Programme
Monday, 3 November
Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus
| 09.00-09.15 | Opening of the conference by Claes Levinsson, the director of UCRS |
| 09.15-10.15 | Lecture: Mark Bassin, 'A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': What is Geopolitical Discourse? |
| 10.15-10.30 | Coffee break |
| 10.30-12.00 | Panel 1. Post-Soviet Sensibilities and Geopolitics of the New Media |
| Anton Gumenskii, Beyond Borders. Geopolitics of New Media is Oxymoron | |
| Oleg Reut and Tatiana Teterevleva, Post-Soviet Diaspora in Mediapolis: Identity and Self-Identification Practices of the Digital Natives | |
| Saara Ratilainen, Russian Lifestyle Blogs and the Construction of “Global Selves” | |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-14.30 | Panel 2. Mediating Greatpowerness: From Philosophic Theorization to Web 2.0 Communication |
| Per-Arne Bodin, Russian Geopolitical Discourse and Future Empires | |
| Maria Engström, The Radical Russian Conservatism and the Concept of Web Wars | |
| Hanna Smith, Selling and Marketing Greatpowerness: Different Views on What Makes Russia Great | |
| 14.30-14.45 | Coffee break |
| 14.45-16.15 | Panel 3. Geopolitical Languages and Identity-Making in Digital Environment |
| Maria Anikina and Viktor Khroul, Mass Self-communication and Online Geopolitics: Crimea Crisis in Russian Web Discussions | |
| Galina Zvereva, Digital Storytelling on YouTube: The Geopolitical Factor in Russian Vernacular Regional Identities | |
| Irina Kotkina, Geopolitical Imagination of the Russian New Media between Eurasian Union and Russian World | |
| 16.15-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30–18.00 | Panel 4. Social Media and the Crisis in Ukraine |
| Anke Schmidt Felzmann, Tweeting Diplomats and Eurocrats in the EU-Russian Conflict over Ukraine: Information-Bearers, Political Warriors or Digital Conveyor Belts? | |
| Sergei Kurbatov and Alla Marchenko, Constructing the Enemies while Making News? Facebook as a Particular "Battlefield" in information warfare in Ukraine |
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| Ruben Ruiz, When the Geopolitical "Establishment" Perceives that Mass-Media Hegemony is not Enough. New Media and the Spanish Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis |
Tuesday, 4 November
Main University Building, Hall VIII
| 09.00-10.00 | Lecture: Andrei Tsygankov "Uses of Eurasia: the Kremlin, the Eurasian Union, and the Izborsky Club" |
| 10.00-10.15 | Coffee break |
| 10.15-11.45 | Panel 5. Popular Geopolitics and Ukraine |
| Dirk Uffelmann, The Imagined Geolinguistics of Ukraine | |
| Greg Simons, Euromaidan and the Geopolitical Struggle for Influence in Ukraine via New Media | |
| Mikhail Suslov, #CrimeaIsOurs: Russian Digital Geopolitics and the Crisis in Ukraine | |
| 11.45-12.45 | Lunch |
| 12.45-14.15 | Panel 6. 'Web wars' and constructing geopolitical identities |
| Fabian Linde, Future Empire: Russian State Promoted Union Identity among Youth | |
| Vladimir Suchan, Lessons of a Virtual Activist from the Ukrainian Battles for Euroasia (The Message Is the Medium, and the Message Is Great Power) | |
| Evgenii Pashentsev, The Strategic Role of Communication Management Tools in Internet during the Conflict in the Ukraine: The Geopolitical Aspect | |
| 14.15-14.30 | Coffee break |
| 14.30-16.00 | Panel 7. Branding the Kremlin's 'Soft Power' in the Press and Television |
| Stephen Hutchings, Soft Power, Geopolitical Crisis and the Changing International Broadcasting Landscape: Russia Today’s Coverage of the Sochi Olympics and Beyond | |
| Vlad Strukov, Digital Conservatism: Framing Patriotism on Russia Today | |
| Sirke Mäkinen, Geopolitical representations and Russia’s public diplomacy–the case of Rossotrudnichestvo | |
| 16.00-16.15 | Coffee break |
| 16.15-17.15 | Closing discussion. Elena Namli as a commentator |