Conference: The End of the Region: The Future of Spatial Constructs
in the Populist Era
Programme
29 November 2017
Salle Academique, Place du XX Aout, Liege, Belgium
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Welcome Vsevolod Samokhvalov
8:30-09:45 Session 1. Theoretical Aspects of Regional Construction
Chair: Sebastian Santander (University of Liege)
Luk Van Langenhove, Institute of European Studies (VUB): The fate of regions in a hyper-connected world
Anna Ohanyan (Harvard/Stonehill College): Lenin’s revenge: regional fracture in post-communist Eurasia
Maria Lagutina (St Petersburg State University): The region in the era of the global regionalization
Valeriya Korabliova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): European (dis)order: new cleavages and ideological transgressions
09:45-11:00 Session 2. Central Asia in Eurasian Transformations
Chair: Richard Griffiths (University of Leiden)
Akram Umarov (Uzbekistan University of World Economy and Diplomacy): Central Asia: construction of the new regional security complex
Sangar Kaneshko (University College of London): Post-soviet Central Asian republics: between regionalism and regionalization
Diana Kudaibergenova (University of Lund): In the heart of lost Eurasia: failed regionalism in Central Asia from a critical perspective
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:50 Session 3. Euro-Asian Fractures: The Case of Ukraine?
Chair: Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge)
Iryna Shuvalova (University of Cambridge): A tale of two regions: deconstructing the myth of divided Ukraine through war songs
Olena Lyubchenko (University of York): European nationalisms?: The case of contemporary Ukraine
Ivanna Machitidze (International Black Sea University): Pan-slavism and popular culture: the case of Ukraine’s breakaway regions
Tetiana Maliarenko (Law Academy of Odessa): Evolving dynamics and conflict potential in Eastern Ukraine
12:50-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:10 Session 4. Central Europe
Chair: Panagiota Manoli (University of Aegean)
Gosia Jakimov (University of Sheffield): China’s belt and road initiative and the European fragmentation: The securitisation/soft power dynamics in the sub-regionalisation process in Central-Eastern Europe
Fabienne Bossuyt (University of Ghent), Central and Eastern European Perceptions of Eurasian Economic Union: Between Economic Opportunities and Fear of renewed Russian hegemony
Roman Badyuk (College of Europe): Kresy Wschodnie’ or the partner in the Eastern Neighborhood: modern Polish popular perception of Ukraine
Alena Vieira (CICP/University of Minho): Never waste a crisis: redefining the region as a new cooperation space between the East and the West in the aftermath of the Ukraine conflict
15:10-16:40 Session 5. Eurasia – Beyond Post-Soviet Studies
Chair: Anna Ohanyan (Harvard/Stonehill College)
Richard Griffiths (University of Leiden): Whose ‘Silk Road’ is it? Rhetoric and reality in Central Asia and the Caucuses
Noemi Rocca (University of Coimbra): From connectivity and security to regional integration? Iran’s and China’s role in Central Asia
Bakhtyor Mustafaev (Uzbekistan Institute of Strategic and Regional Studies): New regional dynamics in Central Asia: historical aspects and new approaches
Cindy Reigner (University of Liege): The CSTO reinforcement of the “self” through the categorization of NATO as the “other”
16:40-17:00 Coffee-Break
17:00-18:15 Session 6. Black Sea Region in Eurasian perspective
Chair: Vsevolod Samokhvalov (University of Liege)
Panagiota Manoli (University of Aegean): Shaped by crises? Regionalism in the Eastern European Neighbourhood
Valentin Naumescu (Babe?-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca): Stability, ambiguity and change in NATO allies’ discourses in the Black Sea region: the cases of Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey
Olga Zeveleva (University of Cambridge): Media Regimes and Journalism in Contemporary Crimea
18:15-18:30 Concluding remarks Vsevolod Samokhvalov
Attendance is free, but registration is necessary via the link https://goo.gl/rmnZAQ. Should further question arise contact us at: v.samokhvalov@ulg.ac.be.