RESTRUCTURING STATE AND SOCIETY IN RUSSIA
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RESTRUCTURING STATE AND SOCIETY IN RUSSIA
ALEKSANTERI NEWS 22 October, 2014 / Issue 4 14TH ANNUAL ALEKSANTERI CONFERENCE RESTRUCTURING STATE AND SOCIETY IN RUSSIA 22 – 24 OCTOBER 2014, THE ALEKSANTERI INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, FINLAND CALL FOR VISITING FELLOWS OPEN SOON WELCOME TO THE CONFERENCE! The Visiting Scholars Programme annually invites highly-qualified scholars studying Russia, Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union to undertake a grant-supported research stay of two to three months at the University of Helsinki. The call for proposals for the academic year 2015-2016 will open 8 January and closes 20 February 2015. The call details will be found on the Aleksanteri Institute website. This special conference issue contains the programme of the 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference: Restructuring State and Society in Russia as well as information about the conference venues, on pages 5-11. Keynote speakers are introduced on pages 12-13. Last minute changes to the programme are updated on the conference website at www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2014 and at the registration desk (Main building, 4th floor). Please don’t hesitate to turn to the registration desk, should you need any further assistance. Read more on page 15 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 FACE OF THE MONTH: MERI KULMALA Hanna Ruutu services in Russia, especially pertaining to children’s homes and child welfare in general,” Kulmala says. Even here, the most interesting question for her is the interplay between the socially-oriented NGOs and administrative actors in the foster care reform. Kulmala continues: “Enormous changes will take place in Russia over the next few years, as the previous system based on relatively large children’s homes is now being dismantled and changed into family-based foster care.” This year’s Aleksanteri Conference “Restructuring State and Society in Russia” is a perfect platform on which to discuss these questions, and Kulmala is happy about both the number and diversity of scholars gathering in Helsinki on October 22-24. “The amount of participants took us by surprise: there will be more than 300 papers from over 20 countries!” rejoices Kulmala. “The programme contains, among others, a special session, in which we have the possibility to openly discuss the current state of Russia, delving deeper into issues of democracy in society”, says Kulmala. While many panel sessions are devoted to the tightening grip of Putin’s politics, many also contain papers dealing with counterforces, protests, and activity at the grassroots level. Not only are big events that are covered at length and depth in the media apparent in the conference, but also smaller incidences, making the picture of the country more varied and less black-and-white. All in all, at the end of the tunnel, light does sometimes shines through, at least judging by the activism and expressions of solidarity manifested locally by Russian people. n FACTS ABOUT MERI KULMALA Postdoctoral researcher, Aleksanteri Institute Scholar in the Centre of Excellence ”Choices of Russian Modernisation”, clusters 2 ”Authoritarian Market Society as a Challenge” and 3 ”Welfare Regime” Conference coordinator of Aleksanteri Conference 2014 Selected publications: Karelian women’s network: a (feminist) women’s movement? – Women and Transformation in Russia. Eds. Saarinen, A., Ekonen, K. & Uspenskaia, V. London & New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 163-188. State and Society in Small-town Russia: A Feministethnographic Inquiry into the Boundaries of Society in the Finnish-Russian Borderland. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research, 2013. Rethinking State-Society Boundaries in a Small-town Context of Russian Karelia. – Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries. Eds. Jäppinen, M., Kulmala, M. & Saarinen, A. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 170-198. Russian State and Civil Society in Interaction: an Ethnographic Approach. – Laboratorium 3, 1, 2011, pp. 51-83. Meri Kulmala will present a joint paper “The New OldFashioned? Russian Veterans Organizations at the Crossroads of Social Services and Social Advocacy” together with Anna Tarasenko in panel 3F at the Aleksanteri Conference. 2 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 Photo: Niina Into One of the driving forces making everything happen in the 2014 Aleksanteri Conference is Meri Kulmala, an ethnographer with firsthand expertise on how the burgeoning – and at times oppressed – civil society in Russia actually works. Her dissertation, completed with honors in 2013, explored the statesociety relationship in contemporary Russia, scrutinising various NGOs in the Karelian municipality of Sortavala. Since then, she has been working at the Aleksanteri Institute as a post-doctoral researcher, also taking an active part in the Centre of Excellence’s Welfare and Democratisation clusters. A thorough fieldwork would not have been possible without mastering the Russian language – fortunately, her MA studies in Russian translation formed an excellent basis for the practical work and extensive interviews conducted with the local actors. “I lived and worked in Sortavala for long periods of time, which gave me excellent insights into the local community and how the civil society actors constructed their everyday life; the means of negotiating with the government officials on various levels were many, and there were as many ways of coping as there were actors”, Dr. Kulmala states now. Having already touched on issues of welfare in her dissertation, these questions have now started to take form as Kulmala plans her future research projects. A new Russian law on social services will take effect from 2015, and that will most likely bring a new set of issues and topics. “I am especially interested in the division of labour between various societal sectors and administrative levels in producing welfare. My future project deals with the reorganisation of welfare WELCOME TO THE 14TH ALEKSANTERI CONFERENCE RESTRUCTURING STATE AND SOCIETY IN RUSSIA Dear all, I warmly welcome you to the 14th Aleksanteri Conference! Its title – Restructuring State and Society in Russia – was chosen a year ago. Indeed, since that time Russia has undergone a major restructuring after the annexation of Crimea and a major confrontation with the West over Ukraine. These tendencies already had and will continue to have a profound impact on state and society in Russia and beyond, and they also pose a major challenge for scholarship on Russia and Eurasia. With this conference, we would like to direct attention away from the analysis of current events towards a more in-depth and interdisciplinary understanding of patterns of political, social, economic and cultural changes in theoretical and comparative perspective. The conference is organised by the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki and by the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, “Choices of Russian Modernisation”. While the actual discourse on modernisation in Russia is almost forgotten at the moment, we should still consider to what extent the dramatic trends of postSoviet developments reflect a peculiar nature of the Russian state and society with the complicated legacies of Soviet and pre-Soviet past or, rather, whether these trends reflect interests, ideas, and identities of the rulers who run the country? Accordingly, we could debate whether there is a special “Russian path” that provides us with a perception of the uniqueness of Russia’s developmental trajectory, or whether Russia is just a “normal” mid-developed post-imperial country with numerous problems typical for some other states and societies at certain “critical junctures” of their history? These questions are being discussed further by scholars from various disciplines. 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference Our conference call received wide interest from all over the world, with participants coming from 24 countries; this presents us with a great opportunity to exchange ideas and discover novel approaches over the course of three days. On the behalf of the organisers, I hope that we can provide a forum for fruitful discussions and for the generation and elaboration of new ideas. On behalf of the organizing committee, Vladimir Gel’man, FiDiPro Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; Professor, European University at St.Petersburg. n UPCOMING EVENTS 30.10. Visiting Fellows Research Seminar with Regina Smyth: “What Just Happened? Competing Opposition Narratives of Russia’s Snow Revolution” TIME: 14:15 PLACE: Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33, Meeting room 2nd floor 17.