IOS Annual Conference: "(Re-)Ordering Eastern Europe"
10th IOS Annual Conference 2023
From the bipolar setup of the Cold-war era via a unipolar world order following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has moved on to yet another stage of being in flux. It is marked by constant re-negotiations and re-adjustments of centres and balances of power, as well as of security arrangements involving volatile and fragmented coalitions. The 2023 edition of the IOS Annual Conference aspires to address these ongoing changes and shifts as multiscalar processes of re-ordering Eastern Europe. ‘Eastern Europe’ is broadly defined as including Eastern and East-Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia.
The program may be subject to change.
The conference is open to the public. Registration by email or at the reception:
Program
Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ulf Brunnbauer, Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)
Cindy Wittke, Head of the Political Science Research Group, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)
Ukraine’s Resilience
Chair: Kateryna Busol (British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Explaining Ukraine’s Resilience to Russia’s Invasion: The Role of Local Governance and Communities, Maryna Rabinovych (University of Agder, Kyiv School of Economics) & Tymofii Brik; Andrii Darkovich; Myroslava Savisko; Valentyn Hatsko; Serhii Tytiuk; Igor Piddubnyi (all Kyiv School of Economics)
Are Workers Nationalist? National Mobilisation and Spontaneous Politization in Ukraine, Denys Gorbach (Sciences Po Paris)
In Search of Peace: Improving Mediation Strategies and Post-Conflict Rebuilding Measures in War-Affected Ukraine, Tetyana Malyarenko (University of Regensburg, National University “Odesa Law Academy”)
Coffee Break
Digital Politics and Digital (Re-)Ordering
Chair: Fabian Burkhardt (IOS)
Brothers in (digital) arms? Private tech companies and Ukraine cyber resilience, Julien Nocetti (Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) University of Paris 8)
Managing Research under Dataveillance, Jasmin Dall’Agnola (George Washington University)
Religious institutions as information actors: Identity, emotions and war, Precious Chatterje-Doody (The Open University)
Lunch break
Authoritarian Practices across Regime Types
Chair: Jasmin Dall’Agnola (George Washington University)
Channeling discontent or fraud? Evidence from the 2021 smart voting strategy in Russia, Galina Selivanova (University of Bonn) & Adrián del Río (Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB); Visiting Fellow, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
The Politics of Memory Laws in the Parliaments of Russia and Ukraine in 1991—2022, Andrii Nekoliak (University of Amsterdam)
Authoritarian democrats or democratic authoritarians? Explaining preferences for excluding political outgroups in Belarus, Jan Matti Dollbaum (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) & Fabian Burkhardt (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
Break
First Keynote Speech
Martin Müller (University of Lausanne): Decolonising decolonialism: worlding global theory with Eastern Europe
Multi-Disciplinary Conversation
Peter Bugge (University of Aarhus)
Jana Hönke (University of Bayreuth)
Anne Brüske (University of Regensburg)
Oleksandr Zabirko (University of Regensburg)
Moderator: Cindy Wittke (IOS)
IOS Annual Reception
Secession and Fragmentation
Chair: Cristina Teleki (Maastricht University)
Future of Post-Soviet Secessionist Entities in Light of the Russia-Ukraine War: International Law “Red Lines”, Julia Miklasova (University of Cologne)
Ontological in-Securities in the post-Soviet Politics of International law. A comparative analysis between the Georgian-Abkhaz Context and the Transnistrian Settlement, Elia Bescotti (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Losing clients? De facto states’ reactions to the invasion of Ukraine and transformations of Russia's patron-state politics, Sophie Gueudet (PeaceRep Ukraine, LSE Ideas)
Performing power in the Balkans: The changing role of the EU in the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Marina Vulović (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP))
Coffee Break
Second Keynote Speech
Gwendolyn Sasse (Centre for East European and International Studies, ZOiS): Re-ordering (the study) of Eastern Europe
Moderator: Ekaterina Mikhailova (IOS)
(Transitional) Justice during and after War
Chair: Ger Duijzings (University of Regensburg)
Reshaping Reparations for Atrocity Survivors in Ukraine's post-2022 Transitional Justice Policy, Kateryna Busol (British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Deportation and transitional justice assessment in Ukraine, Oksana Senatorova (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv)
Coffee Break
Taking Russia to Court
Chair: Nikola Gajić (IOS)
The European Court of Human Rights – Player, Influencer or Neutral Participant in Military Conflicts?, Cristina Teleki (Maastricht University)
The Russian case for accountability for the crime of aggression, Gleb Bogush (University of Copenhagen)
Countering Imperialism in International Law: Examining the Special Tribunal for Aggression through a Post-Colonial Eastern European Lens, Patryk Labuda (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Legal Studies)
Concluding Remarks
Contact person
Dr. Cindy Wittke
Head of the Research Group