National Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions & Deterritorialisation
National
Identity in Eurasia II : Migrancy
& Diaspora
10-12 July 2009
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Conference Participants
Catherine Andreyev
Nick Baron
Mette Berg
Vladimir Boyko is
Associate Professor in Asian Studies and Director of the Centre for Regional
Studies (Russia and Central Asia) at the Altai State Pedagogical Academy in
Barnaul, Russia. He obtained his PhD in History from the Institute of Oriental
Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). His research focuses on Central
Asian history and politics, regionalism, migration and diaspora (Afghan, Central
Asian, Chinese and Korean communities in Asiatic Russia and worldwide). He was
visiting scholar at Cambridge (2008, 2009), Harvard (1998-99), Ruhr (1996) and
LSE (1995) under the Fulbright, DAAD, British Council and other programmes. He
is the editor of Russia, Siberia, and
Central Asia: Interrelation of Peoples and Cultures (Barnaul, 2001, 2003,
2005), co-author of The New Silk Roads:
Transport and Trade in Greater Central Asia, ed. S. Frederic Starr
(Washington DC, 2007), Transboundary Crime
in the Perimeter of Post-Soviet Russia, ed. S. Golunov (Volgograd, 2006), The Boundaries of Security and the
Security of Boundaries (Tshelyabinsk, 2001), and author of The
Korean Community in Western Siberia in XX-early XXI (Barnaul, 2009
forthcoming), Government and Opposition in Afghanistan: The Main Features of Political
Development in 1919-1953 (Barnaul-Moscow, 2009 forthcoming) and numerous
articles in Russian, English and Farsi.
Olga Brednikova
Olga Bronnikova
is a PhD student at INALCO, Paris and at the University of Poitiers (MIGRINTER
Centre) working under Professors Jean Radvanyi and William Berthomiere. Her
research focuses on the post-Soviet Russian migration of skilled persons to
Paris and London. She received her Masters in 2007 at the Institute of
Geography, Paris IV, Sorbonne, France. She is the author of 'Les migrations
russes post-soviétiques en France: nouvelle période, nouveaux enjeux?', Accueillir,
no. 247 (September, 2008).
Andy Byford is a
Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published extensively on the
social and cultural history of Russian professions, academia, education and the
human sciences, focusing on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. His
current research is on post-Soviet Russian-speaking migration to Great Britain.
Further details on the latter project can be found here.
Tsypylma
Darieva
is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre
‘Changing Representations of Social Orders’ and she teaches at the Humboldt
University, Berlin. Her research interests focus on the anthropology of
migration, transnational diaspora, urban spaces, postsocialism and memory in
Eurasia (Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia). She is the author of Russkij
Berlin: Migranten und Medien in Berlin und London (Münster: Lit Verlag,
2004) and co-editor of Representations on the Margins of Europe: Politics
and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States (Frankfurt: Campus,
2007; together with Wolfgang Kaschuba). Currently she is researching the
concepts and practices of postsocialist urban transformation in South Caucasian
cities.
Christopher Davis is
Reader in the Command and Transition Economics at the University of Oxford.
Further details on his research interests and publications can be found here.
Franck Düvell is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for
Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. In 2003-04, he was
Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert-Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute (Florence), and from 1998 to 2003 he was Research Fellow at
the University of Exeter. He has been a Lecturer in Sociology, Political Science
and Geography at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research focus is on
clandestine migration, mixed migration, European and international migration
politics and on the ethics of migration control. His present research
concentrates on transit migration in Ukraine and Turkey and on quantitative
methods in the study of clandestine migration. His publications include Illegal
Immigration in Europe (Houndmills, 2006), Migration:
Boundaries of Equality and Justice (Cambridge, 2003; with Bill Jordan), Die
Globalisierung des Migrationsregimes (Berlin, 2003), Irregular
Migration: Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility (Cheltenham, 2002; with Bill
Jordan).
Olivier Ferrando is
a PhD candidate working on 'Mobilisation of ethnic minorities in Central Asia: a
comparative approach of the Uzbeks, the Tajiks and the Kyrgyz of the Ferghana
valley', under the supervision of Professor Olivier Roy, in the Department of
Political Sociology of Sciences Po Paris and at the CERI – Centre d’Etudes
et de Recherches Internationales (www.ceri-sciences-po.org/ceri.php).
