Conference Programme
All academic sessions will take place in the Haldane Room.
Coffees and teas will be served in the Hall.
Lunches and dinner will be served in the Buttery.
Friday 10 July 2009
1.00pm-1.45pm Registration (with Coffee)
1.45pm-2.00pm Conference opening
2.00pm-3.00pm Opening lecture
Chair: t.b.c.
Anne de Tinguy (INALCO, Sciences Po, Paris)
3.00pm-3.15pm Short break
3.15pm-4.45pm Panel 1 Soviet Migration in the Aftermath of WW2
Chair: Katya Andreyev (University of Oxford)
Siobhan Peeling (University of Nottingham) ‘Disorder, Disease and Deviance: The Treatment of Migrants as a Source of Social Contamination during the Resettlement of Leningrad at the End of the Second World War’
Nick Baron (University of Nottingham) ‘Reforming the Body Social: The Soviet “Filtration” of Returnees from Nazi Germany, 1944-49’
Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University) ‘First Encounters: Non-Russian “Blacks” in Postwar Leningrad and Moscow’
4.45pm-5.15pm Tea
5.15pm-6.45pm Panel 2 Migrancy & Diaspora in the Late Soviet Era
Chair: t.b.c.
Anne Gorsuch (University of British Columbia) ‘Performing on the International Stage: Soviet Tourism to the Capitalist West in the Cold War’
Tanya Voronina (European University, St Petersburg) ‘The Labour Migration of Young People to the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad Project (1974-1984): Social Policy and Life Stories’
Erik Scott (University of California, Berkeley) ‘Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Soviet Union’
6.45pm-7.45pm Reception (compliments of COMPAS)
7.45pm Conference Dinner (Wolfson)
Saturday 11 July 2009
9.15am-11.00am Panel 3 Post-Soviet Diasporas: Memory, Belonging, Homecoming
Chair: Mette Berg (University of Oxford)
Natalya Kosmarskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAN, Moscow) ‘Demythologising Diasporas: Some Lessons from the Study of Everyday Ethnicity in the Post-Soviet Context’
Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt University, Berlin) ‘Post-Soviet Homecomings: A Comparison of the German, Kazakh & Armenian Diasporas’
Ulrike Ziemer (SSEES-UCL) ‘Diaspora and Belonging: Armenian Youth Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location in Southern Russia’
Sayana Namsaraeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle), ‘Liberation from a “Confusing” Past: Social Memory of Buryat Diasporas in China and Mongolia’
11.00am-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm Panel 4 Migration in the CIS: Recent Trends
Chair: t.b.c.
Irina Molodikova (CEU, Budapest) ‘Transformations of the CIS Migration System in the New Century: The Influence of Russia’s New Migration Policy of “Open Doors” on Migration Patterns in the Post-Soviet Space’
Amandine Regamey (Paris I, Sorbonne), ‘Representations of Migrants and Policy-Making in Russia’
Franck Düvell (University of Oxford) ‘(Irregular) Transit Migration on Europe’s Eastern Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine’
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.45pm Panel 5 Astride Russia & Central Asia: Networks, Flows & Pathways
Chair: Alisher Ilkhamov (SOAS)
Julien Thorez (University of Nantes) ‘Transport-Traffic-Transfer: Migration Networks between Russia and Central Asia’
Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester) ‘Clean Fake: Precarious Labour and the Ethics of Documentary Invisibility in Migrant Moscow’
Olivier Ferrando (Sciences Po, Paris), ‘Nationalities, Minorities, or Diasporas? How Labour Migrants Challenge the Relationship Between Central Asian Kin-States, their Kin-Minorities Abroad, and Russia as a Host-Country’
Sébastien Peyrouse (Johns Hopkins University) ‘The Repatriation Issue of Russians from Central Asia: Migratory Flows and the Russophonia Question’
3.45pm-4.15pm Tea
4.15pm-5.45pm Panel 6 Post-Soviet Migrant Crossroads: Kazakhstan, Russia, China
Chair: Isabelle Ohayon (CERCEC, EHESS, Paris)
Marlène Laruelle (Johns Hopkins University) ‘Kazakhstan as a New Pole of Immigration in Central Asia: Regional Context, National Modalities, and Socio-Economic Impact’
Elena Sadovskaya (Centre for Conflict Management, Almaty) ‘The Chinese in Kazakhstan’
Anne Le Huérou (CERCEC, EHESS, Paris) ‘Emigration, Immigration and Transit Migration in the Omsk Region: Old and New Patterns of Labour Migration on the Russia-Kazakhstan Border’
7.30pm Informal Dinner (restaurant in Oxford)
Sunday 12 July 2009
9.30am-11.00am Panel 7 Immigrants in Russia: The Case of St Petersburg
Chair: Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford)
Daniel Alexandrov & Maria Safonova (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg) ‘Labour Migrants from Central Asia in Rural and Suburban Areas: The Case of St Petersburg and its Environs’
Olga Tkach & Olga Brednikova (Centre for Independent Social Research, St Petersburg) ‘Female Migration in the Post-Soviet Space: (Net)working and Making Home in St Petersburg’
Aleksandra Piir (European University, St Petersburg) ‘“Get off that desk! You’re no longer in your Caucasus village…”: School Rules and Norms Applied to Non-Russian Migrant Children’
11.00am-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm Panel 8 East-West Migration I: Labour & Mobility
Chair: t.b.c.
Nick Harney (University of Western Australia) ‘The East Gets its Mediterranean Port: Ukrainians in Naples, Italy’
Olga Bronnikova (INALCO, Paris) ‘The International Mobility of Highly Skilled Migrants: The Example of Post-Soviet Russian Migration to Paris and London’
Aino Saarinen (Helsinki) Title to come.
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.30pm Panel 9 East-West Migration II: New Diasporic Identities
Chair: t.b.c.
Sergey Ryazantsev (Institute of Social-Political Research, RAN, Moscow) ‘The Modern Russian Diaspora: Questions of Formation, Identity and Assimilation’
Andy Byford (University of Oxford) ‘Representing “Russians in Britain”’
Oksana Morgunova (Glasgow University) ‘“Borders Become Us”: Russian-Ukrainian Dialogue in the UK’
3.30pm-3.45pm Closing remarks