CFP - XI ICCEES World Congress 2025, University College London, United Kingdom
Jul
21
to 25 Jul

CFP - XI ICCEES World Congress 2025, University College London, United Kingdom

XI ICCEES World Congress

21-25 July 2025

University College London

 

‘Disruption’

 

The International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) is proud to announce that its upcoming XI World Congress will be hosted by University College London around the theme of “disruption”. The regions covered by ICCEES are currently navigating a period of profound change and rupture, particularly in the aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Recent events have shown the need to disrupt conventional approaches to thinking about, studying, and researching these regions – their histories, cultures, languages, politics, economics, infrastructures, and societies.  Place-specific knowledge is as vital as ever in understanding how local and regional processes interact with transregional and global dynamics. At the same time, the need to reassess our methodologies, assumptions, and perspectives has never been more urgent. It is against this backdrop of transformation that we invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to engage in conversations that push the boundaries of conventional understandings of past events and contemporary developments. 

 

Hosted by University College London (UCL), an institution synonymous with disruptive thinking since its establishment in 1826, and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), whose mission is to promote multidisciplinary, critical area studies, the ICCEES 2025 World Congress will provide an ideal setting for a conference centring on the idea of disruption. SSEES is the UK's largest institution for research and teaching on Central, Eastern, and South-East Europe, the Baltics, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The School is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of academic staff devoted to the study of this broad cluster of regions, with some 80 academics engaging in teaching and research in the fields of politics, sociology, economics, business, history, languages, literature, and culture, all underpinned by a commitment to language-based, critical area studies. 

 

ICCEES welcomes paper, panel, and roundtable proposals with an area-specific focus as well as positioned within disciplinary and interdisciplinary frameworks. These disciplines and areas include, but are not limited to: Politics; History; Sociology; Geography; Film and Media; Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; Anthropology; Economics; Baltic Studies; Black Sea Studies; Caucasus Studies; Central Asian Studies; Central and East European Studies; Habsburg Studies; Polish Studies; Russian Studies; Siberian Studies; South-East European Studies; Ukrainian Studies. We particularly encourage proposals that help push forward efforts to decentre and decolonise the study of the region.

The conference especially welcomes the participation of postgraduate research students and early career scholars.  

The conference organisers also look forward to proposals for thematic colloquiums that can be held as part of the conference. If you would like to propose a colloquium, please email the conference organisers at academic.organisers@basees.org

Remote attendance: 

We are welcoming remote paper presentations. If you wish to attend remotely, please indicate so when submitting your proposal. However, we cannot accept fully remote panels. The Chair of a panel, who can also be one of the presenters, must attend the conference in-person to lead the session and facilitate the discussion. We are operating a limited hybrid model. Delegates registering for remote attendance will be able to present their paper via Zoom and listen into all paper/panels. Full hybrid, i.e. using special 360° camera, mic and speaker equipment, will only be available in a small number of rooms.

The submission platform will open on June 1, 2024. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2024. Information regarding registration fees and available travel grants/scholarships will be published in June 2024.

www.iccees2025.org

Venue:              

UCL Institute of Education

20 Bedford Way,

London WC1H 0AL

 

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BASEES Talks: Book Discussion - Nurlan Aliyev, Reassessing Russia's Security Policy
Oct
10
5:00 pm17:00

BASEES Talks: Book Discussion - Nurlan Aliyev, Reassessing Russia's Security Policy

Book Discussion - Nurlan Aliyev, Reassessing Russia's Security Policy (Routledge, 2023)

Dr Nurlan Aliyev in conversations with Professor Bettina Renz (University of Nottingham) and Dr Natasha Kuhrt (King’s College London)

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 Based on extensive original research, Nurlan Aliyev’s book Reassessing Russia's Security Policy evaluates how far Russia’s security policy is underpinned by “strategic asymmetry”—the acceptance by Russia of its inferior military position, and the pursuit of its strategic aims through the application of a variety of methods, military and non-military, including the manipulation of public opinion, the use of economic leverage, and external security approaches—known as Russia’s “hybrid war operations”—to gain the advantage over a militarily and economically superior adversary. The book discusses how Russia’s security policy has been and is being applied in specific cases, including the present war in Ukraine, the Russian anti-satellite program, and Russia’s contemporary Afghan policy.

 

Nurlan Aliyev holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and security studies. His research area is primarily focused on Russia’s foreign and security policy, the Arctic, post-Soviet countries, strategic studies, geopolitics and geoeconomics of Eurasia. Currently he is a lecturer in the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. He also conducts seminars for Erasmus program students at the University of Warsaw.

 

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Jun
21
12:00 pm12:00

BASEES TALKS 2024: MASTERCLASS BY THE POLISH STUDIES ARTICLE PRIZE WINNER

The recipient of the Polish Studies Article Prize, Dr Matilda Mroz from the University of Sydney, will deliver a masterclass during the annual PSG Norther Workshop on Friday, 21 June, 12.00 – 13.00 GMT. This hybrid event will be broadcast online as part of the BASEES Talks 2024 cycle.

TITLE: Polish Aftermath Cinema and Holocaust Landscapes: Tracing Posthumous Environments in Film

This lecture considers the intersection of two developments in academic and artistic practice: first, the recent environmental turns in Holocaust scholarship (particularly theory influenced by the posthumanities and non-anthropocentric approaches to human and non-human materiality); secondly, Polish cinema engaging with Polish perpetration of violence against their Jewish neighbours in rural and small-town areas in WWII. This conjunction can produce a particularly disturbing filmic vision of sites where Jewish victims were dumped or buried: fields, forests and meadows emerge not as static spaces but as evolving networks of contestation and exploitation in which everyday rural activities such as cattle grazing (as in Birthplace/Miejsce Urodzenia, Paweł Łoziński, 1992) and trash dumping (as in Neighbours/Sąsiedzi, Agnieszka Arnold, 2001) become entangled with Holocaust violence. The lecture traces the affective disturbances evoked by framing posthumous environments in Polish ‘aftermath’ cinema (that is, those films produced after the millennial debates on the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, for which Birthplace was a significant precursor), as these filmed sites become a shifting ground of human decomposition and landscape composition, witnessing and silence, reliquary and archive. 