-22.11. RussiaHUB Helsinki week in Think Corner, Yliopistonkatu 4. A week full of events presenting the new RussiaHUB Helsinki concept: panels, workshops, interviews - see the programme at www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/ajankohtaista/ 5.12. Seminar: The Regional Dimension of Russian Politics: Comparative Perspectives. TIME: 09:45-12:00 PLACE: Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33, Meeting room 2nd floor 9.12. Conference on Central Asian Media PLACE: Aleksanteri-Institute Unioninkatu 33, Meeting room 2nd floor 11.12. Seminar on Human Rights in Russia More event information at: www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/news ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 3 RUSSIAHUB HELSINKI; PROMOTING MULTILEVEL COOPERATION Iiris Virtasalo Helsinki is a city with an exceptionally high number of organisations and businesses with a focus on Russia, as well as high-level academic expertise on Russian politics, economy and society. Helsinki has thus the potential to become a gateway to Russia and global hub that combines insights from research, politics, business and society. To take full advantage of this potential, and to respond to the growing need for expertise on Russia, the Aleksanteri Institute has established a new platform: RussiaHUB Helsinki. RussiaHUB Helsinki is a wide consortium uniting key actors in the Helsinki region who work with Russia. It consists of a number of higher education institutions and research centres, businesses, policy makers, governmental organisations and NGOs. In addition, it has a large network of international partners. RussiaHUB Helsinki provides opportunities and resources for cooperation, both in academic research projects and nonacademic projects. RussiaHUB Helsinki is a part of the University of Helsinki’s 375th anniversary fundraising campaign. The goal is to promote top-level research by establishing new professorships and research projects that increase our understanding of Russian society, politics and economy. A further goal is to establish new innovative forms of collaboration and thus bring research and society into closer contact. Pending successful fundraising, RussiaHUB Helsinki will introduce RussiaHUB Class, a programme for politicians and researchers to meet and exchange ideas. Another initiative is RussiaHUB Camp, where top-level experts gather in Helsinki to solve global-scale problems. The launch of RussiaHUB Helsinki takes place in mid-November. A pop up week in the University’s Think Corner will give a first glimpse of what RussiaHUB Helsinki is and what it strives to become. The week is full of interesting presentations, debates and events focusing on the economy, politics and development of democracy and freedom of expression in Russia. Please pop in and share your ideas about RussiaHUB. What is the kind of HUB that YOU think Helsinki needs? RussiaHUB Helsinki in Think Corner (Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3) on November 17-21, 2014. Welcome! More information and a detailed programme coming soon: www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/ajankohtaista 4 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 RUSSIAHUB HELSINKI UPCOMING DISSERTATIONS FROM THE DOCTORAL PROGRAMME MES Daria Gritsenko will defend her PhD thesis entitled On Governance of Quality Shipping in the Baltic Sea: Exploring Collective Action in Polycentric Contexts at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki (Metsätalo Unioninkatu 40, lecture room 2) on 8 November 2014 at noon. Opponent will be Michael Roe, University of Plymouth and Custos Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, University of Helsinki. The dissertation is available online at: URN:ISBN:978-952-10-9132-2 M.Sc. Freek van der Vet will defend his doctoral dissertation, Finding Justice at the European Court of Human Rights: The Dynamics of Strategic Litigation and Human Rights Defense in the Russian Federation, in a public examination on Friday 12 December 2014 at 12:00 at the University of Helsinki, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, lecture hall 2. The opponent is Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, The University of British Columbia, and the Custos is Matti Kortteinen, University of Helsinki. 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference CONFERENCE PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 10:00-12:00 Registration (info desk, entrance hall in front of the Small Hall, 4th floor in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33 side) 10:00-11:30 Special Session: Russia after 2014 (Small Hall, Main Building) Chair: Vladimir Gel’man, Finland Distinguished Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Participants: Maria Lipman, Independent political analyst Arkady Moshes, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Russia Stephen Hanson, Professor, College of William and Mary, USA 12:00-12:45 Opening Ceremony (Small Hall) Chair: Vladimir Gel’man, Finland Distinguished Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Opening speech: Erkki Tuomioja, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland 12:45-14:30 Plenary Session I (Small Hall) Chair: Markku Kangaspuro, Professor, Director of Research, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Keynote speaker: Oleg Kharkhordin, Professor, European University at Saint Petersburg: Is Russia Doomed to Creativity? Technology, Entrepreneurship and Society in Russia in Comparative Perspective 14:30-15:00 Coffee (Small Hall Lobby) 15:00-16:30 Panels 1A-1H Panel 1A: Political Protests in Russia (Hall 7) Chair: Mark Teramae (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Inna Chuvychkina (Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen): The Cycle of Protests under the Putin Regime Laura Lyytikäinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki):Russian Political Protests as Social Performances Natalia Savelyeva (Public Sociology Laboratory, Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Science, European University in Saint Petersburg) and Oleg Zhuravlev (Public Sociology Laboratory, European University Institute): The Role of the Stigmatization of the State in the Protest Mobilization in Russia, 2011−2012 Discussant: Jussi Lassila (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 1B: Health and Life Expectancy in PostCommunism (Hall 14) Chair: Eleanor Bindman (University of London) Victoria Dudina (Saint Petersburg State University): Social Capital and Political Reforms: an Alternative Explanation of the Rise of Life Expectancy in Russia in 1985−1987 Dina Balalaeva (Higher School of Economics): Effect of Institutional Restructuring on Health in Post-Communist Countries: Lessons for Russia Loretta G. Platts (King’s College London): Social Inequalities in Self-rated Health in Ukraine Discussant: Linda J. Cook (Brown University) 1C: Network Governance and Social Policies in Russia (Hall 8) Chair: Anni Kangas (University of Tampere, Finland) Marthe Handå Myhre (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research): The Discursive Construction of Non-State Actors Roles in Russian Policy-Formation and Policy-Implementation Jørn Holm-Hansen (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research): Applying Network Governance on Russia Elena Bogdanova (Centre for Independent Social Research):The Role of NGOs in the Sphere of Children Protection in Contemporary Russia Discussant: Regina Smyth (University of Indiana) 1D: Ideas and Identities in Russia and Beyond I (Hall 11) Chair: Katja Lehtisaari (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Mikhail Maslovskii (Sociological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences): The Virtual Empire Strikes Back: The Legacies of Soviet Modernity and Russia’s Neo-Imperial Turn Markku Kangaspuro (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Russian Dilemma: Concept of Strong State Camelia Lelesan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales): Is Russia a Broken State? Discussant: Olga Malinova (Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences) 1E: Legal Profession, Legal Consciousness and Everyday Life of State Bureaucracies in Russia (Hall 15) Chair: Anne Le Huérou (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense) Ella Paneyakh (Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint Petersburg): Governance Patterns and Legal Consciousness in Russian State Agencies Andrey Yakovlev and Anton Kazun (International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Higher School of Economics): Problems of Law Enforcement and Judicial System in Russia: an Assessment of Attorneys Kirill Titaev (Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint Petersburg): The Investigators (sledovateli) in Russia as a Professional Group: Values, Norms and Professional Culture Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University) 1F: Ideas and Perceptions in Russian History (Auditorium X) Chair: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Viktor Husu (Doctoral Programme for Russian and East European Studies): From Adam Smith to Karl Marx via Russia and Hegel. Geoeconomics in Action? A Hypothesis. (Reading Texts Politically) Ming-Hui Huang (University of Sheffield): Interactive Construction