Day 1, 22. November 2017
21 Nov, 4 pm updated
11:00-13:00	Registration	Orkanen entrance hall
13:00-13:15	Welcome and introductory words	OR:B423	Dean Rebecka Lettevall, Ambassador Ingrid Tersman - Chairman of RUCARR’s Advisory Board, Professors Bo Petersson & Karina Vamling – Co-directors of RUCARR
13:15-14:30	Keynote Speech: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Legacy in Post-Soviet Russia	OR:B423	Keynote Speaker: Prof. Paul Goode, University of Bath
14:30-15:00	Coffee Break
Session 1 – 15:00-17:00
	Panel 1	Panel 2	Panel 3	Panel 4
Location/room numbers	Orkanen E239	Orkanen F415	Orkanen C127	Orkanen B404
Theme:	Nationalism & Memory	Post-Soviet Developments: Theoretical and methodological perspectives	Grounding Studies of Nationalism and Patriotism in RUCARR Region	Ethnicity and Nationalism in the RUCARR Region
Chair:	Bo Petersson, Malmö University	Derek Hutcheson, Malmö University	Mahama Tawat, Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow	Karina Vamling, Malmö University
	Shota Kakabadze, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu : “Christian Stalin;” The Paradox of the Contemporary Georgian Politics	Ketevan Bolkvadze, Quality of Government Institute/Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: To Reform, or to Resist? Incentives for fighting judicial corruption in hybrid regimes	Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University: Approaching everyday nationalism and patriotism in Russia after the Ukraine conflict	Nino Abzianidze, NCCR Democracy, Dep. of Political Science, University of Zurich: Us vs. Them as Structural Equivalence: Analyzing the Structure of Nationalist Appeals in Georgian Print Media
	Eleonora Narvselius, Lund University: The 1943-44 Volhynian massacres in the Polish-Ukranian-Russian “triangle of Memory	Kyle Marquardt, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Ethnic conflict in the Soviet Union, with and without ethnicity	Martin Demant Frederiksen, University of Copenhagen & Katrine Gotfredsen, Malmö University: Rose Revolution: The Soldier and the Hoax - Patriotism, Fake News and Ambivalence in Postwar Georgia	Sahar Nejati Karimabad, Middle East Technical University, Ankara: Post-Soviet Azerbaijani Ethnic Identity and Post-Revolutionary Iranian Azeri Ethnic Identity: Overlaps and Interactions
	Alexander Osipov, International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Prague: ‘The rehabilitation of repressed peoples’ – how it mirrors the Russian nationalities policy and why does it make troubles	Kazim Azimov, Dep. of Sociology, Baku State University, Azerbaijan & Ganbarov Baldadash, Dep. of International Relations, Belorussia State University, Minsk: Cultural Capital, Modernization, and Education in Azerbaijan	Tova Höjdestrand, Lund University: Social welfare or moral warfare? Conservative popular resistance against neoliberal social policy in Russia	Eleonora Minaeva & Petr Panov, Perm University, Russia: Ethnic Republic in Russia: Spatial Localization of Ethnic Groups and Linguistic Policies
	Olga Zabalueva, Applied Cultural Analysis, Lund University: Exhibiting the Nation: Russian Cultural Policies and Nationalism			Hanna Vasilevich, International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies (Prague): “Russian World” and compatriots' policies
17:00-17:15	Break – refreshments
17:15-18:30	Panel Discussion: ‘New Authoritarian Tendencies in Europe and Eurasia’	OR:F103	Speakers: George Mchedlishvili, International Black Sea University/Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eleonora Narvselius, Lund University Petr Panov, Perm State University, Russia
18:30-19:15	Reception	Orkanen Restaurant

Day 2, 23. November 2017
Session 2, November 23, 09:30-11:30
	Panel 1	Panel 2	Panel 3	Panel 4
Location/room number:	Niagara BOE 15	Niagara C0826	Niagara C0929	Niagara C1029
Theme:	Strategic Perspectives in the RUCARR Region	Local Perspectives on Conflict and Nationalism in the Caucasus Region	Religion and Identity in the Russian Federation	Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Caucasus Region
Chair:	Bo Petersson, Malmö University	Katrine Gotfredsen, Malmö University	Derek Hutcheson, Malmö University	Karina Vamling, Malmö University
	Babak Rezvani, University of Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen: The Syrian and Iraqi Conflicts’ Ethnogeopolitical Consequences for the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East	Vadim Romashov, Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere: Local Peace and Conflict: Narratives and Practices of Armenian-Azerbaijani Rural Communities in Georgia	Kiryl Kascian, International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Prague: A spiritual ministry: the Russian Orthodox Church as a tool of Russia’s foreign policy	Nana Janashia, Georgian Technical University, Georgia: Human problems in the conflict zone
	Natalia Taksami, Karelian Institute University of Eastern Finland: Silk Road on a long run: China’s presence in Russian Far East	Vera Skvirskaja, Dep. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen: National Borders and Transnational Languages: Nationalism and Trader-Cosmopolitanism in Georgia	Hamed Kazemzadeh, Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland: Islamic identity formation & the roots of ethnic conflicts – religious crisis in Russia	Klaudia Kosicinska, University of Warsaw: Situation of Azerbaijanis in Georgia as the largest national minority of the country
	Mahama Tawat & Yana Zdanovich, Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow: Economic Sanctions and Foreign Policy Change. A Comparative Analysis of Russia and Iran	Oleksandr Polianichev, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Leipzig: Colonial Entanglements: The Expulsion of the Adyghe as a Challenge to the Russian Nationality	Sufian N. Zhemukhov & Robert W. Orttung, George Washington University: Urban Islam in Russia	Alexandre Kukhianidze, Dep. of Political Science, Tbilisi State University: Lost Opportunities in the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict
			Caspar ten Dam, Leiden University, Netherlands: The Tragic Tale of the Chechen Independence Struggle	Aram Terzyan, Dep. of Political Science, Yerevan State University/ Dep. of Global Political Studies Malmö University: Russia vs. EU in the foreign policy discourse of Armenia: Between European identity and Russia-led trajectory
11:30-13:00	Lunch	Niagara
13:00 à	Beginning of Circassian Conference