 

 

Dr Matilda Mroz is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2019-2020). She held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2008-2011). She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Temporality and Film Analysis (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), the co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure (EUP, 2016), co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity Press, 2012) and Deputy Editor of the Film-Philosophy journal.

 

To register email Dr Ewa Ochman (ewa.ochman@manchester.ac.uk) by 19/06/2024.

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BASEES 2024 Annual Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 5-7 April 2024
Apr
5
to 7 Apr

BASEES 2024 Annual Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 5-7 April 2024

Call for Papers: BASEES 2024 Annual Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 5-7 April 2024 

The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and papers for its 2024 annual conference. BASEES 2024 is being held in-person from the 5-7 April at Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The conference will also welcome remote attendees. The 2023 conference in Glasgow welcomed 700 delegates from over 45 countries around the world. 

The deadline for paper, panel and roundtable proposals is Friday, 29 September 2023. To propose a panel or a paper you will need to fill in the electronic proposal form on this website. https://www.baseesconference.org/

BASEES welcomes paper, panel and roundtable proposals in the following areas: Politics; History; Sociology and Geography; Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; and Economics. We particularly welcome proposals that help to push forward the work to decentralise and decolonise the study of the former 'communist bloc' of the Soviet Union, East Central Europe and Asia. The conference especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and early career scholars.  

The conference organisers also welcome proposals for thematic colloquiums that can be held as part of the conference. If you would like to propose a colloquium, please email the conference organiser at academic.organisers@basees.org

 

Remote attendance: 

BASEES welcomes remote paper presentations. If you wish to attend remotely, please indicate this when submitting your proposal. However, we cannot accept fully remote panels. The Chair of a panel, who can also be one of the presenters, must attend the conference in-person to lead the session and facilitate the discussion. We are operating a limited hybrid model. Delegates registering for remote attendance will be able to present their paper via Zoom and listen into all paper/panels. Full hybrid, i.e. using special 360° camera, mic and speaker equipment, will only be available in a very small number of rooms.

For queries, please contact academic.organisers@basees.org

 

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Jan
17
1:00 pm13:00

BASEES Talk: The Destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage after the Intensification of Military Operations on 24 February 2022

BASEES Talk: The Destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage after the Intensification of Military Operations on 24 February 2022

In Autumn/Winter 2023/24 BASEES will organise a series of Talks spotlighting the research of the recipients of Non-Residentials Fellows from Ukraine. In January, Dr Inna Chernikova will talk about the destruction of the Ukrainian heritage since 2022.

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Abstract

Ukraine has a centuries-old tradition of preserving historical and cultural monuments, and is home to seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Under martial law which was introduced in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the issue of saving cultural heritage sites from destruction has been extremely important.

The project is aimed at researching, describing, photographing and creating a register of cultural heritage sites of Ukraine that have been destroyed or partially destroyed since the beginning of martial law on 24 February 2022.  Accordingly, the research was carried out in three stages:

1.                 Assessment of the state of the damaged objects of cultural heritage of Ukraine since the beginning of martial law in Ukraine (from 24 February 2022 to the present).  The scale of loss of historical and cultural monuments, the degree of damage, the possibility of reconstruction or conservation at this stage of military events, and conservation actions were analysed.

2.                 Creation of the register of historical and cultural monuments of Ukraine lost as a result of hostilities in 2022. Relevant photographs of the objects registered were included

3.                 Development of proposals for specific and effective measures to preserve the cultural heritage of Ukraine, involving specialists from the state institutions, the public, foreign representatives, and enthusiastic conservationists.

The benefit of the project. Under the conditions of martial law in Ukraine, I consider it an urgent necessity to highlight the scale of the loss of Ukraine’s cultural heritage in the context of Russian aggression since 2022. The creation of the register of cultural heritage sites of Ukraine lost under martial law, with photographic documentation of the destruction, should be communicated to the world community and become a guarantee of developing specific ways to protect and preserve the monuments of history and culture of Ukraine in today’s realities.

Bio

Inna Chernikova (born 20 October 1981). I was born and spent my childhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine. After graduating from high school with honours (gold medal) I entered H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in 1998.  While studying at History Department, І became interested in the problem of  preservation of the cultural heritage of Ukraine in the interwar period (1921-1941). I graduated from the University in 2003 with honours.

From 2003 to 2007, І completed my postgraduate programme in Ukrainian history, defending a dissertation “Protection, Research and Use of Historical and Cultural Monuments in the Kharkiv Region (1921-1941)”, obtaining my PhD (Candidate of Historical Sciences).

From 2007 to present – Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine, Deputy Dean (Coordinator) for Educational Work of the Faculty of History (since 2022, the Faculty of History and Law) at H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

Courses taught: Ukraine: History and Modern Realities, Ancient and Medieval History of Ukraine, History of Ukraine from the Earliest Times to Modernism.

The following courses developed and convened: Protection of Cultural Heritage of Ukraine, Phenomenon of Ukrainian Cossacks, Theory and Practice of Mass Information and the History of Speechwriting Development.

Member of the All-Ukrainian public organization “Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments” (Kyiv) (USPHCM).

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2023                Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the consortium of universities and Jewish studies organizations across the United States and Canada, Ukrainian Emergency Scholarship. Access to electronic resources at Fordham University and the New York Public Library.

2023                USC Shoah Foundation - Institute for Visual History and Education, Non-residential Scholar Program, which will provide full remote access to USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive for one year.

2023                British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies (BASEES) - non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars in the humanities and social sciences based in Ukraine, 12 months BASEES membership.

2022                Ukraine Virtual Scholar Program (a three month stipend program for the Mandel Center Alumni of the Holocaust Summer Programs in Ukraine, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

PUBLICATIONS

I have more than 60 publications on issues of cultural heritage preservation in Ukraine,  protection of historical and cultural monuments during the interwar period in the Kharkiv oblast’ and Soviet Ukraine, 1921-1941; Soviet repressions in Ukraine, 1933-1937.

