Session 8
Friday (May 6):
10.30 AM-12.00 PM ET
CHAIR
Catherine Wanner
(Penn State U, US)
PAPERS
Seeonhee Kim
(Columbia U, US)
Political Discourse Determines the Persecuted:
Making Religious Regulations in Russia, 2010-2019
Andrey Shcherbak
(HSE, Russia)
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic
on Russian Orthodox Church-State Relations
*co-authored with Maria Ukhvatova (HSE)
Sergei Akopov
(HSE, Russia)
Madonna and Five Questions about Russia’s Gendered Nationalism:
Can Sovereigntism be Demasculinized in the Age of Loneliness Anxiety?
Marthe Handå Myhre
(Oslo Metropolitan U, Norway)
Illiberal Discourse on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Norway and Russia
*co-authored with Mikkel Berg-Nordlie (Oslo Metropolitan U)
DISCUSSANT
Radzhana Buyantuyeva
(Newcastle U, UK)