He runs a seminar course on Central Asia and the Caucasus and tutorial classes
of theory and sociology of international relations at Sciences Po Lille. His
publications on ethnic minorities in Central Asia include: 'Manipulating
the Census: Ethnic Minorities in the Nationalizing States of Central Asia', Nationalities
Papers, vol.36 (3), July 2008, 489-520; 'Education
and Ethnic Minorities in Central Asia: a Comparative Analysis', Central
Eurasian Studies Review, vol.7 (1) , March 2008, 8-12,
(see here); 'Du concept de minorité en Asie
centrale: l’exemple de la vallée du
Ferghana [the concept of minority in Central Asia: the example of the Ferghana
Valley]”, Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde
turco-iranien, n°39-40, December 2005, 73-100, see here
Anne Gorsuch is Associate Professor of History at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
She is the author of Youth in
Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Indiana
University Press, 2000) and the co-editor of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and
Socialism (Cornell University Press, 2006). She has published articles on Soviet history and culture in
Slavic Review, The Russian Review, Social History, Kritika and in numerous
edited volumes. Her current project is on the meaning and experience of Soviet
tourism in the Khrushchev era to places previously unexplored or out of bounds,
including the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the capitalist West. The project also
examines the role of Khrushchev as political traveller and tourist, and the
place of films in negotiating Soviet identity in relationship to the wider
world.
Nick Harney is
the Cassamarca Foundation Associate Professor at the University of Western
Australia. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork and written about both
postwar migration to Canada and post-1990 migration into Europe (Italy). His
current research and publications examine knowledge/power and the informal
economy in Naples, Italy with non-EU migrants. His recent article on rumours and
migration in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (IJSSP,
2006) received an Emerald Literati Network Highly Commended Award 2007. Further details on his teaching, research and publications
can be found here.
Petra Heyse is
a Researcher
at
the Centre for Migration and Intercultural studies, University of Antwerpen
(Belgium). She conducted several studies of Russian-speaking migration in
Belgium, with a specific focus on gender. Her research topics of interest
include: intersectional theory, mixed marriages between Russian-speaking women
and Belgian men, and gender & ethnic related representations and
imaginational processes in migration decision-making. She currently coordinates
a Belgian Federal Science Policy project on gender and migration, in which she
specifically concentrates on Russian-speaking female migrants from Belarus,
Russia and Ukraine. Contact details can be found here.
Alisher Ilkhamov is
Research Associate of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and Caucasus, SOAS.
He is the editor of the Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan and the author of a
number of academic and analytical articles on the issues of nationalism and
national identity, poverty and rural economy, Islamic movements, state and civil
society, with the geographical focus on Central Asia.
Catriona Kelly is
Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the European
Humanities Research Centre. Her work on Russian cultural history includes
studies of personal and national identity, for
example Refining Russia:
Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin
(Oxford University Press, 2001), and Children's World: Growing Up in Russia,
1890-1991 (Yale University Press, 2007). She is currently working on a
project on cultural memory in Leningrad-St Petersburg from 1961, funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Natalya Kosmarskaya is a Senior Researcher at the Department
of the CIS, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).
She is the editor of Diasporas, a
Moscow-based academic journal published quarterly since 1999. She has published
extensively on post-Soviet migration to Russia, Russian-speakers’ position in
the newly independent states, the trajectories of ethnic/social identity change
in the post-Soviet context, diaspora formation in the CIS, and, more generally,
the adaptation of immigrant communities and the conceptualisation of their
position under different ethnic/cultural/social milieus. She has contributed to
the Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Immigrant
and Refugee Cultures Around the World (New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2004), and to a number of academic journals and edited volumes in Russia and the
West. She is also co-editor and co-author of On the Move: Voluntarily and Involuntarily (Post-Soviet Migration in
Eurasia) (Moscow, 1999), and the author of
‘Children of the Empire’ in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Mental Shifts and
Practices of Adaptation (Russians in Kirghizia, 1992-2002) (Moscow, 2006).
Currently she is involved in the joint British-Russian research project
‘Exploring Urban Identities and Community Relations in Post-Soviet Central
Asia’, supported by the Leverhulme Trust (2007-10).
Marlène Laruelle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Central
Asia and Caucasus Institute (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.).
