Centre for Baltic and East
European Studies
Annual Conference 2014
Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe:
A new generation on the move
Thursday, December 4, 2014
8:30– 9:15
Registration and coffee (outside MB505/MB503)
9:15-9:30
Welcome by Vice-Chancellor Professor Moira von Wright
MB503
9:30– 10:30
Keynote lecture 1
MB503
Professor Andrzej Nowak: “Communism and Imperial factor in Eastern European memories”
10:45–12:15
Session 1, room: MB503
Eastern Europe’s civil societies
Chair: Dominika v. Polanska
Session 2, room: MB505
Geopolitics: Ukraine in focus
Chair: Nicholas Aylott
Iryna Clark: The mediation of ‘civil
society’ in the Belarusian press:
between ‘heteroglossia’ and
‘monologism’
Oleksandr Svyetlov: Ukraine’s
decade of resistance to
authoritarianism
Aleksandra Jach: Culture is
ordinary (following not only
Raymond Williams)
Thomas Sedelius: Regime
Changes and SemiPresidentialism
in Ukraine
Goldstein Piotr: Discreet civil
society actors East and West: Case
study of bookshop-cafés in Novi Sad
and Cádiz
Olena Podolian and Valentyna
Romanova: Challenges of
stateness and regionalism: theory
and practice in the case of
Ukraine
Katarzyna Jezierska: Apolitical and
non-ideological? Polish civil society
without identity
Mark Teramae: Competitive
Clientelism among Elites in
Ukraine
1 2: 1 5 – 1 3: 1 5
Lunch for presenters and moderators
(Matmakarna restaurant, located under Södertörn University Library)
13:15–14:45
Session 4, room: MB503
The rise of urban grassroots
movements in CEE
Chair: Nicholas Aylott
Kerstin Jacobsson: Grassroots in
the City: Perspectives on Urban
Movements in Central and Eastern
Europe
Jolanta Aidukaite: The role of
leadership in urban movements: the
case of Lithuania
Dominika V. Polanska: The rise of
urban social movements in Poland
Session 3; room: MA796
Communicating the
environment: theory practice
nexus
Chair: Monica Hammer
Ekaterina Tarasova: In times of
change: Visions of nuclear
energy in Sweden’s
Parliamentary debate
Natalya Yakusheva:
Communication and awareness
raising as a key element of local
participation: insights from
Natura 2000 policy
Karin Edberg: The power to
define a landscape –
communicating one identity,
one nature & one purpose
Session 5, room: MB505
Post-Soviet politics
Chair: Mark Bassin
Session 6, room: MA755
Romani linguistics
Chair: Kimmo Granqvist
Jeyhun Veliyev: The Merger of
Political and Economic Power in
former-Soviet Countries
Erika Adamová: Language
contacts and dialectological
variation Bergitka Roma. A
preliminary sketch
Oleg Mironov: The transformation of multilateral mechanisms
sub-regional cooperation in the
Baltic Sea Region: towards
European common politicalsecurity framework
Cagri Erdem: Russian Geopolitical
Perception of the Post-Soviet
Zuzana Bodnárová: Analogical
extension of vowel length in
Vend Romani
Markéta Hajská: Gažikanes or
Romanes? Language attitudes of
one Olah Roma community in
Eastern Slovakia toward the
Christian Fröhlich: Informal grassroots activism as alternative way to
democracy in Russia? Citizen´s
collective action for social and
political issues in the urban setting
of Moscow
Baltic Region: Ambition vs.
Illusion?
three locally used languages
Jaanika Erne: Transformation of
Politics in Estonia
Jakob Wiedner: Discoursive
construction of "Horta Romani”
14:45–15:15
Coffee Break
15:15–16:15
Keynote lecture 2
MB503
Professor Johan Fornäs: "A New Narrative for Eastern Europe Too?"