of an Understanding on Holy Foolishness in Late Imperial Russia Tatiana Artemyeva (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia): Music and Power: Social Utopianism in Russian Opera Discussant: Meri Herrala (University of Helsinki) 1G: Feminism and post-socialism (P723) Chair: Maija Jäppinen (University of Helsinki) Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm University): What Should Be Done in Order “Gender Equality” Would Be Used Similarly to other Russian Words? Local Authorities in NorthWestern Russia Meet the Global Gender Equality Agenda Peggy Watson (University of Cambridge; Helsinki Collegium): Neoliberal Feminism in Poland: What Are the Effects? Irina Iukina (Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation): ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 5 Russian Gender Policies in the Context of Modernization Discussant: Libora Oates-Indruchova (Palacky University) 16:45-18:15 Panels 2A - 2H 2A: The Role of Companies in Russian Developments (Hall 14) Chair: Jouko Nikula (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Brendan McElroy (Harvard University): Public-Private Partnerships in the Development of Russian Regional Professional Training Programs Mikhail Belokon (Saint Petersburg State University): Return of Russian Mining Companies: Capital as New Government Policy Maxim Markin (Higher School of Economics): State Regulation of Business Partners Relationships in Contemporary Russia: How Retailers and Suppliers Are Adapting the Trade Law Soili Nysten-Haarala (University of Lapland): Corporations as Engines of Change: An Institutional Perspective on the Role of Law and Regulation in a Russian Market Economy Discussant: Andrey Yakovlev (International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Higher School of Economics) 2B: Political Regime Changes in Eurasia (Hall 8) Chair: Ivan Grigoriev (Higher School of Economics) Gorkem Atsungur (American University of Central Asia): Transformation of Political Regime in Russia during the Yeltsin Period (1991−1999) Adele Del Sordi (University of Amsterdam): Political Institutions and Legitimacy in Kazakhstan: the Case of the Party of Power Nur Otan Mark Teramae (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Competitive Clientelism among Ukrainian Political Elites Discussant: Aleksei Gilev (Center for Comparative History and Political Studies) 2C: Ideas and Identities in Russia and Beyond II (Auditorium X) Chair: Jussi Lassila (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Boglárka Mácsai (University of Pécs): Patriotic Upbringing in the Russian Federation Anna Novikova (University of the Basque Country): Teaching History in Russia and Ukraine Lina Klymenko (University of Eastern Finland): Narrating World War II: Politics of National Identities in Post-Soviet Belarus, 6 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 Russia, and Ukraine Discussant: Nelli Piattoeva (University of Tampere) 2D: Police, Human Rights, and Rule of Law in Russia (Hall 7) Chair: Freek van der Vet (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Alexandra Dmitrieva (Saint Petersburg State University; Center for Independent Social Research): Real/Conditional Sentence in Drug-Related Cases: a Complex Process or a Random Selection? Maren Krimmer (Université Paris-Est): Russia and its Compliance with the Human Rights Standards of the Council of Europe Anne Le Huérou (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense): Much Ado about Nothing? Police Reform in Russia as a Case of State/Society Arrangement Discussant: Ella Paneyakh (Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint Petersburg) 2E: Religion, State, and Society in Russia (Hall 11) Chair: Anna Korhonen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland) Julia Gerlach (Free University of Berlin): Religion and State Identity-Building in the New Russia, A Dead-End Street? Alicja Curanovic (University of Warsaw): Cooperation of the Kremlin and the ROC in Face of Migration Challenges, Igor Mikeshin (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): The Baptist Response to Modernity in Russia Discussant: Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 2G: Changing Media Landscape: Russian and International Perspectives (P723) Chair: Agnieszka Piasecka (Open Dialog Foundation) Galina Bobrova (Kemerovo State University): The Evolution of the Image of V.Putin in the Weekly «Der Spiegel» (on the Example of the Three Presidential Election Campaigns) Oleg Sidorov (National Association of Mass Media Researchers): Features of EthnoCultural Informational Space of Yakutia in the 1990s Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) The Discourse of Modernization in Russian Newspapers Discussant: Arto Mustajoki (University of Helsinki) 2H: State and Society in Russian and East European History II (P724) Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova (Palacky University) Takehiro Okabe (University of Helsinki): Symbolic and Demographic Restructuring of Stalins Empire: Geopolitics, National Epics, and Forced Migrations in the late 1940s Roman Krakovsky (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences): The Collective Action and the Idea of General Interest in Soviet-Type Regimes. A Case Study of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s Discussant: Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 19.00 Reception hosted by the City of Helsinki Venue: Helsinki City Hall (address: Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13). 2F: Regional and Urban Developments (Hall 15) Chair: Andrey Starodubtsev (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; European University at Saint Petersburg) Svetlana Stepanova (Institute of Economics Karelian Research Center of Russian Academy of Sciences): Tourism in Economic Development of the Border Region at the Turn XX-XXI centuries: the Case of the Republic of Karelia Maria Dyakonova and Svetlana Stepanova (Institute of Economics Karelian Research Center Russian Academy of Sciences): Involving Youth in Tourism Development in Rural Areas of the Republic of Karelia Tuomas Suutarinen (University of Helsinki): Socio-Economic Restructuring of Resource Communities in the Russian North Discussant: Nadir Kinossian (Kazan Federal University) Helsinki City Hall from the Market Square and Harbour. THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 10:00-11:30 Panels 3A - 3I 3A: Poverty and Economic Insecurity (Auditorium X) Chair: Heini Puurunen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Nina Ivashinenko (Nizhniy Novgorod State University; University of Glasgow): Searching for a New Approach to Face Poverty on the Local Level in a Small Russian Town Alla Varyzgina (Nizhniy Novgorod State University): Efficiency of Overcoming Strategies of Families with Children Ildikó Asztalos Morell (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University): Negotiating Poverty: Models for Poverty Reduction in Rural Hungary Discussant: Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University) 3B: Regional Media and Regional Identities in Contemporary Russia (Hall 14) Chair: Varvara Chumakova (Higher School of Economics) Ilya Kiriya (Higher School of Economics): Regional Identity Facing Centralization of Media in Russia Olga Dovbysh (Higher School of Economics): Regional Disparities and Development of Media in Russian Regions: Parallel Media Markets and the Competition Anna Novikova (Higher School of Economics): Impact of Soviet Mythologies on Rural Populations’ Reflection about the Structure of Contemporary Russian Society Discussant: Katja Lehtisaari (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 3C: International Relations in the Age of Uncertainty (Hall 15) Chair: Anna Dekalchuk (Higher School of Economics) Kuldip Singh (Guru Nanak Dev University): Russia’s De-Ideologised Drive for Globalisation Cosima Glahn (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): The EU, Russia and Its “Strategic Partnership” Marina Henrikson (University of Manchester): The Discursive Construction of Russia as a Great Power in the 2008 War in Georgia Dovile Jakniunaite (Vilnius University): Russian in Lithuanian Politics and Ukrainian Events Discussant: Hanna Smith (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 3D: Governance and Changing Public Administration (Auditorium III) 3H: Migration and Citizenship (Auditorium VI) Chair: Catherine Owen (University of Exeter) Dmitry Maslov (Kazan Federal University, School of Public Administration): Perpendicular Governance: Contradictions in Public Administration Reforms in Russia Anna-Liisa Heusala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Global Leadership Paradigms and the Study of Russian Administrative Reform Discussant: Dmitry Goncharov (Higher School of Economics) Chair: Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Dmitri Tsiskarashvili (University of Dublin Trinity College): The New Russian FastTrack Citizenship Law in Light of Recent Events in Ukraine Caress Schenk (Nazarbaev University): Politics of Immigration Control in Russia Discussant: Oxana