Program

25 October 2017

10.00 Words of welcome by Professor Anne Husebekk (UiT Rector) and the organising committee

Keynote
10.15 Professor Simon Dixon (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London):
«Why was there no counter-revolution in Russia after 1917?»

11.15  Coffee break

Panel 1

(Moderator: Professor Kari Aga Myklebost)

11.30 Professor Catherine Andreyev (University of Oxford):
«1917: The evolution of émigré views to the Revolution».

12.00 Professor Jens Petter Nielsen (UIT The Arctic University of Norway):
«’Understanding in the name of consolidation’. Vladimir Putin’s history policy with regard to the Russian revolution»

12.30 Lunch in Champagne-kantina

Panel 2

(Moderator: Professor Jens Petter Nielsen)

13.30 Professor Vladislav I. Goldin (Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk):
«The Russian revolution and civil war in the North: Contemporary approaches and understanding»

14.00 Professor Tatiana Troshina (Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk):
«The dynamics of relations between the population of the Arkhangelsk region and Northern Norway in 1917»

14.30 Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg):
«Gifts of the revolution: Soviet indigenous policies through the lens of the anthropology of exchange»

15.00 Professor Andrei Rogatchevski (UIT the Arctic University of Norway):
«Avant-garde art and rebellious reindeer herders in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s feature film Angely revoliutsii (Angels of the Revolution) (2014)»

15.30 Time off

17.00 A performance by the artist collective eredovoe udozhestvo (Roman Osminkin, Anastasia Vepreva, Anton Komandirov):

Procession of the Russian cruiser Aurora on the day of the centennial of the Great October Socialist Revolution

The procession will start at the Art Academy (Grønnegata 1), and go through the city centre towards the seafront (the performance lasts ca. 1 hour, depending on the weather)

19.00  Banquet (Arctandria restaurant, Strandtorget 1)

21.00 A music performance by Roman Osminkin and Anton Komandirov at Storgata 108

26 October 2017

Panel 3 

(Moderator: Professor Hallvard Tjelmeland)

10.00  Professor Klas-Gøran Karlsson (University of Lund, Sweden):
«The Russian Revolution in Sweden – Some Genetic and Genealogical Perspectives»

10.30 Dr Ole Martin Rønning (The Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library, Oslo):

«Cadre schools and the world revolution’s general staff»

11.00 Professor Åsmund Egge (University of Oslo, Norway):
"Soviet diplomacy in Norway and Sweden in the interwar years. The role of Alexandra Kollontai"

11.30 Assoc. prof., Doctor of Historical Sciences, Victoria V. Tevlina (University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway) and Prof. II (Northern (Arctic) Federal University):
«Russian emigration to Norway after the Russian revolution and civil war»

12.00 Coffee break

Panel 4
(Moderator: Professor Andrei Rogatchevski)

12.30 Professor Hallvard Tjelmeland (UIT the Arctic University of Norway):
«The Impact of the October revolution on the North-Norwegian labour movement»

13.00 Professor Kari Aga Myklebost (UIT the Arctic University of Norway):
«The longing for a liberal Russia. The Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch (1867-1961)»

13.30 Dr Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia (British Library, London):
«The recent exhibition on the Russian revolution at the British Library: Curator’s Talk»

14.00 Questions, discussion. Conference closure

14.30 Lunch in Champagne-kantina