Panel Schedule

This is an overview of all panels. The aim of this section is to give you a succinct overview of what is happening at any particular time.

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Panel Categories

  • Methodology and History (M&H)
  • Sociology and Geography (S&G)
  • Literature and Culture (L&C)
  • Politics and International Relations (P&IR)

Wednesday, 21.04.2021

11:30-12:45

Panel 1: Postgraduate Panel: ‘Eastern European / Soviet Globalisms and Socialist Modernities: new perspectives on the socialist experience’

  • Barbora Buzássyová (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
    Globalizing development aid strategies: Czechoslovak experts in UNESCO-sponsored assistance programmes in education to African countries during the 1960s-1980s.
  • Szabolcs László (Indiana University, Bloomington)
    The Transnational Kodály Method: Mapping the Network of Music Educators during the Cold War (1960s-70s)
  • Jessica Lovett (University of Nottingham)
    Soviet Demography on a Global Stage: Population statistics as diplomacy, performance, and competition in the Brezhnev era Soviet Union (1964-1982)
  • Airi Uuna (Tallinn University)
    Joining Profitable Forces: A Finnish-Soviet Venture in Commercial Film Business

13:45-15:00

Panel 2a): Societies in Motion – Mobilities, Perspectives and Engagements of Urban and Diasporic Youth; Part 1: People in Flux – Global, Regional, Local Mobilities

  • Tsypylma Darieva (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS))
    On the move: diasporic youth and engagement with the homeland
  • Anne White (University College London)
    Poland: emigration and immigration dynamics
  • Olga Tkach (Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR), St. Petersburg)
    Newcomer university students in St. Petersburg: Fragmented maturing through family-sponsored interregional mobility and housing tenancy
  • Lela Rekhviashvili; Wladimir Sgibnev (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
    Narrating urban mobilities: urban transport and claims to modernity in former Soviet peripheries

15:15-16:30

Panel 2b): Societies in Motion – Mobilities, Perspectives and Engagements of Urban and Diasporic Youth; Part 2: Paradigms in Flux: Attitudes, Perspectives, Engagements

  • Félix Krawatzek (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS))
    What is beyond your own nose? Youth, views on other countries and political attitudes
  • Gwendolyn Sasse; Olga Onuch (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS))
    The Transregional Dynamics of Exit and Voice: Alternative or Interconnected Logics?
  • Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
    Doomed to fail? Polish industrial cities and female labour market
  • Aurelija Novelskaitė; Raminta Pučėtaitė; Rasa Pušinaitė-Gelgotė (Vilnius University)
    Human capability in the organisational context: Gender pay gap, working conditions, and gender

17:00-19:00

Opening Keynote Roundtable Discussion: “Globalising Belarus? – New Perspectives on Transregional Entanglements”

The moderator will be the journalist Gemma Pörzgen. The discussion focuses on the current political situation in Belarus and its transregional and global impact.

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Thursday, 22.04.2021

08:00-09:15

Panel 3: EU-nization of gender equality policies in Central and Eastern European Research and Higher Education

  • Jovana Trbovc Mihajlović (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
    EU Policies meet Socialist Legacy: Who Teaches Whom about Gender Equality in Research Sphere
  • Hanna Achremowicz; Anna Chmiel (University of Wrocław)
    Gender Equality Audit and Monitoring tool: University of Wrocław case study
  • Natalija Mažeikienė (Vytautas Magnus University), Sybille Reidl (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH), Aurelija Novelskaitė (Vilnius University)
    Promoting gender equality in higher education institutions. An agenda for feminist institutionalism in context of neoliberalist reforms in Lithuania
  • Brigita Miloš (University of Rijeka)
    Rijeka’s Centre for Woman’s Studies: Case Study

09:45-11:00

Panel 4: East-Central European colonialism

  • Bálint Varga (Center for Humanities, Budapest)
    An imperialism on the margins: Hungary, Southeast Europe, and the Ottoman Empire
  • Marta Grzechnik (University of Gdansk)
    Catching up and escaping: The case of East-Central European colonialism
  • Piotr Puchalski (Pedagogical University of Cracow)
    Reversing the Victim Paradigm: Polish Jews as Colonial Subjects
  • Zoltán Ginelli (Leipzig University, Leibniz ScienceCampus EEGA)
    Postcolonial Hungary: The Positioning Politics of Semiperipheral Post/Coloniality

11:30-12:45

Panel 5: Reindustrialization and the agents of new centralities and peripheralities in non-metropolitan spaces of Central and Eastern Europe