Karpenko (Center for Independent Social Research) 3E: Dynamics of the Opposition and Protest Movements in the Russian Federation (Hall 7) Chair: Henri Vogt (University of Turku) Kristi Raik (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs): European Diplomacy in Moscow: What Role(s) for EU Delegation? Irina Busygina (Moscow State Institute of International Relations): The Three Levels of EU-Russia Interaction and Ukraine Crisis Sergei Utkin (Centre for Situation Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences): The Moscow Math: Counting the Costs and Gains of the Ukraine Crisis Discussant: Katri Pynnöniemi (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs) Chair: Regina Smyth (University of Indiana) Cameron Ross (University of Dundee): The Middle Class and Political Protest in Russia Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics): Protest Dynamics in Russia’s Regions David White (University of Birmingham): Opposition in Russia: Politics of the Street Not the Party Discussant: Nikolay Petrov (Higher School of Economics) 3I: The EU-Russia Relations: New Status Quo in the Making (Hall 8) 3F: Welfare and Collective Agency in Contemporary Russia (Auditorium XI) 11:30-13:00 Lunch Break Chair: Anna-Maria Salmi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Svetlana Mareeva (Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences): Middle Class in Contemporary Russian Society: New Challenges for Social Policy Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) and Anna Tarasenko (European University at Saint Petersburg): The New Old-Fashioned? Russian Veterans Organizations at the Crossroads of Social Services and Social Advocacy Laura Lyytikäinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; University of Turku): Alcoholism in Russia: The Case of the Russian AA Movement Discussant: Eleanor Bindman (University of London) 13:00-14:30 Plenary session II (Small Hall) Chair: Markku Kivinen, Director, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Keynote speakers: Stephen Hanson, Professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg: Russia, Ukraine, and the Borders of Europe Maria Lipman, Independent political analyst: The Kremlin’s Ideological Turn: Causes, Content, and Consequences 3G: Ideas and Identities in Russia and Beyond III (Auditorium XVI) Chair: Markku Kangaspuro (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Magdalena Leichtova (University of West Bohemia): Rebuilding the Greatness Magda Dolinska-Rydzek (Justus-Liebig University): The Pecularities of Russian Idea Andrej Mitic (University of Nis): Russian Young Conservative Revolution − Mission Impossible? Discussant: Sanna Turoma (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 14:30-15:00 Coffee (Small Hall Lobby) 15:00-16:30 Panels 4A - 4H 4A: The Transformation of Russian Media (Hall 4) Chair: Andrey Semenov (Perm State National Research University) Varvara Chumakova (Higher School of Economics): Media Literacy of the Rural Settlers in Russia as Factor of the Society Restructurisation Katja Lehtisaari (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): How do Russian Media Companies Response to Challenges in Context of Social Change and Media Convergence? Agnieszka Piasecka (Open Dialog Foundation): The Role of Mass Media in Russian Federation in Social Attitude to ContempoALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 7 rary Foreign Policy Discussant: Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 4B: Legal Professions in Russia (Hall 17) Chair: Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University) Rafael Mrowczynski (Higher School of Economics): Clients, Norms and Egos: Constructs of Professionalism in Autobiographic Narratives of Russian Lawyers Ekaterina Khodzhaeva and Julia Shesternina (Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint Petersburg): Strategies and Tactics of Defense Attorneys in the Context of Accusatorial Bias (obvinitelinyi uklon) in Russia Aryna Dzmitryieva (Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint Petersburg): Russian Judiciary: Norms and Values of a Professional Group Discussant: Jeff Kahn (School of Law, Southern Methodist University) 4C: Politics and Decision-Making in the Russian Regions (Auditorium XII) Chair: Sirke Mäkinen (University of Tampere) Mariia Grigorieva (Perm State National Research University; European University at Saint Petersburg): Russian Regions during Electoral Reforms and the Increasing Role of Political Parties, 2003−2014 Michael Rochlitz (Higher School of Economics): Bureaucratic Appointments under Limited Political Competition: Evidence from Russian Regions Maria Ivanova (Higher School of Economics): The Electoral Law Changes Effects and Representation: Regional, National, and Business Elites Discussant: Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics) 4E: Varieties of Social Identities (Hall 18) Chair: Ira Jänis-Isokangas (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Nadezhda Radina, Natalya Gronskaya, Alexander Porshnev and Mariia Koskina (Higher School of Economics): Transformation of Social Values and Solidarity Attitudes of Russian Citizens in Nizhniy Novgorod Region in 2002−2014 Liubov Fadeeva and Nadezha Borisova (Perm State National Research University): Struggle for Identity and Transformation of Social Media as Space of Interaction between State and Society Anna Nemirovskaya (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics): The State and Social Institutions of the Contemporary Russian Frontier Discussant: Andrey Shcherbak (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics) 4F: Russian Political Regime: Disbalances of Political Demand and Supply (Auditorium XV) Chair: Alexander Sherstobitov (Saint Petersburg State University) Irina Soboleva (Higher School of Economics) and Regina Smyth (Columbia University): Individual Factors of Protest Participation in Russia (2011−2012) Anton Verevkin and Alexander Sherstobitov (Saint Petersburg State University): Cartel Strategies of Parliamentary Parties and Institutional Change in Russia Aleksei Gilev (Center for Comparative History and Political Studies): What Makes Everyday Clientelism? Russia in Comparative Context Discussant: Andrey Starodubtsev (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; European University at Saint Petersburg) 4D: Modes of Non-Electoral Participation in Contemporary Russia (Auditorium XIV) 16:45-18:15 Panels 5A - 5H Chair: Olga Malinova (Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences) Catherine Owen (University of Exeter): A Genealogy of Discourses of Kontrolin Russia 1917−2014: From Leninist to Neoliberal Governance Alexander Sungurov (Higher School of Economics): Development of Public Policy in Russia: the Role of Expert Community Dmitry Goncharov (Higher School of Economics): Consultative Bodies in Russian Politics: a Theoretical Debate Discussant: Aadne Aasland (The Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research) 5A: Challenges to Civil Freedoms in Russia (Auditorium XII) 8 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 Chair: Laura Lyytikäinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; University of Turku) Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency): Russia’s Strategy for Internet: Freedom or Control Elena Vandysheva (Higher School of Economics): New Rules for Russian NGOs: Where to Run? Una Hakvåg (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment): Russia’s Armed Forces Online: Open Governance or New Censorship? Discussant: Freek van der Vet (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 5B: Diverse Islam in Russia’s Regions: North, South and in between (Hall 18) Chair: Eduard Ponarin (Higher School of Economics) Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Discussions of Mosques in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Guzel Yusupova (Kazan Federal University): Islam in the Discourse of Tatarstan Elites in 2000-s Denis Brilyov (National Pedagogical Dragomanov University): Transnational Sufi Organizations in Russian Context: the Example of Al-Akhbash jamaat Discussant: Aude Merlin (Universite Libre De Bruxelles) 5C: Ideas and Identities in Russia and Beyond IV (Hall 4) Chair: Hanna Ruutu (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Mika Lähteenmäki (University of Jyväskylä): Language Ideology in Restructuring Russian Society Konstantin Zamyatin (University of Helsinki): Russian Language, Nation-Building, and Identity Politics Hanna Vasilevich (European Center for Minority Issues): Belarusian Model of Bilingualism Discussant: Anna Nemirovskaya (Higher School of Economics, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research) 5D: New Practices of Public Administration (Hall 17) Chair: Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Aadne Aasland (The Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research) and Elena Bogdanova (Centre for Independent Social Research): The Role of Governance Networks in Handling Complex Social Issues in Russia’s Regions Natalya Zhidkova (Higher School of Economics): State Innovation Policy