ERDAM Members Will Take Part in the Aleksanteri Conference 2024 in Helsinki

We are pleased to announce that ERDAM research network members Tatiana Golova, from the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), and Margarita Zavadskaya, from the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, will be participating in the upcoming Aleksanteri Conference 2024.

On the second day of the conference on Thursday, October 24, Margarita will be chairing two sessions: Roundtable 2B-1 Teaching and Research in  Russian Studies after 2022: Emergent Challenges and Adjustments and Panel 2C-3 Public Opinion in Authoritarian States of Eurasia: A Comparative Perspective. In this panel, she will also present her co-authored paper, Supporting the War vs. Supporting the Regime: Evidence from the List Experiment, alongside Aleksei Gilev from the Aleksanteri Institute.

In the Panel 3B-9: Politics as Spectacle Right-Wing Festivals Memory Contestation and Statism on the following day Tatiana will be presenting her co-authored paper Reframing the Past: Memory Contestation Among Post-Soviet Migrants Amid the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine with Liliia Sablina, from the Central European University.

The sixth iteration of the Aleksanteri Conference will address the challenges posed by authoritarianism in Eurasia, particularly focusing on the resilience of authoritarian regimes and the impact on political contestation, social movements, and cultural resistance. This year’s conference will offer a rich platform for discussing transformations in political regimes and the role of civil society in resisting authoritarianism during times of crisis, such as the ongoing war in Ukraine.

More information: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri-institute/research-and-teaching/aleksanteri-conference-2024