  • Franziska Görmar; Nadir Kinossian (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
    The agency of narrative: Negotiating change in old-industrial regions of Europe
  • Jan Píša; Vladan Hruška (Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem)
    Agents of change in old industrial towns: motivations, barriers and incentives
  • Melinda Mihály; Erika Nagy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies)
    Contesting centrality and peripherality: Agents, strategies and changing dependencies shaping economic recovery in old CEE industrial centres
  • Krzysztof Gwosdz; Arkadiusz Kocaj; Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi (Jagiellonian University in Kraków); Agnieszka Sobala-Gwosdz (The Bronisław Markiewicz State Higher School of Technology and Economics in Jarosław)
    Trapped in factory economies? The developments trajectories of medium-sized industrial towns in Poland in the second decade of 2000s

14:15-15:30

Panel 6: Transregional entanglements in crime and punishment

  • Bill Bowring (Birkbek College, UK)
    Globalising human rights and penality in Russia: a complex engagement with the Council of Europe (CoE)’s European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)
  • Judith Pallot (University of Oxford)
    Transregional entanglements in crime and punishment: What extradition and asylum cases can tell us about ‘globalized normative orders’ in the protection of prisoners’ human rights in Russia and East Central Europe
  • Costanza Curro (Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki University)
    Perspectives on the Europeanisation of Georgia’s penal system
  • Rustam Urinboyev (University of Lund)
    Locked up in Russia: transnational prisoners‘ social relationships within and across the prison walls

16:00-17:30

Panel 7: Economic Integration and Globalization? Trade, Transfer, Interests, and the „Socialist Bloc“

  • Max Trecker (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin)
    Forging the Indian Steel Industry: The Economic Side of the Cold War in the Global South
  • Bence Kocsev (Leipzig University)
    Spaces of Interaction. Towards a new analytical category to understand East-South relations
  • Dániel Luka (Pécsi Tudományegyetem)
    Regulation and Coordination of Agriculture in the COMECON and in the European Economic Community
  • Łukasz Dwilewicz (Warsaw School of Economics)
    Polish membership in the Comecon during the rule of Władysław Gomułka (1956-1970)
  • Kaarel Piirimäe (University of Helsinki / University of Tartu)
    How Gorbachev’s New Thinking in foreign affairs interacted with perestroika in the republics and catalysed Soviet collapse

Friday, 23.04.2021

08:00-09:30

Panel 8: Challenging the System: State Power, Protest and Opposition

  • Eszter Bartha (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest / Hannah-Arendt Institut für Totalitarismusforschung); András Tóth
    From lonely fighters to right-wing political communities: Was there a working-class countermovement in Hungary after 1989?
  • Sophie Schmäing (University of Giessen)
    Democratization from below? Local understandings of citizen participation in post-Maidan Ukraine
  • Nadja Douglas (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS))
    Belarus: Mobilisation of society and regime in the context of externally-induced crisis
  • Daniil Romanov (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Egor Fain (Central European University)
    Regional Legislatures and the Opposition under Authoritarianism: A Case of the Russian Systemic Oppositions
  • Olga Terenetska (Central European University)
    On the Role of Empathy in Innovative Forms of Digital Storytelling in Digital Transformation in Education and Cultural Heritage sector in the Populistic and Corrupted CEE countries during in the COVID19 era

10:00-11:30

Panel 9: (A)typical Sources of Globalizing Eastern Europe: Methodological Issues

  • Réka Krizmanics (Central European University/Global and European Studies, Leipzig University)
    Hungarian experts’ travelogues of the Global South
  • Anna Calori (Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University)
    Beyond a histor(iograph)y of doom? Global Eastern Europe after the end of history
  • Vedran Duančić (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
    Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Ideological Correspondence Between Scientists and Making of Scientific Diplomacy in the Early Cold War
  • Justyna Aniceta Turkowska (University of Edinburgh)
    “Development requires suitable cartographic material”: Geophysical Sciences, Eastern European Knowledge Claims and Mapping of West Africa in the 1960-1980s

12:00-13:00

Panel 10: Institutional Powers and Informal Networks in Political Decision Making and Economic Developments

  • Elena Semenova (University of Jena); Keith Dowding
    Institutional Effects on Government and Ministerial Durability: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
  • Julia Langbein (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)); Ildar Gazizullin; Dmytro Naumenko
    Trade Liberalisation and Opening in post-Soviet Limited Access Orders
  • Nurlan Aliyev (University of Warsaw)
    Informality and policymaking in southern Russia: the case of Dagestan

14:00-15:30

Panel 11: Contested Landscapes and Identities: Networks, Narratives, Negotiations

