Welcome and Opening Remarks, 9:45 a.m.
Jason Wittenberg, Acting Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Panel One: 9:50 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Chair: Rebekah Ramsay, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

“Monetizing Mezhyhirya: Commercial Property Stewardship in the Russian Empire, 1786-1858” - Sierra Nota : Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Stanford University

“The Fiscal Origins of Local-Self Government in the Russian and Ottoman Empires” - Otto Kienitz : Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

“Spreading Insurgency: Industrial Development and Strategies of Rebels in the Russian October Revolution” - Igor Kolesnikov : Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; Vladimir Novikov : Ph.D. Student, Social Science Division, University of Chicago

Lunch Break: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Panel Two: 1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Chair: Amir Weiner, Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor of History, Stanford University

“Soviet 'We' vs. 'They': Workers' Memoirs of DniproHES (1920s-1930s)” - Oksana Klymenko : Visiting Scholar, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University

“Playing War: Performing Patriotism and Cross-temporality in post-2014 Crimea” - Alexandra Simonova : Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

“Words as a Weapon: the Language Situation in Ukraine in 2022” - Nataliia Goshylyk : Ukrainian Language Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley

Coffee Break: 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Panel Three: 3:30 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
Chair: Jovana Lazic Knezevic, Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University

“'The Most Powerful Magician in the Non-aligned States': The Political in Sasa Stanisic's Prose” - Djordje Popovic : Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley; Lilla Balint : Assistant Professor, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

“The Last Berlin Walls in Europe: Violence, Memory, and Social Division in Vukovar and Prijedor” - Blaze Joel : Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

“Hammering the Repetition: Vojislav Despotov's Europe No. Two” - Branislav Jakovljevic : The Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University

Closing Remarks, 5:10 p.m.
Amir Weiner, Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor of History, Stanford University

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