Saturday May 8, 8.00-9.30 AM EST

CHAIR

Sofie Bedford

(Uppsala U, Sweden)

PAPERS

Svetlana Poleschuk

(European U Institute, Italy)

Stayers, Leavers, and Returners:

Professional Trajectories of Belarusian Mid-Career Academics

Alena Minchenia

(Lund U, Sweden)

From Heroic Fights to the Ethics of Care:

The 2020 Protests in Belarus

Tatsiana Chulitskaya

(Vytautas Magnus U, Lithuania)

Political Science or Science in the Service of Politics:

Internal and External Co-Option in Belarus

Maryia Rohava

(U of Oslo, Norway)

The Power of Narratives:

Belarus in Area-Based Studies

DISCUSSANT

Olga Sasunkevich

(U of Gothenburg, Sweden)