Overlapping Easts: from shared neighbourhood to globalised borderlands

PROGRAMME

18 December

9.00-9.10 Welcome and Opening

Serena Giusti (SSSA), Project Coordinator

9.10-9.30 Inaugural Speech

Andrey Kortunov (Russian International Affairs Council)

9.30-11.00 Session 1, Overlapping institutions and projects in the Eurasian spaces

Chair: Ismayilov Kamran (SSSA)

David Cadier (LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics), The binarization of regional politics: the EU-Russia region-building competition and its impact on the common neighbourhood

Leila Simona Talani (King’s College, London) and Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College), The role of Germany in Eurasia after the Euro-zone crisis

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti (Middle East Technical University), Explaining Armenia’s Choice to Join the EEU: What Role for Russia’s Soft Power

Micheal Eric Lambert (Black Sea Institute), De facto states as shared borderlands between Russia and China

Discussants: Irina Mirkina (University of Lund); Alessandra Russo (Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux)

 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Session 2, Eastern Partnership and the European Neighbourhood Policy Review Process

Chair: Federica Bicchi (London School of Economics)

Elena Korosteleva (Kent University), Resilience as a New EU global strategy towards the neighbourhood: Challenges and Opportunities

Vlad Kulminski (Institute for Strategic Studies Initiatives, Chisinau), In-between States: the case of Moldova

Kristina Zemskova (The International Energy Charter Secretariat), The Eurasian Economic Union and a common energy market: implications for the EU’s energy relations (overlap)

Discussants: Kateryna Pishchikova (Università Telematica and SSSA); Luigi Cino (SSSA)

13.00-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-14.30 Keynote Lecture:

Matthew Anthony Evangelista (Cornell University)

You say you want a revolution. What color? Prospects for peaceful change in the post-Soviet space

14.30-16.00 Session 3, Post-Soviet as “Peripheries”, “Borderlands”, “Frontiers”

Chair: Elisa Piras (SSSA)

Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann (Eurocontinent), A new Eurasian Geopolitical Architecture?

Ryhor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Relations), State, Society and External Interventions: EU-Russia Competition in Belarus and Ukraine in 2013-2017

Lien Verpoest (KU Leuven), From Normative Isomorphism to Geopolitical Othering

Oxana Zemtsova (New Europe College, Bucharest), Nation-building Projects among Muslim Tatars in Late Imperial and Post-Soviet Periods

Discussants: Luca Anceschi (Glasgow University); Carolina de Stefano (SSSA)

16.30-16.45 Coffee Break

16.45-17.15 Session 4, Post-Soviet as the New Post-Colonial…?

Chair: Alessandra Russo (Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux)

Giorgio Comai (OBC Transeuropa / CCI), Upside-down Decolonisation and Patron-Client Relations in post-Soviet de facto States and other Small Dependent Jurisdictions

Kiril Repin (European University Viadrina), Sketching the Problems of Translating the Post-Soviet into the Post-colonial

Yalchin Mammadov (Phrenos, Brussels), Where do we belong? - Discursive identity building in post-soviet Azerbaijan

Discussants: Elisabetta Brighi (Westminster University), Kristina Khutsishvili (SSSA)

17.15-18.30 Roundtable: The Challenges of Post-Soviet Studies: Researching, Publishing and Teaching

Chair: Serena Giusti (SSSA)

Elena Korosteleva (Kent University), Irina Mirkina (Lund University), Luca Anceschi (Glasgow University), Giorgio Comai (OBC Transeuropa)

Erasmus+ Programme – Jean Monnet Activities

EU-Russia, Connecting People and Ideas Revolution, Post-Soviet Space, Information

International Conference 'Rethinking Revolution: 1917-2017'

9.00-9.15 Welcome and Opening

Serena Giusti (SSSA)

9.15-9.45 Keynote Lecture, Jim Richter (Bates College)

Taming the Revolution, the Politics of Memory One Hundred Years after October

9.45-11.30 Session 1 The implications of the Russia Revolution

Chair: Elena Dundovich (University of Pisa)

Valentine Lomellini (University of Padua), The Bolshevik revolution: the first Global threat?

Paolo Carrozza (SSSA), What is left? The heritage of Soviet and Socialist constitutionalism

Laura Valeria Gheourghiu (Karl-Frazens University, Graz) Was it Really a Revolution in October 1917?

Ilkin, Mehrabov (Karlstad University), Post-Revolution Russian Dystopias: Effecting the Western Science-Fiction Literature

Discussants: Elisa Piras (SSSA), Carolina de Stefano (SSSA)

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-13.30 Revolution and Political Change

Chair: Barbara Henry (SSSA)

Elisabetta Brighi (Westminster University), Passionate Politics: Affect and Revolutions

Francesco Strazzari (SSSA), The impermanent time and irreconcilable space of the Bolshevik Revolution in its International Context

Aleksei Gridnev (Scuola Normale Superiore), Causes of different outcomes of the “Snow Revolution” in Russia (2011-2013) and the “Revolution of Dignity” in Ukraine (2013-2014)

Cecilia Moraci (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre), Euromaidan and the War with Words: Linguistic Analysis of the 2013-2014 Ukrainian crisis

Discussants: Kristina Khutsishvili (SSSA), David Cadier (LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics)

13.30-14.45 Lunch break

14.45-16.15 Round Table: Rethinking Revolutions

Chair: Elisabetta Brighi (Westminster University)

Andrey Kortunov (Russian International Affairs Council), Jim Richter (Bates College), Matthew Anthony Evangelista (Cornell University), Elena Korosteleva (Kent University), Francesco Strazzari (SSSA)

16.15-17.45 Final Remarks, future collaborations and publication strategies