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Virtual Conference • Graduate Student Research of Russia in the Social Sciences
May 20, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Conference Registration: https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvfuGrrDIjGtJReymnPdv7n8tpHEaS7k1i
Conference Program
8.00 am Welcome – Graeme Robertson (CSEEES Director)
8.15 am – 9.45 am Panel 1 Health and Criminal Justice in Russia
- Arseny Verkeev (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg) – Perceptions of Crime in Russia: What Can Indicators Developed in the US Tell Us?
- Taya Bazhenova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) – Assessing the Effectiveness of the Russian Criminal Justice System: Advantages and Limitations of Using DEA and SEM Methods
- Amanda Hardy (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) – Russian Speakers’ Vaccine Hesitancy and VKontakte: What Social Media Can Tell Us
Commentator: Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University)
9.45 am – 10.00 am Break
10 am – 11.30 am Panel 2 Russia in the International Arena
- Natalia Leskina and Martina Vukasovic (Ural Federal University) – Policy Transfer in a Eurasian Regime Complex: Exploring its Paths and Effects for Building In-Region Connectivity
- Doniyor Mutalov (Webster University in Tashkent) – Russian Diplomacy in 2021 Back to 1917?
- Danijela Čanji and Aliaksei Kazharski (Comenius University in Bratislava) – When the “Subaltern Empire” Speaks. On Recognition, Eurasian Integration, and the Russo- Georgian War
Commentator: Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
11.30 am – 12.00 pm Break
12.00 pm – 1.30 pm Panel 3 Elite Politics in Russia
- Bryce W. Hecht (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – Falling Into Line: Crises and Opposition Behavior in Authoritarian Legislatures
- Dima Kortukov (Indiana University, Bloomington) – Governance and Electoral Competition in Authoritarian Regimes: Theory and Evidence from Gorbachev’s USSR
- Andrey Yushkov & Kathleen Gergely (Indiana University, Bloomington) – Loyalty vs Competence Revisited: Political Survival of Subnational Executives under Autocracy
- Elena Sirotkina (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – The Role of Expertise of Bureaucrats in Responding to COVID
Commentator: Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
1.30 pm – 1.45 pm Break
1.45 pm – 3.15 pm Panel 4 Contentious Politics in Russia
- Ivan Sumaneev (European University at St. Petersburg) – Incentives to Join Opposition Parties in Autocracies: Case of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Martin Naunov (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – The Effect of Protesters’ Gender on Social Movement Perception and Repression Toleration
- Grigory Hakimov (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) – The Vote Abroad Movement: Monitoring the 2021 State Duma Elections in Exile
- Alexandra Rumyantseva (European University at St. Petersburg) – Local Authorities’ Strategies and Reaction to the Navalny Protest Waves in the 2017 – 2018 Years in Russia
Commentator: Samuel A. Greene (Kings College, London)
3.15 pm – 3.30 pm Closing Remarks