• Home
• Speakers
  • Call for papers
  • Presentation skills
  • Paper submission
  • Publication
  • Audio/visual facilities
  • Funding
• Conference
  • Conference feedback
  • Keynote speakers
  • Programme
    • Session summary
    • Thursday summary
    • Thursday Session A
    • Thursday Session B
    • Thursday Session C
    • Friday summary
    • Friday Session D
    • Friday Session E
    • Friday Session F
    • Friday Session G
    • Saturday summary
    • Saturday Session H
    • Saturday Session J
    • Saturday Session K
  • Registration
  • Social events
  • History
• Information
  • Travel to UK
  • Travel to London
  • Travel in London
  • Accommodation
  • Food and Drink
  • London Information
  • FAQ
• Organisation
  • Photos
  • Committee
  • Academic panel
  • Sponsors links
  • Links
• Contact Us

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 7th Annual International Postgraduate Conference

Inclusion Exclusion

---

Conference programme - Thursday 16 February

4:30 – 6:00: Panel C1: Global Integration and Development

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’ 

4:30 – 6:00: Panel C2: Communism in Central and Eastern European Countries

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’

4:30 – 6:00: Panel C3: Immigrants and Inclusion

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’

4:30 – 6:00: Panel C4: Jewish Émigré Literature

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’