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Uncertainty:Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe

and the Former Soviet Union

15th UCL SSEES Biennial International Postgraduates Conference

12–14 February 2018

UCL SChooL of SLavoniC and EaSt EUropEan StUdiES

Outside the SSEES Main Building (Above), and a shot of the indoor lightwell (Below).

Welcome to SSEES

The first Biennial International Postgraduate Conference was held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) in 1999. Since then, the regional focus of the conference has expanded to include both the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. In certain years, the conference has been hosted by different institutions around the world. Previous hosting institutions include the University of Warsaw and UC Berkeley, and more recently the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Babeş-Bolyai University and the Romanian Academy in Cluj-Napoca.

From 12 to 14 February, 2018, the conference is agian being held at UCL. This year, we welcome more than 40 postgraduate research students and post-doctoral researchers from almost from more than 18 different countries. The aim of the conference is to bring together postgraduate students and early career researchers from the social sciences and humanities to showcase new research from across academic disciplines relating to Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. More importantly, this conference grants attendees the chance to showcase their research to a broad audience and to network with others from a wide variety of disciplines.

The conference is organised by PhD students with the help of the SSEES administration and Dr Felix Ciută, the School’s Head of Postgraduate Research. In a commitment to keep costs for participants low and enable PhD students from eastern Europe to attend the conference, the conference seeks to use its resources efficiently and effectively.

UCL SSEES is one of the world’s leading specialist institutions, and the largest national centre in the UK, for the interdisciplinary study of Central, Eastern and South-East Europe and Russia. SSEES was founded in 1915 by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (later elected first President of Czechoslovakia) as a part of King’s College but then functioned as an independent entity within the federal structure of the University of London. In 1999, SSEES merged with UCL and in 2004 moved into our present, purpose-built building. The SSEES library, with close to 400,000 items, is one of the largest in the world devoted to East European studes.

The conference committee urges you to make the most of your time at the conference by listening and engaging with each other, getting feedback on your work, and exchanging ideas with other scholars for future collaborations.

All the very best,

The PGC2018 Conference Committee

A Message from the Conference Committee

We are very pleased to welcome you to SSEES for our postgraduates conference. Our call for papers generated a great deal of interest. We had a hard time to decide which among more than 100 submitted abstracts merited presenting at our conference. We were very impressed by the high level of scholarship demonstrated by the abstracts overall.

The theme of uncertainty was chosen for this year’s conference for several reasons. First and foremost, the conference committee wanted something that was relevant and stirred up fertile debate. We were also motived by a sense that parts of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union are continuing a process of reinvention and reconfiguration. This sense was coupled with contemporary issues of rising nationalism, Brexit, and a declining Western liberal world order.

Uncertainty can be observed and analysed from a variety of perspectives: historical, cultural, political, economic, social, and beyond. We want this conference to examine these themes cross-culturally, cross-nationally, and across-disciplines. Indeed, UCL prides itself on breaking with tradition. It was founded in 1826 as the first university in Britain to be entirely secular. UCL was furthermore the first university in the UK to admit students irrespective of their race, religion and social class as well as the first university to admit men and women on equal terms.

The conference could not have happened without a great deal of support from across UCL, and within SSEES (especially the administrative staff of SSEES). We are very grateful to the conference’s sponsors: UCL SSEES, UCL European Institute, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, and the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies.

We hope that this programme will contain all the information you need to help you navigate the conference locations, discover the programme, and stay connected.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask any of the committee members at the conference and they will gladly help you. Alternatively, you may email us at ssesspgc2018@gmail.com.

Conference website: http://generationaldivides.wordpress.com

We look forward to meeting you all!

The Conference Committee,

Peter Braga, Alexandra Bulat, Amanda Digioia, Maria Florutau Rasa Kamarauskaite, Marta Kotwas, Andrea Peinhopf, Eleanor Rees, Liisa Tuhkanen, and Natasha Wilson.