16:30–18:00
Session 7, room: MB503
Gender and reproductive rights
Chair: Teresa Kulawik
Session 8, room: MB505
Ethnic minorities
Chair: Jakob Wiedner
Session 9, room: MA755
Political identities and orientations
Chair: Olena Podolian
Kristina Ainuvee: The struggles of
women in pro-life Eastern Europe
Ildikó Asztalos Morell:
Ethnicity and unemployment:
municipality strategies in
meeting poverty in rural
Hungary
Ausra Padskocimaite: Attitudes
Towards Human Rights in PostConditionality Lithuania: Evidence
from a Population-Based Survey
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne &
Elzbieta Korolczuk: Lost in
translation? Patients activism
around ARTs in Poland and
Sweden
Milosz Ukleja: Everyday life of a
Polish homosexual family
Victoria Panova: Achieving
gender parity in public
administration in Ukraine:
Outcomes and challenges
19:00
András Morauszki: Minority
civil society and nonprofit
sectors in Eastern Central
Europe Case studies of Košice,
Pécs and Timișoara
Maria Sandgren, Girts Dimdins &
Henry Montgomery: Psychological
mechanisms underlying political
orientations in an old and a new
democracy: A comparative study
between Sweden and Latvia
Anna Varfolomeeva: “Out of
Stone - for Centuries":
Indigenous Experiences of
Extractive Industry
Development in Karelia
Dunja Apostolov-Dimitrijevic:
Mapping the Global Balkans:
emerging economy networks and
their role in political identity
negotiations in Serbia
Minna Lundgren: Forcibly
displaced populations
Verena Meister: History Textbooks
and the Development of Historical
Conceptions and Peaceful Values
among Students
Dinner at Restaurant Eken, at Hilton hotel, address: Guldgränd 8 (walking distance from the station Södra
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Centre for Baltic and
East European Studies
Annual Conference 2014
Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe:
A new generation on the move
Friday, December 5, 2014
8:30 – 10:00
Session 10, room: MB503
New forms of activism
Chair: Michal Bron Jr
Session 11, room: MB505
Geopolitics of energy
Chair: Carl Marklund
Session 12, room: MA796
Identities and boundary-making
Chair: Nicholas Aylott
Galina Selivanova: New
Social Movements in Russia:
Activists’ Self-Identification
Case Study of Saint
Petersburg
Natalia Konarzewska: Energy
security in Central and
Eastern Europe
Emilia Pawlusz: Between the global
and the national: the tradition of
choral singing in contemporary
Estonia
Anna Domaradzka: New
Urban Movement as an
Emerging Field: Case of
Poland
Andrei Stsiapanau: The
political use of nuclear. Three
cases of NPP construction in
Baltic Region and Belarus
Ilir Aliai: Geopolitics of energy
Lara Otonicar: Concept of
Other in Recent Slovenian
Uprisings: a Critical
Assessment of Identity
struggle
10:00–10:30
Coffee Break
10:30–12:00
Session 13, room:
MB503
Revisiting the Eastern
Front-70 years after
Chair: Mark Bassin
Steffen Werther: SS
Marches in enemy Land
Florence Fröhlig:
Pilgrimages to the former
Soviet prison camp 188
Johanna Dahlin:
Searching for missing
Soviet Soldiers
Alexei Miller: Changing political
identities in south-eastern Ukraine
in the 21st century
Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga: Learning
for Peace and Diversity. Identity
Formation in a Cosmopolitan World:
Preliminary research results from
Sweden, Poland and the Czech
Republic
Kerstin Mahlapuu: Constructing
Estonian identity in a wider Europe
Session 14, room: MB505
General problems of postcommunism
Chair: Carl Marklund
Matilda Dahl & Anders
Nordström: From utopian vision
to management project
Ola Svenonius & Fredrika
Björklund: Post-Communism in a
Surveillance Perspective: An
International Survey
Ivo Juurvee: Shadows of the Iron
Felix: Legacy of East-Bloc
Security Apparatus since 1989
Lina Klymenko: Working Through
the Past: Attitudes of Ukrainians
towards Stalinism
