CHAIR
Olga Onuch
(U of Manchester, UK)
PAPERS
Nadja Douglas
(ZOiS, Germany)
Belarus: From the Broad Social Contract to a Narrow Security Contract
Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
“The Politics of Uncertainty” in Practice:
The 2020 Presidential Election that Changed Belarus
Anton Dinerstein
(UMass Amherst, US)
The People Who “Burn”: Public Creativity, Identity,
and the Myth of Cultural Change in Belarusian Discourse
Iryna Shumskaya
(Columbia U, US)
Belarusian Identity in the Post-Colonial Labyrinths
DISCUSSANT
Fabian Burkhardt
(Leibniz Institute, Germany)