Table of Contents

Getting Around UCL ................................................................................... 1

Getting Around SSEES ............................................................................... 1

Map of the Ground Floor of SSEES ................................................................ 2

Map of the Third Floor of SSEES ................................................................... 3

Map of the Fourth Floor of SSEES .................................................................. 4

Getting Online ............................................................................................ 5

Using the SSEES Library ............................................................................. 5

Tentaive Programme ................................................................................... 6

Blank Page for Notes ................................................................................ 12

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Getting Around UCL

Getting Around SSEES

All panel sessions take place in SSEES, located at 16 Taviton Street (E3 on the map above, marked with the red circle). When you enter SSEES, you will see the SSEES library entrance in front of you and a lift (see map below). There are also stairs to all floors through the door immediately to your left from the main entrance of SSEES.

• The Professional Development and Keynote Speechs are in room 347 on the third floor (see map below of 3rd floor)• Conference rooms 431, 432, 433 are on the fourth floor (see map below of 4th floor)• Tea, coffee, and lunch are served in the Masaryk room, which is on the fourth floor• Emergency exits are all clearly marked in the conference rooms and corridors

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Map of the Ground Floor of SSEES

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Map of the Third Floor of SSEES

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Map of the Fourth Floor of SSEES

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Getting Online

UCL is a member of the Eduroam network which means that participants from other member institutions will be able to use the wireless internet at UCL with their own institutional login & password. If you cannot connect to Eduroam, then please try to connect using the UCLGuest network (see below).

UCL Guest

You can also access free wireless internet in SSEES and across UCL via the ‘UCLGuest’ network. Please follow the instructions below:

1. Collect a flyer with login information from the registration desk.2. Connect to the ‘UCLGuest’ network using your laptop, phone, tablet or other device.3. When you open your browser, a login page will appear. Enter your details as well as the UCL

user ID and 8-character password from your flyer.4. Done!

Please note that there are no computer stations or printing facilities available for conference participants.

Using the SSEES Library

Conference delegates are welcome to use the world-class SSEES library. The Library occupies the bottom four floors of the UCL SSEES building, with the entrance on the ground floor. You will be able to get a free reference pass for the duration of the conference. You can register at the membership point just inside the library entrance by showing some proof of ID (for example, a student card or passport).

You will be able to:• Access all books, journals, newspapers and other collections in the library to read in the library;• Consult e-resources via the Explore (catalogue) terminals in the Library;• Use the photocopying facilities.

Unfortunately, visitors are not entitled to access the student computer clusters or the audio-visual facilities.

For further information on the library and its holdings, please look on the library’s website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/library

Opening hours of the SSEES library during the conference: 9:00 – 21:00

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15th Biennial International Postgraduate Conference on CEE and the FSU

SSEES UCL | 12–14 February 2018 Monday, 12 February: Professional Development Event on

Academic Publishing Location: Room 347, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16

Taviton St, Kings Cross, London, WC1H 0BW Registration 11:30–12:30 UCL SSEES Director’s Welcome 12:30–12:40 Roundtable 1 12:40 – 13:50

Book Focused Publishing: How to Get a Book Deal Experts: Philippa Grand (Emerald Publishing); Peter Sowden (Routledge); Sharla Plant (Palgrave Macmillan); Jakob Horstmann (Freelance Publisher); TBA (UCL PRESS). Moderator: Amanda DiGioia (UCL)

Break 13:50–14:00 Roundtable 2 14:00 – 14:50

Journal Focused Publishing: How to Publish in Respected Journals Experts: Dr Wendy Bracewell (East European Politics and Societies); Dr Birgit Beumers (Studies in Russian and Soviet CInema); TBA (TBA). Moderator: Dr Felix Ciută (UCL)

Break 14:50–15:00 Roundtable 3 15:00 – 15:50

Publishing and the Web: Your Publishing Presence Online Experts: Dr Jane Winters (School of Advanced Studies); Dr Birgit Beumers (Studies in Russian and Soviet CInema); Jakob Horstmann (Freelance Publisher). Moderator: Alexandra Bulat (UCL)

