2024-2025
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Do30Jan2025Vrij31Jan2025Ghent University, Belgium
Workshop ‘The social experiences of urban space in socialist cities of Eastern Europe’
Toon detailsThis workshop brings together urban historians and scholars of cognate disciplines with a historical perspective for a discussion of the variegated social experiences of the socialist city in Eastern Europe. The workshop invites case studies focussing on singular cities, multiple sites or regions from across the Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia. It particularly welcomes studies of second-tier or unexemplary socialist cities or regions. Possible topics for contributions include (but are not restricted to):
- Socio-spatial differentiation within urban environments and across regions.
- Rural-to-urban migration and rurbanisation.
- Social practices, including segregation and conviviality.
- Discourses of urbanity.
- Legacies of imperial and socialist urbanisation.
Deadline for 300-word abstract and bio: 30 September 2024
Keynote: Heather D. DeHaan (Binghamton University)
Organisers: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) & Pieter Troch (Ghent University)
2023-2024
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2022-2023
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2021-2022
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Din26Okt202119:00Zebrastraat - Nick Ervinck-zaal | Zebrastraat 32/001, 9000 Gent
Cerise Lecture: Russia’s war on independent media: How to survive the “long winter”
Toon detailsCerise Lecture by Galina Timchenko (CEO of Meduza independent news agency)
On the 26th of October 2021, Galina Timchenko, CEO of the Meduza independent news agency, will be delivering a lecture on the state of affairs in the media background in Russia, explaining how the restrictions on independent journalists imposed by the Russian government can affect the development of journalism in the country.
She will portray the evolution of the political landscape in Russia and introduce some novel concepts as the ‘new iron curtain’, ‘sleeping laws’ and ‘foreign agents’ which appear quintessential for a media business in Russia. A particular emphasis will be put on the idea of the new reality constructed by the official government-run media implying the creation of the ‘enemy face’ of the Western world.
She will also dwell on possible outcomes of such restrictions for the media and IT businesses under siege, and will suggest three ways of survival for the media labeled as ‘foreign agents’. Apart from that, the consequences that the repression of the media may produce on the society and journalism in the country, as well as possible scenarios of resistance to it will be touched upon. The question whether independent media have a future in Russia remains the most controversial issue.
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Ma15Nov.202119:00Refter, Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent
Cerise lecture: 'Constitutionalizing the disregard of European Court of human rights'
Toon detailsCerise lecture by Dimitry Kochenov (The CEU Democracy Institute)
Aim of the lecture is the critical analysis of the amendments to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation, which entered into force on 4 July 2020.
The aim of the lecture is the critical analysis of the amendments to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation, which entered into force on 4 July 2020. The talk will focus on the amendments having implications for the dialogue between international courts and tribunals and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The lecture will demonstrate that the amendments in question are not at all revolutionary and codify the established practice of the Russian Constitutional Court / draw on federal legislation. The amendments allow for non-execution of the decisions of international courts and tribunals which are found by the Russian Constitutional Court to be in conflict with the national Constitution, thus qualifying the operation of the monist approach to international law in the Russian constitutional system. The approach taken by the Russian Federation will be considered in the global context of the rising scepticism vis-à-vis the decisions of international courts and their transformative potential. A detailed note published by ILM and co-written with Prof. Paul Kalinichenko (Kutafin University, Moscow), which the lecture is loosely based on, can be found through this link.
Livestream available
Free registration: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/CERISEKochenov
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Woe01Dec.202119:00Auditorium F, Campus Ufo, Technicum blok 2, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
Cerise lecture: Russian Exceptionalism between East and West: the Ambiguous Empire'
Toon detailsCerise lecture by Dr. Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham, UK)
This lecture will introduce ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering Russia’s self-positioning between East and West.
This lecture will introduce ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering Russia’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’, and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It will discuss how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia’s ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated ‘Orient’. The Romanov Empire’s struggles with ‘Russianness’, the USSR’s Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia’s combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses will be explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The talk will conclude with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.
About the speaker:
Dr. Kevork Oskanian is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He obtained his PhD at the London School of Economics’ Department of International Relations, and has previously taught at the LSE and at the University of Westminster. His current research interests include the International Relations of Eurasia, and post-liberal approaches to International Society and the state.
2020-2021
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Vrij18Jun202120:00Online
Online Panel Discussion: Assessing the Sputnik-V Vaccine
Toon detailsOnline Panel Discussion by M.D. Asmik Asatryan, M.D. Irina Levchenko, Prof. Dr. Susanna Kharit, Prof. Dr. Geert Leroux-Roels
At a time when vaccination campaigns within the EU are reaching full steam after EMA’s endorsement of the vaccines by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, there is a remarkable silence about the Russian Sputnik vaccine.