In Paris, she is a tenured associate scholar at Sciences Po (Institute of
Political Studies), and at the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and East-European
Studies at the School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (CERCEC, EHESS). She
was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies in
Tashkent (2002-05) and a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington (2005-06). In English, she has published Russian
Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson
Press/Johns Hopkins U.P., 2008). On migration, she has published
‘Central Asian Labor Migrants in
Russia: The “Diasporization” of the Central Asian States?’ (The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 5/3, 2007, pp. 101-19). She
is currently editing a collective volume on Central Asian migrations
(forthcoming in 2009).
Anne Le Huérou holds a PhD in sociology and is
a Research Associate at CERCEC, EHESS, Paris and Lecturer in Russian Studies at
Le Havre University. She has conducted research on various topics concerning
contemporary Russian politics and society, including local politics and
policing. Over the past years her work has focused on the war in Chechnya and on
the problem of violence and its impact on Russian society and politics,
including counter-terrorist policies. Her current projects deal with the issue of
patriotism in contemporary Russian society, as well as recent migration
processes in Russia. Among her latest publications are: ‘La société civile
en Russie face à la guerre en Tchétchénie [Russian civil society and its
relation to the war in Chechnya]’, in
Aude Merlin (ed.) Où va la Russie (Bruxelles,
2007) and ‘Russia’s War in Chechnya: The Discourse of
Counter-Terrorism and the Legitimation of Violence’ (with
Amandine Regamey), in Samy Cohen (ed.) Democracies
at War against Terrorism (London, 2008). She is a member of the editorial
board of the e-journal Power
Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
(http://www.pipss.org)
She is the editor (with E. Sieca Kozlowski) of Culture
militaire et patriotisme dans la Russie d’aujourd'hui (Paris: Karthala,
2008).
Stephen Lovell is Reader in Modern European History at King's
College London. His publications include Summerfok: A History of the Dacha,
1710-2000 (Cornell UP, 2003) and, as editor, Generations in
Twentieth-Century Europe (Palgrave, 2007). He is also the author of The
Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2009) and is
currently at work on a Blackwell history of the Soviet Union and its successor
states since World War II.
Irina
Molodikova is a Senior Researcher at the Central European University,
Budapest. She received her PhD in Social Geography from Moscow State University.
She received her Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Austrian
University of Peace Studies. From 2003 to 2007 she has been the Director of a
seminar programme on ‘Migration in the Former Soviet Union’ at the HESP Open
Society Institute (Budapest). Since 2007 she is the Director of the seminar
programme on ‘Inequality and Exclusion in the Former Soviet Union’ at HESP,
OSI (Budapest). She specialises in migration between and within the former
Soviet countries and the new enlarged countries of the EU, as well as on
problems of inequality and exclusion. She is a member of the IMISCOE network on
excellence in migration research and a member of the Council of Migration
Research of the CIS Countries and the Baltic States. She is a Visiting Professor
at the Moscow State University. She is the author and editor of several books on
migration in Russia.
Oksana Morgunova holds a PhD from the University of
Edinburgh and is currently a research associate at the University of Glasgow.
She has conducted research on contemporary Russian-speaking migration, migrants'
communications via the Internet, and the employment conflicts of
Russian-speaking migrants. She is the author of a book on Internet
communications and Diasporas (in Russian) and of several articles on the
discourses of 'othering' and 'Europeanism'. She is currently involved in the
project entitled 'Russian Presence in the UK'.
Sayana Namsaraeva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Siberian
Studies Centre, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany).
She received her PhD in History at the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS,
Moscow, in 2003. Since then she has been working as a Research Fellow there. She
has published a monograph and a number of articles (mostly in Russian) on the
history of Inner Asia and Russian-Chinese relations (in the general context of
the Qing Dynasty rule). She is one of co-authors of the Encyclopaedia of Buryatia: History and Culture (2001). Details of
her publications can be found at http://www.eth.mpg.de/.
She continues to examine the evolution of Mongol society in postsocialist times.
Her current project at the MPI (from 2006) focuses on the anthropology of the
Buryat Diaspora in Mongolia and China.
Isabelle Ohayon is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific
Research (CNRS), attached to the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and East-European
Studies at the School of Advanced Social Science Studies (CERCEC, EHESS). Her
research focuses on the social and political history of Soviet Central Asia
during the Stalin era. She has published La sédentarisation des Kazakhs dans
l URSS, collectivisation et changement social (1928-1945) (Paris:
Miasonneuve et Larose, 2006), and several articles about Soviet Central Asia.