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My Web of Science

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Dec
13
1:00 pm13:00

BASEES Talk: The Second World War in contemporary Ukrainian discourse

BASEES Talk: The Second World War in contemporary Ukrainian discourse

In Autumn/Winter 2023/24 BASEES will organise a series of Talks spotlighting the research of the recipients of Non-Residentials Fellows from Ukraine. In December, Dr Ihor Dvorkin will talk about the memory of the Second World War.

Abstract

The Second World War played and continues to play a major role in Ukrainian political, cultural, public, and scientific discourse. In the conditions of Russia's contemporary war against Ukraine, the memory of the Second World War, the previous destructive war on the territory of Ukraine, becomes even more relevant for the state, scientists, and the public. After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, the coexistence of national and post-Soviet historical narratives in the political, scientific, and educational spheres was typical. This also applied to the events of the Second World War. After the events of Euromaidan and the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014, especially after the legislative changes of 2015, called "decommunization laws", the situation changed in favour of a national approach. With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the process of rethinking of historical events, including the Second World War, continues at the state and local levels.

The presentation will discuss the following questions:

  • Soviet heritage and post-Soviet realities. "Great Patriotic War" vs World War II. What was the politics of memory in Ukraine before 2014?

  • What was the impact of Euromaidan and Russian aggression (2014) on memory politics and historical politics?

  • "Places of memory" dedicated to the war in a Ukrainian city: Soviet and post-Soviet. Is a combination possible in the urban space? 

  • The Second World War on the pages of textbooks: before and after 2014/2022. New accents.

  • Will (how) current Russia's war in Ukraine affect the politics and culture of the Second World War memory in Ukraine?

Bio

Dr. Ihor Dvorkin

Associate Professor, Department of Ukrainian & Cultural studies and History of Science at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (Kharkiv, Ukraine) 

Ihor Dvorkin graduated from the Department of History at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, and received his MA diploma in History and Archival Studies (2005). He completed a postgraduate course on the History of Ukraine at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Department of Political History (2005-2008), and received his PhD (Candidate of Science in History) from Volodymyr Dal East Ukrainian University (Luhansk, Ukraine) in 2009. Since 2018, Ihor Dvorkin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ukraine Studies, Culture Studies and History of Science, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (during 2008-2018 he was a senior lecturer at the Department of Political History of the same university).

Ihor Dvorkin was a research fellow and a participant of non-residential programs and emergency scholarships for Ukrainian scientists at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) (2022); The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. (NTSh-A) (2022); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2022). He was also a guest lecturer/speaker at the Science at Risk Lecture Series, Leipzig University, Germany (2022); Ukrainian Hour, Neuengamme Memorial, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Ukrainian Research Series Online, Erfurt University, Germany (2022); Ukrainian Catholic University (School of Journalism and Communications), Lviv, Ukraine (2023).

His research interests include memorialization of the Second World War  in Ukraine, History of Ukraine, Museum Studies and contemporary Ukrainian historiography.

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Nov
15
1:00 pm13:00

International law aspects of the armed conflict in Ukraine 2014-2023

Abstract

The armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine forced the international community to face the most daring armed aggression of one state (Russia) against another (Ukraine) since the Second World War.

This is certainly a challenge not only for Ukraine as a victim of aggression but also for the entire international community. The aggressor is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, that is, the body that bears the main responsibility for international peace and security. If the aggressor is not punished, impunity will cause new aggressive actions not only by Russia as aggression but also by other states (China against Taiwan, etc).

The presentation will discuss the following questions: 1) Qualification of the armed conflict in Ukraine and features of the armed conflict that make the obstacles in the application of International Humanitarian Law; 2) International humanitarian law application in the Ukrainian armed conflict: what should be rethought?; 3) Individual criminal responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine.

Bio

Professor Vitalii Gutnyk. Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine.

Main areas of scientific interest, research and expertise

Theory of international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law. As well issues related to the activities of international criminal courts and trends in the development of international criminal justice.

Education

2019 – Doctoral degree in law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.

2007 – Master's degree in law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. 

Latest publications

Gutnyk, V. (2023). The Development of International Criminal Justice: Expectations and Reality. Teisė, 126 (May). P. 101-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Teise.2023.126.7

Gutnyk, V. (2023).The International Criminal Court: handbook (in Ukrainian), Lviv, 194 p. (Гутник В. Міжнародний кримінальний суд : навчальний посібник. Львів: ЛНУ імені Івана Франка, 2023. 194 с. ISBN 978-617-10-0770-3)

Gutnyk, V. (2022). The Right to Defence in Criminal Proceedings: International Law Aspects. Teisė, 124 (September), 94-106. https://doi.org/10.15388/Teise.2022.124.7.

Buromenskiy M., Gutnyk V. (2021). International Legal Problems of Qualification of Armed Conflicts. Cuestiones Políticas. Vol. 39, No. 68,. P. 735-757. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3968.47

Buromenskyi M., Gutnyk V. The Impact of ECHR and the Case-Law of the ECtHR on the Development of the Right to Legal Assistance in International Criminal Courts (ICTY, ICTR, ICC). Baltic Journal of European Studies. 2019. Vol. 9, No. 3 (28). P.188-204. doi: 10.1515/bjes-2019-0029.

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Oct
18
1:00 pm13:00

BASEES Talk: From Translation to Textual Criticism & Back Again: Volodymyr Vynnychenko Oeuvre and Its English Representations

BASEES Talk: From Translation to Textual Criticism & Back Again: Volodymyr Vynnychenko Oeuvre and Its English Representations

In Autumn/Winter 2023/24 BASEES will organise a series of Talks spotlighting the research of the recipients of Non-Residentials Fellows from Ukraine. Dr Stasiuk opens the cycle with his presentation on Vynnychenko

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Volodymyr Vynnychenko reclining portrait by Mykola Hlushchenko (1920s)

Abstract

In 2022, the whole heritage of an outstanding Ukrainian writer, dramatist, political and cultural figure Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880–1951) which was published during his lifetime has unconditionally entered the public domain. Nowadays, Vynnychenko editors, translators and scholars can enjoy more freedom with his texts. However, more creative freedom means a bigger responsibility for preserving authentic Vynnychenko, his style and cultural attitudes, both in original and translations. A show case of the recent Yuri Tkacz’s English version of Black Panther and Polar Bear, Vynnychenko’s renowned Modernist play, highlighted some expected and yet glaring issues with the quality of the source text, its typographical errors and “dark places” promulgated by numerous editions, including academic ones, as well as cultural background which has become murky both for a nowadays reader, literature scholar and translator.

