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From: Rick Fawn <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CONF.: Russia in Retrospect
Date: 15 February 2001 12:46
University of St Andrews
Centre for Russian, Soviet and Central and East European Studies
10th Annual Conference
Russia in Retrospect: 10 Years since the End of the USSR
a multidisciplinary conference
Saturday March 17, 2001
Sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
10.00 - 10.30 am: arrival, registration and coffee, Lower College Hall
Panel 1: Image, language and media in Post-Soviet Russia
10.30 am -1.00 pm, Upper College Hall
'The Russian Media in the 1990s: Post-Soviet reality's disappointment after
the "Golden Age"'
Laura Belin (St Antony's College, Oxford)
'Mujahedeen, Mafia, Madmen...Russian perception of Chechens during the wars
in Chechnya, 1994-96 and 1999-2001'
Dr John Russell (Russian Studies, University of Bradford)
'Censorship, 1991 - 2001'
Martin Dewhirst (Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow)
'New Developments in Post-Soviet Language'
Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Russian, University of Edinburgh)
Lunch: 1.00-2.15 pm , Lower College Hall
Panel 2: Is Russia transforming?
2.15-3.45 pm, Upper College Hall
'Russia: Forward to the Past?'
Professor Stephen White (Politics, University of Glasgow)
'Regional Dimensions of Russia's Transformation'
Professor Michael Bradshaw (Geography, University of Leicester)
Afternoon tea: 3.45-4.00 pm, Lower College Hall
Panel 3: Civil society and social change: women and religion since 1991
4.00-5.30 pm, Upper College Hall
'A Liberation from Emancipation? Changing the Gender Climate in Post-Soviet
Russia'
Dr Rebecca Kay (Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow)
'The Place of Religion in Post-Soviet Russia'
Dr Edwin Bacon (CREES, University of Birmingham)
£20 for registration, conference pack, refreshments and lunch. Registration
and payment required by Friday March 9, 2001. Please send your name, title,
contact information and payment, payable to 'The University of St Andrew', to:
Dr Rick Fawn, Director, CRSCEES, University of St Andrews, Scotland KY16 9AL;
email: [log in to unmask]; tel. 01334 462957; fax 01334 462937
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