2024 ASEEES Convention

Here is a summary of our staff who participated in the Convention. This year's theme was liberation. 

Staff:

Professor Richard Mole served as both a discussant and chair of the panel, ‘Liberation or Racialization?: Intersectional Perspectives on Central, Eastern, Southeastern European, and Eurasian Queer Migrations’. Additionally, together with Dr Agnieszka Kubal and Professor Jan Kubik, he participated as a member of the roundtable, ‘Undoing Legal Authoritarianism in Poland and Elsewhere’.

Dr Agnieszka Kubal also took part as a roundtable member in the book discussion, ‘The De Gruyter Handbook of Eurasian Societies’, edited by Charlie Walker, Jeremy Morris, Meri Kulmala, Eleanor Bindman, Agnieszka Kubal, Oleg Golubchikov, and Gavin Slade.

Professor Jan Kubik was a roundtable member for the book discussion, ‘Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe’, authored by Agnieszka Pasieka.

Dr Michal Murawski chaired the panel, *‘Infrastructures of Occupation II: Apparatuses of russian (Re)coloniality’ and presented his paper ‘Dark Reconstruction, or russian* Worlding: Architecture-after-Urbicide in Ukraine, Chechnya, and Syria’ at the event ‘Infrastructures of Occupation I: Apparatuses of *russian (Re)coloniality’.

Dr Alessandro Iandolo participated as a discussant in the panel, ‘Late-Soviet International Entanglements in Medicine, Academic Institutes, and Publishing’. He also presented his paper, ‘The Cultural Cringe in Economic Theory: Backwardness, Dependency, and the Specter of Europe in the Soviet Union and Latin America’, at the event, ‘Soviet Culture in the Global South’.

Professor Wendy Bracewell was a roundtable member at the event, ‘EEPS Roundtable: Dancing in Chains: Translation and/as Research’.

Dr Kristin Roth-Ey served as a discussant on the panel, ‘Perestroika from Below: From Shared Soviet Space to Divergent Local Histories’.

Research Students:

Alesia Mankouskaya chaired and participated as a roundtable member in ‘Russia’s Unrecognized Crimes: Colonial Erasure of Culture and Theft of Cultural Identities, Archives, and Artefacts’. She also presented her paper, ‘The Emergence of Belarusian-Language Folk Drama: The Codex of Orsha and Structural Analysis of Academic Drama Intermezzi’, at the event ‘Belarusian Culture II: Literature’.

Olga Doletskaya presented her paper, ‘(In)visible Fatherhood: Parental Journeys of Queer Fathers in Russia’, at the event ‘Masculinity and Russia’s War in Ukraine’.

Kitty Brandon-James was a roundtable member at ‘Fictional Realities and Constructive Imaginaries: Committing the Past to the Present’.

Daria Anosova presented her paper, ‘The Big Flat Construction Site: Contemporary Art Practice and Organization in Ukraine under the Full-Scale Invasion’, at the event ‘Infrastructures of Liberation I: Resistance, Reconstruction, and De-Occupation in the Ukrainian Commons’.

Ada Wordsworth presented her paper 'Accidentally Decentralised Reconstruction in Ukraine: The Benefits and Perils of the Grassroots Approach' at the event ‘Infrastructures of Liberation I: Resistance, Reconstruction, and De-Occupation in the Ukrainian Commons’.

Oliver Banatvala presented his paper, ‘Wartime Malleability: Peace and War within the Everyday Urban Realm’, at the event *‘Infrastructures of Occupation III: Apparatuses of russian (Re)coloniality’.

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