45th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies - Day 1

45th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies - Day 1
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Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies; Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies - University of California, Berkeley
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Online event

New Perspectives Across the Disciplines on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia

Welcome and Opening Remarks - 9:45 a.m.
John Connelly, Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Panel One - 9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Chair: George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Professor of the Graduate School, Political Science, UC Berkeley

“Policing the Political Police: Transforming Ordinary Men into Model Chekists After the Great Terror” Alexandra Sukalo, History, Stanford University

“Yanukovych’s Forefathers: The Soviet Dachas of Mezhyhirya”
Sierra Nota, History, Stanford University

“Documenting Soviet Cities: Film, the Soviet Periphery, and Labor in Soviet Kulturfilm”
Filip Sestan, Slavic Languages & Literatures, UC Berkeley

Panel Two - 12:30–2:30 p.m.

Chair: Amir Weiner, Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor of Soviet History, Stanford University

“Bringing Up Nation: Soviet ‘Ideo-Political Upbringing Work’ in the Baltics, 1940-41”
Kristo Nurmis, History, Stanford University

“‘Comrade Krushchev speaks that no religion is forbidden’: Religious Life of Deported Ethnic Minorities in Soviet Central Asia”
Agnieszka Smelkowska, History, UC Berkeley

“Mankurts and Moderns: Ethnicity as Authenticity for and against the State in South Africa and the Soviet Union”
Hilary Lynd, History, UC Berkeley

Panel Three - 2:45–4:45 p.m.

Chair: Kathryn Stoner, Deputy Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

“A Little Lift in the Iron Curtain: Emigration Restrictions and the Stability of Closed Regimes”
Hans Lueders, Political Science, Stanford University

“‘The Last Berlin Wall[s] in Europe’: Memory, Memorials, and Division in Mostar and Belfast”
Blaze Joel, History, UC Berkeley

“Subnational Consolidation in Single-Party Dominant Regimes: Evidence from Hungarian Mayoral Elections”
Matthew Stenberg, Political Science, UC Berkeley

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