Her recent works deal with the construction of local Soviet power in nomadic
societies (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) during the 1920s-30s. On this subject she has
edited an issue of Cahiers du monde russe (no. 49/1, 2008) and she's
currently preparing a compendium of archival documents from Central Asia to be
published by ROSSPEN (Moscow). For more details click here.
Siobhan Peeling is a doctoral student in the School of
History at the University of Nottingham. She is currently writing up a
thesis entitled ‘Practices, Experiences and Representations of Displacement
during the Resettlement of Leningrad after the Second World War’, under the
supervision of Nick Baron and Peter Gatrell. She holds an MPhil from Oxford
in Russian and East European Studies. She is the author of ‘Dirt, Disease and
Disorder: Population Re-placement in Postwar Leningrad and the “Danger” of
Social Contamination’, in Warlands: Population Resettlement and State
Reconstruction in Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-1950, (eds. Nick Baron and
Peter Gatrell, forthcoming).
Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow at the Central
Asia and Caucasus Institute (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.).
He was a Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the French Institute for Central
Asia Studies in Tashkent (1998-2000 and 2002-05), a Research Fellow at the
Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University in Sapporo (2006), and a Research
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington
(2006-07). On migration, he is the co-author of Russians
in Kazakhstan. National Identities and New States in the Post-Soviet Space (2004,
in French; 2007 in Russian), and the author of ‘Les flux migratoires
des Russes d’Asie centrale vers la Russie’ (Espace, Populations, Sociétés,
no. 1, 2007, pp. 47-57), ‘The
“Imperial Minority”: An Interpretative Framework of the Russians in
Kazakhstan in the 1990s’ (Nationalities
Papers, 36/1, pp. 105-23), ‘Nationhood
and the Minority Question in Central Asia. The Russians in Kazakhstan’ (Europe-Asia
Studies, 59/3, 2007, pp. 481-501), and ‘The Russian Minority in Central Asia: Migration, Politics, and Language’
(Kennan Occasional Papers, no. 297,
Washington D.C., Kennan Institute, 2008).
Aleksandra Piir is
the Associate Research Fellow at the European University in St Petersburg. Her
main research interests are in urban anthropology. Her main publications are
devoted to the daily life and practices of Leningrad courtyards and
pigeon-keepers communities. Recently she has been working on a study of urban
ethnic minorities and migration in present-day Russia.
Madeleine
Reeves teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester,
where she is an RCUK Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change. Her research interests lie in the anthropology of the
state, transnationalism and citizenship regimes. Her doctoral dissertation
(2008) explored the everyday materialisation of a new international boundary in
the Ferghana valley. Her current research is a multi-sited ethnography of
labour migration between Kyrgyzstan and Moscow, focusing on everyday
experiences of law and illegality. She has previously taught anthropology at
the University of Cambridge and the American University – Central Asia in
Bishkek. She currently co-directs, with Nina Bagdasarova, the OSI-HESP Regional
Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, Nationhood and Narrative in Central
Asia: History, Context, Critique.
Amandine Regamey holds a PhD in Political Science and Russian
Language and Civilisation, and is currently a Lecturer at the University Paris I
(Pantheon Sorbonne). She has published articles and books on Soviet political
humour (Prolétaires de tous pays, excusez-moi, Paris: Buchet-Chastel,
2007) and the War in Chechnya (Tchétchénie: une affaire intérieure? Paris:
Autrement, 2005; with Anne Le Huérou, Aude Merlin & Silvia Serrano). The
common thread in her research has been an interest in representations and their
impact on reality. She has been working on migration in Russia since 2006 (‘Nécessaires
et indésirables ? Les migrants en Russie’, La Revue Nouvelle, Bruxelles,
August 2007; with Anne Le Huerou) and she has contributed to several
reports on this question for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
Sergey
Ryazantsev is Head of the Centre for Social Demography and Economic
Sociology, Institute of Social-Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow. He specialises in all aspects of contemporary migration to and from
countries of the former Soviet Union. He is the author of various studies on
this topic, the most recent being Trudovaia
migratsiia v stranakh SNG i Baltii: tendentsii, posledstviia, regulirovanie
(Moscow: Formula prava, 2007) and Trudovaia
migratsiia zhenshchin: vyezd, trudoustroistvo i zashchita prav (Moscow:
Nauka, 2008; with M. F. Tkachenko).
