Session 3
Wednesday (May 4):
2.00-3.30 PM ET
CHAIR
Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
PAPERS
Alesia Rudnik
(Karlstad U, Sweden)
“TikTok-Famous” Political Protests:
Telegram and TikTok as New Protest Mobilization Platforms
Katsiaryna Lozka
(Ghent Institute for International and European Studies, Belgium)
How the Border Fence Appeared:
Conceptualizing Escalation in EU-Belarus Relations
David R. Marples
(U of Alberta, Canada)
Good Neighbors and Bad Friends:
Belarus and Russia After August 2020
Veranika Laputska
(Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences)
The Womanly Face of the Belarusian “Evalution”
DISCUSSANT
Nelly Bekus
(U of Exeter, UK)