Diligent textual processing and commenting of the numerous versions Vynnychenko’s texts have is a sine-qua-non prerequisite for their proper rendition both in the Ukrainian language originals as well as other language translations. Their corpora are to constitute a novelty digital platform preliminary called ВИNNИЧЕNКО 2.0 for texts online publication, study, annotation and discussion which would utilise the whole potential of the current-day Ukrainian digital humanities and their resources.

Bio

Dr Bohdan Stasiuk works at the Department of Translation, Applied and General Linguistics of the V. Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University in Kropyvnytskyi. In 2011, he defended his PhD thesis on Ukrainian translation studies at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and since then has been researching the history of Ukrainian translation as well as microhistories of regional and local translators of the heartland of Ukraine. Also, he has been practising literary translation himself since 2005 and was twice nominated as the best science fiction translator from Ukraine by the European Science Fiction Society.

As of now, Bohdan Stasiuk’s current research brought him to the oeuvre of Volodymyr Vynnychenko, a prolific Ukrainian writer, dramatist, and publicist, an outstanding public and political figure of the early 20th century as well as his compatriot. Though popular and demanded even now, most of Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s novels, plays and stories have never seen proper academic publication with profound textual history, criticism and annotations. This fact hugely encumbers Vynnychenko translators’ activity and promotes their mistakes even in modern English versions of Vynnychenko texts. Bohdan Stasiuk’s research has been supported by the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (BASEES).

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How To Publish A Monograph
Oct
12
4:00 pm16:00

How To Publish A Monograph

HOW TO PUBLISH A MONOGRAPH

Thursday, 12 October, 4pm GMT on Zoom

Join acquisition editors for the history and politics lists at Central European University Press to get top tips for publishing your academic monograph. This session will cover topics including:

  • What to consider when looking at potential publishers for your book

  • How to complete a publisher's proposal form - top tips/ what to do/ what not to do

  • How academic publishing works - step-by-step guide through proposal and peer review to publication

  • New developments in open access publishing

Given by two highly-experienced acquisition editors with past roles at Manchester University Press, Wiley, DeGruyter, Emerald, Peter Lang and Palgrave Macmillan, Jen McCall and Tony Mason will give you a practical guide to the business of publishing your book, a helpful outline of what to expect from the process, and plenty of hints and tips on how to get the best outcome possible for your project.

This session will also introduce you to exciting new developments for scholars of Central and Eastern Europe at the CEU Press, including the Opening the Future open access book initiative launched in 2021. Founded in 1993, the CEU Press publishes books by authors from around the world in a wide range of subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including political philosophy and practices of open society, history, Jewish studies, economics, medieval studies, literature, legal studies, nationalism, human rights, political science, international relations, higher education policy, gender studies, media studies, and art history.

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Jul
6
2:00 pm14:00

BASEES Postgraduate Workshop: Using Archives and Libraries to Research Histories of Eastern Europe and Eurasia

The workshop is scheduled for July 6th, 2023, from 14:00 to 16:00 (BST) and will be conducted online. This event aims to offer valuable insights to both newcomers to archival research and those with prior experience seeking to deepen their knowledge. Our program acknowledges the intricate political situation and provides alternatives to conducting research in specific regions in person. The workshop will cover a range of topics, from the essentials of preparation and effective note-taking techniques to navigating the political landscape and bureaucratic challenges. 

Registration:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkcOqqqTorGNM-3ztoU8sXi1nMifSRhern#/registration

 
Furthermore, we kindly request your assistance in completing a form where you can indicate your preferred breakout rooms. While you are free to change your preference and attend any session you wish, providing us with this information beforehand will help us estimate the interest for each region. If you would like to help us out, please click here.

 The Organising Committee 

 Hanna Matt, Siobhán Hearne and Veselina Dzhumbeva

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BASEES Talks 2023: Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Historical and Educational Work in the Conditions of War
Jun
28
6:00 pm18:00

BASEES Talks 2023: Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Historical and Educational Work in the Conditions of War

Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Historical and Educational Work in the Conditions of War

Speaker: Dr Tetyana Zabolotna, BASEES Ukrainian Scholar at Risk

The presentation is devoted to changes in the work of Ukrainian historians in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The author characterizes the main areas of activity with a focus on the promotion of historical knowledge for the general public. The main projects of the Institute, the work on which has already been completed, are noted. The projects on which work is still in progress are also indicated. 

Speaker

Dr Tetiana Zabolotna is a researcher in history at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). Her dissertation “Everyday life of Kyiv during the Nazi occupation (1943-1944)”. Participant of the research project "Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 in the collective and individual memory of Ukrainians and in the information space of the Second World War" in the framework of a grant competition Holodomor Research and Education Consortium Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (2017-2020рр). Scientific interests include the history of Ukraine during World War II, social history, the history of everyday life, and Nazi occupation.

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BASEES Talks 2023: Retranslation of Heroic Discourse in Ukrainian Children’s Picturebooks about War
Jun
21
6:00 pm18:00

BASEES Talks 2023: Retranslation of Heroic Discourse in Ukrainian Children’s Picturebooks about War

Retranslation of Heroic Discourse in Ukrainian Children’s Picturebooks about War

Speaker: Dr Nadiia Akulova, BASEES Ukrainian Scholar at Risk

The children’s picturebook is a socially determined part of visual culture. Being a product of a specific historical time and cultural space, it cannot avoid such influences. Everyday visual practices and social myths are a potential source of verbal and visual senses in the children's picturebook. Thus, its iconotext can indicate the cultural meanings. By focusing on the children's picturebook as a socio-culturally constructed visual text, this presentation explores the features of retranslation of heroic discourse in Ukrainian children's picturebooks about war, which were created in 2022. The major research question is what messages – social myths and values of culture, as well as concepts of identity – do they transmit? It also focuses on how the process of the meaning construction takes place, and the ways the intracultural transfer of ideas is regulated, considering the young reader’s perspective.