and Russian High-Tech: Innovation without Improvements? Olga Melitonyan and Alexandr Sokolovskiy (Higher School of Economics): The Role of Contemporary Communication and Media in Governance and Public Administration Discussant: Anna-Liisa Heusala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 5E: State Support of Small Innovative Business Russian Regions: Problems and Prospects (Auditorium VI) Chair: Yury Kuznetsov (Saint Petersburg State University) Raisa Fedosova (Financial University under the Government of the Russian Fed- eration): Mechanisms of the State Support of Small Innovative Business in Regions of Russia Natalia Filimonova (Vladimir State University): Assessment of Influence of the State Support on a Level of Development of Small Innovative Business in Regions of Russia Natalia Polzunova (Vladimir State University): Development of Approaches of Increase of Efficiency of the State Support of Small Innovative Business Discussant: Tatiana Starikova (Vladimir Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) 5F: Constructing Past, Shaping Present: Russian Politics of History in Domestic and International Context (Auditorium XIV) Chair: Markku Kangaspuro (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Politics of History and Memory for Russian Post-Soviet Identity Construction Jutta Scherrer (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales): From “the Tragedy of the 20th Century” to the “Great Russian Revolution”: the Idea of Revolution in the Russian Political Discourse Olga Malinova (Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences): RussianUkrainian Debate: Shifting Emphasis from Representations of the Past to Discussions over Values Igor Torbakov (Uppsala University): Discussant: Maria Lipman (Independent political analyst) 5H: Contentious Politics in Eurasia (Auditorium XV) FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER Chair: Saara Ratilainen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Andrey Semenov (Tyumen State University): Dynamic of Contention in UralSiberian Regions of Russia: Cross-Regional Comparison of For Fair Elections Campaign (2011−2012) Andrea Mignone (University of Genova): New Social Movements in Russia and Their (Feeble) Role in the Political Process Maxim Alyukov (Public Sociology Laboratory, European University at Saint Petersburg), Svetlana Erpyleva (Public Sociology Laboratory, European University at Saint Petersburg) and Oleg Zhuravlev (Public Sociology Laboratory, European University Institute): Politicizing Silent Majority: How Local Government Responds to Grassroots Mobilization Discussant: Vladimir Kostyushev (Higher School of Economics) 10:00-11:30 Panels 6A - 6H 18:30-20:30 Reception hosted by the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute (Unioninkatu 33, 3rd floor) 5G: Conservative Turn and Gender Citizenship in Contemporary Russia (P723) Chair: Ekaterina Borozdina (European University at Saint Petersburg) Anna Temkina and Elena Zdravomyslova (European University at Saint Petersburg): Conservative Gender Discourse and Mobilization, Russia 2000s Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University): Traditional Values and Modern Families: Russian Gender and Welfare Policies between Tradition and Modernity Veronika Lapina (European University at Saint Petersburg): “I Literally Didn’t Feel Anything…” or Why Homosexuals Didn’t Join the Movement: Narratives of NonInvolvement in Contemporary Russian LGBT Activism Discussant: Maija Jäppinen (University of Helsinki) The Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33. Entrance to the 3rd floor ball room. 6A: Spatial Dimension of Social Policy in Russia (Hall 20) Chair: Nadezhda Borisova (Perm State National Research University) Evgeniia Lazaricheva (Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University): Municipal Civil Society E-initiatives as Business Projects Ann-Mari Sätre and Leo Granberg (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University): Local Agency and Development in Russia Alexander Soldatkin (Nizhniy Novgorod State University): Formation of the Institutional Mechanisms of Poverty Reduction: the Interplay of the Administration, the NGOs, and the Population Discussant: Irina Busygina (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) 6B: The Political Economy of Unrule of Law in Russia (Hall 14) Chair: Ella Paneyakh (Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint Petersburg) Jeff Kahn (School of Law, Southern Methodist University): The Khodorkovsky Case, Collateral Attacks, and the Rule of Law Philip Hanson and Elizabeth Teague (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House): Reform in Russia and the Rule of Law: What are the Issues? Andrey Zaostrovtsev (European University at Saint Petersburg): Authoritarianism and Institutional Decay in Russia: Disruption of the Property Rights and the Rule of Law Anton Kazun (International Center for Study of Institution, Higher School of Economics): The Intensity of Violent Pressure on Business in Russian Regions: Indicators and Factors Discussant: Håvard Baekken (University of Oslo) 6C: Russian Identity 2014: Continuity and Change (Roundtable) (Hall 8) Chair: Tuomas Forsberg (University of Tampere) Ted Hopf (National University of Singapore): Russian Identity: Change and Continuity Hanna Smith (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Russian Identity and Greatpowerness Luke March (University of Edinburgh): Russian Identity and Nationalism Discussant: Olga Malinova (Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences) ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 9 6D: Opposition Politics in Russia (U40, Hall 8) Chair: Vladimir Gel’man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Regina Smyth (Indiana University): From Criminal to Candidate: The Transformation of Protest in the Moscow Mayoral Campaign Jussi Lassila (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Navalny, Populism, and Crisis of Political Representation in Russia Alexander Kondakov (Centre for Independent Social Research; European University at Saint Petersburg): Migration Policies and Acts of Citizenship: Problems of Cooperation Discussant: David White (University of Birmingham) 6E: Post-socialist Welfare Regimes (Hall 7) Chair: Anna-Liisa Heusala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Simo Mannila (National Institute for Health and Welfare): Informal Security Regime and Risk Society Terry Cox (University of Glasgow): Towards an Understanding of Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes Elena Minina (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Neoliberal Economics and Welfare Culture in Contemporary Russia Discussant: Anna Temkina (European University at Saint Petersburg) 6F: Reforms in Russia in 2000s: from Laws toward Practices (Hall 15) Chair: Oxana Karpenko (Center for Independent Social Research): Forcing Integration: the Russian Language as a “Bridge” and a “Barrier” Elena Konobeeva (Higher School of Economics): Russian Post Transformation: Why Our Mail Has Expired? Myriam Désert (Université Sorbonne): The Use of Law in Work Relationships Discussant: Maxim Markin (Higher School of Economics) 6G: Direct Democracy in Contemporary Russia (Auditorium III) Chair: Anna Tarasenko (European University at Saint Petersburg) Yulia Skokova (Higher School of Economics): Collective Action in the Name of Free and Fair Elections in Russia: Progress or Backlash? Olga Miryasova (Russian Academy of Sciences): Social Movements as Actors of Institutional Change in Contemporary Russia Christian Fröhlich (Södertörn University): Informal Grass-Roots Activism as Alternative Way to Democracy in Russia? Citizen’s Col10 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 lective Action for Social and Political Issues in the Urban Setting of Moscow Discussant: Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 6H: Politics of Social Media in Russia (Auditorium IV) Chair: Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Anna Sanina (Higher School of Economics): Visual Political Irony in Russian New Media: Evidence from Empirical Research Andrey Shcherbak (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics): LiveJournal Libra! The Political Blogosphere and Voting Preferences in Russia in 2011−12 Discussant: Markku Lonkila (University of Jyväskylä) 11:30-13:00 Lunch Break 13:00-14:30 Panels 7A - 7H 7A: Values Change in Russia: Evidence from the World Values Survey (Auditorium I) Chair: Andrey Shcherbak (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics) Eduard Ponarin (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics): Understanding the Russian Malaise: The Collapse and Recovery of Subjective Well-being in Post-communist Russia Julia Zelikova (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics): Capitalism and Nationalism in Russia, East and West Europe Irina Vartanova (Higher School of Economics): Effect of Religiosity on Tolerance for Homosexuality and its Dynamics in postSoviet Countries Discussant: Simo Mannila (National Institute for Health and Welfare) 7B: Public and