Events
Research seminars and vivas 2015-21:
21 January 2015
Sander Goes
"Law Enforcement in Russia: 'A Complete Lack of Respect for the Law'?'"
18 February 2015
Turid Austin Wæhler
"Norsk-russisk handel i 1000 år - fra fruktbart handelssamarbeid til handelsblokade"
19 March 2015
Arve Hansen
16 October 2015
Mark Bassin
"Whose Eurasia? Contending Visions of Russia´s Destiny in Space”
30 October 2015
Hilary Pilkington
6 November 2015
Leonid Chekin
"Rasmus Rask in St Petersburg: Strange Encounters at the Dawn of Indo-European Linguistics"
9 November 2015
Leonid Chekin
"Who Discovered Svalbard and Grumant? On Phantom Realities in Medieval Texts and Cartography"
18 January 2016
Mark Gamsa
"Refractions of China in Russia and Russia in China: Ideas and Things"
29 February 2016
Andreas Schönle
"Ruin philosophy, poetic discourse and the collapse of meta-narratives"
9 March 2016
Kåre Johan Mjør
8 April 2016
Ilya Kalinin
"Oil in late- and post-Soviet culture" (in Russian)
12 April 2016
Maria Lvova
2 May 2016
Daria Arkhipova (Akulaeva)
"Life in a Russian Orphanage" (in Russian)
4 November 2016
Petia Mankova
7 November 2016
Natalia Sidlina
“The Cosmonauts Exhibition at the Science Museum in London (2015-16): Curator's Talk”
28 November 2016
Ola Goverud Andersson
"Hva er egentlig regionalisme?"
13 February 2017
Kenneth Wilson
"Questioning Putin's Popularity"
3 March 2017
Olesya Khromeychuk
"From the Maidan to the Donbas: Ukrainian Women in Protest and War"
27 March 2017
Arnold McMillin
"Russian Music in and around Chekhov: An Illustrated Talk"
4 May 2017
Josephine von Zitzewitz
"From Underground to Mainstream: The Case of Elena Shvarts"
22 August 2017
Stephen Lovell
"The Orality of the Russian Revolution"
1 September 2017
Vladimir Paperni
"Lev Tolstoi as an author" (in Russian)
27 September 2017
Jessy Kaner
"What Is the BBC Russian Service and What Is It For?"
17 October 2017
Ingunn Lunde
17 November 2017
Mariëlle Wijermars
"Can Russia Control the Runet?"
12 December 2017
Jeremy Hicks
"Restaging and Editing Victory: Russian Film Memory of the Great Patriotic War and Holocaust"
9 March 2018
Stephen Amico
"The Female Voice in Russian Popular Music"
16 March 2018
Andrii Portnov
"Heroes Do Not Die? On Commemoration in Post-Maidan Ukraine"
4 May 2018
Brita L. Bryn
"Et russiskspråklig jernbanerom"
2 October 2018
Olga Krasa-Ryabets
"The Imaginary Soviet: Individual Memories and Collective Fictional Spaces"
4 October 2018
Maria Ilitcheva and Yulia Bardileva
"Mutual Images of the Other across the Russo-Norwegian Border"
26 October 2018
David-Emil Wickström
"My pravoslavnye - Russkii rok, Orthodoxy and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Russia"
7 November 2018
Anni Lappela
“Arctic and Provincial: Noncapital Urban Spaces in Contemporary Russian Literature”
16 November 2018
Miguel Linan
18 January 2019
Tony Anemone
"2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris: Visual Surfaces and Philosophical Depths"
25 January 2019
Vladislava Vladimirova
"Transforming Ideas of Nature Conservation in Murmansk Region, Russia"
14 February 2019
Robert Porter
“Russian Writers I Have Known - A Slavist's (Light-Hearted) Testimony”
20 March 2019
Roman Bäcker
“Russia: One Day before a Revolution”?
5 April 2019 (To-i-ett/Two-in-One, I)
Sander Goes
"Doing business in Russia: Laws, norms, and profits"
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Bjarge Schwenke Fors
"Politicized art and artistic politics on the Norwegian-Russian border"
15 May 2019 (To-i-ett/Two-in-One, II)
Natalija Majsova
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Lars Kristensen
"Is Postcommunism Dead? The Case of Russian Cinema"
16 May 2019
Åsne Øysteinsdotter Høgetveit
Viva of the doctoral dissertation "The Moral Vertical in Russian Cinema: Female Pilots, Flight Attendants, Cosmonauts and Aliens"
4 October 2019
Yegór Ósipov-Gipsh
"Conversations Not Finished: Memory Narratives of the 1990s in Contemporary Russia"
11 October 2019
Fabienne Rachmadiev
"Art and Activism in Central Asia"
1 November 2019
Jacek Szymala
22 November 2019
Ernst van Alphen
"Madness and Introspection" + "Legacies of Stalinism and the Gulag"
13 December 2019
Andray Abrahamian
"'They Aren't Coming': Russo-DPRK Relations from Independence to Trump"
16 January 2020
Birgit Beumers
"The Road to Nowhere? Space as Time in Recent Russian Cinema"
10 February 2020
Liudmila Nikanorova
"(Re)Claiming Religion in Post-Soviet Siberia. The Case of the Sakha Republic"
2 March 2020
Ilona Wiśniewska
"In Search of a Trustworthy Writer: A Polish Reportage from Svalbard"
17 March 2020
Arve Hansen
Online viva of the doctoral dissertation "Mass Protests from a Spatial Perspective: Discontent and Urban Public Space in Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow"
4 May 2020
Anna Afanasyeva
"Historical Trauma: Exploring 'soul wounds' through Sami oral histories" (online seminar)
28 May 2020
Matthew Blackburn
"The Imagined Nation in Putin's Russia: Identity, Discources and Spaces" (online seminar)
4 September 2020
Kristiina Silvan, Ales Herasimenka, Per A. Rudling
“Belarusian Post-Election Protests 2020: Context, Responses, Future Scenarios” (a webinar hosted by Arve Hansen)
22 September 2020
Bjarge Schwenke Fors
"Tourists, spies, vodka and Soviet cinema: The story about the opening of Boris Gleb in 1965"
27 October 2020 (To-i-ett/Two-in-One, III)
Arve Hansen
"East European Urban Protest: A Spatial Perspective"
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Julie Wilhelmsen
"Spiraling towards a new Cold War in the North? The Effect of Mutual and Multifaceted Securitization"
3 November 2020
Knut Andreas Grimstad
"Olga Tokarczuk - Polens frie røst"
9 February 2021
Rune N. Andreassen
"En skattkiste i fare" (online seminar)
4 March 2021
Kirsten Johannessen
"Skipsforlis ved Bjørnøya"
8 April 2021
Libbie Katsev
"Music, Underground: Music in the Metro and competing standards of street music in Moscow" (online seminar)
7 June 2021
Marina Boboedova
"Fisheries Management and Resource Rent: The Case of the Russian Red King Crab fishery" (online seminar)
17 September 2021
Aliaksandr Ilyukevich
"Contemporary Belarusian Popular Music"
20 October 2021
Tomáš Sniegon
"Špicberky - Za půlnočním sluncem" (Svalbard: To See the Midnight Sun, 2002): a film screening + Q&A
9 November 2021
Sophie Hou
"Russian gas companies facing the 'Arctic turn': A reshuffle of the cards for the Russian gas sector?"