Yet, Sputnik-V was the first vaccine to be officially announced in the battle against the coronavirus and it was presented with much bravado by the Russian authorities. Reports about steps being skipped in test phases of the Russian vaccine and its purpose as a geopolitical tool aroused suspicion in the West. Today, still, the general public very much perceives Sputnik-V as second tier despite the proven high effectivity of the vaccine.- But how much do we actually know about the vaccine?
- How does Sputnik-V work in practice, and how does it compare to Western vaccines?
- Could a better understanding of the Russian vaccine lead us to new insights that are important for the further development of the other vaccines?
- Can the Russian vaccine realistically complement the European vaccination strategy?
- What does the Russian vaccination strategy look like, and what can we learn from it?
To answer these underexamined questions, the Russia Platform is organising a high-level panel discussion with Russian experts Asmik Asatryan, Irina Levchenko & Susanna Kharit and specialists from Ghent University / Ghent University Hospital (UZ Ghent) Elizaveta Padalko, Geert Leroux-Roels & Hans Nauwynck.
Speakers:M.D. Asmik Asatryan works as physician/immunologist at the Saint Petersburg State Hospital Nr. 88 and is specialized in infectious diseases, vaccinations and the organisation of health care.
M.D. Irina Levchenko is deputy chief supervising physician at the Saint Petersburg State Hospital nr. 88. She is an expert in paediatrics and the organisation of healthcare, including vaccinations both in children and adults.
Prof. Dr. Susanna Kharit works at the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children of the Saint Petersburg Pediatric Medical University. She is also Chief Freelance Specialist for Vaccine Prevention of Children of the Health Committee of St. Petersburg, a member of the Independent Expert Expert Council on Vaccine Prevention of the Russian Federation and member of the Euro-Asian Society for Infectious Diseases.
Prof. Dr. Geert Leroux-Roels is the founder of the Center for Vaccinology (CEVAC) and is associated with both Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital (UZ Ghent). He has conducted numerous studies about vaccinations, resides in various advisory boards and is an established name in international scientific societies.
Moderators:
Prof. Dr. Elizaveta Padalko is Head Clinical Biology at the Ghent University Hospital while also being active as lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University. Her work focuses in particular on the evaluation of diagnostic methods in infectious serology and molecular diagnostics.
Prof. Dr. Hans Nauwynck holds the position of Head of the Laboratory For Virology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University. He specialises in research into viral diseases in animals and advocates for more intensive research into bacteria and viruses in animals and humans.
2019-2020
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Ma04Nov.201909:00Het Pand, Onderbergen 1
Symposium: Russia and China in the 21st century (Russia Platform)
Toon detailsThird Ghent Russia colloquium hosted by the Russia Platform of Ghent University, with the support of the China Platform
'Russia and China in the 21st century: Between Cooperation and Competition at the Regional and Global level'
There is broad recognition among scholars that the liberal world order that emerged in the post-Cold War era is under strain. While growing political polarization in Western societies is undermining the current world order from within, non-Western powers are increasingly challenging Western hegemony and are attempting to shape a new world order. The colloquium will focus on two of the main protagonists of this global transformation, namely Russia and China. In particular, the conference seeks to shed new light on how Russia and China (are seeking to) create a new international order. Importantly, Russia and China are also neighbours, with a contentious historical relationship, and in their mutual strive to create a non-western international order, they are not only partners but also competitors. Nowhere does this duality emerge more openly than in Central Asia, a region traditionally dominated by Russia but increasingly becoming under China’s sphere of influence. Moreover, Russia is itself witnessing the effects of China’s rise, as China is making several inroads into Russia. Indeed, as China further embarks on implementing its Belt and Road Initiative, it is slowly changing the face of Eurasia, including Russia.
With the purpose of shedding further light on the role of Russia and China in these ongoing regional and global developments, we invited contributions from a wide array of disciplines, including political science, international relations, economy, law, anthropology and area studies.
There are 4 parallel sessions during the day, with a keynote panel in the afternoon.
Keynote speakers
Timofei Bordachev is Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics (Moscow), and Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
Yang Cheng is Professor of International Relations and Assistant Dean of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University.
