Graduate School Conference Room, C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building

Wednesday 3 April 2019

9 – 9.15 Welcome

9.15 – 9.40 Vitaly Kazakov

From Sochi 2014 to Russia 2018. Social Media Memory and Interpretation of Russian Mega-Event

9.40 – 10.05 Alessia Benedetti

‘Follow me, my reader, and me alone’. Western Classics and the Soviet Writer-Soviet Reader Relationship in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master i Margarita

10.05 – 10.30 Liliana Bajger

The shared space between a film and its viewers

10.30 – 10.55 Adelaide McGinity-Peebles

“You’re not supposed to like us, you’re supposed to fear us”. Representations of the state in contemporary Russian film

10.55 – 11.10 Coffee, tea and biscuits

11.10 – 11.35 Marco Biasioli

Russian Indie Musicians and Politics. Resistance, Parallel Coexistence, Unintentional Social Change, Escapism?

11.35 – 12.00 Ksenia Papazova

‘Vintage’ paratext. wear and tear in contemporary Russian book design

12.00 – 12.25 Batir Xasanov

Religionizing Russia’s Steppe Frontiers, the 1840s–1917

12.25 – 12.50 Mollie Arbuthnot

Picturing nationality in the Soviet periphery. propaganda posters and national identity in 1920s Uzbekistan

12.50 – 1.30 Lunch break in Atrium

1.30 – 1.55 Anna Glew

The commemorative activity of ordinary people in Central Ukraine after the Euromaidan

1.55 – 2.20 Katarzyna Nowak

‘Coming From the Peasant Sphere Which Loves Poland with its Impeccable Heart…’ – Immigration of Polish Displaced Persons to the United States in the Aftermath of the Second World War

2.20 – 2.45 Dmitrijs Andrejevs

After iconoclasm, or what happened to the monuments of Vladimir I Lenin in the capital cities of eastern Europe and former Soviet Union.

2.45 – 3.10 Craig Proctor

Explaining the Rise and Fall of Right Sector in times of crisis.

3.10- 3.25 Coffee, tea and biscuits

3.25 – 3.50 Rui Wang

The Perception of Putin’s Speech on A Chinese Video Website. Subtitlers’ Renarrations and Viewers’ Bullet Comments

3.50 – 4.15 Lucy Birge

“Quasi-history”-Sputnik, Identity and the 1917 Centennial

4.15 – 4.40 Connell Beggs

Navigating a Crisis. The Russian Orthodox Church’s Shifting Framing during the Conflict in Ukraine

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