Speaker

Nadiia Akulova is Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature at Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University. She defended her PhD at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2010. Her research examined the particularities of the semantics and poetics of Mykhailo Ivchenko’s prose works through the aesthetic paradigm of Impressionism. Her current project focuses on wartime visual practices and how they are reflected in contemporary Ukrainian fiction. Her research has been supported by the Fellowship within the Slavonic and East European Studies category via the Royal Historical Society (RHS), British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (BASEES), Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) and German History Society (GHS) Scholars at Risk Programme. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the School of Modern Languages and CRSCEES at the University of St Andrews.

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BASEES Talks 2023: Masterclass by the Polish Studies Article Prize Winner
May
25
3:30 pm15:30

BASEES Talks 2023: Masterclass by the Polish Studies Article Prize Winner

The recipient of the Polish Studies Article Prize, Dr Mackenzie Pierce from the University of Michigan, will deliver a masterclass. His talk, entitled ‘Hearing Poland Abroad: Chopin, Music Diplomacy, and Cold War Internationalism’ will take place during the annual PSG Norther Workshop on Thursday, 25 May, 15.30-16.30 GMT. The event will be transmitted online as part of the BASEES Talks 2023 cycle.

More details to follow.

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BASEES Talks 2023: The Phenomenon of the Multiple Loyalties in Eastern Galicia in the 19th Century
May
17
6:00 pm18:00

BASEES Talks 2023: The Phenomenon of the Multiple Loyalties in Eastern Galicia in the 19th Century

The Phenomenon of the Multiple Loyalties in Eastern Galicia in the 19th Century

Speaker: Dr Natalia Gromakova, BASEES Ukrainian Scholar at Risk

The spread of new ideas and the formation of new values and worldview orientations became an important factor in modern transformations in Eastern Europe, which were constructed by new identities and models of social behaviour. The secularization of public life required new forms of self-identification, in which the individual choice of a person played an increasingly important role. Those choices were influenced by various factors, including the immediate environment and family environment, level of education, social status and professional activity, etc. At the same time, specific group norms and spatial localization played an important role, which made it possible to build horizontal communication networks. The horizontal connections become dominant in the conditions of the formation of new identities that seek quantitative growth through the mobilization of the population. This, in turn, actualizes the problem of loyalty, which is closely related to the process of self-identification of a person, determining his belonging to a certain social group and choosing life strategies.

The history of Eastern Galicia in the 19th century and its inhabitants provides very interesting material to research the problems of finding one's "self" in imperial conditions and the models of behaviour with the help of which they tried to solve the dilemmas of dynastic, imperial, territorial and national loyalty. The spread of the phenomenon of multiple loyalties among the inhabitants of the region was determined by the socio-political and ethno-cultural conditions in which their everyday life took place. And although throughout the entire period, the attitude towards the ruling Habsburg dynasty played an important role, it was always combined with a sense of belonging to a local, ethnic or social group, and from the end of the century - with the need to define one's attitude towards the corresponding national project (Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish). This assumption allows us to assert that loyalties, like the self-identification of a person, had not only a multiple but also a fluid character, often changing during a person's life.

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My name is Natalia Gromakova. I am PhD in History and a post-doctoral researcher at the World History and Archaeology Department at Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Since the May of 2022 I am a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK. Besides I am a Fellow of the ‘Royal Historical Society (RHS), British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (BASEES), Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) and German History Society Scholars (GHS) via the Scholars at Risk programme.

My current project focuses on the public and cultural spaces of Ukrainian lands during the 19th and early 20th centuries which are characterized by dynamic changes that include all aspects of social life and accelerated the process of national self-identification of representatives of different ethnic communities living in the region.

Research Interests: East European History, Studies of Romanov and Habsburg Empires, Theory and methodology of historical science, Historical Comparative studies, National and social movements, Interethnic relations and Historical Anthropology.

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BASEES Talks 2023: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Galicia (1946–1968). Strategies of Survival and Resistance in the Underground
May
10
6:00 pm18:00

BASEES Talks 2023: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Galicia (1946–1968). Strategies of Survival and Resistance in the Underground

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Galicia (1946–1968): Strategies of Survival and Resistance in the Underground

Speaker: Dr Kateryna Budz, BASEES Ukrainian Scholar at Risk

During the Second World War, Eastern Galicia, a part of Poland during the inter-war period, came under Soviet rule. In 1946, the Soviet regime officially abolished the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), the Eastern-rite Church subordinated to the Vatican, through its forced merger with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Under state pressure, most parish priests formally joined the ROC. In contrast, the Greek Catholic hierarchy as well as a part of the clergy refused to “reunite” with the ROC despite arrests and persecutions.

What motivated the latter to adopt a nonconformist stance? Was the opposition of the “non-reunited” Greek Catholics fuelled by political, nationalist, or religious sentiments? How did the members of the banned Church navigate Soviet daily life?

 

This talk focuses on the strategies of survival and resistance employed by the Ukrainian Greek Catholics who did not “reunite” with the ROC and went underground. On the one hand, the members of the clandestine community tried to adjust to the Soviet surroundings. On the other hand, they employed multiple strategies of resistance, ranging from legal forms of protest to outright confrontation with the representatives of the Soviet state.

The analysis of the clandestine Greek Catholics’ modes of dealing with the Soviet state reveals the complexity of their motives. Oscillating between accommodation and resistance towards the Soviet state, members of the underground Church were able to preserve their denominational identity in a hostile environment up to 1990, when the UGCC was finally legalised.