Session 15, room: MA796
Minorities: Roma
Chair: Kimmo Granqvist
Gabriela Cretu: The image of Roma
in Romania after the fall of
Communism and its media
representation: from myth to
reality
Ioana Bunescu: The Role of
Migration to the Formation of a
Collective Identity of Roma in
Europe
Balasz Dobos: Roma Responses to
Recent Challenges: Roma Political
Parties in the Times of Crisis
Anca Loredana Enache: ‘Foreign in
Finland’: An exploration of
everyday mobilities, belongings and
inequalities among Roma from
Romania
12:00–13:00
Lunch for presenters and moderators (Matmakarna)
13:00–14:30
Session 16, room: MB503
Anarchists around the Baltic
Sea and Eastern Europe
Chair: Michal Bron Jr
Session 17, room: MB505
Cultural interfaces and
expressions
Chair: Charlotte Bydler
Session 18, room: MA755
Neighboring countries and
their relations
Chair: Olena Podolian
Grzegorz Piotrowski: Not left,
nor right - freedom: manifestos
of anarchist groups in postsocialist countries
Ania K. England: The Present is
in the Past (?). The Post-Socialist
Nostalgia in the Contemporary
Art
Miguel Melo: Belarus and the
Eastern Partnership
Christian Fröhlich: Anarchists
in contemporary Russia: a
movement yet to rise?
Xenia Hell: Influence of the
Finnish television on the
restoration of the independence
of the Republic of Estonia
Magnus Wennerhag: The radical
left-libertarian movement in
Germany - Pursuing radical
flank politics or creating change
through local alternatives?
Jan Jämte: Contemporary
radical left-libertarian activism
in Denmark?
Pavel Antonov: Neoliberalisation
of post-socialist journalistic
practice in Bulgaria
Elisabeth Hemby: Stories of
Kinship. Tatyana Nazarenko and
the Image of Loss and Memory
Aliaksei Lastouski: In the Tight
Embrace of the “Russian
World”: Belarusian Authorities'
Reaction on Events in Ukraine
Paulina Siegień: Kaliningrad
Oblast and Poland Small Border
Traffic Agreement. Success in
cooperation or wasted chance?
Anna Zadora: The Phantom
Boundaries between Belarusians
and Poles: from Informal
Practice to Contested
Sovereignty
14:30–15:00
Coffee break
15:00-16:00
Keynote lecture 3
MB503
Professor Madina Tlostanova: “Coloniality of someone else’s memory? The post-Socialist “midnight
children” and the post-dependence sublime”
16:00–17:30
Session 19, room: MB503
Migration Challenges
Chair: Ninna Mörner
Session 20, room: MB505
European politics
Chair: Joakim Ekman
Session 21, room: MA755
Environmental governance
Chair: Monica Hammer
Oksana Schmulyar Gréen:
Labour migration in the
enlarged Europe: children left
behind in Central and East
Europe
Priit Roostalu: Marginalization
of the European Union
Oksana Udovyk: B2B Baltic to
Black - understanding of marine
regions interactions
Maarja Saar: Home and away:
Stories of highly-skilled
Estonians in UK
Benjamin Klasche: Modern
Nationalism as a Product of the
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Juris Krumins: Demographic
challenges for societies
on the Eastern shore of Baltic
Sea
Kjetil Duvold & Joakim Ekman:
Choosing between Europe and
Russia: conflicting perceptions
of the European Union in the
Baltic States
17 :3 0
Marius Mazziotti: European
security architecture
Dmitry Nechiporuk: The
Challenge of Marine Governance
in Russia: the Case of Kaliningrad
Region
Rasa Pranskevičiūtė:
Environmental Communalism and
Nature-based Spirituality in the
Baltics: Sociocultural
Alternatives of Anastasians of
independence
Closing comment by the director of CBEES, Associate Professor Rebecka Lettevall
Reception to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Foundation for Baltic and East European
Studies. Wine and light food will be served
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*Please confirm your participation in the evening events to [email protected] by November 1st. The dinner is
reserved for conference participants/presenters only.