  • Martin Rohde (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
    ‘Western Ukrainian Borderlands’ in Transregional Perspectives. (Re-)Discovering Lemkos, Boykos and Hutsuls
  • Tracie L Wilson (Martin Luther University Halle)
    Entangled Ecologies: Contested Landscapes, Migrations, and Reproductions
  • Martina Urbinati; Simona Cannalire (University of Bologna, Italy)
    Renegotiating Urban Memories in the European Periphery: The Case of Kaunas as a Laboratory
  • Isabel Sawkins (University of Exeter)
    “The memory of the Holocaust will serve as a lesson and a warning only if it remains fully intact, without any omissions.”
  • Dominik Gutmeyr (University of Graz)
    Camera Caucasica. Networks of Photographic Practices in the Transimperial Caucasus

16:00-17:15

Panel 12: Navigating Between the Worlds: Colonial and Neo-Colonial Interdependencies and Formations

  • Balogun Bolaji (University of Leeds)
    Not quite White, not quite European – not Polish sons and daughters of the soil
  • Zsuzanna Varga (Central European University)
    Becoming globally known for hunting: Socialist Hungary exporting knowledge on wildlife management to East Africa
  • Miwako Okabe (University of Helsinki)
    Racism in the socialist state: The case of German Democratic Republic
  • Riikkamari Muhonen (Central European University)
    Dealing with other forms of socialism in the Soviet space: Political activism of foreign students in 1960s and 1970s Soviet Union and responses of the Soviet administration

Saturday, 24.04.2021

09:00-10:15

Panel 13: Changing global conditions of infrastructural and large-scale development projects in Eastern Europe

  • Ágnes Gagyi (University of Gothenburg); Tamás Gerőcs (Binghamton University)
    Global crisis and the realignment of Eastern European capitalist class alliances: the case of Hungarian illiberalism
  • Linda Szabó; Csaba Jelinek (Periféria Policy and Research Center)
    The Flow of Chinese Capital into Hungarian Infrastructure and Logistics: the Case of the Budapest-Belgrade Railway
  • Sergiu Novac (Central European University)
    Investing in a Radiant Future: Nuclear Power’s Place in Easter Europe’s “Green Revolution”
  • Lela Rekhviashvili (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
    Questioning dominant accounts of Chinese investments in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

10:45-12:00

Panel 14: Working with the Past, Shaping New Urban Memories: Cultural Urbanism in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Mikhail Ilchenko (Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences/GWZO)
    Re-evaluating Modernist Heritage: New Representations of Urban History in Eastern Europe
  • Bojana Matejić (University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts)
    Artistic Interventions in Post-Yugoslav Public Spaces after 1989: Critical reflections on Transition from the Transnational Perspective
  • Basan Kuberlinov (Department of Art History and Visual Culture, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)
    “Lenin squares” in the post-Soviet countries: symbolic transformations and new meanings
  • Nadir Kinossian (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
    Rethinking the Post-Socialist City

13:30-14:45

Panel 15: Global Trends, Local Implications. Effects of ‘New Regionalisms’, Global Competition and Trade Liberalisation on Markets and Economies in Eastern Europe

  • Elkhan Nuriyev (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS / GWZO Leipzig)
    Competing Regionalisms in the Eastern Partnership Countries: Global Trends, Regional Implications
  • Ruben Elamiryan (Public Administration Academy of Armenia, Russian-Armenian University)
    The Return of Geopolitics: Eastern Partnership Countries between the European Union and China
  • Ia Eradze (ZZF Potsdam)
    (Re)conceptualising Postsocialist States beyond Transition Paradigm and ‘Western’ State Model: Georgia as a hybrid state
  • Alexander Dontsow (Leipzig University/EEGA Fellow)
    Pairing and Cohesion Between the Companies Operating in the Framework of the Belt and Road Initiative in the International Format

15:15-16:30

Panel 16: The Unpredictable Past and Uncertain Future of East European Music: the cases of Bulgaria and Serbia

This panel is organised by the BASEES Study Group for Russian and East European Music (REEM).

  • Stanimira Dermendzhieva (University of Athens, Greece)
    Bulgarian School of Music: National Identity and Europeanisation
  • Laura Emmery (Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA)
    Reception of Serbian Composers in the United States: Globalization, Mobility, and Integration
  • Ivana Medić (Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia)
    Legal Aliens: Serbian Composers in Western Europe Today

17:00-18:15

Final Discussion

The closing discussion concludes the BASEES Regional Conference 2021 in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus „Eastern Europe – Global Area“ together with representatives of all partner institutions BASEES, EEGA, ZOiS and DGO, and the conference delegates. In this session, trends and themes of the panel discussions are reviewed and concluded, highlights and open questions summarized, whilst at the same time opening up for further steps and paths forward in joint scholarly discussion and cooperation in the study of Eastern Europe as a global area. Guest speakers feature, among others, Sebastian Lentz (director IfL and speaker EEGA), Matthias Neumann (BASEES president), and Gwendolyn Sasse (director ZOiS Berlin).