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Dr Kateryna Budz is currently an Ecclesiastical History Society Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). Kateryna Budz holds a PhD in History from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine). She pursued her research at the New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale, Germany), and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Budz specialises in the history of the clandestine Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) in the Soviet Union. Her research interests also include Jewish-Christian relations during the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia and responses of the UGCC to the current Russo-Ukrainian war.

Her research has been supported by the Black Sea Link Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service, Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the University of Toronto, Combe Trust Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, as well as the RHS, BASEES, EHS and GHS Scholars at Risk Programme.

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BASEES Talks 2023: Cooling the Hot Zone. Transformations of Chornobyl Zone Image in Popular Culture
Apr
27
6:00 pm18:00

BASEES Talks 2023: Cooling the Hot Zone. Transformations of Chornobyl Zone Image in Popular Culture

Cooling the Hot Zone: Transformations of Chornobyl Zone Image in Popular Culture

Speaker: Dr Tetiana Ostapchuk, BASEES Ukrainian Scholar at Risk

 

The image of Ukraine in popular culture has often been presented through lenses of a nuclear threat. When the Russian war against Ukraine dawned on 24 February, the Chornobyl Zone of Exclusion on the border with Belarus became one of the first territories fully occupied within the first days of the invasion. The violation of the state borders of the independent country, the intrusion of the foreign army and weaponry on the contaminated territory, and the Russian military control over the workers and settlers of the Zone brought back the fears of a new nuclear disaster. Thus, Chornobyl once and again became a contested space. In my talk, I suggest looking back at contradicting narratives oscillating between “Chornobylphobia” and “Chornobylphilia” in popular culture, periods of visibility and invisibility, and efforts of art(iv)ists to create, maintain, and re-interpret the image of Chornobyl from a space of absolute “doom and gloom” to a cool and internationally attractive borderscape.

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Tetiana Ostapchuk is a Ukrainian Research Fellow at the University College London (2022-2023), holding a PhD in Comparative Literature. She has published and lectured extensively on topics of Ukrainian American literature, memory and identity in Ukrainian and American narratives, representation of trauma and borders in contemporary literature and audio-visual art.

She co-edited and edited such volumes devoted to the problems of Cultural Border Studies as:

“(Pop) Cultures on the Move: Transnational Identifications and Cultural Exchange Between East and West.” Ed. by Astrid M. Fellner, Tetiana Ostapchuk, Bärbel Schlimbach. SARAVI PONTES - Saarland University Press, 2018;

“Crossing Borders: Representations of Ukrainian Diasporas.” Edited by Tetyana Ostapchuk. EUXEINOS -Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region – Nr. 30- 12/2020. (https://gce.unisg.ch/en/euxeinos/archive/30).

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Mar
31
to 2 Apr

BASEES Conference 2023, University of Glasgow

The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) invites proposals for panels and roundtables, and papers for its 2023 annual conference. BASEES 2023 is being planned to be held in-person from the 31st of March to the 2nd of April and will be hosted at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, a leading international centre for the study of Central and Eastern Europe and home to the journal Europe-Asia Studies (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/cees/). The conference will also welcome remote attendees.

https://www.baseesconference.org/

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BASEES Annual Conference 2020
Apr
3
to 5 Apr

BASEES Annual Conference 2020

Call for papers

Submission of abstracts is now open. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 14 OCTOBER

The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) invites proposals for panels and roundtables, and papers for its 2020 annual conference. BASEES 2020 will be held from 3rd April to 5th April and will be hosted at Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The 2019 conference welcomed over 500 delegates from over 40 countries around the world.

BASEES welcomes paper, panel and roundtable proposals in the following areas: Politics; History; Sociology and Geography; Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; and Economics. The conference especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and early career scholars.

As usual the annual conference will provide a platform to present and discuss research on all subjects covered by the association. This year we also want to use BASEES 2020 to discuss and reflect critically on issues affecting ethnic and racial minorities, members of the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups in our community, as well as in our research. We therefore particularly welcome paper, panel and roundtable proposals relating to the theme of diversity and inclusion in Slavonic and East European Studies.

www.baseesconference.org

To submit an abstract, panel or roundtable click here

Guidance on submitting a proposal is available to download here.

If you need further guidance on creating an account or submitting a paper, panel, or roundtable proposal, you may find the following the videos useful: Create an Account; Submit a Panel Proposal; Submit a Paper Proposal; or Submit a Roundtable Proposal

The deadline for paper and panel/roundtable proposals is 14 October 2019.

The registration fees for participating in BASEES 2020 have not yet been finalised. They are expected to be a little more than for BASEES 2019. You can see those registration fees by going to last year’s website www.basees2019.org and then clicking on the REGISTRATION tab.

Academic Conference Organisers

Dr Matthias Neumann (academic.organisers@basees.org)
Dr Chris Jones (academic.organisers@basees.org)

General enquiries about the conference are welcome at conference@basees.org

Anti-harassment policy

The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, nationality, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants or staff in any form.

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BASEES Annual Conference
Apr
12
to 14 Apr

BASEES Annual Conference

12-14 April 2019, Robinson College, Cambridge

Call for papers

The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) invites proposals for panels, roundtables and papers for its 2019 Annual Conference. The conference will be held Friday, 12 April to Sunday, 14 April, and will be based at Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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BASEES/Uppsala Conference 2018
Sep
13
to 14 Sep

BASEES/Uppsala Conference 2018

The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies are hosting a two-day conference to be held at Uppsala University in September 2018 with the theme ‘Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956’.

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PLAGIARIZING POSTERITY: READING THE 19TH CENTURY BACKWARDS
Jun
8
9:00 am09:00

PLAGIARIZING POSTERITY: READING THE 19TH CENTURY BACKWARDS

PLAGIARIZING POSTERITY: READING THE 19TH CENTURY BACKWARDS

The BASEES Study Groups for Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture have combined to co-host a one-day conference at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus on June 8th, 2018. Keynote speakers will include Professor Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton) and Professor Timothy Langen (Missouri). Proposals for papers of no more than 15 minutes’ duration should be submitted by May 4th, 2018, to Muireann Maguire at muireann.maguire@exeter.co.uk.  We invite scholars of Russian literature, cinema and culture to explore how Russian writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries can be said to have plagiarised (or anticipated) their posterity in various media, up to the present day.  Comparisons with other literatures are also welcome. The organizers intend to publish selected proceedings, subject to peer review, as an edited volume.

