Autumn 2012
Seminar Programme
Venue: Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, The Library
Time: Tuesdays, 15.15-17.00 (if not otherwise indicated)
15-17 Aug Workshop “Punishment as a Crime? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Prison Experience in Russian Culture”. Abstracts and participants’ bio.
4 Sep UCRS book launch. The term starts with a presentation of two newly-published books "Power and legitimacy. Challenges from Russia" (Bodin, Hedlund, Namli (eds.): Routledge 2012) and "Religion och politik i Ryssland" (Namli, Svanberg (red.) Swedish Science press 2012). Chairmen: Elena Namli and Stefan Hedlund.
11 Sep Dr. Chris Swader (National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moskva, Ryssland). "The Commodification of Intimacy? The Practice of Compensated Dating in Moscow". Chairman: Jörgen Ödalen och Vaida Obelene. Language: English. Joint seminar of The Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justice and The Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
13 Sep (NB! Thursday). Lia Kalinnikova (UCRS): "Conditionally forgotten L. Vygotsky (1896-1934)". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
18 Sep Oleg Budnitskii (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow): "Jewish Women in the Red Army, 1941-45". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
25 Sep Kåre Johan Mjør (UCRS): "The Post-Soviet Historiography of Russian Philosophy: Assumptions and Challenges". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
27 Sep (NB! Thursday, 14:15-16:00) Karin Grelz (Stockholm University): "Nabokov's Gogol: On "the Primitive and Banal Mentality of Enforced Politics". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
1 Oct (Monday, 09:30-17:00) SYMPOSIUM “Reunification, research and higher education: the reorganization of the German university system after the fall of the Berlin Wall”. NB! The symposium is open to researchers and PhD students with an interest in questions of research and higher education in Germany. More information: see symposium description and programme. Language: English.
2 Oct Dr. Maria Khotimsky (Massachussetts Institute of Technology): "Writing Across Languages: Translation and Diaspora". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
3 Oct (NB! Wednesday, 09:30-16:30). Workshop "Translation and transculturality in the Russian context". Download workshop description and programme. Arrangörer: Susanna Witt och Julie Hansen.
4 Oct (NB! Thursday) Vadim Volkov (S:t Petersburg): "The Russian Judicial System in the Perspective of Empirical Sociology of Law". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
9 Oct David Smith (UCRS) "Ethnic integration and the liberal nation-state: reflections on the Baltic case". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
16 Oct Gilles Favarel-Garrigues (Paris): "Policing economic crime in Russia (from 1965 to 1995)". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
18 Oct (NB! Thursday) Victor Sinev (Kiev): "Пост-советская дефектология: из прошлого в будущее". NB! The seminar is held in Russian. Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: Russian.
22 Oct (NB! Monday, 10:15-12:00) Terry D. Clark (Creighton University, USA): "Presentation of the Journal of Baltic Studies". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
22 Oct (NB! Monday, 15:15-17:00) Round table discussion: "Perspectives on elections: Lithuanian parliamentary elections." Participants: Terry D. Clark (Creighton University), David Smith (UCRS) and Vaida Obelene (UCRS). Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
23 Oct Susanna Rabow-Edling (UCRS): "Married to the empire. Three Governors' wives in Russian America 1829-1864". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
25 Oct (NB! Thursday) Arja Rosenholm: "Water, Power and Literature in the early Soviet Fiction: The case of Kolhida of Konstantin Paustovsky”. Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
30 Oct (NB! 13:00-14.45) Fredrik M. Sjoberg (Columbia University): "Making Voters Count: Experimental Evidence of Fraud Reduction in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
1 Nov (NB! Thursday) Sergiy Kurbatov (UCRS): "University ranking as a tool for reformation of the Ukrainian higher education". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
6 Nov Markku Kivinen (Helsinki): "Do we need a new paradigm in Russian studies?" Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
6-7 Nov Workshop "Coping with poverty in Russia". Deltagare: Nina Ivashinenko, Alexander Soldatkin and Alla Varyzgina (Nizhny Novgorod); Olga Pospelova and Irina Sadakova (Safu, Arkhangelsk), Elena Iarskaia and Pavel Romanov (Moscow och Saratov) Rebecca Kay (Glasgow), Leo Granberg and Jouko Nikula (Helsingfors), Vladislava Vladimirova and Ann-Mari Sätre (UCRS). Download the workshop programme.
8 Nov (NB! Thursday, 15:15-17:00) Roundtable discussion: "Perspectives on Elections: Georgian Parliamentary Elections (October 1, 2012)." Participants: Timothy Blauvelt (Ilia State University), Per Eklund (Institute for Security and Development Policy), and Giga Zedania (Ilia State University). Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman and Christofer Berglund (UU). Language: English.
9 Nov (NB! Friday, 10:15 -12:00) Christofer Berglund (Department of Government, Uppsala University): Feedback seminar: “Political Change in Georgia”. Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English. NB! Participants are encouraged to read the chapter that will be discussed in advance and prepare their comments. Limited number of seats, thus registration is required. Please e-mail michal.smrek@ucrs.uu.se for more information and/or to confirm your participation. For more information see here.
13 Nov Ann-Mari Sätre (UCRS): "Lifting yourself out of poverty: Household strategies for business development in Russia". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
15 Nov (NB! Thursday, 15:15-17:00) Roundtable discussion: "Perspectives on Elections: Parliamentary Elections 2012 as an Indicator of Political Situation in Contemporary Ukraine" Participants: Yevheniy Kuzmyenko (OBKOM Internet newspaper), Igor Slisarenko (National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and Diplomatic Academy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine), and Sergiy Kurbatov (UCRS). Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
20 Nov Alge Suliakaite (Vilnius): "The perception of online interaction as a threat to couple's relationship". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
22 Nov (NB! Thursday) Vladislava Vladimirova (UCRS): “So that people start respect us”; The Russian Sami Parliament as a New Institution of Stability in Times of Uncertainty". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
27 Nov Mikhail Suslov (UCRS): "Politics of Emotions in the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
29 Nov (NB! Thursday) Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton): "The Illusion of Democratic Revolution: Why Orange Was Just Red and Yellow (But Not Blue)" Chairman: Stefan Hedund. Language: English.
4 Dec Pär Gustafsson (UCRS): "Russia's Legal Order in the 1990s: Theory and Evidence". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
6 Dec (NB! Thursday) Maria Engström (Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University): "Ryska kosmismen idag: den nykonservativa tolkningen". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: Swedish.
11 Dec Alexander Bogomolov: "Russian Softpower in Ukraine: Application and Effects". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
18 Dec Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia): "Social Capital and Political Collective Action in Russia". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.