Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

Panel I - Echoes of War: Examining the Impacts of Violent Conflict in Eurasia

Chair: Oliver Wolyniec (Yale University)

Discussant: David Simon, Assistant Dean for Graduate Education, Senior Lecturer in Global Affairs (Yale University)

• Rowan Baker (Yale University), "Being Homeland: Indigeneity, Power, Decolonization, and Peacebuilding between Georgia and Abkhazia"
• Alice Mee (Columbia University), "The Enemy Within? Collaboration and the Boundaries of National Identity in Wartime Ukraine"

Panel II - (Anti)Imperializing Modernity in Late Imperial Russia

Chair: Vita Raskeviciute (Yale University)

Discussant: Sergei Antonov, Assistant Professor of History (Yale University)

• Mariana Kellis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Conceptions of Freedom in Serf Memoirs: Imagining Emancipation Before the End of Serfdom"
• Roman Osharov (University of Oxford), "Policing and Ethnography in Asian and Russian Tashkent, 1890-1897"
• Vita Raskeviciute (Yale University), "Between Nation(s) and Empire(s): Polyethnic Borderland Patriotism in Post-1905 Vil’na Guberniya"

Panel III - Identity Politics and Cultural Co-optation in Putin's Russia

Chair: Dasha Maliauskaya (Yale University)

Discussant: Peter Rutland, Professor of Government and the Colin and Nancy Campbell Chair for Global Issues and Democratic Thought (Wesleyan University)

• Diana Avdeeva (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Decolonizing Russian Identity: Examining the Role of Non-Russian Ethnic Groups in Putin’s Russia"
• Kristofers Krumins (Georgetown University), "Russia’s War Bloggers and the Prospect of Peace: an Assessment of the Perceptions of Ceasefire in Ukraine"
• Adriane Longhurst (Georgetown University), "Russia's Affinity for Immortality"
• Aleksei Rumiantsev (Indiana University), "From Lament to Loyalty: The Co-optation of Chuvash Recruit Songs in Russian Pro-War Propaganda"

Panel IV - Social Transformation in the South Caucasus

Chair: Lydia Smith (Yale University)

Discussant: Julie A. George, Associate Professor, Political Science (CUNY)

• Salome Mamuladze (Georgetown University), "Managing Displacement: A Policy Analysis of Georgia’s IDP Crisis"
• Lori Pirinjian (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Domestic Violence Law of Armenia (2018 – 2020): A New Era in the Legislation"
• Eliška Vinklerová (Oxford University), "Rave Against the Machine: Club Cultures and Queer Activism in Georgia"

Panel V - Identity and Resistance

Chair: Lola Shehu (Yale University)

Discussant: TBA

• William Sims (European University Institute), "'A Page of Italian History.' The March on Rome told through the coverage of local, national, and diaspora Italian liberal newspapers"
• Filippos (Fil) Toskas (Oxford University), "Exploring key political concepts through 1970s queer press: redefining political liberation and Marxism"
• Yuni Zeng (University of Amsterdam), "Decolonizing Czech Music: Má vlast and the Struggle for Cultural Autonomy from Habsburg Rule to Soviet Influence"

Panel VI - Material Infrastructure and the Building of Socialism

Chair: Jacob Link (Yale University)

Discussant: Nataliia Laas, Henry Chauncey Jr.’57 Postdoctoral Fellow (Yale University)

• Jacob Link (Yale University), "Red Networks: Technologies of Power in the Red Army's Conquest of the South Caucasus"
• Agzamkhon (Agzam) Niyazkhodjayev (Free University of Berlin), "Electricity & Socioeconomic Performance: Evidence from the Short Soviet Century"
• Nicholas Pierce (University of Texas, Austin), "'Forcing the Gates of the Future': Dams as Sites of High Modernity in Roosevelt’s United States and Stalin’s Soviet Union"

Panel VII - Europe’s Economic Policy, Trade, and Competitiveness in a Changing Global Landscape

Chair/Moderator: Lili Vessereau (Harvard University) 

• Carlo Giannone (Harvard University), "EU Trade Policy in the Era of Protectionism: De-risking from US"
• Justine Haekens (Harvard University), "How Does Corporate Wealth Translate into Market Power?"
• Vanya Klenovskiy (Yale University), "Tariff Pass-Through along the Supply Chain: Evidence from Liquor Industry"

Panel VIII - Varied Dimensions of Leadership: Challenges on the Global and Local Stages

Chair: Christina Oh (Yale University)

Discussant: Jonathan Bach, Interim Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies & Professor of Global Studies (the New School)

• William Hopkinson (University of Melbourne & Fox Fellow at Yale University), "Climate Hybridity: Norway as both Leader and Laggard"
• Noah Lloyd (Georgetown University), "The Battle for Local Autonomy: Decentralization Processes in Wartime Ukraine"
• Christina Oh (Yale University), "Exporting Repression: Russian Influence Campaigns in Mali and Burkina Faso"

Panel IX - Regional and Global Implications of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Chair: Tanya Kotelnykova (Yale University)

Discussant: David Cameron, Professor Emeritus of Political Science (Yale University)

• Valerie Browne (Harvard University), "Accessing National Belonging in Kazakhstan: Russophone Almatyntsy and the Kazakh language learning movement in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine"
• Noela Mahmutaj (University of Tirana), "Wartime consequences: The impact of Ukraine war on the Western Balkans"
• Łucja Skolankiewicz (University of Oxford), "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and war in Ukraine. Member States reactions to the Russian invasion"

Panel X - Invisible Nation: The Untold Stories of Belarusian Cultural Expression

Chair: Mike York (Yale University)

Discussant: Andrei Kureichyk (University of Chicago)

• Maryna Antaniuk-Prouteau (Stanford University), "Language Policy in Belarusian Cinema: Between Russification and National Revival"
• Vesta Svendsen (Brown University), "Transgenerational Trauma and Today’s Belarus"