- A1: Economic Development and Globalization - Room 347
Chair: Slavo Radošević (UCL - SSEES)
Olga Munteanu (University of Leipzig): ‘Integration
Patterns in the Automotive Global Value Chain in Hungary. Prospects
and Challenges for Local Supplier Upgrading
Elena Krumova (Columbia University): ‘Globalizing networks and
regionalization in eastern Europe: the cases of Hungary and Bulgaria
Raigo Ernits (University of Tartu): ‘The development of
entrepreneurship in Estonian company-towns during the transition
period |
- A2: Philanthropy
Room 433
Chair: Mr. Stoimen Velev (Deputy Head of
Mission, Bulgarian Embassy in London)
Risto Karajkov (University of Bologna): ‘The case of aid and
south-east Europe
Eglé Vaidelyté (Kaunas University of Technology): ‘Philanthropic
action in modern Lithuania: between Christian morality and
post-communist reality |
- A3: Borders
Room 432
Chair: Pete Duncan (UCL - SSEES)
Prajakti Kalra (University of Chicago and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies):
‘The (unchanging) border between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Sabrina Vidalenc (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris):
‘Delimiting and opening
Sino-Russian border: territories and migrations at stake’
Barbara Ivančič Kutin (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology):
‘Stories from the Slovene-Italian border in the Bovec area |
- A4: Sociolinguistics
Room 431
Chair: Daniel Abondolo (UCL - SSEES)
Zuzana Tomková (University of Chicago): ‘Inclusion and exclusion
in language and beyond: what to make of endangered European dialects
in the field of language endangerment
Elena Morabito (University of California, Berkeley): ‘The
expression of sociolinguistic boundaries through post-war Bosnian,
Serbian and Croatian linguistic corpora |
- B1: Regional Economies of Inclusion and
Exclusion
Room 347
Chair: Alan Smith (UCL - SSEES)
Kiryl Haiduk (Central European University): ‘Awkward borderland:
understanding the political economy of Belarus’s "exclusion"
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann (University of Glasgow): ‘Russia’s
"self-exclusion" from the EU’s neighbourhood policy and its
implications for the EU’s normative agenda |
- B2: Civil Society
Room 432
Chair: Richard Mole (UCL - SSEES)
Juraté Imbrasaité (Vytautas Magnus University): ‘Kept out or
opted out?: understanding political exclusion in Lithuania
Ragne Kõuts-Klemm and Kulliki Korts (University of Tartu):
‘Social criticism in Soviet Estonia: its discursive forms and
institutional limits
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- B3: Portrayal of Minorities
Room 433
Chair: Pete Duncan (UCL - SSEES)
Markus Wien (American University in Bulgaria): ‘The Jews of
Bulgaria – an exception to the rule?: the position of the Jewish
minority in public discourses of modern Bulgaria’
Suzana Milevska (Goldsmiths College): ‘Non-Schengen art: the
phantasm of belonging’
Dragana Obradović (University College London): ‘The
Aesthetics of Documentary War Reportage: Joe Sacco’s Safe Area
Goražde |
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- C1: Global Integration and Development
Room 433
Chair: Eugene Nivorozhkin (UCL - SSEES)
Mario Koelling (University of Zaragoza): ‘Explaining negotiations
on financial perspectives 2007-2013: actors and institutions – how
did member states do?’
Inga Ulnicane (University of Latvia): ‘Europeanization
of research, technological development and innovation policy in
central and eastern Europe’
Lee Jong-Kuy (UCL - SSEES): ‘Determinants
of economic growth in transition economies’ |
- C2: Communism in Central and Eastern European
Countries
Room 432
Chair: Anita Prażmowska (London School of Economics)
Nikolai Vukov (Institute of Anthropology and Folklore, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences): ‘The commemorated and the excluded: the
reshaped pantheons in eastern Europe, 1945-1956
Jan Behrends (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin): ‘Inventing friendship
and constructing the nation: Polish Communist propaganda 1944-1957
Balázs Apor (European University Institute, Florence): ‘Popular
attitudes to the cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Communist Hungary
1944-1955 |
- C3: Immigrants and Inclusion
Room 347
Chair: Richard Mole (UCL - SSEES)
Karolina Szmagalska (New School for Social Research): ‘I’m
not really here: the legal production of absence, presence and
intimacy in post-EU accession Poland
Damiana Gabriela Otoiu (University of Bucharest): ‘Restitution in
post-Communist Romania: keeping the "Others" out?: the case of the
Jewish community
Timofei Agarin (University of Göttingen): ‘Inclusion by
belonging: integration of Russian-speaking communities in the
post-Soviet Baltic states |
- C4: Jewish Émigré Literature
Room 431
Chair: John Klier (UCL)
Matthew Finch (Queen Mary University): ‘A lifelong interest, a
lifelong anxiety: Ernst Gombrich as "central European" and Jew’
Tomasz Łysak (Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw):
‘Rediscovering Jewishness in Poland: Agata Tuszynska’s autobiography’
Ioana Luca (University of Bucharest/Linacre College, Oxford): ‘In
and out: Andrei Codrescu or the journey of a Romanian exile |