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Woe20Nov.201919:30Het Pand, Onderbergen 1
CERISE Lecture: No Europe Without Russia (H.E. Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov)
Toon detailsH.E. Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov is Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the EU
Throughout the years H.E. AmbassadorChizhov has worked both in Russia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as in countries abroad, including Greece, Cyprus and Austria. He was Deputy High Representative for the Bosnia Peace Implementation in Sarajevo, and Russian Special Representative for Cyprus and later the Balkans. In 2000 he was awarded the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Before being appointed Ambassador to the EU in 2005, he was Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
H.E. Ambassador Chizhov conducted analytical research work on European security, OSCE, Russia-EU and Russia-NATO relations, Mediterranean, Balkans, problems of Cyprus and Northern Ireland and UN peace-keeping operations. He was decorated with several state awards.
He will address the audience on EU-Russia relations.
Registration is required via the online Event Manager before November, 18.
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Woe11Dec.201919:30Academieraadzaal, Voldersstraat 9
Cerise lecture: Van tsarisme, over communisme tot verkozen autocratie: de persistentie van elites in Rusland
Toon detailsKoen Schoors, UGent
Internationaal onderzoek wijst uit dat elites wereldwijd persistent zijn. Individuen uit historische elite-families hebben eeuwen later nog steeds een grotere kans om tot de maatschappelijke elite te behoren. Vaak wordt gedacht dat Rusland hierop een uitzondering vormt, omdat de maatschappelijke hiërarchie herhaaldelijk door elkaar werd geschud. Men denkt hierbij aan de Russische revolutie, de burgeroorlog tussen witten en roden, de collectivisatie van de landbouw, de zuiveringen door Stalin, de transitie van plan- naar markteconomie en de installatie van een verticale machtsstructuur onder Poetin. Desondanks blijkt dat ook in Rusland, ondanks de zware maatschappelijke schokken die het land moest ondergaan, maatschappelijke elites verrassend persistent zijn.
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Woe26Feb202019:30Het Pand, Onderbergen 1
Postponed to a later date - Cerise lecture: The Good Russian: Addressing the Challenges of Authoritarian Citizenship
Toon detailsCancelled!
Samuel Greene (King’s College London)
Samuel Greene is reader in Russian politics and Director of the Russia Institute at King's College London. His research focuses on the relationships between citizens and the state in Russia, and in societies experiencing social, economic and political transformation more broadly. His first book, Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia, was published by Stanford University Press in 2014. More recently, he is co-author with Graeme Robertson of Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, published by Yale University Press in 2019. He also serves as Associate Fellow in the Russian and Eurasian Programme of the International Institute for Security Studies and a Visiting Professor at the UK Defence Academy.
The idea of the authoritarian citizen presents a conundrum for students of politics. Classical descriptions of autocracies see citizens as demobilized and controlled, and thus largely written out of the political equation. Increasingly, however, research has elucidated the ways that authoritarian leaders rule with the masses, rather than despite them. The idea that the power of a leader such as Vladimir Putin is co-constructed – that it is produced and reproduced simultaneously and continuously by rulers and ruled – only gets us so far, however, leaving unanswered important questions about how people interpret and navigate the political and social trade-offs inherent to life in authoritarianism, and why some people dissent. This discussion will begin to re-open some of these questions from the bottom up, asking how and why Russian citizens come to understand power the way they do, and whether we need to revisit our own notions of authoritarian citizenship as a result.
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Woe18Mar202019:30Het Pand, Onderbergen 1
Uitgesteld tot latere datum - Cerise lecture: Van Gorbatsjov tot Poetin, de geschiedenis neemt wraak
Toon detailsUitgesteld
Cerise lecture by Bert De Craene (VRT)
Luitenant-kolonel van de KGB Vladimir Poetin zat in zijn kantoortje in Dresden toen de Muur in het nabije Berlijn viel. Poetin was verbitterd maar het ergste moest nog komen: de implosie van zijn eigen land, de USSR. Poetin besloot, als het aan hem lag, een eind te maken aan deze vernedering en het Nieuwe Rusland weer internationaal respectabel te maken door wraak te nemen op de geschiedenis en aan te knopen bij het ooit vermaledijde tsarisme.
Bert De Craene was een kwarteeuw journalist bij de VRT-radionieuwsdienst en het magazine Aktueel. Hij werkte ook voor Klara waar hij documentaires maakte over internationale politiek. Sinds halverwege de jaren 80 volgde hij de turbulente gebeurtenissen in Midden- en Oosteuropa en de voormalige Sovjet-Unie. In 1989 maakte hij van dichtbij het uiteenvallen van het Oostblok mee met als hoogtepunt het neerkomen van de Muur in Berlijn op 9 november. Daarna volgde hij van nabij de implosie van de Sovjet-Unie, onder andere in de Baltische sovjetrepublieken, waar de burgers het eerst in opstand kwamen tegen het Kremlin. Na het uiteenvallen van de USSR versloeg hij van dichtbij de burgeroorlogen in Joegoslavië, die ook leidden tot het uiteenvallen van Tito’s droom.
