Michael Gorham 15 May - 15 Jun
Slawomir Kapralski 2 May - 2 Jun
Leonid Polishchuk 15 Sep - 31 Jun
Nino Kemoklidze 1 Jan - 31 Dec
Lyudmila Igumnova 5 Jan - 30 Jun
Guest researchers 2013
News from the Centre
2013-05-14
Professor David Smith has become Docent at Turku University
Professor David Smith has been granted the title Docent in the field of the History of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the University of Turku (Finland). David Smith is Professor of Baltic History and Politics, University of Glasgow and a visiting researcher at the UCRS for the period 2012-2014. His research areas include contemporary history, politics and international relations of the Baltic states and Baltic Sea Region, nationalism, democracy and the political management of ethnic diversity, social identities and politics of memory in East-Central Europe.
2013-05-06
Martin Kragh - a board member of Transparency International Sweden
Martin Kragh, researcher at the UCRS, got elected to the Board of Transparency International Sweden for the period 2013 - 2014. Transparency International Sweden (TI Sweden) is an independent nonprofit organisation that, together with a hundred national chapters worldwide, is part of the global coalition Transparency International.
- The Board members are responsible for launching and running projects on corruption risks. Past projects dealts for instance with such issues as party financing and corruption in public procurement. My vision is to work on issues concerning Swedish companies' direct investment in the emerging markets. I also hope eventually to bridge the gap between Transparency International and academic world. It is important to coordinate the work between industry, the public sector and the research, said Martin Kragh about his new role as Board member.
Transparency International (TI), founded in 1993 and based in Berlin, have come to be acknowledged in the international arena as the leading organisation combating corruption in all its forms.
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Raoul Wallenberg workshop and Soviet Archives conference: a photo reportage
On 9-11 May, UCRS arranged two international conferences focusing on archival research - a workshop "Researching the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg and other Unresolved Questions Pertaining to the History of the Cold War. Archival Studies and Research Methodology" and a conference "What have we learched from the Soviet archives ". Both conferences were well attended and raised diverse and interesting issues. Among the audience were among other members of the Wallenberg family - Raoul Wallenberg's half-sister Nina Lagergren, two of her children, Nane Annan and Bengt Lagergren, and Nina’s granddaughter Cecilia Åhlberg, representatives of the Russian embassy, researchers, students, and representatives of the Swedish media. (Put the cursor over the photo to read the comment).
International symposium " #Protest Baku: Is Azerbaijan next in line for a democratic revolution?"
Photo by Shahla Sultanova
Following the so-called colour revolutions in other former Soviet republics many expected Azerbaijan to be the scene of the next popular uprising and ahead of parliamentary elections in 2005 there were great hopes. This hope vanished however. Nevertheless, a new wave of mobilization appears to be led by a generation of democracy activists in Azerbaijan strengthened by the growth of social media. Analysts and activists have described them as the beginning of an “Azerbaijani Spring”, indicating that what is happening in Azerbaijan can be linked to the Arab Spring.
This raises a number of interesting questions: what do these protests have in common and can they, despite their diversity, be seen as part of an on-going popular mobilization in Azerbaijan? Why is this happening now and what are really the chances of democratic reforms in Azerbaijan? Is it feasible to analyse contention in Azerbaijan from a more general theoretical perspective, or are there specific political, historical or cultural factors that are important in the making and breaking of protest in this particular context?
These and other issues will be discussed during a half-day symsposium on Tuesday, May 21, at Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus. For more information download symposium programme.
The symposium is co-sponsored by Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and co-organized with Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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COMING EVENTS
SEMINAR
2013-05-28
"Arctic Archives" by Prof Susanne Frank (Humboldt University)
Time: 28 May, 15:15-17:00
Place: UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3 floor
Chairman: Elena Namli
Language: English
SEMINAR
2013-05-30
"Holocaust Memories & Roma Identities" by Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw)
Time: 30 May, 15:15-17:00
Place: UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3 floor
Chairman: Li Bennich-Björkman
Language: English
CONFERENCE
"Contemporary Russian Utopianism: Geopolitics and Identity"
Date: 19-20 September, 2013
Location: Uppsala University and Dalarna University.
More information about the event is coming shortly.
Recent Publications
Encyklopediartikel av Sven Eliaeson ”Weber and Social Science: Methodological Precepts”. Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, vol, 2, ed. Byron Kaldis, London. Sage, 2013, pp. 1043-1047. ISBN:978-1-4129-8689-2
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Encyclopaedia article by Ingvar Svanberg “Dill, Anethum graveolens. Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants, vol.1, ed. Christopher Cumo. Santa Barbara. CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2013. pp. 378–381. ISBN 978-1-59884-7741.
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Article by Susanna Rabow-Edling, "From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean: Three Governor's Wives in Russian America" History of Women in the Americas, Vol 1, No. 1, 2013.
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Article by Johan Matz: " Cables in Cipher, the Raoul Wallenberg Case and Swedish–Soviet Diplomatic Communication 1944–1947". Scandinavian Journal of History, 2013. DOI:10.1080/03468755.2013.785016
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Book chapter by Jessica Giandomenico: "EU Conditionality as a Transforming Power in Macedonia: Evidence from Electoral Management". European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans. Ed. Arolda Elbasani. Routledge, 2013.
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Book chapter by Susanna Witt: “Totalitarizm i perevod: kontekst Džambula” [Totalitarism och översättning: Džambuls kontext]. Džambul Džabaev. Priključenija kazachskogo akyna v sovetskoj strane [Džambul Džabaev: Den kazachiske akynens äventyr i sovjetlandet]. Red. Konstantin Bogdanov, Riccardo Nicolosi, Jurij Murašov. Moskva: NLO 2013.
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Article by Pär Gustafsson "The emergence of the rule of law in Russia". Global Crime, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 82-109.
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Article by Greg Simons "Security Sector Reform and Georgia: the European Union's challenge in the Southern Caucasus". Journal of European Security, Vol. 21, No. 2, June 2012, pp. 272-293.
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