Web-based Conference Program

ROOM A

Day 1-Jan 28, 2021

8:00-8:15 am CST (UTC-6)
Welcome and Introduction
Room A

8:15 – 10:00 am CST (UTC-6) Plenary Session
Migration, Ethnicity, Nationalism
Room A

Discussant: Sergei Ryazantsev
(Institute for Demographic Research of the FCATS RAS, Moscow)
Chair: Paul Dower
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Nargiza Abdrakhman kyzy
(American University of Central Asia)
The Impact of Labour Migration to Russia on the Status of Women in Rural Kyrgyzstan

Zuzanna Brunarska
(University of Warsaw, Centre of Migration Research)
With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-standing vs Recent Ethnic Diversity and Outgroup Trust in Russia

Ksenia Tenisheva
(National Research University Higher School of Economics – St Petersburg)
Migrant Children in Russian Schools: Accumulation or Compensation of Inequality

Marharyta Fabrykant
(National Research University Higher School of Economics)
National Pride and Social Trust in Russia in Cross-National Comparative Perspective

ROOM B

ROOM A

Day 1-Jan 28, 2021

10:15 am-12:00 pm CST (UTC-6)
Subnational Government Institutions

Discussant: Henry Hale
(George Washington University)
Chair: Yoshiko Herrera
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Guzel Garifullina
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Private-Public Partnership in Russian Municipalities: Which Mayors Risk More?

Olga Gasparyan
(University of Rochester)
Devolution in Non-Democratic Regimes: Local Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Russian Cities

Nikita Zakharov
(Freiburg University)
Encouraged to Cheat? How Federal Incentives and Career Concerns Trigger Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality

ROOM B

Day 1-Jan 28, 2021

10:15 am-12:00 pm CST (UTC-6)
Social Attitudes and Practices

Discussant: Cynthia Buckley
(University of Illinois)
Chair: Theodore Gerber
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Tamara Kusimova
(Central European University)
Buying Soviet or Buying Russian? Towards the Political Economy of Nostalgia

Anton Shirikov
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Who Trusts Fake News in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia

Laura Eras
(University of Munich)
The Openness of Russian Society Since the Late Soviet Period. Assortative Mating on Social Origin in Russia, 1969-2011

Abigail Karas
(University of Oxford)
Roofing in Russia

ROOM A

Day 1-Jan 28, 2021

12:15 pm–2:00 pm CST (UTC-6)
Case Studies from Russia’s Regions

Discussant: Vladimir Gelman
(European University of St. Petersburg)
Chair: Kathryn Hendley
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Alina Maiboroda
(National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Understanding Gender Regimes on Contemporary Anime Scene in a Muslim Region of Russia

Kamil Wielecki
(University of Warsaw)
Filling in the Urban Space: The “Port-Petrovsk” Fishery and Elemental Urbanization in Makhachkala

Ekaterina Mikhailova
(University of Geneva)
Cross-Border Tourism in Cities on the Russia-China Border in 2014-2020

ROOM B

Day 1-Jan 28, 2021

12:15 pm–2:00 pm CST (UTC-6)
Activism and Mobilization

Discussant: Samuel Greene
(King’s College, London)
Chair: Theodore Gerber
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Elena Onegina
(National Research University Higher School of Economics)
“I Go Out to be Seen”: Balancing Between Burnout and Effectiveness in the Youth LGBTQ Scene in Russia

Natalia Savelyeva
(Indiana University)
The Performative Power of Ambiguity of Myth: The Role of Ideology in anti-Kiev Mobilization in Donbas War

Natalia Kovyliaeva
(University of Tartu)
What Has Been Left to Feminist and Women’s Protest in Putin’s Russia? Exploration of Opportunities and Threats as Grounds for Grassroots Mobilization in 2000-2016

Anastasiia Faikina
(University of California, San Diego)
Watching the State: Can New Technologies Promote (a Sense of) Democracy

ROOM A

Day 2-Jan 29, 2021

8:00 am – 9:45 am CST (UTC-6)
Institutional and Social Aspects of Education

Discussant: Shlomo Weber
(Russian Economic School (NES), Moscow)
Chair: Theodore Gerber
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Zhanna Koshkina
(Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management)
Development of Continuing Education in Russia

Aleksei Egorov
(National Research University Higher School of Economics – Moscow)
Do Merger Policies Increase Universities’ Efficiency? Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity

Daria Zinchenko
(National Research University Higher School of Economics – Moscow)
College expansion and marriage patterns in Russia

ROOM B

Day 2-Jan 29, 2021

8:00 am – 9:45 am CST (UTC-6)
Political Economy: Incentives and Connections

Discussant: Konstantin Sonin
(University of Chicago)
Chair: Paul Dower
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Dmitri Trifonov
(Uppsala University)
Political Connections of Russian Corporations: Blessing or Curse? A Complex Empirical Study

Ekaterina Travova
(The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute)
Under Pressure? Performance Evaluation of Police Officers as an Incentive to Cheat: Evidence from Drug Crimes in Russia

Viktor Bryzgalin
(Institute for National Projects, Moscow State University)
Influence of Bonding Social Capital on Economic Growth

ROOM A

Day 2-Jan 29, 2021

10:00 am – 11:45 am CST (UTC-6)
Perspectives on Religion in Russia

Discussant: Oxana Shevel
(Tufts University)
Chair: Yoshiko Herrera
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Mariia Ukhvatova
(Saint Petersburg State University)
Religious Rhetoric in Official Speeches: Evidence from 2012-2019 Governor Inaugurations in Russia

Grigory Grigoryev
(European University at Saint Petersburg)
Dagestani ‘heroes’ of the Russian Civil War and the Formation of Social, Political and Religious Identities in the Contemporary Republic of Dagestan

Liu Peng
(University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
God is Not Back: The Long-term Effects of Soviet Secularism

Victoria Fomina
(University of Toronto)
“The Things That are Caesar’s”: Law and Informality in Orthodox Entrepreneurship

ROOM B

Day 2-Jan 29, 2021

10:00 am – 11:45 am CST (UTC-6)
Law and Society

Discussant: Ekaterina Mishina
(Free University, Moscow)
Chair: Stanislav Stanskikh
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Aryna Dzmitryieva
(University of Eastern Finland / European University at Saint Petersburg)
Who are Law Professors in Russia

Yulia Khalikova
(University of Bremen and Jacobs University)
Authoritarian Capture or Strategic Resistance? When Judges Use International Human Rights Law

Darya Kuznetsova
(European University at Saint Petersburg)
Two Wrenches of the Russian Regulatory Reform

Renata Mustafina
(Yale University)
Assistance to Resistance? Ethnographying Post-Protest Legal Aid in Contemporary Russia

ROOM A

Day 2-Jan 29, 2021

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm CST (UTC-6)
Plenary Session
Roots and Technologies of Authoritarian Governance

Discussant: Celeste Wallander
(US-Russia Foundation)
Chair: Kathryn Hendley
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Natalia Forrat
(University of Michigan)
Clientelism or Solidarity: The Social Roots of Authoritarian Power in Russia

Cole Harvey
(Oklahoma State University)
Who Delivers the Votes? Elected vs Appointed Local Executives and Manufactured Votes in National Elections

Valeriia Umanets
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Pluralist Autocracies: The Determinants of the Effective Number of political Parties in Electoral and Competitive Authoritarian Regimes

Dima Kortukov
(Indiana University)
Governance and Electoral Competition in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Gorbachev’s Demokratizatsiya

ROOM B