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REEM Annual Conference 2017 Music and Revolution
Dec
15
9:30 am09:30

REEM Annual Conference 2017 Music and Revolution

On the occasion of the centenary of the Russian revolution, the BASEES Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music will hold its 2017 conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, on Friday 15th December. The theme of the conference is ‘Music and Revolution’, and our speakers explore a broad range of revolutionary moments in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe: from Decembrists to Bolshevists, from Springs to Singing Revolutions and the collapse of communism. The full programme may be found here.

Registration is free and all are welcome to attend. To register, please email reemstudygroup@gmail.com by Friday 8th December.

Themes include:

-        Music at the time of and in response to revolution

-        Protest music and revolutionary song

-        Sounds and soundscapes of revolution

-        Musical change and continuity post-revolution

-        Politicisation of music

-        Emigration, exile and changing musical landscapes

The conference’s official language is English. 

This conference is supported by the British Association of Russian and East European Studies, the Royal Musical Association and the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths.

Accommodation suggestions:

Transport: The nearest stations to Goldsmiths are New Cross Gate and New Cross. These are served by the London Overground (the orange line on the tube map) and national rail services. You can plan journeys here. 

REEM has a modest amount of money available to assist speakers, especially postgraduates and those without access to other funds, with the costs of attending. If you would like to be considered for such funding, which is likely to cover only an element of your travel and/or accommodation, please indicate this in your proposal.

Convenors: Tamsin Alexander, Philip Bullock, Pauline Fairclough, Katerina Levidou, Ivana Medić, Danijela Špirić-Beard and Patrick Zuk.

Any enquiries should be sent to reemstudygroup@gmail.com

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The Asian Arc of the Russian Revolution: Setting the East Ablaze?
Nov
16
to 17 Nov

The Asian Arc of the Russian Revolution: Setting the East Ablaze?

Yale-NUS College is hosting a two-day conference to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution -- The Asian Arc of the Russian Revolution: Setting the East Ablaze? It explores the trajectory of the revolution across the Asian continent, from the Caucasus to the Pacific. The conference examines how the revolutionary wave mingled with cross-currents of nationalism, religion, ethnicity and culture, as Asian peoples reinterpreted and refashioned the events in Russia. It features early-career and leading scholars from throughout Asia, France, Russia, Australia and the United States. The conference is organized by a team from the National University of Singapore and Sciences Po Paris, headed by Prof Naoko Shimazu and Prof Sabine Dullin’s, under generous funding from a Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite-National University of Singapore grant.

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Between Exploitation and Empowerment: Participation of Women in the Second World War
Jun
17
10:00 am10:00

Between Exploitation and Empowerment: Participation of Women in the Second World War

One-day conference

17 June 2017

University of East Anglia

‘The “female” war has its own colours, smells, lighting and sensory space. Its own words. There are no heroes and extraordinary deeds, there are just people, busy with their inhuman human affairs’. (Svetlana Aleksievich, 1988)

 The Second World War saw women become participants in armed combat, perpetrators, victims and survivors of violence, bystanders and, in some cases, all of these at once. War histories, however, tend to be written from the masculine point of view and thus often exclude women’s direct knowledge of political violence or include it in an instrumentalised way that reveals little about women’s experiences. Lack of access to such knowledge results in incomplete histories of events, historical periods, and populations. Close investigation of female narratives of war, on the other hand, can provide a more inclusive historiography: the focus on women’s experiences and their incorporation into the history of all aspects of war will improve our understanding of war as such, and reveal that gender roles constructed in the context of warfare reflect wider gender dynamics in societies involved in a war. Some aspects of women’s active participation in political violence in general and in the Second World War in particular have been perceived as empowering. Women clearly demonstrated their ability to perform the same roles as the men. On the other hand, it is undeniable that women who took an active part in warfare did so in a masculinist setting, and the acceptance of women in traditionally masculine roles often lasted for the duration of the conflict only. The roles women played and the contexts in which they operated differed from country to country, but there were also many similarities in their experiences. This conference aims to explore women’s experiences of the Second World War by examining where they fit in the grey zones between empowerment and exploitation. 

 

Applications are sought from scholars (including post-graduates and early career), focusing on the following themes relating to female experiences of World War II, although this list is not exhaustive and other relevant themes will be considered (comparative papers are particularly encouraged):

 

• women in regular military formations;

• women in guerrilla warfare;

• political violence and civilian women;

• female forced labourers;

• sexual violence in the context of political violence;

• gender perspective of collaboration;

• female prisoners (including prisoners of war);

• representations of women in the context of the Second World War in literature, commemorative sites and practices, popular culture.

Please submit your proposals for 15-minute presentations (300 words abstract and 100 words biographical statement) to o.khromeychuk@uea.ac.uk by 5 pm on 1 February 2017.

There will be limited funding available to cover travel expenses and accommodation costs. Please indicate in your application if you wish to apply for this funding.

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA 

THE LEVERHULME TRUST

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Playwriting Without Borders
Apr
6
to 7 Apr

Playwriting Without Borders

Playwriting Without Borders

 

Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 6-7 April 2017: A two-day conference on 21st-century Russian-language playwriting in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

One striking feature of the way Russian-language theatre has developed during the last fifteen or so years has been the extent of the collaborations between Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian playwrights and practitioners, through events such as playwriting competitions, festivals and workshops. As political tensions have increased, some of these collaborations have continued, while a number of playwrights still address themes pertinent to contemporary realities in all three nations.

We propose a conference in which this transnational dimension of Russian-language drama in the 21st century will be explored. 

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PROTAGONISTS OF POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY: HOW DO INDIVIDUALS AND COLLECTIVES BECOME HISTORY?
Mar
25
to 26 Mar

PROTAGONISTS OF POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY: HOW DO INDIVIDUALS AND COLLECTIVES BECOME HISTORY?

