Spring 2013
Seminar programme
Venue: Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, The Library
Time: Tuesdays, 15.15-17.00 (if not otherwise indicated)
NB! The programmemight be subject to change.
15 Jan Lyudmila Igumnova (Irkutsk, Uppsala): "Normative Power Europe as Perceived by Russian scholars and officials". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
22 Jan David Shearer "State Violence and Social Governance in the Soviet Union under Stalin, from the 1920s to the 1950s". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
29 Jan Igor Torbakov (UCRS): "Contestations over History and Church-State Relations in Russia. Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
31 Jan (NB! Thursday, 15:15-17:00) Michael Jonsson (Uppsala University): "The Political Economy of Conflict in Eurasia". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
4 Feb (NB! Monday at 13:15-15:00) Matthew Kott (UCRS): "Extremism in Latvia: New Perspectives and Recent Trends". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
12 Feb Elena Namli (UCRS) och Sverker Gustavsson (Department of Politics, Uppsala University): "Demokrati och Ryssland". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: Swedish.
14 Feb (NB! Thurday, 10:00-12:00 and 15:15-17:00) Andrzej Szeptycki (Warsaw University): "Ukraine and the European Union: facts and perspectives" (morning) and "Ukraine versus Russia. The study of dependence" (afternoon). Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
19 Feb Phil Hanson: "Stuck with Europe? The Nature of Russia’s Economic Ties with Europe and the Implications for Russian Policies". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
21 Feb Johan Matz (UCRS): "Soviet Internal Communication in Cipher Between the Embassy in Stockholm and the NKID/MID 1944-47". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
26 Feb (NB! Venue: Gamla torget 3, 1 floor, Sal 2). Eitvydas Bajarunas, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Sweden. Lecture on “Lithuania's relations with Russia”. Chairman: Elena Namli och Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
28 Feb (NB! Thursday, 15:15-17:00) Nino Kemoklidze (Birmingham University/UCRS): "Georgian-Abkhaz Relations in the Post-Stalinist Era". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
5 Mar Julie Hansen (UCRS): "Putevoditel po proshlomu: Literary Depictions of Soviet Childhoods by Grishkovets and Klinau" Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
12 Mar Geoffrey Swain (Glasgow): "Latvia's National Communism Crisis Reconsidered". Chairman: Matthew Kott. Language: English.
19 Mar Irina Busygina (Moscow): "How many 'Russias:' Spatial Effects of Civil Protests". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
21 Mar CANCELLED!!! (NB! Thursday 15:15-17:00) Peteris Timofejevs-Henriksson (Umeå, UCRS). Feedback seminar: A chapter from his PhD dissertation. Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: TBA.
25 Mar (NB! Monday, 15:15-17:00) Galin Tihanov (UK): " 'World Literature' in the Soviet Union: Ideology and Philosophy of Culture (1917-1985)" Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
26 Mar Vitaly Kurennoj (Moscow ): "Перевод: лингвистическая и социальная проблема". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: Russian.
4 Apr (NB! Thursday 15:00-17:00) Jan Rychlik: "Twentieth anniversary of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia: assessing two distinct transformations". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
9 Apr Kaj Hobér (Uppsala University): "Gazprom’s three new challenges". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
11 Apr (NB! Thursday, 15:15-17:00) Fabian Heffermehl (UCRS): "Ikonmaleriet som kultur- og sivilisasjonskritisk prosjekt". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: the presentation will be held in Norwegian with a subsequent discussion in Swedish and Norwegian.
16 Apr Boris Mezhuev (Moscow): "Вытеснение Современности в русской философии XIX века". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: Russian.
18 Apr (NB! Thursday) Ildiko Asztalos Morell (UCRS): "Renewable energy: a technology to overcome poverty? Energy poverty among rural Roma communities in Hungary in the light of a rural development project Romavirka". Chairman: Stefan Hedlund. Language: English.
23 Apr Irina Karlsohn (UCRS): "Revolutionen hos Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn: att förstå sig själv genom den andre." Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: Swedish.
7 May Oleg Budnitskii (Moscow ): "Daily Life in the Trenches: Diaries of the Red Army's Jewish Soldiers". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
9 May (Thursday, 09:00-15:30 at Main University Buidling, Hall IX) Workshop “Researching the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg and other Unresolved Questions Pertaining to the History of the Cold War Archival Studies and Research Methodology”. Download workshop programme. More information about the conference can be found here. To register for the workshop, please contact workshop organizer Dr. Johan Matz (johan.matz@ucrs.uu.se). The workshop is free of charge.
10-11 May (Friday and Saturday) Conference "What have we learned from the Soviet archives?". To find out more please visit conference webpage.
14 May Paul Lewis (Open University, United Kingdom): "Party System Development in Central-East Europe. A New Perspective?". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
21 May Michael Gorham (Florida): " 'Slander', 'Extremism', and Putin 3.0: The Battle for Virtual Boundaries in Russian Civil Discourse" Chairman: Stefan Hedlund.
21 May (Tuesday, 09:00-12:30, Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus) Symposium "#Protest Baku: Is Azerbaijan Next in Line for a Democratic Revolution?". Download the programme. The symposium is co-sponsored by Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and co-organized with the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS).
28 May Susanne Frank (Berlin): "Arctic Archives". Chairman: Elena Namli. Language: English.
30 May (NB! Thursday 15:15-17:00) Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw): "Holocaust Memories & Roma Identities". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
4 Jun Matthew Kott (UCRS), Vaida Obelene (UCRS) and David Smith (UCRS): "Contesting and Using the Soviet Past in the EU-Russian Borderlands: The Case of the Baltic States". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.
10 jun (NB! Monday, 15:15-17:00) Professor Iulian Chifu (Presidential Advisor for Strategic Affairs and International Security of the Romanian President): "Conflict, strategies and decision-making in the Wider Black Sea Region". Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman. Language: English.