Working and Networking Afternoon Tea 15:50–16:50 Attendees Depart 16:50–17:20

Tentaive Programme 12 February 2018

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Tuesday, 13 February: Panel Sessions Location: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton St, Kings

Cross, London, WC1H 0BW Registration 09:00–9:45 Opening 09:45–10:00 Session 1 10:00–11:30

Panel 1A Panel 1B Panel 1C Venue: Room 431 Venue: Room 432 Venue: Room 433 Constructing Nations

Displacement and Statelessness

Uncertainty and Memory

Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Rose Smith (UCL) - Russia's Common Destiny as told by Putin: The Relationship of Russian National Identity and Foreign Policy Leila Wilmers (Loughborough University) - On the Ground in the Post-Soviet Search for the Russian Nation Marnie Howlett (LSE) - The Euromaidan: A Social Movement Towards Ontologically Securing a Unified and Salient Civic Ukrainian National Identity

Laura Luciani (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - “Permanently temporary’’. Politics and narratives of uncertainty around Georgian IDPs Anna Kutkina (University of Helsinki) - Negotiating Student Narratives and Academics’ Professional Identity in Times of Displacement: Uncertainty—Case Study of Three Displaced Universities in Ukraine TBA (TBA)

Maria Baldovin (University of Bologna) - Uncertain memory for an uncertain identity: 100 years of Russian revolution Aliide Naylor (European University at St. Petersburg) - 100 years of independence: How the memory of occupation shapes Baltic attitudes Olena Shumska (University of Oxford) - Addressing Uncertainty about the Past: National Memory Policy in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

Coffee Break 11:30–12:00

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Session 2 12:00–13:30

Panel 2A Panel 2B Panel 2C Venue: Room 431 Venue: Room 432 Venue: Room 433 Uncertainty Through the Lens: Media and Film Perspective

Activism and Human Rights

Politics of Uncertainty

Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Antonina Anisimovich (Edge Hill University) - Reflective and critical nostalgia in new Bulgarian cinema: bridging the gap between the past and the present Kirill Guskov (University of Oxford) - Stability, besieged fortress and decaying West: how is uncertainty addressed by Russian state TV propaganda? Olga Gontarska (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences) - Uncertainty in times of transition: Cinematic narratives on the Past in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Gabor Petri (University of Kent) - Disability human rights in times of uncertainty? – The case of Hungary Marton Matyasovszky-Nemeth (Eotvos Lorand University) - From Moral Community to Illiberal Uncertainty? The Human Rights Discourse in Hungary through the times of transition(s) Ekaterina Mizrokhi (University of Cambridge) - Precarious Affective Geographies of the Soviet Microdistrict

Mateusz Mazzini (Graduate School for Social Research) - Fortress Poland. The uncertainty-driven identity politics of the Law and Justice government Martina Napolitano (University of Udine) and Simone Benazzo (Independent) - “History Gives Hungarians No Reason to Feel Threatened by Russia.” How the Narrative Of Russia Has Changed In Viktor Orbán’s Illiberal Democracy Till Spanke (LSE) - Variations in Power Dynamics across Patron-Client Relationships in the Post-Soviet Region. A Conceptualisation of Patron States’ Influences on Unrecognised States Dzmitry Suslau (UCL) - Cultural Politics in Lithuania: Public Art and the ‘Return to Europe’

Lunch Break 13:30–14:30

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Session 3 14:30–16:00

Panel 3A Panel 3B Panel 3C Venue: Room 431 Venue: Room 432 Venue: Room 433 The Role of Uncertainty in Constructing Identities

Turning the Page: Literature in Uncertain Times

Uncertainty in the History of Central Europe

Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Mariia Diatlova (University of Oxford) - Old believers in Moldova: self-identification in the post-soviet time Ievgeniia Sarapina (Sorbonne University) - Uncertainty: Challenging Identities, Giving Way to Plurality Hana Josticova (University of Birmingham) - Exploring the relationship between external intervention and the formation and manifestation of identity Michele Bianchi (University of Calgary) - When Uncertainty is out of Question: Constituent Peoples and Anti-political Identities in Post-war Bosnian Political System