Bert De Craene schreef boeken over migranten, de ontwikkelingen in Oost-Europa na het afscheid van het communisme, het nieuwe Rusland en paus Johannes Paulus II.
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Woe22Apr202019:30Het Pand, Onderbergen 1
Postponed to a later date - Cerise lecture: Soviet Art House: The Secret History of Lenfilm Studio
Toon detailsCatriona Kelly (University of Oxford)
Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. She has published many books and articles on Russian history and culture, including St. Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (Yale University Press, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Pushkin Russian Book Prize. She is currently completing Soviet Art House, a study of the Lenfilm studio from the early 1960s to the 1980s.
Soviet cinema is universally regarded as one of the world's great film traditions, but it is mainly the movies from the 1920s and the 1930s that are familiar to Western audiences. By and large, too, we know film history in terms of famous directors (from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky), but have little awareness of the studio culture that shaped film production. Catriona Kelly's lecture, based on extensive work with Soviet archives and oral history, uses the history of one of the USSR's most important studios, Lenfilm in Leningrad, to explore how studios as well as film artists had their own 'handwriting'. Rather than simply making up a further line of bureaucratic obstruction, they provided film artists with material and psychological support, and were highly individual and in some respects successful working environments for a variety of artists, including set painters and costume designers as well as the famous names at the top of the credits. The lecture gives particular attention to the ways in which Lenfil'm nurtured (while also sometimes coercing and even bullying) young filmmakers in the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, a period at which the radical expansion of the film industry led to a mass recruitment drive and brought in new generations of young people whose views and ambitions were often very different from those of the established 'masters' who had dominated movie production in the Stalin era.
2018-2019
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2017-2018
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Woe31Jan2018Do01Feb2018Tokyo
Symposium on microliterary standard languages
Toon detailsGCSEES organized together with the Hokudai Slavic Research Center, Sapporo/Japan a joint Symposium on microliterary standard languages at Tokyo with the title 'Tokyo Symposium on Slavic Minorities and their (Literary) Languages in the European Context and Beyond: the Current Situation and Critical Challenges'.
2016-2017
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Vrij10Feb2017Zat11Feb2017Gent
International Platonov Seminar: Platonov and the Revolution
Toon detailsPlatonov and the Revolution | Платонов и революция
Particpants: Ben Dhooge (Ghent), Olga Frolova (Moscow), Hans Günther (Bielefeld), Leonid Heller (Paris, Lausanne), Robert Hodel (Hamburg), Konstantin Kaminskij (Berlin), Ilya Kukuy (München) and Yevgeny Yablokov (Moscow).
Х. Гюнтер. Революция и тоска у Платонова
О. Фролова. Диалог А. Платонова с языком его времени (на материале повести "Котлован")
К. Каминский. От энергетической революции к энергетическому повороту – уроки Андрея Платонова
Р. Ходел. Счастье и/или революция в "Котловане"
Л. Геллер. Платонов: революция, утопия, насилие
Е. Яблоков. Революционный пассеизм Андрея Платонова
И. Кукуй. Неюбилейный Платонов: экранизация амбивалентности в фильме Ларисы Шепитько "Родина электричества"
Б. Дооге. Платонов и "скифство".
2015-2016
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Ma29Feb2016Din01Mar2016
Hokudai Days
Toon detailsGCSEES took part in the Hokudai Days at the University of Ghent, contributing two panels to the event in collaboration with the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SERC), Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
29 February 2016, Het Pand, Oude Infirmerie
PANEL Borders and Margins in Eastern Europe (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of Languages and Cultures and Hokkaido University Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SERC)14.00-14.45
Go Koshino (HSRC), A Subverting Perception of Tuteishiya (Local People) in Contemporary Belarusian Literature
14.45-15.30
Motoki Nomachi (HSRC), Questions of the Gorani Ethnolect in the Context of the Disintegration of Serbo-Croatian
15.30-16.15
Rozita Dimova (GCSEES), Displacing Borders through Materiality and Aesthetics in Contemporary Macedonia
16.15-17.00
Dieter Stern (GCSEES), Informal Cross-Border Economies in the Post-Soviet Space as a Field of Linguistic Investigation1 March 2016, Blandijnberg, 6th floor
STUDENT PANEL Gateways to Eastern Europe: Young researchers and their research
10.00-10.45
Genichi Ikuma (HSRC), Representations of Human Beings in Soviet Unofficial Art
10.45-11.30
Charlotte Bollaert (GCSEES, TRACE), Jean-Paul Sartre in Soviet-Russia: Early Responses and Image Formation