PROTAGONISTS OF POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY:

HOW DO INDIVIDUALS AND COLLECTIVES BECOME HISTORY?

March 25th 2017 – House of Commons, The Palace of Westminster, London

March 26th 2017 – University of Westminster, London

The concept of mythology relies not only on the content of mythic narratives, but also on the functions they perform. Within a political dimension, myth is a part of an ideological model, one that monopolises the meaning of the past by providing a retrospective, unilateral version of global, collective or individual history. Such mythological storytelling provides an identification pattern, in which the narratives fascinate, instigate and then incorporate people through mimetic mechanisms of reproducing the content in their imagination. Such patterns of receiving, cognising and reproducing, can generate a collective consciousness of the past within the present in order to implement a certain rendition of the future.

Among the politicised models of recent centuries, we hear of the figures of a messianic revolutionary proletarian in the Soviet Union, a supreme race of Aryans in national-socialist Germany, and broader senses of transnational, incorporeal,  theological capital. As discredited states and governments have gradually lost their monopoly for myth-forging, another type of mythic narrative emerges: conspiracy theories. This widespread means of interpreting the past and foreseeing the future reaches a multiplicity of domains with far-reaching consequences. This conference aims to elucidate the themes of myth and conspiracy in the world of politics and beyond.

Topics of the conference may include but are not limited to:

  • Religious roots of democratic, communist and national-socialist ideologies
  • Myth in the foundation and dissolution of unions, states and nations
  • Suggestive politics and falsifications of history
  • Conspiracy theories from the Middle Ages to Post-modernity
  • Spiritual and political minorities: religious dissidents to clandestine parties
  • Problem of verification: interpreting events in History and Political Science
  • Individual memories and retrospective interpretations of the political past
  • Ideologies in the 21st century: another return to neo-archaism?

At this event, there will be a roundtable with some of the politicians and diplomats, who actively participated in the process of the USSR dissolution, or paid witness to it as close observers.

The conference is free of charge. Hotel accommodation will be provided for the presenters and we will also aim to fully cover, or subsidise, travel expenses.

Enquiries should be directed to the organiser, Dr. Charlotte Shaw, at:  londonconferences@gmail.com

Applying to Present

Please submit your proposal of a maximum of 300 words and a short CV to: Dr. Charlotte Shaw at: londonconferences@gmail.com by the deadline of 26th February 2017.

Presenters will be allotted 15 minutes for their presentations.

This event is organised in association with BASEES and the School of History, University of East Anglia.

Other conferences in this series include:

IMPORT AND EXPORT OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF IDEOLOGIES, POLITICS, COMMUNITIES

25th - 26th February 2017; London School of Economics and Political Science

ETHOS OF EXTREMISM: SPIRITUAL VALUES AND PRAGMATIC VIOLENCE

29th - 30th April 2017; London

THE FUTURE OF POWER: HIERARCHIES, STATES, WARS, REVOLUTIONS

20th - 21st May 2017; London

 

 

 

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WESTERN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: IMPORT AND EXPORT OF IDEOLOGIES, POLITICS, COMMUNITIES
Feb
25
to 26 Feb

WESTERN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: IMPORT AND EXPORT OF IDEOLOGIES, POLITICS, COMMUNITIES

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WESTERN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION:

IMPORT AND EXPORT OF IDEOLOGIES, POLITICS, COMMUNITIES

25th - 26th February 2017; London School of Economics and Political Science

Transnational interchanges between Western Europe and Russia surrounded the October Revolution of 1917. These exchanges of ideologies and emigres led to mutual constructions of doctrines, politicised collectives, and eventually, a new experimental State. During and post the establishment of the USSR, new cross-cultural knowledge, pro-Soviet communities and indoctrination techniques evolved. This conference will seek to explore the transnational flows that impacted the revolution and those that were brought into being by virtue of its occurrence.

 Topics may include but are not limited to:

- The Russian Revolution in global historical perspective

- Marxism and Russian culture and mentality

- Russian immigrants and Western elites on the eve of the revolution: links and future influences

- Pilgrimage to Communist Meссa: West European and American visitors in Soviet Russia

- Consequences of the Russian revolution for world politics

- Pro-Soviet communities in Western Europe and the US: official diplomacy and subversive groups

- Exporting the revolution via international solidarity

 Applying to Present

Please submit your proposal of a maximum of 300 words and a short CV to:

Dr. Charlotte Shaw at:  londonconferences@gmail.com by the deadline of 8th December 2016.  Presenters will be allotted 15-20 minutes for their presentations.

The conferences are free of charge. Hotel accommodation will be provided for the presenters and we will also aim to fully cover, or subsidise, travel expenses.

Enquiries should be directed to the organisers, Dr. Charlotte Shaw and Dr. Ilya Permyakov, at: londonconferences@gmail.com Or, to Dr. Matthias Neumann at: M.Neumann@uea.ac.uk

The conference is being organised in association with the School of History, University of East Anglia.

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60 years since 1956: the Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath in East and Central Europe
Dec
8
to 10 Dec

60 years since 1956: the Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath in East and Central Europe

BASEES and the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade are collaborating - in this sixtieth anniversary year of the Hungarian Revolution - to stage a conference in Budapest to mark the events of 1956.
The conference will discuss all aspects of the revolution and its wider impact.

Address any enquiries to: info@basees2016budapest.org

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BASEES Annual Conference
Apr
2
to 4 Apr

BASEES Annual Conference

The BASEES 2016 Annual Conference will be held on 2nd-4th April 2016 and will be based as usual at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Building upon the increasing successes of past BASEES conferences the BASEES Annual Conference continues to attract scholars of Slavonic and East European Studies from a wide range of disciplines from across the world.

The 2015 conference attracted more than 450 people and over 400 papers in Politics; History; Sociology and Geography; Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; Economics.

The Call for Papers was issued in May 2015.

General enquiries about the conference are welcome at info@basees2016.org.

Visit basees2016.org for more information.

 

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