Olga Gradinaru (Independent Researcher) - Uncertainty and Suicide in Post-Soviet Russia. Svetlana Alexievich’s “Enchanted with Death” Bohdan Tokarskyi (University of Cambridge) - Poetry of Becoming: Repetition and Recollection in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests Arna Elezovic (University of Washington) - Gendered Identities and Stereotypes in the Balkans, as depicted in British travel literature Emma Crowley (University of Bristol) - The “Cosmic Underlighting” of Chernobyl Prayer: A blooming of post-ideological faith within Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘Red Encyclopaedia’

Balint Tolmar (University of Exeter) - Socialist ’Pipe Dreams’: Debates on Energy Security in Hungary during the Détente (1964-1979) Lucian George (University of Oxford) - Fear of the Familiar: Rumours about Re-Enserfment and Peasant Unrest in Post-Emancipation Poland Johana Kudrnova (Charles University) - At the Edge of Abyss: Contradictory Images of Runciman Mission in the Czech Press Maria Florutau (University of Oxford) -Facing the uncertainty of modernity: the change of paradigms in eighteenth century Habsburg Empire

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Coffee Break 16:00–16:30 Keynote 1 16:30 – 18:00

Dr Frances Pine (Goldsmiths, University of London) Venue: 347 Title: TBA

Conference Reception: 18:00 Wednesday, 14 February: Panel Sessions Location: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton St, Kings

Cross, London, WC1H 0BW Registration and coffee: 09:30–10:00 Keynote 2 10:00 – 11:30

Mr Bobo Lo (Chatham House, London, UK) Venue: 347 Title: TBA

Coffee Break 11:30–12:00 Session 4 12:00–13:30

Panel 4A Panel 4B Panel 4C Venue: Room 431 Venue: Room 432 Venue: Room 433 Uncertainty as a gift: the role of institutional entrepreneurship in the institutionalisation of the rules of state support policy for innovation development

On the move: Migration and Uncertainty for Agents and States

Uncertainty in Ideas and State Policy

Chair: TBA Chair: Alexandra Bulat Chair: TBA Irina Antoshchuk (European University at St Petersburg) - Internationalization of

Vainius Bartasevicius (University of Sussex) -

Katarzyna Jezowska (University of Oxford) - Reimagined Poland. Adjustments in

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Russian science and collaboration with scientific diaspora: the case of Russian-speaking computer scientists in the UK Anna Chernysh (National Research University Higher School of Economics) - Uncertainty as a gift: the role of institutional entrepreneurship in the institutionalization of the rules of state support policy for innovation development Andrey Indukaev (Paris-Saclay) - What role do “development institutions” play in Russian politics and why that matters for academic entrepreneurs

Challenging the Migration-Citizenship Nexus: The Role of National Minorities and Co-Ethnic Populations in the Development of Citizenship Policies in Central and Eastern Europe Josephine Assmus (University of Glasgow) - Euroscepticism and Othering in the EU Migration Crisis 2015/16: Analysing Patterns of Discourse in the European Parliament Lenka Kast (UCL) - Shifting languages – shifting identities: Towards a linguistic ethnography of Slovak migrants’ trajectories in the UK Veronica Miller (Trinity College Dublin) - Canaries in the East-West minefield: Moldovan guest workers as precursors of broader migration trends

representation of the nation-state around 1956 Diana Mombayeva (University of Calgary) - Constructing the image of citizen in Kazakhstan schools: from Homo Soveticus to Kazakhstani Zuzana Podracká (Aberystwyth University) - “If only we could have one year without educational legislation changing”: reflections on nostalgia for the socialist-era order and stability in post-1989 Slovakia Agustín Cosovschi (CETOBaC-UNSAM) - The Paths of Uncertainty. Social Sciences Thinking About Transition in Serbia and Croatia during the 1990s

Lunch 13:30–14:30 Final informal session with coffee: 14:30–15:30

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Uncertainty:Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe

and the Former Soviet Union

15th UCL SSEES Biennial International Postgraduates Conference

12–14 February 2018, London, UK