Private in Social and Health Services (Hall 20) Chair: Aino Saarinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Ekaterina Borozdina (European University at Saint Petersburg): Institutionalization of Natural Childbirth Practices in Russia: on the Crossroads of State Paternalistic Care, Liberal Ideology, and Neotraditionalist Values Maija Jäppinen (University of Helsinki): Domestic Violence, Gender and Agency in the Working Practices of Russia’s Crisis Centres Irina Grigoryeva (Saint Petersburg State University): Transformation of Welfare State in Elderly Society Discussant: Elena Zdravomyslova (European University at Saint Petersburg) 7C: Effect of the Ukraine Crises on Russian Domestic and External Dynamics (P674) Chair: Edwin Bacon (University of London) Graeme Herd (University of Plymouth): Domestic Consolidation in Russia before and after Crimea: Adaptation and Anti-Fragile Regime Legitimation? Peter Rutland (University of Wesleyan): Energy Politics and Political Economy Tuomas Forsberg and Sirke Mäkinen (University of Tampere): Russian Policy on Borders and Thinking of Territorial Issues before and after the Ukrainian Crisis Discussant: Ted Hopf (National University of Singapore) 7D: State and Society in Russian and East European History I (Auditorium VI) Chair: Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Anna Lenkewitz (Ruhr-University Bochum): Finding Justice in Russian Peasant Petitions. Images of a Just Authority and Ways of Justification during the Late Tsarist Empire Olga Velikanova (University of North Texas): Mass Political Culture under Stalinism. Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 Susan Ikonen (University of Helsinki): It’s a Crime to Let That Kind of People Go Abroad Discussing Nomenklatura in the Soviet Union of 1956 Discussant: Markku Kangaspuro (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 7E: Collective Action and Social Movements in Russia (Auditorium XV) Chair: Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Mikhail Piskunov (European University in Saint Petersburg): Vyborg Pulp and Paper Plant Workers: Labor Collective and Plant Occupation in 1998−2000 Vladimir Kostyushev (Higher School of Economics): People, Social Movements, and Governments in Emergency Situations (on Materials of Field Studies in Krymsk, 2012−2013) Andrei Nevsky (Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Science): Disaster Volunteers: Mobilization of Civic Activists in the Course of Natural Disasters Discussant: Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 7F: Patterns of Territorial Governance in Contemporary Russia (Hall 4) CONFERENCE VENUES AT THE CITY CENTRE CAMPUS Chair: Tuomas Suutarinen (University of Helsinki) Nadir Kinossian (Kazan Federal University): Russia’s New Forms of Territorial Governance Andrey Starodubtsev (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; European University at Saint Petersburg) Il’ia Bykov (Saint Petersburg State University): An Authoritarian Pattern of Territorial Governance: Evidences from Russia Lobbying in the Russian North-East: A Comparative Study Discussant: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Welcome to the University of Helsinki City Centre Campus! This year the Aleksanteri Conference takes place at three different buildings: the Main Building, Porthania and Metsätalo (U40). You will find a printed map in your conference bag, but we hope that the photos below will make it easier for you to navigate around the campus area. To further help you locate your panel there’s a listing on page 12 of all the halls/auditoria in our use. Main building from the Unioninkatu 34 (Senate Square) side. All Auditoria are located on this “old side”. 7G: Governance and Policy-Making (U40, Hall 8) Chair: Elena Minina (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) Igor Fedyukin (Higher School of Economics): State Capacity in Post-Petrine Russia: Collection of Poll-Tax Marina Khmelnitskaya (St Antony’s College): Tools of Government for the Russian Modernisation Anna Dekalchuk and Ivan Grigoriev (Higher School of Economics): School of Autocracy: Pensions and Labour Reforms of the First Putin Administration Discussant: Vladimir Gel’man (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki) 14:30-15:00 Coffee (Small Hall Lobby) Main building from Fabianinkatu 33 side. All Halls are located on this “new side”. Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3. Lecture halls P674, P723 & P724 15:00 -16:30 Plenary session III (Small Hall) Chair: Meri Kulmala, Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Keynote speakers: Alena Ledeneva, Professor, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London: Russia’s Practical Norms and Informal Governance: Modernisation v. Corruption Alexander Etkind, Professor, European University Institute, Florence: Towards a Critical Theory of Hyper-Extractive State: An Exemplary Case of Russia are on the 6th & 7th floor. U40 (Metsätalo), Unioninkatu 40, from the corner of Fabianinkatu and Varsapuistikko. Halls U40 s8 16:30-17:00 Closing Ceremony (Small Hall) Vladimir Gel’man, Finland Distinguished Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Markku Kivinen, Director, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki & s9 are on the 3rd floor. ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 11 WHERE IS MY PANEL? Small hall Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 4th floor Hall 4 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 3rd floor Hall 7 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 3rd floor Hall 8 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 3rd floor Hall 11 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 3rd floor Hall 14 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 4th floor Hall 15 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 4th floor Hall 17 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 4th floor Hall 18 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 2nd floor Hall 20 Fabianinkatu 33, New side of the Main Building, 5th floor Auditorium I Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 2nd floor Auditorium III Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 2nd floor Auditorium IV Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 2nd floor Auditorium VI Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 3rd floor (Note: No elevator accessible) Auditorium X Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 3rd floor (Note: No elevator accessible) Auditorium XI Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 3rd floor (Note: No elevator accessible) Auditorium XII Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 3rd floor (Note: No elevator accessible) Auditorium XIV Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 3rd floor (Note: No elevator accessible) Auditorium XV Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 4th floor (Note: No elevator accessible) Auditorium XVI Unioninkatu 34, Old side of the Main Building, 4th floor (Note: No elevator accessible) P674 Yliopistonkatu 3, Porthania Building, 6th floor P723 Yliopistonkatu 3, Porthania Building, 7th floor P724 Yliopistonkatu 3, Porthania Building, 7th floor U40, s8 Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo Building, 3rd floor U40, s9 Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo Building, 3rd floor 12 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS OF 2014 ALEKSANTERI CONFERENCE ALEXANDER ETKIND STEPHEN E. HANSON Professor Alexander Etkind is Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations at the Department of History and Civilizations of European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Previously, he taught in Cambridge University and the European University at St. Petersburg. He was a visiting professor or researcher at Harvard, New York University, Georgetown, Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and Aleksanteri Institute. Stephen E. Hanson is Vice Provost for International Affairs, Director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies, and Lettie Pate Evans Professor in the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary. Previously, he taught at the University of Washington, Seattle. At the moment, he is also the President of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). His highly distinguished research has dealt with Russian cultural and intellectual history in global perspective. He has conducted comparative memory studies. In 2010-2013 directed the European research project Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Currently, he is working on a new project A Cultural History of Natural Resources: Postcolonial and Postsocialist Perspectives. He is also an expert on the Russian novel, film, and cultural forms of protest in the 21st century. He has recently published Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience with Polity and Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied with Stanford University Press. He has also co-edited Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, published by Palgrave Macmillan. His Aleksanteri conference key-note address is titled: Towards a Critical Theory of Hyper-Extractive State: An Exemplary Case of Russia. Alexander Etkind received his PhD in Psychology from V.M. Bekhterev Research Institute (Leningrad, USSR), and another PhD in Slavonic Literature from University of Helsinki.n He is well-known as a scholar of comparative historical analysis of political ideas and institutions. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters examining post-communist politics in comparative perspective. Among other books, he is the author of Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia published by Cambridge University Press (2010) and Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions by University of North Carolina Press (1997), which won the Wayne S. Vucinich book award from ASEEES. In addition to this key-note speech Russia, Ukraine, and the Borders of Europe, in this year’s Aleksanteri conference he will participate in the Special Session Russia after 2014, which has been dedicated to the analysis of most topical events in Russia. Stephen E. Hanson received his PhD in Political Science from University of California at Berkeley and his BA from Harvard University. n Listen to Stephen E. Hanson on Wednesday 22nd October at 10:00-11:30 in the Special Session (Small Hall, Main Building), on Thursday 23rd October at 13:00-14:30 in Plenary session II (Small Hall, Main Listen to Alexander Etkind on Friday 24th October at 15:00 -16:30 in Plenary session III (Small Hall, Main Building). Building) & Friday 24th October at 10:00-11.:30 in Panel 6B (Hall 14, Main Building). OLEG KHARKHORDIN ALENA LEDENEVA MARIA LIPMAN Oleg Kharkhordin is Professor and Rector of the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. Previously, he taught, among other places, in the U.S. at Harvard and Yale Universities, and at Sciences Po in Paris, France. He is a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Science and Education since 2012. He is a leading Russian scholar on modern political theory with a special emphasis on republicanism and its applications to Russian and international studies. He teaches on theory of practices, republican theory and science and technology studies. Among others, he is the author of Teoriia praktik (Theory of Practices) that was published in 2008 by EUSP Press and co-authored with Vadim Volkov), of Main Concepts of Russian Politics, published in 2005 by University Press of America, and The Collective and the Individual in Russia. A Study of Practices by University of California Press (1999). His key-note speech, Is Russia Doomed to Creativity? Technology, Entrepreneurship and Society in Russia in Comparative Perspective at the Aleksanteri Conference draws on extensive cross-cultural study that compared patterns of technological entrepreneurship in four Russian regions (Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kazan and St. Petersburg) and in Korea, Taiwan and Finland. Oleg Kharkhordin received his PhD in Political Science from University of California at Berkeley. n Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London in the United Kingdom. Maria Lipman is an independent political analyst on Russian affairs. From 2004 until recently she was the editor-in-chief of Pro et Contra, the policy journal published by Carnegie Moscow Center. Before joining Canegie Moscow Center, she was co-founder and deputy editor of the Russian weekly newsmagazines Ezhenedel’ny zhurnal (2001-2003) and Itogi (1995-2001). She writes frequently about the state of Russian politics. From 2001 till 2011 Lipman wrote a monthly op-ed column in the Washington Post. She has contributed to a variety of Russian and US publications; she has written a monthly blog for The New Yorker online since 2012. She has featured as editor and contributor in several books on Russian domestic politics: most recently, she contributed to, and co-edited with Nikolay Petrov, Russia 2025: Scenarios for the Russian Future published in 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan. In addition to her key-note address in the conference The Kremlin’s Ideological Turn: Causes, Content, and Consequences, she served (with Nikolay Petrov) as a coinitiator of the special session Russia after 2014, which is dedicated to the most topical events in the region, including the situation in Ukraine. n She is an internationally renowned expert on interdisciplinary study of informality and informal governance in Russia and beyond. Her research interests include corruption, informal economy, economic crime, informal practices in corporate governance, and role of networks and patron-client relationships in Russia and other post-communist societies. She has published a number of scholarly books and articles. Her books Russia’s Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking, and Informal Exchange (Cambridge University Press, 1998), How Russia Really Works: Informal Practices in the 1990s (Cornell University Press, 2006), and Can Russia Modernize? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2013) have become must-read pieces in Russian studies and social sciences. She is currently working on the Global Encyclopedia of Informality. Her key-note address in the Aleksanteri Conference is entitled Russia’s Practical Norms and Informal Governance: Modernisation v. Corruption. n Listen to Alena Ledeneva on Friday 24th October at 15:00 -16:30 in Plenary session III (Small Hall, Main Building). Listen to Maria Lipman on Wednesday 22ndOctober at 10:00-11:30 in the Special Session (Small Hall, Main Building) & Thursday 23rd October at 13:00-14:30 in Plenary session II (Small Hall, Main Building). Listen to Oleg Kharkhordin on Wednesday 22nd October at 12:45-14:30 in Plenary Session I (Small Hall, Main Building). ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 13 15th Annual Aleksanteri Conference INTEREST FOR UKRAINIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES GROWS RAPIDLY Niina Into Arseniy Svynarenko has taught at the Ukrainian Studies coordinated by the Aleksanteri Institute since 2008. He’s happy about the amount of interest also in Ukrainian history and culture. 14 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 The courses offered by the Aleksanteri Institute on East Central European, Balkan and Baltic Studies and Ukrainian studies have enjoyed a steady popularity for close to a decade. “This autumn we expected there to be more than usual interest in Ukrainian studies”, says Minna Oroza, coordinator of the two study programmes. “However, the amount of students signing up for some individual courses has taken us by surprise.” Dr. Arseniy Svynarenko from the University of Tampere is the teacher of a lecture course entitled Between East and West: Ukrainian nation and state from Perestroika to Euromaidan. “After recent dramatic events in Ukraine including Euromaidan, annexation of Crimea by Russia and military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, I did expect that courses about Ukraine will attract more students. I also see a growing interest in Ukrainian history and culture”, Svynarenko says. Arseniy Svynarenko is one of the few scholars that have conducted systematic, long term research on Ukraine in Finland. “Being or not being European?” is a lecture course coordinated by Emma Hakala and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus from the University of Helsinki. The course gives an overview how the national identity is constructed in Central and Eastern European countries in relations with Europe and European Union. One week before deadline there were a hundred students wishing to participate. “At this point we couldn’t arrange a large enough room to seat more than 80 people”, regrets Oroza. Hakala and Kaasik-Krogerus are looking forward to the discussions with motivated students. “Construction of national identities in European countries is very topical right now, due to negative developments such as the 'crisis' of the EU and conflicts occurring within Europe. We are glad that so many students from different backgrounds found our course”, they agree. n The 2015 Aleksanteri Conference will be held in Helsinki on October 21 to 23. The conference focuses on the cultural challenges and intellectual choices Russia and its citizens face today. The 2015 Conference is organised in cooperation with the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies Choices of Russian Modernisation, and its cluster “Cultural and Philosophical Interpretations of Russian Modernisation”. It is also a part of the University of Helsinki’s 375th anniversary cenebration. Call for papers will be published in February 2015 – keep an eye on Aleksanteri website www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri n ALEKSANTERI INSTITUTE VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAMME Edwin Bacon “Anticipating Russia’s Future: a Multivocal Perspective” Fellowship period: October 2014 Regina Smyth “The Anatomy of Evolution” Edwin Bacon is Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked closely with the policy and consulting worlds for two decades, including serving as Parliamentary Special Adviser to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons, and working as a Senior Research Fellow in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. During his stay at the Aleksanteri Institute, Dr. Bacon is working on his project ‘Writing Russia’s Future: a Century of Discerning Russia’s Path’ which analyses the approaches employed in anticipating Russia’s future over the past hundred years. The objective of the project is to develop a comprehensive account and typology of retrospective Western and Russian writing about Russia’s future. The project stems from an insight that writings about Russia’s futures over the past century represent a rich and largely untapped seam of material that tells us as much about the constitution of Russian culture, and the culture of Western Russia-watchers, as it does about Russia and forecasting. Dr. Bacon has previously published on the rational-political elements of forecasting, and during the research visit he looks into the ways in which people including writers, philosophers, journalists and religious leaders talk about Russian futures. n Regina Smyth is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Her research and teaching explores the evolution of state - society relations in the post-Communist region, focusing on the conditions that thwart effective state representation of social interests in new democratic regimes. Her work focuses on the pathologies of party formation in new democracies, the role of parties in legislative decision-making, the nature of patronage linkages in post-Communist society, and most recently, the efficacy of protest as a mechanism of political change in electoral authoritarian regimes. Dr. Smyth’s current project places the Russian experience in the context of modern electoral authoritarian regimes. It explores the social response to the Kremlin’s strategy to secure popular support through a mix of institutional manipulation, symbolic appeals, and coercion, focusing on the ways in which the 2011-2012 protest cycle altered the relative distribution of these factors in that strategy. During her fellowship at the Aleksanteri Institute, she is writing a part of her book that explores how the Kremlin launched a moral panic during the Pussy Riot trial that defined the opposition as the Other, while defining Mr. Putin’s silent majority as a cohesive group that celebrates Russian traditions and values. n Fellowship period: August – November 2014 CALL FOR PROPOSALS OPENS IN JANUARY The Visiting Scholars Programme annually invites highly-qualified scholars studying Russia, Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union to undertake a grant-supported research stay of two to three months at the University of Helsinki. The call for proposals for the academic year 2015-2016 will open 8 January and close 20 February 2015. The call details will be found on the Aleksanteri Institute website. The selection of proposals is based on academic excellence, while also taking into consideration the potential for mutually-beneficial research visits. Applicants must hold a PhD degree. The Visiting Scholars Programme was established in 2008 with the aim of supporting the advancement of Russian and Eastern European studies and strengthening links between the international and Finnish research communities. During the academic years from 2008-2009 to 2014-2015, the Visiting Scholars Programme has invited over 90 Visiting Fellows working on various fields and themes within the social sciences and humanities, and representing 24 countries from Europe, through North America to China. VISITING FELLOWS RESEARCH SEMINARS 30 October Regina Smyth Indiana University, USA What Just Happened? Competing Opposition Narratives of Russia’s Snow Revolution Time: Thursdays, starting at 14:15 Venue: Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33, Meeting room 2nd floor For the whole programme, see www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/news/ events/2014/visitorseminars_autumn_2014.html The series will be continued in Spring 2015. ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 15 DIFFERENT GENERATIONS, DIFFERENT IDEAS - WHY THE 19852000 REFORMS TURNED OUT AS THEY DID RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS A recent book by Vladimir Gel’man, Dmitry Travin and & Otar Marganiya, Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985–2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes analyses the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during the late twentieth century. The authors examine how the policy agenda was shaped by the ideas of the generations’ representatives for the “sixtiers” who and “seventiers” - how the succesive generations’ different emphases led to inconsistent and controversial outcomes from both stages of reforms. Miklóssy, K. & Ilic, M. (eds.): Competition in Socialist Society. Routledge, 2014, 209 p., ISBN 9780415747202. Kansikas, S.: Socialist Countries Face the European Community: Soviet-Bloc Controversies over East-West Trade. Peter Lang, 2014, 224 p., ISBN 9783631648025. Starodubtsev, A.: Платить нельзя проигрывать: Региональная политика и федерализм в современной России. European University at St. Petersburg Press, 2014, 196 p., ISBN 9785943801747. ARTICLES Gel’man, V.: “Trajectories of Russian Politics”. In: Developments in Russian Politics 8 by White, S., Sakwa, R. & Hale, H. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN 9781137392138. Kansikas, S.: “Acknowledging Economic Realities: The CMEA Policy Change vis-à-vis the European Community, 1970-73”. In: European Review of History, 2014, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 311-328. Gel’man, V., Travin, D. & Marganiya, O.: Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985-2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes. Lexington Books, 2014, 192 p., ISBN 9780739183618. ALEKSANTERI INSIGHT - SNAPSHOTS OF EURASIA Aleksanteri Insight is a series of expert opinions, published by the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki since 2013. It presents in a short format analysis of specific issues, their underlying causes and implications in the Eurasian context. The expert views address different trends, grasp hidden agendas and provide context to popular media headlines. The series is published online at www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/insight Kivinen, M., Aalto, P., Dusseault, D. & Kennedy, M.: “Russia’s energy relations in Europe and the Far East: towards a social structurationist approach to energy policy formation”. In: Journal of International Relations and Development, 2014, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 1-29. Nikula, J. & Kopoteva, I.: “From Social Innovation to Innovation System: LEADER in European and Russian Rural Areas”. In: Мир России, 2014, Vol. 23, Issue 3, pp. 95-123. http://ecsocman.hse.ru/mags/mirros/2014-23-3/128426631.html Saarinen, A. & Jäppinen, M.: “Political and Labour Market Inclusion of Migrants in Finland”. In: Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration: Theory and Practice by Anthias, F. & Pajnik, M. (eds). Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN 9781137293992. Van der Vet, F.: “Holding on to Legalism: The Politics of Russian Litigation on Torture and Discrimination Before the European Court of Human Rights”. In: Social and Legal Studies, 2014, Vol. 23, Issue 3, pp. 361-381. For the complete list of publications, see research database TUHAT https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/publications/searchall. html?searchall=aleksanteri-instituutti ALEKSANTERI INSTITUTE Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies The Aleksanteri Institute is affiliated with the University of Helsinki and oper- Aleksanteri Institute ates as a national centre of research, study and expertise pertaining to Russia P.O. Box 42 (Unioninkatu 33), FI-00014 University of Helsinki and Eastern Europe, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. The [email protected], Tel. + 358 50 3565 802 institute co-ordinates and promotes co-operation and interaction between the www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english academic world, public administration, business life and civil society in Finland and abroad. Editor: Niina Into Writers: Vladimir Gel’man, Niina Into, Hanna Ruutu, Iiris Virtasalo Layout: Niina Into The institute was founded in 1996. It has grown rapidly into a working community of around 50 people, including doctoral students in the Institute’s ISSN 2323-8291 (print), 2323-8305 (online) Graduate Programme. The institute hosts the Centre of Excellence in Russian www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/news/newsletter Studies - Choices of Russian Modernisation and a Finland Distinguished Professor project. The Institute has an Executive Board that represents the University of Helsinki and other interest groups. The Institute also has an Advisory Board. 16 ALEKSANTERI NEWS 4/2014 The next issue will be published in February 2015.