Zooming In, Zooming Out: Contextualising Emerging Russian Diasporas and Anti-War Activism in Larger Europe
18–19 April 2024
Ilia State University, Tbilisi
Programme
Day 1. Thrusday, 18 April 2024
9:15 Welcome
9:30–11:00 Panel 1. Activism between policies and politics
Joanna Fomina (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) (Online)
The relocation of Russian human rights defenders at risk to the EU in the aftermath of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine: between securitization, sanctions and the protection of human rights
Tatiana Golova (ZOiS, Berlin)
Activism related to the German humanitarian visa between neo-liberal and volunteer humanitarianism
Olga Bronnikova (University of Grenoble)
Helping Ukrainian refugees in Georgia. Everyday politics or the evaporation of politics?
Chair: David Darchiashvili (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:00 Panel 2. Encounters and interactions between host societies and newcomers
Ketevan Gurchiani (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
Global Brooklyn as an (im)perfect shelter in Tbilisi
Sofia Gavrilova (Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig)
Autoethnography of Russian imperialism
Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS, Berlin)
Host societies and Russian newcomers through the lens of north-south migration patterns
Chair: Vadim Romashov (University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio)
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Panel 3. Zooming in: diversity and inequality of war-induced migration
Karolina Nugumanova (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence)
Cross-border voices: emigration, gender, and activism in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Kristina Jonutytė (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas) (Online)
“We’re not very dramatic”: Languages of resistance and refusal among the post-mobilisation Buryat diaspora in Mongolia
Ekaterina Chigaleichik (Exodus-22, Tbilisi)
Revealing the dynamics of inequality in the Russian diaspora and coping strategies
Chair: Lela Chakhaia (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:30 ERDAM Organisational Panel: Working Plan for 2024–2025
18:30 Dinner
Day 2. Friday, 19 April 2024
9:30–11:00 Panel 4. Words and visuals of war and diasporic resistance
Yuliana Melkumyan (Yerevan State University, Yerevan)
Visualisations of war: propaganda and anti-war movements in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Susanne Bygnes (University of Bergen, Bergen)
Rearticulating pro-democratic diaspora protest in the wake of critical events: vocabulary of resistance
Katrine Stevnhøj (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen)
Imagining the future through the past: political identities and narratives of nationhood among Belarusian and Russian political exiles
Chair: Mariam Darchiashvili (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:00 Panel 5. Zooming Out: Creating a broader picture
Inta Mieriņa (University of Latvia, Riga)
The dynamics of inter-ethnic relations in Latvia following Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine
Vadim Romashov (University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio)
The interpellation of decoloniality: the case of war-related migration from Russia
Giorgi Cheishvili (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi)
Russian exodus, historical repetition, and the anticipation of the future in Georgia
Chair: Timothy Blauvelt (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Closing discussion