Elena Sadovskaya is President of the Centre for Conflict
Management (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and advisor to the Research Council on the Study
of Migration in the CIS States at the Centre for Migration Studies of the
Institute for Economic Prognosis of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow,
Russia). She took part in different international research projects on
migration in Kazakhstan, funded by IOM, ILO, UNFPA, and other international
organisations. She is the author of two monographs and over
a hundred research publications on migration. She is the co-editor of five
research collections of articles. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the UMCP (USA, 1994), a RSEP scholar at the Indiana
University (USA, 2001), and McArthur Fellow (Russia-USA, 2004-06).
She is the member of the ISA, RSS, KAS, and other international
associations and networks. She is the laureate of the EU-USA 1998 Democracy and
Civil Society Award.
Jeff Sahadeo
Gwendolyn
Sasse is
Reader in the Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, and
Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Further details
on her research and publications can be found here.
Erik
R. Scott is a PhD candidate in History at the University of California,
Berkeley. In 2008, he received a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to conduct research
in Moscow and Tbilisi for his dissertation, tentatively entitled ‘Familiar
Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Soviet Union’.
While focusing on Soviet history, his research broadly engages
historical and contemporary issues of migration, diaspora, and empire in
Eurasia. His publications include: ‘The
Nineteenth-Century Gypsy Choir and the Performance of Otherness’, Berkeley
Program in Eurasian and Eastern European Studies Working Paper, Fall 2008;
‘Ottoman Imperial Identities Between Istanbul and the Caucasus’, Journal
of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies, Spring 2007; ‘Georgia’s
Anti-Corruption Revolution’, in Organized
Crime and Corruption in Georgia, eds. Saunders, Scott, and Shelley,
Routeledge, 2007; and ‘Uncharted Territory: Russian Business Activity in
Abkhazia and South Ossetia’, in Russian
Business Power, eds. Wenger, Perovic, and Orttung, Rouetledge, 2006.
Julien Thorez
is a geographer and researcher at CNRS, Paris. He is a member of the research
unit ‘Iranian and Indian World’ (CNRS, Sorbonne nouvelle, INALCO, EPHE). He
works on migrations, mobility, networks and borders in post-Soviet Central Asia.
He is the author of several articles on post-Soviet socio-territorial changes in
Central Asia: «Itinéraires du déracinement: l’essor des migrations de
travail entre l’Asie centrale et la Russie», Espaces, populations et sociétés,
2007, n°1 ; «La construction territoriale de l’indépendance: réseaux
et souveraineté en Asie centrale post-soviétique», Flux, 2007, n° 70,
« Bazars et routes commerciales en Asie centrale: transformation post-soviétique
et «mondialisation par le bas»», Revue
Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2008, vol. 24, n° 3
(forthcoming). Further details on his research and publications can be found at
here.
Anne de Tinguy
Olga Tkach, PhD in Sociology, is a Researcher at the Centre for Independent
Social Research, St Petersburg. Her PhD research was on workers’ dynasties in the Soviet
and post-Soviet contexts. Her research interests are in post-Soviet social
transformations, historical sociology, qualitative methods in sociology, the
sociology of everyday life, migration studies, and gender studies.
Tanya Voronina is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Oral
History, European University in St Petersburg. She holds a PhD in History. She
was involved in the Centre’s project on the memory of the siege of Leningrad
during World War Two. Some result of this project were published in a collection
of essays and publications Pamjat' o
blokade: svidetel'stva ochevidtsev i istoricheskoe soznanie obshchestva:
materialy i issledovaniia [Memory
of the Siege: Testimonies by Witnesses and the Historical Consciousness of
Society: Materials and Research Papers] (Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2006). Her
research interests are in the social history of the USSR, history of memory,
oral history and its methodology, and the biographical method in qualitative
research. Her ongoing project is dedicated to the study of the social impact and
memory of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway.
Ulrike Ziemer holds
a PhD from the Centre of Russian and East European Studies (CREES) at the
University of Birmingham and is currently a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre
for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), UCL School of Slavonic
and East European Studies. Her
research focuses on the study of diasporic youth cultural identities in
post-Soviet Russia. Currently she is researching questions of transnationalism
and Armenian youth cultural identities in Russia and Bulgaria. She has published
‘Narratives
of Translocation, Dislocation and Location: Armenian Youth Cultural Identities
in Southern Russia’
in Europe-Asia Studies, May 2009. Two
more articles are forthcoming in Nationalities
Papers and the European Journal of
Cultural Studies.
Enquiries: russian-nationalism@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk