UEA East Centre weekend symposium:
Unfinished business? The breakup of the USSR and its aftershocks.
Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 March 2023
Registration
Programme
Saturday, 25 March 2023
10:15 – Registration, coffee
10:45 - Welcome, introductory remarks
Francis King, East Centre, UEA
SESSION 1: 11:00 – 12:30
Russia. The narrative psychology of history
Christian Wevelsiep, Bochum, Germany
New States, New Territories. A Romanian Perspective Regarding the Legacy of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe
Adrian-Bogdan Ceobanu, University of Bucharest, Romanian Centre for Russian Studies
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch
SESSION 2: 13:30 – 15:00
The Formation and Dismantling of the Federative Soviet State: Class and National Contradictions
David Lane, University of Cambridge
Thirty Years After: Managing Regret for the Soviet Collapse in the Russian Federation up to 2021
James C. Pearce, Anglia Ruskin/University College London 15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee
SESSION 3: 15:30 – 17:00
National Narratives or New Ideologies in the Historical Sciences in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Lilija Wedel, University of Bielefeld
The Role of Russian and Western Soft Power in Georgian Nation-Building: From Independence to the Rose Revolution
Vladimir Liparteliani, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University
Sunday, 26 March 2023
SESSION 4: 09:30 – 11:30
The Soviet Legacy of Practicing Politics in Ukraine
Nataliya Kibita, University of Glasgow
Soviet Legacy or National Heritage? Ukrainian Mosaic Monumentalism and the Case of Kyiv’s Victory Avenue
Emma Louise Leahy, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza'
On Puppets and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Post-Soviet De Facto States in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Urban Jakša, Lisbon University Institute 11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee
SESSION 5: 12:00 – 14:00
Overcoming the Twin Legacies of Inner Freedom and Repression of Dissent in the USSR
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
The Rise and Fall of Peace Studies in Russia, late 1980s – early 2000s
Irina Gordeeva, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Europe as a Categorical Imperative: Estonians' National Imaginaries from the Soviet Era to the Present
Epp Annus, Tallinn University/Ohio State University