemporary War Films
- Olga Gurova
University of Helsinki, Finland
Political Consumerism in Russia after 2011
AUDITORIUM XI (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
7E:
Civilizational Perspectives on Russian Culture, Politics and Society − II
CHAIR: Kaarina Aitamurto, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Elena Ostrovskaya
St.-P State University, Russia
- Vladimir Kozlovskii
St.-P State University, Russia
- Ruslan Braslavskii
Sociological Institute of Russian
Academy of Sciences
DISCUSSANT: Kåre Johan Mjør, Uppsala University, Sweden
Multiple Modernities Through the Lens of Religion: The Case of Multiple
Religiosity of St.-Petersburg Jews
Regimes of Civilizational Order in Contemporary Russian Society
Interpretative Patterns of Russian Modernization: Civilizational Analysis
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FRIDAY 23.10.2015
14:45 - 16:15 PANELS 7 (continued from the previous page)
AUDITORIUM XIII (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
7F:
Political Use of History and Cultural Heritage
CHAIR: Liisa Byckling, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Kirill Solovyov
7G:
DISCUSSANT: Nadir Kinossian, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
- Adrian Selin
Russian State University for the
Humanities
Higher School of Economics, Russia
The Strong State and the Obedient People: The Use of History in
Contemporary Russia
Rurik and His Anniversaries
- Sarah Hudspith
University of Leeds, UK
War and Peace in Putin's Russia: 19th Century Literature in Contemporary
Russian Cultural Policy
AUDITORIUM XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Resistance and Protest
CHAIR: Akmal Sokhibov, University of Magdeburg, Germany
DISCUSSANT: Dmitry Yagodin, University of Tampere, Finland
- Anastasia Denisova
CAMRI, University of Westminster, UK Internet Memes as the Means of Carnivalesque Resistance in Contemporary Russia
- Alexandra Arkhipova,
Daria Radchenko &
Alexey Titkov
RANEPA, Russia
Contesting Memories: the 2014-2015 Moscow Rallies
HALL 14 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
7H: Religious Diversity and the State
CHAIR: Kimmo Kääriäinen, University of Helsinki
7I:
- Maija Penttilä
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Igor Mikeshin
University of Helsinki, Finland
Russian-Speaking Religious Communities and Identities in St Petersburg and
Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Russian Evangelicalism Globalized
- Mekhti Sharifov
Russian Academy Of Lawyers
and Notaries
State Sovereignty at Vesting of Religious Structure of Functions
Public Administration
HALL 15 (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
Meaning of Popular Music(s) in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Spaces
CHAIR: Ira Österberg, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
7J:
DISCUSSANT: Elina Kahla, University of Helsinki
DISCUSSANT: John Nelson, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Ira Österberg
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
Rock as Gentle Subversion in the Films of Dinara Asanova
- Dragana Cvetanovic
& Lev Shishov
(Bobisch IS-Flowjob)
Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
St.Petersburg and its B-Boys: Hip Hop and Youth Policies
HALL 21 (Fabianinkatu 33, 5th floor)
The Russia-Netherlands Bilateral Year: Success or Failure?
CH: Hans van Koningsbrugge, U of Groningen, Netherlands
DISCUSSANT: Katalin Miklóssy, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
- Hans van KoningsbruggeU of Groningen, Netherlands
The Russia-Netherlands Bilateral Year: Successes, Failures, Opportunities, Threats
- Manuel Waegemans
Catholic U of Leuven, Belgium
Culture and Education in the Russia-Netherlands Year
- Rob van der Ploeg
Chamber of Commerce, Province of
Groningen, Netherlands
The Economic Russia-Netherlands Year: Success or Failure?